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Augusta
$18.99 Add to cart2023 Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner
From the author of Walking Home: Trail Stories-a gold and silver winner in the 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award-Celia Ryker’s fiction debut is based on t
- Author: Ryker, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1578691206
- Language: English
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Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
$28.99 Read more“Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.”–Kirkus Reviews
Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroug
- Author: Stratton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063115468
- Language: English
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Of Human Bondage (Autobiographical Novel): Boyhood and Youth, Education, Political Ideals, Political Career (the New York Governorship and the Preside
$21.20 Add to cartOf Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature. The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its… [more below]
- Author: Maugham, William Somerset
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 14 2019
- ISBN10: 8027330181
- Language: English
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A Great Heart: The Story of Mary Breckenridge, Her Midwives/Nurses and the People They Served
$21.95 Add to cartSurvival was their dearest hope…these mountain people. Their children were their greatest asset…but they died one by one, long before they reached the age of six, many times at birth along with th
- Author: Swiesz, Shirley Noe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: February 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1491753250
- Language: English
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Grimmish
$18.95 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
Pain was Joe Grim’s self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being.
A superstar boxer who rarely won a fight, Grim distinguished himself for
- Author: Winkler, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1552454665
- Language: English
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El Sueño de Tutankhamón / Tutankhamuns Dream
$24.95 Read moreLa gran novela sobre Tutankhamón por el maestro del género del Antiguo Egipto.
Un viaje fascinante al corazón del Antiguo Egipto y el reinado de Tutankhamón, el faraón más enigmático de la Hi… [more below]- Author: Cabanas, Antonio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8466672842
- Language: Spanish
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The Deli Diaries
$19.95 Add to cartFresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents’ basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a “temporary” job as a deli clerk. Struggling to smile under the s
- Author: Weber, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1957607165
- Language: English
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Rivers Flow
$19.95 Add to cart“Flow is the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be.” Jake does not understand the meaning of his grandfather Griffin’s words. It is easier to believe that that this thing … [more below]
- Author: Ainsworth, Jim H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865347573
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$5.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530152
- Language: English
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Falls the Shadow
$26.99 Add to cartSimon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III.
- Series: Welsh Princes Trilogy #2
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0312382464
- Language: English
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Trinity
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer–father of the atomic bomb–as told by seven fictional characters
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist
- Author: Hall, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0062851977
- Language: English
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God’s Messenger: The Astounding Achievements of Mother Cabrini: A Novel Based on the Life of Mother Frances X. Cabrini
$15.99 Add to cartHer passion became her reality.
Children were her life, and God’s messenger Mother Frances X. Cabrini dedicated her entire life to caring for poor Italian immigrants who sought refuge in the slums of N
- Author: Gregory, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1947431021
- Language: English
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Crusoe’s Daughter
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Old Filth. “[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight” (People).
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her- Author: Gardam, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1609450698
- Language: English
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El Secreto de Su Mente
$22.95 Add to cartElla cambió el mundo de la ciencia. Tres hombres se llevaron el crédito
Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahà da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está seg
- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6073901402
- Language: Spanish
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The Golden Thread: A Novel about St. Ignatius Loyola
$16.95 Add to cartAs in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in wh… [more below]
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0898708133
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Mandelbrot the Magnificent
$12.99 Add to cartLiz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he’s brought to the world. –Karen Joy Fowler
Mandelbrot the Magnificent is a stunning, magical pseud- Author: Ziemska, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0765398052
- Language: English
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Reckoning
$40.00 Add to cart“Penman’s characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to breathe on the page.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Never forget, Llewelyn, that the world’s greatest fo- Series: Welsh Princes Trilogy #3
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0312382472
- Language: English
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Season of the Gods
$18.00 Read moreA woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man’s world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idea… [more below]
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1735273872
- Language: English
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The Minorcan Princess: A St. Augustine Story
$27.95 Add to cartThe Minorcan Princess tells the story of a family whose ancestors arrived in St. Augustine in 1777 and are working every day to provide seafood to those who cannot produce their own. It describes a cu… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Robert Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1977251714
- Language: English
