Literary Figures
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Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
$25.25 Add to cartPopulated by an oddball cast of characters, this book chronicles one man’s determined effort–occasionally with hilarious results–to follow the stream that runs by his house to its elusive source.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Roorbach, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1608933938
- Language: English
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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
$29.99 Add to cartAs I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I t
- Author: Sayer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1581347391
- Language: English
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It’s Been a Good Life
$28.99 Add to cartNew one-volume autobiography spans Asimov’s life for the first time!As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativ… [more below]
- Author: Asimov, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929689
- Language: English
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
$19.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. For … [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1416541632
- Language: English
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The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation
$16.99 Add to cartIconic newscaster and Buddhist teacher chronicles the 1960s and ’70s in India, the Bay Area, and beyond
Join “Scoop” Nisker on a wild ride from West to East and back in his quest for true self and enli… [more below]
- Author: Nisker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 194862690X
- Language: English
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Intensa Vida, La
$20.95 Read more- Author: Valdes, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 8418709510
- Language: Spanish
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Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith
$21.95 Add to cartFlannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becomi… [more below]
- Series: People of God
- Author: O’Donnell, Angela Ailamo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0814637019
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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In My Father’s Court
$19.00 Add to cartLike Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374505926
- Language: English
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
$25.00 Add to cart“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals o- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428502
- Language: English
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City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara
$21.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s
- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0062303414
- Language: English
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
$23.00 Add to cartJudith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen–now with a new foreword by the author
A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biog- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857090
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
$35.00 Read more“No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career–from travel to history to her own transition–she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty.” —Stua
- Author: Clements, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 195035492X
- Language: English
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Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
$17.95 Add to cartIn 2006, Matthew Specktor moved into a crumbling Los Angeles apartment opposite the one in which F. Scott Fitzgerald spent the last moments of his life. Fitz had been Specktor’s first literary idol, s
- Author: Specktor, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142624
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
$18.95 Add to cartMany readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Cl
- Author: Kunin, Madeleine May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1732854084
- Language: English
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Crazy Loco Love
$24.99 Add to cartGrowing up on his parents’ ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villase?or’s teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he did not fit into. Discriminated d… [more below]
- Author: Villasenor, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1582702721
- Language: English
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
$18.00 Add to cartTHE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins–perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney clas- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1476762929
- Language: English
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Happiness: A Memoir: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
$19.99 Add to cartReese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine’s April 2018 book pick
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.- Author: Harpham, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1250301149
- Language: English
