Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist’s lifelong obsession with horses. – “Exuberant… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033179
- Language: English
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The Hakawati
$22.00 Add to cartIn 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama’s grandfather was a hakawati, or … [more below]
- Author: Alameddine, Rabih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0307386279
- Language: English
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Aurora 7
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the beloved author of Fellow Travelers and the “master of the historical novel” (Newsweek), a soulful, engrossing novel about a space-obsessed grade-schooler who skips class to follow the flight … [more below]
- Author: Mallon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687752
- Language: English
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over
$20.00 Add to cartAs a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 19 1999
- ISBN10: 0385483732
- Language: English
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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck two classic collections of uproarious essays tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitab… [more below]
- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0345804740
- Language: English
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe–the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos,… [more below]
- Author: Egginton, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593315073
- Language: English
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Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
$18.00 Add to cart“Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century.” — The New York Times
A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universa- Author: Hammarskjold, Dag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0307277429
- Language: English
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Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School
$23.00 Add to cartWelcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships–and learn Russian history and graduate … [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 052543402X
- Language: English
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Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
$26.00 Add to cartFew thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn … [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0805211861
- Language: English
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Lucky
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl grow- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593468309
- Language: English
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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY – LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE – A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The “illuminating” (New Yorker) story of the Great Chic… [more below]
- Author: Berg, Scott W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0804171513
- Language: English
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Halcyon
$18.00 Read moreA daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” –Stephen Markle… [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593467086
- Language: English
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Pantheon Asia Library
- Author: Ienaga, Saburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 1979
- ISBN10: 0394734963
- Language: English
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised… [more below]
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 1992
- ISBN10: 0679733477
- Language: English
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Night of Camp David
$20.00 Add to cart“What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May,
- Author: Knebel, Fletcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0525567100
- Language: English
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Zero-Sum: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde
A brilliant young philosophy student- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469585
- Language: English
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jefferson… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0679764410
- Language: English
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Ilium
$17.00 Add to cartSet in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset i… [more below]
- Author: Carpenter, Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593470257
- Language: English
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By the Lake: ALA Notable Books for Adults
$20.00 Add to cartWith this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces it… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McGahern, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0679744029
- Language: English
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The Digger’s Game
$18.00 Add to cartA riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole.
Jerry “Digger” Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman’s Boston- Author: Higgins, George V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0307947262
- Language: English
