American - 20th century
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$19.99 Add to cartTwentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen KingONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this … [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1982159375
- Language: English
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Wishful Drinking
$18.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up
- Author: Fisher, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 143915371X
- Language: English
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Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder
$16.95 Add to cart“The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remain… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1619025469
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire
$22.00 Add to cartHailed by The New York Times as “a passionately felt, deeply poetic book,” the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey, considered the Thoreau of the American West, and his passion for the southw
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15, 1990
- ISBN10: 0671695886
- 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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
$55.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art
Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s thr- Author: Buchhart, Dieter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1925432726
- Language: English
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Guts
$7.99 Add to cartGuess what — Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson’s story: working… [more below]
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0440407125
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$8.95 Add to cart“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”–MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very spec- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531787
- Language: English
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
$19.99 Add to cartRECIPIENT OF THE PURA BELPR HONOR
* A Today Show’s Best Kids’ Books of 2019 * Indie Next List Pick * Junior Library Guild Selection *
“An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles
- Author: Denise, Anika Aldamuy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062748688
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection)
$19.00 Add to cartPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
Winner of- Series: Penguin Orange Collection
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 014312952X
- Language: English
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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
$14.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for … [more below]
- Author: Audre Lorde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890961310
- Language: English
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Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir
$17.00 Add to cart“Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak’s dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so honest, I found myself nodding like I was agreeing with her, sometimes cringing at what she sustained, … [more below]
- Author: Brodak, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125638
- Language: English
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Screams from the Balcony
$25.00 Add to cartScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski’s life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876859147
- Language: English
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Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story… [more below]
- Author: Madden, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907821
- Language: English
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
$23.95 Read moreThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507477
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$18.95 Read moreA collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Wright, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 596
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0819568619
- Language: English
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For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for America the Beautiful
$16.99 Read moreA Mighty Girl’s 2020 Books of the Year
The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to “America the Beautiful- Series: She Made History
- Author: Churnin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0807525308
- Language: English
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Don’t Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high adventure, war, love, NASA, and his struggle for litera… [more below]
- Author: Hickam, Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1642938246
- Language: English
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Read moreThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is “a rich experience all around…. Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about…. I’d take him home in a shot” (The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767223
- Language: English
