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
$22.99 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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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
$19.00 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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Jane. Una Biograf?a Literaria de Jane Austen / Jane. a Literary Biography of Jane Austen
$25.95 Add to cartEn el 250. aniversario de Jane Austen, Cristina O?oro y Ana Jar?n nos descubren a la autora como nunca la hab?amos conocido: un viaje por la vida y obra de una autora fascinante.
Jane nace en la rect- Author: Oñoro, Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 8426431925
- Language: Spanish
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
$29.99 Read moreAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Es
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006224857X
- Language: English
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Memoirs
$18.95 Read moreWhen Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams’ candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug u… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216691
- Language: English
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Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00 Read moreR. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, which reflected a restless mind in a global age.
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trott- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Norquay, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391684
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting
$17.95 Add to cartA fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.
“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obs- Author: Irwin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1805337769
- Language: English
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA VULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony.” -Robert Jones, Jr. “White’s love of sex makes us proud to be human.” -John Irving I’m at an age when writers are suppo- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1639739319
- Language: English
