Category: Literary

A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay spans the heyday of Picano's life in the Pines and Manhattan during the 1960s and 1970s. He chronicles his love affairs and the tortuous intricacies of a longtime love triangle, his hilarious misadventures as a bookstore employee (arranging a book party hosted by Jackie Onassis, lunchtime rendezvous in secret tunnels below Grand Central Station, getting framed for embezzlement ), and the thrills and agonies involved in the writing and publishing of his first novels, including Smart as the Devil and Eyes. Picano also regales us with stories about the leg...
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A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember

By: Pearlman, Mickey [Editor]

Price: $19.84 USD

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : 1997-10-15

Seller ID: 0312174438-11-23541668

ISBN-13: 9780312174439

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The word "home" means something different to each of us. Mickey Pearlman has gathered together a group of writing women whose memories of home present a panorama of experience: Sandra Benitez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Morris, Kathryn Harrison, Francine Prose, Arlene Hirschfelder, Erica Jong, Jill McCorkle, Melinda Worth Popham, Julie Smith, lucille clifton, Dani Shapiro, Marci Hershman, Meg Pei, Carole Maso, Rosellen Brown, Jane Shapiro, Sylvia Watanabe, and Lois Lowry. These writers look back to a place that sometimes appears as solid and unyielding as a piece of granite, but is actually as...
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A Place in the Country

By: Cunningham, Laura Shaine

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Riverhead Books : 2001-06-01

Seller ID: 1573228788-3-28966544

ISBN-13: 9781573228787

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In Sleeping Arrangements, Laura Shaine Cunningham introduced us to her childhood self. Now she tells us what became of that little girl--and her lifelong quest to find the perfect country home.
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A Trail of Memories: The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour

By: Angelique L'Amour [Compiler]

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Bantam : 1988-05-01

Seller ID: 0553052713-3-20452858

ISBN-13: 9780553052718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

For decades, generations of readers have shared their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour novels and short stories: parents with their children, neighbors with their friends, executives with their staff and clergy with their congregations. They pass around dog-eared copies of the books, underlined and yellowing, recalling words that echoes in their readers' hearts and minds long after the last page was turned. Now, many of these selections have been collected in a remarkable volume representing some of the richest ore of the L'Amour lode: voices that heralded the settling of the fronti...
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Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings

By: Kazin, Alfred; Solotaroff, Ted

Price: $3.93 USD

Publisher: Harper : 2003-09-30

Seller ID: 0066213436-3-25096516

ISBN-13: 9780066213439

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson and Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. It is fair to say that in his books, essays, and reviews, Kazin succeeded Edmund Wilson as the secretary of American letters, the one who kept closest track of its proceedings, its history, its symbiotic relationship with American society, and its relations with other Western literatures. He did so out of a particularly passio...
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Ambrose Bierce's Civil War

By: Bierce, Ambrose

Price: $3.49 USD

Publisher: Gramercy : 1996-04-15

Seller ID: 0517150131-3-24210111

ISBN-13: 9780517150139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Ambrose Bierce's Civil War

By: Bierce, Ambrose; McCann, William [Editor]

Price: $3.61 USD

Publisher: Gateway Editions : 1996-06-01

Seller ID: 0895267160-3-29042924

ISBN-13: 9780895267160

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A collection of vibrant, horrifying, and sardonic stories and reminiscences about the American Civil War by soldier, journalist, and cynic Ambrose Bierce.

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An American Childhood

By: Dillard, Annie

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers : 1989-01-01

Seller ID: 0060915188-4-20538728

ISBN-13: 9780060915186

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
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An American Childhood

By: Dillard, Annie

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers : 1989-01-01

Seller ID: 0060915188-3-18733650

ISBN-13: 9780060915186

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
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An American Triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich

By: Martin, Wendy

Price: $3.65 USD

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press : 1984-01-16

Seller ID: 0807841129-3-28251478

ISBN-13: 9780807841129

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism challenged as well as liberated Rich. Nevertheless, each poet succeeded in forming a personal vision that counters traditional male poetics. Their poetry celebrates daily life, demonstrates their commitment to nurturance rather than dominance, shows their resistance to the control of both thei...
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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in conversation with Michael Toms

By: Toms, Michael

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Harper Perennial : 1990-05-23

Seller ID: 0060972955-3-20838006

ISBN-13: 9780060972950

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
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An Outdoor Lifetime: Six Decades in a Writer's Life

By: Dalrymple, Byron W.

Price: $7.22 USD

Publisher: New Win Pub : 1994-01-01

Seller ID: 0832905089-4-28933019

ISBN-13: 9780832905087

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Anais Nin: A Biography

By: Bair, Deirdre

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1996-07-01

Seller ID: 0140255257-4-28522697

ISBN-13: 9780140255256

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Deirdre Bair, renowned for her biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, has now written the definitive biography of the complex and controversial Anais Nin. With exclusive and unprecedented access to all of Nin's unpublished archives, including more than 250,000 handwritten diary pages, Bair paints a startlingly different portrait of Nin, hitherto best known for her sexual peccadilloes and especially her affair with Henry Miller. Bair reveals Nin's lifelong struggle to become a respected writer, to position herself at the right hand of the intellectual elite, and to construct a wa...
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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

By: Chatwin, Bruce

Price: $10.83 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1997-08-01

Seller ID: 0140256989-11-25127848

ISBN-13: 9780140256987

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics--from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, travel sketches, and criticism represents every aspect and period of Chatwin's career as it reveals an abiding theme in his work: his fascination with, and hunger for, the peripatetic existence. While Chatwin's poignant search for a sui...
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Another Life: A Memoir of Other People

By: Korda, Michael

Price: $12.07 USD

Publisher: Random House : 1999-04-27

Seller ID: 0679456597-11-23301158

ISBN-13: 9780679456599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Another Shot: How I Relived My Life in Less Than a Year

By: Kita, Joe

Price: $3.54 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 2002-03-26

Seller ID: 0142000612-3-26190089

ISBN-13: 9780142000618

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Upon turning 40, Men's Health writer Joe Kita set out to overcome 20 personal regrets, from being a so-so lover to getting cut from the high school basketball team. He recounts his adventures in this hilarious yet poignant successor to Wisdom of Our Fathers and The Father's Guide to the Meaning of Life.
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Another Shot: How I Relived My Life in Less Than a Year

By: Kita, Joe

Price: $3.86 USD

Publisher: Daybreak Books : 2001-05-11

Seller ID: 1579542670-3-22908950

ISBN-13: 9781579542672

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Joe Kita has had a good life. He has been happily married for more than 15 years and has two beautiful children. He is a successful journalist. He has lots of friends. Still, at 40, he wonders about missed opportunities: What would have happened if he had asked out that coed? What if he had learned to surf? What if he'd been nicer to his dog? Afraid of having the same pangs of regret at age 80 and no longer satisfied with leaving good times to chance. Kita deliberately revisits 20 crossroads in his life and tries to relive them. In "Another Shot," he chronicles his crazy year with humor and in...
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Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

By: Notaro, Laurie

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Villard : 2003-07-08

Seller ID: 037576092X-4-20509422

ISBN-13: 9780375760921

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-dyed shirts because their hippie parents spent...
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Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

By: Notaro, Laurie

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Villard : 2003-07-08

Seller ID: 037576092X-3-24195637

ISBN-13: 9780375760921

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-dyed shirts because their hippie parents spent...
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Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

By: Blount Jr., Roy

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Knopf : 1998-05-19

Seller ID: 0679400540-3-26254330

ISBN-13: 9780679400547

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father--journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately: One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (...
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Before Night Falls: A Memoir

By: Arenas, Reinaldo; Koch, Dolores M. [Translator]

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1994-10-01

Seller ID: 0140157654-4-25430843

ISBN-13: 9780140157659

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secre...
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Black Creek Crossing: A Novel

By: Saul, John

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Ballantine Books : 2005-05-31

Seller ID: 0449006549-3-19476370

ISBN-13: 9780449006542

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retribution. With these eerie ingredients, bestselling master John Saul once again works his unique brand of sinister magic to conjure an unforgettable tale of unspeakable terror. For most of her young life, thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan has been on the outside looking in, enduring the taunts of cruel schoolmates and the angry abuse of a bitter fathe...
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Black Creek Crossing: A Novel

By: Saul, John

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Ballantine Books : 2005-05-31

Seller ID: 0449006549-4-19367013

ISBN-13: 9780449006542

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retribution. With these eerie ingredients, bestselling master John Saul once again works his unique brand of sinister magic to conjure an unforgettable tale of unspeakable terror. For most of her young life, thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan has been on the outside looking in, enduring the taunts of cruel schoolmates and the angry abuse of a bitter fathe...
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Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money

By: Cameron, Stevie

Price: $3.59 USD

Publisher: Macfarlane Walter & Ross : 1998-09-30

Seller ID: 155199027X-3-26911806

ISBN-13: 9781551990279

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Bruce Verchere was a highly respected tax lawyer whose clients included Brian Mulroney, Canada's prime minister; Arthur Hailey, one of the world's best-selling novelists; and the Swiss Bank Corporation, Switzerland's second-largest bank. Lynn Verechere was a computer software entrepreneur whose innovative systems, licensed by IBM, helped revolutionize the management of law offices throughout North America.After years of the intricate manipulation that was his stock-in-trade, Bruce deployed the family's private trust, myriad bank accounts, and offshore companies to secrete their wealth beyond t...
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Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History

By: Lamb, Brian

Price: $3.57 USD

Publisher: Perseus Press : 2004-03-16

Seller ID: 1586482327-3-14695561

ISBN-13: 9781586482329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The bestselling Booknotes series celebrates C-SPAN's 25th anniversary with a new collection examining our country and its character. Over the past twenty-five years, C-SPAN has established itself as a national treasure. And Booknotes, the flagship of its book programming, has become the premier place to see serious, thoughtful nonfiction get its television due. Over the past fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes, has interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. Now, in ...
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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas

By: Lamb, Brian

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Crown : 1997-06-17

Seller ID: 0812928474-3-20019847

ISBN-13: 9780812928471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir

By: Nordan, Lewis

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Algonquin Books : 2000-01-01

Seller ID: 1565121996-3-26664054

ISBN-13: 9781565121997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Lewis Nordan is famous for his special vision of the Mississippi Delta. His characters, for whom the closest-though hopelessly inadequate-description might be "eccentrics," share the stage with swamp elves and midgets living in the backyard. His fiction is unlike anybody else's and is as dark, hilarious, and affecting as any ever written. It's also writing that lays bare the agony of adolescence and plows, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer once put it, "the fields of puzzling wonder that precede the responsibilities and disappointments of adulthood." What bred and fed Nordan's imagination, his o...
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Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

By: Lurie, Alison

Price: $3.50 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 2002-12-31

Seller ID: 0142002526-3-17165159

ISBN-13: 9780142002520

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences....
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Category: Literary