Literary Figures
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$23.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 019983248X
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes
$14.99 Add to cartGo further under the covers and stay in bed a little longer with Marian Keyes in this winning follow-up to her smash essay collection, Under the Duvet. Written in the witty, forthright style that has
- Author: Keyes, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0060787031
- Language: English
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
$25.00 Add to cartA LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster’s comprehensive, landmark biography of the great Americ
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250848547
- Language: English
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The Bloomsbury Group
$24.95 Read moreAn affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the wars
The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with thei
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1855147238
- Language: English
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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
$15.99 Read more‘JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK
‘A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND’ STYLIST, 50 UNMI- Author: Fowler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1786484900
- Language: English
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Men We Reaped
$27.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 160819521X
- Language: English
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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life
$27.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from “one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Kathleen Norris had written several m- Author: Norris, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1594484384
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
” Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of … [more below]- Author: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2005
- ISBN10: 1400080460
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
$21.99 Add to cart“[A] gorgeously-written . . . brave and generous memoir” about growing up in a family with conflicting ideas about being Jewish and finding your own path (Dani Shapiro, New York Times-bestselling auth… [more below]
- Author: Altman, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1504093569
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Read more254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
$22.95 Read more‘A scrupulous biography’ — Publishers Weekly
‘Fresh, incisive, and uplifting’ — Kirkus ‘If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read’ — Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Mon- Series: Revolutionary Lives
- Author: Mullen, Bill V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745338534
- Language: English
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Return to Paris: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartParis, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenag… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743439686
- Language: English
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945
$35.99 Add to cartThis true account of spycraft in the UK during World War II is “spellbinding…a compelling insider’s view to the shadow war: intrigue and treachery, double-dealing and deception, hope and despair, tr… [more below]
- Author: Marks, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 068486780X
- Language: English
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Three Weeks with My Brother
$35.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope.
As moving as his bestselling works of fi- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0446500100
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
