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By: Gaynor, Hazel
When We Were Young & Brave
$17.99PaperbackRead more“Gaynor’s story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
The New York Times bestse
- Author: Gaynor, Hazel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 006299526X
- Language: English
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Leaving Coy’s Hill
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cart** A Massachusetts Book Award “Fiction Honor” **
An unforgettable story about the triumphs and travails of a woman unwilling to play by the rules, based on the remarkable life of pioneering feminist a- Author: Sherbrooke, Katherine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362185
- Language: English
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By: Roth, Philip
The Ghost Writer
$17.00PaperbackRead moreThe novel that first introduced the Pulitzer Prize-winnning author’s most acclaimed character, Nathan Zuckerman, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, who meets a haunting young woman at t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Roth, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679748989
- Language: English
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My Name Is Not Isabella: Just How Big Can a Little Girl Dream?
$16.99HardcoverRead moreA rollicking read-aloud and terrific “read-to-myself” story, full of complete with backmatter about Isabella’s favorite women throughout history!
A New York Times Bestseller!
Just How Big Can a Little G
- Author: Fosberry, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402243952
- Language: English
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By: Gainza, Maria
Optic Nerve
$16.95PaperbackRead more“In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of he… [more below]
- Author: Gainza, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220021
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book Three
$27.00HardcoverRead moreA family of four–mother, father and two boys–move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family’s trajectory, upwardly mobile: the futur… [more below]
- Series: My Struggle #3
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1935744860
- Language: English
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By: Meijer, Eva
Bird Cottage
$14.95PaperbackRead moreA novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it
Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and lo- Author: Meijer, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1782273956
- Language: English
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By: Espinosa, Albert
Estaba Preparado Para Todo Menos Para Ti / I Was Prepared for Everything But You
$20.95PaperbackRead moreLo importante en esta vida no lo enseñan, pero cuando lo aprendes, no lo olvidas.
Siempre he creÃdo que las palabras son necesarias para sanarte. En este libro he intentado depositar toda mi experie- Author: Espinosa, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8425360501
- Language: Spanish
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By: Maraini, Dacia
In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi, a Novel
$25.95PaperbackRead moreAn author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clar… [more below]
- Series: Other Voices of Italy
- Author: Maraini, Dacia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 197883392X
- Language: English
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Alice I Have Been
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartPart love story, part literary mystery, Melanie Benjamin’s spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole, to tell the story of a woman whose own life bec… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385344147
- Language: English
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By: McLain, Paula
Love and Ruin
$17.00PaperbackRead moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the … [more below]
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1101967390
- Language: English
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By: Mejide, Risto
Dieciséis Notas: La Pasión Oculta de Johann Sebastian Bach / Sixteen Notes
$22.95HardcoverRead moreEsta novela no trata sobre Bach. Ni siquiera trata sobre música.
Esta novela va sobre la libertad. La libertad de amar a quien tú quieras y donde tú quieras. En definitiva, la libertad de ser tú.
… [more below]- Author: Mejide, Risto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8425364620
- Language: Spanish
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By: Kootstra, Kara
Bobby Orr and the Hand-Me-Down Skates
$17.99HardcoverRead moreEven hockey legends start with hand-me-downs. A beautifully illustrated true childhood story about hockey great Bobby Orr.
Bobby eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. So when his birthday is coming up, he- Author: Kootstra, Kara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0735265321
- Language: English
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By: Gigot, Jami
Starboy: Inspired by the Life and Lyrics of David Bowie
$18.99HardcoverRead moreA starry-eyed ode to self-expression and staying true to yourself, inspired by the life and lyrics of beloved icon David Bowie.
For as long as David could remember, he felt like a stranger on his own- Author: Gigot, Jami
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1250239435
- Language: English
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By: Carrey, Jim
Memoirs and Misinformation
$19.00PaperbackRead moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey
Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but h- Author: Carrey, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 052556568X
- Language: English
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By: Wenzel, Olivia
1,000 Coils of Fear
$16.95PaperbackRead moreA multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about her life as a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election from playwright Olivia Wenzel.
A yo- Author: Wenzel, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220501
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- Language: English
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By: Adler, David A.
The Babe & I
$7.99PaperbackRead moreIt’s 1932 and hard times are everywhere. But life isn’t all bad. America still loves baseball, and Babe Ruth is the star of the game. And two boys are about to discover that with some creativity, hard… [more below]
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0152050264
- Language: English
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By: Watson, Brad
Miss Jane
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as
- Author: Watson, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354385
- Language: English
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A Name of Her Own
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartBased on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle… [more below]
- Series: Tender Ties Historical
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 1578564999
- Language: English





