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By: Cole, Lee
Groundskeeping: A Read with Jenna Pick
$17.00PaperbackRead moreA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at t- Author: Cole, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314786
- Language: English
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By: Olga Tokarczuk
The Books of Jacob
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartA NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ“
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593087488
- Language: English
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By: Qiu Miaojin
Last Words from Montmartre
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfol- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Miaojin, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177258
- Language: English
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By: Horan, Nancy
Loving Frank
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wri… [more below]
- Author: Horan, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0345495004
- Language: English
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By: Webb, Heather
Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
$30.00HardcoverRead moreIt was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb,
- Author: Webb, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297116
- Language: English
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Blonde
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe
Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson
In
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968459
- Language: English
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By: Hill, Drew
Crossing the Tracks
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhile dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.
> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2023 – Best Fiction – Social
- Author: Hill, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: July 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890250230
- Language: English
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By: Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
$7.95PaperbackAdd to cartDaniel Defoe’s enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199553971
- Language: English
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By: Ann Napolitano
A Good Hard Look
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn Flannery O’Connor’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself, in this biographical novel.
- Author: Napolitano, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121154
- Language: English
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By: Paula McLain
The Paris Wife
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0345521315
- Language: English
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By: Marie Benedict
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at it- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0593101537
- Language: English
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By: Sofia Lundberg
The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartAn International Bestseller
While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman – Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was inspired by he- Author: Lundberg, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593200497
- Language: English
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By: Sullivan, Mark
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartSoon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the t
- Author: Sullivan, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: 1-May-18
- ISBN10: 1503902374
- Language: English
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By: Coelho, Paulo
Hippie
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams… [more below]
- Author: Coelho, Paulo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0525565183
- Language: English
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By: Brinda Charry
The East Indian
$28.00HardcoverRead moreAn exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian subcontinent to arrive in Colonial America, inspired by a historical figure–“marvelous…readers of Esi Edugyan and Yaa Gyasi will be
- Author: Charry, Brinda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668004526
- Language: English
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By: Steiner, Logan
After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartUSA TODAY BESTSELLER
A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy–t
- Author: Steiner, Logan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0063246457
- Language: English
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By: Jeannette Walls
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon–“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chicago Tribune). Hal
- Author: Walls, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416586296
- Language: English
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By: Samantha Silva
Mr. Dickens and His Carol
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“CHARMING…I READ IT IN A COUPLE OF EBULLIENT, CHRISTMASSY GULPS.” –Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See
“GRACED BY THE GHOSTLY PRESENCE OF MR. DICKENS- Author: Silva, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1250154057
- Language: English
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By: Ha Jin
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty
$21.99PaperbackRead moreThrough the life of a remarkable woman–based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968)–this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China’s Communist Party.
A powerful, insig- Author: Jin, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423775
- Language: English
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By: Eve Babitz
Eve’s Hollywood
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city’s most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve’s own bel
- Author: Babitz, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178904
- Language: English
















