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Blue at the Mizzen
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey’s crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey’s career prospects in a peaceti… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #20
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035277
- Language: English
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The Commodore
$15.95 Read moreHaving survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at … [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #17
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021551
- Language: English
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
$18.95 Read moreVolcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035919
- Language: English
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The Surgeon’s Mate
$15.95 Read moreJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #7
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308200
- Language: English
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Hunger: A Novella and Stories
$15.95 Read moreA powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family into poignant tales of love and loss. Celebrated author Lan Saman
- Author: Chang, Lan Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064560
- Language: English
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Head Wounds: A Kevin Kerney Novel
$16.95 Read moreGiven a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a man and a wo
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868427
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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People of the Whale
$17.99 Read moreRaised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393335348
- Language: English
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Climbing Mount Improbable
$16.95 Read moreThe human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by c… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0393354083
- Language: English
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Magdalene: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartMagdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape–hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 393356035
- Language: English
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Great House
$14.95 Read moreWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in FictionA powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that con… [more below]
- Author: Krauss, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340643
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
$16.95 Read moreIn this real-life historical treasure hunt, bestselling author Graham Robb–“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet (New York Times)”–reveals the mapping of an
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349926
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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Ship Fever: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartThe elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters… [more below]
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 132403601X
- Language: English
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
$17.99 Read moreStorm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking
- Author: Czerski, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355470
- Language: English
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
$16.95 Read moreToday, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. While charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us smarter, they can also deceive–intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed ci
- Author: Cairo, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358429
- Language: English
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The Future of an Illusion
$13.95 Add to cartIn the manner of the eighteenth-century philosophe, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0393008312
- Language: English
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
$26.95 Read moreFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0393240991
- Language: English
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The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
$19.99 Read moreAcclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter’s brilliant translation… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320774
- Language: English
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The Ego and the Id
$14.95 Read moreThe Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud’s later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.
Of th… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0393001423
- Language: English
