American - 20th century
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Rascal
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Honor Book
Celebrating 50 years of a beloved classic! Nothing’s surprising in the North household, not even Sterling’s new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, b- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: North, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: April 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0140344454
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Brother, I’m Dying: National Book Award Finalist
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1400034302
- Language: English
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Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
$16.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters “Unintended Memoir.”
In Where the Past
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062319310
- Language: English
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The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
$33.00 Add to cartIn The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, and subject of the hit documentary The Center
- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1250105943
- Language: English
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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915
$10.99 Add to cartThis fascinating firsthand account of life and travel in the early twentieth century includes 24 pages of photographs.
“It is like a fairyland.” So Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved Little H
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: October 20 1976
- ISBN10: 0064400816
- Language: English
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The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown
$19.99 Add to cartAn exceptional picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and other beloved children’s classics, that’s as groundbreaking as the icon he
- Author: Barnett, Mac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062393448
- Language: English
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Bill Peet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
$19.99 Read moreA 1990 Caldecott Honor Book
Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.- Author: Peet, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0395689821
- Language: English
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All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
$8.99 Add to cart“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred
Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but re- Author: Yaccarino, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0375859209
- Language: English
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Who Is Judy Blume?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century.
Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from chil- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0448488493
- Language: English
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Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
$27.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose m… [more below]
- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0451498518
- Language: English
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Memories and Life Lessons from the Magic Tree House
$16.99 Read moreCelebrate the 30th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling series with heartfelt advice from Mary Pope Osborne’s own life and her magical adventures with Jack and Annie–perfect for Magic Tre… [more below]
- Series: Magic Tree House (R)
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593484541
- Language: English
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Who Was Maurice Sendak?
$6.99 Add to cartIt seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut–June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, af… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448465000
- Language: English
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Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
$10.99 Add to cartThe colorful boyhood of a popular author comes to life in this personal account
Imagine learning from a nosy classmate that your mother is having yet another baby. To Ralph’s classmates, news of one m- Author: Fletcher, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250010241
- Language: English
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Nonsense!: The Curious Story of Edward Gorey
$17.99 Read moreA beautifully illustrated and lyrical picture-book biography of eccentric and beloved writer and artist Edward Gorey
In this lyrical biography of one of literature’s most creepily creative authors an- Author: Mortensen, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 358033683
- Language: English
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Being Reflected Upon
$20.00 Read moreA memoir in verse from one of America’s legendary poets
In a New York Times review of Alice Notley’s 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that “the radical freshness of Notley’s poems stem- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137972
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
$30.00 Add to cartAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and student
- Author: Ames, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0618492429
- Language: English
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Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie
$17.95 Read moreLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s cla
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 087286880X
- Language: English
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Bukowski, a Life
$18.95 Add to cartThe life of Charles Bukowski–laureate of lowlife Los Angeles–a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator.
Neeli Cherk- Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 157423241X
- Language: English
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The Yage Letters Redux
$17.95 Add to cartThe definitive edition of Burroughs’ seminal epistolary novel about seeking hallucinogenic Yage in South America.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0872864480
- Language: English
