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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Comics Lit Vol. 1Comic books are high art.They-and their graphic novel counterparts-harken back to classic literature and artworks. Through a series of essays, the authors will illustrate that modern pop culture characters are direct descendants of classic works of literature and their visual depiction is inspired by...
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Chita: A Memory of Last IslandIn this historical biography, Hearn paints a colorful portrait of life in the marshy Gulf Coast city of New Orleans, focusing on a young girl adopted by a Spanish family.Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 02/11/2016Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...
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Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)Comfort and DelightAs a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English...
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Bequeath: EssaysWhat should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff's Bequeath presents a flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to solve the mysteries of bequeathed artifacts, family myths, and haunting...
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Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her LettersIn Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) was Pierpont...
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Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution: Volume IIAuthor: Wendy KurantPublisher: University of North GeorgiaPublished: 01/01/2019Pages: 838Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.66dISBN: 9781940771649This title is not returnable
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New YorkFrom legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City."Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism." --Wall Street Journal"They fly in quietly--unnoticed, like...
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A Proclamation for Peace: Translated for the WorldAuthor: Allison DefreesePublisher: Little InfinitiesPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.35dISBN: 9798991055802
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A Passing West: Essays from the BorderlandsA unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family.Gilb has a...
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A Man in Overalls: The Legacy of a Cape Breton BardAuthor: Judy RoyPublisher: Red HawkPublished: 07/22/2024Pages: 348Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72dISBN: 9798990624412
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A Discourse on the Origin of InequalityGenevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential figures of the 18th century. His political philosophy has been pointed to as a major contributing factor in causing the French Revolution. Social and economic inequality has been a pervasive element of human existence...
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected WritingsFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America. For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In...
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Zack Jones: Fisherman-PhilosopherZack Jones: Fisherman-Philosopher is a book written by Helen Swift. The book tells the story of Zack Jones, a fisherman who lives in a small coastal town. Zack is not just an ordinary fisherman, he is also a philosopher who loves to ponder the...
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Written LivesIn addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of...
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Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W. Morgan, 1849-1853Whale Hunt, first published in 1948, is a first-hand account of a whaling voyage during the mid-1800s. Author Nelson Cole Haley, harpooner on the ship Charles W. Morgan, details daily life on board the ship, dangers and challenges faced by the crew, interactions with...
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Well Out to Sea: Year-Round on Matinicus IslandEva Murray moved to Matinicus in 1987 to teach in its one-room school. She married an island man and stayed to raise their family there. Over the years she's written a number of lively columns and articles for mainland publications. But, as she says,...
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Walking into GodE.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet's lifelong devotion to a poetry and poetics of the sacred. The poems in this volume present as a single long poem that explores the processes of walking, moving, changing,...
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Transformational: Stories of Northern Michigan Arts & CultureTransformational: Stories of Northern Michigan Arts & Culture is part of a Community Partners project led by the Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network, Michigan Writers and Interlochen Public Radio that uses storytelling to explore the role creativity, arts and culture play in furthering...
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Tracks in the SandTracks in the Sand is a collection of essays that maps the contours of a layered life.Outdoorsman and cattle farmer H. Turney McKnight writes about the natural world with the grace of a poet and the ease of a seasoned storyteller. From rivers in...
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To the Goddesses and the Gods: PoemsThese poems have been published in "Active Muse," "The Road Not Taken: A Journal For Formal Verse," in other publications, and in various community journals and anthologies all the way back to the Witchvox poetry section. They range from acts of invocation to fine...
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