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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What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in PoetryWhen did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showed her there was a place for her in...
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To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope"An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked...
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Theory for Moving HousesYou are asking me where I live and it's making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when I'm a...
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The Complete Works of William ShakespeareCelebrate the genius, passion, and poetry of William Shakespeare with this beautifully bound deluxe edition, featuring his complete plays and poems in one timeless collector's volume. No writer has shaped the English language or the human imagination like William Shakespeare. From the unforgettable tragedies...
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The Colossus of New YorkIn a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone...
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The Bottom of the HarborA classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned artist Joana Avillez and an introduction by filmmaker and...
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Something to DeclareJulia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom. "Los Angeles Times" From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels "In...
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Once Upon a Time There Was Truth: Or, Why We Need Fairy TalesEssays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy talesFairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the conflicts in our hearts are literalized in the world around...
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Nothing at AllAn atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism. From deep inside a black hole, comes Nothing at All--the space where everything collapses: form, genre, gender, and being. Olivia Tapiero's poetic and essayistic fragments overflow with lyric beauty as they explore how colonialism,...
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap OperasPart cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers into a conversation that ranges from topics both serious (race,...
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Letting GoLetting Go is a reflective non-fiction book that explores the quiet, often difficult process of release, healing, and personal growth. Written with honesty and emotional depth, it speaks to readers who are holding on- to relationships, grief, expectations, or versions of themselves that no...
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Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century LiteratureA lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated-specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa...
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Turn Where: A Geography of HomeA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate rendering of...
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The Portable Abraham LincolnCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our...
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The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt LakeFor thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake's alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and...
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold BloomA selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...
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The Color WheelThe Color Wheel is a collection of 117 poems by 117 poets. The collection includes such poets as Kim Addonizio, Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Alberto Rios, Paulann Petersen, Betsy Sholl, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Sydney Lea, and Dorianne Laux. Each poem makes strategic use of color....
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Since You're Mortal . . .: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays"The truly happy man ought to stay at home.""Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.""Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes."These quotes and many others from the great Greek dramatists, including Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Menander, were preserved long after...
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Every Broken Angel: A Southern story of silence, shame and sacred reckoningEvery Broken Angel is a haunting Southern gothic novel about inheritance-of silence, of shame, and of the choices that echo long after a life ends.Born into a world where women are expected to endure and never speak, Ruby Amsler grows up in the Ozarks...
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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural WorldPulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography--from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt...
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