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Author:Adania Shibli
Minor Detail
A beautiful meditation on war, violence, memory and injustice, set in the occupied Palestinian territories.Author: Adania ShibliISBN-10: 191309717XISBN-13: 9781913097172Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2020Format: PaperbackAbout the AuthorAdania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as...- $14.00
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Author:Andrew Lang
The Yellow Fairy Book
First Published in 1894, "The Yellow Fairy Book" is the sixth in a series of collections of fairy tales from around the world edited by Andrew Lang, the Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic, with translations and retellings by several authors, including his wife,...- $12.99
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Author:Suzanne Kelman
When the Nightingale Sings: A powerful and completely heartbreaking WW2 novel
1937, Europe and America. Based on a powerful true story, this extraordinary novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy...- $12.99
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Author:Jean Cocteau
The Holy Terrors: (Les Enfants Terribles)
Written in a French style that long defied successful translation--Cocteau was always a poet no matter what we was writing--the book came into its own for English-language readers in 1955 when this translation was completed by Rosamund Lehmann. It is a masterpiece of the...- $17.95
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Author:Thomas Mann
Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
Mann's bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.Author: Thomas MannISBN-10: 0679722068ISBN-13: 9780679722069Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/1989Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.02h x...- $13.00
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Author:Hilda Gurley Highgate
Sapphire's Grave
The debut of a major new talent, SAPPHIRE'S GRAVE tells the stories of several generations of African-American women, bringing their spirit and their sorrow to life with a power, sensitivity, and immediacy. In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured...- $19.00
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Author:John Berryman
Recovery
A thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, Recovery follows Dr. Alan Severance through his emotional journey of Freudian group analysis where he confesses his humiliations, defeats, and delusions in an attempt to purge himself and achieve normality. Author: John BerrymanISBN-10: 1517901316ISBN-13: 9781517901318Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $18.95
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Author:Deszö Kosztolányi
Kornel Esti
Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all...- $16.95
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Author:Tania James
Loot
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION - A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of...- $18.00
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Author:Julia London
Nice Work, Nora November
Now that Nora is not dead, only one question remains: what does she want to do with her life?Nora November is alive--but she wasn't always. She was once clinically dead, having spent several minutes under water after a terrible surfing accident she doesn't remember....- $18.99
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Author:Shyam Selvadurai
Mansions of the Moon
A breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha--from the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts. In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha...- $19.00
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Author:David Nash
In Wells' Time
Life is short. We blink, and it is gone. In a world filled with joy and pain, beauty and magic, how does one even attempt to experience it all? How can a person possibly find that moment of nirvana and hold on to it...- $18.95
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Author:Danny Goodman
Amerikaland
In a reimagined present day, Sabine, a guarded, independent German tennis player, and Sandy, a Brooklyn-born Jewish baseball player, find themselves in New York City for World Day-a sporting event meant to celebrate international peace.For years, Sabine was regarded as a tennis legend until...- $18.00
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Author:Karen Lord
The Blue, Beautiful World
As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries races to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-winning author of The Best of All Possible Worlds. "A complex story of first contact from a unique perspective that...- $18.00
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Author:Rebecca Harwick
Teach the Children to Pray
A lyrical, intimate portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a Germany torn apart by the Thirty Years War, Teach the Children to Pray is a novel for anyone who has ever grappled with the question of how to live well in...- $32.99
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Author:Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them...- $19.00
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Author:Jane Smiley
Lucky
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing timesBefore Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just...- $41.95
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Author:Jaap Robben
Afterlight
This moving novel gives voice to the silent grief of the mothers of stillborn children The young free-spirited florist Frieda grew up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps onto a frozen river on a late winter afternoon, little does...- $19.99
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Author:William Haywood Henderson
Augusta Locke
An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most...- $30.00
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Author:Laura Elizabeth Woollett
West Girls
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic'...- $20.00
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Author:Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
In Ernest Hemingway's masterful novella, The Old Man and the Sea, join Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, on his epic struggle against nature's furyand his own inner demons. A timeless tale of resilience, determination, and the enduring bond between man and the sea.Author: Ernest...- $9.99
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Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice-Told Tales
This volume of short stories and shorter works by Nathaniel Hawthorne was heralded upon its release and is still widely considered a classic.Author: Nathaniel HawthorneISBN-10: 0375757880ISBN-13: 9780375757884Publisher: Modern LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2001Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90dAbout the AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne (1805-64) was...- $17.00
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Author:Daniel Mason
The Winter Soldier
Author: Daniel MasonISBN-10: 1432859579ISBN-13: 9781432859572Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2018Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10dLarge Print- $31.99
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Author:William Bowen
The old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell A Little boy in Search of Adventure
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $22.95
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Author:Jd Derbyshire
Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman
Think Maggie Nelson meets Hannah Gadsby.Told in kaleidoscopic bursts of erratic recollections, daydreams, poetry, and lists, Mercy Gene is the powerful, genre-smashing debut work of auto-fiction by acclaimed writer, playwright, and comedian JD Derbyshire. Inspired by Derbyshire's critically acclaimed and award-winning stage play, Certified,...- $22.95
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Author:A. H. Kim
Relative Strangers
From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs, and one explosive secret that could ruin everything.Amelia Bae-Wood's life is falling...- $41.99
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Author:C. B. Bernard
Ordinary Bear
Dark and humorous, literary but with the heart of a detective novel, Ordinary Bear weighs the burden of grief while exploring our boundless capacity for humanity, kindness, and hope.Farley stands out among his Ipiat neighbors in the Alaska village he calls home, both white...- $31.95
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Author:Philip Roth
The Great American Novel
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers "shameless comic extravagance...Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself"--The New York Times.Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever...- $31.95
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Author:Velma Wallis
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"No one should miss this beautiful legend." --Tony HillermanVelma Wallis's award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of...- $36.99
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Author:Christie Watson
Moral Injuries
Author: Christie WatsonISBN-10: 0063378590ISBN-13: 9780063378599Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 272Format: Hardcover- $28.99
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Author:Isabel Allende
The Wind Knows My Name
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration" (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta...- $18.00
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Author:Jiwen
FanGong Seawall
THIS STORY RECEIVED YANGTZE RIVER NETWORK LITERATURE COMPETITION AWARD FOR 2020.Set 1,000 years ago (AD 1021-1026) during China's Song Dynasty, it centres on the life and times of Fan Zhongyan, a real historical figure in ancient China. "Fan" is his last name, and "Gong"...- $22.99
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Author:Helene Simkin Jara
Turn Left at the Gorilla and go Down the Hall
The stories range from humor to tragedy, taking the reader on a ride within the human and sometimes not so human experience. Some of the stories have been previously published in literary journals. The journey is so much about isolating the moment and what...- $19.99
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Author:Matthew Aaron Goodman
Hold Love Strong
Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Singleton enters a world laden with the obstacles inherent in an impoverished urban community. But when his mother becomes addicted to crack and his uncle--the family's basketball prodigy and their potential...- $23.99
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Author:Sarah Reida
Neighborhood Watch
A killer terrorizes the morally bankrupt residents of an upscale neighborhood, leading them to turn to--and on--one another to survive.The neighborhood of Oleander Court is the poster child for suburban bliss. The residents compare lawns beautified by hired help. They monitor home values. They...- $32.99
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Author:Amy Tector
Honor the Dead
"A literary joyride." --Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Cate Spencer is back in this highly-anticipated third installment of the Dominion Archives Mysteries.It's been a few months since the events of Speak for the Dead and Dr. Cate Spencer is seeking a...- $32.99
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Author:Kate Weinberg
There's Nothing Wrong with Her
A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery. Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job in London and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the future promising. Her sister,...- $27.00
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Author:Rudyard Kipling
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know Book II
"Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know Book II," curated by Rudyard Kipling, presents readers with a collection of timeless tales and verses that are deemed essential for young readers. The narrative offers a compilation of Kipling's storytelling and poetry, carefully selected to...- $24.00
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Author:Nathan Newman
How to Leave the House
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house - which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider...- $29.00
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Author:Velma Wallis
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
"No one should miss this beautiful legend." --Tony HillermanVelma Wallis's award-winning, bestselling tale about two elderly Native American women who must fend for themselves during a harsh Alaskan winterBased on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of...- $41.99
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Author:Ryszard Merey
Read and Then Burn This
It does no good to be good. An aspiring dancer moves to a new city to reboot after an accident, and quickly gets sucked into two parallel, very contradictory relationships--with the man of his dreams, and with a woman who pushes him in a...- $8.00
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Author:Charlotte Jay
Beat Not the Bones
People changed; they were no longer recognisable as Australians. Frustrations and misfortunes festered into wounds here, deranged the mind and poisoned the blood.Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to bewilder her, Stella Warwick is...- $35.00
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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby unfolds in the opulent Jazz Age, offering a mesmerizing tale of unrequited love, decadence, and the elusive American Dream. Jay Gatsby's extravagant parties and a clandestine romance with Daisy Buchanan captivate in this timeless exploration of wealth, identity...- $11.99
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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
Roman Stories
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR - The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past...- $17.00
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Author:Robin Van Eck
Rough
It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend-an accident? Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid...- $46.99
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Author:Brianna Mason
Adventures Of Snowdonia
young girl Snowdonia is feeling stuck in her little world so on the night of her 18th birthday she began the journey of a life time.Author: Brianna MasonISBN-10: 8881311666ISBN-13: 9798881311667Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2024Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.10d- $25.00
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Author:Morris Hoffman
Pinch Hitting
"Pinch Hitting takes its place in the dugout alongside Bernard Malamud's The Natural as a timeless baseball fable, shot through with wonder." -Daniel Paisner, author of Balloon Dog, A Single Happened Thing, and The Complete Game (with Ron Darling)Joe Skelton has never written anything...- $24.95
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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
The chief character, Lord Peter Wimsey, goes to the Bellona Club to have a meal with an old friend of his, ninety-year old General Fentiman. In great surprise, he finds the aged man fully dressed by the fire in full rigor mortis. A question...- $31.95
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Author:Tim Kinsella
The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense
Reunited for a funeral and leery of one another, a family compares splintered memories. Will bathes his grandmother. Mel gives her wig a haircut. Norman is not prepared to take over his father's club. Jesse has never known how old he is. They each...- $14.95
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Author:Francesca Marciano
The End of Manners
Maria Galante and Imo Glass are on assignment in Afghanistan: outgoing Imo to interview girls who have attempted suicide to avoid forced marriage to older men; and shy, perfectionist Maria to photograph them. But in a culture in which women shroud their faces and...- $18.00
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