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Set All Afire: A Novel of St. Francis Xavier
$17.95 Read moreSaint Francis Xavier’s life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great miss… [more below]
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0898703514
- Language: English
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Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel about St. Catherine of Siena
$18.95 Add to cartContinuing his popular series of novels about saints of the Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: September 19 1991
- ISBN10: 0898703816
- Language: English
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The Magician
$28.00 Read moreA 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- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1476785082
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$10.00 Add to cartA haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he mana- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439785
- Language: English
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Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano
$15.99 Read moreA smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation,… [more below]
- Series: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen #1
- Author: Jocelyn, Marthe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0735265461
- Language: English
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Sell Us the Rope
$18.00 Read more“Sell Us the Rope is original, adept and confident, with the spry sardonic voice of the new historical fiction: it is entertaining and in the end, deeply moving.” -Hilary Mantel
“A deeply satisfying n- Author: May, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639731431
- Language: English
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Shizue’s Path
$19.99 Read moreA war from far across the ocean washed up onto our new country’s shore.
I wish that I could skip this chapter of the story, darling. Just as you may want to skip parts of your own life story in time.
- Author: Sakamoto, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1443464597
- Language: English
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The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance
$18.99 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR!
LONGLISTED for 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD!
She rose from commoner to become the last reigning queen of I
- Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063161877
- Language: English
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The Empress
$17.00 Read more“Sumptuous . . . Nothing in this story disappoints.” –Publishers Weekly
“A fresh, fast-paced take on a legendary woman.” –Evie Dunmore, USA Today bestselling author of Bringing Down the Duke
As seen o- Author: Griffis, Gigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1638930163
- Language: English
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Citadel of God: A Novel about Saint Benedict
$18.95 Add to cartAnother of the popular historical novels by the distinguished de Wohl, telling the dramatic story of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, who played such a major role in the Christianizat
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: March 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0898704049
- Language: English
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The War Magician: Based on an Extraordinary True Story
$27.99 Read moreBased on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fi
- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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Never Fall Down
$11.99 Read moreThis National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labo
- Author: McCormick, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0061730955
- Language: English
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The Beautiful and Damned
$12.99 Read moreTwenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his g… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172272
- Language: English
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The Rent Collector
$24.99 Read moreSurvival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be ha… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Camron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1609071220
- Language: English
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Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock
$18.99 Read moreThe adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, come to life in this inspiring picture book biography.
What if you wrote a story about a detective, and he became th- Series: Who Wrote Classics
- Author: Bailey, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0735269254
- Language: English
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The Little Christmas Tree
$17.95 Read moreThe little Christmas tree hates its sharp needles, and longs to have soft leaves like all the other trees. But will it be happier when its wish is granted? Perhaps it’s not so bad being a little Chris
- Author: Koopmans, Loek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157173
- Language: English
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The Dead Man in the Garden
$9.99 Read moreFor young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by… [more below]
- Series: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen
- Author: Jocelyn, Marthe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0735270783
- Language: English
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Marcel’s Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art
$19.99 Read moreAn engaging, kid-friendly introduction to artist Marcel Duchamp and how he turned a toilet into a famous work of art.
This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way- Author: Mack, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 125077716X
- Language: English
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Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II
$18.99 Add to cart“Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be–and just how much they’ll dare–during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Phi
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063068907
- Language: English
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My Name Is Cool
$17.99 Read more2023 Storytelling World Resource Award honoree
When I was born, I kept my eyes squeezed shut so tightly that my mom called me Mr. Magoo from a cartoon she loved.
My dad said I was going to be bilingu- Author: Sacre, Antonio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1641706570
- Language: English
