Back Bay Books
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Lieutenant Hornblower
$19.99 Add to cartHornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester’s beloved series, “the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were iron” (New York Times … [more below]
- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #02
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 16 1998
- ISBN10: 0316290637
- Language: English
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Big Sky
$19.99 Add to cartIconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies.
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitr… [more below]- Series: Jackson Brodie #5
- Author: Atkinson, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316523089
- Language: English
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Homeland Elegies
$16.99 Add to cartThis “profound and provocative” work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging–in post-Trump America,
- Author: Akhtar, Ayad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0316496413
- Language: English
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Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945
$21.99 Add to cartEvery Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginn… [more below]
- Author: Harper, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 08 1994
- ISBN10: 0316347108
- Language: English
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The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
$21.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.
In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unloc- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0316182338
- Language: English
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The Yellow Birds
$18.99 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
“The war tried to kill us in the spring.” So begins this powerful acc- Author: Powers, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0316219347
- Language: English
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The Hellfire Club
$16.99 Add to cartA young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950’s D.C. in this “potent thriller” (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper.
Charlie M- Series: Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery
- Author: Tapper, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0316472301
- Language: English
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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
$18.99 Read moreThis riveting, nuanced memoir about unforgettable individuals thrown together by chance and DNA tells a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one’s true inheritance.
What is a “normal fam
- Author: Bilton, Chrysta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316536539
- Language: English
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New Teeth: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one.
Called a “com- Author: Rich, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0316536679
- Language: English
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
$19.99 Add to cartHornblower’s reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C. S. Forester, “a master of the genre” (New York Times).
April 1803. Th- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #03
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316290467
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk’s masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is “a novel of brilliant virtuo… [more below]
- Author: Wouk, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0316955108
- Language: English
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Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
$24.99 Add to cartJames Andrew Miller and Tom Shales’s definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as “incredible” (Vulture) and “required reading” (People).
When first published to celebrate the 30th anniv- Author: Shales, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 031629506X
- Language: English
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The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
$21.99 Add to cartReal-world advice on how to be invisible online from “the FBI’s most wanted hacker” (Wired).
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity l- Author: Mitnick, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316380520
- Language: English
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Winter’s Bone
$19.99 Add to cartDaniel Woodrell’s modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Ree Dolly’s father has skipped bail on charges t- Author: Woodrell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0316066419
- Language: English
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
$21.99 Read moreA “persuasive and essential” (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller’s “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carc
- Author: Miller, Reuben Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0316451487
- Language: English
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a Useless Liberal Arts Education
$19.99 Add to cartIn a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts.
Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more th- Author: Anders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 031654888X
- Language: English
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When Will There Be Good News?
$19.99 Add to cartThe third installment in Kate Atkinson’s wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives.
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason’s family slow- Series: Jackson Brodie #3
- Author: Atkinson, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0316012831
- Language: English
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Summerland
$19.99 Add to cartThe “queen of the summer novel” explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews).
A warm June evening, a loc- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0316099899
- Language: English
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Into the Beautiful North
$19.99 Add to cartThis powerful novel from a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author tells the story of a young woman’s journey–both emotionally and physically–as she travels north to America.
Nineteen-year-ol- Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0316025267
- Language: English
