Literary Figures
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The Little Book of Mark Twain: Adventures from the Father of American Literature
$8.95 Add to cartBorn Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain is best known for his stories of American boyhood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Lauded as the greatest humourist America has ever produced, e
- Series: Little Books of Literature #8
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691955
- Language: English
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Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Callin… [more below]
- Author: Levins Morales, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 147800309X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$20.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine des
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457374
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$28.00 Read more“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096302
- Language: English
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Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
$24.95 Read moreThis is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status–Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner pri… [more below]
- Author: Boyers, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1942134886
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Book of Japanese Haiku: A Journey Through the Seasons with Japan’s Best-Loved Poets (Free Online Audio)
$19.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated volume of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets.
Ongoing spring;
a nameless mountain
under a light mist
— Basho This beautifully illustrated collection of season- Author: Wilson, William Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 4805318074
- Language: English
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
$30.00 Add to cartA revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary
“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”–Publishers Weekly In this innovat- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 300248121
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
$18.99 Add to cart“So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not j
- Author: Grealy, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 006328863X
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: A Memoir
$25.99 Add to cart“A powerful true story of two lovers…A tour-de-force memoir”-Kirkus Reviews
In this moving memoir, Judy Crichton brings to life her turbulent marriage to novelist Robert Crichton and the exhilarating
- Author: Crichton, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Whatever Happened to Frankie King
$21.95 Add to cartA real-life mystery of books and basketball.
Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were com
- Author: Neugeboren, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790775
- Language: English
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard
$25.00 Add to cartA new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.
For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales’ lively and oft- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Flannery, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148634
- Language: English
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse
Many cultural and religious traditions expect those w- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.
“In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human. And- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1639733728
- Language: English
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A Curious Heart: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker
$24.95 Read more- Author: Hall, Penelope Coker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990949300
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (Loa #386): Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was from / The Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir & Play) /
$40.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.
Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most e- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537873
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Add to cart“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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Letters to His Neighbor
$13.95 Add to cartMarcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-li
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238644
- Language: English
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
$30.00 Read moreSince her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1496846672
- Language: English
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