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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$26.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
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Albert Camus: A Life
$24.99 Add to cartIn this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resourc… [more below]
- Author: Todd, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0786707399
- Language: English
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One Great Lie
$12.99 Read moreFour starred reviews!
A “quietly triumphant” (Horn Book Magazine) and atmospheric YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in lush, sultry Venice–from the- Author: Caletti, Deb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1534463186
- Language: English
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Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
$22.95 Read moreRevised, Expanded Edition
Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering lite
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 1586174967
- Language: English
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
$24.00 Add to cartA Book Riot and Shelf Awareness “Best Book of 2021
“Places do not belong to us. We belong to them.”
The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and sm
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1571313826
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Read moreIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit… [more below]
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343523
- Language: English
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Onions in the Stew
$22.95 Add to cart“For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used t
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999802
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy
$29.99 Read moreAn oral biography that reveals the Southern author’s true voice
Pat Conroy’s memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn’t revealed to readers–un
- Author: Clark, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1611179076
- Language: English
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Mortality
$22.00 Add to cartOn June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would lat… [more below]
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502758
- Language: English
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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
- Author: Shrayer, Maxim D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644699982
- Language: English
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In the Great Green Room
$23.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret’s books have- Author: Gary, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160626
- Language: English
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Walden & Civil Disobedience (Masterpiece Library Edition)
$19.99 Add to cartRead Henry David Thoreau’s most influential works in one stunning volume! With reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living, Thoreau’s writings ask readers to question the status quo an
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1441341501
- Language: English
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
$20.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sister- Author: Thompson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250099544
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writer… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980328
- Language: English
