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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
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William Shakespeare & the Globe
$11.99 Add to cartWith 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 Read moreWorld 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 Add to cartNovelist 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
