Back Bay Books
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
$18.99 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace’s stories present a world … [more below]- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0316925195
- Language: English
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of…
$21.99 Add to cartA powerful and moving history of Asian Americans that spans centuries, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and ora- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0316831301
- Language: English
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Never Cry Wolf
$18.99 Add to cartBy enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316881791
- Language: English
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The Soul of a New Machine
$19.99 Add to cartTracy Kidder’s “riveting” (Washington Post) story of one company’s efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential readi… [more below]
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316491977
- Language: English
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Who Is Maud Dixon?
$16.99 Add to cart“Part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.”―Maria Semple
Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she s
- Author: Andrews, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316500291
- Language: English
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A Heart Full of Headstones: An Inspector Rebus Novel
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Ian Rankin returns to his legendary detective–it’s not the first time Rebus has taken the law into his own hands, though it may be the last.
John Rebus stands accus… [more below]
- Series: Rebus Novel
- Author: Rankin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316473650
- Language: English
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
$19.99 Add to cartThis classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an “illuminating and even inspiring” portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians live… [more below]
- Author: Menocal, Maria Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0316168718
- Language: English
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The Invitation
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List, an evocative love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of charismatic stars who all have secrets … [more below]
- Author: Foley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0316272906
- Language: English
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The Historian
$22.99 Add to cartThe record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that “refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner” (San Francisco Chro… [more below]
- Author: Kostova, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316070637
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
$24.99 Add to cartThis comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were publishe… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: 30-Jan-76
- ISBN10: 0316184136
- Language: English
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The Identicals
$17.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller is “a fun, delightful, un-putdownable novel” about two identical twin sisters who couldn’t look more alike . . . or live more differently (PopSugar).
Nantucket i- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0316492477
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “briskly entertaining” (New York Times Book Review), “transporting and wholly original” (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved
- Author: Miller, Nathaniel Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 4-Oct-22
- ISBN10: 0316592587
- Language: English
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. … [more below]
- Author: Azerrad, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: 2-Jul-02
- ISBN10: 0316787531
- Language: English
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Case Histories
$19.99 Add to cartThe first book in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called “The best mystery of the decade” by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnec… [more below]
- Series: Jackson Brodie #1
- Author: Atkinson, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010707
- Language: English
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThis celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is “brilliantly entertaining…Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation’s best comi… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 2-Jul-07
- ISBN10: 0316013323
- Language: English
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
$22.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written travelogue” that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainme… [more below]
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316067547
- Language: English
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The Terror
$22.99 Add to cartThe “masterfully chilling” novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).
The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever- Author: Simmons, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0316017450
- Language: English
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Winter Solstice
$18.99 Add to cart*The USA Today Bestseller*
Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It’s been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same- Series: Winter Street
- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0316564583
- Language: English
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
$22.99 Add to cartThis classic history of America’s high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is “a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real” (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2
- Author: Janos, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0316743003
- Language: English
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Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connect
$22.99 Read moreA landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.
Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our mi- Author: Nichols, Wallace J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 0316252115
- Language: English
