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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
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team
$19.99 Add to cartONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS
NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR).
“Fast Girls is a compelling, th
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062937995
- Language: English
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Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano
$9.99 Read moreA smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation,… [more below]
- Series: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen #1
- Author: Jocelyn, Marthe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0735265488
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Wardrobe
$27.99 Add to cartCollege student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. What transpires is a fascinating look into the bond betwee
- Author: Callahan, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0785251723
- Language: English
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Frank’s Shadow
$23.95 Read moreWe leave shadows, not footprints.
Newlywed Danny McKenna’s honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his kno… [more below]- Author: McIntyre, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886450446
- Language: English
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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
$9.99 Read moreThis is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditio
- Author: Cooper, Afua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1525310860
- Language: English
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Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
$16.99 Add to cartMary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the stor
- Author: Russell, Mary Doria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0062198777
- Language: English
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The Ice Harp
$17.99 Add to cartRalph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest
In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia
- Series: American Novels
- Author: Lock, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276176
- Language: English
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The Cat Man of Aleppo
$18.99 Add to cartThe Caldecott Honor-winning true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War courageously offered safe haven to Aleppo’s abandoned cats.
Aleppo’s city center no longer ec- Author: Shamsi-Basha, Karim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1984813781
- Language: English
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El Soñador (the Dreamer)
$8.99 Add to cartA breathtaking illustrated novel from Pura Belpre Award winner, Pam Ryan, and MacArthur fellow and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sis
Neftal siente admiraci n y curiosidad por todo: los colores … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 054517600X
- Language: Spanish
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We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
$9.99 Add to cartGrowing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George, and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0142406279
- Language: English
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Enlightened
$13.99 Add to cartA spirited young prince longing to learn more about the world grows into a man on a quest to find the cause of human suffering in this first-of-its-kind graphic novel retelling of the life of Siddhart… [more below]
- Author: Ediriweera, Sachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1665903104
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart
$18.00 Add to cartA 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the Americ… [more below]
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134035
- Language: English
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Carnegie’s Maid
$33.00 Read moreThe USA Today Bestseller
From the author of The Other Einstein comes the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She’- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 469
- Publish Date: April 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1432861239
- Language: English
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Tomas and the Library Lady
$8.99 Add to cartA Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team
Tomç–½ is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduo- Series: Dragonfly Books
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 22, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375803491
- Language: English
