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Bound Feet and Western Dress
$23.00 Add to cartA harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound Chi… [more below]
- Author: Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0385479646
- Language: English
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Koko
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story comes “an inspired thriller” (The Washington Post) about four Vietnam vets linked by a shattering secret and their global hunt to track dow… [more below]
- Series: Blue Rose Trilogy #1
- Author: Straub, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0307472205
- Language: English
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The Good Life
$20.00 Add to cartIn this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.
Clinging to a semi
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: McInerney, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0375725458
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography
$22.00 Add to cartWilliam Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Miller, William Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0375701737
- Language: English
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Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the timeless classic Out of Africa five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella “that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality” … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679743332
- Language: English
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Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
$25.00 Add to cartIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-actio… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0375719199
- Language: English
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Flags in the Dust
$19.00 Add to cartThe complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0307946762
- Language: English
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The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover
$33.00 Add to cartA welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work.
- Author: Merrill, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0375711740
- Language: English
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The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
$19.00 Add to cartFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe–with
- Series: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #8
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400075726
- Language: English
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Adrift on the Nile
$19.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0385423330
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
$19.00 Add to cartIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394725808
- Language: English
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Three Strong Women
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
Longlisted for The 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
From Marie NDiaye, the first … [more below]- Author: Ndiaye, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0307741338
- Language: English
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Crossing Open Ground
$17.00 Add to cartIn Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment.
Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discus- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721835
- Language: English
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A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
$20.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward‘s legendary advice column, “A Bintel Brief” (“a bundle of letters”) dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1… [more below]
- Author: Metzker, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209808
- Language: English
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The Flame Alphabet
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.
The sound of children’s speech has become letha- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Marcus, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 030773997X
- Language: English
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
$22.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of he… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0679758526
- Language: English
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
$18.00 Add to cartA personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they’ve wrought
“An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wi- Author: Clein, Emmeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471008
- Language: English
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Far Tortuga
$20.00 Add to cartAn adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself.
“Beautiful and original…a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world wi- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394756673
- Language: English
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Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality
$21.00 Add to cartA brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
“Uncommonly moving … A revealing and heartfel- Author: Chen, Pauline W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 030727537X
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
