Literary Figures
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In Every Corner Sing: A Poet’s Corner Collection
$23.99 Add to cartSucceeding Ronald Blythe’s Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the … [more below]
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1786220970
- Language: English
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré
$40.00 Read moreAn archive of letters written by the late John le Carr?, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time
The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carr?- Author: Le Carr?, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593490673
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with an American Legend
$29.99 Add to cartDon’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
“You’ve read the books, now see the land. . . . It’s like having Tony Hillerman still with u
- Author: Hillerman, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0061374296
- Language: English
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
$9.95 Read moreBest known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales’ mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twiligh… [more below]
- Series: Celtic, Irish
- Author: Yeats, W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436578
- Language: English
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The Dog Says How
$16.95 Add to cartCaptivating stories of growing up, traveling the world, and relying on the strangeness of others bring Kling fans to their feet and a fresh audience to its knees–bowled over by laughter.
- Author: Kling, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681341182
- Language: English
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Paula: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”–Los Angeles Times
In this literary classic, New Yo
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 006302179X
- Language: English
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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cart“Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON
In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and la- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1612198732
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$26.95 Read more“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and un… [more below]- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1637740425
- Language: English
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling me
- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423624
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$6.95 Add to cartThe celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as “a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer.”… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0451531108
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Edgar Allan Poe: Wit and Wisdom from the Master of the Macabre
$8.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe, the original master of the macabre and dark Romantic writer of Gothic novels, detective stories, poetry, short stories and satires is synonymous with themes of premature burial, death
- Series: Little Book Of… #9
- Author: Hippo!, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691963
- Language: English
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Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. “Every sent… [more below]
- Author: Conley, Garrard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0735213461
- Language: English
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Who Killed My Father
$12.95 Add to cartWho Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians– at the minimum–of negligent homicide. The a… [more below]
- Author: Louis, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0811235041
- Language: English
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Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism
$20.00 Add to cartKurt Vonnegut and humanism go hand in hand. In BEHAVING DECENTLY: KURT VONNEGUT’S HUMANISM, Wayne Laufert examines how Vonnegut revealed his moral philosophy through the themes and characters in his w
- Author: Laufert, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0931779863
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country
$36.33 Add to cartIn the 1930s, iconic American author Ernest Hemingway spent five summers at a ranch on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Christopher Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1606391143
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Jane Austen: A Witty Collection of Universally Acknowledged Truths
$8.95 Add to cartIt is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never goes out of style.
Jane Austen’s much-loved novels vividly describe 19th-century society. But they are also timeless classics that continu
- Series: Little Book Of… #4
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1800690231
- Language: English
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Being Lolita: A Memoir
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A dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must- Author: Wood, Alisson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250217237
- Language: English
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Life Among the Savages
$18.00 Add to cartIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkne- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143128043
- Language: English
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At Sea with Patrick Dennis: My Madcap Mexican Adventure with the Author of Auntie Mame
$18.95 Add to cartPrepare to Feast on LIfe!Robert (Raub) Karr and his best friend, Walter, planned a relaxing cruise from Seattle to Mexico. Little did they know that their vacation would be upended when they met the a… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1955826250
- Language: English
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
“Concise and compelling.”–Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was o- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250177
- Language: English
