Anchor Books
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Miramar
$17.00 Read moreThis highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful p… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 14 1992
- ISBN10: 038526478X
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
“Holy War brings compassion, objec- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721404
- Language: English
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
$20.00 Add to cartMinor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real dea
- Series: Anchor Sports
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0307949583
- Language: English
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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
$19.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread wit… [more below]
- Author: Warrick, Joby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0804168938
- Language: English
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
$19.00 Read more“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes…. Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review
We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wag- Author: Greenhouse, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1101872799
- Language: English
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$20.00 Read moreFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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Midaq Alley
$18.00 Add to cartWidely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz’s best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe o… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385264763
- Language: English
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus–an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who bec… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #03
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0385483724
- Language: English
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Surfacing
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments–this story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec is a provocative blend of … [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491050
- Language: English
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The Story of Zahra
$16.95 Read moreZahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays w… [more below]
- Author: Al-Shaykh, Hanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0385472064
- Language: English
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The Death of the Heart
$17.00 Add to cartThe Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen’s best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals her… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720173
- Language: English
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Children of the Alley
$17.95 Read moreThe tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring na… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0385264739
- Language: English
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a “nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one” … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0307948781
- Language: English
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
$19.00 Read moreOn the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice
- Author: Bender, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0385720963
- Language: English
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another “captivating…persuasive as well as entertaining” journey into history (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #02
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0385482493
- Language: English
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The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnis… [more below]
- Author: Milbank, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 059346639X
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, the Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
$19.00 Add to cart*One of Bloomberg‘s Best Books of the Year*
The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will b- Author: Friedman, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911786
- Language: English
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The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case
$7.99 Read moreTHE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY – Young Readers
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe… [more below]- Series: Precious Ramotswe Mysteries for Young Readers #1
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307743896
- Language: English
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Winter
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith, Winter is the second novel in her Seasonal Quartet. This much-anticipated follow-up to Autumn is one of the Best Books of the Year from the New York Public Li… [more below]
- Series: Seasonal Quartet
- Author: Smith, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101969954
- Language: English
