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Maggie Cassidy
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the bard of the Beat Generation comes a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of childhood and first love.
“A surprisingly simple and appealing tale of a young student’s fumbling search for l… [more below]- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140179062
- Language: English
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The Last Taxi Driver
$16.95 Read moreHailed by George Saunders as “a true original–a wise and wildly talented writer,” Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou–a lapsed novelist, strug
- Author: Durkee, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142683
- Language: English
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Alias O. Henry
$18.95 Add to cart“[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry’s most cherished stories, Yagoda presents a vivid, witty, and delectable tale of crime and creativity.”
—Booklist“Alias O. Henry i
- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882067
- Language: English
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Sonora
$18.99 Add to cart“This one’s for the horse girls, the girls who fell in love with Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken and hoped someday they’d be like the fearless, determined, strong Sonora Carver whose love and belief in he
- Author: Walsh, Jenni L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1400246776
- Language: English
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The Name on the Wall
$16.99 Add to cartAutofiction meets historical investigation in this compelling ode to a young French Resistance fighter killed during World War II–from the New York Times bestselling author of The Anomaly.
Struck by- Author: Le Tellier, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 163542545X
- Language: English
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
$23.00 Add to cartOriginally published: New York: Knopf, 1955.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 31 1992
- ISBN10: 0679739041
- Language: English
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Hideous Kinky
$16.99 Add to cartCalled “a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination” by the New York Times Book Review and the inspiration for the film starring Kate Winslet.
Escaping gray London in 1972, a bea
- Author: Freud, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0880016884
- Language: English
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Maria La Divina
$17.99 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singer
Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the head
- Author: Charyn, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276486
- Language: English
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Peggy
$18.00 Add to cartA dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim–a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself–by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley… [more below]
- Author: Godfrey, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0804169160
- Language: English
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The Man in the Stone Cottage
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1846 Yorkshire, the Bront? sisters– Charlotte, Anne, and Emily– navigate precarious lives marked by heartbreak and struggle. Charlotte faces rejection from the man she loves, while their blind fa… [more below]
- Author: Cowell, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1646036247
- Language: English
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Terrestre (Spanish Edition)
$18.95 Read more«Leer Terrestre es sobrevolar parajes sobrecogedores e inestables, que son tambi?n los territorios movedizos de la memoria, sabiendo que todos los caminos se recorren una sola vez y que “todo se… [more below]
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 6073855702
- Language: Spanish
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To Sir, with Love
$14.99 Add to cartThis schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sidney Poitier film is “a microcosm of the racial issues . . . A dramatic picture of discrimination” (Kirkus Reviews).
With opportunities for black men… [more below]- Author: Braithwaite, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1480457515
- Language: English
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Glorious Ruins
$16.99 Add to cartPower, love, fame, and catastrophic greed collide in a sweeping historical novel about 1920s Paris based on the enduring friendship between Coco Chanel and world-famous muse Misia Sert.
In 1920s Paris,
- Author: Little, Judithe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1662528124
- Language: English
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Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA Natalie Portman Book Club Pick
“Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whol- Author: Schneck, Colombe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833937
- Language: English
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Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglit… [more below]
- Author: Tripp, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0812981863
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Light: A Story of Matisse in Morocco
$19.99 Add to cartHenri Matisse searches for light and inspiration in Morocco in the year 1912 in this vibrant picture book biography telling the story of a formative experience in the painter’s life.
Henri Matisse lov- Author: Stringer, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 153449362X
- Language: English
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Bad Bad Girl
$30.00 Add to cartThe award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.
My mother had died, but still I h- Author: Jen, Gish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803736
- Language: English
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Call Me Zelda
$24.00 Add to cart“[A] haunting and beautifully atmospheric novel…brilliantly brings Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to life in all their doomed beauty, with compelling and unforgettable results.”–Alex George, author of … [more below]
- Author: Robuck, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 045123992X
- Language: English
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Julia: A Novel Inspired by the Extraordinary Life of Julia Child
$27.99 Add to cartBefore she stepped into the spotlight as a master of French cooking, Julia Child navigated the shadows as a WWII intelligence officer.
On the sunny shores of California, Julia McWilliams is poised to- Author: Moore, Heather B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639934251
- Language: English
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The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty
$28.95 Add to cart“Fans of Paula McLain and Marie Benedict will enjoy this insightful novel.”– Kirkus Reviews
“Micklewait provides a jewel box of a book illustrating that none of us invented the fight for a singularly c
- Author: Mickelwait, Kirsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888246931
- Language: English
