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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
$19.99 Add to cartMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
“We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our ple
- Author: Bach, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148482
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Le- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1400066123
- Language: English
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
$22.00 Add to cart“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” –The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgeral… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1982117125
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
$35.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. – A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe–and… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club 2.0
- Author: Strayed, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307592731
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
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Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel
$25.43 Add to cartCreative icon, visionary, and dreamer, Stan Lee co-created many of pop culture’s most significant characters, including Spider-Man, Black Panther, and the Avengers. This young adult edition of Stan Le
- Author: Batchelor, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538162059
- Language: English
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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Mom & Me & Mom
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1400066115
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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Syntax of the River: The Pattern Which Connects
$19.95 Add to cartBarry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope and the sources of renewal in the living world. Syntax of the River … [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1595349898
- Language: English
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Things Seen
$17.95 Add to cart“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In th
- Series: French Voices (Bison Paperback)
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228155
- Language: English
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$17.00 Add to cartPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.
Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil s… [more below]- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311507
- Language: Spanish
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Sontag: Her Life and Work: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Jour
- Author: Moser, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062896407
- Language: English
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A Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler’s Interviews
$34.95 Add to cartFor years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville’s public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most inter… [more below]
- Author: Toomay, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505732
- Language: English
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Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions
$28.99 Add to cartTracy King was raised in a house of contradictions–her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father’s alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian churc… [more below]
- Author: King, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498738
- Language: English
