Category - Literary Collections
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The Beloved Republic
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The Book of My Lives
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Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoiris...
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Struck: A Husband's Memoir of Trauma and Triumph
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99One of life's biggest clichés becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. ...
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On Lighthouses
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This Old Man: All in Pieces
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an...
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The Tree of Life: An Expose of Physical Regenesis
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
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Calamities
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
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Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Harpo Speaks!
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs / Edition 3
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Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening
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On Animals
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
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Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
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