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April’s Kittens
$19.99 Read moreSince it was first published over fifty years ago, April’s Kittens remains a classic cat story and is now made available again in this handsome new edition.
Many children understand April’s dilemma whe
- Author: Newberry, Clare Turlay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 02 1940
- ISBN10: 0060244003
- Language: English
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in La’s Graffiti Subculture
$38.33 Read more“We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, Stefano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 022649358X
- Language: English
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One Hot Summer Day
$16.99 Read moreIt’s summer, and it’s hot! Acclaimed author-artist Nina Crews’s debut picture book was hailed as “a wonderful concept book” by The Horn Book and “the debut of a welcome new voice and vision” by Kirkus
- Author: Crews, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0688133932
- Language: English
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Death List
$15.00 Read moreDonald Goines continues the gripping, gritty story of crime in the black ghetto begun in Crime Partners.
They’re all back for blood: Kenyatta, the ganglord with an army of brothers to deal deadly wit- Series: Kenyatta #2
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0758286481
- Language: English
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Kenyatta’s Last Hit
$15.00 Add to cartKenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army’s ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit t… [more below]
- Series: Kenyatta #4
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0758290292
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Stories
$17.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times’s and Southern California Indie Bookseller Association’s Bestseller!
Los Angeles Stories is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America
- Series: City Lights Noir
- Author: Cooder, Ry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865193
- Language: English
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There’s No Business
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856229
- Language: English
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Discernment
$21.95 Read moreCedric Willow is a middle-aged journalist and senior warden at St. Bartholomew by the Lake, a small Episcopal parish in Minneapolis. St. Bart’s church is a widely admired icon of mid-century modern ar
- Author: Close, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1643436341
- Language: English
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Among Others
$17.99 Read moreWinner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Jo Walton’s Among Others is at once the compelling story o
Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel- Author: Walton, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1250237769
- Language: English
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Sleep
$18.99 Read more‘Breathlessly gripping’ – International bestselling author Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List
Seven guests. Seven secrets. One killer. Do you dare go to SLEEP?
All Anna wants is to be able to slee
- Author: Taylor, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0008624496
- Language: English
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The Red Scrolls of Magic
$24.99 Add to cartA #1 New York Times bestseller
“A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance.” —Entertainment Weekly
” A] swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series.” —Publishers Weekly From #1 New- Series: Eldest Curses #1
- Author: Clare, Cassandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1481495089
- Language: English
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A Dark Matter: Volume 1
$15.95 Add to cartThree generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI businesses in the first book of a taut, gripping page-turning and darkly funny new series.
***Shortlisted fo- Series: Skelfs
- Author: Johnstone, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1912374986
- Language: English
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Braised Pork
$16.00 Read moreBeautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in English
One autumn morning, Jia Jia w
- Author: Yu, An
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148727
- Language: English
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The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
$34.50 Read moreTorture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens–and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitt… [more below]
- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 09 2020
- ISBN10: 022665009X
- Language: English
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Imperial Bedrooms
$16.00 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. – “A haunting vis… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0307278697
- Language: English
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The Autograph Man
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an “intelligent … exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the trium… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 037570387X
- Language: English
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Sparrow Hill Road
$16.00 Read moreNow in a new redesigned edition, featuring an updated introduction from the author and songs
Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross–a m- Series: Ghost Roads #1
- Author: McGuire, Seanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0756414407
- Language: English
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African Water Cities
$50.00 Read moreA multipronged study of Africa’s innovative approaches to communal living in the face of climate change and urbanization
This volume presents essays, stories, research and photographs showing how Afric
- Author: Adeyemi, Kunle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9462087768
- Language: English
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
$19.99 Read moreWinner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism – 2019
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When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.- Author: Clark, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1250181615
- Language: English
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Log Cabins and Outbuildings: A Guide to Building Homes, Barns, Greenhouses, and More
$14.99 Read moreBuilding and constructing barns, outhouses, A-frames, greenhouses, outdoor recreation sites, boat landings, and more.
Homesteading is a lifestyle that people around the world gravitate toward–and fo- Author: The United States Department of Agricult
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1510739815
- Language: English
