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The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Writing a Woman’s Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun- Author: Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0345422953
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Incest: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin (1932-1934)
$25.99 Add to cartThe continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. “It is Nin… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0156443007
- Language: English
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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories
$27.99 Add to cartHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan’s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multiv… [more below]
- Author: Danly, Robert Lyons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0393309134
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cart“[This] biography is the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka’s personal life and character, and is invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius.”–Alfred Kazin, New York… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806703
- Language: English
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)
Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of
An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)- Series: The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0374602395
- Language: English
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$19.99 Read more“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197795
- Language: English
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300 Arguments
$16.00 Add to cart“Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin….A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.”–Celeste Ng, author of Littl
- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977642
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The … [more below]
- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
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My Fairy-Tale Life
$19.99 Read moreHans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 1… [more below]
- Series: Dark Masters
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1907650571
- Language: English
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Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
$27.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary chara- Author: Dennison, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363327
- Language: English
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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
$36.99 Add to cartFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exup?y disappeared at age forty-four during a reco- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0805079130
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 067972463X
- Language: English
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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
$16.95 Add to cartThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199230633
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Read morePoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour
$30.00 Add to cartOn the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.
Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1101907983
- Language: English
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My Father’s Glory & My Mother’s Castle: Marcel Pagnol’s Memories of Childhood
$29.00 Add to cartBathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol’s childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir “the leading film artist of his age,” Pag
- Author: Pagnol, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0865472572
- Language: English
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is “a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction” (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pe… [more below]- Author: Hamill, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316341029
- Language: English
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1934-1939
$28.99 Add to cartBeginning with Nin’s arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #02
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 25 1970
- ISBN10: 0156260263
- Language: English
