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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · Penguin Books Pages: 176 Format: Paperback
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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series designWinner of the 2016 AIGA Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competitionGold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14This edition of Romeo and Juliet is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland... |
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The Feral Detective: A Novel
JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing... |
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · Everyman's Library Pages: 110 Format: Hardcover
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In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz,... |
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The Parade: A novel
Dave Eggers · Knopf Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.Four and Five are partners, working for the same company, sent without... |
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Still Lives: A Novel
Maria Hummel · Counterpoint LLC Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A young editor at a Los Angeles art museum finds herself pulled into the strange and disturbing world of a famous artist who goes missing on the opening night of her exhibition Kim Lord is a giant in the Los Angeles art scene: avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur. And her new exhibition... |
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A Terrible Country: A Novel
KEITH GESSEN · Viking Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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"A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers." - George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the BardoA literary triumph about Russia,... |
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Have His Carcase
Dorothy L Sayers · Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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"The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries." - Chicago TribuneThe great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing... |
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The Third Hotel: A Novel
Laura Van den Berg · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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One of HuffPost's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.Shortly... |
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Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties: A Novel
CAMILLE PAGAN · Lake Union Publishing Pages: 254 Format: Paperback
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From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she's also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears:... |
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Washington Black: A novel
Esi Edugyan · Knopf Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar... |
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