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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
$22.00 Add to cartA 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
$20.99 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 Read more“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 Add to cartDaughters 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
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When We Were Young & Brave
$17.99 Read 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
$15.95 Read more** 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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The Ghost Writer
$17.00 Read 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?
$16.99 Read 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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Optic Nerve
$16.95 Read 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
$27.00 Read 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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Bird Cottage
$14.95 Read 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
