Back Bay Books
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity
$21.99 Add to cartThis eye-opening book offers a “clear and captivating” (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they
- Author: Brendborg, Nicklas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0316414689
- Language: English
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, b… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 031616707X
- Language: English
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Shoedog
$19.99 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world” (Esquire) comes this powerful early novel–the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it me… [more below]
- Author: Pelecanos, George P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0316246565
- Language: English
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Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author
$17.99 Add to cartEarly short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as “an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers” by the New Republic.
Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30, 1985
- ISBN10: 0316724432
- Language: English
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The Second World War
$28.99 Read moreA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world’s- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0316023752
- Language: English
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The Boys of My Youth
$18.99 Add to cartThe “utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful” collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation.
Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0316085251
- Language: English
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cartFrances FitzGerald’s landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, “a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.” (New York T… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2002
- ISBN10: 316159190
- Language: English
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Love, Nina
$21.99 Add to cart“Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude, and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I’ve ever read.” — Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
In 1982, 20-year-o- Author: Stibbe, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0316243388
- Language: English
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Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
$19.99 Add to cartThe goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New… [more below]
- Author: Clegg, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316122548
- Language: English
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Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
$35.99 Add to cartThe author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism — and why we need it now more than ever.
In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is n- Author: Ricard, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 031620823X
- Language: English
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The Abominable
$22.99 Add to cartA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror.
It’s 1924 and the race to summit the world’s highest mountai- Author: Simmons, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0316198846
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
$19.99 Add to cartAn award-wining and “outrageously entertaining” true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hu… [more below]
- Author: Rubinstein, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010731
- Language: English
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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
$18.99 Add to cartHornblower confronts pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in this “excellent” installment (The Atlantic) in C. S. Forester’s beloved saga of naval adventures.
In the chaotic aftermath … [more below]- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #11
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 1989
- ISBN10: 0316289418
- Language: English
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Going There
$18.99 Read moreThis heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.
For more than forty years, Katie Couri- Author: Couric, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0316535893
- Language: English
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Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
$21.99 Add to cartAn unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo detainee.
Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Gu- Author: Slahi, Mohamedou Ould
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 316517887
- Language: English
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Waking Lions
$19.99 Add to cartIn this thrilling drama from an award-winning author, after one night’s deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect lif
- Author: Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0316395412
- Language: English
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Don’t Stop the Carnival
$19.99 Add to cartThe “compulsively and clock-racingly readable” novel (New York Times Book Review) that captures the comedy and tragedy of island life and inspired a Jimmy Buffett musical.
It’s every parrothead’s dre… [more below]- Author: Wouk, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 15 1992
- ISBN10: 316955124
- Language: English
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Hornblower and the Atropos
$19.99 Add to cartHornblower leads a ship into the Mediterranean in this “intense and exciting” installment (New York Times) of C. S. Forester’s beloved naval adventure saga.
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #05
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 1985
- ISBN10: 0316289299
- Language: English
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling memoir that’s “irresistible….A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef” (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, sta… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0316013269
- Language: English
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Flying Colours
$17.99 Add to cartHornblower is captured by the French and faces execution in a Paris prison in this “most satisfying” chapter (Times Literary Supplement) in C. S. Forester’s beloved naval adventure series.
Forced to- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #08
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 1989
- ISBN10: 0316289396
- Language: English
