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Stay with Me
Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not...- $ 400.00
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The Scarlet Letter
At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...- $ 250.00
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Cannery Row: Centennial Edition
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from...- $ 400.00
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The Grapes of Wrath: Centennial Edition
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of...- $ 450.00
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The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
Anke Berben is ready to tell all. A legendary model and style icon, she reveled in headline-grabbing romances with not one but three members of the hugely influential rock band the Midnight Ramblers. The band members were as famous for their backstage drama as...- $ 400.00
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The Fox Wife
Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective...- $ 300.00
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Hadji Murat
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never...- $ 400.00
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
In the moments following her murder, as her body lies discarded in a dumpster on the outskirts of Istanbul, Tequila Leila’s mind remains startlingly alive—for exactly 10 minutes and 38 seconds. In that liminal space between life and death, her consciousness floods with vivid...- $ 500.00
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The World and All That It Holds
As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It’s not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled...- $ 500.00
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the lives of Doctor Manette, recently freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, and his daughter Lucie, as they begin anew in London. Their quiet life soon entangles with two...- $ 250.00
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A Room Made of Leaves
In 1788, young Elizabeth Macarthur embarks on a journey that will change her life forever. Newly married to the domineering and impulsive soldier John Macarthur, she soon regrets the union. When the couple is sent to the distant penal colony of New South Wales,...- $ 450.00
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A Mercy
A Mercy unfolds in the 1680s, during the early days of the American slave trade—a time when borders are fluid, allegiances uncertain, and the idea of freedom is as fragile as life itself. Jacob Vaark, an Anglo-Dutch trader in the harsh northern colonies, reluctantly...- $ 550.00
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Here
In Here McGuire has introduced a third dimension to the flat page. He can poke holes in the space-time continuum simply by imposing frames that act as transtemporal windows into the larger frame that stands for the provisional now. Here is the comic-book equivalent...- $ 700.00
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Hour of the Witch
A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul—plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive novel of historical suspense. Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and...- $ 400.00
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We Were the Lucky Ones
A gripping and deeply moving novel inspired by the true story of a Jewish family torn apart at the outbreak of World War II—and their extraordinary journey to survive and reunite. In the spring of 1939, the Kurc family gathers in their Polish hometown...- $ 400.00
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Boy, Snow, Bird
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his winsome...- $ 450.00
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Inland
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder...- $ 400.00
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The Tiger's Wife
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of...- $ 400.00
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Lapvona
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some...- $ 350.00
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The People in the Trees
A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he...- $ 400.00
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Held
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to...- $ 500.00
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The Lady and the Unicorn
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear...- $ 400.00
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Remarkable Creatures
A stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a...- $ 400.00
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At the Edge of the Orchard
From the swamps of Ohio to the sequoias of California, one family’s roots run deep—and dark. In 1838, James and Sadie Goodenough plant apple trees to tame the Ohio frontier—but their marriage, like the land, is harsh and unforgiving. He clings to sweet apples...- $ 400.00
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the...- $ 300.00
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Never
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young...- $ 450.00
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The Blind Assassin
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of...- $ 350.00
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To Paradise
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to...- $ 350.00
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Alias Grace
In 1843, Grace Marks was convicted for her role in the brutal murders of her employer and his housekeeper, yet her involvement remains shrouded in mystery. Some believe Grace is innocent, while others think she is either evil or mad. Now serving a life...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar Europe. Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954,...- $ 350.00
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The Sun Also Rises
With a new introduction by Maria Hinojosa, Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of Latino USA. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises displays the full flower of Hemingway's unique style, at once spare and gut-wrenching. Following a group of expatriates in Europe after...- $ 350.00
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a...- $ 400.00
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The Fraud
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump...- $ 450.00
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The Secret Chord
With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend....- $ 450.00
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Caleb's Crossing
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond...- $ 450.00
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Year of Wonders
A powerful and immersive historical novel set during the plague year of 1666, inspired by the true story of an English village that chose to quarantine itself to stop the spread of the Black Death. Told through the eyes of Anna Frith, a young...- $ 450.00
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March
A powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with...- $ 450.00
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Horse
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named...- $ 350.00
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Shrines of Gaiety
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...- $ 400.00
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Shrines of Gaiety
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...- $ 400.00
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Butcher
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at...- $ 550.00
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Tar Baby
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black...- $ 350.00
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Song of Solomon
The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...- $ 350.00
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Sula
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom, a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond...- $ 350.00
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The Crossing
The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a...- $ 350.00
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The Song of the Lark
In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines.Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to...- $ 400.00
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A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady is a poignant portrait of a woman caught between eras—both a symbol of fading frontier ideals and a quiet rebel against the constraints of her time. To the citizens of Sweet Water, a dwindling railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs....- $ 400.00
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My Ántonia
In this symphonically powerful novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength are emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. This 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa...- $ 400.00
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Possession
Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west...- $ 450.00
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The Glassmaker
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in...- $ 650.00
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