American - 20th century
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This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
$28.00 Read more“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronicle with tremendous compassion — for William, for everyone. This Isn’t Going to End Well gives of
- Author: Wallace, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643752103
- Language: English
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The Cancer Journals
$14.00 Add to cartMoving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.
A Penguin Class- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0143135201
- Language: English
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Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy
$27.95 Read moreA poignant, deliciously anecdotal account of a talented artist’s Oz-like journey in the worlds of Off-Broadway, Broadway, and Hollywood
The Tony Award-nominated writer of The Tale of the Allergist’s W- Author: Busch, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637744145
- Language: English
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Who Was Dr. Seuss?
$5.99 Add to cartTed Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats And he donned quirky hats when thinki… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0448455854
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
$17.00 Read moreAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have los- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140187413
- Language: English
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Black Mountain Poems
$16.95 Add to cartBlack Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimenta… [more below]
- Author: Creasy, Jonathan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228975
- Language: English
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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
$22.00 Add to cart“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” –Chicago Tribune
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores- Author: Lamott, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593189698
- Language: English
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$27.00 Add to cartImmensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, Stephen King’s critically lauded, “one of a kind” (Wall Street Journal) classic bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions th
- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439193630
- Language: English
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the li… [more below]
- Author: Lamott, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0385496095
- Language: English
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True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rol… [more below]
- Author: Greenfield, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0525575952
- Language: English
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Journal of a Solitude
$15.95 Add to cart“I am here alone for the first time in weeks,” May Sarton begins this book, “to take up my ‘real’ life again at last. That is what is strange–that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393309282
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$26.00 Add to cartHere is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507892
- Language: English
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
$27.99 Add to cartAcross more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073659
- Language: English
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Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award
Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming- Author: Fromm, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422725
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal An unforgettable spiritual journey t- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105515
- Language: English
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Black Boy
$21.99 Add to cartA special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright’s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South–a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0061443085
- Language: English
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The Solace of Open Spaces
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” –Annie Dillard Poet and filmm- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 1986
- ISBN10: 0140081135
- Language: English
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This Boy’s Life (30th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“A classic of the genre.”–New York Times
The 30th anniversary edition of Tobias Wolff’s “extraordinary memoir” (SF Chronicle), now with a new introduction by the author.
Thirty years ago Tobias Wol- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0802149073
- Language: English
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The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of to- Author: Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245452
- Language: English
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Strength to Love
$25.95 Add to cartThe classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression.
As Martin Luther King, Jr., prep- Series: King Legacy
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 080705190X
- Language: English
