Literary Figures
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, t… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156007045
- Language: English
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Pessoa: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreNearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted
- Author: Zenith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092394
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
$20.99 Add to cart“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond…”
Henry David Th… [more below]- Author: Buell, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0197684262
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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Eagle Pond
$18.00 Add to cartThis original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and th
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0618839348
- Language: English
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
$27.00 Add to cartIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her frien- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0374602077
- Language: English
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95 Add to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family
$29.00 Read more- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063466937
- Language: English
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Mi Refugio Y Mi Tormenta / Mother Mary Comes to Me
$22.95 Add to cartEn la lista de los mejores 50 libros del 2025 de Babelia
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Preseleccionado para el Premio del C?rculo Nacional de Cr?ticos de Libros en Biograf?a de 2025 Mejor Libro de los- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 6073864892
- Language: Spanish
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An “exquisitely wrought memoir” about how “love can flourish even in the harshest climates”–for readers of The Liar’s Club and Running with Scissors (People).
“One of the b- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092161
- Language: English
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Dante: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Florence’s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here w- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Lewis, R. W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 014311641X
- Language: English
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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
$34.00 Read moreWritten by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy.
“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution t
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661764
- Language: English
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Sydney Journals
$18.95 Add to cartA thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.
Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380255
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$20.00 Add to cartThirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she torm… [more below]
- Author: Milford, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760814
- Language: English
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The Journals of John Cheever
$21.00 Add to cartIn these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. – “A treasure-trove of riches.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0307387259
- Language: English
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
$18.00 Read moreA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
Ak? The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka’s boyhood before and d- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725407
- Language: English
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life
$33.99 Read moreEmily Bront? (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It t
- Author: Lutz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324037113
- Language: English
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
$16.99 Add to cartAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060545844
- Language: English
