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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emp- Author: Straight, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1948226227
- Language: English
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Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
$16.95 Add to cart“Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.”
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In t- Author: Boyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027186
- Language: English
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Juno Loves Legs
$17.95 Read moreFor readers of Sally Rooney and fans of Shuggie Bain and Just Kids, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s
Juno Loves Legs i- Author: Geary, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222202
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users… [more below]
- Author: Clayton, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1619024721
- Language: English
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new pr… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 161902179X
- Language: English
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Gentrifier: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new
- Author: Moore, Anne Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221591
- Language: English
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Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1988, at the age of twenty, Souha B馗hara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortur… [more below]
- Author: Bechara, Souha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1887128808
- Language: English
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Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
$16.95 Read more“Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer’s memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance–and a classic underdog tale.” —Entertainment Weekly
At the age o- Author: Prior-Palmer, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1948226987
- Language: English
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Body Toxic
$16.95 Add to cartA thought-provoking and dramatic account two families who hope to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with rad… [more below]
- Author: Antonetta, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2002
- ISBN10: 1582432090
- Language: English
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Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir
$22.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 – A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection
Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut, tells the stories of three- Author: Kurzweil, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1936787288
- Language: English
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The Visitor
$12.95 Add to cartThe current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic–one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce.
Now, une- Author: Brennan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431612
- Language: English
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Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka
$18.62 Read moreAnxious Pleasures takes Franz Kafka’s profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, The Metamorphosis, and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159376135X
- Language: English
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First Snow on Fuji
$16.95 Add to cartThe stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms … [more below]
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 12 2000
- ISBN10: 1582431051
- Language: English
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The Last Novel
$16.95 Add to cartIn recent novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating,” David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to… [more below]
- Author: Markson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 16 2007
- ISBN10: 1593761430
- Language: English
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The Peerless Four
$16.95 Add to cartRunning so hard you think you’ll choke on your next breath. Lungs burning like they’re drenched in battery acid. Peripheral vision blurred by the same adrenaline that drowns out the cheers coming from… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1619024411
- Language: English
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Accabadora
$15.95 Add to cartThe award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English-language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950’s. A ti… [more below]
- Author: Murgia, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1619020505
- Language: English
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X
$16.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City, X is a novel that del- Author: Davis, Davey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220935
- Language: English
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady
$15.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
New York Times Notable author Mar僘 Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the tra- Author: Gainza, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221753
- Language: English
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These Letters End in Tears
$27.00 Read moreSet in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a do… [more below]
- Author: Xaviere, Musih Tedji
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221869
- Language: English
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The Dancing Girl of Izu: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.
Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called “palm-of-th- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 1998
- ISBN10: 1887178945
- Language: English
