Harper Perennial
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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Bea
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 006211378X
- Language: English
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Three Dog Tales: Old Yeller/Sounder/Savage Sam
$14.99 Add to cartThree classic dog tales brought together in a single volume–Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller, its sequel Savage Sam, and William Armstrong’s Sounder.
Old Yeller (Winner of the Newbery Honor)
When his father
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Gipson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061367052
- Language: English
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The Motel Life
$17.99 Add to cartWith “echoes of Of Mice and Men“(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers–on the run after a hit-and-run accident–who, forgotten by soci
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Vlautin, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0061171115
- Language: English
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Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
$18.99 Add to cartAndy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage’s death wasn’t. Only his so
- Author: Ruff, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 479
- Publish Date: January 20 2004
- ISBN10: 006095485X
- Language: English
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Homeland: And Other Stories
$17.99 Read more“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” –Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
With the same wit and sensitivity
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 006227774X
- Language: English
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Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America
$17.99 Add to cart“WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic.” –Douglas Brinkley
Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Piazza, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0062008226
- Language: English
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The Return
$17.99 Add to cartAlready a #1 bestseller in the UK, The Return is a captivating new novel of family, love, and betrayal set against a backdrop of civil war, flamenco, and fiery Spanish passion. The author of the belov
- Author: Hislop, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0061715417
- Language: English
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The Templar Knight
$17.99 Add to cartSwedish author Jan Guillou follows up the highly acclaimed The Road to Jerusalem with the second book in his Knights Templar trilogy.
The Knight Templar follows Arn’s adventures in the Holy Land, wher
- Series: Crusades Trilogy #2
- Author: Guillou, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0061688592
- Language: English
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Two for Sorrow
$16.99 Add to cart“A new and assured talent….Nicola Upson is to be congratulated.”
–P.D. JamesAuthor Nicola Upson brings legendary mystery writer Josephine Tey back for a third investigation in Two for Sorrow, the sp
- Series: Josephine Tey Mysteries #3
- Author: Upson, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0061451584
- Language: English
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Eight Men
$19.99 Add to cart“[Wright’s] landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart.” —James Baldwin
In these powerful stories, literary giant Richard Wright probes t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0061450189
- Language: English
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Michael Tolliver Lives
$17.99 Add to cartInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
Nearly two decades after endi
- Series: Tales of the City #7
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0060761369
- Language: English
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Magic City
$19.99 Add to cart“A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With a new Afterword from the autho
- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063073226
- Language: English
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A Big Storm Knocked It Over
$19.99 Add to cart“Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness–a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about
- Author: Colwin, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0063046431
- Language: English
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
$29.99 Add to cartA catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature, from Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond.
This Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 r… [more below]
- Author: Guadalupi, Gianni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: November 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0156008726
- Language: English
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The Story Hour
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. The Story Hour is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and Maggie will stay with readers
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Umrigar, Thrity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 62259318
- Language: English
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Death of the Mantis: A Detective Kubu Mystery
$14.99 Add to cart“The best book yet in one of the best series going: a serious novel with a mystery at its core that takes us places we’ve never been.” –Timothy Hallinan, author of The Queen of Patpong
Death of the M
- Series: Detective Kubu #3
- Author: Stanley, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062000373
- Language: English
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A Crowning Mercy
$16.99 Add to cart“If you love historical drama…then look no further.”
—Boston GlobeBernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series and “perhaps the greatest writer of
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0061724386
- Language: English
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Beneath the Bleeding
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her “as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She’s the best we’ve got.” Her newest thriller, Beneath the
- Series: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan #5
- Author: McDermid, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 0061688975
- Language: English
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Letters of E. B. White
$22.99 Add to cartOriginally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.
These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, an
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0061374598
- Language: English
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A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu
$15.99 Add to cart“[An] impressive debut. . . . The intricate plotting, a grisly sense of realism and numerous topical motifs . . . make this a compulsively readable novel.” — Publishers Weekly
A Carrion Death offers a
- Series: Detective Kubu #1
- Author: Stanley, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0061252417
- Language: English
