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  • Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s

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    This is the story of a young couple who go on a hitchhiking odyssey across the country in the 1970s, hoping to find a new life for themselves. The protagonist is an artist and a self-styled “searcher”

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    • Author: Erickson, Rollie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1958901482
    • Language: English
  • The Path to Somerset

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    First Place Winner, 2020 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s Historical Fiction

    “The novel’s sweeping historic detail and bewitching blend of rivalries and romances will dazzle devotees of Tudor England” – Pu

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    • Series: Seymour Saga #2
    • Author: Wertman, Janet
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 378
    • Publish Date: August 24 2018
    • ISBN10: 0997133848
    • Language: English
  • Little Girl in the Mirror: Cathy’s Story

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    Ever since she could remember, little Cathy Barron loved living with her grandparents on Cape Breton Island, and every summer she looked forward to the day her mother would step off the train from Ont

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    • Author: Mondou, Tara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: December 06 2019
    • ISBN10: 0993799663
    • Language: English
  • A Week in the Life of Corinth

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    Ben Witherington III attempts to reenchant our reading of Paul in this creative reconstruction of ancient Corinth. Following a fictitious Corinthian man named Nicanor through an eventful week of busin

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    • Series: Week in the Life
    • Author: Witherington III, Ben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 159
    • Publish Date: March 30 2012
    • ISBN10: 0830839623
    • Language: English
  • Frangipani

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    In Tahiti, it’s a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all — or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter a… [more below]

    • Author: Vaite, Célestine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 07 2006
    • ISBN10: 0316114669
    • Language: English
  • The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

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    “The creative sisterhood of Little Women, the social scandal of Edith Wharton and the courtship mishaps of Jane Austen. . . . The Fifth Avenue Artists Society is delightful.” — New York Daily News

    In

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    • Author: Callaway, Joy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062391615
    • Language: English
  • The Boy King

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    One of Open Letters Review’s Ten Best Historical Novels of 2020; First Place Winner, 2021 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s historical fiction

    “Highly recommend both as a standalone and series read. Wertman’

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    • Series: Seymour Saga #3
    • Author: Wertman, Janet
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 334
    • Publish Date: September 30 2021
    • ISBN10: 1735491144
    • Language: English
  • The Prophet’s Wife: A Novel of an American Faith

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    A lyrical novel exploring the origins of the Mormon faith, RECOMMENDED by the New York Times Book Review.

    “Superb… a first-rate historical novel” – The Denver Post

    “A masterpiece … perfect for fans

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    • Author: Grant, Libbie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: March 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063070626
    • Language: English
  • Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II

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    “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

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    • Author: Hooper, Elise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063117932
    • Language: English
  • Sabbath’s Theater: National Book Award Winner

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers his “richest, most rewarding novel” (The New York Times Book Review) about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Roth, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: August 06 1996
    • ISBN10: 0679772596
    • Language: English
  • The Fire and the Ore

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    Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Cro

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    • Author: Hawker, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 380
    • Publish Date: October 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1542037077
    • Language: English
  • My Struggle: Book 2

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    “[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” –James Wood, The New Yorker

    In the second ins

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    • Series: My Struggle #2
    • Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: June 03 2014
    • ISBN10: 0374534152
    • Language: English
  • The Stone Diaries: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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    In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

    One of the most successful

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    • Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
    • Author: Shields, Carol
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0143105507
    • Language: English
  • Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

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    Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird’s Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman–and a nation–struggling to be reborn from the ashes.

    The daughter of a famous vaudevillian d

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    • Author: Bird, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250265568
    • Language: English
  • Pitch Dark

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    A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America’s most singular writers.

    “What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”

    Pitch Dark is a book abo

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    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Adler, Renata
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: March 19 2013
    • ISBN10: 1590176146
    • Language: English
  • Man in White: A Novel about the Apostle Paul

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    The only novel written by the legendary songwriter and performer, Johnny Cash–the incredible story of the apostle Paul.

    In this historical novel about the life of Paul before and after his conversion,

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    • Author: Cash, Johnny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: December 24 2008
    • ISBN10: 159554836X
    • Language: English
  • Varina

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    Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?

    In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of t

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    • Author: Frazier, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 16 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062405993
    • Language: English
  • Goose 2: The Early Days

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    William Collins Jr. was a curious, fun-loving, adventurous boy who was willing to take on the world. This is his coming of age story as he learned the value of hard work and family first.

    Willie moved… [more below]

    • Series: Goose #2
    • Author: Penney, Frederick W.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: November 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798885810951
    • Language: English
  • The Ten Loves of Nishino

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    WINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

    Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who h

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 04 2019
    • ISBN10: 1609455339
    • Language: English
  • Los Astronautas / The Astronauts

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    Uno de los mejores libros del 2023 seg?n Babelia.

    UNA HISTORIA EMOCIONANTE SOBRE LA FAMILIA.

    UNA AUTORA CUYA ESCRITURA «ALUMBRA EN LO M?S OSCURO (Juan Tall?n).

    «Una novela honda y poderos

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    • Series: Mapa de Las Lenguas
    • Author: Ferrero, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 842046127X
    • Language: Spanish
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