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The Book of Dead Birds
$14.99Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother’s birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea,…
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The Bradbury Chronicles
$16.99Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and…
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The Burma Road
$14.99As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II’s outset, closing all of China’s seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly…
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The Children’s Blizzard
$16.99“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. . ….
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The Chinese Gold Murders
$15.99In this, the second book in Robert van Gulik’s classic mystery series of ancient China, Judge Dee must look into the murder of his predecessor. His job is complicated by…
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The Chinese Lake Murders
$15.99In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik’s classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for…
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The Chinese Nail Murders
$13.99The ancient Chinese detective Judge Dee returns for a fourth and final time in The Chinese Nail Murders. Though the setting is exotic and the time period ancient, Judge Dee…
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The Conquest
$15.99Sara Rosario Gonzáles is a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Sara restores a sixteenth-century manuscript about an Aztec princess enslaved by…
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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
$18.99“Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this compelling and empathetic…
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The Dollmaker
$13.95“Our most unpretentious American masterpiece….A brutal, beautiful novel.”“A masterwork…a superb book of unforgettable strength and glowing richness.”“The depth and power and stature of this enormous book are rare indeed in…
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The Eve of Destruction
$13.99On October 6, 1973—Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar—the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody…
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