Literary Figures
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
$19.99 Add to cartFrom David Carr (1956-2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling… [more below]
- Author: Carr, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1416541535
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close t… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 159030389X
- Language: English
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
$21.00 Add to cartIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015501
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: The Drawings
$50.00 Add to cartThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings
“The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”–Lauren Christense- Author: Kilcher, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260660
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir
$18.95 Add to cart“One of the most engaging memoirs I’ve read in ages. The wise and feisty voice I’ve come to know and love in Elizabeth Cunningham’s Maeve Chronicles fills these pages and carried me away. Anyone who h… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 195897210X
- Language: English
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Death Be Not Proud
$18.99 Add to cart“If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism.” —New York Times
Johnny Gunther was only seventee
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Gunther, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061230979
- Language: English
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johns
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060930462
- Language: English
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Capote: A Biography
$22.99 Add to cartThe bestselling biography of the author of In Cold Blood and basis for the award-winning film Capote, Gerald Clarke provides insight into the life of Truman Capote like no one before.
An Americ- Author: Clarke, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439187509
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$31.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0195324870
- Language: English
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
$19.99 Add to cartSex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wil
- Author: Person, Cea Sunrise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 006228987X
- Language: English
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Losing Us: A Dementia Caregiver’s Journey
$19.99 Add to cartLosing Us: A Dementia Caregiver’s Journey, is a candid, compassionate and sometimes humorous memoir of Author Rosella Leslie’s heartbreaking struggles and triumphs during her twelve years as her husba… [more below]
- Author: Leslie, Rosella M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1039156401
- Language: English
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Fidel Y Raúl, MIS Hermanos. / My Brothers Fidel and Raul. Juanita Castro’s Memoir as Told to María Antonieta Collins: La Historia Secreta: Memorias de
$13.95 Add to cartLas memorias de Juanita Castro sobre sus hermanos Fidel Castro y Raúl Castro llevadas de la mano de la gran periodista María Antonieta Collins.”Hace años Juanita Castro se decidió a escribir sus m… [more below]
- Author: Ruz, Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1945540265
- Language: Spanish
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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Mom & Me & Mom
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1400066115
- Language: English
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Letters of C. S. Lewis
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of personal letters–a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fans–and a short biography by his brother
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643568
- Language: English
