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  • BROOKLYN (MEDIA TIE-IN) -20%
    BROOKLYN (MEDIA TIE-IN)
    TOIBIN, COLM
    Colm Toibin s "New York Times" bestselling novel now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture is a moving, deeply satisfying read (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature ("Pittsburgh Post-Gaze...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • DEAR MRS. BIRD: A NOVEL -20%
    DEAR MRS. BIRD: A NOVEL
    PEARCE, A.J.
    This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is "a jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People)—for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are doing their bit for the war ef...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • TIMING -20%
    TIMING
    ROD MEZA
    If you were able to go back in time, where would you go first? ...
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    Q. 250Q. 200

  • BEHELD -20%
    BEHELD
    NESBIT, TARASHEA
    From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger's arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts-and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of reli...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • OUTLAWED -20%
    OUTLAWED
    NORTH, ANNA
    A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I beca...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • THE LUMINARIES -20%
    THE LUMINARIES
    ELEANOR CATTON
    "The Luminaries is a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly, the great weight of the book shifting quickly from right hand to left, a world opening and closing in front of us, the human soul revealed in all its conflicted desperation. I mean glory. And as for ...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • BLONDE -20%
    BLONDE
    JOYCE CAROL OATES
    The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, a...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • GALATEA -20%
    GALATEA
    MADELINE MILLER
    An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time**A small hardcover edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • THE EVENING AND THE MORNING -20%
    THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
    FOLLETT KEN
    It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilders l...
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    Q. 100Q. 80

  • HER LOST WORDS -20%
    HER LOST WORDS
    STEPHANIE MARIE THORNTON
    From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • MATRIX -20%
    MATRIX
    LAUREN GROFF
    Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-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. At first ...
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    Q. 130Q. 104

  • THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE -20%
    THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE
    ADRIANA TRIGIANI
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling."--People, "Book of the Week""Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."--Library Journal (starred)"The beauty of any book by Adriana Trigiani is her ability to interweave...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • BRING UP THE BODIES -20%
    BRING UP THE BODIES
    HILARY MANTEL
    WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and ...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • THE MIDNIGHT NEWS -20%
    THE MIDNIGHT NEWS
    JO BAKER
    From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz—a story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of ho...
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    Q. 300Q. 240

  • CROOK MANIFESTO -20%
    CROOK MANIFESTO
    COLSON WHITEHEAD
    Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray...
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    Q. 300Q. 240

  • THE GLASS CHÂTEAU -20%
    THE GLASS CHÂTEAU
    STEPHEN P. KIERNAN
    From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker's Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall.One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahea...
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    Q. 310Q. 248

  • THE GREAT PASSION -20%
    THE GREAT PASSION
    JAMES RUNCIE
    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too mu...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • THE ZONE OF INTEREST -20%
    THE ZONE OF INTEREST
    AMIS, MARTIN
    NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz."A masterpiece.... Profound, powerful and morally urgent.... A benchmark for what serious literature can ach...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • CORONATION YEAR -20%
    CORONATION YEAR
    JENNIFER ROBSON
    The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal historical novel-- as the lives of three very different residents of London's historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a moo...
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    Q. 210Q. 168

  • A DAY OF FIRE -20%
    A DAY OF FIRE
    KATE QUINN / DRAY, STEPHANIE / BEN KANE / ELIZA KNIGHT / SOPHIE PERINOT / VICKY ALVEAR
    From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town wou...
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    Q. 200Q. 160

  • MRS. PORTER CALLING -20%
    MRS. PORTER CALLING
    PEARCE, A.J.
    From the author of the bestselling "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) Dear Mrs. Bird, a charming and irresistible novel featuring aspiring journalist Emmy Lake as she navigates life, love, and friendship in London during World War II—perfect for fans of The Paris Library and Lessons in Chemistry.London, April 1943. Twenty-five-year-old Emmy Lake is doing her part for the w...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • LEARNED BY HEART -20%
    LEARNED BY HEART
    EMMA DONOGHUE
    Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine...
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    Q. 295Q. 236

  • NINETEEN STEPS -20%
    NINETEEN STEPS
    MILLIE BOBBY BROWN
    Emmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN's debut novel, Nineteen Steps, is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II."My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!"--Kate QuinnLove ...
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    Q. 305Q. 244

  • ATHENA'S CHILD -20%
    ATHENA'S CHILD
    HANNAH LYNN
    The story of Medusa, history's most infamous monster—and the men who made her into oneGifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with the Goddess Athena. But when she catches the eye of the lecherous but mighty Poseidon, she is beyond protection. Powerful men rarely answer for their actions, after all.Meanwhile, Perseus embarks on a seemingly impossi...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • ABSOLUTION -20%
    ABSOLUTION
    MCDERMOTT, ALICE
    A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a ...
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    Q. 295Q. 236

  • THE WILDEST SUN -20%
    THE WILDEST SUN
    ASHA LEMMIE
    Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to e...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • A SPARTAN'S SORROW -20%
    A SPARTAN'S SORROW
    HANNAH LYNN
    She is a mother, a queen, a villain. However we remember her, her wrath will never be forgotten. Clytemnestra is no stranger to pain. As a wife and queen, she bears it with stoicism. But when her husband does the unthinkable, sacrificing one of their daughters to appease the ruthless gods and bring himself glory in battle, Clytemnestra is forever changed. No longer will she st...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • THE TOWER -20%
    THE TOWER
    FLORA CARR
    A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. "Such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impre...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • MEDEA -20%
    MEDEA
    EILISH QUIN
    Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind.Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, th...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • THE MAN IN THE BUNKER -20%
    THE MAN IN THE BUNKER
    RORY CLEMENTS
    Germany, late summer 1945 - The war is over but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres. Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one admits to having voted Nazi,...
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    Q. 140Q. 112