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Euphoria
$28.00 Read moreA luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her.
A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured
- Author: Cullhed, Elin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1838855963
- Language: English
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Talkin’ about Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
$19.99 Read moreSoar along with Bessie Coleman in this inspirational tale of a woman whose determination reached new heights.
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was always being told what she could & couldn’t do. In an era wh… [more below]
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0439352436
- Language: English
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Napoleon Symphony
$14.95 Add to cartA grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed–in liberty, equality, and fraternity–from Beethoven’s Third “Eroic
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350150
- Language: English
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A Fan’s Notes
$17.00 Read moreRejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley’s autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Exley, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720766
- Language: English
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White Houses
$17.00 Read moreFor readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)–Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0812985699
- Language: English
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Fadya and the Song of the River: A Picture Book
$16.99 Read moreLaura Nsafou and Am駘ie-Anne Calmo’s picture book Fadya and the Song of the River is a vibrantly colorful illustrated tale celebrating creativity and serving your community.
Between the deserts of M- Author: Nsafou, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1849768242
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
$20.00 Add to cartFor anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courag… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0385344163
- Language: English
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The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3)
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this asto… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #3
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 679776672
- Language: English
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Unstoppable Octobia May
$8.99 Read moreBestselling and award-winning author, Sharon G. Flake, delivers a mystery set in the 1950s that eerily blends history, race, culture, and family.
Octobia May is girl filled with questions. Her heart co… [more below]
- Author: Flake, Sharon G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0545609623
- Language: English
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Brontë
$14.99 Read moreCharlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë–faced with an ailing father and an alcoholic brother–pursue independence through art in this graphic vision of the lives of three legendary writers.
Despite their
- Author: Santoni, Manuela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1728412900
- Language: English
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Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business
$6.99 Read moreFollow Sarah Breedlove’s journey from the first child in her family born free to a woman with a thriving hair care business, posed to become America’s first self-made millionaire.
- Series: A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book
- Author: Rebel Girls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1953424007
- Language: English
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A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
$17.00 Read moreA thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestse… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Stephanie Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593198409
- Language: English
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The Great Passion
$28.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi- Author: Runcie, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1635570670
- Language: English
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
$16.99 Read moreMarie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future Ki
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Naslund, Sena Jeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0060825405
- Language: English
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The Persian Boy
$17.95 Add to cart“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”-The Atlantic Monthly
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s … [more below]- Series: Alexander Trilogy #2
- Author: Renault, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394751019
- Language: English
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The Gift
$16.00 Add to cartConsidered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. – An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Ch… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0679727256
- Language: English
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Let It Destroy You
$18.95 Read moreInspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Ki… [more below]
- Author: Lye, Harriet Alida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0771000421
- Language: English
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The Hallelujah Lass: A Story Based on the Life of Salvation Army Pioneer Eliza Shirley
$8.99 Read moreDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
As a teenager growing up in nineteenth-century England, Eliza Shirley was the picture of a proper young lady. She loved crinolines,
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 149
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802440738
- Language: English
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My Name Is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
$9.99 Read moreOften shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper’s novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and
- Author: Cooper, Afua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1525310852
- Language: English
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What Remains of Elsie Jane
$19.99 Read more“A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love… a striking reminder that there can be beauty in devastation.” — EMILY AUSTIN, author of Every
- Author: Wakelyn, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1459750845
- Language: English
