{"title":"Historical Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-arms","title":"A Farewell to Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis edition collects all of the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway's craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/strong\u003e did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOld Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, \u003ci\u003eHemingway\u003c\/i\u003e. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernest Hemingway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46708841087261,"sku":"9781476764528","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781476764528.jpg?v=1703700394"},{"product_id":"the-nightingale","title":"The Nightingale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA #1\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Expect to devour The Nightingale in as few sittings as possible; the high-stakes plot and lovable characters won't allow any rest until all of their fates are known.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -- Shelf Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale \u003c\/i\u003etells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength is tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Viann and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristin Hannah \u003c\/b\u003eis the #1 \u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including \u003ci\u003e The Four Winds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Great Alone\u003c\/i\u003e. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kristin Hannah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46708989657373,"sku":"9781250080400","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250080400.jpg?v=1707332350"},{"product_id":"the-tattooist-of-auschwitz","title":"The Tattooist of Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeather Morris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heather Morris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709009121565,"sku":"9780062797155","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780062797155.jpg?v=1732731482"},{"product_id":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see","title":"All the Light We Cannot See","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Doerr\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling \u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller. He is also the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eMemory Wall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Shell Collector\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel \u003ci\u003eAbout Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir \u003ci\u003eFour Seasons in Rome\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Doerr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709014167837,"sku":"9781501173219","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781501173219.jpg?v=1705177143"},{"product_id":"the-night-watchman-pb","title":"The Night Watchman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, WASHINGTON POST, \u003c\/em\u003e NPR, \u003cem\u003eCBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, \u003c\/em\u003eCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND \u003cem\u003eGOOD HOUSEKEEPING \u003c\/em\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In this kaleidoscopic story, the efforts of Native Americans to save their lands from being taken away by the U.S. government in the early 1950s come intimately, vividly to life...A knowing, loving evocation of people trying to survive with their personalities and traditions intact.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new \"emancipation\" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a \"termination\" that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans \"for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice's shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn't been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice's best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003cem\u003eNight Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, \u003cem\u003eThe Night Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Erdrich\u003c\/strong\u003e, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise Erdrich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709909651741,"sku":"9780062671196","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780062671196.jpg?v=1779466967"},{"product_id":"a-gentleman-in-moscow-pb","title":"A Gentleman In Moscow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers - A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Readers' Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century\" Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A book that enchants on first reading and only improves on the second.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Highway \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTable for Two, \u003c\/i\u003ea beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmor Towles \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eRules of Civility\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman in Moscow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lincoln Highway. \u003c\/i\u003eThe three novels have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amor Towles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709941960989,"sku":"9780143110439","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780143110439.jpg?v=1703700787"},{"product_id":"a-good-night-for-ghosts","title":"A Good Night for Ghosts (Magic Tree House Merlin Mission)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMake story time a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack and Annie are on a mission to find--and inspire--a musician that brings happiness to millions of people. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, and discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormerly numbered as Magic Tree House #42, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #14: \u003ci\u003eA Good Night for Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY POPE OSBORNE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e number one bestselling Magic Tree House series. She and her husband, writer Will Osborne (author of \u003ci\u003eMagic Tree House: The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e), live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs. Ms. Osborne is also the coauthor of the companion Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series with Will, and with her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAL MURDOCCA\u003c\/strong\u003e has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Pope Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710385279261,"sku":"9780375856495","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780375856495.jpg?v=1703701197"},{"product_id":"balto-in-the-blue-dawn","title":"Balto in the Blue Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe magic tree house has returned and it's taking Jack and Annie back in time to Alaska, 1925. There they meet Balto, a jet-black Siberian husky destined to save victims of the diphtheria epidemic. But the trail isn't easy, and Balto is going to need Jack and Annie's help!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormerly numbered as Magic Tree House #54, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #26: \u003ci\u003e Balto of the Blue Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSuper Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure \u003cbr\u003eFact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY POPE OSBORNE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e number one bestselling Magic Tree House series as well as co-author of the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker series, along with her husband, Will, and her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAL MURDOCCA\u003c\/strong\u003e has illustrated over 200 children's books and textbooks. He teaches children's illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Pope Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710388752669,"sku":"9780553510881","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780553510881.jpg?v=1705178453"},{"product_id":"a-lesson-before-dying","title":"A Lesson Before Dying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \"A Gathering of Old Men\" and \"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman\" comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eERNEST GAINES\u003c\/strong\u003e was born on a plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish near New Roads, Louisiana, which is the Bayonne of all his fictional works. He is writer-in-residence emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1993 Gaines received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his lifetime achievements. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France's highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernest J. Gaines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710406545693,"sku":"9780375702709","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780375702709.jpg?v=1703720197"},{"product_id":"black-leopard-pb","title":"Black Leopard, Red Wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: \"He has a nose,\" people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarlon James\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestseller \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eJames is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Night Women\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eJohn Crow's Devil\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlon James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710879093021,"sku":"9780735220188","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780735220188.jpg?v=1706373264"},{"product_id":"hamnet-pb","title":"Hamnet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Miraculous... brilliant... A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer -- or curse... A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAGGIE O'FARRELL \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eAfter You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MAGGIE O'FARRELL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711061217565,"sku":"9781984898876","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781984898876.jpg?v=1709482021"},{"product_id":"confessions-of-frannie-lang-pb","title":"Confessions of Frannie Langton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London--a gripping historical thriller with echoes of \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Paying Guests.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A blistering historical thriller.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn't know how she came to be covered in the victims' blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams' London home--and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSara Collins \u003c\/strong\u003eis of Jamaican descent and grew up in Grand Cayman and studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years before doing a Master of Studies in Creative Writing at Cambridge University, where she was the recipient of the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize for Creative Writing. Twitter: @mrsjaneymac\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sara Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711088251165,"sku":"9780062851802","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780062851802.jpg?v=1705182780"},{"product_id":"gods-of-jade-and-shadow-pb","title":"Gods of Jade and Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEBULA AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - Tordotcom - The New York Public Library - BookRiot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . a whirlwind tour of a 1920s Mexico vivid with jazz, the memories of revolution, and gods, demons, and magic.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather's room. She opens it--and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea's demise, but success could make her dreams come true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City--and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilvia Moreno-Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eVelvet Was the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMexican Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGods of Jade and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, and a bunch of other books. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning \u003ci\u003eShe Walks in Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e (a.k.a. \u003ci\u003eCthulhu's Daughters)\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been nominated for the Locus Award for her work as an editor and has won the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award for her work as a novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silvia Moreno-Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711101751581,"sku":"9780525620778","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780525620778.jpg?v=1712859197"},{"product_id":"the-poppy-war","title":"The Poppy War (Poppy War #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[ \u003cem\u003eThe Poppy War\u003c\/em\u003e is] strikingly grim military fantasy that summons readers into an East Asian--inspired world of battles, opium, gods, and monsters. Fans of Ken Liu's \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Kings\u003c\/em\u003e will snap this one up.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who believed they'd finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard--the most elite military school in Nikan--was even more surprising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut surprises aren't always good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers in this grimdark fantasy that she possesses a lethal, unearthly power--an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive--and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRin's shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca F. Kuang\u003c\/b\u003e is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and #1 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, \u003ci\u003eBabel: An Arcane History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYellowface, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"R.F. Kuang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711153754397,"sku":"9780062662583","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780062662583.jpg?v=1705254578"},{"product_id":"a-big-day-for-baseball-29","title":"A Big Day for Baseball #29","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren't great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game--not ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them to learn? And what's so special about \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e game? They only have nine innings to find out!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover history, mystery, humor, and baseball in this one-of-a-kind adventure in Mary Pope Osborne's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling Magic Tree House series lauded by parents and teachers as books that encourage reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic Tree House books, with fiction and nonfiction titles, are perfect for parents and teachers using the Core Curriculum. With a blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness, the topics range from kid pleasers (pirates, the \u003ci\u003eTitanic, \u003c\/i\u003e pandas) to curriculum perfect (rain forest, American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln) to seasonal shoo-ins (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving). There is truly something for everyone here!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY POPE OSBORNE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e number one bestselling Magic Tree House series as well as co-author of the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker series, along with her husband, Will, and her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Pope Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711264149789,"sku":"9781524713119","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781524713119.jpg?v=1702666786"},{"product_id":"deacon-king-kong-pb","title":"Deacon King Kong","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heaven \u0026amp; Earth Grocery Store\u003c\/i\u003e, the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird, \u003c\/i\u003eand the bestselling modern classic \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/i\u003e, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist?...McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames McBride\u003c\/b\u003e is an accomplished musician and the author of the National Book Award \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003ewinning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe bestselling American classic \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eSong Yet Sung \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMiracle at St. Anna\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe story collection \u003ci\u003eFive-Carat Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKill 'Em and Leave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal, McBride is also a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as \u003ci\u003eThe Good Lord Bird\u003c\/i\u003e and as emotionally honest as \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/i\u003e. Told with insight and wit, \u003ci\u003eDeacon King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James McBride","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711353966877,"sku":"9780735216730","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780735216730.jpg?v=1705183300"},{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-witches","title":"The Once and Future Witches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A breathtaking book-brilliant and raw and dark and complicated. It's also, to be blunt, uncannily relevant.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eSarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere's no such thing as witches. But there will be.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Witches\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage--the lost ways are calling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlix E. Harrow \u003c\/b\u003eis an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. She won a Hugo for her short fiction, and has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. Find her at @AlixEHarrow on Twitter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alix E. Harrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711554343197,"sku":"9780316422017","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316422017.jpg?v=1707329069"},{"product_id":"a-thousand-ships-pb","title":"A Thousand Ships","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, this gorgeous mythological retelling of the Trojan War explores the conflict from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--Madeline Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman's epic, powerfully imbued with new life, \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Ships\u003c\/i\u003e puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world's great tale ever told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Haynes \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eight books, including the nonfiction work \u003ci\u003ePandora's Jar, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and the novels \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Ships, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a national bestseller and short-listed for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eStone Blind.\u003c\/i\u003e She has written and recorded twelve series of \u003ci\u003eNatalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics \u003c\/i\u003efor the BBC. Haynes has written for the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Natalie Haynes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711640785181,"sku":"9780063065406","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063065406.jpg?v=1705104727"},{"product_id":"babel-pb","title":"Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation--also known as Babel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBabel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. The unique magic system of silver working--the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars--has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire's quest for colonization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, a secret society dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca F. Kuang\u003c\/b\u003e is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and #1 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, \u003ci\u003eBabel: An Arcane History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYellowface, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"R.F. Kuang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711673258269,"sku":"9780063021433","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/babel.jpg?v=1705178006"},{"product_id":"ghost-tale-for-christmas","title":"A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time (Magic Tree House Merlin Mission)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagic. Mystery. Time-travel. Join Jack, Annie and the Magic Tree House in this historical holiday story that puts a twist on Charles Dicken's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Christmas Carol\u003c\/i\u003e--from the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJack and Annie must help the famous writer Charles Dickens! The brother and sister are whisked back in time to Victorian England and the foggy streets of London. There, Jack and Annie discover that Charles Dickens has been thrown in jail! How can they help him? They will need all their magic-and help from three ghosts-to keep the great writer from ruining his life!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormerly numbered as Magic Tree House #44, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #16: A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time. The Merlin Missions books are more challenging adventures that will delight experienced readers who are fans of the original chapter book series!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Magic Tree House series has been a favorite for over 25 years and is sure to inspire a love of reading--and adventure--in every child who joins Jack and Annie!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid? \u003cbr\u003e- Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books \u003cbr\u003e- Magic Tree House Graphic Novels: Jack and Annie's original adventures come to life with full-color, vibrant art, perfect for graphic novel fans and reluctant readers \u003cbr\u003e- Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader \u003cbr\u003e- Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure \u003cbr\u003e- Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY POPE OSBORNE\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e number one bestselling Magic Tree House series. She and her husband, writer Will Osborne (author of \u003ci\u003eMagic Tree House: The Musical\u003c\/i\u003e), live in northwestern Connecticut with their three dogs. Ms. Osborne is also the coauthor of the companion Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series with Will, and with her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAL MURDOCCA\u003c\/strong\u003e has illustrated more than 200 children's trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children's opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children's illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York with his wife, Nancy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Pope Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711895752989,"sku":"9780375856532","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780375856532.jpg?v=1779547787"},{"product_id":"she-who-became-the-sun-pb","title":"She Who Became the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe Who Became the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Magnificent in every way.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--Samantha Shannon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Priory of the Orange Tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I refuse to be nothing...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family's clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShelley Parker-Chan\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Asian-Australian former international development adviser who worked on human rights, gender equality and LGBTQ rights in Southeast Asia. Their debut historical fantasy novel \u003ci\u003eShe Who Became the Sun \u003c\/i\u003ewas a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into 12 languages. Parker-Chan is a winner of the Astounding Award, and the British Fantasy Awards for Best Fantasy Novel and Best Newcomer. They have also been a finalist for the Lambda, Locus, Aurealis, Ditmar, and British Book Awards. They live in Melbourne, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shelley Parker-Chan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712151834909,"sku":"9781250621818","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250621818.jpg?v=1781296602"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-jane-lawrence-pb-1","title":"The Death of Jane Lawrence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA doctor determined to reverse death. A young woman trapped in a web of occult magic and deceit.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intense and amazing! It's like \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eMexican Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eCrimson Peak\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePractical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. The dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man―one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This \u003ci\u003eCrimson Peak\u003c\/i\u003e-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaitlin Starling\u003c\/strong\u003e is the nationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Jane Lawrence\u003c\/i\u003e, the Bram Stoker-nominated \u003ci\u003e The Luminous Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLast To Leave The Room\u003c\/i\u003e. Her newest novels \u003ci\u003eThe Starving Saints\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Graceview Patient\u003c\/i\u003e epitomize her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine and \u003ci\u003eNeon Hemlock\u003c\/i\u003e, and her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eNightmare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUncanny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e Nightfire\u003c\/i\u003e. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. She's always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caitlin Starling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712390680861,"sku":"9781250769589","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250769589.jpg?v=1747939785"},{"product_id":"the-four-winds-pb","title":"The Four Winds","description":"\u003cp\u003eKristin Hannah\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kristin Hannah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712449827101,"sku":"9781250178619","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250178619.jpg?v=1707332528"},{"product_id":"small-world-pb","title":"Small World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan Evison's \u003ci\u003eSmall World \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, \u003ci\u003eSmall World\u003c\/i\u003e delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Evison\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAll About Lulu\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e West of Here\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003e Lawn Boy\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLegends of the North Cascades.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives with his wife and family in Washington State.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Evison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712515395869,"sku":"9780593184134","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593184134.jpg?v=1779553331"},{"product_id":"haven-pb","title":"Haven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, \u003cb\u003eEmma Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Pull of the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as drama for screen and stage. \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Florence Pugh, coming from Netflix. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emma Donoghue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712516903197,"sku":"9780316414135","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316414135.jpg?v=1779553489"},{"product_id":"counterfeit-pb","title":"Counterfeit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e show \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eGMA.com \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eBuzzfeed \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Goodreads \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003eand more!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . \u003ci\u003eCounterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and subversive here.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- Camille Perri, \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eHustlers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\u003c\/i\u003e, this thrilling con artist story follows two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise--an incisive and glittering blend of luxury fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of \u003ci\u003eBury What We Cannot Take\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSoy Sauce for Beginners.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoney can't buy happiness... but it can buy a decent fake.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAva Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she's built the perfect life. But in this riveting crime thriller, beneath this façade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business--someone who'd never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened in this high-stakes tale of female friendship and betrayal, and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwift, surprising, and sharply comic, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCounterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind. Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen's compelling page-turner interrogates the myth of the model minority through two unforgettable women determined to demand more from life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirstin Chen \u003c\/b\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCounterfeit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSoy Sauce for Beginners\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBury What We Cannot Take\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in Singapore, she currently lives in New York City and San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kirstin Chen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712527454493,"sku":"9780063119550","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063119550.jpg?v=1779553755"},{"product_id":"briefly-a-delicious-life-pb","title":"Briefly, A Delicious Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of Summer * One of \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn\u003cb\u003e \"exquisite...too lovely to bear\" \u003c\/b\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing--a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharming, original, and emotionally moving, this \"deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle\" ( \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e) between George, Chopin, and Blanca--a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNell Stevens is the author of \u003ci\u003eBleaker House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Victorian \u0026amp; the Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award and her writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Nell is director of the creative writing program at the University of Warwick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nell Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712584929565,"sku":"9781982190958","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781982190958.jpg?v=1779554537"},{"product_id":"horse-pb","title":"Horse","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeraldine Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Geraldine Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47472991600925,"sku":"9780399562976","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780399562976.jpg?v=1705600670"},{"product_id":"extremely-loud","title":"Extremely Loud \u0026 Incredibly Close","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA funny, uplifting coming-of-age story about a boy's journey through New York in the aftermath of September 11th from one of today's most celebrated writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With humor, tenderness, and awe, Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our country's difficult history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJONATHAN SAFRAN FOER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eEverything is Illuminated\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close\u003c\/em\u003e, and a work of nonfiction, \u003cem\u003eEating Animals\u003c\/em\u003e. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Safran Foer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47542950232349,"sku":"9780618711659","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780618711659.jpg?v=1780065736"},{"product_id":"the-women","title":"The Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA #1 bestseller on \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Four Winds\u003c\/i\u003e comes Kristin Hannah's \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Women\u003c\/i\u003e--at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A moving, gripping tale that pays tribute to the under-appreciated skill and courage of combat nurses.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Booklist, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen can be heroes.\u003c\/i\u003e When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances \"Frankie\" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets--and becomes one of--the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Women \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, \u003ci\u003eThe Women \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKRISTIN HANNAH\u003c\/strong\u003e is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of more than twenty novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale, The Great Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Four Winds\u003c\/i\u003e. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kristin Hannah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47585418084637,"sku":"9781250178633","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250178633.jpg?v=1707337553"},{"product_id":"weyward-pb","title":"Weyward","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A brave and original debut, \u003ci\u003eWeyward\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--Sarah Penner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe London Séance Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am a Weyward, and wild inside.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2019:  Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1619:  Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha, she knows it will take all her powers to maintain her freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives--and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial \u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e and the word \u003ci\u003eweyward\u003c\/i\u003e scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's \u003ci\u003eWeyward\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmilia Hart \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eWeyward \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sirens. \u003c\/i\u003eShe grew up in Australia and studied English Literature at university before training as a lawyer. She now lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emilia Hart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47758991196445,"sku":"9781250842725","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250842725.jpg?v=1709831938"},{"product_id":"cursed-bread-1","title":"Cursed Bread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE - Best Book of the Month: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Book Riot, CrimeReads - An elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951 mass poisoning of a French village, by the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Intoxicating, sumptuous, and savage.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e-- Alexandra Kleeman, acclaimed author of Something New Under the Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit collectively lost its mind. Some historians believe the mysterious illness and violent hallucinations were caused by spoiled bread; others claim it was the result of covert government testing on the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn that town lived a woman named Elodie. She was the baker's wife: a plain, unremarkable person who yearned to transcend her dull existence. So when a charismatic new couple arrived in town, the forceful ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet, Elodie was quickly drawn into their orbit. Thus began a dangerous game of cat and mouse--but who was the predator and on whom did they prey?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAudacious and mesmerizing, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory's hall of mirrors, and an erotic fable of transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a darkly gleaming tale of a town gripped by hysteria, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophie Mackintosh\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlue Ticket \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Water Cure, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2019 Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. She has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sophie Mackintosh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47855598829853,"sku":"9780593466803","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593466803.jpg?v=1710962094"},{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-amina-al-sirafi-a-new-fantasy-series-set-a-thousand-years-before-the-city-of-brass","title":"The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: A New Fantasy Series Set a Thousand Years Before the City of Brass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The pirate adventure of your dreams--fun, fast-paced, frightening and rich with heart. \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe City of Brass\u003c\/em\u003e, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a \u003cem\u003ebit\u003c\/em\u003e more power...and the price might be your very soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShannon Chakraborty\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the critically acclaimed and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling Daevabad Trilogy and \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and nominated for the Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. You can find her online at sachakraborty.com or on Instagram as @SAChakrabooks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"S. A. Chakraborty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47911851229469,"sku":"9780062963512","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780062963512.jpg?v=1711648940"},{"product_id":"james","title":"James","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eKIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A Best Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, LA Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, \u003c\/i\u003eand more. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Percival Everett is a genre.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --Kiese Laymon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePERCIVAL EVERETT\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eDr. No\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN\/ Jean Stein Book Award), \u003ci\u003e The Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction), \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eSo Much Blue, Erasure, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, the feature film based on his novel \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48094812078365,"sku":"9780385550369","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780385550369.jpg?v=1712863999"},{"product_id":"small-mercies-1","title":"Small Mercies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival \u003ci\u003eMystic River\u003c\/i\u003e--an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment.\"\u003c\/b\u003e -- Stephen King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1974, a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of \"Southie,\" the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart in this piece of gritty crime fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a mother's desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the hot, tumultuous months of the Boston busing crisis, when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, \u003ci\u003eSmall Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDennis Lehane\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of thirteen novels--including the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers \u003cem\u003eLive by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Given Day\u003c\/em\u003e--as well as \u003cem\u003eCoronado\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dennis Lehane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240998875421,"sku":"9780062129499","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/2.jpg?v=1713626204"},{"product_id":"shogun-asian-saga-1","title":"Shogun (Asian Saga #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Clavell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Clavell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48299368448285,"sku":"9798212173476","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9798212173476.jpg?v=1714063097"},{"product_id":"clear","title":"Clear","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarys Davies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carys Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48345009717533,"sku":"9781668030660","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781668030660.jpg?v=1714594503"},{"product_id":"long-island-eilis-lacey","title":"Long Island (Eilis Lacey)","description":"\u003cp\u003eToibin, Colm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48383869026589,"sku":"9781476785110","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781476785110.jpg?v=1715203258"},{"product_id":"anatomy-a-love-story-anatomy-duology-1","title":"Anatomy: A Love Story (Anatomy Duology #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDana Schwartz\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dana Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48391162560797,"sku":"9781250342898","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250342898.jpg?v=1715272271"},{"product_id":"good-night-irene-2","title":"Good Night, Irene","description":"\u003cp\u003e    Urrea, Luis Alberto (Author) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Luis A. Urrea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48603234435357,"sku":"9780316265959","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316265959.jpg?v=1717688751"},{"product_id":"lady-tans-circle-of-women-1","title":"Lady Tan's Circle of Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China--perfect for fans of Lisa See's classics \u003ci\u003eSnow Flower and the Secret Fan \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to Confucius, \"an educated woman is a worthless woman,\" but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and asking--something a man can never do with a female patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a young age, Yunxian learns about women's illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose--despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it--and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other's joys and struggles. \u003ci\u003eNo mud, no lotus\u003c\/i\u003e, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife--embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, \u003ci\u003eLady Tan's Circle of Women \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa See \u003c\/strong\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLady Tan's Circle of Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Sea Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSnow Flower and the Secret Fan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeony in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShanghai Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChina Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDreams of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Gold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, which tells the story of her Chinese American family's settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker's Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Lisa See","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48645249007901,"sku":"9781982117092","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781982117092.jpg?v=1718222485"},{"product_id":"the-briar-club","title":"The Briar Club","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuinn, Kate (Author) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Kate Quinn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48786719572253,"sku":"9780063244740","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063244740.jpg?v=1720642779"},{"product_id":"he-who-drowned-the-world-radiant-emperor-duology-2","title":"He Who Drowned the World (Radiant Emperor Duology #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShelley Parker-Chan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Shelley Parker-Chan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48840650293533,"sku":"9781250621849","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250621849.jpg?v=1721241684"},{"product_id":"the-bright-sword-a-novel-of-king-arthur","title":"The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur","description":"\u003cp\u003eLev Grossman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Lev Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841085616413,"sku":"9780735224049","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780735224049.jpg?v=1721243619"},{"product_id":"by-any-other-name","title":"By Any Other Name","description":"\u003cp\u003eJodi Picoult\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jodi Picoult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070442905885,"sku":"9780593497210","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593497210.jpg?v=1724341998"},{"product_id":"demon-copperhead-1","title":"Demon Copperhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Bean Trees \u003c\/em\u003eand the recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ea brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- Ron Charles, Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote \u003cem\u003eDavid Copperfield \u003c\/em\u003efrom his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. \u003cem\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/em\u003e speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels \u003ci\u003eUnsheltered\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bean Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and \u003ci\u003eCoyote's Wild Home\u003c\/i\u003e, a children's book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential \u003ci\u003eAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070670184733,"sku":"9780063251984","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063251984.jpg?v=1724346181"},{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-spirits","title":"The House of the Spirits","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsabel Allende\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isabel Allende","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49200975315229,"sku":"9781501117015","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781501117015.jpg?v=1727378081"},{"product_id":"the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story","title":"The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eOlga Tokarczuk\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olga Tokarczuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49201035870493,"sku":"9780593712948","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593712948.jpg?v=1727379163"},{"product_id":"north-woods-1","title":"North Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eTOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell's fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason's bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that's on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.\"\u003c\/b\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave--only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language, \u003ci\u003e North Woods\u003c\/i\u003e shows the myriad, magical ways in which we're connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we're gone?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Mason \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Far Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas been translated into twenty-eight languages, adapted for opera and the stage, and awarded, among others, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a California Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an assistant professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49272326357277,"sku":"9780593597040","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593597040.jpg?v=1729196789"},{"product_id":"the-frozen-river-a-gma-book-club-pick","title":"The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick","description":"\u003cp\u003eAriel Lawhon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen--one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ariel Lawhon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49345959985437,"sku":"9780593312070","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780593312070.jpg?v=1731013739"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/collections\/historical-fiction.oembed?page=4","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}