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Stray: A Memoir
$16.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past.
After selling- Author: Danler, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911875
- Language: English
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Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts–With Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors
$19.95 Add to cart“I own every writing book ever written, and Linda Sivertsen has done the near-impossible: given writing itself a personality . . . Her stories are cinematic, hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfect–w… [more below]
- Author: Sivertsen, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1637741030
- Language: English
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
$11.99 Read moreNewbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his best-selling fiction. And don’t miss the author’s highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wed… [more below]
- Author: Spinelli, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0679887911
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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My Road from Damascus: A Memoir
$22.95 Read more“A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written w
- Author: Saeed, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416218
- Language: English
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Hans Christian Andersen (Spanish Edition)
$8.99 Read moreThis beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams en Español #59
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284784
- Language: Spanish
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As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography
$15.99 Read moreIn this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.
Imbued with tender- Author: Harchi, Kaoutar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422841
- Language: English
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
$18.95 Read moreLambda Literary Award finalist
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution
- Author: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 155152600X
- Language: English
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an a- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362649
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$32.00 Read moreCritic 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374126658
- Language: English
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Who Was Jules Verne?
$6.99 Read moreMeet the father of science fiction, Jule Verne.
Born in France in 1829, Jules Verne always dreamed of adventure. At age 11, he snuck onboard a ship headed for the Indies only to be discovered by his f- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0448488507
- Language: English
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La Vergüenza
$12.95 Read moreUna escena familiar, y sus consecuencias perturbadoras, diseccionadas por la autora que ha hecho de su vida materia literaria.
En 1952, cuando Annie Ernaux tenía doce años, su padre quiso matar a su
- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6070796373
- Language: Spanish
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The Writers: Portraits
$45.00 Read moreIntimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garc僘 M疵quez, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tb匤
“We’ve all seen writers on the dust jackets of their books- Author: Wilson, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300257783
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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Boy and Going Solo: Tales of Childhood
$11.99 Add to cartRoald Dahl’s personal stories together in one edition
Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course Boy includes tales of sweetshops and chocolate, me
- Author: Dahl, Roald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0142417416
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
$19.00 Read moreThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea.
Long regarded as Africa’s preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-- Author: Laye, Camara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1954
- ISBN10: 080901548X
- Language: English
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien’s childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1851244964
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
