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  • Tough Luck

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    In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father.

    After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put t

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    • Author: Dallas, Sandra
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250352304
    • Language: English
  • The Amalfi Curse: A Bewitching Tale of Sunken Treasure, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Magic on the Amalfi Coast

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    “Sarah Penner transported me to the sea-swept cliffs of Positano and introduced me to characters I’ll never forget. A magical read!”
    Emilia Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Weyward

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    • Author: Penner, Sarah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 0778308006
    • Language: English
  • Farewell Summer

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    The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine–a sequel 50 years in the making

    Some summers refuse to end . . .

    October 1st, the end of summer. The air

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    • Author: Bradbury, Ray
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 30 2007
    • ISBN10: 0061131555
    • Language: English
  • Hell’s Hundred Acres

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    March 25, 1911. Hundreds of seamstresses are hard at work on the upper floors of a ten-story factory loft. The workday ends and Esther Greenberg stands from her sewing machine and heads for the stairs

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    • Author: Serra, Andrew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 308
    • Publish Date: January 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1732238073
    • Language: English
  • Shelterwood

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    USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER – “Wingate’s stellar latest explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases. . . . Her portrayal of the region’s history, culture, and landscape enth[more below]

    • Author: Wingate, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593726529
    • Language: English
  • A Fireman in the Making: Manhattan 1904

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    “I felt like I was there with Mickey Farley, going to hot smoky fires and riding on a horse drawn fire apparatus. There, in the era of iron men and wooden ladders. There, with officers and firemen in

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    • Author: Palmer, Rob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: April 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798891278547
    • Language: English
  • Ruin of Kasch

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    A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art

    The Ruin of Kasch
    takes up two subjects–“the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everythin

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    • Author: Calasso, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: January 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 0374252106
    • Language: English
  • All Our Yesterdays

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    From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.

    This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy fr

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    • Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 07 2015
    • ISBN10: 1628725087
    • Language: English
  • The Blue Flower

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    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald’s crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love f[more below]

    • Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 14 2014
    • ISBN10: 0544359453
    • Language: English
  • The Girls with No Names

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    INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

    A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood–inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules.

    Growing up in New Yo

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    • Author: Burdick, Serena
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 778308731
    • Language: English
  • The Seamstress of Sardinia

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    A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century–

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    • Author: Pitzorno, Bianca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063271699
    • Language: English
  • The Lindbergh Nanny

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    Mariah Fredericks’s The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime.

    “A ma

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    • Author: Fredericks, Mariah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250888204
    • Language: English
  • Augustus

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    WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
    By the Author of Stoner

    In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, expl

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    • Author: Williams, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 19 2014
    • ISBN10: 1590178211
    • Language: English
  • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

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    Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this “absolutely compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester’s classic naval adventure series.

    The ye

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    • Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #01
    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 30 1984
    • ISBN10: 0316289124
    • Language: English
  • La Armadura de la Luz / The Armor of Light

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    Vuelve el mejor Follett con la emocionante quinta entrega de la saga «Los pilares de la Tierra .

    El choque de progreso y tradici?n y una guerra que amenaza con engullir toda

    Europa en la m?s amb
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    • Series: Pilares de la Tierra
    • Author: Follett, Ken
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 832
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644739062
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Arctic Fury

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    A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition–and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don’t come back.

    Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virgi

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    • Author: Macallister, Greer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1728215692
    • Language: English
  • Glory Over Everything

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    The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the U[more below]

    • Author: Grissom, Kathleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 21 2017
    • ISBN10: 1476748454
    • Language: English
  • A Brooklyn Saga: Stories from the Stoop

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    Author Carolyn Angiolillo grew up on the friendly, albeit at times mean streets of the Italian section of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg. The atmosphere there in the 1950s-60s-70s steeped in the aroma

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    • Author: Angiolillo, Carolyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 282
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1737186705
    • Language: English
  • Whistler’s Bones: A Novel of the Australian Frontier

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    At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia’s greatest cattle drives – the Durack family’

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    • Author: Barron, Greg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 300
    • Publish Date: October 21 2017
    • ISBN10: 0648062740
    • Language: English
  • Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill

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    Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive.

    In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Gran

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    • Series: One Thousand White Women #3
    • Author: Fergus, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250303672
    • Language: English
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