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Guts
$7.99 Add to cartGuess what — Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson’s story: working… [more below]
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0440407125
- Language: English
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Irma: The Education of a Mother’s Son
$25.99 Add to cartA son’s lessons from his single mother–a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own–from the author of the acclaimed The Ac
- Author: McDonell, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063277972
- Language: English
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
$19.99 Add to cartRECIPIENT OF THE PURA BELPR HONOR
* A Today Show’s Best Kids’ Books of 2019 * Indie Next List Pick * Junior Library Guild Selection *
“An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles
- Author: Denise, Anika Aldamuy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062748688
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection)
$19.00 Add to cartPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
Winner of- Series: Penguin Orange Collection
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 014312952X
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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Who Is J.K. Rowling?
$6.99 Add to cartEveryone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry’s creator
In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0448458721
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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The Nenoquich
$19.00 Add to cartAn unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seducer hammering on the walls of his own loneliness.
One day, eavesdropping on a phone call, Harold Raab,- Author: Bean, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022624
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski
$34.99 Read moreLiving in a beat-up motel, consorting with the downtrodden and mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles: a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity’s memoirs, … [more below]
- Author: Van Sciver, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1683965140
- Language: English
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Who Was A. A. Milne?
$6.99 Read moreFind out how stories about his son’s stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world’s best-known children’s authors in this informative biography from the #1 New Yo… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0451532422
- Language: English
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Screams from the Balcony
$25.00 Add to cartScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski’s life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876859147
- Language: English
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Q’s Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
$15.00 Add to cartThis memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a… [more below]
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140089365
- Language: English
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No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 5
$13.99 Read more“RELISH THE MAELSTROM OF ANGUISH BREWING WITHIN YOU.”
The otherworldly visitor named Sensei is a strange fellow. More in love with his melancholy than any thought of saving the world, he nonetheless f- Series: No Longer Allowed in Another World
- Author: Noda, Hiroshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888433300
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo
$21.95 Read moreJodorowsky’s memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen–magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth
– Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision- Author: Jodorowsky, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1594771731
- Language: English
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Prisoner of Love
$24.95 Add to cartStarting in 1970, Jean Genet–petty thief, prostitute, modernist master–spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people… [more below]
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: January 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170288
- Language: English
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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings: Volume 5
$32.43 Add to cartThis book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain’s private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #5
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 07 2014
- ISBN10: 520280733
- Language: English
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A Mark Twain Christmas: A Journey Across Three Christmas Seasons
$19.99 Read moreFilled with the remarkable wit and humor of America’s favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain’s life through little known stories about how he and his family cele
- Author: DeVito, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1604334487
- Language: English
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
$29.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 159017321X
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
