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  • The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

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    In The Child That Books Built, this extended love letter to children’s books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school.

    Reading

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    • Author: Spufford, Francis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 213
    • Publish Date: December 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0312421842
    • Language: English
  • Vantage Point

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    Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive, technological suspense about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families.

    “Terrifying and uncanny.” –Katy Hays, New York Times be

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    • Author: Sligar, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 1250397510
    • Language: English
  • Nothing But Ghosts

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    A short-story collection following several women whose respective relationships are all on the turn in some way and have passed their first flush of romantic love.

    The brilliant second collection of s

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    • Author: Hermann, Judith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 1250408229
    • Language: English
  • Imperfect Women

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    FROM THE AUTHOR OF OUR KIND OF CRUELTY

    “A stunning, dark novel about who women want to be and the reality of who they are.” –Samantha Downing, author of His Lovely Wife


    “Promises to please those who e

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    • Author: Hall, Araminta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 125079868X
    • Language: English
  • The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

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    A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.

    Deborah Levy’s vital litera

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    • Author: Levy, Deborah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397731
    • Language: English
  • A Crime in Holland (Inspector Maigret)

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    A thought-provoking mystery unfolds in a small coastal Dutch town after a host’s private party ends in murder.

    A French professor is staying in a coastal Dutch town while on a lecture tour–but when hi

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    • Series: Inspector Maigret #7
    • Author: Simenon, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250391067
    • Language: English
  • Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

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    One of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024

    “Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.” Louis

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    • Author: Frank, Edwin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397839
    • Language: English
  • Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know

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    “A wise and wonderfully enjoyable book. Mark Lilla treats weighty matters with a light touch, in an elegant prose style that crackles with dry wit . . . Invigorating.” –John Banville, The Guardian

    A d

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    • Author: Lilla, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397847
    • Language: English
  • A Little Lumpen Novelita

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    “An exemplary literary rebel.” –Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books

    “[Bola?o] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction–which is to say, anything.” –William Deresiewicz, The New Republic

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250338573
    • Language: English
  • Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

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    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.

    “A magisterial portrait.” —
    Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,

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    • Author: Walker, Alan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: December 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1250234824
    • Language: English
  • The Two-Penny Bar (Inspector Maigret)

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    In the heart of the Parisian summer, a forgotten crime comes to light in this Inspector Maigret tale from Georges Simenon.

    On the eve of his death, a condemned man remembers a crime he witnessed year

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    • Series: Inspector Maigret #11
    • Author: Simenon, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250398053
    • Language: English
  • Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition)

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    An updated edition of the classic book that introduced the world to the controversial money-making formula known as the Kelly system.

    In 1956, two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formul

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    • Author: Poundstone, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: December 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250391121
    • Language: English
  • The Skating Rink

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    “One of the greatest and most influential modern writers.” –James Wood, The New York Times Book Review

    “Bola?o is the real thing.” —n+1

    In the quiet Spanish seaside town of Z, a horrific crime has b

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250898064
    • Language: English
  • Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

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    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
    The Telegraph (Top 10) – The Washington Post – The Guardian – The Times (London) Independent (London) – Vox – New Statesman

    Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Fr

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    • Author: Brown, Craig
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 672
    • Publish Date: September 30 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397650
    • Language: English
  • The Mark and the Void: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)

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    From the author of the beloved bestseller The Bee Sting, a 10th anniversary reissue of his brilliant second novel–“laugh-out-loud funny . . . A sharply intelligent satire” (The New York Times Book Re

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    • Author: Murray, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250374022
    • Language: English
  • Lush Life

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    A National Bestseller
    A New York Times
    Notable Book of the Year

    One of the most acclaimed novels of the year, Richard Price’s Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the

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    • Author: Price, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250398215
    • Language: English
  • Posthumous Stories

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    “One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth . . . [Bola?o] follows his restless talent down every available rabbit hole.” –Sam Anderson, New York

    “When I read Robert

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250352177
    • Language: English
  • V13: Chronicle of a Trial

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    ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024

    One of the London Times‘s Nine Best Literary Nonfiction Books of the Year

    “Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping.” –Chris Power, The Guardian

    “Mo

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    • Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397790
    • Language: English
  • Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

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    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

    An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster–and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today

    When the news broke in 1975

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    • Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250160073
    • Language: English
  • Lazarus Man

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    In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.

    East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tene

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    • Author: Price, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250397820
    • Language: English
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