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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Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed: Nanaboozhoo Went Walking & Other Stories from Grand PortageOriginally published as individual stories in the 1970s, under Billy Blackwell, Director and Editor of the Bilingual Reading Series, Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed brings together these traditional Ojibwe stories, offering readers a treasured bilingual text for language and cultural education. This 2nd edition, published in Ojibwemowin...
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milwaukee Sentinel"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend." --New York Times Book ReviewIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara...
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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American SouthWinner of the Southern Book PrizeWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFor the past four years, Margaret Renkl's columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her...
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Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of ReadingThe heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary lives as oeuvres, she excavates the glories of...
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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food WritingEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast historical sweep into one groundbreaking volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the...
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Vocal Lanterns: A Collection of Voices to Unite, Inspire, and Create Brighter Pathways for Women in SecurityLanterns guide us when the path blurs and remind us we are never alone. Vocal Lanterns gathers voices across the security field to share candid stories, practical advice, and hard-won lessons, illuminating the path forward for women in the security industry. You'll hear from...
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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and CriticismSelected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative. Writing on subjects as divergent as the mega-fires that burned the grasslands of the Great Plains in 2018, the tragic secret life of the manufacturer of maraschino cherries,...
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The Secret of Life: Cosmic Rays and Radiations of Living Beings2013 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georges Lakhovsky (1869-1942) was a Russian engineer, scientist, author and inventor. His controversial medical treatment invention, the Multiple Wave Oscillator, is described as having been used by...
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The Portable Charles W. ChesnuttA collection from one of our most influential African American writers An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition...
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The Life of ChristWidely regarded, upon its release in Europe in 1941, as a masterpiece and the best biography of Our Lord ever published, Fr. Giuseppe Ricciottiï's Life of Christ is a monumental work in which the author surveys the chronology, history, customs, and geography pertinent to...
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered WritingOn the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and...
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The Christian Ministry: With an Inquiry into the Causes of Its InefficiencyThe classic of Christian ministerial thought by Charles Bridges is presented to the reader anew in this superb edition, complete with the author's annotations.For the author, the curious point that the ministry failed in many of its core duties was sufficient genesis for a...
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Talking with BoysIn a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces an unforgettable cast of characters in the Pakistani diaspora in Houston navigating crises of their own making and beyond their control. Via generations and geographies, the stories expand...
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Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic WritersIn Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow and Jo Case showcase the wide-ranging experiences of Autistic gender-diverse and women writers - and explode long-held stereotypes. BIPOC and white gender minorities with Autism have existed on the fringes of mainstream media for too long, rarely...
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected WritingsFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality""The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." --Robert M. Pirsig, 1962More...
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My Seditious Heart: Collected NonfictionIn constant conversation with the themes and settings of her novels, the essays form a near-unbroken memoir of Arundhati Roy's journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world, from "The End of Imagination", which begins this book, to...
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the MidwestHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 72 original short essays by a...
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India's preeminent writers. "I'm an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don't write about India. I'm not interested in...
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Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a TheologianFrom award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf--two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all. Whether you're seeking something to believe in or no longer...
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early MotherhoodMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life Like a newborn's patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don't follow a reasonable schedule, and there's no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives...
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