Literary Figures
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Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God
$17.95 Read moreAlthough humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the hu… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Robert Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1634312422
- Language: English
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, fr- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110888
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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Bard, Kinetic
$19.95 Add to cartThe expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words.
In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a multifaceted portrait of her life and praxis as a- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 156689669X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom
$8.95 Add to cartA fascinating collection of quotes from the work of Britain’s greatest playwright, his words reveal insights into his enduring popularity and his masterful command of language. He introduced over 3,00
- Series: Little Books of Literature #6
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691920
- Language: English
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My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943
$19.95 Read moreEssays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our wo
- Series: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 477
- Publish Date: April 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1567921345
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
$22.99 Add to cartECPA 2014 Christian Book Award Winner (Non-Fiction)
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellec… [more below]- Author: McGrath, Alister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1496410459
- Language: English
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In the Great Green Room
$23.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret’s books have- Author: Gary, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160626
- Language: English
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Bede and the Theory of Everything
$25.00 Add to cartAn accessible biography of the venerable Bede, regarded as the father of English history.
This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), the fo
A 2023 History Today Book of the Year- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Brown, Michelle P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147883
- Language: English
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he’d received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing t… [more below]
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393329402
- Language: English
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Ghost Image
$22.00 Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays–meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems–and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on photo… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 26 2014
- ISBN10: 022613234X
- Language: English
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John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess
$40.00 Add to cartKnown as the “Father of the National Parks,” John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence–as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection
In a lifetime of exploration,- Series: Library of America #92
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 1883011248
- Language: English
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Heart Earth
$17.99 Add to cartIvan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky–inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II–is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501156055
- Language: English
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Edith Wharton’s Lenox
$24.99 Add to cartAn insider’s glimpse of the suprirsing, scandalous time famed novelist Edith Wharton called Lenox home.
In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her
- Author: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1467135178
- Language: English
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The Gastronomical Me
$19.00 Read moreIn 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gas
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 1989
- ISBN10: 0865473927
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award
An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe–highlighting his fascination and feuds with sc
Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award- Author: Tresch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849403
- Language: English
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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
$22.95 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his
- Author: Souder, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 039386832X
- Language: English
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes That Inspired the Little House Books
$27.95 Add to cart“If you loved Wilder’s books, or if you garden with a child who loves her books, you will enjoy the read.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s deep conne- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: September 20 2017
- ISBN10: 160469727X
- Language: English
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The Captain is Out to Lunch
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
A book length collaboration between two underg
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 1574230581
- Language: English
