Literary Figures
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Mi Refugio Y Mi Tormenta / Mother Mary Comes to Me
$22.95 Add to cartEn la lista de los mejores 50 libros del 2025 de Babelia
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Preseleccionado para el Premio del C?rculo Nacional de Cr?ticos de Libros en Biograf?a de 2025 Mejor Libro de los- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 6073864892
- Language: Spanish
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu’s Romania
$29.95 Add to cartA Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu’s Romania.
From her childhood in Romania, in a village “as small as a thimble on t- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100828
- Language: English
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
$17.95 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: An “exquisitely wrought memoir” about how “love can flourish even in the harshest climates”–for readers of The Liar’s Club and Running with Scissors (People).
“One of the b- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092161
- Language: English
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The Tender Land: A Family Love Story
$18.99 Add to cartA superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans — parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis — are a seemingly unexceptional family. Th
- Author: Finneran, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0618340742
- Language: English
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries
$31.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.
Celebrated public intellectual E- Author: Glaude, Eddie S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0593239806
- Language: English
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartBest known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?
Randal M. Jelks d
- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889832126
- Language: English
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Dante: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Florence’s famous son
Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here w- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Lewis, R. W. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 014311641X
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
$19.00 Add to cartIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394725808
- Language: English
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Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959
$60.00 Add to cartThe impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming … [more below]
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0525656618
- Language: English
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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
$34.00 Add to cartWritten by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy.
“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution t
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661764
- Language: English
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Sydney Journals
$18.95 Add to cartA thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.
Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380255
- Language: English
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True Crime: A Memoir
$32.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.
Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling
- Author: Cornwell, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1538782480
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$20.00 Add to cartThirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she torm… [more below]
- Author: Milford, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760814
- Language: English
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The Journals of John Cheever
$21.00 Add to cartIn these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. – “A treasure-trove of riches.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0307387259
- Language: English
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
$18.00 Add to cartA dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
Ak? The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka’s boyhood before and d- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725407
- Language: English
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life
$33.99 Add to cartEmily Bront? (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It t
- Author: Lutz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324037113
- Language: English
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True Crime: A Memoir
$32.50 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own.
Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling
- Author: Cornwell, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1538778440
- Language: English
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
$17.99 Add to cartAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060545844
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir
$28.48 Add to cartChristopher Robin’s story in his own words.
- Author: Milne, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: July 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1509821899
- Language: English
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Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life
$30.00 Add to cartAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marsha- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Washington, Mary Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300253850
- Language: English
