American - 20th century
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Add to cart- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1612190901
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
$32.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316558796
- Language: English
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Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
$17.95 Add to cart“An excellent volume that will appeal to anyone interested in women’s studies, social justice, journalism, and American short stories and fiction.”–Erica Swenson, Library Journal
A century after her b
- Author: Olsen, Tillie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803245777
- Language: English
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Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
$21.95 Read moreTHE TELEGRAPH’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK
“As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy no- Author: Powell, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501367315
- Language: English
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Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway
$27.00 Add to cartAn intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.
In the public imagination,- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1982196866
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector’s Edition
$35.00 Read moreThe fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Se n and introduced by his son Patrick, this “illuminating” (The Washington Post) collect… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 147678762X
- Language: English
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
$34.95 Add to cartJack Kerouac was one of America’s great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher J
- Author: Maher, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 158979687X
- Language: English
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The Cross and Beatitudes: Lessons on Love and Forgiveness
$13.99 Add to cartThis classic work from the pen of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen brings together Christ’s Sermon on the Mount with his Seven Last Words. From the Mount of the Beatitudes to the Hill of Calvary, Our Lord’s
- Author: Sheen, Fulton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0764805924
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
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Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
$18.99 Read moreFrom award-winning team Suzanne Slade and Cozbi A. Cabrera, Exquisite is a picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize.
A 2021 Coretta- Author: Slade, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1419734113
- Language: English
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Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year
$27.00 Add to cartEugene H. Peterson’s never-before-published wisdom for each season of the Christian year
The glorious, never-dull rea
A CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND BIRMINGHAM CHRISTIAN FAMILY MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR- Author: Peterson, Eugene H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1601429703
- Language: English
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)
$25.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
“I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side–the Communist side–of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374347018
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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The Cat Who Came for Christmas
$19.99 Add to cartA cat charms its way into a curmudgeon’s heart one hilarious holiday season in this “extraordinary” bestselling Christmas classic (Parade), the perfect gift for the animal lover in your life.
‘Twas the… [more below]- Author: Amory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0316242683
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980301
- Language: English
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One Writer’s Beginnings
$18.00 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American le… [more below]
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982152109
- Language: English
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Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartI sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love, says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323056
- Language: English
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Shout
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and one of 2019’s best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse And- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0670012106
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
$30.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira Kalman
Considered on- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1594204608
- Language: English
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Bad Boy: A Memoir
$15.99 Read moreA classic memoir that’s gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling former National Ambassador of Books for Young People. A strong choice for summer reading–an engaging and pow
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0064472884
- Language: English
