Literary Figures
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Add to cartIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit… [more below]
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343523
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables: The Enchanting Island That Inspired L. M. Montgomery
$24.95 Read moreOne of Smithsonian magazine’s Best Books About Travel of 2018
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery’s deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired- Author: Reid, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 27, 2018
- ISBN10: 160469789X
- Language: English
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Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
$38.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 PLUTARCH AWARD – An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm.
“Clam… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Willard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0525658262
- Language: English
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
$19.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circlin- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429460
- Language: English
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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 Read moreA 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 Read moreAn 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 Read moreKnown 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
