Literary Figures
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Capote: A Biography
$22.99 Add to cartThe bestselling biography of the author of In Cold Blood and basis for the award-winning film Capote, Gerald Clarke provides insight into the life of Truman Capote like no one before.
An Americ- Author: Clarke, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439187509
- Language: English
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Fidel Y Raúl, MIS Hermanos. / My Brothers Fidel and Raul. Juanita Castro’s Memoir as Told to MarÃa Antonieta Collins: La Historia Secreta: Memorias de
$13.95 Add to cartLas memorias de Juanita Castro sobre sus hermanos Fidel Castro y Raúl Castro llevadas de la mano de la gran periodista MarÃa Antonieta Collins.”Hace años Juanita Castro se decidió a escribir sus m… [more below]
- Author: Ruz, Juanita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1945540265
- Language: Spanish
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Mom & Me & Mom
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.
Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1400066115
- Language: English
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Letters of C. S. Lewis
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of personal letters–a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fans–and a short biography by his brother
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643568
- Language: English
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Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“I had a real romance with this book.” –Miranda July
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways- Author: Hodson, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1250170192
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote’s “”Black and White Dance”” in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 047009821X
- Language: English
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Papillon [Movie Tie-In]
$17.99 Add to cart“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEK
Henri Charri鑽e, nicknamed “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his c
- Author: Charriere, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062882465
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$21.95 Add to cartPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.
Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil s… [more below]- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311507
- Language: Spanish
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The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
$34.95 Add to cartThe Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity–and the limits–of marriage. The Lawrences come aliv
- Author: Squires, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180467
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-African… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 067973404X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12
$56.25 Add to cartThe surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his- Series: Mark Twain Papers #12
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0520279948
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Add to cart“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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Festival Days
$17.99 Add to cartA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0316497223
- Language: English
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene
$28.95 Read more“One of the Year’s Best,” Times Literary Supplement
When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new frien- Author: Mewshaw, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 156792719X
- Language: English
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
$21.99 Add to cart“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.
- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944437
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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