Literary Collections
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King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis
$22.99 Read more‘Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless’ Spectator
‘Fascinating … as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war’ Daily Telegraph As Assistant Private Secretary to- Author: Lascelles, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1474618200
- Language: English
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Letters to Gwen John
$29.95 Read moreWith original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait.
Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artific- Author: Paul, Celia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376407
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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Swann in Love
$11.95 Add to cartSwann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198744897
- Language: English
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The Bhagavad Gita
$16.00 Add to cartThe Bhagavad Gita is the most famous poem in all of Hindu literature and part of the Mahabharata, the ancient Indian epic masterpiece. The Gita (in Sanskrit, “Song of the Lord”) consists of a dialogu… [more below]
- Author: Easwaran, Eknath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0375705554
- Language: English
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Pensées
$10.00 Read moreI know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time. — T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pens?es
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true, declared Pascal in his Pens?es. The c… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0486821501
- Language: English
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Creative Haven Jane Austen Witty & Wise Coloring Book
$8.99 Read moreDecorative borders and patterns characteristic of the 19th century frame these 31 clever and insightful quotes from Jane Austen’s most beloved novels, including “Know your own happiness” (Sense and Se… [more below]
- Series: Creative Haven Coloring Books
- Author: Noble, Marty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 18 2019
- ISBN10: 048683834X
- Language: English
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Interior States: Essays
$18.00 Read moreWinner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction
“Meghan O’Gieblyn’s deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting c- Author: O’Gieblyn, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562702
- Language: English
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display
$22.95 Read moreEssays, stories and poems on the interior lives of bookstores.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling. Thran, w
- Author: Thran, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0889714487
- Language: English
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Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life
$24.95 Read moreMillions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner … [more below]
- Series: Writers on Writing
- Author: Dixon, M. C. Benner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0472056476
- Language: English
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Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous i- Author: Donegan, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1590307585
- Language: English
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The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartThis 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that’s been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions t… [more below]
- Series: Best Women’s Travel Writing
- Author: Spalding, Lavinia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521897
- Language: English
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Thank You for Not Reading
$15.95 Add to cartThank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1948830450
- Language: English
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My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves
$27.99 Read moreA collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves–including Gloria Steinem,… [more below]
- Author: Chenoweth, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1982160926
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
$23.95 Read more2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting e- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211629
- Language: English
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
$17.99 Add to cart“An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.” —Doug
- Author: Cumming, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062435795
- Language: English
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Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition
$20.00 Add to cartThe central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall).
So far out, in the open,
cushioned in sleep.
In flight from the- Author: Sachs, Nelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0374606439
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
$36.95 Read moreFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this co… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Frances Payne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527938
- Language: English
