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Connecticut Literary Anthology 2023: Celebrating Authors From the Nutmeg State
$21.95 Add to cartPraise for the 2021 Connecticut Literary Anthology
“The Connecticut Literary Festival Anthology offers a lush bouquet of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that readers are sure to relish. Within its p- Author: Buitron, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 195490794X
- Language: English
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Septuagenarian Stew
$21.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0876857942
- Language: English
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
$29.00 Add to cartFrom short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757120
- Language: English
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Islands of Women
$26.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1906, a young girl discovers a near lifeless, naked woman washed onto the shore of Pine Cove Key, a small island off the west coast of Florida. The child is convinced the woman is her
- Author: O’Hara, Eileen A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306076
- Language: English
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American Christmas Stories
$29.95 Read more** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book **
Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast i- Author: Willis, Connie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 467
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537067
- Language: English
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
$19.00 Add to cartThe complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time–from “one of the great short story writers o… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375726284
- Language: English
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The City That Killed the President: A Cultural History of Dallas and the Assassination
$28.00 Read moreA creative cultural history of Dallas through the lens of its defining twentieth century event: JFK’s assassination.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, shocked America. Instantl
- Author: Cloward, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052129
- Language: English
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The Bible According to Mark Twain
$20.99 Add to cartAn indispensable and provocative compilation of witty essays dealing with Biblical stories and their inconsistencies from America’s master satirist, Mark Twain.The Bible According to Mark Twain is a s
- Author: McCullough, Joseph B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 06, 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824396
- Language: English
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Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (Deluxe, Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it T… [more below]
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 030682180X
- Language: English
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A Creature Wanting Form: Fictions
$19.95 Read moreA Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life.
Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified
- Author: O’Neil, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193837
- Language: English
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Bold Words from Black Women: Inspiration and Truths from 50 Extraordinary Leaders Who Helped Shape Our World
$19.99 Add to cartCelebrate the power of Black womanhood in this first-of-its-kind collection of inspirational quotes from fifty activists, artists, and leaders, featuring bold, attention-grabbing illustrations–perfec… [more below]
- Author: Pizzoli, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1534463941
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of “Gonzo” journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of the journalist’s finest work from Rolling Stone. Fear and Loathing at… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1439165963
- Language: English
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
$17.99 Add to cartArranged alphabetically by topic, from Adam to Youth, and culled from his novels, speeches, letters, and conversations, this anthology of quotes is timeless and represents the very essence of Mark Twa
- Author: Ayres, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0060751045
- Language: English
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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work
$28.95 Read more“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions–shame, love, grief–without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”–Wall Street Journal
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker fr- Series: Nonpareil Books #11
- Author: Maxwell, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927963
- Language: English
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Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
$19.95 Add to cartThis anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the natio… [more below]
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Erdrich, Heid E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514289
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Read more- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1612190901
- Language: English
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Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology
$26.90 Add to cartFollowing in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available to
- Author: Adiele, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1595580808
- Language: English
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Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollect
$45.00 Add to cart- Series: Library of America Susan Sontag Edition #1
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 875
- Publish Date: September 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1598532553
- Language: English
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
$14.95 Add to cart“Familiarity breeds contempt–and children.” “It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.” “Never tell a lie–except for practice.”
This attractive gift edition of the renowned American humorist’… [more below]- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2013
- ISBN10: 048648923X
- Language: English
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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
$16.95 Add to cart“In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1640091580
- Language: English
