Literary Figures
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The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
$34.95 Add to cartThe Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity–and the limits–of marriage. The Lawrences come aliv
- Author: Squires, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180467
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-African… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 067973404X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12
$56.25 Add to cartThe surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his- Series: Mark Twain Papers #12
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0520279948
- Language: English
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Hank Williams: The Biography
$18.99 Add to cart– Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many… [more below]
- Author: Macewen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0316734977
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Read more“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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Festival Days
$17.99 Add to cartA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0316497223
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Cats: Revised Cuba Edition
$14.95 Add to cartThe 2nd edition–now with more stories about Hemingway’s Cuban dogs.
- Author: Brennen, Carlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649627
- Language: English
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene
$28.95 Read more“One of the Year’s Best,” Times Literary Supplement
When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new frien- Author: Mewshaw, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 156792719X
- Language: English
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
$30.00 Read moreFrom internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring–and surviving–an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was… [more below]
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593913655
- Language: English
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
$21.99 Add to cart“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.
- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944437
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me
$27.00 Read moreA staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old c
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159788
- Language: English
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
$18.99 Add to cartLuis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 141658417X
- Language: English
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Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway’s Wyoming Summers with Pauline
$18.99 Read more“Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden’s Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming–and I can think of no finer c… [more below]
- Author: Worden, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608986
- Language: English
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The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World
$22.99 Add to cartStep into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture–a position he stil… [more below]
- Author: Kemme, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317604
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
$31.95 Add to cart* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture *
Acclaimed as “the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien” (A. N. Wilson), this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on
- Author: Garth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618574816
- Language: English
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
$16.00 Add to cart“An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Warned by- Author: Terzani, Tiziano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2002
- ISBN10: 060980958X
- Language: English
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
$20.00 Read moreWandering through Paris’s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited hi… [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312347405
- Language: English
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Love’s Work
$16.95 Add to cartLove’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love,… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173651
- Language: English
