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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Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two ActsFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone--Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. "The glow accompanying August Wilson's place in contemporary American theater is fixed."--Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black...
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa #387): 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing CrisisA vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976 W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings...
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Inciting Joy: EssaysFrom New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate). In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy...
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How to Be a Good Savage and Other PoemsThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse...
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Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition): Writers on Loving and Leaving New YorkFrom Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic--and occasional misery--of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology. In the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their...
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and KinDuring childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York...
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George's DaughterA complex story of contradiction, disillusion and love, George's Daughter is a memoir/essay about a daughter's attempt to live in accordance with her own values, in spite of conflicts with her controlling father whom she nonetheless adores. Ultimately, her defiance of him--by refusing to...
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and ThoughtSince first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance"Man is his own star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Probably no writer has so profoundly influenced American philosophy and literature, as did Emerson. Known as The Father of Transcendentalism, he was the focal point of a small group of intellectuals reacting against the orthodoxy...
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Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware SmithDuring the 1950s and '60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were...
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Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year"Raw, visionary, lucid, and mystical, Cacophony of Bone speaks of the connection between all things, and the magic that can be found in everyday life."--Katherine May, bestselling author of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious AgeTwo days after the winter solstice, Kerri ní Dochartaigh...
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone of the...
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Blue PasturesBlue Pastures collects fifteen prose works from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver."This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft."--Library JournalWith consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself...
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Black Lesbian in White America and Other WritingsBlack lesbian feminist, essayist, journalist, poet, author, and cultural worker, Anita Cornwell wrote extensively about her experiences as a Black lesbian in the United States during the twentieth century exposing the innerworkings of heteropatriarchy, misogyny, racism, the Jim Crow South, and white supremacy. A...
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the MindA compelling, radical, "richly explored" (The New York Times Book Review) and "insightful" (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved. In this expansive volume,...
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Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to CleopatraRecommended by Mary Beard as one of the BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient...
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White Girls"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is...
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We Loved It All: A Memory of LifeAcross more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with...
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Walloon Writers Review Ninth EditionWalloon Writers Review is an annual collection of short stories, poetry, and nature photography inspired by the natural beauty of Northern Michigan and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Featuring a broad array of contributors, this general audience collection explores the region sharing impressions, unique experiences, legends...
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary EditionTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was...
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