Literary Figures
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography
$21.99 Add to cart‘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
$28.00 Read moreFrom 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
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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 Read more“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
$14.95 Read moreWho 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
