Literary Figures
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
$18.95 Read moreWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Ju
- Author: Phillips, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064439
- Language: English
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Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
$19.95 Read moreBoth Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are literary superstars, known around the world as the creators of Middle-earth and Narnia. But few of their readers and fans know about the important and complex friendshi… [more below]
- Author: Duriez, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1587680262
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$17.99 Add to cartThe iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.
Some writers define a ge- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1685890113
- Language: English
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Benny the Blue Whale: A Descent Into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT
$29.00 Read moreAI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more…
‘Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on… hilarious.’ THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of cre- Author: Stanton, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0861547403
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet
$28.00 Add to cart“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.”
- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1604698225
- Language: English
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Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartFrom his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore… [more below]
- Author: L’Amour, Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0553286528
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Add to cartNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.”- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194001
- Language: English
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
$18.99 Add to cartThey ate garlic and didn’t always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Pos
- Author: Nicholson, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060548460
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Le- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980034
- Language: English
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Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
$19.99 Read more‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN
From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learn
- Author: Bate, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 8167494
- Language: English
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When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
“Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form…With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . W- Author: Wood, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 11, 2013
- ISBN10: 0544002326
- Language: English
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La Distancia Entre Nosotros
$18.99 Add to cart“Una historia desgarradora sobre el otro lado de la experiencia del inmigrante a EEUU- la penuria y la desolación de los niños dejados atrás por sus padres.” –Sonia Nazario, ganadora del premio Pu… [more below]
- Series: Atria Espanol
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1476710406
- Language: Spanish
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$31.00 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians–the superheroes of reading–as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Pa… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0316572829
- Language: English
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartIn this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented nov
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0060505869
- Language: English
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award
What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever l
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060088745
- Language: English
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Finding Fish: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartBaby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physica… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Antwone Q.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0060007788
- Language: English
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A Very Easy Death: A Memoir
$15.00 Add to cartA Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied
- Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Series #0000
- Author: de Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0394728998
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis: A Biography
$14.99 Add to cartThis is the true story of C.S. Lewis – one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century – whose books for children and adults have become much-loved classics.
Part of the story of C.S. Lewis has b
- Series: Biography
- Author: Green, Roger Lancelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0007157142
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman: A Life
$18.99 Add to cart“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking–hugely human, enormously attractive.” —Newsweek
A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet–his genius, his pas
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kaplan, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0060535113
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
$19.99 Add to cart‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER
Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
Bar
- Author: Byrne, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0008322244
- Language: English
