Literary Figures
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SexografÃas / Sexographies
$19.95 Read moreEdici?n ampliada de las cr?nicas sexuales de Gabriela Wiener, un recorrido temerario y trepidante por el lado m?s salvaje del periodismo narrativo, con pr?logo de Camila Sosa Villada.
«Gabriel… [more below]- Author: Wiener, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8439737610
- Language: Spanish
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Star-Crossed Lovers: James Jones, Lowney Handy, and the Birth of “From Here to Eternity” James Jones, Lowney Handy, and the
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Lowney Handy’s scandalous small-town open marriage to author James
Jones’s extraordinary apprenticeship with Maxwell Perkins, Star-Crossed Lovers illuminates an unforgettable love
story. She was an
- Author: Moore, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1956474218
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie at Home
$40.00 Add to cartThis new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.
Hilary Macaskill examines the- Author: Macaskill, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1914902009
- Language: English
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To Have and Have Another Revised Edition: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
$30.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway is nearly as famous for his drinking as he is for his writing. Throughout his collected works, Papa’s sensuous explorations of the delights of imbibing engaged both his characters and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0399174907
- Language: English
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
$25.00 Add to cartA marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one t- Author: Howell, Georgina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531358
- Language: English
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The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and h… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Robin Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1647420458
- Language: English
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
$17.95 Add to cartIn this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 029932494X
- Language: English
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Cells: Memories for My Mother
$20.00 Read more‘Are you going into town today?’ she says, which annoys me because it’s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, ‘Jesus, Mum, not this again, ‘ and she says, ‘W
- Author: McCrea, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363347
- Language: English
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Discovering Carl Sandburg: The Eclectic Life of an American Icon
$16.95 Add to cartEveryone knew his name…
During the first half of the twentieth century, Carl Sandburg seemed to be everywhere and do everything: poet and political activist; investigative reporter, columnist, and fi
- Author: Quinley, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218051204
- Language: English
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
$20.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sister- Author: Thompson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250099544
- Language: English
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Traces of Enayat
$18.95 Add to cartFrom one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine.
“A subtle and
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492848
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writer… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980328
- Language: English
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Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin, 1939-1947
$22.95 Add to cartMirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Ana? Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the O
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0804011656
- Language: English
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
$19.99 Add to cartThe Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the “contest era” of the 1950s and 1960s.
Stepping b- Author: Ryan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0743211235
- Language: English
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Blackbird
$25.99 Add to cartWith the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck’s incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extrao… [more below]
- Author: Lauck, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0671042564
- Language: English
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Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant
$24.99 Add to cartIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka’s heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independent… [more below]
- Author: Diamant, Kathi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: January 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0465015514
- Language: English
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I Could Tell You Stories
$21.99 Add to cartIn this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, “weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the… [more below]
- Author: Hampl, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: April 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0393320316
- Language: English
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBetween 1948 and 1961, Earnest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And ever… [more below]
- Author: Hotchner, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814277
- Language: English
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Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom
$45.00 Read moreRom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring’s romance novels.
With a career spanning 40 year- Author: Bender, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1947951629
- Language: English
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Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of the Joy of Sex
$34.00 Read moreWe have so much more to learn about (the author of) The Joy of Sex!, this biography covers it all: the life of a young poet, pacifism, anarchist activism, academic life, the 60s counterculture, starti
- Author: Laursen, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354960
- Language: English
