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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
$29.99 Add to cartAs I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I t
- Author: Sayer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1581347391
- 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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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
$35.00 Add to cart“No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career–from travel to history to her own transition–she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty.” —Stua
- Author: Clements, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 195035492X
- Language: English
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Haunted Helena:: Montana’s Queen City Ghosts
$21.99 Add to cartHelena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangings left an indelible imprint on the mode… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1609499344
- 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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I’ll Scream Later
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Children of a Lesser God to Dancing with the Stars, to Switched at Birth, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress Marlee Matlin shares her incredible life story in a moving and often surp… [more below]
- Author: Matlin, Marlee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1439171513
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$19.00 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible caus- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250792517
- 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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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
$15.99 Add to cartIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Pri
- Author: Burger, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0358108527
- Language: English
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The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews
$34.99 Add to cartA Picador Paperback Original
The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century–and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.–Margaret- Series: Paris Review Interviews #1
- Author: Gourevitch, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0312361750
- 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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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
$39.95 Add to cartWilliam Morris–the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer–remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopi
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1604862432
- Language: English
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The Wild Boy
$17.99 Add to cartA young man escapes his painful past by retreating to the rustic comfort of the Italian Alps in this gorgeously wrought memoir from the internationally bestselling author of the “exquisite” (Annie Pro… [more below]
- Author: Cognetti, Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1501196715
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$28.95 Read moreA young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming
In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer–the daughter of a forbidden marriage b- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045306
- 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
