Bildungsromans
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Chicago
$19.00 Add to cartOn the last day of summer, a young college grad moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during wh
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118123
- Language: English
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Thieves: A Novel
$17.00 Add to cart“Sly, witty, and utterly compelling, Valerie Werder’s Thieves illuminates how we create and examine our selves in thrall to late capitalism–and how we’re all thieves of one kind or another. This nove
- Series: Fence Modern Prize in Prose
- Author: Werder, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1944380213
- Language: English
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All Things Left Wild
$17.99 Read moreAfter an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth centu
- Author: Wade, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 323
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1799956466
- Language: English
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Salka Valka
$23.00 Read more“This is a remarkable achievement and will hopefully lead to a revival of interest in an oft-overlooked literary genius.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
A fresh translation of Nobel Prize-winning- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 630
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1953861245
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$6.95 Add to cartTHE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY FAME AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE
Considered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, This- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530349
- Language: English
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In the Country of Men
$18.00 Add to cartLibya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts… [more below]
- Author: Matar, Hisham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0385340435
- Language: English
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The Torn Skirt
$16.99 Add to cart“The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing — like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, except about girls.” — Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin
At Mt. Douglas
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Godfrey, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0061567108
- Language: English
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Miss Me Forever
$16.95 Read moreTulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly
damp and gray he wonders if he’s landed on the underside of the world. He is
sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Ref- Author: Cross, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1950539784
- Language: English
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Alburquerque
$19.95 Read more“Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. . . . There is a marvel
- Author: Anaya, Rudolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0826340598
- Language: English
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Stories from the Sheriff’s Daughter
$24.95 Add to cartStories From the Sheriff’s Daughter is a beautifully written short novel that follows the life of a nine-year-old girl who moves to a small-town Texas county jail when her dairy farmer father is elect… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Lareida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658342
- Language: English
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Labor Day
$18.99 Add to cart“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.”
–Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith
“Maynard has created an ens
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0061843415
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Glass Ferry
$15.95 Add to cartA SIBA OKRA Pick
“An emotionally resonant tale of secrets, regret, and absolution that held me spellbound. You simply have to read it.” –Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for- Author: Richardson, Kim Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1496734238
- Language: English
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Ordinary Wolves
$20.00 Add to cartEskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness: “A magnificently realized story” (New York Times Book Review).
Ordinary Wolves depict
- Author: Kantner, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1571311211
- Language: English
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The Pleasing Hour
$17.00 Add to cartLily King’s highly acclaimed, award-winning debut novel is the story of Rosie, an American au pair in Paris whose coming of age defies all our usual conceptions of na vet and experience. Rosie is fle… [more below]
- Author: King, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0802143741
- Language: English
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A Little Too Much Is Enough
$21.99 Add to cartMahealani Wong was named for the full moon she was born under as her Chinese grandmother believed it would bring her good luck. She has a full helping of her fathers full Hawaiian lips and the rebelli… [more below]
- Author: Tyau, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393315592
- Language: English
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Border Town
$17.99 Add to cartNew in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel–banned by Mao’s regime–that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young
- Author: Shen, Congwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 61436917
- Language: English
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How the Garc? Girls Lost Their Accents
$27.00 Read moreOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez’s modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as the- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136550
- Language: English
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief
$18.99 Add to cartHope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature.
For as
- Author: Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063116928
- Language: English
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Churn: An Illustrated Novel-In-Stories
$22.95 Read moreWinner of The 2022 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Vi Khi Nao
Siblings Jordan and Chung face a costly existence on their family’s Kansas farm. On a conciliatory trip once again turned viole- Author: Seim, Chloe Chun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: January 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1680033492
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist: Introduction by Michael Slater
$30.00 Add to cartOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, howev
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417249
- Language: English
