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How Lucky by Will Leitch
The unforgettable story of a fiercely resilient young man living with a physical disability, and his efforts to solve a mystery unfolding right outside his door.
Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady... more
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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its... more
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The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker
Meet Chrissie... Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But Chrissie rules the roost. She's the best at wall-walking, she knows... more
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Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treas...
When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in... more
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The Illness Lesson: A Novel by Clare Beams
"Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully executed...Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls
"Stunningly good--a brainy page-turner that's... more
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Fever Season (Benjamin January, Bk 2) by Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of... more
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Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
First came the storms.Then came the Fever.And the Wall. After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct?but in... more
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The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera
"Mexico's greatest novelist."— Francisco Goldman A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures... more
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A Murderous Malady: A Florence Nightingale Mystery by Christine Trent
For fans of Charles Todd and Deanna Raybourn comes Christine Trent?s second Florence Nightingale mystery.
Cholera has broken out in London, but Florence Nightingale has bigger problems when people begin dying of a far more intentional cause?murder.
The London summer of 1854 is drawing to a... more
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Fever by Deon Meyer
Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. A devastating virus has swept over the planet, and they are among its few survivors. Nico?although he is still only a boy?is gifted with superb marksmanship and a cool head, while Willem is a... more
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Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth & Charlotte Barslund (Translator)
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when... more
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Tyll: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann & Ross Benjamin (Translator)
An enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the seventeenth-century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel begins when he’s a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. When his father, a miller with a secret interest in alchemy and magic, is found out... more
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You Should Have Left: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse
"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."
These are the opening lines of the... more
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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down by David Adams Richards
A suspenseful and moving novel which has at its centre one of Richards’ most memorable and haunting characters. It is the fall of 1989 in a small Miramichi mill town. Jerry Bines is acquitted of murder and returns home to his estranged wife and young son, with hopes for a new beginning. But... more
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Terra Incognita: Three Tales by Connie Willis
Three tales from Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout Connie Willis come together in one collection.
Terra Incognita unites three previously published novellas by Connie Willis. This collection contains Uncharted Territory, where planetary surveyors battle hostile terrain,... more
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from... more
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Lorena by Frank G. Slaughter
the Worst was yet to come--the dreaded General Sherman had begun his fearful march to the sea. Lorena Selby was alone--a delicate, dark-eyed charmer whose fragile beauty belied her boundless courage and war-sharpened cunning. Her beloved Selby Hall lay directly in the path of the onrushing... more
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When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
A heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Sometimes life isn?t as simple as heroes and villains.
For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some... more
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Indexing (Indexing, Bk 1) by Seanan McGuire
“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”
Good advice…especially when a story can kill you.
For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole. But for an unfortunate few, that... more
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Reflections (Indexing, Bk 2) by Seanan McGuire
Indexing: Reflections is New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s continuing new urban fantasy, where everything you thought you knew about fairy tales gets turned on its head.
“For her to love me, she had to be willing to kill me. Anything else would show that her heart... more
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The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland by Gretchen Heefner
Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried 1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear... more
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James Patrick Kelly Masters of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly is one of science fiction's modern masters. Kelly has been awarded several of science fiction's highest honors. He won the Hugo Award for his novelette "Think Like a Dinosaur" (1995) and again for his novelette "10-16 to 1" (1999). Other stories have won the Asimov's Reader... more
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The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly (Editor) & John Kess...
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history... more
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The Promise of Space and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, but Kelly is far more than an award-winning author. He?s a science fiction visionary. His memorable stories blend classic science fiction with New Age technology and a profound understanding of human psychology.
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Futuredaze 2: Reprise by Paolo Bacigalupi & Libba Bray & Cassandra Clare &...
Futuredaze 2: Reprise includes fifteen of the best and most brilliant young adult science fiction stories, written by the hottest SF and YA authors, gathered for the first time in one anthology. Wild-west steampunk, true love with the alien next door, a confab with Mr. Darcy's avatar, musical... more
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Wildlife by James Patrick Kelly
Rebelling against her fashion drug designer father, freelance journalist and troubled clone Wynne Cage covers a data-heist that places her in the rank of a thief and must confront the forces of a world with unlimited bio-technological advantages.
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The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois (Editor) & Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder. The rich space opera tradition, extending from the off-world voyages of Verne and Wells to this galaxy-embracing anthology, is arguably sf's most prolific subgenre. The new space opera shares with the... more
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Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
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The Miracle Workers / Jack Vance --
The Longest Voyage / Poul Anderson --
On the Storm Planet / Cordwainer Smith --
The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delaney --
Total Environment / Brian W. Aldiss --
The Merchants of Venus / Frederik Pohl --
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Waypoint Kangaroo: A Novel by Curtis C. Chen
Kangaroo isn?t your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is ?the pocket.? It?s a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and... more
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
A woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, goes to great lengths to protect her family and her legacy, and to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives... In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of... more
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Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard by Leo Jansen &...
This important, groundbreaking publication contains the illustrated letters between two great modern artists–Vincent van Gogh and Émile Bernard. The original letters were previously in private hands and have not been seen for approximately seventy years. Here they are published in... more
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The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson
An uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means to be family
“If you fight that motherf**ker and you don’t win, you’re going to come home and fight me.” Not the advice you’d normally expect from your... more
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Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
The plague is spreading.
The hundred year war is beginning.
Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy... more
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Rabbits by Terry Miles
It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 p.m. You check your email, and 44 unread messages have built up. With a shock, you realize the date is April 4—4/4. And when you get in your car to drive... more
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.
Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it... more
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the... more
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Classic Dining: Discovering America's Finest Mid-Century Restaurants by Peter Moruzzi
"Classic continental-style dining involves all of the senses." -Peter Moruzzi Over the years, the softly lit wood-paneled interiors, starched tablecloths, curved booths, tuxedoed captains, and tableside service that once defined classic continentalstyle fine dining have gradually disappeared.... more
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Penny: A Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens
This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny.
Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about... more
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities...
From the author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Phantom Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a unique and beautifully illustrated journey through the history of literature. The Madman's Library delves into its darkest territories to hunt down the oddest... more
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Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark by Chronic...
Trolls haunt the snowy forests, and terrifying monsters roam the open sea.
A young woman journeys to the end of the world, and a boy proves he knows no fear.
This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the enchanting world of Nordic folklore. Translated and transcribed by... more
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Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic (Book of Japanese Mythology...
A goblin with no body and a monster with no face.
A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter.
A spirit of the moon and a dragon king.
This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio... more
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Tales of India: Folk Tales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu by Unknown Author
A shape-shifting tiger and a pretentious rat.
A generous goddess and a powerful demon.
A clever princess and a prince who returns from the dead.
This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the beguiling world of Indian folklore. Transcribed by Indian and English folklorists in... more
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Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany...
The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. Translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 16 stories in this compilation conjure forgotten realms and rare magical creatures... more
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Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age by Chronicle Books (Editor...
A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard. A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship. A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard, but sometimes at night, it screams.... This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle... more
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Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book from the Novel by Herman Melville by Unknown Author
In time for the 200th anniversary of author Herman Melville's birth, this graphically arresting, beautifully rendered pop-up retelling of Moby-Dick is a wonder to behold. Rich linocut artworks portray ten key chronological moments from the story in shadowbox-style pop-ups that reward time spent... more
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Monsters You Should Know by Emma SanCartier
Meet the world's most unusual monsters in this darkly funny collection of creatures and cryptids from folkloric history. Illustrator Emma SanCartier captures the bizarre and hilarious elements of 17 monsters from around the world in a light, tongue-in-cheek tone, from the Japanese dream-eater... more
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A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse by Vita Sack...
A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the... more
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hit...
The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,... more
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Arte Popular: The Rex May Collection of Mexican Folk Art by The Mexican Museum (Edito...
Arte Popular features 100 pieces from Rex May's extensive collection of exquisite hand-crafted objects from all over Mexico.
Coming from the reputable Mexican Museum, this volume demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art.
This bilingual volume provides a veritable treasure trove of... more
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Tender Buttons: Objects by Gertrude Stein
First published in 1914, Gertrude Stein's revolutionary poetic work Tender Buttons is a must-read for every serious lover of literature. Delighting in the rhythm of words, its first section, "Objects," runs playful linguistic circles around teacups, ribbons, umbrellas, and other quotidian... more
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Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat
Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life?her childhood on a farm, the writing of her... more
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Library of Luminaries: Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat
One of literature's most beloved authors is beautifully documented in this illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf. Featuring handwritten text paired with beguiling illustrations and a tactile cover with foil-stamped and debossed details, this giftable package reveals the formative events of... more
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Dubious Documents: A Puzzle by Nick Bantock
From the creator of the bestselling Griffin & Sabine series comes a visual epistolary puzzle posed by a mysterious character named Magnus Berlin. Readers must study Berlin's introductory note, list of clues, and 16 multifaceted notes and envelopes to decode cryptic anagrams, picturegrams, number... more
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Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the Empire of Signs by Unknown Author
Japan is a place of special fascination for the acclaimed international comics creator Igort, who has visited and lived there more than 20 times, and worked in the country's manga industry for more than a decade. In this masterful new book?part graphic memoir, part cultural meditation?Igort... more
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They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age by Didier Ghez
As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of "concept artists" whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early... more
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They Drew As they Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Musical Years (The 1940s - Part...
The 1940s ushered in an era of musical experimentation and innovation at the Walt Disney Studios. Artists from all over the world flocked to California to be part of the magic, and their groundbreaking styles influenced such classics as Dumbo and Bambi as well as shaped the masterpieces that... more
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They Drew as They Pleased Vol 5: The Hidden Art of Disney's Early Renaissance by Didi...
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Disney animation studio redefined its creative vision in the wake of Walt Disney's death. This latest volume from renowned Disney historian Didier Ghez profiles Ken Anderson and Mel Shaw, whose work defined beloved classic Disney characters from films like The Jungle... more
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Library of Luminaries: Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat
Step into the world of one of history's most celebrated artists and feminist icons: Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography is full of colorful details that illuminate the woman behind the artwork, including excerpts from Kahlo's personal letters and diaries on her childhood dreams... more
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Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations and a tactile cover with foil-stamped and debossed details, this giftable volume sheds new light on the woman behind some of... more
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Frida Kahlo Paper Dolls by Francisco Estebanez
Frida fans of all ages will delight in this fabulous paper doll set celebrating the artist and fashion icon. Included here are thirty of her signature ensembles, plus a bonus paper doll of husband Diego Rivera with two outfits of his own.
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Weirdo Noir by Matt Dukes Jordan
Like a corpse in a zombie movie, the Goth movement has been resuscitated?stronger, more powerful, and more contagious than ever before. From fashion to music, Goth influences have crept into every area of pop culture, and nowhere is that influence creepier, more fascinating, and more playful... more
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I Will Never Forget You: Frida Kahlo and Nickolas Muray by Salomon Grimberg & Sal...
In the '30s and '40s, photographer Nickolas Muray was Frida Kahlo's friend, lover, and confidante. He continually photographed her over the course of their relationship, creating dozens of iconic portraits. Largely unpublished until now, the images reflect Muray's love of his subject. An early... more
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The Sisters by Robert Littel
With last year's publication of his New York Times bestseller The Company, Robert Littell re-established his position as one of our top writers of intelligent, ironic, and always entertaining espionage thrillers. After many years The Sisters, a cult classic among espionage aficionados is finally... more
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Revelator by Daryl Gregory
In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the... more
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Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell
Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of... more
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Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror by Lincoln Michel (Editor) & Nadxie...
In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading... more
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Dracula's Child by J.S. Barnes
Evil never truly dies...and some legends live forever. The dark heart of Bram Stoker's classic is reborn; capturing the voice, tone, style and characters of the original yet with a modern sensibility this novel is perfect for fans of Dracula and contemporary horror.
It has been some years since... more
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No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, Bk 1) by Cadwell Turnbull
One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.
As creatures from myth and legend come out of the... more
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Matrix by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
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My Heart is a Chainsaw (Indian Lake, Bk 1) by Stephen Graham Jones
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for...
Jade feels like she’s trapped in a slasher film as tourists go missing and the tension between her community and the celebrity newcomers to... more
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Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross... more
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The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can... more
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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal,... more
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best... more
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhoo...
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded—fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls—as they roamed the... more
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The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet by Maureen Gibbon
Set in the richly drawn art world of nineteenth-century Paris, this stunning historical novel imagines Édouard Manet’s last days in an indelible snapshot of genius, illness, and the dying embers of passion.
Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life,... more
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Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips... more
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American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now (Library of...
The second volume of Peter Straub's pathbreaking anthology American Fantastic Tales picks up the story in 1940 and provides persuasive evidence that the decades since then have seen an extraordinary flowering. While continuing to explore the classic themes of horror and fantasy, successive... more
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I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
“Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow.”?Booklist “With humor and bite, [Yamashita] takes on waste, greed, stupidity, love, environmental and cultural apocalypse and the problems of migration and belonging?achieving a kind of cross between Kobo Abe, Gabriel... more
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Frankenstorm by Ray Garton
A storm of epic proportions is brewing off the coast of northern California. Residents have been warned to prepare for disaster. It's a false hope in the face of what's coming. . .
Frankenstorm
In a secret government lab, virologist Fara McManus tries to stop an experiment out of... more
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Park Bench by Christophe Chabouté
With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench.
From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of... more
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To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story by Christophe Chaboute & Ja...
From the "master of black and white" artwork (Paste Magazine) and the bestselling illustrator-storyteller of Park Bench and Alone comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Jack London's most famous short story.
Discover the beloved author of White Fang and The Call... more
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Alone by Christophe Chabouté
Available in English for the first time?the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France?s prestigious Angoulême Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick).
On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the... more
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Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation ?His Face All Red,? in print for the first time.
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four... more
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Velvet Deluxe Hardcover by Ed Brubaker
From the best-selling creators of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER comes VELVET, a slick and sexy new take on the cold war spy genre. What if the secretary to the man running the world's most top secret spy agency was actually their most dangerous weapon, once upon a time? VELVET is... more
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Sara by Garth Ennis & Steve Epting
NAZI OCCUPIED RUSSIA, 1942. FIGHT HARD. SHOOT STRAIGHT. DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOU ALIVE.
SARA is a gripping war story following a team of female Russian snipers as they beat back the Nazi invaders during a brutal winter campaign on the WWII Eastern Front.
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Frida Kahlo at Home by Suzanne Barbezat
Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, La Casa Azul and other places Frida Kahlo called home, on her life and work.
La Casa Azul, now one of the most visited museums in Mexico City, was the artist's birthplace and the home where she grew up. Health troubles... more
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People from My Neighborhood: Stories by Hiromi Kawakami & Ted Goossen (Translator...
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical—“fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naif, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre”... more
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Paul Goble, Storyteller by Gregory Bryan
Life, art, and story Cutting-edge and sometimes controversial, the stunning art of Paul Goble (b. 1933) evokes many emotions. Known internationally for his award-winning children s books, Goble began his career in design, crafting furniture that was produced throughout the United Kingdom. This... more
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Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior by Paul Goble
For the tribes of the American plains in the Buffalo Days of the pre-reservation life, horse raiding was a chance for men to show their courage and bravery in battle. ?No man can help another to be brave,? says grandfather to fourteen-year-old Lone Bull, ?but through brave deeds you may become a... more
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Red Cloud's War: Brave Eagle's Account of the Fetterman Fight by Paul Goble
"We are brave and ready to fight for our lands?. I will go now and I will fight you. As long as I live, I will fight you for the last hunting grounds of my people," said Red Cloud, war chief of the Oglala Lakota, to Colonel Carrington. The year was 1866, the Civil War had just ended, and the... more
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South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby
A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora... more
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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making o...
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process... more
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Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries (1964) was... more
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Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again by...
Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you?re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did?
This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier... more
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut, Bk 1) by Mary Robinette Kowal
A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts to colonize space, as well as an unprecedented opportunity... more
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power -- which groups have it and which do... more
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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing... more
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
?The one food book you must read this year."
?Southern Living
One of Christopher Kimball?s Six Favorite Books About Food
A people?s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades
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Charles Dickens: The Dickens Bicentenary 1812-2012 by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Charles Dickens is the definitive interactive illustrated guide to the man and his works. Produced in association with the Charles Dickens Museum, London, it follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest celebrity of... more
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The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Pantheon Fairy Tale Folklore Library (Paperback)) by ...
From Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahame’s Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy... more
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Norwegian Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Peter Christen Asbj...
Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustrations.
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Legends and Tales of the American West by Richard Erdoes (Editor)
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an... more
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Latin American Folktales : Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions (Pantheon Fair...
The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions--combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the tree... more
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Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler (Editor and Translator)
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends,... more
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Irish Folk Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Henry Glassie
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild... more
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Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece (Pantheon Fairy Tale Folklore Library.) by Gustav ...
From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy.Here are Icarus flying too close to the sun,... more
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Folktales from India (Pantheon Fairy Tale Folklore Library (Paperback)) by A.K. Rama...
Folktales from India is an enchanting collection of one hundred and ten tales translated from twenty-two different languages, by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts; animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues: sagacious... more
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African American Folktales : Stories from Black Traditions in the New World (Pantheon...
From the canefileds of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" (Choice).Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range... more
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Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small... more
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Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned... more
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The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...
During the overthrow of the Mexican government,... more
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Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel
A girl would be such a blessing...
The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything -- and everyone -- at a safe distance.
When... more
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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.
A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves... more
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How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including... more
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Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier,... more
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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.
Marra never wanted to be a hero.
As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an... more
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I'm with the Band : Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the... more
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Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up by Pamela Des Barres
Pamela Des Barres, celebrated "queen of the groupies," chronicled her adventures with rock stars in her bestseller I'm with the Band. This book picks up where that one left off, with Pamela embarking on marriage and motherhood, all the while sharing quarters and making friends with stars: Don... more
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Red Girl Rat Boy by Cynthia Flood
A Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year
A Globe & Mail Best Short Fiction Title
A National Post Best Short Fiction Title
A January Magazine Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2014 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor Award
"Complicated, passionate,... more
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Keeping the Peace by Colette Maitland
“If Colette Maitland were a musician, you?d say she had perfect pitch."—Isabel Huggan
A soldier?s wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot. A heart attack survivor... more
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The Signalman: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Charle...
"This book is amazing."Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens felt otherwise. He was among the many authors who set their scariest stories during the dim and shivering days of -- yes, Christmas.
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How Fear Departed the Long Gallery: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Gho...
Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth.In How Fear Departed the Long Gallery, for the Peverils, the appearance of a ghost is no more upsetting than the... more
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The Green Room: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Walte...
Upstairs from the shabby book store was a private room for the favored customers. A strange little room with a stranger atmosphere. What was the feeling there? Oppressiveness? Loneliness? Or perhaps there was a presence -- something trying to contact him as he browsed. Strange thoughts crossed... more
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Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost ...
Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus.
When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore?and finds... more
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The Red Lodge: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by H.R. W...
Reading a ghost story on Christmas eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. The Red Lodge is a magnificent Queen Anne house, the ideal rental for a young family on a much-needed holiday. But something is wrong at the Red Lodge. What... more
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The Crown Derby Plate: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) b...
An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to the woman's ramshackle house, where she makes a terrifying discovery. This 1933 story confirmed Marjorie Bowen as one of our best ghost story... more
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One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by A. M. Bu...
Originally published on Christmas in 1931 and widely regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece, "One Who Saw" tells the story of a wrtier enchanted by a spectre of a weeping woman. His obsession builds until her ghostly hand falls from her face and he, in horror, becomes "one who... more
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The Empty House: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Alge...
Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what really happened a hundred years ago when a servant girl fell to her death. But the house may not be... more
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The Toll House: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by W. W....
The Toll-House has a long and terrible history as a place of death. But Jack Barnes doesn't believe in spirits. His travelling companions, Messrs. Meagle, Lester, and White, wager that he might be convinced otherwise if they all spend a night together in the house. Four men go in, but will four... more
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The Morgan Trust: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Ric...
Intrigued by a travel guide's mention of tales of haunting, an amateur psychic investigatior sets out for a village deep in the Welsh mountains, where the moss-covered walls of an unfinished Shangri-La left behind by a deceased entrepreneur are far from the strangest things he encounters.
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The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Margar...
Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansion of Brentwood, the grounds of which share the ruins of an older house, including a strange, vacant doorway, but eerie events begin to unfold and Mortimer’s son falls ill. As the supernatural takes hold, Mortimer resolves to do... more
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An Eddy on the Floor (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Bernard Capes
After attending a séance at an acquaintance’s home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs to be moved from his cell, terrified of what’s behind the next door, the young doctor starts to... more
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Mr Jones (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Edith Wharton
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she’ll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn’t reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she’s told dislikes her changes, yet... more
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Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Edith Whar...
A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the... more
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The Sundial: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by R. H. Ma...
When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to be delivered, the days grow shorter and his dreams grow darkâۥand when the sundial... more
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The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance: A Ghost Story for Christmas (Seth's C...
After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing, W.R. travels to his town to join in the search, but soon suspects his uncle is already dead. After an unusual encounter with a traveling salesman, W.R. has a nightmare about a terrifying puppet showâۥand a ghostly clergyman.
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The Old Nurse's Story (Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories) by Elizabeth Gaskell
After her parents pass away, young Rosamond is raised by her nurse in the ancestral home of her aunt, Miss Furnivall. One day the two uncover an exceptionally beautiful old portrait. A relative, distant or close? And is that the strange sound of a distant organ, or simply the wind?
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks by Denni...
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea for a national park originate? The answer starts with a look at... more
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Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Lisa Hendricks...
In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis, Montana. Julia, a big-game hunter whom... more
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The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum
Sharp, heartfelt, and cathartic, The Year of the Horses captures a woman’s journey out of depression and the horses that guide her, physically and emotionally, on a new path forward.
At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments... more
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Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.
Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s... more
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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth -- breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one -- is at... more
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Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that... more
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Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture by Peter Kobel
A gorgeous, lavish history of silent movies - with more than 400 amazing images - captures the birth of film and icons like Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino.Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and... more
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Girls and Their Cats by BriAnne Wills
For New York City fashion and beauty photographer BriAnne Wills, the "crazy cat lady" is a myth. Co-written with Elyse Moody, senior editor at Martha Stewart Living, this book redefines the stereotype by showcasing 50 strong, independent, and artistic women who take the world in stride, flanked... more
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Peng...
A major new translation of the complete fiction of the father of modern Chinese literature In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to... more
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa & ...
Akutagawa (1892-1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. RashÅÂmon and In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is inverted,... more
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The Dream of the Red Chamber (Tuttle Classics) by Cao Xueqin
The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." It is renowned for its huge scope, large cast of characters and telling observations on the life and social structures of 18th century China and is considered by many to be the pinnacle of the... more
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol 1 by Lo Kuan-Chung & C. H. Brewitt-Taylor &...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung’s retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and... more
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 2 by Lo Kuan-Chung & Robert E. Hegel & C....
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death. ... more
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The Lady of the Camellias (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas fils
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi?s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi?s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays... more
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Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James & Darryl Jones (Editor)
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge.... more
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford World's Classics) by John Polidori
John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward... more
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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata & Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father's mistress. A tale of desire, regret, and sensual... more
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Charle...
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. Authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants,... more
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Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things (Classics of Japanese Literature) by L...
In Ghostly Japan collects twelve stories from celebrated author Lafcadio Hearn. Some of these stories are ghostly and ghastly, while others are wonderfully benign. Whether he's telling a ghost story or explaining a Buddhist proverb, Hearn's writings are never less than enthralling.
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line (Penguin Classics) by Charles W. Chesnutt...
Unlike the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt's tales probe psychological depths in black people unheard of before in Southern regional writing. They also expose the anguish of mixed-race men and women and the consequences of racial hatred, mob violence,... more
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Clotel, Or, the President's Daughter (Penguin Classics) by William Wells Brown & ...
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel... more
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Iola Leroy (Penguin Classics) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend... more
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The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful. Giving birth to a child... more
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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Juli...
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever... more
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Seven Japanese Tales (Vintage International) by Junichiro Tanizaki
In these seven stories, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of refined cruelty.
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Sanshiro (Penguin Classics) by Natsume Soseki
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's... more
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Kusamakura (Penguin Classics) by Natsume Soseki
A stunning new translation?the first in more than forty years?of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume S?seki?s Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of... more
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The Cossacks and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army—the latest in our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his... more
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics) by Pu Songling
Exquisite Chinese stories of the supernatural Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford's superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling's classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this... more
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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Bruno Schulz & C...
Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete... more
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: And Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
This volume contains five travel sketches written, in later life, by Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the greatest of the Japanese haiku poets. Basho's genius had already given new freedom and energy to the strict haiku form of seventeen syllables, elevating it to a level of miniature perfection. Zen... more
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The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream. He’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the... more
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Gwelf: The Survival Guide by Larry MacDougall
We welcome and encourage tourists of all kinds in Gwelf. The survival guide will tell you what to expect, what equipment to pack, who to trust and hire as a guide, and where to rest for the night in this magical land steeped in history and mystery.
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Archivist Wasp: a novel by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his... more
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Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures by Peter Dickinson
Praise for Peter Dickinson's children's books:
"One of the real masters of children's literature."?Philip Pullman
"Peter Dickinson is a national treasure."?The Guard-ian
"Magnificent. Peter Dickinson is the past-master story-teller of our day."?The Times Literary Supplement
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Legacy: Selected Drawings Paintings by Frank Frazetta by Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta's paintings and illustrations have set the standard for fantasy artists for the past 50 years. This collection focuses on his influence in a variety of media and genres and on his place in 20th century art history. Coedited by Hugo Award-winning editor Arnie Fenner, it includes... more
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores
Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of annihilation campaigns that employed gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived; expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war... more
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World by Carl Safina
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl SafinaBeginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to... more
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
It was quiet at the other end of the house; but I knew my way; and the light of the unclouded summer moon, entering here and there at passage windows, enabled me to find it without difficulty.
Throughout the hardships of her childhood, Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite the... more
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Persuasion (Seasons Edition -- Summer) by Jane Austen
“He had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and admired you, but without knowing it was you. So says my historian, at least. Is this true? Did he see you last summer or autumn, ‘somewhere down in the west,’ to use her own words, without knowing it to be you?”
At... more
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Wuthering Heights (Seasons Edition -- Winter) by Emily Bronte
A fine, exclusive edition of one of literature?s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. Only 10,000 copies will ever be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.?My love... more
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Pride and Prejudice (Seasons Edition -- Winter) by Jane Austen
A fine, exclusive edition of one of literature?s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. Only 10,000 copies will ever be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.?You and... more
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A Tale of Two Cities (Seasons Edition -- Winter) by Charles Dickens
A fine, exclusive edition of one of literature?s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. Only 10,000 copies will ever be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.?It was a... more
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Little Women (Seasons Edition -- Winter) by Louisa May Alcott
A fine, exclusive edition of one of literature?s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. Only 10,000 copies will ever be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000.?? and... more
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The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan by Andy Couturier
In an evocative and intimate narrative that captures the texture of ordinary--yet exceptional--lives, Andy Couturier tells the stories of ten men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to create new lives deep in the rural mountains. He relates the ways they found to live... more
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The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET--a treacherous quest in the magical landscape of nineteenth-century Peru.In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him... more
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Dangerous Women by Victoria Cass
Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators-these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a... more
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Daughters of the Dragon: A Comfort Woman's Story by William Andrews
2014 IPPY Award Winner. DURING WORLD WAR II, the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or ?comfort women? for their soldiers. This is one woman?s riveting story of strength, courage and promises kept. In 1943, the Japanese tear young Ja-hee and her sister from their... more
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Extinct Birds by Julian P. Hume
Covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from traveler's tales, Extinct Birds looks at hundreds of species from the sub-fossil record--birds that disappeared without ever being recorded. Julian Hume and Michael Walters... more
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Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Buhle
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world... more
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library.
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite... more
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Angela Bourke
In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband, father, aunt, and four cousins were... more
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar
Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in... more
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Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies...
Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. Brothers and Beasts offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship... more
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Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives by Maria Tatar
The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has remained alive for adults, allowing it to... more
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The Dragon Scroll (Sugawara Akitada, Bk 1) by I. J. Parker
In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, The Dragon Scroll introduces readers to the lively world of eleventh-century Japan and an irrepressible hero -- Sugawara Akitada. On his first official assignment, Akitada -- an impoverished nobleman and... more
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The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion by Melissa McCormick
An illustrated guide to one of the most enduring masterworks of world literatureWritten in the eleventh century by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of prose and poetry that is widely considered the worldâ??s first novel. Melissa McCormick provides a... more
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A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
Praise for Brian Evenson:"Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe."?Jonathan Lethem"One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working... more
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret & Miriam Shles...
Witty, wise, and wild, Etgar Keret's stories are a powerful fictional punch, snapshots that illuminate the dark absurdities, sublime beauty, and hidden truths in everyday life.
The story about a bus driver who wanted to be God --
Goodman --
Hole in the wall --
A souvenir of hell... more
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The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories: 1929-1984 by Unknown Author
The Showa Anthology is the first comprehensive collection of Japanese short stories to appear in English translation in over eight years. These twenty-five stories, most of them newly translated, were composed during the six decades of the Showa period (from 1926 to 1989) by some of the finest... more
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all... more
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Tales from Japan (Oxford Myths and Legends) by Helen McAlpine & William McAlpine
Full of magic and wonder, these are tales of wicked giants and fairy children, beautiful princesses and fearless warriors. This extraordinary collection of stories from Japan are lively retellings of legends and fairy tales that include the great story of the creation of the world and the tale... more
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Seven Trails West by Arthur King Peters
The first book of its kind, Seven Trails West explores the major routes that linked the country to the Far West: the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, the Santa FeTrail, the Oregon-California Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Pony Express, the Transcontinental Telegraph, and the Transcontinental... more
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Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
As one of the queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, Margaret Lucas was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. While the English Civil War raged on, she met and married William Cavendish, an aristocratic landowner and poet. He encouraged both her writing and... more
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The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks
For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents?practical,... more
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How to Be a Moonflower: A Field Guide by Katie Daisy (Artist)
Discover the world that awakens after everyone else has gone to sleep. In this lavishly illustrated book, bestselling artist Katie Daisy explores the mystery and magic of the nighttime. Join her on a journey from dusk to dawn, complete with quotes, poems, meditations, field guides to different... more
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The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural
Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living? or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the... more
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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) by Algernon Blackwood &a...
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe,... more
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The Penguin Book of Hell by Scott G. Bruce (Editor)
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantanamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review. Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America. From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to... more
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The Haunted and the Haunters: From Elisabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (Penguin Class...
A thrilling new collection of the greatest supernatural tales This definitive and wide-ranging collection brings together some of the best ghost stories ever written. From Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story" to Edith Wharton's "Afterword," The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories features the... more
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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters by U...
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls
Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop... more
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Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories by Ray Russell
Horror legend Ray Russell?s haunting and macabre stories, including ?perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written? (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
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American Supernatural Tales (Penguin Classics) by Unknown Author
The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions... more
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The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson
Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate.
It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is so... more
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Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Two Serious Ladies is the only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles?a modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two upper-class women as they descend into debauchery?updated with an introduction by Claire Messud,... more
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The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip
Brand new from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Solstice Wood. Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts of town is an impressive estate, Aislinn House, where the aged Lady Eglantyne... more
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The Barrow Will Send What it May (Danielle Cain) by Margaret Killjoy
Margaret Killjoy?s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law. The story continues with The Barrow Will Send What it May.Now a nascent... more
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The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and... more
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The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki
A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America’s most infamous act of treason . . .
Everyone knows Benedict Arnold—the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British—as... more
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The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Unknown Author
Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore. Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping... more
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Free-Form Embroidery with Judith Baker Montano: Transforming Traditional Stitches int...
Bestselling author Judith Baker Montano is back with a new comprehensive stitch guide that will take you beyond traditional embroidery. She?ll show you how to create stunning landscapes and seascapes by applying fine art principles to your fabrics, threads, and fibers. Learn how to use these... more
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Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door, and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to... more
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The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. INSTEAD IT WAS THE LAST.
Iris Chapel and her five elegant sisters, all of them heiresses to the Chapel firearms fortune, live cloistered in a lavish Victorian mansion. Neglected by both a distant, workaholic father and a... more
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short... more
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Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh
After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of... more
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Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher, Bk 1) by Barbara Hambly
The vampires had been living in London since the time of Elizabeth I but now they were being ruthlessly murdered by someone who ripped their coffins open for the light of day to burn them to ashes. No vampire could endure the daylight to destroy their murderer. They had to turn to a mortal human... more
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Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners
On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the... more
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world
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Just One Damned Thing After Another (Chronicles of St. Mary's, Bk 1) by Jodi Taylor
The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. The first thing you learn on the job at St. Mary’s is that one wrong move and history will fight back, sometimes in particularly nasty ways.... more
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Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
A country at war. A family searching for home.
China, 1938. Meilin and her four-year-old son, Renshu, flee their burning city as Japanese forces advance. On the perilous journey that follows, across a China transformed by war, they find comfort and wisdom in their most treasured possession, a... more
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All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
A literary master?s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from ?a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail? (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil... more
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The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager
"A philosophical book ... beautiful in its conception." ?Kirkus Reviews
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth?s visits by Halley?s Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited... more
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A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss.
Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she... more
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Riding the Bus with My Sister : A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a... more
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Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty by Jean Shinoda Bolen
At some point after fifty, every woman crosses a threshold into the third phase of her life. As she enters this uncharted territory -- one that is generally uncelebrated in popular culture -- she can choose to mourn what has gone before, or she can embrace the juicy-crone years.
In this... more
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother’s illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's past
Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness... more
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Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by Douglas A. Anderson
Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Here, internationally recognized... more
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Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race ...
A story of endurance and defiance in an age of prejudice and fear -- featuring a courageous countess who defied the Nazis in a legendary horse race.
Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation’s most prestigious sporting contest: the Grand... more
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Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus
Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon and dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in... more
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Fairy House: How to Make Amazing Fairy Furniture, Miniatures, and More from Natural M...
Fairy House is a fascinating adventure into the making of miniscule kingdoms of the fairytale realm from found objects in nature. This unique how-to book offers a look at ?nature as art? in a more sophisticated style than most instructional books. Through more than 200 clear, detailed,... more
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Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods by Madame Pa...
Discover ancient and modern Slavic magical practices through stories told by the legendary Baba Yaga herself. Learn about the magic of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as the magic of weather, animals, seasons, stones, food, beeswax, and more. Each chapter includes a piece of the fairy tale of... more
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Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one... more
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The Picnic: Recipes and Inspiration from Basket to Blanket by Marnie Hanel & Andr...
A picnic is a great escape from our day-to-day and a chance to turn a meal into something more festive and memorable. The Picnic shares everything you need to plan an effortless outdoor get-together: no-fail recipes, helpful checklists, and expert advice. With variations on everyone?s favorite... more
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Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead
Set in 1916, Far Bright Star follows Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, as he leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. Though he is seasoned at such missions, things go terribly wrong and the... more
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Senlin Ascends (Books of Babel, Bk 1) by Josiah Bancroft
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of luxury and menace, of unusual animals and mysterious... more
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America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin
There?s no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It?s a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out.
Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler. Though... more
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Northern Borders by Howard Frank Mosher
When six-year-old Austen Kittredge was sent up north to live on his grandparents' farm in 1948, little did he know that he would spend the next 12 years of his life there, or that his remarkable stay would never leave him, no matter how far he traveled. The farm in Lost Nation Hollow would... more
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The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
Secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions... Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the... more
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Wolf Walking by Edwin Daniels & Judi Rideout (Illustrator)
North America's leading wolf artist provides the images for this superb book which explores the various aspects of the wolf in myth, legend, and fact. Also featured is a history of the wolf in America, from virtual extinction on the Western frontier to current attempts at repatriation in... more
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The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons,... more
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Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly
If you tell a story oft enough
So it become true
As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.
She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible... more
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature * Winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award * Short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award * Long-listed for the Desmond Elliott Prize * Long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award 2015, Readers? Choice * Long-listed for the... more
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Handel's Bestiary: In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas by Donna Leon
When acclaimed novelist Donna Leon is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, or reveling in delicious cuisine, she is listening to music. For Leon, patron of conductor Alan Curtis and his celebrated orchestra Il Complesso Barocco, that usually means the work of her favorite... more
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Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
A strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge chateau. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing -- waiting, watching, ready to strike. Was it only chance encounter than had brought Linda Martin to Chateau Valmy? Or was it something planned? The lovely young... more
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Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing & Art Featuring Everybody's Favorite Female Sleuth (Sil...
Writing & Art inspired by Nancy Drew from 97 contributors around the world -- from A to Z: Kathleen Aguero, Kimmy Alan, E. Kristin Anderson, Amanda Arkebauer, Roberta Beary, Sujoy Bhattacharya, Julie E. Bloemeke, Steve Bogdaniec, Anne Born, Tanya Bryan, Kathy Burkett, Bill Capossere, Sylvia... more
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Color Charts: Color Collection Edition: 50 Color Charts to record your color collecti...
Organize and categorize your art supplies! Keep track of all your colors in one place with 50 single-sided color charts! Perfect for users of colored pencils, artist markers, gel pens, crayons and much more! Enough space to record 2,250 different colors! The best part of getting a new set of... more
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War by Jared A. ...
A major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin.
-He rescued 118 enslaved people
-He won a medal at the first World's Fair in London
-Queen Victoria invited him to... more
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle f...
The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation
When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part of the nation's earliest struggle for... more
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Br...
?Elegant and quietly important?Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity?s interdependence.??Seattle Times A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch... more
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The Corn Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates
"The Corn Maiden" is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics, frantically knocking on the doors of her neighbors. She finally calls... more
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The Auctioneer (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Joan Samson
One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readersIn the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land that has been in... more
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The Ritual by Adam Nevill
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common... more
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The Elementals by Michael McDowell
"The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King
"Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written." - Poppy Z. Brite
"Beyond any trace of doubt, one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub
"Readers of weak constitution... more
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The Semper Sonnet by Seth Margolis
In this stunning thrill ride, perfect for fans of Steve Berry, a poem holds the key to unlocking the past? and to eliminating the future.
Lee Nicholson takes the academic world by storm, seemingly unearthing a never-before published sonnet by William Shakespeare. When she reads the poem on... more
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Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
"An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable." --New Yorker This lyric portrait of life--and the little donkey, Platero--in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Sugar Run: A Novel by Mesha Maren
One of Entertainment Weekly?s Most Anticipated Books of 2019
?A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.? ?Lauren Groff, author of Florida
In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she?s sentenced to life in prison.... more
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The Invincible Miss Cust by Penny Haw
Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one -- not her family, society, or the law -- will stop her.
Born in Ireland in 1868 to an aristocratic English family, Aleen knows she is destined to work with animals, even if her family is appalled by the idea of a woman pursuing a veterinary career. Going... more
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The Black Flower : A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
The Black Flower is the gripping story of a young Confederate rifleman from Mississippi named Bushrod Carter, who serves in General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee during the Civil War battle that takes place in Franklin, Tennessee, in November 1864. Written with reverent attention to... more
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife.... more
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Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford
Based on true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom at a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived. . .
Two decades before the Civil War, middle-class farmer Samuel... more
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The Invisible Collection: Tales of Obsession and Desire by Stefan Zweig
This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.'
It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a... more
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Winter by Christopher Nicholson
The novel focuses on the true events that occurred around the London theatre dramatization of Thomas Hardy?s acclaimed novel Tess of the D?Urbervilles, including Hardy?s hand-picked casting of the young, alluring Gertrude ?Gertie? Bugler of The Hardy Players to play Tess. As plans for the play... more
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Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster
"Absorbing...Heartbreaking...Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society....Grips the reader's imagination on every page."
-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
She was Elizabeth Barrett's lady's maid. But "Wilson" was more than that. She was a... more
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Speak: A Novel by Louisa Hall
A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence?illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional institute in... more
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly.
From ?quite possibly America?s best living writer of short stories? (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the... more
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Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a... more
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
Acclaimed author Graham Joyce's mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she's been, will challenge our very perception of truth.
For twenty years... more
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of... more
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Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of the handsome young men attending the... more
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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, Bk 1) by Arkady Martine
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident -- or that Mahit... more
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Poison Study (Study / Chronicles of Ixia, Bk 1) by Maria V. Snyder
CHOOSE: A QUICK DEATH OR SLOW POISON...
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. As a food taster, she'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
As Yelena tries to... more
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Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Frank Bill
Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent years. Frank Bill delivers what is both a wake-up call and a gut punch. Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept... more
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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage...
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition... more
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Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster.
The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never... more
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A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' Madeline Miller, author of Circe
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female... more
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Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer
An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered.
To solve... more
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The Vanishing Velazquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiec...
When John Snare, a nineteenth century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young -- too young to be king -- and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to... more
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The Last Good Kiss (C. W. Sughrue, Bk 1) by James Crumley
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart out of a fine spring afternoon... "
That's how Detective C. W Sughrue ended one... more
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, Bk 1) by C. J. Sansom
The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s... more
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's... more
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The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood
Emily Roebling built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Discover the fascinating woman who helped design and construct the Brooklyn Bridge. Emily refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then... more
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Heller: Too Many Bullets by Max Allan Collins
In 1968, Nate Heller is there when Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Heller takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when a friend of his and Bobby’s raises doubts about the LAPD’s investigation. Heller strongly suspects the involvement of Jimmy Hoffa (currently... more
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A Study in Silks (Baskerville Affair, Bk 1) by Emma Jane Holloway
Evelina Cooper, the niece of the great Sherlock Holmes, is poised to enjoy her first Season in London Society. But there’s a murderer to deal with -- not to mention missing automatons, a sorcerer, and a talking mouse.
In a Victorian era ruled by a council of ruthless steam barons,... more
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Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.
In this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra, and in this timeless tale of love, politics, and power, proves once... more
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Widow Queen (Bold, Bk 1) by Elzbieta Cherezinska
Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now.
The bold one, they call her -- too bold for most.
To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for... more
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House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
The Debt Must Be Repaid ― or Else
In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gents,... more
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Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is... more
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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: the Truth About Extreme Misogyny a...
An explosive book examining the rise of secretive, extremist communities who despise women. In this ground-breaking investigation, Laura Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider's web of groups extending from Men's Rights Activists and Pick up Artists to "Men Going... more
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If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss
In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She’s been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who... more
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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though... more
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The Youngest Doll (Latin American Women Writers) by Rosario Ferre
A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. “The Youngest Doll,” based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferré’s feminist and social... more
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This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic by Silvia Moreno-...
Spanning a variety of genres?fantasy, science fiction, horror?and time periods, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's exceptional debut collection features short stories infused with Mexican folklore yet firmly rooted in a reality that transforms as the fantastic erodes the rational. This speculative fiction... more
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The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel by Niklas Natt och Dag
In this breathtakingly bold, intricately constructed novel set in 18th century Stockholm, a dying man searches among the city?s teeming streets, dark corners, and intriguing inhabitants to unmask a ruthless murderer?perfect for fans of Perfume and The Alienist.
Named Best Debut Novel of 2017... more
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Sawbones by Catherine Johnson
"Gentlemen!" William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. "Your watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world..." Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon,... more
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Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
They were the first and only all-female gang in the American West. Though the newspapers refuse to give them credit, their exploits don't go unnoticed. Now, they've got a rival male gang on their trail and an old score to settle.
Margaret Parker and Hattie LaCour never intended to turn outlaw.... more
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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will Bashor
This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family?s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the ?waiting room for the guillotine? because prisoners only spent a day... more
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Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution by Will...
Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship
Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen?s reign, one man was entrusted with the... more
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The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer
"Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."—Interior DesignMarie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has been romanticized as the martyred queen, admired as... more
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 (The Royal Diaries) by...
Maria Antonia of Vienna has her whole life mapped out ahead of her. She is to marry Dauphin Louis Auguste, eldest grandson of King Louis XV. As his wife, she will be called Marie Antoinette, and will be the highest princess of France. Upon the death of the King, she will become Queen Marie... more
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic... more
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To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court.
Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin,... more
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The Lost King of France : How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI...
Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into the horror of the French Revolution, his... more
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Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nage...
The first major biography of one of France?s most mysterious women?Marie Antoinette?s only child to survive the revolution.Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an... more
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Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
1909. Illustrated. Poet, essayist, satirist, and historian, Belloc wrote from the Roman Catholic viewpoint. He was a prolific writer, authoring more than 150 books in his lifetime, he was also a close friend of G.K. Chesterton and with him founded the New Witness, a weekly political newspaper,... more
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Reader's Digest Great Biographies: Christopher Columbus, Mariner; Marie Antoinette; T...
Christopher Columbus, Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison
Threatened by mutiny after almost two months at sea, lost in a vast ocean with only hearsay to guide him, Columbus at last made an island landfall. Seeking a new route to the riches of the East, he had stumbled upon a whole new world. To... more
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The Queen's Necklace : Marie Antoinette and the Scandal that Shocked and Mystified Fr...
Written in 1961 and now back in print, this classic and fascinating true crime story stars none other than Marie Antoinette. Four years before the French Revolution, some priceless diamonds were purchased in elaborate secrecy from a court jeweler. The jewels, not yet paid for, were delivered... more
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The Road from Versailles : Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Mo...
What becomes of leaders when absolute power is wrested from their hands? How does dramatic political change affect once-absolute monarchs? In The Road from Versailles, acclaimed historian Munro Price confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution: What were the true actions and... more
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The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen, and the Flight to Varennes by S...
"The friendship began on a winter evening in 1774 at an opera ball in Paris when a lighthearted princess approached a youth of surpassing physical beauty. It ended for one of them at the scaffold in the Place de la Revolution in the most famous death scene in French History, and for the other... more
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A biography of Marie Antoinette Queen of France by Andre Castelot
Andre Castelot, a distinguished French scholar and historian, has in this book written one of the most brilliant of recent biographies, which makes Marie Antoinette, from her arrival in France to the day she rode to her death in a cart, amazingly alive for the reader.
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A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de F...
This book offers a new look at the world of Marie Antoinette through the story of her personal and exclusive perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon. Jean-Louis served Marie for fourteen years until 1789 when the Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagances of the Royal Court and... more
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How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need: Survival Tricks for ...
As we have seen with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, disaster preparedness is not a luxury.
Everyone from Louis Pasteur to the Girl Scouts has championed the motto “Be Prepared”—but what does that mean in today’s constantly changing world? In this age of anxiety,... more
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The Art of Condolence: What to Write, What to Say, What to Do at a Time of Loss by Le...
Time and again we stumble for words and actions that will reflect our feelings of compassion and our desire to be of comfort. Based on the authors' extensive research, their workshops, and their professional experience, and filled with personal stories and anecdotes, this heartfelt, practical,... more
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The Book of Fires: A Novel by Jane Borodale
Reminiscent of Year of Wonders, a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman's redemption It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a brooding... more
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The Keeper of Night (Keeper of Night, Bk 1) by Kylie Lee Baker
Death is her destiny.
Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. Expected to obey the harsh hierarchy of the Reapers who despise her, Ren conceals her emotions and avoids her tormentors as best she can.
When... more
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A Front Page Affair (Kitty Weeks, Bk 1) by Radha Vatsal
New York City, 1915
The Lusitania has just been sunk, and headlines about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the Great War are splashed across the front page of every newspaper. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love nothing more than to report on the news of the day, but... more
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Tea With the Black Dragon (Black Dragon Bk. 1) by R. A. MacAvoy
Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her... more
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In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home in the Florida swamplands by a sching parent's treacheries, and by a shameful, horrific act that will haunt their dreams for the rest of their days. Joining the swelling ranks of the... more
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Guests on Earth: A Novel by Lee Smith
Evalina Toussaint, the orphaned child of an exotic dancer in New Orleans, is just thirteen when she is admitted to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. The year is 1936, and the mental hospital is under the direction of the celebrated psychiatrist Robert S. Carroll. His innovative... more
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The Reminders by Val Emmich
From the author of Dear Evan Hansen, The Reminders is perfect for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan's The Engagement or Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, and follows what happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember.
Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's... more
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
The novel opens on the eve of World War II. In the mountain village of Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, under the approving eyes of the entire village, courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanska. But the war's arrival wreaks havoc in all their lives and delays their marriage for six... more
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The Rockstar Remedy: A Rock & Roll Doctor's Prescription for Living a Long, Healthy L...
From the woman known to some of the most famous bands in the world as the ?Rock n? Roll Doctor? comes a holistic prescription to achieving health and balance?even when you don?t live like a saint.As a holistic practitioner and therapeutic masseuse to the music industry's elite, Gabrielle Francis... more
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Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking by E...
Based on the James Beard Award-Winning Blog
Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and a food-fanatical father, Elissa learned early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining at fine establishments, from Le Pavillon to La Grenouille, she devoted her life to... more
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Delta Hot Tamales (American Palate) by Anne Martin
Several theories surround the traditional Delta tamale. Some trace it back to Mexican and Italian immigrants, while others say the Delta version of the hand-held meal is a spin on the old African American food called ?cush.? One thing not disputed is the popularity. From hot tamale legends Joe... more
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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers is a classic novel by one of science fictions greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinleins most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile... more
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Darktown (Darktown, Bk 1) by Thomas Mullen
?One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural?written with a ferocious passion that?ll knock the wind out of you.? ?The New York Times Book Review ?Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our... more
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Literary Dogs & Their South Carolina Writers by John Lane (Editor) & Betsy Wakefi...
Why do writers love dogs? Not always for the same reasons as all the rest of us do. Dorothea Benton Frank's dog Henry teaches her about self-righteous indignation every time she leaves on a book tour. Ron Rash learns to appreciate his misanthropic mutt Pepper after he bites his... more
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Accidents of Providence by Stacia Brown
London, 1649: King Charles has been beheaded for treason, Cromwell is in power, the Levelers are demanding rights for the people, and a new law targeting unwed mothers presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder.
Glovemaker Rachel Lockyer is locked in... more
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
A funny thing has happened on our way to the digital utopia: we find ourselves increasingly missing reality.
In this spirited book, David Sax has found story after story of entrepreneurs, artisans, and creators who make real money by selling real things. And they're not just local craftspeople,... more
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You Know You Want This: 'Cat Person' and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex -- and often darkly funny -- connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.
You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that... more
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Medicine Women : A Pictorial History of Women Healers by Elisabeth Brooke
Women are society's primary caregivers and have been throughout the course of history. Yet they have often been shunned, persecuted, and excluded from the healing professions. Why? In this fascinating history of women healers, Elisabeth Brooke explores their role from the early hospitals of... more
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The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
Set in the 1850s and based on an actual historical incident, The Magician's Wife is a rare glimpse at the beginnings of one hundred years of French rule in Algeria and a bold exploration of one woman's desires and convictions.
Summoned to the grand country estate of Napoleon III, the... more
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Nop's Trials by Donald McCraig
Here is the story of a family and two remarkable individuals -- Lewis Burkholder, a farmer in Virginia, and his young Border Collie, Nop. When the dog is stolen, Nop embarks on an ordeal of peril and hardship that he survives only through courage and love. The same qualities in Lewis enable him... more
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Glory and Lightning by Taylor Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell's most extraordinary heroine, a woman fighting for her right to be fully human in the "man's world" of ancient Greece...
Aspasia was born to danger. Before her birth, her father had announced his intention of abandoning the child to die, should it be a girl.... more
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The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale
Reminiscent of Year of Wonders, a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman's redemption
It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a... more
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton
It was in Vienna in 1913 that a young Stalin arrived on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries. Here also the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Vienna was internationally... more
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Meet Me In The In-Between: A Memoir by Bella Pollen
A provocative and lively memoir in stories by the bestselling, ?Richard and Judy? selected author of The Summer of the Bear Growing up the middle child of transatlantic parents—her down- to-earth mother and romantic father—Bella Pollen never quite figured out how to belong. Restlessly crossing... more
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Territory by Emma Bull
Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.
You think you know the story. You don?t.
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows... more
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Six Four: A Novel by Hideo Yokoyama
International BestsellerWinner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year AwardAn Award-Winning Phenomenon in Its Native Japan and Already a Critically Celebrated Top-Ten Bestseller in the United Kingdom, Hideo Yokoyama?s Six Four is an Unforgettable Novel by a Literary Master at the Top of... more
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Home Lands: How Women Made the West by Virginia Scharff & Carolyn Brucken
The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes--a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. Home Lands: How Women Made the West upends this view to remember the West as a place of... more
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D'Arc (War with No Name) by Robert Repino
With the fragile interspecies peace that followed the War With No Name under assault from land and sea, Sheba and Mort(e) have no choice but to take up their arms and enter once again into the conflict that threatened to tear them apart.
?Repino's dog, cat, and beaver soldiers are nakedly... more
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Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
From the author of the breakout bestseller Waking the Moon, comes this stunning millennial thriller It is 1999. The Last Days some say; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards and the stars haven't been seen for months. The sky is... more
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The Accidental Empress: A Novel by Allison Pataki
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAllison Pataki follows her critically acclaimed debut, The Traitor's Wife, with the little-known love story of "Sisi," the Austro-Hungarian Empress and captivating wife of Emperor Franz Joseph. Rich period detail and a cast of complex, bewitching characters... more
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Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
World-renowned paleontologist Richard Leyster's universe changed forever the day a stranger named Griffin walked into his office with a remarkable job offer . . . and an ice cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. For Leyster and a select group of scientific colleagues an... more
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Lolly Willowes : Or the Loving Huntsman (New York Review Books Classics) by Sylvia To...
Lolly Willowes comes from a long-establishe d family of country gentry, and she grows up accepting the inalterability of all its customs. After her beloved father dies, she is sent off to London to be looked afte r by her officious brother and his pious wife. The years pass. Lolly feels... more
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Wild West Women: Fifty Lives That Shaped the Frontier by Erin Turner (Editor)
Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the... more
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Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republi...
"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as the... more
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Bits & Pieces (Rot & Ruin, Bk 5) by Jonathan Maberry
Return to the zombie apocalypse wasteland that is the Rot & Ruin in this short story collection from Jonathan Maberry.
Benny Imura’s zombie-infested adventures are well-chronicled in the gripping novels Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire... more
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to Hist...
A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck?s first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the... more
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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to... more
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Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany -- heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire -- seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen.
But when... more
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Denver: A Novel by John Dunning
By the 1920s, Denver had outgrown its frontier-town beginnings. But for some, life was still as perilous as the surrounding terrain. The insidious influence of the Ku Klux Klan was reaching its peak, and those who stood in its path feared for their safety. Denver is the saga of a family caught... more
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The Quick and the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joy Williams
Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange... more
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
When Edward VI died in 1553, the extraordinary fact was that there was no one left to claim the title of king of England. For the first time, England would have a reigning queen -- but the question was which one: Katherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth; or... more
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Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel (Topics in Kentucky Hist...
Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and... more
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Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles
Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy.Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems... more
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Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
?Remarkable . . . This isn?t your ordinary coming-of-age novel, but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them, Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience.??Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book... more
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Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery
In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an... more
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Sold Down the River (Benjamin January, Bk 4) by Barbara Hambly
When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not... more
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Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos
A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator?s private persona both within Germany and abroad
Adolf Hitler?s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he... more
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Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos
Adolf Hitler?s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator?s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his... more
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There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From: A Memoir by Bryan Charles
There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From is the memoir of a young Midwestern man struggling to carve out a life as a writer, and to find meaning, or at least a job, in his new and alien landscape of New York City. In a voice at once coolly detached and utterly confident, we follow... more
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The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
A propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two brothers swept up in the turbulent class warfare of the early twentieth century.
An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes... more
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Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors by Alison Light
?Family history begins with missing persons,? Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we?ve lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring.
Most of us, however, give up a few generations back. We run into... more
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The Prophet's Wife by Libbie Grant
In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger, a man who has nothing but a peep-stone in his pocket and a conviction that he can speak directly to God. His name is Joseph Smith and in a few short years, he will found his own religion, gather zealous adherents by... more
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The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel (The Daughters of La Lune) by M. J. Rose
As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose?s ?brilliantly crafted? (Providence Journal) novel The Witch of Painted... more
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A Burnable Book (John Gower, Bk 1) by Bruce Holsinger
In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings
London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers -- including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine... more
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Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It by John Ferling
Written in the authoritative and narrative-driven style that made his books The Ascent of George Washington and Jefferson and Hamilton critical and commercial successes, John Ferling's Whirlwind will become the definitive history of the American Revolution for our time. A master historian and... more
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America by David O. Stewart
In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades.
In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed... more
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To the River by Olivia Laing
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how... more
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Hide Your Assets and Disappear: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace by ...
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller!Are you tired of the way you're living? Are you fed up with everyone trying to take your most valuable possessions--your money and assets--away? Are you sick of having creditors, the IRS, or a vindictive ex-spouse nipping at your heels? If... more
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of... more
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The Book of Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, Bks 1 - 3) by Steven Brust
Steven Brust's first three adventures of Vlad Taltos -- collected in one volume as The Book of Jhereg. Contains the complete text of Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla.
There are many ways for a young man with quick wits and a quick sword to advance in the world. Vlad Taltos chose the... more
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The Book of Taltos (Vlad Taltos, Bks 4-5) by Steven Brust
This is the compendium featuring Taltos and Phoenix, books four and five in Steven Brust's classic series featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon companion.
Vlad Taltos is an assassin unlike any other. Not only is he quick with a sword, but he also possesses a gift... more
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The Book of Athyra (Vlad Taltos, Bks 6-7) by Steven Brust
This omnibus features books six and seven in the series of Vlad Taltos and his winged jhereg companions--Athyra and Orca.
Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer--as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery-winged... more
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The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann
Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town -- drinker,
card player, and contented bachelor -- until one evening, when Mrs. Sofia Sparrow; proprietor of an exclusive gaming parlor and... more
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The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix
This remarkable animal story is the tale of a duel between two superbly skilled antagonists - each one born and bred to his dangerous calling.
One is a fox, the other a hound.
As he tells their story, Daniel P. Mannix brilliantly evokes the world of each animal: the dog, devoting his... more
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Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Daniel P. Mannix & Malcol...
The importation of Negro Slave from Africa to the two Americas was a gigantic commercial operation that cost between thirty and fortyh million lives, helped to finance the English and French industrial revolutions, and gave rise to the American plantation system, maritime trade, and the Civil... more
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Death & Honey by Kevin Hearne & Lila Bowen & Chuck Wendig
Death & Honey contains three novellas by New York Times bestsellers Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, and Chuck Wendig. Each of the stories features a full-color, full-page illustration by Galen Dara, who also contributed the cover and a full-color frontispiece. In The Buzz Kill by Kevin Hearne,... more
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Blackbirds (Miriam Black, Bk 1) by Chuck Wendig
Miriam Black knows how you’re going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially when you can’t do anything about it, or stop trying to. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch you—skin to skin... more
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Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay
Crispin is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Summoned to Sarantium by imperial request, he bears a Queen's secret mission, and a talisman from an alchemist. Once in the fabled city, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces,... more
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Shakespeare's Wife (P.S.) by Germaine Greer
Little is known about Ann Hathaway (d. 1623), the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, reclaiming this much maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and... more
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The Bronte Sisters: Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights / Agnes Grey by Emily Bronte & ...
The most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume.
The Brontë family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's JANE EYRE and Emily's WUTHERING HEIGHTS have won lofty places in the pantheon... more
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Deep Creek by Dana Hand
Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: over 30 Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he... more
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The Voyage Out (Modern Library Classics) by Virginia Woolf
The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's beginning as one of... more
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Jackson by Max Byrd
He became a legend at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Before that he was a fiercely passionate senator who could barely finish a speech without becoming choked with rage. He was called coarse and illiterate. A slave owner, land speculator, and Indian fighter, he stole another... more
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Grant : A Novel by Max Byrd
Like no one else writing in America today, Max Byrd, the critically acclaimed author of Jefferson and Jackson, makes history come alive. His latest work is an unforgettable portrait of America's Gilded Age and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center who may well be our most... more
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The Moment of Everything by Shelly King
In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore.
Maggie Duprès, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a... more
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Before the Fallout : From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston
The Human Chain Reaction That Led To The Atom Bomb On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy"exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the... more
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Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire . . . but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to... more
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The Truth of All Things (Archie Lean, Bk 1) by Kieran Shields
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, in the summer of 1892, a grisly new witch hunt is beginning.... When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram... more
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch
?Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.? ?Michael Dirda, Washington PostPompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of... more
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic (Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, Bk 1)...
During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, eager to forget about her disastrous breakup and stalled dissertation, Nora Fischer wanders off and somehow finds herself in another realm. There, she meets glamorous Ilissa -- who introduces Nora to a decadent new world -- and her gorgeous... more
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The Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom
It’s 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father’s... more
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The Blood of Heaven (Woolsack Family, Bk 1) by Kent Wascom
The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving... more
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An Ordinary Woman : A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey by Cecelia Holland
In the spring of 1841, a courageous young woman named Nancy Kelsey set out her husband, Ben, and infant daughter, Martha Ann, from their Missouri homestead on a harrowing track that would lead her into the pages of history. With a small band of pioneers, Nancy and Ben blazed a trail across a... more
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The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of... more
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Dangerous Women 2 by George R. R. Martin (Editor) & Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Anthology of specially-commissioned stories from the most stellar names in the genre, set in a number of readers' favourite fantasy worlds. Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the... more
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Dangerous Women 3 by George R. R. Martin (Editor) & Gardner Dozois (Editor)
Anthology of specially-commissioned stories from the most stellar names in the genre, set in a number of readers' favourite fantasy worlds. Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the... more
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The Gravedigger by Peter Grandbois
"Reminiscent of the work of Luis Alberto Urrea and Gabriel Garc a M rquez (Booklist), this enchanting first novel now in paperback was an Original Voices feature at Borders and a Discover Great New Writers selection at Barnes & Noble. Juan Rodrigo, a gravedigger in a small Andalusian village,... more
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The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales by Kate Mosse
The perfect winter ghost short story collection from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE WINTER GHOSTS. I hear someone coming. It has happened before. I pause and listen but no longer hear anything. I sigh. As always, hope is snatched away before it can take root. And so then, as... more
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Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe) by Jane Austen
The culmination of Jane Austen?s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage?now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Beautiful, clever, rich?and single?Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing,... more
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Three Classic African-American Novels : Clotel, Iola Leary, The Marrow of Tradition (...
William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.
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Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, Bk 1) by Jennifer Estep
My name is Gin, and I kill people. They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South -- when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the... more
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Madame de Villeneuve's The Story of the Beauty and the Beast: The Original Classic Fr...
Think you know the story of 'Beauty and the Beast'? Think again!
This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his... more
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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall by Eve Laplante
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges),... more
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My Dearest Cecelia : A Novel of the Southern Belle Who Stole General Sherman's Heart ...
As she enters the Commencement Ball at West Point on a spring evening in 1837, Cecelia Stovall looks and feels like the perfect, innocent Southern belle. But at that dance she will meet the man who will change her life--and the lives of her fellow Southerners--forever. Cecelia falls instantly in... more
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The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors.Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote... more
