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Forever Young: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Adventure
$19.82PaperbackAdd to cartAs Governia Jewell Rose read article after article and listened to news channels discussing the invisible enemy, she wondered what had happened to love, peace, and happiness. Was this the end of time … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Governia Jewell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1663253986
- Language: English
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By: Mantin, Dennis
Look Them In The Eyes
$20.99PaperbackAdd to cartFollowing the birth of his daughter, Jackie, middle-aged Zach MacIver is determined to stop what he terms “intergenerational transmission of family dysfunction” from plaguing his family. Over the cour… [more below]
- Author: Mantin, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1039180647
- Language: English
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John Brown’s Women
$15.99PaperbackAdd to cartAs the United States wrestles with its besetting sin-slavery-abolitionist John Brown is growing tired of talk. He takes actions that will propel the nation toward civil war and thrust three courageous
- Author: Higginbotham, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1737474905
- Language: English
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By: Robertson Davies
What’s Bred in the Bone
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartSecond in the Cornish Trilogy following The Rebel Angels. “An altogether remarkable creation, [Davies’] most accomplished novel to date.”–The New York Times
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Francis- Series: Cornish Trilogy #2
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 415
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0795352611
- Language: English
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By: Alpsten, Ellen
The Tsarina’s Daughter
$35.00PaperbackAdd to cartEllen Alpsten’s stunning novel, The Tsarina’s Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, d
- Author: Alpsten, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250214416
- Language: English
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By: Tobar, Héctor
The Last Great Road Bum
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartOne of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates priz
- Author: Tobar, Héctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798698
- Language: English
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Little Boy
$17.00PaperbackRead moreFrom the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament — part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-infl… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565957
- Language: English
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By: Preston, John
The Dig: A Novel Based on True Events
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartTHE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES
A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of Worl- Author: Preston, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1590517806
- Language: English
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By: George, Jill
The Light Among Us: The Story of Elizabeth Carne, Cornwall
$17.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Spence, Alan
Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel: R.H. Blyth’s Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West
$22.99HardcoverAdd 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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By: Louis, Édouard
History of Violence
$19.00PaperbackAdd 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
$19.95PaperbackRead 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
$25.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Greeley, Molly
Marvelous: A Novel of Wonder and Romance in the French Royal Court
$19.99PaperbackAdd 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
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom 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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By: Wertman, Janet
Jane the Quene
$15.99PaperbackAdd 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
$21.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Mulk Raj Anand
Untouchable
$16.00PaperbackRead moreMulk 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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By: Chabon, Michael
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
$19.99PaperbackAdd 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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By: Lessing, Doris
African Stories
$38.99PaperbackAdd 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

















