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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. ChestertonHere is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His...
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Letters to a Young PoetThis modern translation of Rilke's classic letters of wisdom and advice touches upon a wide range of subjects that are sure to be of interest to writers, artists, and thinkers.Author: Rainer Maria RilkePublisher: New World LibraryPublished: 03/07/2000Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 7.58h x 5.29w...
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The Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition): Including Sor Filotea's Letter and New Selected PoemsNew materials in the classic bilingual literary and critical edition of extraordinary Mexican 17th-century feminist nun.Author: Sor Juana Inés de la CruzPublisher: Feminist PressPublished: 06/01/2009Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781558615984About the AuthorSor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695), a...
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The Kiss: A MemoirIn this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose...
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Finding ChristmasFrom the writer of the Netflix sensation, A Christmas Prince, and Christmas Camp, the Hallmark movie and novel, comes a heartwarming new Christmas story, Finding Christmas, showing how sometimes the detour in your journey is the path to true love.With all the glittering decorations,...
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Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and MemoryTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Published in England and America in 1819--1820, and universally praised for its inventive...
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Rain of GoldThis is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico, their immigration to California and their overcoming poverty, prejudice and economic exploitation. It is...
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ShriverIn this charming, clever, and darkly satiric novel set at a writers' conference, one man finds himself caught in a whirlwind of literary pretention, a suspect in a criminal investigation, and hopelessly in love with a woman who thinks he's someone else. Mistaken for...
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Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers as KidsThis exciting debut in graphic novel format tells the childhood stories of literary legends including Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, and Sandra Cisnernos. Perfect for fans of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. What makes a writer?...
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a KidNewbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his best-selling fiction. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! "A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful things that happen...
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Strong OpinionsIn this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects.Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of...
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The ConfessionsWidely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his...
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The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and SkyIn wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber...
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Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de BeauvoirWhen Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public. This correspondence, at the heart of Sex, Love,...
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Iceberg Slim: The Biography of a PimpRobert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership. Beck's novels were adapted into movies, and the imagery and tone of Beck's fiction have been acknowledged as an influence by several...
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26 Fairmount AvenueA Newbery Honor Book Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstairs, only...
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The Devil's Own Work (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)After Edward, a rising young author, pens a savage review of the new novel by the world-famous O.M. Tyrell, he is surprised to receive an invitation to visit the old man at his villa in the south of France. The night of their meeting,...
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Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, PioneerAn award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists--a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever.Born in 1891 in Stockholm, Ester Blenda Nordström defied stereotypes from an early age. She wore trousers,...
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The Dreamed PartFollowing his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called "God particle," The Writer from The Invented Part can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of his life, spinning out a series...
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My DaughterStunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble. --Nafkote TamiratFor readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the...
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