Literary Figures
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Chosen Forever
$17.99 Add to cartIn the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse, Susan Richards tells of the continuing gifts brought to her life by her beloved horse, Lay Me Down.
Readers cried with Susan Richards when, at the end o… [more below]
- Author: Richards, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 015603302X
- 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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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
$35.00 Add to cartPlaywright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays–including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson–that chronicle the lives of Black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Glasco, Laurence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0822948540
- Language: English
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Come to Dinner: Fifty Years of Friendship with Joan Didion
$14.99 Add to cart“An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable.”
A rare, revelatory portrait of Joan Didion–told not thr
Didion, like you’ve never seen her–this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.- Author: Davidson, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798998722387
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Add to cartBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$19.00 Add to cartAn expansive, illuminating, and “welcome addition to understand” (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood–from the author… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982185805
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0307743845
- Language: English
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
$15.99 Add to cartMary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American C… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0156447878
- Language: English
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Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
$23.99 Add to cartOne of the most prolific and popular authors in the world today, Stephen King has become part of pop culture history. His best-selling novels such as Carrie, It, Christine, and many others have captur
- Author: Rogak, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603509
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
$21.00 Add to cartFrom rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)–the women who inspired Jane Austen–that… [more below]
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982190256
- Language: English
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Joe Gould’s Secret
$19.00 Add to cartJoseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375708049
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartWith the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of cl… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119923
- Language: English
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Judy Blume: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.
To know the name Judy Blume is to know- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059371444X
- Language: English
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Wartime Writings 1939-1944
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume includes the aviator’s letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations. Translated by Norah Purcell; Introduction by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Index.
- Author: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027534
- Language: English
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cart“If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.” ―Ian McEwan
A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens’ most- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 044654034X
- Language: English
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
$22.50 Add to cartThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write
- Author: Geltner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970370
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$18.00 Add to cartAt her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English–but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0679766766
- Language: English
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An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year
$35.00 Add to cartCelebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year.
From beloved pets to majestic wildlife, and even the first dog in space, animals have long been a source- Author: McMorland Hunter, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1837330018
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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The Complete Notebooks
$45.00 Add to cartThe first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
Throughout his career, French writer and p- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 022669481X
- Language: English
