Literary Figures
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A Memoir
$20.95 Add to cartIn this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
- Author: Alexander, Meena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932997
- Language: English
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Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York
$29.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – An evocative coming-of-age memoir–the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde… [more below]
- Author: Trebay, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1524731978
- Language: English
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Life Span
$19.95 Add to cartLIFE SPAN, a memoir in flash form, is the first book of nonfiction from award-winning fiction writer Molly Giles. A life-long resident of the Bay Area, Giles has crossed and recrossed the Golden Gate
- Author: Giles, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987719756
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$21.00 Add to cartAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (Andr? Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171278
- Language: English
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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
$18.99 Add to cartFor decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, on… [more below]
- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094435
- Language: English
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The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
$16.99 Add to cart“In this vibrant memoir, Obama-inaugural poet Richard Blanco tenderly, exhilaratingly chronicles his Miami childhood amid a colorful, if suffocating, family of Cuban exiles, as well as his quest to fi
- Author: Blanco, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0062313770
- Language: English
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
$35.00 Add to cartA Time Must-Read Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year
Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the l- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0374603278
- Language: English
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Writers Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096952
- Language: English
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Dear Readers and Riders: The Beloved Books, Faithful Fans, and Hidden Private Life of Marguerite Henry
$27.95 Read moreThe untold story of the favorite children’s book author, featuring original artwork by Wesley Dennis
from some of Henry’s best-known books, as well as over 100 personal photographs, letters, and artifa- Author: Teague, Lettie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1646011945
- Language: English
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Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of one of Montana’s most celebrated writers
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after
- Author: McCarthy, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752483
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and controversial–young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me,- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668010909
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
$29.95 Add to cartAn in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by gene
- Author: Westin, Boel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917298
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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Stephen King’s Maine: A History & Guide
$24.99 Add to cartMuch of Western Maine reads like a Stephen King novel.
The dense dark woods and backcountry ponds. The century-old houses with gravel driveways and immense flower gardens, acres of farmland miles from
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Kitchens, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1467157147
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
$22.00 Read moreA New York Times notable book of 2023 A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize
“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstrei- Author: Waldstreicher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321735
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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When the Band Played on: The Life of Randy Shilts, America’s Trailblazing Gay Journalist
$38.95 Add to cartThe Crowley Thoth Tarot is a masterpiece of esoteric wisdom and visionary art, renowned worldwide for its striking beauty and profound occult symbolism. Created under the guidance of Aleister Crowley
- Author: Crowley, Aleister
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- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0913866156
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$28.99 Read more“Vitaliy Katsenelson’s Soul in the Game is one of those much-needed reminders that although we have no control over when we’re born or when we’ll die, we are the architects of how we live.”
General Sta- Author: Katsenelson, Vitaliy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0857199072
- Language: English
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Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
$27.00 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Memoirs of the Year by Esquire
A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, cla
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Shelf Awareness
Named a Southwest Book of the Year- Author: Bossiere, Zoë
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1419773186
- Language: English
