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  • The Ten Thousand Things

    by Maria Dermout ...
    Translated by Hans Koning ...
    Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time).“Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of WildThe Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Columbus: His Enterprise

    Exploding the Myth

    by Hans Koning ...
    "The book is an idea that has finally found its time."--Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years."--Kurt Vonnegut ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Columbus: His Enterprise

    Exploding the Myth

    by Hans Koning ...
    The true history of Christopher Columbus and his fateful voyageIn this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus’ life and voyages. Koning describes how Columbus’ consuming drive to send mountains of gold back to Spain shaped his life, beginning the story with his childhood in Genoa and ending after his return ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

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  • The Power of the Dog

    by Don Winslow ...
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    From the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.Book One of the Power of the Dog SeriesSet about ten years prior to The Cartel, this gritty novel introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an ... Read more

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  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog

    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" ( Publishers Weekly).In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she's everything ... Read more

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  • Among the Ten Thousand Things

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  • Son

    by Lois Lowry ...
    Series Book 4 - Giver Quartet
    The thrilling and long-awaited conclusion to the Newbery Medal–winning Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry.They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist.That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it had been stolen from her body. Claire had a son. But ... Read more

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  • Tiny Beautiful Things: Reese's Book Club

    Advice from Dear Sugar

    NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES •NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first ... Read more

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  • The Ambassadors

    by Henry James ...
    The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancée's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business, but he ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath

    by Rhidian Brook ...
    1946, post-World War II Hamburg. While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the denazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe. He is awaiting the arrival of his wife, Rachael—still grieving for their eldest son—and their only surviving son, Edmund. But rather ... Read more

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