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Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5
$18.00 Add to cartThe first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, and purports to be a general study of the planet S… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 19 1981
- ISBN10: 0394749774
- Language: English
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”–events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order t
- Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741801
- Language: English
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Last Orders: Man Booker Prize Winner
$16.95 Read moreFour men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Swift, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 1997
- ISBN10: 0679766626
- Language: English
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Add to cart#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
$20.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider’s account of American policy making in Vietnam.
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his cou- Author: McNamara, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767495
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
$16.00 Read moreIn this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s s… [more below]
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973463
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
$20.00 Add to cartA captivating new book from Wade Davis–award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade–that brings vividly to life the story of the great R? M… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0375724877
- Language: English
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Memoirs and Misinformation
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “None of this is real and all of it is true.” –Jim Carrey
Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he’s an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege–but h- Author: Carrey, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 052556568X
- Language: English
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Friends and Strangers: A Novel (a Read with Jenna Pick)
$17.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK – An insightful and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different st… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sullivan, J. Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0525436472
- Language: English
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Teenager
$17.00 Read moreAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Bud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315227
- Language: English
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The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy with Recipes
$18.00 Read moreA delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print eve
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307390373
- Language: English
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Sorry Please Thank You
$16.00 Read moreFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown, comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Yu, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307948463
- Language: English
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The Fish Can Sing
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner–“a beacon in twentieth-century literature” (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0307386058
- Language: English
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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
$20.00 Add to cartAn endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesqu- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743756
- Language: English
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China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-wi… [more below]- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946657
- Language: English
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Perfidia
$17.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. The hellish murder of a Japanese
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- Author: Ellroy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946673
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome
$16.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0307949532
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
