Ha Jin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family married him when they were both very young. National Book Award & Pen/Faulkner Award Winner. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

Waiting

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Winston Graham

Florida

"The ninth Poldark novel"--Half title page.

The Miller's Dance: a Poldark Novel 9

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Margot Lee Shetterly

Tennessee

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.

Hidden Figures

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Maria Duenas

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forges a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and becomes the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.

The Time in Between

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North Carolina

Madeline Martin

Connecticut

A Novel of World War II

Coming soon! The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin will be available Apr 20, 2021.

The Last Bookshop in London

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Geraldine Brooks

Massachusetts

People of the Book

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Minnesota

Originally published by William Collins, 1976.

The Four Swans: a Poldark Novel 6

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Sandra Brown

A romantic historical novel from the best-selling author of Smash Cut centers around an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas. Reprint. A best-selling book. 1 million first printing.

Rainwater

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Philippa Gregory

Louisiana

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory weaves an unforgettable tale of a young woman’s sorcery and desire in Henry VIII’s England, where magic, lust, and power are forever intertwined. Growing up as an abandoned outcast on the moors, young Alys’ only company is her cruel foster mother, Morach, the local wise woman who is whispered to practice the dark arts. Alys joins a nunnery to escape the poverty and loneliness she has felt all her life, but all too soon her sanctuary is destroyed. King Henry VIII’s followers burn the holy place to the ground, and Alys only just manages to escape with her life, haunted by the screams of her sisters as they burned to death. She finds work in a castle not far from where she grew up as an old lord’s scribe, where she falls obsessively in love with his son Hugo. But Hugo is already married to a proud woman named Catherine. Driven to desperation by her desire, she summons the most dangerous powers Morach taught her, but quickly the passionate triangle of Alys, Hugo, and Catherine begins to explode, launching them into uncharted sexual waters. The magic Alys has conjured now has a life of its own—a life that is horrifyingly and disastrously out of control. Is she a witch? Since heresy means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys is in mortal danger, treading a perilous path between her faith and her own power.

The Wise Woman

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James A. Michener

The turbulent history of the Caribbean islands is chronicled, from tribal conflicts on Dominica and the age of exploration, to the Cuban revolution and the tempestuous present, through the colorful lives of characters, fictional and real-life

Caribbean

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Missouri

Excellent condition from a smoke-free home.

Ohio

Alexander D. Mitchell

Elizabeth McNulty

Only putting fair due to the color distortion on the front cover

Pennsylvania

A photographic past-and-present comparison of seventy historic sites in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D. C. Then and Now

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Indiana

Bill Lohmann

Montana

Drives, Day Trips and Weekend Excursions

Virginia

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Washington

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

HAMPTON ROADS: A Contemporary Portrait

Illinois

Lords of Desire

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Margot Lee Shetterly

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Bill Lohmann

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Hidden Figures