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Brother, I’m Dying: National Book Award Finalist
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1400034302
- 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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Shout: A Poetry Memoir
$12.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and one of 2019’s best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse And- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0142422207
- Language: English
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Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
$9.99 Add to cartCelebrate 400 years of Shakespeare’s legacy with this repackage of award-winning author Diane Stanley’s tribute to the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare.
Nobody knows exactly when or why Wil
- Author: Stanley, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0062419250
- Language: English
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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915
$10.99 Read moreThis fascinating firsthand account of life and travel in the early twentieth century includes 24 pages of photographs.
“It is like a fairyland.” So Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the beloved Little H
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: October 20 1976
- ISBN10: 0064400816
- Language: English
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Hans Christian Andersen
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Hans Christian Andersen, the father of fairy tales.
When Hans Christi- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #59
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0711259348
- Language: English
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I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau
$18.95 Read moreI Begin with Spring weaves natural history around Thoreau’s life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each
- Author: Dunlap, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0884489086
- Language: English
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Who Was Beatrix Potter?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn into wealth in 1860’s London, Beatrix Potter always had a vivid imagination. Her early interests included natural history and archaeology, and Potter delighted in sketching fossils and fungi. Aft… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 044848305X
- Language: English
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More Bears!
$14.99 Read moreOnce upon a time there was a story. It was a lovely story with absolutely NO BEARS in it–not a SINGLE BEAR anywhere.
Then one day…MORE BEARS!
KENN NESBITT is possibly the funniest and most sought-aft
- Author: Nesbitt, Kenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402238355
- Language: English
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The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown
$19.99 Read moreAn exceptional picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and other beloved children’s classics, that’s as groundbreaking as the icon he
- Author: Barnett, Mac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062393448
- Language: English
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Bill Peet: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartA 1990 Caldecott Honor Book
Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.- Author: Peet, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0395689821
- Language: English
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The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets
$7.99 Add to cartSecrets and surprises from Roald Dahl
Feast your eyes on a secret Between these covers is a long-lost chapter–and the original ending–from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other delicious nev- Author: Dahl, Roald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0142417424
- Language: English
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C.S. Lewis: The Writer Who Found Joy
$14.99 Read moreThe lion, the writer, and the search for joy.
Not every author can write about theology, literature, and a talking lion and end up delighting readers for generations. But not every author is C.S. Lew- Series: Here I Am! Biography
- Author: DeWitt, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1087759234
- Language: English
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You Can’t Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
$18.99 Read moreWhat happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probes the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for … [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Leonard S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0763690368
- Language: English
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All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
$8.99 Add to cart“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred
Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but re- Author: Yaccarino, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0375859209
- Language: English
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Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?
$6.99 Add to cartFilled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0448483114
- Language: English
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
$9.99 Add to cartThis is the remarkable true story of a family during one of the bleakest periods in history, a story that “radiates optimism and the resilience of the human spirit” (Washington Post).
In June 1941, th
- Author: Hautzig, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 006440577X
- Language: English
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Who Is Judy Blume?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century.
Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from chil- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0448488493
- Language: English
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Who Was Jane Austen?
$6.99 Add to cartStep into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author.
Although Jane Austen’s works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal reco- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0448488639
- Language: English
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Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
$27.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose m… [more below]
- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0451498518
- Language: English
