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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
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Groundskeeping: A Read with Jenna Pick
$17.00 Read moreA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at t- Author: Cole, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314786
- Language: English
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A Song of Sun and Sky
$18.99 Read moreA seemingly endless road trip for Lula and her father only seems to get worse when the car breaks down in the middle of the desert. Things are too boring and too orange until Lula encounters a mysteri
- Author: Cockcroft, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250819431
- Language: English
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The Books of Jacob
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ“
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593087488
- Language: English
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New Dawn on Rocky Ridge
$11.99 Read moreThe sixth book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.
It’s a time of new beginnings, and a big year for thirteen-year-old Rose W
- Series: Little House Sequel
- Author: MacBride, Roger Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0064405818
- Language: English
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove
$9.99 Add to cartIn the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl l
- Author: Watkins, Yoko Kawashima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0688131158
- Language: English
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Last Words from Montmartre
$16.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfol- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Miaojin, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177258
- Language: English
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The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the turbulent life of Henry VIII’s mother, Elizabeth, the first queen of the Tudor dynasty, in this “superbly readable and engaging” (Historical … [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593355059
- Language: English
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An Unlikely Astronaut
$19.95 Read moreAn Unlikely Astronaut tells the true story of how Astronaut Susan Kilrain overcame all obstacles to achieve her dream of flying in space after growing up in a time when, as a woman, it seemed nearly i
- Author: Kilrain, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1947305735
- Language: English
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Loving Frank
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wri… [more below]
- Author: Horan, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0345495004
- Language: English
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Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
$19.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel-Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times’s Best Historical Fiction
- Author: Abbs, Annabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0063066467
- Language: English
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The Great Passion
$18.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi- Author: Runcie, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1635570689
- Language: English
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Restless Dolly Maunder
$26.00 Read moreThe international bestselling author of The Secret River and
A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother’s
life, commemorating a strong female character making the best… [more below]- Author: Grenville, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1805302485
- Language: English
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
$19.00 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler’s New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zelda’s irresistible story- Author: Fowler, Therese Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1250028663
- Language: English
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Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
$30.00 Read moreIt 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297116
- Language: English
