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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...- $14.00
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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...- $17.95
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Author:Paul Tremblay
Horror Movie
A chilling twist on the "cursed film" genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror...- $41.99
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Tales from the Ashes
By the Fire: Tales from the Ashes is a collection of 31 short stories that reflect the fire. Startingfrom humble sparks, these stories quickly ignite into flames of narrative flow. It peaks with ablaze, then begins to die down; first becoming embers, then ashes....- $14.75
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Author:Stephen Holgate
The Goddess and Martin Dayson
"This sweet, intriguing novel offers wisdom in its story about political life, coming of age, family drama and archaeology - about those who came before, and a future of possibilities."- Kristin Tucker, former Executive Director of the Washington State Arts Commission"The Goddess and Martin...- $14.95
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Author:Tom Pyun
Something Close to Nothing
Featuring a mixed-race (Asian-white) gay male couple starting a family via a gestational surrogate, Tom Pyun's Something Close to Nothing is a dark and hilarious debut that explores what happens when we go after everything we want in life.Winston Kang and Jared Cahill are...- $19.95
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Author:Beth Konkoski
A Drawn & Papered Heart
For more than three decades, Beth Konkoski has been publishing her fiction, poetry, and essays while teaching high school English. Her work has been published in journals such as: Story, Smokelong Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, and Split Lip Magazine. From her childhood days of...- $19.95
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Author:Diana Secker Tesdell
Christmas Stories
Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. Christmas Stories is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of...- $22.00
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Author:Anne Tyler
Ladder of Years
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons "BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing...- $18.00
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Author:Peter Swanson
A Talent for Murder
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer--in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd...- $41.99
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Author:Michael Weingrad
Eugene Nadelman: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse
"Move over, Onegin--we've a new Eugene for the ages. In Michael Weingrad's wildly charming and profound telling, young Eugene Nadelman's adolescence in 1980s Philadelphia unfolds in iambic tetrameter, with each crush and clash and heartache feeling as epic as they do for the young...- $16.95
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Author:Clare Reddaway
Dancing in the Shallows
She's had this feeling before. This feeling of marking time. Of pressing her nose against a window and watching as everyone else lives their best lives. Isla Wintergreen has not seen her grandfather since she was seven, but when she unexpectedly inherits his cottage...- $13.99
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Author:A. S. Byatt
Possession: Introduction by Philip Hensher
A. S. Byatt's beloved novel--winner of the Booker Prize and an international best seller--is a spellbinding intellectual mystery and an utterly transfixing love story. Roland Michell and Maud Bailey are young academics in the 1980s researching the lives of two Victorian literary figures: the...- $30.00
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Author:Paul N. Slavonik
Though I Fall: A Motorsport Story
Born into a lineage of racing legends, Chad Watson was destined to carry on the family's legacy. Fate handed him a cruel blow, however, leaving him with not only a burden that still weighs heavy on his heart but also the physical limitations life...- $29.99
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Author:Mitch Engel
Looking Back on Tomorrow
In the months leading up to World War I, a young Austrian officer from an aristocratic family, falls deeply in love with a beautiful young woman from Serbia. It is a match fraught with political peril due to mounting hostilities between the two countries....- $33.95
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Author:Lily Brett
Treasure [Movie Tie-In]
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LENA DUNHAM AND STEPHEN FRY.An emotional and enlightening novel about a woman and her father's journey to Poland to revisit her family history during WWII, by internationally bestselling novelist Lily Brett.Ruth Rothwax finds order and meaning...- $19.99
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Author:Ernest Thompson
The Book of Maps
In Academy and Golden Globe winner Ernest Thompson's debut novel, Brendan Tibbet, a filmmaker whose luck has run low, takes his 10-year old son Brenlyn on a wild and hilarious road trip across the country. The two-week trek from LA to New Hampshire across...- $20.99
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Author:Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon
"The chiefs are armed with muskets," said he, "and our balloon is too easy a mark for them." "Would a hole make us fall?" asked Joe. "Not immediately; but the hole would soon become a vast rent, through which all our gas would escape."...- $15.99
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Author:John Ennis
Jackie Jazz
"It's not what you're going to do with your life, but what you're going to do in your life that matters."From its complex harmony and syncopated beats to its rhythm, heart and soul, for Jackie Cavanagh, jazz has become a part of his very...- $27.99
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Author:Judith Dancoff
The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories
The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories is a debut collection of short fiction by Pushcart-Prize nominated author Judith Dancoff, now available from the award-winning independent publisher Finishing Line Press.Described as "luminous" by Los Angeles Festival of Books judge Diane Smith, the seven short...- $23.99
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Author:Henry Hughes
Fishing Stories
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Rudyard Kipling's "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art" and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx's "The Wer-Trout" to...- $25.00
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Author:Rufi Thorpe
Margo's Got Money Troubles
"An audacious, wildly funny, completely unpredictable novel by a writer so singular that it's hard to compare her to anyone else . . . absolutely brilliant." --Kevin Wilson A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new...- $41.99
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Author:R. M. Kinder
The Universe Playing Strings
Music is the heartbeat of this novel about the world of hometown musicians--the jamming venues, the contests, the onstage cues, the subtle rules. The story focuses on four musicians: Carl Bradshaw, an aging Oklahoma fiddler; Amy Chandler, a young dumpling who can outpick most...- $19.95
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Author:George Eliot
Silas Marner
"Silas Marner" is a novel written by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in 1861. Set in the early 19th century, the story unfolds in the fictional rural village of Raveloe in England's Midlands region.The novel revolves around the...- $18.99
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Author:T S Arthur
Ten Nights In A Bar Room
"Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" by Timothy Shay Arthur is a moralistic novel published in 1854. Set in a small American town during the mid-19th century, the story unfolds over ten evenings, each spent in the local tavern, where the lives of the townspeople...- $16.99
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Author:Emily Austin
Interesting Facts about Space
A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes...- $18.99
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Author:Tessa Hadley
After the Funeral and Other Stories
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships--"a revelation for aficionados of the form, as vibrant and knowing as the best of Hadley's celebrated career." --Washington Post "Hadley is...- $18.00
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Author:Madeline Martin
The Booklover's Library
A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London.In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate need of a job. She...- $30.00
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Author:Paul Tremblay
Horror Movie
A chilling twist on the "cursed film" genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror...- $46.99
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Author:Rudolfo Anaya
Bless Me, Ultima
Full of "sensual dreams [and] unexplained phenomena," this "best-known and most-respected" coming-of-age classic from the godfather of Chicano literature follows a young boy growing up in the llano, or plains, of post-World War II New Mexico, and the generous curandera who introduces him to...- $18.99
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Author:Sarah Maria Griffin
Eat the Ones You Love
A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. She's just left her fiancé, lost her job,...- $27.99
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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
The Dover Bookshelf presents a collectible hardcover edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. This volume is not merely a reading copy, but a work of art that will enhance the aesthetic of any bookshelf. The stunning design elements pay homage to...- $20.00
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Author:Fanny Trollope
Domestic Manners of the Americans: Nonsuch Classics
Upon its publication in 1832 Domestic Manners of the Americans instantly caused a storm of controversy. A sometimes scathing, often witty, beautifully written account of the foibles and failings of America as Fanny Trollope saw them, Domestic Manners was roundly applauded across Europe. Banned...- $11.95
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Author:Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
""Lord Jim"" is a compelling novel written by the renowned Polish-British author Joseph Conrad. Published in 1900, this literary masterpiece explores themes of guilt, redemption, and the complex nature of human character. The story follows the life of Jim, a young British seaman who...- $18.99
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Author:Walter L. Fleming
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Reproduction of the original: Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. FlemingAuthor: Walter L. FlemingISBN-10: 3752389737ISBN-13: 9783752389739Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2020Pages: 606Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d- $106.90
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Author:Vesna Goldsworthy
Monsieur Ka
'A beautiful haunting novel... looking at a familiar London through a frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful' Caryl PhillipsThe London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often abroad on covert government business,...- $19.99
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Author:David Orsini
The Ghost Lovers
In the autumn of 1944, Marc Roussillon, a heroic French pilot and Resistance agent, has recovered from the wounds that he sustained when a German officer, Gerhard Hauptmann, shot him. On assignment in Paris for MI5, the British Secret Intelligence Service, he becomes entangled...- $27.99
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Author:Sophie Van Llewyn
Bottled Goods
Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize, this poignant, lyrical novel is set in 1970s Romania during Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime--and depicts childhood, marriage, family, and identity in the face of extreme obstacles.Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in...- $18.99
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Author:Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey: Introduction by Claudia Johnson
Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life...- $28.00
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Author:C. A. Sauve
Rattlers In The Crawlspace
These are stories of adolescence, of searching and of discovery, of holding on and of letting go; stories of imprisonment and stories of freedom. These are stories of times one wishes to remember forever, and stories of times one forgets-these are rattlers in the...- $10.99
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Author:Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure
"My Buried Treasure" is a collection of short stories written by Richard Harding Davis, an American journalist and author known for his adventure tales and war correspondence. Published in 1901, this collection showcases Davis's talent for crafting engaging narratives that transport readers to exotic...- $11.99
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Author:Marion Kummerow
The Berlin Wife's Vow: Absolutely gripping and emotional WW2 historical fiction
She kneels by her husband, his face contorted with pain. "You must get yourself to safety," he tells her. She grips his hand tighter as a tear tracks down her drawn, pale face. "I promised to stay beside you. I will keep that vow...- $11.99
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Author:William Dean Howells
The Daughter Of The Storage
"The Daughter of the Storage" is a work by Howells. The story centers around the character of a young girl named Sarah Maitland, who is the daughter of a self-made man. Sarah's father owns a successful storage warehouse business in a small American town.The...- $16.99
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Author:Jungyeun Yun
The Marigold Mind Laundry
In this enchanting tale, the enigmatic owner of a magical laundromat that cleans the stains from people's hearts must learn to find her own sense of peace before she can truly help others--a blockbuster bestseller in Korea We remove stains from the heart and...- $22.00
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Author:Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote
Embark on a timeless adventure with Don Quixote, a classic tale of chivalry, madness, and redemption. Follow the eccentric knight and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, as they tilt at windmills and chase dreams across the Spanish countryside in this enduring masterpiece of literature...- $19.99
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