Karen's Picks

Karen's Picks These are reading suggestions from Karen.

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An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries #14) By Charles Finch Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250767134
Availability: Special Order
Published: Minotaur Books - February 16th, 2021

Riviera Gold: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes By Laurie R. King Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780525620839
Published: Bantam - June 9th, 2020

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age By Mary Pipher Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781632869609
Availability: Special Order
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - January 15th, 2019

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the  Planet By Henry Fountain Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9781101904060
Published: Crown - August 8th, 2017

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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit By Michael Finkel Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9781101875681
Published: Knopf - March 7th, 2017

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Leonardo da Vinci By Walter Isaacson Cover Image
$37.50
ISBN: 9781501139154
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 17th, 2017

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks By Terry Tempest Williams Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374280093
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Sarah Crichton Books - May 31st, 2016

All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West By David Gessner Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393089998
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 20th, 2015

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies By Ross King Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9781632860125
Availability: Backordered
Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 6th, 2016

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Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste By Luke Barr Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780307718358
Published: Clarkson Potter - November 4th, 2014

Coming October 22nd, 2013


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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child By Bob Spitz Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307473417
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Published: Vintage - April 23rd, 2013

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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor By Mark Seal Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780452298033
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Published: Plume - April 25th, 2012

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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey By Simon Armitage Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780871407436
Availability: Special Order
Published: Liveright - March 24th, 2014

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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West By Dorothy Wickenden Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781439176597
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Published: Scribner - April 24th, 2012

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A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel By Alan Bradley Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385343466
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Published: Bantam - October 18th, 2011

Karen's Picks Recommended by Karen.


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A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford Mysteries #1) By Charles Todd Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780061791772
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - August 17th, 2010

Karen's Picks Karen: A wonderfully atmospheric mystery set between the World Wars that is reminiscent of Maisie Dobbs (also highly recommended) and ...perhaps the beginning of a new series?  


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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women By Harriet Reisen Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780312658878
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Published: Picador - October 26th, 2010

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail By Bill Bryson Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780767902526
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Published: Crown - May 4th, 1999

Karen's Picks Recommended by Karen!


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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds By Lyndall Gordon Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143119142
Availability: Special Order
Published: Penguin Books - May 31st, 2011

 Karen: My favorite biography of 2010. A new look at her life... her relationship with her family... new conclusions about her lifetime seclusion.