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The Light Among Us: The Story of Elizabeth Carne, Cornwall
$17.99 Add to cartElizabeth Carne was clearly a remarkable woman whose contribution to Cornish society, geology and the world of banking and commerce has been admirably woven into this well-researched historical novel.
- Author: George, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 163988484X
- Language: English
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Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel: R.H. Blyth’s Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West
$22.99 Add to cartLovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!
An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place. “In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) bi- Author: Spence, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856354
- Language: English
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History of Violence
$19.00 Add to cartHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of it
- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 125021498X
- Language: English
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El Mundo / The World
$19.95 Read more«Qu? habr?a ocurrido si aquel d?a lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al s?tano por el mismo agujero por el que hab?a salido de ?l. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo … [more below]
- Author: Mill?s, Juan Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8420463973
- Language: Spanish
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Dream of the Celt
$25.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A painstakingly researched and lively novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1250033322
- Language: English
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Marvelous: A Novel of Wonder and Romance in the French Royal Court
$19.99 Add to cart“Enchanting. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast’s ache to be cared for and belong. This book broke my heart and put it back together again.”-
- Author: Greeley, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0063244101
- Language: English
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The Girls in the Picture
$17.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)–screenwriter Frances Ma… [more below]
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 110188682X
- Language: English
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Jane the Quene
$15.99 Add to cart“One of the Best Books of 2016” – Open Letters Monthly; Finalist, 2016 Novel of the Year – Underground Book Reviews; Semi-Finalist – 2017 M.M. Bennetts Award
All Jane Seymour wants is a husband; but w
- Series: Seymour Saga #1
- Author: Wertman, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0997133813
- Language: English
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Letters That Never Came
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930… [more below]
- Series: Americas (Texas Tech)
- Author: Rosencof, Mauricio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 089672865X
- Language: English
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Becoming Madame Mao
$19.99 Add to cartIn a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival an
- Author: Min, Anchee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127003
- Language: English
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Untouchable
$16.00 Add to cartMulk Raj Anand’s extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India’s caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi
Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet n- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anand, Mulk Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0141393602
- Language: English
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh
$19.99 Add to cart“Chabon’s writing is deft and delicate — almost every page includes a delightful phrase or two. He mingles dialogue, the Pittsburgh cityscape, descriptions of the characters’ activity and Art’s thoug
- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060790598
- Language: English
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African Stories
$38.99 Add to cartLong considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories–a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer–is now back in print. This beautiful collect… [more below]
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476767157
- Language: English
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The Blue Orchard
$19.99 Add to cartOn the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate lib… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1416592946
- Language: English
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Pearl of Arabia
$17.99 Add to cartThe sweeping saga of a young woman uncovering her mysterious past, only to find herself at the epicenter of a power struggle that could shatter a nation.
As an orphan who aged out of the system, Adira
- Author: Black, Connor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 16 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218097875
- Language: English
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A Través del Bosque / Through the Woods
$19.95 Read moreLa ?ltima novela de la aclamada autora de La casa de los conejos, una historia sobrecogedora basada en hechos reales.
Una fr?a ma?ana de diciembre de 1984, Griselda, argentina exiliada en Francia, se- Author: Alcoba, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 8420467898
- Language: Spanish
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MarÃa Callas. Tan Fiera, Tan Frágil / The Life of MarÃa Callas
$24.95 Read moreUna biograf?a novelada de la vida ?ntima de la gran Mar?a Callas, la diva por excelencia.
Descubre la magia detr?s de la leyenda! Pronto, Angelina Jolie dar? vida a la inigualable Mar?a Callas en la- Author: Signorini, Alfonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 8426425917
- Language: Spanish
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Nellie
$20.95 Add to cartNellie finds herself alone, confused, desperate. A resident of Sycamore Acres memory care unit, life makes no sense anymore. Where are her boys? Why don’t her friends come around? Where are the people… [more below]
- Author: Heyen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Against the Flow: A Canuck in Vietnam
$24.99 Add to cartThe infamous Arizona Territory was a place to be avoided like the plague. Like Go Noi Island, it was a free-fire zone that had seen lots of action. Yet right now, everything was deadly quiet. The usua… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1039191967
- Language: English
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Christ in Concrete
$8.99 Add to cartGiving voice to the hardworking Italian immigrants who worked, lived, and died in New York City shortly before the Great Depression, this American classic ranks with Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as… [more below]
- Author: Di Donato, Pietro
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0451525752
- Language: English
