Literary Figures
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Into the Wild
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was fou… [more below]
- Author: Krakauer, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 1996
- ISBN10: 067942850X
- Language: English
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Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
$25.95 Read more“Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography.” —The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699906
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the “astounding” (Entertainment Weekly), “spectacularly evocative” (The Atlantic), and “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exam… [more below]
- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0316259659
- Language: English
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Cross Creek
$21.00 Add to cartCross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings–author of The Yearling–in the Florida backcountry.
Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a cla- Author: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 20 1996
- ISBN10: 684818795
- Language: English
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Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartNo writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garc a M rquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 140003454X
- Language: English
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What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life–an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: “If you only r
- Author: Thomas, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476785066
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures That Inspired Frank Herbert
$35.00 Add to cart“An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.”
Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become
– Empire Magazine- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711282110
- Language: English
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award
“I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O’Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her lett- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374521042
- Language: English
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Small Memories
$13.95 Add to cart“Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer.”–Washington Post
Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0547752636
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
$25.00 Add to cartIncorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man.
A St. Louis Post Dispat… [more below]- Author: Dearborn, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 052556361X
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
$23.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collec… [more below]
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 059331848X
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$20.00 Add to cartIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980301
- Language: English
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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
$29.99 Add to cartExperience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand.
Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams
- Author: Kramarik, Akiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0718075862
- Language: English
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – A “A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book” (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. – From… [more below]
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375725784
- Language: English
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Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
$25.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures This is how E- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074835
- Language: English
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Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Hunter S. Thompson’s crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America–and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-crac- Author: DeNevi, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541768019
- Language: English
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cart“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”–Entertainment Weekly
The revered New York Times bestselling author of Ho
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0063021722
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$30.00 Read moreThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158528
- Language: English
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Population: 485
$17.99 Add to cart“Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle Times
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0061363502
- Language: English
