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 Read moreNearly 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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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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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
$24.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
“Feminism, history, literature, politics–this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” –Therese A- Author: Kaufman, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0525537155
- Language: English
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Auden
$30.00 Read morePeter Ackroyd’s compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century.
Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391722
- Language: English
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Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses had sustained a v… [more below]
- Author: Rember, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031117
- Language: English
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 – A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 – A Time Best Memoir of 2025 – Name- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593654005
- Language: English
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I Have Heard You Calling in the Night
$18.99 Add to cartT homas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, sometimes a writer, often unemployed, no stranger to the police. His life was going nowhere but downhill. Then one day he bought a pup–a Doberman. He called him … [more below]
- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0156033712
- Language: English
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Eagle Pond
$18.00 Add to cartThis original paperback brings together for the first time all of Donald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy and th
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0618839348
- Language: English
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In a Dark Wood: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident–in one terrible instant, Luzz
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0062357522
- Language: English
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
$27.00 Read moreIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her frien- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0374602077
- Language: English
