American - 20th century
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$27.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416591311
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cart“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”–The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060854081
- Language: English
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Bird Girl: Gene Stratton-Porter Shares Her Love of Nature with the World
$18.99 Add to cartThis lively STEAM picture book is about the life of Gene Stratton-Porter, a pioneering wildlife photographer and popular author from the late 19th and early 20th century, who showed the world the beau… [more below]
- Author: Esbaum, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1635926866
- Language: English
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Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
$55.00 Read moreA fresh look at one of America’s best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career.
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the larg- Author: Bostwick Davis, Elliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0847899349
- Language: English
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A Three Dog Life
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Abigail Thomas’s husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of wha… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0156033232
- Language: English
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The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among thei… [more below]
- Series: Curious George
- Author: Borden, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0547417462
- Language: English
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana? Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
$19.99 Add to cartA “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writ… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 1989
- ISBN10: 015652791X
- Language: English
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A Burst of Light and Other Essays
$24.95 Read more“Lorde’s words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation Nat- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486818993
- Language: English
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Arnold Rampersad.
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade–Harlem and- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015498
- Language: English
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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
$17.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Alicia D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1534419136
- Language: English
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
$14.95 Add to cartWhen the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1941040993
- Language: English
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartFrom his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore… [more below]
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0553286528
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cartNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.”- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194001
- Language: English
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Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The acclaimed author of Bird by Bird brings her brilliant combination of humor and warmth to a “smart, funny, and comforting” chronicle of single motherhood (Los Angeles Times Bo… [more below]
- Author: Lamott, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400079098
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Le- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980034
- Language: English
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Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse
$11.00 Add to cartNow available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist’s debut collection–a runaway bestseller in 1926–ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466357
- Language: English
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The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
$15.99 Add to cartThis memoir reflects on key moments of the author’s early life, from childhood to his entering seminary, that reveal how God speaks to us in a variety of ways every moment of every day.–Sojourners
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0060611839
- Language: English
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Lit
$18.99 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
New York Times Book Review – The New Yorker – Entertainment Weekly – Time – Washington Post – San Francisco Chronicle – Chicago Tribune – Christian Science Monitor – Slate – St
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060596996
- Language: English
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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s
$50.00 Read moreReveals how American art in the 1930s–intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own–engaged with the public amid global upheaval
This publication exami- Author: Rudnick, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397696
- Language: English
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
$18.95 Add to cartIn his great triptych “The Millennium,” Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller’s title for this, one of his most appealing books; first publishe… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #161
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 1957
- ISBN10: 0811201074
- Language: English
