Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by the Author
$26.99 Add to cartHailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American ca
- Author: Mailer, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312265050
- Language: English
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To Have and Have Not
$27.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an hon- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0684859238
- Language: English
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
$17.00 Add to cartTadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides co… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Author: Borowski, Tadeusz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140186247
- Language: English
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Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
$27.99 Add to cart“A top-notch literary brainteaser.” –New York Times
Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
- Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries #17
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062872133
- Language: English
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Joy in the Morning
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage.
In 1927, in Brooklyn, New
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0061774332
- Language: English
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The Valley of Amazement
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity–from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fo
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062107321
- Language: English
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Fall on Your Knees
$19.00 Add to cartThe Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives — even destroy them.
Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: MacDonald, Ann-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0743237188
- Language: English
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
$32.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830485
- Language: English
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Re Joyce
$21.95 Read moreA great and inventive writer enjoys himself immensely in discussing and explaining perhaps the most inventive and important writer of the twentieth century. Vigorous, humorous, and perceptive, Anthony
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393004457
- Language: English
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Song of the Exile
$20.00 Add to cartIn this epic, original novel in which Hawaii’s fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to crea… [more below]
- Author: Davenport, Kiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0345434943
- Language: English
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Snow in August
$19.99 Add to cartDeeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time — and another triumph for Pete Hamill.
Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have- Author: Hamill, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0316242829
- Language: English
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The Enormous Room
$16.95 Read moreA centenary edition of E. E. Cummings’s antic autobiographical novel about his imprisonment in a French military detention camp during World War I.
In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I- Author: Cummings, E. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376199
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition
$28.99 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” — The Wall Street- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830515
- Language: English
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When the Elephants Dance
$16.00 Add to cart“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos an… [more below]
- Author: Holthe, Tess Uriza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002887
- Language: English
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The Magic Journey
$34.99 Add to cartSpanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols’s New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.
Boom times came- Series: New Mexico Trilogy #2
- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063390
- Language: English
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A False Mirror
$19.99 Add to cart“Full of suspense, surprises, and sympathetic characters.”
—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel“No mystery series I can think of captures the sadness and loss that swept over England after World War I with t
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #9
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0062103229
- Language: English
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A Matter of Justice
$19.99 Add to cart“Charles Todd hasn’t made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, and A Matter of Justice keeps the streak going.”
—Cleveland Plain DealerThe Washington P
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #11
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0061233609
- Language: English
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The Secret Scripture
$18.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara
An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of Old God’s Time
Sebastian Barry’s novels ha- Author: Barry, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115693
- Language: English
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
$16.99 Add to cart- Series: Harvest in Translation
- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0156996936
- Language: English
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Tender Is the Night: A Romance
$30.00 Add to cartNow available in a beautifully designed collector’s edition, this modern classic set in the South of France after World War I is the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and the bewitching, wealthy, and … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1982147717
- Language: English
