Literary Figures
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, t… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0156007045
- Language: English
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Lo Que Yo VI / What I Saw
$19.95 Read moreMemorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo pasado y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del presente.
Desde la casa donde naci?, los juegos de calle durante su n- Author: Esquivel, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644736640
- Language: Spanish
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Pessoa: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartNearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted
- Author: Zenith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092394
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$22.00 Add to cart*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book*
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York T- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250354587
- Language: English
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A Circle of Quiet
$21.99 Add to cartThe beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My speci- Series: Crosswicks Journals #1
- Author: L’Engle, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1504064461
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.
Brazen, incisive, and outra- Series: Gonzo Letters #02
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0684873168
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
$23.00 Add to cart“bell hooks’s brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.” –Gloria Steinem
With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell ho- Series: Wounds of Passion #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 1, 1999
- ISBN10: 0805057226
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Reasons to Stay Alive
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
“Destined to become a modern classic.” —Entertainment Weekly WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? At the age of 24, Matt Haig’- Author: Haig, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128728
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$19.99 Add to cartA recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Frenc
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316776963
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover
$27.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico Garc?a Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca’s landmark collection, Poet in New York.
In Augus- Author: Billingsley, Patricia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369359
- Language: English
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The Turquoise Ledge
$27.00 Add to cart“Leslie Marmon Silko writes in the language of the spirit . . . sentence by sentence, the reader is given an enormous amount of useful information about how to get the most out of life, beginning in t… [more below]
- Author: Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120107
- Language: English
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The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me about Life
$32.00 Add to cartA good mystery isn’t just entertainment; it’s a tonic for life’s hardships
Like so many of us living through the upheaval of the last five years, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling writer Cathy R- Author: Rentzenbrink, Cathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0593835301
- Language: English
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Will and Attention: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartIn this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work… [more below]
- Author: O’Gieblyn, Meghan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0385551576
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
$21.99 Add to cart“A shapely experiment, mixing memoir with biography . . . [Elizabeth Bishop] fuses sympathy with intelligence, sending us back to Bishop’s marvelous poems.” — Wall Street Journal
Since her death in- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745635
- Language: English
