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Growing Up Chicana O
$19.99 Add to cartWhat Does It Mean To Grow Up Chicana/o?
When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a “Z” in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a public gift to that child w
- Author: Adler, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0380724197
- Language: English
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American Mother
$25.99 Add to cart“One of the best books I’ve read in many, many years, if not in my life”–Anderson Cooper
What does a mother say to the person responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering her son? National Boo
- Author: McCann, Colum
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798985882452
- Language: English
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The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
$21.95 Add to cartA land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and… [more below]
- Author: Magrane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0816531234
- Language: English
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Hemingway on Fishing
$18.00 Add to cartThe first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings on America’s great passion–fishing–introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack Hemingway.
From childhood on- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2002
- ISBN10: 074321918X
- Language: English
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What Are People For?: Essays
$16.95 Add to cartRanging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks ca
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 25, 2010
- ISBN10: 1582434875
- Language: English
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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
$28.00 Add to cartOne of California’s leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005’s best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.
“Smiley gi
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146056
- Language: English
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Complete Writings
$16.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Whea- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 1, 2001
- ISBN10: 014042430X
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$25.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Mary Oliver
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783229
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, an… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984877828
- Language: English
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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono
$27.00 Add to cartBack in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono’s whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life.
“Burn this book after you’ve read i- Author: Ono, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0743201108
- Language: English
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Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$21.00 Add to cartOne of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems–“The Raven,” “The Bells,” “Annabel Lee”-… [more below]
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 12 1975
- ISBN10: 0394716787
- Language: English
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The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
$35.00 Add to cartA must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love. From the sumptuously designed Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author’s novel, four nov… [more below]
- Series: Timeless Classics #3
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1112
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1631066463
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
$25.99 Add to cartIn The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many “differe… [more below]
- Author: Carol Oates, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0199744394
- Language: English
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager–and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation–comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 0307275906
- Language: English
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The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and m
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062658
- Language: English
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The Portable Dorothy Parker: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cartThe second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century’s most quotable authors.
In this new twenty-first-cen- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039539
- Language: English
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Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living
$27.95 Add to cartWhat Thoreau can teach us about working–why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful
Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of H- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691244693
- Language: English
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Walden: 150th Anniversary Edition
$9.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition–intr
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169349
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories 2018
$15.99 Add to cartBest-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction.
“I am looking f- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Gay, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 0544582942
- Language: English
