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Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
$18.00 Add to cart“Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century.” — The New York Times
A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universa- Author: Hammarskjold, Dag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0307277429
- Language: English
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Pounding the Rock: Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School
$23.00 Add to cartWelcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships–and learn Russian history and graduate … [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 052543402X
- Language: English
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Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
$26.00 Add to cartFew thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn … [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0805211861
- Language: English
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Lucky
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl grow- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593468309
- Language: English
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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY – LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE – A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The “illuminating” (New Yorker) story of the Great Chic… [more below]
- Author: Berg, Scott W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0804171513
- Language: English
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Halcyon
$18.00 Read moreA daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (“An expert juggling act.” –Stephen Markle… [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593467086
- Language: English
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Pantheon Asia Library
- Author: Ienaga, Saburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 1979
- ISBN10: 0394734963
- Language: English
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised… [more below]
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 1992
- ISBN10: 0679733477
- Language: English
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Night of Camp David
$20.00 Add to cart“What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May,
- Author: Knebel, Fletcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0525567100
- Language: English
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Zero-Sum: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartZero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde
A brilliant young philosophy student- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469585
- Language: English
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jefferson… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0679764410
- Language: English
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Ilium
$17.00 Add to cartSet in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset i… [more below]
- Author: Carpenter, Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593470257
- Language: English
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By the Lake: ALA Notable Books for Adults
$20.00 Add to cartWith this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces it… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McGahern, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0679744029
- Language: English
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The Digger’s Game
$18.00 Add to cartA riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole.
Jerry “Digger” Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman’s Boston- Author: Higgins, George V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0307947262
- Language: English
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C
$20.00 Add to cartOpening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of Serge Carrefax, whose father experiments with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388212
- Language: English
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Soon I Will be Invincible
$20.00 Add to cartDoctor Impossible–evil genius, would-be world conqueror–languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the s… [more below]
- Author: Grossman, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0307279863
- Language: English
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My Life as a Fake
$22.00 Add to cartFiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Carey, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1400030889
- Language: English
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More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
$18.00 Add to cartAn intimate memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother as she explores sex and relationships outside her marriage
“This story is a balm for those with unmet year- Author: Roden Winter, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593469631
- Language: English
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
$19.00 Add to cartFrom New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
From t- Author: Chayka, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466799
- Language: English
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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
$22.00 Read moreThe story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South–from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth i… [more below]
- Author: Cozzens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593082702
- Language: English
