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In the latest school adventure of the best-selling Jitters series, Mrs. Hartwell's class has a very special guest coming to visit: author S. J. Brown! Mrs. Hartwell plans the best author visits for her class, and this time is no exception. The famous author...

""An important artifact from the underground past...an inspiration for any aspiring artist or anyone else who has ever felt trapped by mainstream society."" -- Amazon Customer A unique and hilarious autobiography of a pioneer of the 1990s zine movement, containing all 8 issues of...

The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot.In January 2020, the T. S. Eliot estate finally opened the largest and most eagerly awaited cache of new materials written by the Nobel-Prize-winning poet: the 1,131...

Author: Pablo de DalmasesPublisher: AlmuzaraPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788419387912Language: Spanish

Mark Twain was known as one of the greatest writers of his time, but what about before that? What happened when Twain was younger? What did he do then that led to his being famous later on? Also includes a page for caregivers and...

Adventures In Two Worlds is a memoir written by A. J. Cronin, a Scottish author and physician. The book chronicles Cronin's life from his childhood in Scotland to his experiences as a doctor in both the UK and Canada. The memoir is divided into...

This stunning and lyrical picture book biography details the life and art of celebrated children's book creator, Barbara Cooney. For every kid who loves art, here is the inspirational story of beloved illustrator and two-time Caldecott Medalist, Barbara Cooney. Barbara was born in a...

Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in Walpole, Massachusetts, and her later experiences at Wellesley College, then Hollywood and, finally, Turkey, Agabian offers...

Edith Nesbit's natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children's author. But beyond her beloved children's stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural. Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked,...

This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation's greatest and most divisive thinkers--featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry. " . . . pulls together some of Hitchens's greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit." --New York Times Book...

A thrilling visual companion curated for young adults voraciously reading their way through Stephen King's colossal corpus of creepy books. For many young readers, when the last page of Goosebumps is turned, the first chapter of Pet Sematary begins, and a world of terror...

A remarkable collection of diary entries from cross-genre Portuguese author Maria Gabriela Llansol, which span dozens of diaries and 33 years."She dedicated herself to this work regularly, at the same time, in the same place, and in almost the same position..." (The Book of...

Brian Brett's farm on Salt Spring Island is affectionately known as Trauma Farm. There, he raises chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, and goats, tends an extensive orchard and vegetable garden, concocts fabulous meals from the bounties of the farm, and has various misadventures. This funny...

From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert...

Author: Edmund WhitePublisher: VintagePublished: 10/04/1994Pages: 800Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 2.10dISBN: 9780679754794Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/19/1994About the AuthorEdmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His previous books include Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the...

Baker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.Author:...

A master chronicler of the African-American experience, Richard Wright brilliantly expanded his literary horizons with Pagan Spain, originally published in 1957. An amalgam of expert travel reportage, dramatic monologue, and arresting sociological critique, Pagan Spain serves as a pointed and still-relevant commentary on the...

The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A....

When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols,...

Gloria E. Anzaldúa, best known for her books Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back, is one of the foremost feminist thinkers and activists of our time. As one of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa has played a major role in...