Literary Figures
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I Have Heard You Calling in the Night
$18.99 Add to cartT homas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, sometimes a writer, often unemployed, no stranger to the police. His life was going nowhere but downhill. Then one day he bought a pup–a Doberman. He called him … [more below]
- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0156033712
- Language: English
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Eagle Pond
$18.00 Add to cartThis original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and th
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0618839348
- Language: English
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In a Dark Wood: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident–in one terrible instant, Luzz
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0062357522
- Language: English
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
$27.00 Add to cartIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her frien- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0374602077
- Language: English
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The Book of Separation: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family- Author: Mirvis, Tova
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1328477878
- Language: English
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95 Add to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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Sounding Heaven and Earth: A Poet’s Corner Collection
$20.99 Add to cartThe back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observations… [more below]
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1786225395
- Language: English
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Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family
$29.00 Add to cart- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063466937
- Language: English
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Levels of Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir–a “wise, funny, and devastating … discourse on love and sorrow”… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806581
- Language: English
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Mi Refugio Y Mi Tormenta / Mother Mary Comes to Me
$22.95 Add to cartEn la lista de los mejores 50 libros del 2025 de Babelia
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Preseleccionado para el Premio del C?rculo Nacional de Cr?ticos de Libros en Biograf?a de 2025 Mejor Libro de los- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 6073864892
- Language: Spanish
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu’s Romania
$29.95 Add to cartA Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu’s Romania.
From her childhood in Romania, in a village “as small as a thimble on t- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100828
- Language: English
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An “exquisitely wrought memoir” about how “love can flourish even in the harshest climates”–for readers of The Liar’s Club and Running with Scissors (People).
“One of the b- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092161
- Language: English
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The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
$18.99 Add to cartA superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans — parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis — are a seemingly unexceptional family. Th
- Author: Finneran, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0618340742
- Language: English
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries
$31.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.
Celebrated public intellectual E- Author: Glaude, Eddie S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0593239806
- Language: English
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartBest known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?
Randal M. Jelks d
- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889832126
- Language: English
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Dante: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Florence’s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here w- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Lewis, R. W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 014311641X
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
$19.00 Add to cartIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394725808
- Language: English
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Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959
$60.00 Add to cartThe impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming … [more below]
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0525656618
- Language: English
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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
$34.00 Add to cartWritten by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy.
“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution t
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661764
- Language: English
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Sydney Journals
$18.95 Add to cartA thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.
Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380255
- Language: English
