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  • Morte d'Urban

    by J.F. Powers ...
    Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers’s comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Wheat That Springeth Green

    by J.F. Powers ...
    Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers’s beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary life and priestly apprenticeship soon damp his ardor, and by the time he has been given a parish of his own he has traded in his hair shirt for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Stories of J.F. Powers

    by J.F. Powers ...
    Hailed by Frank O’Connor as one of “the greatest living storytellers,” J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a single volume for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963

    by J. F. Powers ...
    A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, "a comic writer of genius" (Mary Gordon)Best known for his 1963 National Book Award–winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth, among others. Though Powers's fiction dwelt chiefly on the lives of Catholic priests, he long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Translated by J. Martin Holman ...
    A young woman in historic Kyoto grapples with secrets from her past in this lyrical work of Japanese literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author.Set in the traditional Japanese city of Kyoto, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. As Chieko discovers the true facets of her past, she becomes bewildered and troubled by ... Read more

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  • Turning Pages

    The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher

    by John Sargent ...
    Take a peek behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty years in the publishing business. For twenty-four of those years, John Sargent ran one of America’s largest publishing companies. Rather than a straight ... Read more

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  • Those People Behind Us

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    by Mary Camarillo ...
    It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices—divisions that change the lives of five neighbors.Each character confronts death, betrayal, financial decline, and loneliness as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.Real estate agent Lisa ... Read more

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  • A Loyal Spy

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    by Simon Conway ...
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  • A Legacy

    by Sybille Bedford ...
    Two vastly different families—one Jewish, one Catholic—are joined in marriage in this “witty, elegant, and uproariously funny” historical drama set in pre-war Europe (Evelyn Waugh).“Partly ironic, partly nostalgic, A Legacy calls to mind other novels that portray the zenith and decline of an ostentatious old order.” —The Wall Street JournalA Legacy is the tale of two very different families, the ... Read more

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    by Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion.Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, ... Read more

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  • An Experiment in Love

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    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewDouble Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel—but not be too successful—in England's complex hierarchy of class and status.It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the ... Read more

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  • The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition

    Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries

    by Lawrence Dorfman ...
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    The bestselling book on the art of the insult is back and it’s more blasphemous than ever. Author and snark connoisseur Lawrence Dorfman does his absolute worst, dishing out hundreds of clever insults for all situations and occasions. From careful instructions on how and when to throw a verbal punch to an expertly curated collection of the best insults in history, this uproarious little book has ... Read more

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