Back Bay Books
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The Hamilton Case
$21.99 Add to cartA flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has “gone native” in a Ceylonese jungle. A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own… [more below]
- Author: de Kretser, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010812
- Language: English
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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
$21.99 Add to cartIn this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion” (Washington Post), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and “master of his f… [more below]
- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0316516120
- Language: English
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The Dogs of Babel
$21.99 Add to cartA poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man’s quest to unravel the mystery of his wife’s death with the help of the only witness — their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.
- Author: Parkhurst, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0316778508
- Language: English
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The Inseparables
$21.99 Add to cartOne of Kirkus‘ Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to los- Author: Nadler, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0316335266
- Language: English
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Men at Arms
$21.99 Add to cart“An eminently readable comedy of modern war” (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes … [more below]- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216585
- Language: English
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The Maid’s Version
$15.00 Add to cartThe American master’s first novel since Winter’s Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid- Author: Woodrell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0316205885
- Language: English
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Frangipani
$21.99 Add to cartIn Tahiti, it’s a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all — or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter a… [more below]
- Author: Vaite, Célestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0316114669
- Language: English
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The End of Everything
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of The Turnout and Dare Me: a “mesmerizing psychological thriller” about a teenage girl who disappears during a 1980s suburban summer (Los Angeles Times).
Thirteen-year o- Author: Abbott, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0316097829
- Language: English
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Rumbo Al Hermoso Norte: Una Novela
$16.99 Add to cartNineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn’t the only man who ha… [more below]
- Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316054860
- Language: Spanish
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Garnethill
$24.99 Add to cartMaureen O’Donnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of her living room and herself a prime suspect in a murder case.
Desperate to clear her name and to get at … [more below]- Author: Mina, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0316016780
- Language: English
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The Mission Song
$21.99 Add to cartFull of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better, The Mission Song turns John Le Carre’s laser eye for the complexity of the modern world on turmoil and conspirac… [more below]
- Author: Le Carré, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0316016756
- Language: English
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
$19.99 Add to cartPerhaps the most beloved of John Fowles’s internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. “Fille… [more below]
- Series: French Lieutenant’s Woman #1
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316291161
- Language: English
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Vile Bodies
$18.99 Add to cart“A wickedly witty and iridescent novel” (Time) from one of England’s greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s.
In the yea- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216348
- Language: English
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
$16.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called “paradise.”
- Author: Jones, Cherie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0316536997
- Language: English
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Ship of the Line
$18.99 Add to cartHornblower leads his first ship of the line into enemy waters in this installment of C. S. Forester’s beloved adventure series, called “exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action” by the New … [more below]
- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #07
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 30 1985
- ISBN10: 0316289361
- Language: English
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Queen of America
$25.99 Add to cartAt turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place … [more below]
- Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0316154873
- Language: English
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
$17.99 Add to cartThe last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about “one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction” (New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Salinger, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0316766941
- Language: English
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The Fighter
$16.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture and titled for the screen as RUMBLE THROUGH THE DARK; a blistering tale of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta.
The acres and- Author: Smith, Michael Farris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0316432326
- Language: English
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Decline and Fall
$18.99 Add to cartEvelyn Waugh’s “irresistible” first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeath- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216313
- Language: English
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Gods Behaving Badly
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “witty and entertaining” twist on Greek mythology (James Urquhart), the once all-powerful gods find themselves scraping by in a run-down London townhouse as they learn how to be human–and try… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316067636
- Language: English
