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Mortality
$22.00 Add to cartOn June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would lat… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502758
- Language: English
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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
- Author: Shrayer, Maxim D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644699982
- Language: English
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In the Great Green Room
$23.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret’s books have- Author: Gary, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160626
- Language: English
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Walden & Civil Disobedience (Masterpiece Library Edition)
$19.99 Add to cartRead Henry David Thoreau’s most influential works in one stunning volume! With reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living, Thoreau’s writings ask readers to question the status quo an
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1441341501
- Language: English
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
$20.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sister- Author: Thompson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250099544
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writer… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980328
- Language: English
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Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin, 1939-1947
$22.95 Add to cartMirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Ana? Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the O
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0804011656
- Language: English
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The Princess Diarist
$18.00 Add to cartThis last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0399185798
- Language: English
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBetween 1948 and 1961, Earnest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And ever… [more below]
- Author: Hotchner, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814277
- Language: English
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
$70.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them–and their uncanny- Author: Sachs, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691215413
- Language: English
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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
$18.95 Read moreHere is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170716
- Language: English
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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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Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD
“[A] shimmering memoir . . . A bittersweet tribute to home and fami
WINNER OF THE WOMEN WRITING THE WEST WILLA LITERARY AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION- Author: Atleework, Kendra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751417
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$25.95 Add to cartThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor’s kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico,… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1558850309
- Language: English
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Are You Somebody?
$19.00 Add to cartYou don’t want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages.–Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes
One of nine- Author: O’Faolain, Nuala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 080508987X
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
$15.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux’s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in he- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 1996
- ISBN10: 188836338X
- Language: English
