American - 20th century
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Living on Luck
$20.00 Add to cartLiving on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.
- Series: Living on Luck Vol. 2 #2
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0876859813
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$22.00 Add to cartIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394486927
- Language: English
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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
$26.00 Add to cartA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018
In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1571313699
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)
$27.99 Add to cartNin’s years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. “Transcending mere self-revelation… the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Prou… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #03
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156260271
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$24.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- Language: English
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
$25.00 Add to cart“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals o- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428502
- Language: English
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Cross Bronx: A Writing Life
$110.83 Add to cartIn his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.
Cross Bronx is- Author: Quinn, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1531500943
- Language: English
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The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor
$18.99 Add to cart“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work i
- Series: Christian Encounters
- Author: Rogers, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1595550232
- Language: English
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Crazy Loco Love
$24.99 Add to cartGrowing up on his parents’ ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villase?or’s teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he did not fit into. Discriminated d… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1582702721
- Language: English
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To Kill a Mockingbird Sparknotes Literature Guide: Volume 62
$7.99 Read moreWhen an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz… [more below]
- Series: Sparknotes Literature Guide #62
- Author: Sparknotes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1411469739
- Language: English
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Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life
$29.99 Add to cartA rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years.
An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies–thos- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009633
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
$18.00 Add to cartFew artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called “an acute observer of the unmapped region s… [more below]
- Author: Scholder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136710
- Language: English
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Cherry
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars’ Club left off, Karr dashes down the tr… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0141002077
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
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Conversations with George Saunders
$50.00 Add to cartBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunde… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: O’Connell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1496840305
- Language: English
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreIn her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizo- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1629798819
- Language: English
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At Seventy: A Journal
$25.99 Add to cartMay Sarton–poet, novelist, and chronicler–occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393310302
- Language: English
