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To Slip the Bonds of Earth: A Riveting Mystery Based on a True History
$27.00 Read moreWhile not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in USA Today best… [more below]
- Series: A Katharine Wright Mystery
- Author: Flower, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1496747666
- Language: English
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The Secret Chord
$18.00 Add to cart“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.”… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109766
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
$26.00 Add to cartIt is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden–and hugely but erotically ugly. M
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426399
- Language: English
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The Magician
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Busine… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1476785090
- Language: English
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Follow Me to Africa
$17.99 Add to cart“A warm tale of identity and growth…as layered as the real ancient humanity inspiring its core.” — Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity
Historical fiction inspire
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1728295459
- Language: English
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My Dead Book
$16.95 Read moreA rumination on survival, queer aging, and estrangement that was a finalist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
My dead friends are back. I lie in bed at night and see them. Haunted by insomnia a- Author: Lippens, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902142
- Language: English
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The Rest Is Silence
$16.95 Add to cartThe lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino)–an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene t… [more below]
- Author: Monterroso, Augusto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378825
- Language: English
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Harlem Rhapsody
$31.00 Add to cartShe found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselli… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Victoria Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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La Otra Julia / The Other Julia
$18.95 Add to cartLa corta e intensa vida de Julia de Burgos
en la voz de una escritora que nos revela
otro rostro de la ic?nica poeta puertorrique?a.
Novela ganadora de la beca John S. Guggenheim
La escritora ha p… [more below]- Author: Santos-Febres, Mayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890981165
- Language: Spanish
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Orlando
$29.00 Add to cartA collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138375
- Language: English
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Versailles
$17.00 Read moreMarie Antoinette “tells her own story” in this “sage, mercurial, and ravishing” novel (The New Yorker)
Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment- Author: Davis, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644450984
- Language: English
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The Sable Cloak
$28.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, atmospheric novel set in the South and Midwest during the time of Jim Crow that reveals a little-known part of American pre-civil rights history of Black intrigue and power.
In the So- Author: Grant, Gail Milissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1538742004
- Language: English
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Tove and the Island with No Address
$18.99 Add to cartA gorgeous picture book homage to celebrated Moomin author Tove Jansson.
Tove and her family go to the island with no address every summer. After checking to make sure that everything in the cabin is- Author: Soloy, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1774883155
- Language: English
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The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
$18.99 Read more- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0063213761
- Language: English
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A Right Worthy Woman
$18.99 Add to cartIn the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a “remarkable and stirring novel” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) based on the inspiring true story of Virginia’s … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Ruth P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1668003031
- Language: English
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The Secret War of Julia Child
$17.99 Add to cartBefore she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II, a journey that will delight both historical fiction fans a
- Author: Chambers, Diana R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1464219044
- Language: English
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Tonbo
$19.99 Add to cartIn this semiautobiographical story told through the eyes of a man who ages backward, Caldecott medalist Allen Say reveals the power of memory to shape one’s art.
As an old man takes a morning walk, he
- Author: Say, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063248476
- Language: English
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The Paris Wife
$28.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0345521307
- Language: English
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ASHA and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman
$7.99 Add to cartIn the third book in the Asha and Baz series, readers learn about secret codes and how to break them from World War II codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman!
A secret code and a mysterious prize up for grabs… [more below]- Series: ASHA and Baz
- Author: Fernandez, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1988761832
- Language: English
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The Upstairs Room
$9.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor Book – ALA Notable Book – An SLJ Best Book – A Jane Addams Award Honor Book – Winner of the Jewish Book Council Children’s Book Award
A classic WWII survivor story based on award-winning
- Author: Reiss, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0062849808
- Language: English
