On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
By: Yenta Mash
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash …
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1. The Seven Good Years
By: Etgar Keret , Miriam Shlesinger , Sondra Silverston , Jessica Cohen , Anthony Berris
4.15
Format: 173 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a master storyteller.The seven years between… read more
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"Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it."-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"The story I had written wasn't the creased, stit-smeared paper now sitting in the bottom of the trash can on the street. That page was just a pipeline through which I could transmit my feelings from …"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconce…"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
"Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that cou…"-Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
2. The Maltese Falcon
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more
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- fiction
3. Stitches
By: David Small
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more
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4. Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
By: Dava Sobel , Ruth Gruber
3.95
Format: 260 pages,
"The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roose… read more
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5. The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more
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6. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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7. The Road to Roswell
By: Connie Willis
3.74
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more
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8. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
9. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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- fiction
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"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
10. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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11. Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
By: Mari Lowe
4.06
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
2023 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD WINNER A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A comm… read more
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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13. Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
By: Rebecca Struthers
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the inv… read more
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"Gli orologi non creano il tempo, ma ne misurano la nostra percezione culturale."-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"La natura è stata il nostro primo orologio e continua a scandire il tempo per coloro che se ne accorgono. Sono state la convivenza e la frequentazione diretta con la natura a far sì che l’umanità svi…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
"Il concetto di tempo è inseparabile dalla nostra cultura. Nella lingua inglese, per esempio, la parola time (tempo) è la più usata. Nelle culture occidentali e capitaliste è qualcosa che abbiamo o no…"-Rebecca Struthers, Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
14. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
15. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
By: Fannie Flagg
4.03
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Poland, 1909 Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a… read more
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16. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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17. An American Beauty
By: Shana Abe
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella … read more
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18. Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr, #18)
By: C.S. Harris
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united agai… read more
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19. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more
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20. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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22. Ghost Music
By: An Yu
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more
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"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"-An Yu, Ghost Music
23. Jane and the Final Mystery (Being a Jane Austen Mystery #15)
By: Stephanie Barron
4.16
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth… read more
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24. The Busy Body
By: Kemper Donovan
3.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about pe… read more
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25. The Wharton Plot
By: Mariah Fredericks
3.38
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in … read more
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26. Falling Out of Time (Running Out of Time, 2)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Mar… read more
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27. The Glatstein Chronicles (New Yiddish Library Series)
By: Jacob Glatstein
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers t… read more
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28. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)
By: Daniel Silva
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more
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29. On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
By: Yenta Mash
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash … read more
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- short stories
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30. Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
By: Nicholas Meyer
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a myst… read more
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31. In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb
By: Chava Rosenfarb
4.15
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
With the addition of two stories, namely, "The Masterpiece," "April 19th" and "Letters to God," thi… read more
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