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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Class ACT: A Gentleman's Guide to Dressing WellFrom the bestselling, iconic author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes an irreverent and essential style guide--from boxers to button downs, turtlenecks to tuxedos For more than a decade, beloved author John Berendt wrote a series of smart, sophisticated columns...
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Yáamay: An Anthology of Feminine Perspectives Across Indigenous CaliforniaYáamay: An Anthology of Feminine Perspectives Across Indigenous California is a collection of Indigenous poetry, artwork, and essays specific to what is now known as Southern California. The lead authors separated these pieces into the four natural parts of our story: Tówla (Root), Kúp...
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The Year's Best Sports Writing 2026A classic year after year, The Year's Best Sports Writing is a must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism 2026 guest editor Mirin Fader has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports. Selected from a...
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Thirty-Six Stratagems: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: The Art of War Companion, Chinese Strategy Classic, Includes PinyinThis unique edition of Thirty-Six Stratagems features both English, Chinese and Pinyin side-by-side for easy reference and bilingual support. The strategies are organized for easy reading. This text is celebrated as one of China's classic military strategy texts. The Thirty-Six Stratagems was a Chinese...
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There's a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical PlaceA witty meditation revealing what our obsession with monsters says about wonder, reality, and narrative itself What does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernández...
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The Most of Nora Ephron: Revised EditionA whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest--and most acute--writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Everything you...
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The First Reader: On Writers and EditorsFrom one of the world's most celebrated literary publishers, a beautiful and candid meditation on the art of being a partner to creative greatness For 40 years, Companhia das Letras, the Brazilian publishing house founded by Luiz Schwarcz, has stood for a steadfast and...
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The Cozy Commonplace BookAn exquisite literary anthology that celebrates life's comforts and joys, both big and small. This warm and welcoming anthology concentrates on the things that make us happy, from spending time in nature and seeing our friends, to enjoying the comfort of being at home....
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Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of PoemsThe remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author Award-winning poet Robert Pinsky's first two collections--Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America--announced the...
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Mom's Book: It Was Never About the GriefMom's Book is a memoir-in-essays born from a mother's attempt to stay close to her son, and her discovery that love does not disappear but continues to speak.Through a nonlinear rhythm of memory and music, Wendy Goldberg traces the life she shared with her...
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In Defence of MarxismThis book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fundamentals of Marxism. It was for this...
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How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to DisappearA riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood--AM radio,...
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Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in LanguageHeart Eater traces the author's childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author who writes in multiple genres. The book is made of short essays, or...
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Emerging from the Winter Sea: Selected Poetry and Prose (1998-2021) / A Bilingual EditionA bilingual edition of the selected poems of the celebrated contemporary Italian poet Antonella Anedda. A thin stream of water flows into the sinkice stripes the windowsand it's difficult to think about the sea breezeand the banging of the trolleysand the whistle of the...
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Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old"The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration."--Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music "[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to...
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Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work2026 WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FINALIST What does authenticity at work actually mean? Writer and critic Jodi-Ann Burey argues that expectations to "come as you are" and "bring your full authentic self to work" are part of an ongoing cycle of trading on our...
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An Island Called Bainbridge: People, Places, ConversationsStep off the ferry from Seattle, and the city fades behind you-its noise, its rush, its endless complication. What remains is the quieter rhythm of Washington's small towns. In this collection of writings, Mary Lou Sanelli introduces readers to Bainbridge Island, its people, places,...
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White MagicThroughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug...
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The Big Book of the DeadMarion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of the Dead, have been carefully combined in their proper chronological order,...
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays"Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." --The New York Times Book Review In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell...
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