Literary Collections
Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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Anywhere Else: Essays on FloridaA memoir of growing up in Florida interwoven with cultural reflections of the state from The X-Files to Emerson--revealing the complex truths of life as a FloridianFlorida and pop culture are a magnetic, viral match. From true crimes on social media to spring break...
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Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue: Blank Forms 10A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic compositionThis volume is an exploration of the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue (born 1932), whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis and composition on tape...
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The Worst Fishing Dog Ever: And Other EssaysA heartfelt look at the state of modern fly-fishing and the challenges fishers will face in the coming decades. Ron Dungan, like many fly-fishers, can be obsessive. Although decades of fishing trips have led him to encounter snakes, bears, and treacherous terrain, his main...
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The Season of Birds and Stones: EssaysThe essays that make up The Season of Birds and Stones grapple with questions of what wilderness means and how we can interact with and learn from other species. Set in some of our most stunning public lands, including Denali National Park and Preserve,...
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The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New EnglandThe most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the...
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The Best Dog in the World: Essays on LoveFourteen beloved authors celebrate the life-changing bond with their canine companions in this heartwarming essay collection edited by New York Times bestselling author and lifelong dog lover Alice Hoffman. Anyone who has ever been fortunate enough to share their life with a dog knows...
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Someday This Will Be a Funny Story: The Quotable Nora EphronFrom "the queen of quips" (The New York Times) comes an inspiring and hilarious quote collection about everything that matters--love and heartbreak, good food and good company, aging well and writing well We all want a best friend like Nora Ephron: frank but forgiving,...
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On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes"As a man who long convinced himself that he lived on the edge of the world, here's my wish for you: Embrace the awe. Allow yourself to feel alone. Then remember you are not." The thirty-three writers in this collection grapple with the vastness...
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Nine Gates"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious--one random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and...
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Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps"[Mom] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real." --Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) "Isay brings a satisfying second collection of StoryCorps selections after the bestselling Listening Is an Act of Love. . . . Readers will encounter...
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McSweeney's Issue 79 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)Coming to you at the intersection of book and tapestry, the seventy-ninth issue of our National Magazine Award-winning quarterly is embroidered from head to toe--using precisely 133,095 stitches of thread--with the art of Marta Monteiro. Inside this tactile, textile, tangerine-backdropped, cloth-bound art object are...
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Letters on Living the FaithA collection of excerpts from C.S. Lewis's letters offering guidance and encouragement to correspondents struggling with intellectual questions, personal conflicts, or ethical dilemmas. C.S. Lewis's writings have inspired spiritual formation, helped people explore joy, facilitated redemption, and taught us the consequences of human choices.Letters...
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King Richard IIIn this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern...
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Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII: Pacuvius. Minor Tragic Poets. Unidentified DramatistsDilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220-130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome's greatest tragic poet, together with the fragments of those tragedians of whose work little has survived. Also included are fragments distinguished as...
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Essays V2: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815)Essays V2: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815) is a collection of essays written by Edward Hyde Earl Of Clarendon. The essays explore various aspects of the human mind, including its faculties and passions. The book...
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Dr. FaustusOne of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust's damnation were often the raffish fare of clowns...
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Bookin' in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book ClubPat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women's Facility who participated in her book club for the better part of seven years. She hoped the books they read would give some respite from their daily prison life, and,...
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Beyond the VeilBeyond the Veil is not a memoir of what happened it is a memoir of what it meant.Through raw honesty, poetic fragments, and haunting truths, Franciele Medeiros Rossi carries us into the darkness of loss, the ache of memory, and the fierce courage it...
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Winter: The Story of a Season"The perfect little book to get you through winter's doldrums . . . a warm look at a dark time."--Washington PostIn this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single...
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What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017: (A Library of America Boxed Set)The indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a special two-volume edition prepared in consultation with the author. Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for...
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