Back Bay Books
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Nick
$16.99 Read moreA critically acclaimed novelist pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this “masterful” look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empi
- Author: Smith, Michael Farris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 031652977X
- Language: English
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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
$21.99 Add to cartAn “elegant and inspiring memoir” by the human rights activist who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout
- Author: Leng’ete, Nice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0316463361
- Language: English
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Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America’s Elite Warriors
$21.99 Add to cartIncludes excerpt from: Hunt the wolf: a SEAL Team Six novel by Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo.
- Author: Mann, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0316204307
- Language: English
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Dare Me
$16.99 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as “Lord of the Flies se… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 031643017X
- Language: English
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
$16.99 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: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316450758
- Language: English
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Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar with the Doors
$18.99 Add to cartIn his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone‘s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” opens up about his band’s meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the mos
- Author: Krieger, Robby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316243442
- Language: English
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
$18.99 Read more“An engaging read that will engross any would-be entrepreneur” (Wall Street Journal), now updated with a new afterword by the author: In the tradition of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog comes the incredible un… [more below]
- Author: Randolph, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0316530182
- Language: English
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Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
$19.99 Add to cartPublishers Weekly Best Summer Reads
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there’s a finer line between “genius” and “idiot- Author: Spalding, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0316529540
- Language: English
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
$23.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a “masterful, bracing” (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offe
- Author: Goodell, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 031649755X
- Language: English
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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys–And One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses… [more below]
- Author: Risen, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0316565148
- Language: English
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Country Girl
$24.99 Add to cart“Country Girl is Edna O’Brien’s exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.”-National Public Radio
When Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960,- Series: Back Bay Readers’ Pick
- Author: O’Brien, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0316122718
- Language: English
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The Horse Boy: A Memoir of Healing
$24.99 Add to cartWhen his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor’s… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0316008249
- Language: English
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All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling author Jake Tapper’s “absolute page-turner” (Gillian Flynn) transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs.
I- Author: Tapper, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 031642448X
- Language: English
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a “wild, only-in-America story” of pol… [more below]- Author: Levin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316513288
- Language: English
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Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love
$21.99 Add to cart“Glorious…one of the best memoirs I’ve read in years…a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hila… [more below]
- Author: McDermott, Zack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0316315125
- Language: English
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A World Without Islam
$21.99 Add to cartThis extremely provocative and illuminating “what if” journey through history, geopolitics, and religion investigates whether there is something unique in Islam and its followers that breeds violence
- Author: Fuller, Graham E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0316041203
- Language: English
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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
$18.99 Read moreOne man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In- Author: Fox, Porter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316460907
- Language: English
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
$21.99 Add to cartThis masterful explorationof American roots music–country, rockabilly, and the blues–spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis … [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332747
- Language: English
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The Who & the What: A Play
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel th… [more below]
- Author: Akhtar, Ayad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0316324493
- Language: English
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All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
$19.99 Add to cartThis “love story for the ages” from a # 1 New York Times bestselling author comes an unforgettable story about basketball and the enduring bonds between a father and daughter that “will heal relations… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0316706892
- Language: English
