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Mr. Texas
$19.00 Add to cartAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics – A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his persona… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593685520
- Language: English
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Bridge of Sighs
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes “a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lync… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1400030900
- Language: English
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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
$19.00 Read moreHow did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows … [more below]
- Author: Petroski, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 1992
- ISBN10: 0679734163
- Language: English
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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The City and the Pillar
$18.00 Add to cartA literary cause c??re when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.
Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has alwa- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030374
- Language: English
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Beauty and Sadness
$20.00 Add to cartNOBEL PRIZE WINNER – The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before.… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761055
- Language: English
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The Cold Six Thousand: Underworld USA 2
$19.00 Read moreThe internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.
In this savagely audacious nov- Series: Underworld USA Trilogy #2
- Author: Ellroy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 037572740X
- Language: English
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Wilderness Tips
$15.95 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sad… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491115
- Language: English
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Isaac Newton
$18.00 Read moreIsaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral–an unheard-of honor for a sub… [more below]
- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032954
- Language: English
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
$22.00 Read moreAn engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus’s journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, a… [more below]
- Author: Downey, Kirstin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0307742164
- Language: English
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
$17.00 Add to cartFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.
Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a pillar of his waterfront community–and a retire
- Author: Winslow, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307277666
- Language: English
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Ghostwritten
$18.00 Read moreBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas
A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Ma- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Mitchell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375724508
- Language: English
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
$17.95 Add to cartCalled the “fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century” by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of “social construc… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 1967
- ISBN10: 0385058985
- Language: English
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
$20.00 Add to cartA breaved father stalks his son’s killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0679767304
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$12.95 Add to cartFor daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for -offenses against morality and religion.- What shocks … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0679736360
- Language: English
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The White Lioness
$19.00 Add to cartThe mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander – From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the third riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universall… [more below]
- Series: Kurt Wallander #3
- Author: Mankell, Henning
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 1400031559
- Language: English
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The Double Bind
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a gripping psychological novel of obsession and consequence.
When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicy- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Bohjalian, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1400031664
- Language: English
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The Prince
$9.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After
$19.00 Read moreSoon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most writte
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375725741
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
