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Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

Gregory Maguire · HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . .Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life...
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For Two Thousand Years

Mihail Sebastian · Other Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian's classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World War II. This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal...
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Infinite Summer

Edoardo Nesi · Other Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full...
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Smile: A Novel

Roddy Doyle · Viking
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's for a pint, a slow...
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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes - as everyone...
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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, graf · Penguin Classics
Pages: 1399
Format: Hardcover

A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy's great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's...
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The Tuscan Child.

Rhys Bowen · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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Fresh Complaint: Stories

Jeffrey Eugenides · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey EugenidesJeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The stories...
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Five-Carat Soul

James McBride · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant,...
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Three Floors Up

Eshkol Nevo · Other Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.On...
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