Literary Collections
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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A Hope Observed: Finding Solace Through Shared Stories of Grief
$29.99 Add to cartIn the midst of overwhelming or lingering grief, sometimes the only comfort is knowing that you’re not alone. This courageously honest, beautifully designed book offers solace through shared stories o
- Author: Bannon, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893480405
- Language: English
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Winter: The Story of a Season
$22.00 Add to cartIn this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single winter in her life as she journeys into the h
- Author: McDermid, Val
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0802167810
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: Dual-Language Edition
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of poems from one of the nineteenth century’s greatest French writers
For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes celebrated- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437034
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
$19.00 Add to cartThoreau’s classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux
Cape Cod ch- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140170022
- Language: English
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$18.00 Add to cartIn these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0679768203
- Language: English
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Other People’s Mothers
$28.00 Add to cartA nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age
Relationships
story told through one young woman’s relationships with the mother figures in
her life
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fr- Author: Wade, Julie Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081149
- Language: English
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A Generous Life: Reflections on Inspired Giving
$22.95 Add to cartA bold and imaginative guide for donors who want to make their giving more meaningful, from a pioneering thinker in the field of philanthropy.
In 1989, Peter Karoff, a businessman with a passion for s- Author: Karoff, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311155
- Language: English
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El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities
$20.00 Add to cartSeeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect A
- Author: Marshy, Samia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1998898024
- Language: English
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast
$18.95 Add to cartImmerse yourself in a unique blend of literature and lore about the Redwood Coast
- Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the Redwood coast
- Contributors include Julia Butt
- Author: Kyu, Ilyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1680517546
- Language: English
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Momma May Be Mad: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartMomma May Be Mad: A Memoir is an inventive and striking memoir about motherhood, madness, and the grace of second and third chances. Kerry Neville shares the story of how she was caught in the perfect
- Author: Neville, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1963695410
- Language: English
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles–earth, water, air and fire–exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness.
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- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162640142X
- Language: English
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
$29.00 Add to cartThe first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036371
- Language: English
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
$19.00 Add to cartDiscover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclas… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668095823
- Language: English
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If I Must Die
$17.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deep
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196615
- Language: English
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Roaring Stream
$21.99 Add to cartThe Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch’an and Zen Buddhist literature. It offers readers a tour through more than a m
- Series: Ecco Companions
- Author: Foster, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 088001511X
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Jane Austen: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Novels
$35.00 Add to cartThe Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revol
- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004184
- Language: English
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Out There in the Dark
$20.00 Add to cartKatharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. She watches The Sound of Music and observes that time is peculiarly preserved in a narrative film; she watches Singin’ in the Rain and finds
- Author: Coldiron, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1957392371
- Language: English
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Medea
$8.14 Add to cartAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
–K
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
