American - 20th century
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Catching the Light
$10.95 Add to cartUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274068
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Stories: As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
$17.00 Add to cartA new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn No… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 2-Mar-21
- ISBN10: 1982179465
- Language: English
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Black Boy
$18.99 Add to cart“Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives.” —New York Times Book Review
A striking new edition of Richard Wright’s p
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062964135
- Language: English
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About Ed
$18.95 Add to cartA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ scene.
Bob Gl?k met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist- Author: Gluck, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377764
- Language: English
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Blue Nights: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Richly text- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0307387380
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
$9.99 Add to cart“Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book.”–Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review
“This is not primarily a book about the desert,” writes Edward Abbey in his in- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 1985
- ISBN10: 0345326490
- Language: English
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Somehow: Thoughts on Love
$22.00 Add to cart“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love “Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this pe- Author: Lamott, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593714415
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022019
- Language: English
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84, Charing Cross Road
$16.00 Add to cart“Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road.” — M… [more below]
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140143505
- Language: English
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Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s
$40.00 Add to cartWorlds Beyond Time is the definitive visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi art and the artists who created thes… [more below]
- Author: Rowe, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1419748696
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 143918271X
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Read moreA collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck’s route by Don Freeman
A Penguin Classic In- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0143107003
- Language: English
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Strength to Love
$24.00 Add to cart“If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.”
So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it i
- Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0800697405
- Language: English
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Wandering Through Life: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreThe
internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her
own adventurous life story as she enters her eightiesIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor,
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161588
- Language: English
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portray… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721886
- Language: English
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Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter about Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
$21.99 Add to cartWritten with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving a
- Author: Davis, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 132409348X
- Language: English
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life
$22.99 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and “king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of essays.
Featuring his most important life lessons, str- Author: Evans, Richard Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1982177462
- Language: English
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Townie: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAfter their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340678
- Language: English
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Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
$30.00 Add to cartDON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS–THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK–NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex we- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0593328086
- Language: English
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1931-1934
$21.99 Add to cartThe Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker’s own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #01
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19, 1969
- ISBN10: 0156260255
- Language: English
