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  • BENEATH A SCARLET SKY
    BENEATH A SCARLET SKY
    SULLIVAN, MARK T.
    Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a n...
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    Q. 160

  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    "Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melanch...
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    Q. 150

  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    ANGELOU, MAYA
    Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-suffic...
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    Q. 100

  • THE NIGHTINGALE (INTERNATIONAL EDITION)
    THE NIGHTINGALE (INTERNATIONAL EDITION)
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will inv...
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    Q. 130

  • WINTER OF THE WORLD. PAPERBACK. KEN FOLLETT
    WINTER OF THE WORLD. PAPERBACK. KEN FOLLETT
    FOLLETT KEN
    Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning o...
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    Q. 120

  • THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
    THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
    JEFFREY EUGENIDES
    The national bestseller from Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announc...
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    Q. 130

  • PETER PAN
    PETER PAN
    BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATHEW) / MINALIMA
    J. M. Barrie’s classic children's story is reimagined in this delightful full-color deluxe edition filled with all-new illustrations and ten removable features specially designed by MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter films.For more than a century, the adventures of Peter Pan—the boy who can fly and never grows up—and Wendy Darling...
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    Q. 340

  • CAROL
    CAROL
    PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMIDTherese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisti...
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    Q. 140

  • TENTH OF DECEMBER
    TENTH OF DECEMBER
    GEORGE SAUNDERS
    One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.In the taut opening, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees,...
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    Q. 120

  • DEAR LIFE
    DEAR LIFE
    ALICE MUNRO
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of...
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    Q. 180

  • THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN
    THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN
    SIRI HUSTVEDT
    "And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment."Mia Fr...
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    Q. 200

  • THE HELP
    THE HELP
    KATHRYN STOCKETT
    The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just ...
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    Q. 200

  • SHAME
    SHAME
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMy father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life.With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye ...
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    Q. 140

  • A FROZEN WOMAN
    A FROZEN WOMAN
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after t...
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    Q. 170

  • ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
    REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA
    I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks i...
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    Q. 110

  • A LADY'S GUIDE TO FORTUNE-HUNTING
    A LADY'S GUIDE TO FORTUNE-HUNTING
    SOPHIE IRWIN
    "Bridgerton fans will swoon over this entertaining romp through Britain's Regency-era high society."--PeopleA Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting is 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 be...
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    Q. 210

  • HANNAH TATE, BEYOND REPAIR
    HANNAH TATE, BEYOND REPAIR
    LAURA PIPER LEE
    "Hannah Tate can hardly believe her sleep-deprived eyes when she finds an engagement ring hidden in the closet. Killian, her super responsible, incredibly attractive boyfriend--and the father of her new baby, Bowie--is finally going to propose. But a romantic night out goes horribly wrong when Killian reveals he's dumping Hannah, not proposing. Furious and heartbroken, Hannah t...
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    Q. 185

  • ENCHANTED HILL
    ENCHANTED HILL
    EMILY BAIN MURPHY
    The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd’s legendary estate. She’s closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client. An aspiring PI, Cora was trained by her father, a former prison guard at the notorious Pelican Island, where Cora grew up surrounded by hardened criminals. Which is why she recognizes Jack Ya...
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    Q. 200

  • WINE PEOPLE
    WINE PEOPLE
    MICHELLE WILDGEN
    A Time Magazine "25 New Books You Need to Read This Summer""A riveting, behind-the-scenes portrait of a high-drama industry, from the chateau to the corner office...pour a glass and dive in."-Oprah DailyAn intoxicating escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women's friendship.What happens when two ambitious young women, opposite in every way, joi...
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    Q. 195

  • THE END OF AUGUST
    THE END OF AUGUST
    YU, MIRI
    From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation.In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag.Nearly a century later, his granddaughter i...
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    Q. 180

  • BLOOMSBURY GIRLS
    BLOOMSBURY GIRLS
    NATALIE JENNER
    "Delightful." --People, Pick of the Week*Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, the CBC, the Globe and Mail, BookBub, POPSUGAR, SheReads, Women.com and more!*Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determi...
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    Q. 190

  • ENIGMA VARIATIONS
    ENIGMA VARIATIONS
    ANDRÉ ACIMAN
    'Magnificent.' New York Times'Unforgettable.' Times Literary Supplement'Exquisite.' New YorkerFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, now available to preorder in paperback.From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a...
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    Q. 140

  • SECOND PLACE
    SECOND PLACE
    RACHEL CUSK
    A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence soon twists the patterns of her secluded household.'The most singular book . . . A psychodrama that is both timeless and up-to-the minute ....
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    Q. 140

  • GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
    GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
    MAX PORTER
    In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay u...
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    Q. 140

  • THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    CHRISTY LEFTERI
    In the midst of war, he found loveIn the midst of darkness, he found courageIn the midst of tragedy, he found hopeWhat will you find from his story?Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced...
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    Q. 110

  • DEMIAN
    DEMIAN
    HESSE, HERMANN
    Emil Sinclair is a troubled young outsider. But everything changes when he meets Max Demian, a mysterious and charismatic older student, who reveals the glittering possibilities that lie beyond conventional thinking and ordinary life.Under the intoxicating influence of his new mentor, Emil sets out on a journey of spiritual fulfilment, as he wrestles with the boundaries between...
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    Q. 140

  • EMMA
    EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Jane Austen's original books (particularly Pride and Prejudice) from the 1800s were our inspiration. So, using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. The specification of our books reflects the size and...
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    Q. 260

  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    "Sense and Sensibility" is the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who have contrasting temperaments. On the surface Elinor, the older sister represents sense or reason while Marianne represents sensibility or emotion, however upon closer examination we find that they both exhibit varying aspects of each characteristic. A classic coming of age story "Sense and S...
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    Q. 260

  • CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
    CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
    JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”?The New York Times Book ReviewA Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quart...
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    Q. 170

  • THE COMMITTED
    THE COMMITTED
    NGUYEN, VIET THANH
    The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide...
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    Q. 190