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Woven into the story of the last journey of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Pequod\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Marble City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46894385725725,"sku":"9781840228304","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0801\/2637\/8269\/products\/b6c88b86243b9246273b7701fcc2757c40a30bc46e5a0e57760b9da699f7ffa0.jpg?v=1697888343"},{"product_id":"learned-by-heart","title":"Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLearned by Heart\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Bookmarked","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46957757006109,"sku":"520","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0801\/2637\/8269\/files\/IMG-5325.jpg?v=1699014306"},{"product_id":"little-monsters","title":"Little Monsters: A Novel by Adrienne Brodeur","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKen and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. 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In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. 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