Back Bay Books
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Ordinary Human Failings
$16.99 Add to cartWhen a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secre… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316567795
- Language: English
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Swan Song
$18.99 Add to cartThe beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem—and a possible murder follow. Can Nantucket’s… [more below]
- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0316259489
- Language: English
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of… [more below]
- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0316374989
- Language: English
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe “mesmerizing and inspirational” (Judy Batalion) true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following … [more below]
- Author: Blankfeld, Keren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0316564788
- Language: English
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Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
$24.99 Add to cartExperience the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete.
Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep- Author: Van Natta, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0316067490
- Language: English
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and se- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0316259586
- Language: English
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
$21.99 Add to cartTravel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield’s “enthralling” bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate).
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged n- Author: Hadfield, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0316253030
- Language: English
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When Violence Is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake
$19.99 Add to cartThis book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer.
In a civilized … [more below]- Author: Larkin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0316354651
- Language: English
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
$18.99 Add to cartHoratio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this “absolutely compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester’s classic naval adventure series.
The ye- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #01
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 1984
- ISBN10: 0316289124
- Language: English
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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Atlantic blue crab and the people of the Chesapeake Bay who have depended on it for generations. For decades, William Warner’s exploration of the Atlant… [more below]
- Author: Warner, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0316923354
- Language: English
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
$18.99 Add to cartIn David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris’s collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves mone… [more below]
- Series: Barrel Fever #1
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316779423
- Language: English
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A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!: The Mark Leyner Reader
$24.99 Add to cartAn all-access ticket to the celebrated and wholly original mind of Mark Leyner, “one of the smartest and funniest humans since Aristophanes” (Jay McInerney)
Praised as “chaotic and vibrant” (Charles- Author: Leyner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 316591653
- Language: English
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Winter in Paradise
$19.99 Add to cartA husband’s secret life, a wife’s new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.
Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victo- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0316584096
- Language: English
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First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning journalist reveals the dramatic true story of the CIA’s Team Alpha, the first Americans to be dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan after 9/11.
America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has st… [more below]
- Author: Harnden, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 316540978
- Language: English
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
$18.99 Add to cartThe first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president’s private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.
Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. In… [more below]- Author: Giorgione, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0316509590
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash: The Life
$22.99 Add to cartThe national bestseller celebrated as “the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.” — Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend,- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0316194743
- Language: English
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The Paradise Trilogy: (Winter in Paradise, What Happens in Paradise, Troubles in Paradise)
$59.99 Read moreThree bestselling novels from “the beach-book queen” (People)–now available in an attractive and gift-worthy boxed set.
Elin Hilderbrand’s Paradise novels–Winter in Paradise, What Happens in Paradis- Series: Paradise
- Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316334839
- Language: English
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
$18.99 Read moreBy the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guraln… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0316412600
- Language: English
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The Ridge
$17.99 Read moreDiscover a brilliant thriller set in a remote big-cat sanctuary: “one of the scariest and most touching horror tales in years” (James Patterson).
In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hil- Author: Koryta, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0316053678
- Language: English
