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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley
$34.95 Add to cartA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of dia- Author: Kaczynski, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1556438990
- Language: English
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Letters on Cézanne
$17.00 Add to cartRilke’s prayerful responses to the french master’s beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returne- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2002
- ISBN10: 086547639X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11
$56.25 Add to cartMark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave revie… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #11
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: October 05 2013
- ISBN10: 520272781
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border
$15.95 Read moreRecommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed!
The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know “what’s life really like on
- Author: Solis, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0872867862
- Language: English
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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$22.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
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Albert Camus: A Life
$24.99 Add to cartIn this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resourc… [more below]
- Author: Todd, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0786707399
- Language: English
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One Great Lie
$12.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews!
A “quietly triumphant” (Horn Book Magazine) and atmospheric YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in lush, sultry Venice–from the- Author: Caletti, Deb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1534463186
- Language: English
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Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
$22.95 Read moreRevised, Expanded Edition
Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering lite
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 1586174967
- Language: English
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
$24.00 Add to cartA Book Riot and Shelf Awareness “Best Book of 2021
“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”
The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and sm
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1571313826
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Add to cartIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit… [more below]
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343523
- Language: English
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Onions in the Stew
$22.95 Add to cart“For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used t
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999802
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy
$29.99 Read moreAn oral biography that reveals the Southern author’s true voice
Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed to readers–un
- Author: Clark, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1611179076
- Language: English
