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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When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre.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 Add to cartAn 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 Add to cartThe 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
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The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$27.00 Add to cartThe third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
Mark Treharne’s acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the liter- Series: In Search of Lost Time #3
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039229
- Language: English
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Richard Wright and the Library Card
$10.95 Read moreThis is the true story of the renowned African American author Richard Wright and his determination to borrow books from the public library that turned him away because of his color.
As a young black m
- Author: Miller, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1880000881
- Language: English
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Coming Through Slaughter
$16.00 Add to cartBringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players–some say the orig… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767851
- Language: English
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Bigmama’s
$8.99 Add to cartDonald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Freight Train, Truck, and many other classic picture books for young children, writes of his own childhood experiences visiting hi
- Author: Crews, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0688158420
- Language: English
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Speedboat
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America.
When Speedboat burst o- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Adler, Renata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176138
- Language: English
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
$28.99 Add to cartA riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told th
- Author: Vasilyuk, Sasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1639731539
- Language: English
