American - 20th century
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Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
$28.95 Add to cartThis rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her… [more below]
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141161
- Language: English
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Hole in My Life
$14.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Award-winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, this is a memoir about becoming a writer the hard way. A Printz Honor and Sibert Honor book.
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an asp- Author: Gantos, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0312641575
- Language: English
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
$18.99 Add to cartThis unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need t… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156586509
- Language: English
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Raising Demons
$24.00 Add to cartIn the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children
In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savage- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127292
- Language: English
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The Invention of Solitude
$17.00 Add to cartFrom Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood
This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112228
- Language: English
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Dry: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.
“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the Fir- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 125003440X
- Language: English
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The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
$19.99 Add to cartMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
“We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our ple
- Author: Bach, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148482
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$26.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1400066123
- Language: English
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
$22.00 Add to cart“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” –The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgeral… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1982117125
- Language: English
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
$21.00 Add to cartIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015501
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$31.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0195324870
- Language: English
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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Mom & Me & Mom
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1400066115
- Language: English
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An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
$15.99 Add to cart“This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending,” writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0316027669
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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Syntax of the River: The Pattern Which Connects
$19.95 Add to cartBarry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope and the sources of renewal in the living world. Syntax of the River … [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1595349898
- Language: English
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
$34.99 Add to cart2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre- Author: Spring, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533024
- Language: English
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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
$35.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 006621131X
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$25.00 Read moreJoy 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0393248526
- Language: English
