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  • Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

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    From Gold Dagger Award–winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjav k thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur

    When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjav k flat, the only clues are a cry

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    • Series: Inspector Erlendur #1
    • Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 19 2006
    • ISBN10: 0312426380
    • Language: English
  • The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories

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    The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).

    A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a s

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    • Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250863104
    • Language: English
  • But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

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    “May be the best book ever written about jazz.”–David Thomson, Los Angeles Times

    In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Draw

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    • Author: Dyer, Geoff
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 10 2009
    • ISBN10: 0312429479
    • Language: English
  • Small Island

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    An international bestseller. Andrea Levy’s Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Awar

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    • Author: Levy, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: March 30 2010
    • ISBN10: 0312429525
    • Language: English
  • Voices from the Rust Belt

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    “Timely . . . the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”–Booklist

    The ess

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    • Author: Trubek, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250162971
    • Language: English
  • House of Splendid Isolation

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    House of Splendid Isolation is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl–“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition).

    The heartbreaking dil

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    • Author: O’Brien, Edna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374538824
    • Language: English
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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    Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

    The Electric Ko

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    • Author: Wolfe, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: August 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250321700
    • Language: English
  • Hangman

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    National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
    Long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vulture,

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    • Author: Binyam, Maya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250338158
    • Language: English
  • Beyond the Door of No Return

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    A Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature

    One of The Atlantic‘s 10 Best Books of 2023

    A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 Named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekl

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    • Author: Diop, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250338050
    • Language: English
  • Wednesday’s Child: Stories

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    Finalist for the Story Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
    Long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vultur

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    • Author: Li, Yiyun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250338387
    • Language: English
  • River of Smoke

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    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
    A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year
    A NPR Best Book of the Year

    In Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across th

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    • Series: Ibis Trilogy #2
    • Author: Ghosh, Amitav
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: October 02 2012
    • ISBN10: 1250013755
    • Language: English
  • Great Plains

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    National Bestseller

    Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains–but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the gre

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    • Author: Frazier, Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 04 2001
    • ISBN10: 0312278500
    • Language: English
  • Tree of Smoke

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

    One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

    “The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson’s.” —Jonathan Franzen

    Named A Best Bo

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    • Author: Johnson, Denis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: September 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 0312427743
    • Language: English
  • My Garden (Book)

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    Jamaica Kincaid invites us into her garden in this “irresistible stream of horticultural consciousness” (Michael Pollan).

    Jamaica Kincaid’s first garden in Vermont was a square plot in the middle of h

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    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250340632
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

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    Unraveling the Power of Obsessive Thoughts

    Dive into the complex world of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with this riveting narrative by acclaimed science writer, David Adam. The Man Who Couldn’t

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    • Author: Adam, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 1250083184
    • Language: English
  • The Pianist (Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition): The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

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    The 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman’s son, Andrzej

    On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin

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    • Author: Szpilman, Wladyslaw
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 31 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250249546
    • Language: English
  • One Foot in Eden

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    Equal parts vintage crime novel and Southern Gothic, full of aching ambivalence and hard compromises, and rounded off by bad faith and bad choices, One Foot in Eden is a veritable garden of earthly di

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    • Author: Rash, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 03 2004
    • ISBN10: 0312423055
    • Language: English
  • Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots

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    Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
    One of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2023
    One of BookRiot‘s Best Biographies of 2023
    Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize in Nonfiction

    The bol

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    • Author: Chang, Leah Redmond
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: August 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250338409
    • Language: English
  • An Incomplete Revenge

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    In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community

    With the country in the grip of economic malaise,

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    • Series: Maisie Dobbs Mysteries #5
    • Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 25 2008
    • ISBN10: 0312428189
    • Language: English
  • The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds

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    2016 Montana Book Award Honor Book

    From the Author of Indian Creek Chronicles and the Winner of Five PNBA Awards, Pete Fromm’s New Memoir Sees His Return to the Wilderness to Explore a Life Lived in th

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    • Author: Fromm, Pete
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 03 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250139198
    • Language: English
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