Literary Figures
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
$35.00 Add to cartRachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547238231
- Language: English
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Paul Celan: A Life
$35.00 Read moreA luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem “Deathfugue.”
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was recognized as the greatest- Author: Arno, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0674298632
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusion- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242227X
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan’s Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)
$24.99 Add to cart“A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara’s place on the international stage.” –Paul Perry, novelist and poet
This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynami- Author: Nakahara, Chuya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 480531897X
- Language: English
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
$20.00 Add to cart“Groundbreaking . . . Chang’s lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family’s time capsule and an artist’s timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.” –NPR
Now in paperb
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311882
- Language: English
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Koljos
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 8433949098
- Language: Spanish
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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
$21.00 Add to cartLet It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder… [more below]
- Author: DeRogatis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0767905091
- Language: English
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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
$27.00 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 Add to cartNEW 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 Add to cartIn 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
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The Book of Separation: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThe memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family- Author: Mirvis, Tova
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1328477878
- Language: English
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95 Add to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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Sounding Heaven and Earth: A Poet’s Corner Collection
$20.99 Add to cartThe back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observations… [more below]
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1786225395
- Language: English
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Good Morning Moon: A Snapshot of an American Family
$29.00 Add to cart- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063466937
- Language: English
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Levels of Life: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir–a “wise, funny, and devastating … discourse on love and sorrow”… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806581
- Language: English
