Literary Figures
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Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
$19.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant book of recollection, one of America’s finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man’s sensibility. S… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 1998
- ISBN10: 0394759486
- Language: English
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Something to Declare
$19.99 Add to cartJulia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom. “Los Angeles Times” From… [more below]
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 161620558X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$25.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book – Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Ch… [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561749
- Language: English
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The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
$33.00 Read moreA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of… [more below]
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593473655
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Voices
$19.95 Add to cartJames Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten … [more below]
- Author: Prokosch, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896230120
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$23.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025
AN INSTA- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 125043775X
- Language: English
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Paul Celan: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartA luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem “Deathfugue.”
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was recognized as the greatest- Author: Arno, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0674298632
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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Koljos
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 8433949098
- Language: Spanish
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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
$27.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
“Feminism, history, literature, politics–this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” –Therese A- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0525537155
- Language: English
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Auden
$30.00 Add to cartPeter Ackroyd’s compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century.
Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391722
- Language: English
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Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses had sustained a v… [more below]
- Author: Rember, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031117
- Language: English
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The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind
$28.00 Add to cart“An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide.”–Chris Kraus
★ “Unique…suspenseful…thrilling.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, a
- Author: Montero, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661863
- Language: English
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Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand
$35.00 Add to cartBy the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo.
- Author: Sampson, Fiona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1324074914
- Language: English
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Eagle Pond
$18.00 Add to cartThis original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and th
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0618839348
- Language: English
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
$27.00 Add to cartIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her frien- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0374602077
- Language: English
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95 Add to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family
$29.00 Add to cart- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063466937
- Language: English
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Mi Refugio Y Mi Tormenta / Mother Mary Comes to Me
$22.95 Add to cartEn la lista de los mejores 50 libros del 2025 de Babelia
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Preseleccionado para el Premio del C?rculo Nacional de Cr?ticos de Libros en Biograf?a de 2025 Mejor Libro de los- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 6073864892
- Language: Spanish
