Anchor Books
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1)
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are member… [more below]
- Series: Detective Varg #1
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565671
- Language: English
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Spring
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet–a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020
What unites Katherine Man- Series: Seasonal Quartet
- Author: Smith, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1101969962
- Language: English
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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
$19.00 Add to cartA remarkable volume that brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. – “An original and hugely insightful wri… [more below]
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721005
- Language: English
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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Miramar
$17.00 Read moreThis highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attention of the young servant Zohra. Zohra is a beautiful p… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 14 1992
- ISBN10: 038526478X
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
“Holy War brings compassion, objec- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0385721404
- Language: English
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
$20.00 Add to cartMinor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real dea
- Series: Anchor Sports
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0307949583
- Language: English
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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread wit… [more below]
- Author: Warrick, Joby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0804168938
- Language: English
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
$19.00 Read more“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes…. Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review
We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wag- Author: Greenhouse, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1101872799
- Language: English
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$24.00 Add to cartFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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Midaq Alley
$18.00 Add to cartWidely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz’s best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe o… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385264763
- Language: English
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
$20.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus–an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who bec… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #03
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0385483724
- Language: English
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Surfacing
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments–this story of an artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec is a provocative blend of … [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491050
- Language: English
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The Story of Zahra
$16.95 Add to cartZahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays w… [more below]
- Author: Al-Shaykh, Hanan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0385472064
- Language: English
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The Death of the Heart
$17.00 Read moreThe Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen’s best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals her… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720173
- Language: English
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Children of the Alley
$17.95 Read moreThe tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring na… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0385264739
- Language: English
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a “nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one” … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0307948781
- Language: English
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
$19.00 Read moreOn the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice
- Author: Bender, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0385720963
- Language: English
