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Author:Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays match, their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is a prince, heir to King Henry VIII, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But when fate intervenes, Edward is thrown...- $22.00
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Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a...- $22.00
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Author:Elizabeth George
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous ridges. But when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine...- $18.00
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Author:Anna Quindlen
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "marvelous romantic comedy" (The New York Times Book Review) from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen "[A] wise tale about second chances, starting over, and going after what is most important in life."--Minneapolis Star TribuneStill Life with Bread Crumbs...- $18.00
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Author:Paul Auster
Mr. Vertigo
An enduringly brilliant tale of trial and triumph, set in America in the 1920s, from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the...- $22.00
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Author:James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie
The final novel in Cooper's epic, The Prairie depicts Natty Bumppo at the end of his life, still displaying his indomitable strength and dignity. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more...- $22.00
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Author:Sam Shepard
Cruising Paradise: Tales
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry.The short stories, journal entries, and dialogues collected in Cruising Paradise take us from a South Dakota motel room, where a man and a woman fight...- $19.00
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Author:Iris Murdoch
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion...- $25.00
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Author:Angel Bonomini
The Novices of Lerna
The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of チngel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ram Beltra, an...- $45.95
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Author:Angel Bonomini
The Novices of Lerna
The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of チngel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ram Beltra, an...- $35.99
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Author:Elizabeth Crook
The Night Journal
A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt's Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg...- $22.00
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Author:Elif Shafak
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this enchanting new novel by a Booker Prize finalist conjures a trio of characters living in the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. In the ancient city of Nineveh, on...- $32.00
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Author:Lorene Cary
The Price of a Child
An intimate, gripping novel of the antebellum Underground Railroad, based on the true story of a valiant Philadelphia freedwoman--a debut novel from the author of the "stunning memoir" Black Ice (New York Times). "A stunning achievement ... a deeply engrossing story." --The Philadelphia InquirerWith...- $16.00
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Author:Jean Toomer
Cane A Novel
Cane explores spiritual and emotional frustration failure of basic communication between individuals and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black...- $9.49
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Author:Olive Higgins Prouty
Bobbie: General Manager
From the author of Now Voyager and Stella Dallas! Bobbie: General Manager is a perfectly enjoyable glimpse into the life of an upper middle-class teen age girl whose family has begun to struggle during the Gilded Age. At once funny honest and very well...- $16.99
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Author:Olive Higgins Prouty
Bobbie: General Manager
From the author of Now Voyager and Stella Dallas! Bobbie: General Manager is a perfectly enjoyable glimpse into the life of an upper middle-class teen age girl whose family has begun to struggle during the Gilded Age. At once funny honest and very well...- $16.99
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Author:Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He...- $19.99
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Author:Voltaire
Candide
Candide a pampered nobleman is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world and must depend on his wits and quick actions to...- $11.99
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Author:Voltaire
Candide
Candide a pampered nobleman is suddenly thrust out of his sheltered life into a cold uncaring world that does not care about his gentle upbringing. Candide witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world and must depend on his wits and quick actions to...- $5.99
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Author:Willa Cather
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He...- $8.99
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Author:Jean Toomer
Cane A Novel
Cane explores spiritual and emotional frustration failure of basic communication between individuals and repression of natural energies. It reveals the chaos of contemporary black American life and calls for a spiritual awakening. A land mark novel that changed the way America looked at black...- $22.99
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Author:Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers
Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up...- $29.99
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Author:Anzia Yezierska
Bread Givers
Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up...- $19.99
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Author:Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he's making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of...- $14.99
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Author:Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he's making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of...- $29.99
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Author:Christa Wolf
Eulogy for the Living: Taking Flight
A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf's skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity's greatest struggles. Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of...- $10.50
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Author:J. Sterling
The Sweetest Game
The third (and final) installment in Jack & Cassie's epic love story is here "It's one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end. It's like you finally realize that baseball never loved you back. All the...- $19.99
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Author:E. Lily Yu
On Fragile Waves
NPR Books We Love 2021 Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021 Booklist Best of 2021 Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Titles NYT Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021 Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2021 "On Fragile Waves is a...- $16.95
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Author:Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy is a tour de force one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines it follows Clyde Griffiths a handsome ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize...- $29.99
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Author:Kate Atkinson
Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book
The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time - Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night's end, a murderer...- $32.00
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Author:Han Kang
We Do Not Part
In her most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter of Korean history One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying...- $28.00
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Author:Russell Gilwee
Sorcerie: A chilling tale of modern folk-horror
A young, grieving couple from London flee the UK mainland for a small rugged British isle in the middle of the Irish Sea.A harrowing folk-horror thriller, fans of Adam Nevill and Ania Ahlborn will love this chilling new tale from the spellbinding author of...- $11.99
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Author:Colin Cotterill
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
The seventh Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery When a Lao female security officer is discovered stabbed through the heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Siri, the reluctant national coroner for the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, is brought in to examine the body. Soon two...- $16.95
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Author:Sandi Ward
What Holds Us Together
From the author of The Astonishing Thing and Something Worth Saving comes a tender, wise, and insightful novel of a family cat, a second chance, and the love that persists through the deepest heartache . . . They say that cats don't like change....- $17.00
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Author:Craig Lancaster
Northward Dreams
From acclaimed author Craig Lancaster, a two-time High Plains Book Award winner, comes a story of family violence, dysfunction, and, perhaps, redemption, told across four timelines.More than a decade into the 21st century, Nate Ray is down and in the final throes before he's...- $27.95
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Author:Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little...- $19.00
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Author:Nick Hornby
Slam
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy. For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend--make that ex-girlfriend-- Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit...- $15.00
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Author:Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. "The Magic Mountain"...- $22.00
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Author:Myŏngik Ch'oe
Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
Korean writer Ch'oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. His career spanned decades of tumult, from his debut in the 1930s while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule through the Asia-Pacific and...- $25.00
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Author:J. D. Austin
The Last Huck
"The Last Huck stands out as one of the most impressive debut novels of this decade." --Joseph D. Haske, author of North Dixie HighwayJakob, Niklas and Peter Kinnunen grew up playing together on their family's berry farm on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's U.P....- $21.95
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Author:Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 1Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her...- $20.00
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Author:Ezra Harker Shaw
The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $33.95
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Author:Elizabeth Hall
The Music of the Deep
Fleeing an abusive marriage and tormented by her past, Alexandra Turner finds solace in a small coastal town on Puget Sound and a job with a local marine biologist studying orcas.After befriending a group of locals, Alex learns that she has moved to a...- $14.95
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Author:Ezra Harker Shaw
The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $19.95
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Author:Ginny Fite
Leave Everything You Know Behind
Cranky, aging newspaper publisher Anne Canfield is determined to live forever, no matter what. Young, brilliant writer and teacher Indira Anand thinks she wants to die. But the winter morning Anne saves Indira Anand from drowning, everything changes. That evening, Anne stumbles and falls....- $22.95
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Author:Jim Roberts
Of Fathers & Gods
Of Fathers & Gods is a debut collection of short fiction that delves into the relationships between fathers and their children: the good, the bad, and the awful. In these emotionally charged stories, a young expectant father, on the edge of homelessness, loses his...- $17.95
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Author:Janice Shapiro
Bummer: And Other Stories
A clever and engaging collection of "darkly funny, sexy, and very smart" stories about women on the brink of disaster--and the edge of grace (Tom Perrotta). The women featured in these stories have one thing in common: They're all having a terrible day. There's...- $16.95
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Author:Gwen Banta
The Unconventional Path of Thelonious Aubrey
Fledging singer Thelonious 'Theo' Aubrey and his best friend Bo, an African-American trumpet player, struggle to succeed in the exhilarating music scene of the French Quarter as America slowly recovers from World War II.Desperate for money, they join forces with Callie, a seductive young...- $23.49
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Author:Rumer Godden
The Dark Horse
The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in "one of the greatest horse books ever written. . . . Moving, and highly original" (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe). In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses...- $17.99
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Author:L. J. Davis
A Meaningful Life
L.J. Davis's 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis's novel, heads...- $17.95
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