Literary Figures
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, t… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156007045
- Language: English
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Lo Que Yo VI / What I Saw
$19.95 Read moreMemorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo pasado y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del presente.
Desde la casa donde naci?, los juegos de calle durante su n- Author: Esquivel, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644736640
- Language: Spanish
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Pessoa: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartNearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted
- Author: Zenith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092394
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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A Circle of Quiet
$21.99 Add to cartThe beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My speci- Series: Crosswicks Journals #1
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064461
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.
Brazen, incisive, and outra- Series: Gonzo Letters #02
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0684873168
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Read moreMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Reasons to Stay Alive
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
“Destined to become a modern classic.” —Entertainment Weekly WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig’- Author: Haig, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128728
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$19.99 Add to cartA recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Frenc
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316776963
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
$17.99 Add to cart“One of the most authentic books ever written about the English….Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages.” — San Francisco Chronicle
In Pursuit of
- Author: Lessing, Doris May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0060976292
- Language: English
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Planet of the Blind: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cart“The world is a surreal pageant,” writes Stephen Kuusisto. “Ahead of me the shapes and colors suggest the sails of Tristan’s ship or an elephant’s ear floating in air, though in reality it is a middle… [more below]
- Author: Kuusisto, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0385333277
- Language: English
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
Named One of The New York Times Book Review‘s Top Ten Books of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Finalist for the Kirkus Prize No- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 166809472X
- Language: English
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Miss Greene’s Secret: Based on the True Story of the Black Librarian Who Shaped the Morgan Library
$25.99 Read moreShe changed her name and her past, risking everything for a chance to make her way. A remarkable graphic novel drawn from the life of Belle da Costa Greene–longtime director of the Morgan Library–wh
- Author: Antona, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1419788701
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery
$17.00 Read moreEmbark on a journey through the life behind the mother of cozy mysteries like Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None with this captivating literary biography and stunning celebratio… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: West, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1507225385
- Language: English
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
$17.95 Read moreAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice–in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.
Songs My Mother Taught Me i
- Series: Vanguard
- Author: Williams, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905845
- Language: English
