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1.
Series: Canoe Lake Paperback Roy MacGregor 9780771054600 $22.00 FICTION Mar 12, 2002

A troubled American woman travels to a small Ontario town, determined to find the mother she has never known. As she searches through dusty records and stirs up old memories among those around her, three young people emerge from the mists of the past . . . a beautiful woman named Jenny, a shy local boy named Russell, and a dark-eyed painter named Tom, who changes the course of Jenny and Russell’s lives. Historical reality and conjecture are skilfully interwoven with intrigue and suspense as these three move unwittingly toward tragedy.
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Series: A Ballet of Lepers A Novel and Stories Hardcover Leonard Cohen 9780771018145 $34.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before “Hallelujah” and “So Long, Marianne” and “Famous Blue Raincoat,” the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning.Written between 1956 in Montreal, just a... + Read More
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Series: In the Upper Country A Novel Hardcover Kai Thomas 9780735243460 $36.00 FICTION Jan 10, 2023

The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south—whose agents do not always stay on their side... + Read More
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Series: People We Meet on Vacation Paperback Emily Henry 9781984806758 $22.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more!Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlus... + Read More
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Series: Nineteen Eighty Four Paperback George Orwell 9780141036144 $11.99 FICTION Jul 29, 2008

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston an... + Read More
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Series: Where the Crawdads Sing Paperback Delia Owens 9780735219106 $24.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 11 million copies sold, “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature” (The New York Times Book Review), now in paperback for the first time.For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say... + Read More
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Series: The Violence A Novel Paperback Delilah S. Dawson 9780593156643 $24.95 FICTION Nov 01, 2022

A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope.Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home.But Chelsea’s husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing her for years, cutting off her independence, autonomy, and support. She has nowhere to turn, not even ... + Read More
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Series: Beach Read Paperback Emily Henry 9781984806734 $22.00 FICTION May 19, 2020

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three mo... + Read More
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Series: Book Lovers Paperback Emily Henry 9780593334836 $23.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.Nora Stephens life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved litt... + Read More
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Series: Old Babes in the Wood Stories Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771003721 $37.00 FICTION Mar 07, 2023

A dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid sister... + Read More
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Series: The Sister's Tale A novel Paperback Beth Powning 9780735280021 $23.95 FICTION May 25, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart.With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of a boarding house kept afloat by the sweat and tears of a curious and not complete... + Read More
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Series: The Twilight World A Novel Hardcover Werner Herzog 9780593490266 $34.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War IIIn 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an insta... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Modern Classics Penguin Classics Nineteen Eighty Four Paperback George Orwell 9780141393049 $12.99 FICTION Jan 15, 2013

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smit... + Read More
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Series: My Policeman A Novel Paperback Bethan Roberts 9780143136989 $23.00 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

Now a motion picture starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love.It is in 1950’s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city’s famous pier and Marion is smitten—determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted, and opens Tom’s eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. Tom is their policeman,... + Read More
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Series: Split Tooth Paperback Tanya Tagaq 9780143198055 $19.99 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeWinner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in EnglishWinner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose FictionLonglisted for the 2019 Sunburst AwardFrom the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.F... + Read More
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Series: PANTHEON FAIRY TALE & FOLKLORE The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales Paperback Brothers Grimm 9780394709307 $32.00 FICTION Sep 12, 1976

The stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of the more than two hundred enchanting characters included in this volume. The tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.With black-and-white illustrations ... + Read More
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Series: Full Immersion Paperback Gemma Amor 9780857669810 $16.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette. —-What can you do when you’re reeling from trauma but you’ve tried it all? Counselling, yoga, pills, meditation, art, healthy living… none of it makes a dent. What’s left?Magpie is out of ideas. She’s desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially b... + Read More
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Series: Motherthing A novel Paperback Ainslie Hogarth 9780771000614 $24.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.Abby Lamb has done it. She’s found the Great Good in her husband Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph’s mother Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the wa... + Read More
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Series: The Sea Captain's Wife Paperback Beth Powning 9780307402561 $19.95 FICTION Jul 26, 2011

Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling town on the Bay of Fundy and dreams of seeing the world. When she marries Nathaniel Bradstock, a veteran sea captain, she believes she will sail at his side. But when she becomes pregnant she is forced to stay behind. Her father has built the couple a gabled house overlooking the bay, but the gift cannot shelter her from the loneliness of living without her husband. When Azuba becomes embroiled in scandal, Nathaniel is forced to take her and their d... + Read More
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Series: The House of Ashes Paperback Stuart Neville 9781641293723 $22.95 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

For fans of Gillian Flynn and Tana French, a chilling story of a Northern Irish murder sixty years buried Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless, friendless—all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a... + Read More
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Series: The Handmaid's Tale Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771008795 $19.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2011

The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the award-winning television series, The Handmaid’s Tale.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can re... + Read More
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Russian Fairy Tales Paperback Aleksandr Afanas'ev 9780394730905 $28.00 FICTION Sep 12, 1976

Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the outstanding Russian ethnographer Aleksandr Afanas’ev reveal a rich, robust world of the imagination.Translated by Norbert GutermanIllustrated by Alexan... + Read More
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Series: Love on the Brain Paperback Ali Hazelwood 9780593336847 $23.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics... + Read More
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Series: Daisy Jones & The Six A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385692199 $19.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By t... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful World, Where Are You A Novel Paperback Sally Rooney 9780735281813 $22.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKONE OF TIME’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, KIRKUS REVIEWS AND FINANCIAL TIMES The radiant new novel, “funny and smart, full of sex and love,” with a bonus short story from the acclaimed author of bestselling sensations Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting... + Read More
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Series: A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting A Novel Paperback Sophie Irwin 9780735245051 $22.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

*A WINNER OF THE ALA ALEX AWARDS*“A sharp, modern, and absolutely delicious take on the marriage plot. Sophie Irwin’s debut is one of the most fun, romantic books I’ve read in a long time. I cannot wait to see what she does next.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu RisingA whip-smart historical rom-com debut that follows an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season in hopes of finding a wealthy husband to save her family from ruin. But the last thing she expects is to find love…When... + Read More
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Series: Suburban Hell Paperback Maureen Kilmer 9780593422373 $23.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

A Chicago cul-de-sac is about to get a new neighbor…of the demonic kind.Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and moved to the suburbs, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, snarking together from the outskirts of the PTA crowd. One night during their monthly wine get-together, the crew concoct a plan for a clubhouse She Shed in Liz’s backyard—a space for just them, no spouses or kids allowed.But the night after they christen the She Shed, things start to feel . . . off. They didn’t expect Liz’... + Read More
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Series: Detransition, Baby A Novel Paperback Torrey Peters 9780593133385 $24.00 FICTION Oct 05, 2021

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn’t hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell ap... + Read More
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Series: Women Talking A Novel Paperback Miriam Toews 9780735273979 $22.00 FICTION Sep 03, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARDThe internationally bestselling novel based on real events—by the award-winning author of the All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley—written and directed by Sarah Polley.For several years, girls and women in the remote Mennonite colony of Molotschna have reported assaults in the night by what some in the community claim are ghosts or demons. Others blame “wild female ima... + Read More
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Series: VINTAGE MINIS SERIES Rave Vintage Minis Paperback Irvine Welsh 9781784874049 $5.99 FICTION Jul 24, 2018

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave’s utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and closes in, gradually, on some kind of redemption…Selected from Irvine Welsh's novel Ecstasy.VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the... + Read More
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Series: Every Summer After Paperback Carley Fortune 9780735243750 $24.95 FICTION May 10, 2022

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thou... + Read More
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Japanese Tales Paperback Royall Tyler 9780375714511 $30.00 FICTION Aug 13, 2002

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished culture.With black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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Series: OUTLANDER Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Paperback Diana Gabaldon 9780385685566 $28.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale from Diana Gabaldon.Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of... + Read More
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Series: Carrie Soto Is Back A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385695794 $24.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime—from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising.Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacri... + Read More
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Series: The Paper Palace A Novel Paperback Miranda Cowley Heller 9780593329832 $24.00 FICTION Apr 19, 2022

“This house, this place, knows all my secrets.”A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each othe... + Read More
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Norwegian Folk Tales Paperback Peter Christen Asbjornsen 9780394710549 $23.95 FICTION Aug 12, 1982

These 35 folk tales have been gathered from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe's landmark nineteenth-century collections, acclaimed by Jacob Grimm for their freshness and a fullness that "surpass nearly all others." In this sparkling translation by Pat Shaw and Carl Norman, accompanied by a selection of the magnificent original illustrations of Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen, are captivating stories of witches, trolls, and ogres; sly foxes and mysterious bears; beautiful princesses and country lads-turned-heroes that brim with the... + Read More
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Series: Book Lovers Hardcover Emily Henry 9780593440872 $36.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

A literary agent who has always done everything by the book must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.Nora Stephens has read the books and seen the movies, and she is not that type of heroine. In fact, she’s the other one. The leading man’s cold girlfriend back in the city who he must break free of to pursue his true happiness with a sweet baker or florist…or Christmas tree farmer.The only... + Read More
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Favorite Folktales from Around the World Paperback Jane Yolen 9780394751887 $29.00 FICTION Aug 12, 1988

From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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Series: Klara and the Sun Paperback Kazuo Ishiguro 9780735281264 $21.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2022

INTERNATIONAL, #1 NATIONAL, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEThe magnificent novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look... + Read More
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Series: The Morning Star Paperback Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811165 $28.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don’t understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jos... + Read More
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Series: The Giver of Stars A Novel Paperback Jojo Moyes 9780143136149 $12.99 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

The #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold! Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky, from the bestselling author of Me Before YouAlice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as p... + Read More
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Series: Notes From Underground Paperback Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780553211443 $7.95 FICTION Oct 01, 1983

Sometimes even the classics need a little updating…The Bantam Classics imprint remains committed to making great literature available, accessible, and affordable for booksellers, librarians, and consumers alike.
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Series: Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Thefts of Christmas Hardcover Tim Major 9781803361918 $25.99 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery.Sherlock Holmes’s discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by Irene Adler, with clues that are all variations on the theme of ‘theft without theft’, such as a statue missing from a museum found hidden in the room it was taken from. In the snowy London lead-up to Christmas, Holmes’s preoccupation with the “Adler Variations” risks him neglecting the case of his ... + Read More
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Series: Siddhartha A Novel Paperback Hermann Hesse 9780553208849 $9.50 FICTION Dec 01, 1981

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThough set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of li... + Read More
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Series: A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture o... + Read More
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies Paperback Moss Roberts 9780394739946 $25.00 FICTION Jul 12, 1980

This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely Chinese and altogether entrancing.With black-and-white drawings throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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Series: Horrorstor A Novel Paperback Grady Hendrix 9781594745263 $16.99 FICTION Sep 23, 2014

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore.Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees ... + Read More
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Series: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Paperback Mary Shelley 9780451523631 $10.95 FICTION Dec 01, 1978

Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome—with an introduction by Stephen King. “Within the pages of this volume you will come upon three of the darkest creations of English nineteenth-century literature; three of the darkest in all of English and American literature, many would say…and not without justification…These three creatures, presented together for the first time, all have a great deal in common beyond their power to go on frightening generation after generation of readers…but that fact alone should be considered befor... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Little Black Classics The Death of Ivan Ilyich Paperback Leo Tolstoy 9780241251768 $4.99 FICTION Feb 28, 2017

'It is only a bruise'A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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Series: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library The Victorian Fairy Tale Book Paperback Michael Patrick Hearn 9780375714559 $29.00 FICTION Dec 03, 2002

From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The 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 tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living. Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old.Part of the Panthe... + Read More
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Series: Loathe to Love You Paperback Ali Hazelwood 9780593437803 $23.00 FICTION Jan 03, 2023

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas and their loves in loathing—with a special bonus chapter!Under One RoofAn environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell—a detestable big-oil lawyer who won’t leave the thermostat alone.Stuck with YouA civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry—and love—to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator.Below ZeroA NASA aerospace eng... + Read More
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Series: A Little Life Paperback Hanya Yanagihara 9780804172707 $24.00 FICTION Jan 26, 2016

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZEA Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, d... + Read More
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Series: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories Paperback Jay Rubin 9780241311905 $24.00 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki MurakamiA Penguin ClassicThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Edited by acclaimed translator Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated some of the stories, and with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, this book is a revelation.Stories by writers already well known to ... + Read More
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Series: The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition An early classic of the weird fiction genre Hardcover Robert W. Chambers 9781782273769 $24.95 FICTION Feb 27, 2018

A beautiful gift edition of the supernatural horror cult classic that inspired H.P. Lovecraft and the HBO hit series True Detective The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from th... + Read More
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Series: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A Novel Paperback Ocean Vuong 9780525562047 $24.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publis... + Read More
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Series: The Strangers Paperback Katherena Vermette 9780735239630 $22.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTION * NAMED #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY INDIGO * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOKThe Strangers, a staggering intergenerational saga from from the bestselling author of The Break, explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re force... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter Hardcover Jessica Harrison 9780241455654 $29.99 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world—now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithA Penguin Classics HardcoverThis is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling, and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even to outer space.Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote... + Read More
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Series: A Town Called Solace Paperback Mary Lawson 9780735281295 $21.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZENew York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the “wilderness of the human heart,” is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.A Town Called Solace opens on a family in crisis. Sixteen-year-old Rose is missing. Angry and rebellious, she had a row with her mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Left behind is seven-year-old Clara, Rose’s adoring little sister. Her sol... + Read More
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Series: Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail Paperback Ashley Herring Blake 9780593336427 $23.00 FICTION Nov 22, 2022

An interior designer who’s never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care.For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she’s been focused on her career—her friends might say she’s obsessed, but she’s just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn’s renovation that will be featured on a popular home improvement show, Innside America, Astrid knows... + Read More
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Series: Ancient Sorceries, Deluxe Edition The most eerie and unnerving tales from one of the greatest proponents of supernatural fiction Hardcover Algernon Blackwood 9781782278511 $24.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A beautifully produced new edition of Blackwood’s weirdest supernatural stories, including “The Willows,” highlighted by H.P. Lovecraft as "the single finest weird tale in literature”Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain’s greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories. Blackwood’s inimitable style puts readers right in the middle of the story, with visceral and nature-inspired fear that lies just b... + Read More