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The Aviator’s Wife
$19.00 Add to cartIn the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne… [more below]
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0345528689
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$15.99 Add to cartWilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequ
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1840228377
- Language: English
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The Orchardist
$18.99 Add to cart“There are echoes of John Steinbeck in this beautiful and haunting debut novel. . . . Coplin depicts the frontier landscape and the plainspoken characters who inhabit it with dazzling clarity.” — Ent
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coplin, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062188518
- Language: English
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The Secret Chord
$18.00 Add to cart“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.”… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109766
- Language: English
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Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
$16.00 Add to cart“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to creat- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy #1
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180412
- Language: English
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Middle Passage
$18.00 Add to cartA twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece–“a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the m… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0684855887
- Language: English
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1933 Was a Bad Year
$17.99 Add to cartTrapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856555
- Language: English
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The Colony
$19.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
“Luminous.” –Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian
“Vivid, thought-provoking.” –Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders trave- Author: Magee, Audrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867215
- Language: English
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Austerlitz
$22.00 Add to cartThis tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0812982614
- Language: English
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The Jackal’s Mistress
$31.00 Add to cartIn this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to … [more below]
- Author: Bohjalian, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Poe & I
$14.99 Add to cartJonah Peabody takes a job as caretaker and head docent for Poe Cottage, a historical house in The Bronx that once served as the last home for Edgar Allan Poe. The gig requires him to live on the premi
- Author: Mercier, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1964398134
- Language: English
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The Jackal’s Mistress
$29.00 Add to cartIn this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to … [more below]
- Author: Bohjalian, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 385547641
- Language: English
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The Last Witch of Scotland: A Bewitching Story Based on True Events
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by the true story of the last person to be tried and executed as a witch in the British Isles, The Last Witch of Scotland reimagines how Janet Horne came to be accused of witchcraft.
‘Compel- Author: Paris, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1785305247
- Language: English
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Follow Me to Africa
$17.99 Add to cart“A warm tale of identity and growth…as layered as the real ancient humanity inspiring its core.” — Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity
Historical fiction inspire
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1728295459
- Language: English
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The Apartment
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd comes a new novel about the search for freedom and the power of community that spans decades of residents in one Florida apartme… [more below]
- Author: Men?ndez, Ana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096485
- Language: English
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Fagin the Thief
$28.00 Add to cartA thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue.
Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto- Author: Epstein, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0385550707
- Language: English
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The Last Witch of Scotland: A Bewitching Story Based on True Events
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by the true story of the last person to be tried and executed as a witch in the British Isles, The Last Witch of Scotland reimagines how Janet Horne came to be accused of witchcraft.
‘Compel- Author: Paris, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1785305247
- Language: English
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Water Folk
$25.27 Add to cart- Author: Hood, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1963102622
- Language: English
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On Canaan’s Side
$22.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God’s Time
A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-o- Author: Barry, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122185
- Language: English
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A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Howe, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250894212
- Language: English
