Literary Figures
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Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
$17.95 Add to cartAnnabel Abbs-Streets’s Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and eleg… [more below]
- Author: Abbs-Streets, Annabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108132
- Language: English
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A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
$32.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
“Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the ‘First Negro Novelist’ as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace stru- Author: Chakkalakal, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250287634
- Language: English
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When the Band Played on: The Life of Randy Shilts, America’s Trailblazing Gay Journalist
$30.00 Add to cartRandy Shilts was the preeminent LGBTQ+ reporter of his generation.
He was the first openly gay reporter assigned to a gay beat at a mainstream paper and one of the nation’s most influential chronicle
- Author: Lee, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0914090305
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062334743
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
$18.99 Add to cartWhat kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Bego?a G?mez Urzaiz became fixated on artist
- Author: Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079479
- Language: English
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. … Her memoir is certainly- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 059365398X
- Language: English
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Cuchillo: Meditaciones Tras Un Intento de Asesinato / Knife
$22.95 Add to cartUno de los 100 libros m?s notables del 2024 seg?n el New York Times
Barnes & Noble Mejores libros del 2024 (hasta ahora) / Memorias
Amazon Mejores biograph?as y memorias del 2024 (hasta ahora)
Los 100 me… [more below]- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 6073842678
- Language: Spanish
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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 Add to cartThe 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 Read moreThe 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
