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We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The stars of the social media show The Ellises and hosts of the Webby Award-winning podcast Dead Ass with K&D share the core pillars of their relationship as millennial lov… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Khadeen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593577620
- Language: English
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Authority: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonica- Author: Chu, Andrea Long
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1250419905
- Language: English
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Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American Identity
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Agran, Edward Gale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469963
- Language: English
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The World’s Greatest Left-Handers: Why Left-Handers are Just Plain Better Than Everybody Else
$9.95 Add to cartFrom Buzz Aldren to Queen Victoria, the fascinating foibles of the sinister set.
- Author: Huffaker, Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 15 1985
- ISBN10: 0871314495
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
$20.00 Add to cartThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed “the lost generation”, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Cr… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Cowley, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187766
- Language: English
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The World of Leonard Cohen
$35.00 Add to cartLeonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is st… [more below]
- Author: Shumway, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1009350595
- Language: English
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Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath
$24.00 Add to cartJohn Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a jo… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144579
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Ugly Too
$19.95 Add to cartBeautiful and Ugly Too is a firsthand account of life in the Crescent City told through poetry and essays. A third-generation New Orleanian, author Chuck Perkins was born and raised in the Pigeon Town… [more below]
- Author: Perkins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569244
- Language: English
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American Proteus: Narrative Self-Making in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Wenke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469920
- Language: English
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Abbey’s Road
$24.00 Add to cart“The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265649
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$11.90 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
$27.00 Add to cartThe magazine that is the city that is the world
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories t- Author: Editors of New York Magazine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0812979923
- Language: English
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Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
$41.93 Add to cartIn Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining ca… [more below]
- Author: Caison, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031166
- Language: English
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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books
$36.95 Add to cartLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost du… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496227883
- Language: English
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What Light Can Do PB
$16.99 Add to cartUniversally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world–with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnific
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0061923915
- Language: English
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: (Opinions)
$23.00 Add to cartWampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indign
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0385333811
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$8.99 Add to cart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 019886440X
- Language: English
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
$24.00 Add to cartKirkus (STARRED review)
“Churchwell… has written an excellent book… she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald’s] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”… [more below]- Author: Churchwell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126253
- Language: English
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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade
$28.00 Add to cartThe origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously ad- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268327
- Language: English
