Literary Criticism
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By: Hisakawa, Kori
To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You I, Part 2 (Light Novel): Volume 2
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartByletta fully intended to divorce her husband, Arnald, until he suggested an absurd wager. If he can give her a child within one month, they’ll stay together. The clock is ticking as Byletta wavers be… [more below]
- Series: To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You (Manga)
- Author: Hisakawa, Kori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855411904
- Language: English
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The Blazing World and Other Writings
$13.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.’
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cavendish, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0192862901
- Language: English
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By: Luzzi, Joseph
In a Dark Wood: A Memoir
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident–in one terrible instant, Luzz
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0062357522
- Language: English
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By: Dirda, Michael
Classics for Pleasure
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartThis is not your father’s list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world’s most entertaining books. Writing with affection as w… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Dirda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0156033852
- Language: English
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By: Quinn, Julia
Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 Years
$22.99PaperbackAdd to cart“The range of the contributors leaves the reader with a sense of how important Austen is to writers in particular, who see in her not simply an antecedent or role model but as an old friend who, with … [more below]
- Series: Encounters With…
- Author: Quinn, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1913641511
- Language: English
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Metronome
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musici- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765108871
- Language: English
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By: Peck, Garrett
The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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By: Schiff, Robyn
A Woman of Property
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A new book from a poet whose work is “wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive” (Jorie Graham) Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Schiff, Robyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128272
- Language: English
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By: Bergland, Renée
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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By: Piercy, Joseph
100 Books to Live by: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion
$17.99HardcoverRead moreA collection of life-affirming books to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Books to Live By and learn which book prescriptions can be dispensed to lift your spirits, whatever you may need.
Someti… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things to Live by #1
- Author: Piercy, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1789298857
- Language: English
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By: Hankins, Luke
Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartBreaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those t… [more below]
- Author: Hankins, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1680034383
- Language: English
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By: O'Regan, Marie
Witchcraft Short Stories: Folk Tales & Horror Stories
$26.99HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the team that created Folk Horror Short Stories, here’s a striking, terrifying, thoughtful and beautiful new book of short stories by award winning authors and new voices too.
An impressive new a- Series: Beyond and Within
- Author: O’Regan, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1835625975
- Language: English
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The Horror Theory Reader
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartA comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror
Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes–fear, dread, and disgust–are ones we typically seek to avoid,- Author: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1517917824
- Language: English
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By: Eady, Cornelius
Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom Cornelius Eady, one of America’s most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet’s universe and highlights the range of his considerable t… [more below]
- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0399155112
- Language: English
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Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
$29.95HardcoverRead moreA revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today
Middlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but l- Author: McGrath, Laura B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0691256160
- Language: English
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Optimistic Absurdism
$12.99PaperbackRead moreIn a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of hope and introspection. With a blend of philosophical inquiry and prose, this thought-pr
- Author: Vernon, Anthony David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: March 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798295492723
- Language: English
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By: Hotokeyomo
Legend of the Far East’s Savior, Vol. 1
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartAt the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years later, demons rule the world, and humanity fights back using magicite-powered armor… [more below]
- Series: Legend of the Far East’s Savior #1
- Author: Hotokeyomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855424362
- Language: English
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The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartRediscovering Dante with Lewis, Sayers, and Williams
For centuries, readers have marveled at the imaginative brilliance of authors like C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams. But what in
- Series: Hansen Lectureship
- Author: Gibson, Richard Hughes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 151401338X
- Language: English
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Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.
In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology,
- Author: Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0268210748
- Language: English
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By: Gold, Mara
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men: Reclaiming the Stories of Mythology’s Most Iconic Women, Goddesses, and Female Monsters
$22.00HardcoverRead moreMeet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning.
Was Circe really just a temptress? Were the Amazons nothing more than bloodthir- Author: Gold, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894142739
- Language: English
















