Biographical
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Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip
$18.00 Add to cartTime to board the bus! Liberty and her friend Abdullah, with their families and a diverse group of passengers, head off to their first stop: Jackson, Mississippi. Next on their map are Glendora, Memph
- Author: Waters, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1947888196
- Language: English
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Hugh O’Flaherty: The Irish Priest Who Resisted the Nazis
$12.95 Read moreMonsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was working in the Vatican when dictator Benito Mussolini fell from power and Germany invaded Italy in 1943. This courageous Irish priest who resisted the Nazi occupation was
- Series: Vision Books
- Author: De Maria, Fiorella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1621645789
- Language: English
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The Orphan Keeper
$15.99 Add to cartBased on a remarkable true story
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life–and his destiny–is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homele- Author: Wright, Camron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1629723320
- Language: English
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Machines in the Head: Selected Stories
$17.95 Add to cartEnter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author’s own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of … [more below]
- Author: Kavan, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374145
- Language: English
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Little House on Rocky Ridge
$11.99 Add to cartThe first book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.
Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, and the last of the Litt
- Series: Little House Sequel
- Author: MacBride, Roger Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0064404781
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$8.94 Add to cartJames Joyce’s Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publicat… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536449
- Language: English
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Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poe
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066083
- Language: English
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Coco at the Ritz
$16.95 Read moreA riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.
Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated d- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365818
- Language: English
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Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
$21.99 Add to cartA Best Novel of Summer (New York Times Book Review)
From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollsto- Author: Silva, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1250159121
- Language: English
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The Queen of the Night
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, and others. The mesmerizing story of one woman’s rise from circus rider t… [more below]
- Author: Chee, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0544925475
- Language: English
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Père Goriot
$11.95 Add to cartThis fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538751
- Language: English
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Bitter Herbs: Based on a True Story of a Jewish Girl in Nazi-Occupied Holland
$24.99 Read more‘The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate…’
The Netherlands, World War II When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it’s clear that life is changing for the girl and her famil- Author: Minco, Marga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1529106494
- Language: English
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Little House in the Big Woods
$14.99 Add to cartRevisit one of the most beloved books in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic Little House series with this gorgeous hardcover, unjacketed edition of Little House in the Big Woods, featuring a special forew
- Series: Little House #1
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0062470728
- Language: English
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Dolley Madison and the War of 1812: America’s First Lady
$14.99 Add to cartDOLLEY MADISON UNITES YOUNG AMERICA!
Amidst the nonstop turmoil of the War of 1812, the decisive First Lady takes action and inspires an anxious nation.
Dolley Madison faces a bitterly divided Washingto
- Author: McNamee, Libby Carty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1732220247
- Language: English
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Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
$19.99 Add to cartIt was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb,
- Author: Webb, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063004186
- Language: English
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Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
$12.99 Add to cartA William C. Morris Award Finalist
“Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder.”—The New York Times
“Just brilliant.”–Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical reali- Author: Brown, Echo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1250763541
- Language: English
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The Accidental Empress
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Accidental Empress is the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of “Sisi” the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz… [more below]
- Author: Pataki, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 147679474X
- Language: English
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The End of Eddy
$18.00 Add to cartAn autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.
“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really go- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250619270
- Language: English
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Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built
$18.99 Read moreA gorgeous and inspiring picture book based on the life of Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector in Bogot?, Colombia who started a library with a single discarded book found on his route.
In the- Author: Kunkel, Angela Burke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1984892630
- Language: English
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The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
$18.00 Add to cartThe daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm–a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war.
Heart-wrenching, fragmented, raw, former North Vietnamese solder Bao Ninh’s The Sorro- Author: Ninh, Bao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562842
- Language: English
