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To Sir, with Love
$14.99 Add to cartThis schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sidney Poitier film is “a microcosm of the racial issues . . . A dramatic picture of discrimination” (Kirkus Reviews).
With opportunities for black men… [more below]- Author: Braithwaite, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1480457515
- Language: English
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Glorious Ruins
$16.99 Add to cartPower, love, fame, and catastrophic greed collide in a sweeping historical novel about 1920s Paris based on the enduring friendship between Coco Chanel and world-famous muse Misia Sert.
In 1920s Paris,
- Author: Little, Judithe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1662528124
- Language: English
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Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA Natalie Portman Book Club Pick
“Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whol- Author: Schneck, Colombe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833937
- Language: English
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Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglit… [more below]
- Author: Tripp, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0812981863
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Light: A Story of Matisse in Morocco
$19.99 Add to cartHenri Matisse searches for light and inspiration in Morocco in the year 1912 in this vibrant picture book biography telling the story of a formative experience in the painter’s life.
Henri Matisse lov- Author: Stringer, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 153449362X
- Language: English
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Bad Bad Girl
$30.00 Add to cartThe award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.
My mother had died, but still I h- Author: Jen, Gish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803736
- Language: English
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Call Me Zelda
$27.00 Add to cart“[A] haunting and beautifully atmospheric novel…brilliantly brings Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to life in all their doomed beauty, with compelling and unforgettable results.”–Alex George, author of … [more below]
- Author: Robuck, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 045123992X
- Language: English
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Julia: A Novel Inspired by the Extraordinary Life of Julia Child
$27.99 Add to cartBefore she stepped into the spotlight as a master of French cooking, Julia Child navigated the shadows as a WWII intelligence officer.
On the sunny shores of California, Julia McWilliams is poised to- Author: Moore, Heather B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639934251
- Language: English
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The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty
$28.95 Add to cart“Fans of Paula McLain and Marie Benedict will enjoy this insightful novel.”– Kirkus Reviews
“Micklewait provides a jewel box of a book illustrating that none of us invented the fight for a singularly c
- Author: Mickelwait, Kirsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888246931
- Language: English
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In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
$18.00 Add to cartWhat would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?
In early 2002, En- Author: Geda, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0307743829
- Language: English
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Ravelstein
$18.00 Add to cartThis Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking’s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it is the final novel of Nobel Prize … [more below]
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107577
- Language: English
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Your Name Here
$24.95 Add to cartA major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.
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- Author: DeWitt, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1628976268
- Language: English
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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
$18.00 Add to cart“This hotel of dreams is not the one in history; it’s within Edmund White, a heartbreak hotel where, in a dreamlike fugue of styles, gay life past and present commingle in the streets of a lost New Yo
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0060852267
- Language: English
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Eden’s Clock
$17.99 Add to cartA disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Rendered mute at the Battle of Getty
- Series: American Novels
- Author: Lock, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276389
- Language: English
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Soul Retrieval
$50.00 Add to cart- Author: McNair, Shanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1962931455
- Language: English
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Many Things at Once
$18.99 Add to cartIn this poignant picture book about family and belonging, the child of a Jewish mother and a South Asian father hears stories about her family history. Sometimes she doesn’t feel Jewish enough or Sout… [more below]
- Author: Hiranandani, Veera
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593643909
- Language: English
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Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor
$14.99 Add to cartRead this if you like your dual-timeline historical fiction with a strong sense of place and an everywoman’s zeal.
At the end of her remarkable life of ninety-three years, spanning a world war and thre
- Author: Brooks, Paulette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991287302
- Language: English
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Harlem Rhapsody
$29.00 Add to cart“A gripping narrative, don’t miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”–People Magazine
“A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us… [more below]- Author: Murray, Victoria Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593638484
- Language: English
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Six Years of Absence: The Captivating Odyssey of a French Soldier in WWII Based on True Events
$16.99 Add to cartWar changes a man in ways he never imagined.
Summer 1939, France
Alexandre lives peacefully with his wife and newborn child in Brittany. Suddenly, war is declared. He is enlisted on the Eastern Front li
- Author: Rolland, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: July 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990601017
- Language: English
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Seeing Further
$17.95 Add to cartIn this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater–an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a considerati… [more below]
- Author: Kinsky, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378515
- Language: English
