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Author:Margaret Kennedy
Troy Chimneys
"Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny" (Elizabeth Bowen): a Regency novel like none before or since. Troy Chimneys purports to be the private memoirs of Miles Lufton, a minor politician of Regency-era Britain. In them he recounts, with tongue partially in cheek, the battle...- $18.00
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Author:Jennifer Ryan
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A delightful debut."--People For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II.As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II...- $17.00
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Author:Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library
USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Investigations are launched, fingers are pointed, potentially dangerous liaisons unfold and I was turning those pages like there was cake at the finish line." --Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times must-read books for summer 2022Ned Kelly award winning author Sulari Gentill sets this mystery-within-a-mystery...- $26.99
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Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
"Be on your guard ... and take care not to fall in love!" Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is...- $10.95
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Author:Katherine Reay
The London House
Caroline Payne thinks it's just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian. But pleasantries are cut short. Mat has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: During World War II, Caroline's British...- $38.95
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Author:Claire Fuller
Swimming Lessons
Disenchanted by the life in which she's found herself, Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their passionate and troubled marriage. She hides them, unread, in the thousands of books Gil has collected over the years. Then she disappears...- $15.95
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Author:J. Michael Straczynski
Together We Will Go
The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Mark Antonelli, a failed...- $19.99
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Author:Paulo Coelho
The Spy: A Novel of Mata Hari
In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months...- $16.95
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Author:David Whitton
Seven Down
In this quirky, character-driven debut novel seven hotel employees puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt -- the next read for fans of Fredrik Backman (Anxious People) and Matt Haig (The Midnight Library).Finalist for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award for...- $17.99
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Author:Amanda Desiree
Smithy
"This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on' terror." --Library Journal, starred review. In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in...- $18.99
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Author:Lawrence Spann
A Parable of Lies
During times of grief, therapists recommend jotting down feelings, memories, and observations in a notebook. Neal Motherwell takes this practice to the extreme, sometimes writing twenty-thousand words in a day. "I am working out the vocabulary of my silence."Muriel Rukeyser Neal thought he'd left...- $19.99
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Author:Saul Bellow
Herzog
In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. A Penguin Classic This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer,...- $20.00
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Author:Bobbie Ann Mason
Dear Ann
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso.Author: Bobbie Ann MasonISBN-10: 006298666XISBN-13: 9780062986665Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2021Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d- $19.99
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Author:Saul Bellow
Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner's finest achievements A Penguin Classic This is the story of Moses Herzog--a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters...- $19.00
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Author:Rajaa Alsanea
Girls of Riyadh
"Alsanea's wisdom and insight into the female experience seem surreal. She captures the core, universal truths of the complications in finding and holding a life partner. Her characters provide wisdom to each other that are astounding in their accuracy, and Alsanea thus speaks for...- $18.00
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Author:Steve Kluger
Last Days of Summer
A contemporary American classic--a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendshipLast Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking...- $17.99
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Author:Andrea Bajani
If You Kept a Record of Sins
Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for...- $18.00
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Author:Kim Bo-Young
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories
"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and...- $16.99
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Author:Ana Castillo
The Mixquiahuala Letters
"A wonderful, wonderful book." --Maxine Hong Kingston Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cort痙ar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship....- $15.00
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Author:Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the...- $13.95
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Author:Samuel Richardson
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret A. Doody in Penguin Classics. Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress's son....- $11.00
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Author:Cady West
Darcy & Desire: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
My Dearest Darcy...Is Happily Ever After just the beginning?Lizzy and Darcy are married. They're ecstatically happy newlyweds. But a journey to London separates them.Whatever will they do?Write letters, of course!In this sequel to Jane Austen's masterpiece, read the witty, passionate correspondence between her most...- $14.95
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Author:Jane Oliver
Business as Usual
This classic illustrated novel in letters sure to delight fans of Jane Austen and Winifred Watson.Hilary Fane is an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of...- $17.99
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Author:Susan Rigetti
Cover Story
Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, Fortune, PopSugar, and more![A] page-turner that's...- $41.99
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Author:Martha Gershun
Care & Custody: A Novel of Three Children at Risk
When six-year-old Hope tells her 1st grade teacher there is no food at home and Mommy is always "asleep," the school calls the Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline. The subsequent investigation triggers a five-year journey through the child welfare system for Hope and her...- $20.13
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Author:Saul Bellow
Dangling Man
An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow--now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee A Penguin Classic Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to...- $15.00
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Author:Julie Kibler
Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events. "Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded...- $17.00
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Author:Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to...- $17.99
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Author:Ga?le Josse
The Last Days of Ellis Island
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature "Josse powerfully evokes the spirit of the 'huddled masses' who landed on America's shores while creating a memorable portrait of a man torn between his commitment to his difficult job and the longings of his heart....- $15.99
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Author:Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Letters to Amelia
Grace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous...- $20.00
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Author:Jeremy Cooper
Bolt from the Blue
In Bolt from the Blue, Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, charts the relationship between a mother and daughter over the course of thirty-odd years. In October 1985, Lynn moves down to London to enrol at Saint Martin's School...- $15.95
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Author:Thornton Wilder
The Ides of March
The classic Thornton Wilder novel that recreates the dazzling ancient Roman empire of Julius Caesar--now with a new introduction by Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals and co-author (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution. First published in...- $18.99
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Author:Chuck Palahniuk
Pygmy
A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with...- $17.00
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Author:Valerie Baeza
Story of My Life
When the Worst Happens, How Do You Move On?Garence Leitner had it all: a meaningful career traveling the world as a writer and photographer, the quintessential cottage in Bourton-on-the-Water, England, and the love of his life, Sabina.Now, with each passing day, the memory of...- $16.99
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Author:Paul Bowles
The Stories of Paul Bowles
"Bowles's tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirley its own." --Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as...- $19.99
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Author:Jean Webster
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the...- $16.00
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Author:Jean Webster
Dear Enemy: Dear Enemy
Author: Jean WebsterISBN-10: 8027341558ISBN-13: 9788027341559Publisher: E-ArtnowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2021Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d- $7.30
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Author:Matt Beaumont
e
Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm to: All Departmentsre: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know... Set in a London ad agency desperate to land a coveted big account, e follows the bureaucratic bungling, cutthroat maneuvers,...- $16.00
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Author:Wahida Clark
Thug Shorts
This Limited Edition of Thug Shorts provides raw, uncut letters and diary entries from the flawed cast of the Wahida Clark's infamous Thug Series. These Shorts take you inside the mind of the characters, allowing for insight into their views and hidden emotions--a way...- $19.99
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Author:Lawrence Spann
A Parable of Lies
During times of grief, therapists recommend jotting down feelings, memories, and observations in a notebook. Neal Motherwell takes this practice to the extreme, sometimes writing twenty-thousand words in a day. "I am working out the vocabulary of my silence."Muriel Rukeyser Neal thought he'd left...- $27.99
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Author:John Cleland
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) is an erotic novel and early work of pornography by English author John Cleland. Written while Cleland was in prison, the novel was both successful and controversial, banned from publication but widely distributed...- $9.99
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Author:Jonathan Miles
Dear American Airlines
Sometimes the planes don't fly on time. Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O'Hare airport, he watches the clock tick...- $15.99
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Author:Bram Stoker
The Lady of the Shroud
The Lady of the Shroud (1909) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written just before the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, The Lady of the Shroud is a prophetic and politically informed work of fiction that helped to establish the Irish master...- $23.99
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Author:Ugo Foscolo
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
A unique edition of a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets, and perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the Romantic movement. Saddened with his country's loss of freedom, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university student Jacopo...- $12.00
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Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Sufferings of Young Werther
A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent...- $13.95
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Author:Agust匤 Fern疣dez Mallo
The Nocilla Trilogy: Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab
A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy--Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience--presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the twenty-first century. In the middle of the Nevada desert...- $30.00
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Author:Peter Dimock
Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson
In his newest novel, cult author Peter Dimock explores the shuttering of empire and literature's capacity to re-lay America's political trajectory.Author: Peter DimockISBN-10: 1646050592ISBN-13: 9781646050598Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2021Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/03/2021- $15.95
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Author:Brett Grubisic
My Two-Faced Luck
1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project--recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken...- $19.95
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Author:Nicholson Baker
A Box of Matches
Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and...- $19.00
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Author:Jean Webster
Daddy-Long-Legs: Girl's Novel
Author: Jean WebsterISBN-10: 802734154XISBN-13: 9788027341542Publisher: E-ArtnowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2021Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d- $6.00
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