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Displeasure Island: A Mystery
$18.00 Add to cartIn the hilarious follow-up to Grave Expectations, Claire and the gang are back, getting their timbers shivered by a mystery involving feuding ghost pirates, buried treasure, and murder…
Claire Hendr- Author: Bell, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593470656
- Language: English
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning view… [more below]
- Author: Conover, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0525563288
- Language: English
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Sucker
$18.00 Read moreSuccession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who’s running a biom… [more below]
- Author: Hornsby, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469682
- Language: English
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Foolsburg: The History of a Town
$19.00 Add to cartThe award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia’s greatest satirist–whose mockery of Russian autocracy is newly relevant in the age of Putin.
A major classic- Author: Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0593687310
- Language: English
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All Our Names
$22.00 Add to cartNamed a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Daily Beast
A sweeping, continent-spanning story about the love- Author: Mengestu, Dinaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0345805666
- Language: English
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Half a Life: Half a Life: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartBy turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, “Half a Life” is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the co… [more below]
- Author: Ciment, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 1997
- ISBN10: 0385488912
- Language: English
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Loot
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION – A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exube… [more below]
- Author: James, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469658
- Language: English
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Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
$18.00 Read moreMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve-… [more below]
- Author: Paglia, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433864
- Language: English
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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
$19.00 Add to cartPrior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South
- Author: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388506
- Language: English
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The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
$13.00 Add to cartA monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
What does it mean to be good? What enables… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733876
- Language: English
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Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
$20.00 Add to cartDuring the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. … [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0375726705
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?
“Lightman…belongs to a noble trad- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469410
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler of a vast empire–from one of the world’s foremost scho… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400079195
- Language: English
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Rereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to possess th- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0804171440
- Language: English
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Requiem for a Nun
$18.00 Add to cartThis sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307946800
- Language: English
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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
$18.00 Read moreA moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land–this is a “winsome memoir of d… [more below]
- Author: Mead, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593081242
- Language: English
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Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography
$24.00 Add to cartNeil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – unt… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0679750967
- Language: English
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
$20.00 Add to cart“A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing.” —The Boston Globe
“Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our spe- Author: Wilson, Frank R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0679740473
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 067972463X
- Language: English
