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William Shakespeare & the Globe
$11.99 Read moreWith her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare’s life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of a
- Series: Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)
- Author: Aliki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0064437221
- Language: English
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Louisa May Alcott
$7.99 Read moreDear Reader:
The Childhood of Famous Americans series, sixty-five years old in 1997, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spir… [more below]- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Henderson, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0689820259
- Language: English
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Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit
$17.99 Add to cartWorld Magazine’s Picture Book of the Year 2020
“Fans of Beatrix Potter will delight in this tribute to her dedication and talent, encapsulating a legacy that reaches far beyond the pages of her belove- Author: Marshall, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1499809603
- Language: English
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A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir
$8.99 Add to cartTold in her own words, A Girl from Yamhill is Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary’s heartfelt and relatable memoir.
For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, an
- Author: Cleary, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062453319
- Language: English
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Memories and Life Lessons from the Magic Tree House
$16.99 Read moreCelebrate the 30th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling series with heartfelt advice from Mary Pope Osborne’s own life and her magical adventures with Jack and Annie–perfect for Magic Tre… [more below]
- Series: Magic Tree House (R)
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593484541
- Language: English
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CAM Jansen: CAM Jansen and the Mystery Writer Mystery #27
$5.99 Add to cartNo mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory
Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes…even to the book fair. Cam Jansen, her friends,- Series: Cam Jansen #27
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0142411949
- Language: English
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Who Was Maurice Sendak?
$6.99 Read moreIt seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut–June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, af… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448465000
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Deltovia: Volume 1
$11.99 Read moreThree friends. Two worlds. One epic notebook. Escape into The Chronicles of Deltovia, the greatest story still being written!
Three middle school girls–Misha, June, and Ollie–know their epic fantas- Series: The Very Genius Notebooks
- Author: Jaimes, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1524871567
- Language: English
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Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
$10.99 Add to cartThe colorful boyhood of a popular author comes to life in this personal account
Imagine learning from a nosy classmate that your mother is having yet another baby. To Ralph’s classmates, news of one m- Author: Fletcher, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250010241
- Language: English
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Nonsense!: The Curious Story of Edward Gorey
$17.99 Read moreA beautifully illustrated and lyrical picture-book biography of eccentric and beloved writer and artist Edward Gorey
In this lyrical biography of one of literature’s most creepily creative authors an- Author: Mortensen, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 358033683
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
$35.00 Read moreThe mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.
Endless Flight trave
- Author: Pim, Keiron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1783785098
- Language: English
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th
$16.99 Add to cartThe 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman’s petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation’s history wer… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0743264622
- Language: English
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The Tongue Set Free
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author’s autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development.
Elias Canetti was one of the major- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374518025
- Language: English
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Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts
$17.95 Read moreNovelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) left a mark on twentieth-century literature, not only in her homeland of Norway, but across the West. Her painterly eye for the Scandinavian countryside, her uncompr
- Author: Nichols, Aidan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 162164507X
- Language: English
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Bukowski, a Life
$18.95 Read moreThe life of Charles Bukowski–laureate of lowlife Los Angeles–a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator.
Neeli Cherk- Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 157423241X
- Language: English
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emp- Author: Straight, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1948226227
- Language: English
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
$24.99 Read moreWith a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1400206251
- Language: English
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The Yage Letters Redux
$17.95 Add to cartThe definitive edition of Burroughs’ seminal epistolary novel about seeking hallucinogenic Yage in South America.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0872864480
- Language: English
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
$19.99 Add to cart“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain
So Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Series: Pacific Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0824802888
- Language: English
