Category - Biography & Autobiography
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Floaters: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /MartÃn Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant eleg...
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Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening is a collection of hybrid feminist narratives that perfectly captures the many paradoxes ...
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head--the "shitbird," as his late friend th...
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On Animals
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." -...
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note...
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The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
HardcoverOriginal price $14.14 - Original price $14.14Original price $14.14$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe (1946) by Glenn Clark is a work of biography and philosophy, exploring the life and ideas of the ver...
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022An invigorating, continuou...
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Autoportrait
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Nominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday ...
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Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TI...
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The Five Lives of Hilma AF Klint
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract pain...
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Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This lavishly illustrated biography documents the life and art of one of the most significant comics and animation artists of all time. In comic b...
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The Letters of Jane Austen
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /First published in 1932, this fantastic volume contains a large collection of letters written by famous English author Jane Austen. Although on the...
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The Collected Poems of Wordsworth
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This inspiring collection of poetry presents many of William Wordsworth's most-loved works. The classic poems explore both nature's beauty and the ...
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The Visible Unseen: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winnin...
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a ...
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Einstein
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Einstein, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of Einstein's celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait ...
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller--from William Wordsworth and Mary Wol...
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Peter Abelard was a Medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer, and musician. Heloise was his young stude...
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Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating deep dive into Kurt Vonnegut's oeuvre and legacy, illuminating his unique perspective on environmental stewardship and our shared con...
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and ...
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Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby
PaperbackOriginal price $16.49 - Original price $16.49Original price $16.49$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum? Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gang...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preser...
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Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story about Fighting Censorship
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned li...
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his...
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