Category - Literary Collections
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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Emma Watson’s Jan/Feb 2019 pick for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf A Guardian UK Best Book of the Year From established literary heavyw...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor.Handsome, spirited, and erudite, Pat...
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Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays—all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expe...
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Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781941813089 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society Publication Date: 05-28-2017 Product D...
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How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the ...
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Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Frankenstein lives! 200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyond On New Year’s Day 1818, Mary Shelley’s novel Fran...
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Saul Bellow: Letters
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I'd stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed." -Philip RothA ...
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Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Poet, novelist, and essayist, the legendary Erica Jong—whose novel Fear of Flying opened eyes and broke down walls—offers us a provocative collec...
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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A funny, moving, rousing collection, greater than the sum of its excellent parts.” —New York Times Book Review Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean W...
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OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its em...
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Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike. These letters are, of course,...
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Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of a...
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I Know What's Best for You
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Edited by Shelly Oria—author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus—this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, play...
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989
HardcoverOriginal price $48.00Original price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what ...
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Fortunate Son: Selected Essays from the Lone Star State
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Rick Bass's Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is...
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Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long ...
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The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &C., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggl
PaperbackOriginal price $24.75 - Original price $24.75Original price $24.75$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821-1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He also created ...
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The Nick Tosches Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattle...
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Welty's instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780679730040 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: ...
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The Principles of Sufism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Suf...
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It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.When he a...
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27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose and Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the li...
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Time Bites: Views and Reviews
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: ...
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The Life of Images: Selected Prose
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider’s perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently o...
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