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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters
- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107143
- Language: English
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Justice Is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for Rbg
$17.95 Read more“The book is a romp from cover to cover–and, just like a great meal, left me ready for more.”
–Karen Shimizu, Executive Editor, Food & Wine
When Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner fo
- Author: Karst, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424585
- Language: English
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The Apprentice Tourist
$17.00 Read moreA Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the Amazon
A Penguin Classic “My life’s done a somersault,” wrote- Author: de Andrade, M?rio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137352
- Language: English
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Fever Pitch
$18.00 Add to cart“Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby’s obsessi… [more below]
- Author: Hornby, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1573226882
- Language: English
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Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country
$36.33 Add to cartIn the 1930s, iconic American author Ernest Hemingway spent five summers at a ranch on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Christopher Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1606391143
- Language: English
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Testament of Youth
$23.00 Read moreGiving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain’s biographer. Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Ege… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Brittain, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039237
- Language: English
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Life Among the Savages
$18.00 Add to cartIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkne- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143128043
- Language: English
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I Remain in Darkness
$11.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie’… [more below]- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 1583220526
- Language: English
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
“Concise and compelling.”–Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was o- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250177
- Language: English
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There’s Something Strange about My Brain: Writing Horror for Kids
$25.00 Read moreCalling all literary enthusiasts and aspiring authors! R.L. Stine, the maestro of fright and a creative genius, has finally unveiled his secrets to the world of storytelling in his latest masterpiece.
- Author: Stine, Rl Stine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1955690537
- Language: English
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Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences
$20.00 Read more“You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, ‘What’d you do with your life?’ And me being lik… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Matthew J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: January 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389352
- Language: English
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Female, Gifted, and Black: Awesome Art and Literary Pioneers Who Changed the World (Black Historical Figures, Women in Black History)
$19.99 Add to cartEmbrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact on society as we know it. Female, Gifted and Black, the follow-up to The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebr… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684811147
- Language: English
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The Rings of Saturn
$25.95 Add to cartThe Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is an
- Author: Sebald, Winfried Georg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0811213781
- Language: English
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Tsubaki-Chou Lonely Planet, Vol. 2: Volume 2
$13.00 Read moreWhen Fumi started her job as the live-in housekeeper for the acclaimed–and very crabby–author Akatsuki Kibikino, she never thought in a million years that she’d get along with him…yet here she is,… [more below]
- Series: Tsubaki-Chou Lonely Planet #2
- Author: Yamamori, Mika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 197534622X
- Language: English
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The Story of a Life
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer’s coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged tran… [more below]
- Author: Paustovsky, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377225
- Language: English
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An American Childhood
$17.99 Add to cart“An American Childhood more than takes the reader’s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you’re a different person, one who has virtually experien
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915188
- Language: English
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Absolutamente Todo / Absolutely Everything
$22.95 Read more«Una novela de carretera, un libro de aventuras, una historia familiar, un regalo de un padre a su hijo y una lectura delirante, divertida, tierna y verdaderamente fascinante . –Marta Orrantia … [more below]
- Author: Orozco, Rub?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8439740085
- Language: Spanish
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Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention
$26.00 Read morePeggy Rowe is at it again–this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career.
Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn’t know how not to write–even through t- Author: Rowe, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1637630999
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indi
- Author: Alexie, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316270741
- Language: English
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A Booklover’s Guide to New York
$35.00 Add to cartAn illustrated guide to New York City tailored for the book-obsessed explorer showcasing the city’s best bookshops; libraries; homes and haunts of world-famous writers; and scenes from literary classi… [more below]
- Author: Le-Tan, Cleo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0847863662
- Language: English
