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Felicity: Poems By Mary Oliver Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143128762
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Published: Penguin Books - October 3rd, 2017

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems


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Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375714368
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Published: Vintage - January 26th, 2010

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: An enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today


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Bitter Orange By Claire Fuller Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793606
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Published: Tin House Books - October 22nd, 2019

An NPR Best Book of the Year

"Unsettling and eerie, Bitter Orange is an ideal chiller." —Time Magazine

 From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming LessonsBitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.

 


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The Mercies By Kiran Millwood Hargrave Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316529235
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Published: Back Bay Books - February 23rd, 2021

The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe).

When the women take over, is it sorcery or power?
 
Finnmark, Norway, 1617.


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Open Water By Caleb Azumah Nelson Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802157942
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat - April 13th, 2021

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35
WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION

A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson


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84, Charing Cross Road By Helene Hanff Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780140143508
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Published: Penguin Books - October 1st, 1990

"Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com

A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books


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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats: A Novel By Jan-Philipp Sendker Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781590514634
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Published: Other Press - January 31st, 2012

A sweeping, emotional story of a daughter’s search to understand why her father left.

Fans of Cutting for Stone will like this!


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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel By Pat Barker Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525564102
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Published: Anchor - August 27th, 2019

If you liked the Song of Achilles (Miller), read this one next! This story is told from a woman’s perspective. Brutal at times, but such an interesting comparison!