Literary Figures
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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 Read moreThe 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 Read more“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
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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 Read moreA 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 Read moreA 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
