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Allegro
$17.99 Add to cartThis thrilling historical mystery starring Mozart tells of friendship and betrayal, and how music allows us to defy death–from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and The Suicide Museum.
In- Author: Dorfman, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1635424488
- Language: English
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Oscar Lives Next Door: A Story Inspired by Oscar Peterson’s Childhood
$9.95 Add to cartA fictional glimpse into famous jazz musician Oscar Peterson’s youth
Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When childhood tuberculosis
- Author: Farmer, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177147596X
- Language: English
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The Ogre’s Daughter
$28.00 Read moreThe turbulent life story of Flor de Oro Trujillo, the eldest child of one of the world’s most brutal dictators.
Flor de Oro was born in 1915 in San Crist?bal, Dominican Republic. Her father rose from
- Author: Bardon, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660453
- Language: English
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Come Fly with Me
$16.99 Add to cartIt’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship, and escape by the bestselling author of The
- Author: Di Maio, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 347
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1662523947
- Language: English
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Gabri?le
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of a passionate love affair that triggered a revolution.
An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sister, Claire Berest, about love a
- Author: Berest, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889660897
- Language: English
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Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138219
- Language: English
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The Novelist
$16.95 Read more“Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a rare new talent: an author highly attuned to the traditions he is working wi… [more below]
- Author: Castro, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767250
- Language: English
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Tatae’s Promise: Based on the true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz
$24.99 Add to cartThis never-before-told true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz with her sister is a remarkable tale of unimaginable courage, family, faith and enduring love.
“…readers will admire Hinda’s
- Author: Maysonave, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1959096966
- Language: English
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
$11.99 Add to cartImprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?
Elizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those- Series: Young Royals #2
- Author: Meyer, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0152045562
- Language: English
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Hang the Moon
$18.00 Add to cart“A rollicking tale.” —The Washington Post *”Propulsive.” –Associated Press * “Wild, smart, energetic.” —Los Angeles Times * “Brilliant and effervescent.” –NPR
From the #1 bestselling author of The- Author: Walls, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1501117300
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
$19.99 Add to cartA beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.
You are about to read an extraordinary sto- Author: Ratner, Vaddey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1451657714
- Language: English
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Augustus
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, expl
By the Author of Stoner- Author: Williams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1590178211
- Language: English
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The Red-Headed Pilgrim
$18.95 Add to cart* “Most Anticipated Books of 2023” — LitHub
* “Page One” feature at Poets & Writers
* “12 Must-Read Books of January 2023” — Chicago Review of Books
* “Must-Read Paperbacks to Kick Off 2023” — Book R- Author: Maloney, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1953387284
- Language: English
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The Invincible Miss Cust
$16.99 Add to cartSheReads Best Historical Fiction of 2022 Finalist!
“Inspiring, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends
“What a remarkab
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728257700
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Treasure
$19.00 Add to cartA bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, and mythography from the author unique in her “ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.” (Parul Sehgal, Ne… [more below]
- Author: Gaitskill, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022829
- Language: English
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To Slip the Bonds of Earth: A Riveting Mystery Based on a True History
$27.00 Read moreWhile not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in USA Today best… [more below]
- Series: A Katharine Wright Mystery
- Author: Flower, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1496747666
- Language: English
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The Secret Chord
$18.00 Add to cart“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.”… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109766
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
$26.00 Add to cartIt is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden–and hugely but erotically ugly. M
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426399
- Language: English
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The Magician
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Busine… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1476785090
- Language: English
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Follow Me to Africa
$17.99 Add to cart“A warm tale of identity and growth…as layered as the real ancient humanity inspiring its core.” — Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity
Historical fiction inspire
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1728295459
- Language: English
