Literary Figures
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Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
$17.99 Read moreSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this “gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring” (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and pow… [more below]
- Author: Yates Garcia, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1538763060
- Language: English
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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
$30.00 Add to cartA Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia
- Author: George, Lynell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400636
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
$18.99 Add to cartAgatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule … [more below]
- Author: Curran, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061988375
- Language: English
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Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartI sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love, says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323056
- Language: English
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
$17.00 Add to cart“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501131737
- Language: English
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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 – September 15, 1979
$19.00 Read more“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering, ‘ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” –Roland Barthes, from his diary
The day after his mother’s death in October 1977,- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533113
- Language: English
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
$24.00 Add to cartThe first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, o… [more below]
- Author: Brodie, Fawn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679730540
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
$30.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira Kalman
Considered on- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1594204608
- Language: English
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Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
$19.99 Add to cart“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true…The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion
Bestselling author Cass
- Author: Conroy, Cassandra King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0062943405
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Key West
$10.95 Add to cartThe only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho
- Author: McIver, Stuart B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 156164241X
- Language: English
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
$7.00 Read moreSlave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 048640661X
- Language: English
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Letters to Felice
$19.95 Add to cartMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century–the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial–to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Pra… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0805208518
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$11.95 Add to cartThis gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth cent… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0811226220
- Language: English
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Raising Ourselves
$16.95 Add to cartVelma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her
coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where
she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is
defined b
- Author: Wallis, Velma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0972494472
- Language: English
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography
$22.99 Read more‘People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.’
Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of mor- Author: Wilkins, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1529176905
- Language: English
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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award.
“The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s … [more below]- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1594633347
- Language: English
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On Lighthouses
$12.95 Add to cart“This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.” –The Paris Review
Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offe
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641341
- Language: English
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Selected Non-Fictions
$29.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction–much of it appearing here in English for the first time–of “one of- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140290117
- Language: English
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart#4 on The New York Times‘ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a ge- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107798
- Language: English
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James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters
$24.99 Read moreIn Empire of Monsters, the award-winning biographer Bill Schelly digs beneath the hype and myth-making to tell the true story of James Warren, one of the 20th century’s most influential and independen… [more below]
- Author: Schelly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1683964179
- Language: English
