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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Ways of Telling"Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing."--Margaret Atwood "Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's...
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and HopeThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we're taught not to care about others' opinions,...
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To See BeyondA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls "one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era"Our hyper-informed digital era of climate catastrophe, historically unmatched migration, and genocide confronts us with a terrible conundrum: the...
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The Life of Mary as Seen by the MysticsGenerations of devout Catholics, including many learned theologians and writers, have derived great spiritual benefits from a careful reading of the private revelations here compiled, those of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich and Ven. Mary of Agreda, primarily, along with those of St. Bridget of...
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryorchardFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new...
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic WestA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project. Ty Bannerman's family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to build nuclear bombs. This fact has become their origin...
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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement"A landmark work around a theme so prominent--and yet so thoroughly ignored--in modern life." --Ocean Vuong A poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estrangement, with pieces by Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, and others Estrangement...
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My Heart & I AgreeFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy,...
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams"A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to...
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Mamá, Quiero Escuchar Tu Historia: Un Diario Guiado Para Que Mamá Comparta Su Vida Y Su AmorLa colección oficial de Hear Your Story(R)Da a mamá el regalo de ser conocida de verdad. Mamá, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia es más que un diario guiado: es una invitación sincera para que tu mamá pueda reflexionar, recordar y compartir los momentos que dieron...
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in FictionHailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, the first work...
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Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and MadnessDickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members;...
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Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines: The Cat in Folklore, Myth, and LegendCurious Cats and Fantastical Felines gives an intriguing insight into the historical relationship between cats and humans by exploring the folklore, myths, and legends that relate to cats from around the globe. For thousands of years, cats and humankind have been inextricably intertwined. From...
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The Colorado BookThe Colorado Book brings together some of the voices that have shaped the Centennial State, offering readers an expansive journey through Colorado's literary, historical, and cultural landscape. Curated with deep knowledge of the state's heritage, this collection spans genres and generations--from compelling fiction and...
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Return to Elkins Creek: A Fishing OdysseyReturn to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still...
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National Verses: Values, Virtue, and Vision in American and African American Song TextsIs African American music relegated to Negro spirituals and field songs, or is there more?And how well can Black gospel, hip-hop, and other genres actually represent ourpresent-day struggle for racial justice and equity?In this in-depth look at America and its music, Dr. John Ware...
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Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959The 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 love affair--a bestseller in France, translated for the first time into English Albert. Albert chéri. Write...
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Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to EnglishBest book to learn Russian for beginnersDo you want to learn Russian with original Russian beginner stories? It's easy with Russian and interlinear English. 90+ pages with every word translated literally and in English idiom so you can keep on reading and learn a...
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Jota: A Queer Latina y Latinx AnthologyJOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology is a landmark collection of over 70 queer writers and artists. Building on the foundation of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and Compañeras (1987), JOTA shares a new addition to the queer...
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our SelvesA vital testament to how art makes us who we are--and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be...
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