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Oliver Twist
$5.95 Add to cartOne of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius.
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a nove- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529715
- Language: English
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Decline and Fall
$18.99 Add to cartEvelyn Waugh’s “irresistible” first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.
Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeath- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216313
- Language: English
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Entitled: Life isn’t easy when you’re a book
$16.99 Add to cartEntitled is a love letter to books, travel and the people we meet along the way.
Life isn’t easy when you’re a book.
This charming, humorous, warm-hearted novel captures the extraordinary adventures of
- Author: Boyle, Cookie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1777353408
- Language: English
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Brave New Worlds
$19.99 Add to cartBrave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today’s most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegu… [more below]
- Author: Adams, John Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1597804541
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel
$13.00 Read moreWhen J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts,… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437509
- Language: English
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Wel
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1594481520
- Language: English
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The Bostonians
$11.00 Add to cart‘There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death’
Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wea
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437665
- Language: English
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The Blazing World
$18.99 Add to cartNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly‘s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of… [more below]
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1476747245
- Language: English
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Black Empire
$18.00 Read moreA pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial… [more below]
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137077
- Language: English
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Our Country Friends
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK – ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York … [more below]
- Author: Shteyngart, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 198485514X
- Language: English
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Homo Zapiens
$22.00 Add to cartThe collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job… [more below]
- Author: Pelevin, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001813
- Language: English
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Gourmet Rhapsody
$16.00 Add to cartA French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining and] witty” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday).
In the heart of Paris, in the same p- Author: Barbery, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1933372958
- Language: English
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Empty Theatre: A Novel: Or the Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of
$20.00 Add to cartA wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.
History knows them as King Ludwig II of- Author: Jemc, Jac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250872189
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist: Introduction by Michael Slater
$30.00 Add to cartOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, howev
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417249
- Language: English
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
$29.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fier
“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” —Chicago Tribune- Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0525541330
- Language: English
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Hits and Misses: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartA hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer’s real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social med… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316468886
- Language: English
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Monday Starts on Saturday
$15.99 Read moreSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who… [more below]
- Author: Strugatsky, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1613739230
- Language: English
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The English Experience
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow – The bestselling … [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593860748
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$6.00 Add to cartGreat classic by preeminent prose satirist of the English language, written with disarming simplicity and careful attention to detail. An enchanting fantasy for children; for adults, a witty parody of… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292738
- Language: English
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Cosmopolis
$18.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers.
It is an April day in the year 20- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: April 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244257
- Language: English
