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After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie
$15.95 Read moreJulia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now, after being dropped by her latest lover, Mr. Mackenzie, Julia is running out of luck and chances
- Author: Rhys, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357813
- Language: English
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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places
$15.95 Add to cartIn Holloway, a perfect miniature prose-poem (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed hollo
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1324015829
- Language: English
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
$18.95 Add to cartUS foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats w
- Author: Farrow, Ronan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0393356906
- Language: English
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
$17.95 Read moreIn 1994 Bryan Sykes was called in as an expert to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy for over 5000 years–the Ice Man. Sykes succeeded in extracting DNA from
- Author: Sykes, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323145
- Language: English
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Crescent
$16.95 Read moreSirine, the heroine of this “deliciously romantic romp” (Vanity Fair) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works c
- Author: Abu-Jaber, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325547
- Language: English
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Night at the Fiestas: Stories
$15.95 Add to cartWith intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade’s unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or e
- Author: Quade, Kirstin Valdez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352218
- Language: English
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The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need
$24.95 Read moreA winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-ste
- Author: Brown, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0393635325
- Language: English
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Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
$27.95 Read moreKoalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode’s backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. She soon realized how much she had to learn
- Author: Clode, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036834
- Language: English
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
$17.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020172
- Language: English
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A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories
$25.95 Add to cartWill Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393609189
- Language: English
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Desolation Island
$15.95 Read moreCommissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautif
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #5
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541622
- Language: English
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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
$17.95 Read moreOnce, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople felled their beeches
- Author: Logan, William Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358143
- Language: English
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
$29.99 Add to cartHoward Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published… [more below]
- Author: Barlett, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 687
- Publish Date: September 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326020
- Language: English
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The Undressing: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since t
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357872
- Language: English
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The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan
$24.95 Add to cartSun Tzu’s ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1324004894
- Language: English
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Blue at the Mizzen
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey’s crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey’s career prospects in a peaceti… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #20
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035277
- Language: English
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The Commodore
$15.95 Read moreHaving survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at … [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #17
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021551
- Language: English
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
$18.95 Read moreVolcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035919
- Language: English
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The Surgeon’s Mate
$15.95 Read moreJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #7
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308200
- Language: English
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Hunger: A Novella and Stories
$15.95 Read moreA powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family into poignant tales of love and loss. Celebrated author Lan Saman
- Author: Chang, Lan Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064560
- Language: English
