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  • First Job

    by Rinker Buck ...
    The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Oregon Trail, about a special time in every young adult’s life—the first “real” job out of college.Ask Rinker Buck about his first job, and you’ll get the enchanting and engaging account that not only captures the experience of being a “twenty-two-year-old with the maxed-out brain,” but also evokes a special ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Is Jesus Kinda Hot?

    A hilarious, candid, and insightful essay collection about faith and love from award-winning journalist Phillip Picardi. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Alphabet Soup

    A tasty yet experimental recipe of creative memoir in poetic prose cooked up for your consumption — one letter at a time.Alphabet Soup, A. Gregory Frankson’s first full-length foray into the world of creative non-fiction, is a poetic exploration of the deeper meaning to be found by stirring up the depths of one’s most personal lived experiences. It is twenty-six letters of memoir that dive deeply ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Giant Love

    Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

    by Julie Gilbert ...
    A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's Giant in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Getting Carter

    Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

    by Nick Triplow ...
    Nick Triplow’s soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own status as art. Like Philip Hoare’s Melville in The Whale or James Sallis’ Chester Himes: A Life, Triplow more than uncovers the forgotten godfather of the modern British crime story; he also spins a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Alice James

    A Biography

    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeA comprehensive biography of the visionary writer Alice James, long overshadowed by William and Henry James, her two famous brothers.Alice James is perhaps best known as the sister of the novelist Henry James and of “the father of American psychology” William James. Few readers are familiar with Alice’s life beyond this—until now.Jean Strouse’s illuminating and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Malaparte: A Biography

    Translated by Stephen Twilley ...
    A sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artists and thinkers of his time.Curzio Suckert (1898-1957) —best known by his pen-name Malaparte—was not only a literary master but one of the mystery men of twentieth-century letters. The son of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

    Translated by Lizzie Davis ...
    An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers—in history, literature, and pop culture—who have abandoned their children.What kind of mother abandons her child? It’s a question that conjures the worst kind of moral judgment. Yet during the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begona Gómez ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Timebends

    A Life

    by Arthur Miller ...
    **The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller is now in Penguin ClassicsA Penguin Classic**Far from a conventional memoir, Arthur Miller’s Timebends offers an intimate look at the life and art of a man who defied boundaries and redefined American theater. As the author of iconic American dramas including Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons,and An Enemy of the People ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • What in Me Is Dark

    The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

    by Orlando Reade ...
    A highly original hybrid of biography, political history, and literary criticism, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it.What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Milton’s epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Saturday Afternoon Fever

    The Autobiography

    by Jeff Stelling ...
    A profoundly personal, warmly nostalgic and deliciously funny memoir by the legendary Sky Sports anchorman Jeff Stelling, chronicling a life spent obsessing about 'The Beautiful Game' ever since he was a little boy, and underpinned by a deeply rooted love of football and of people.For a quarter of a century the iconic Sky Sports football presenter Jeff Stelling was the face and voice of football ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Larry

    A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1947

    by Michael Haag ...
    When the Durrells expert Michael Haag died in 2020, it was feared that his definitive biography of Larry would never emerge. But, happily, it turned out that he had left complete chapters covering Durrell's life up to the time he left for South America in 1947. These chapters include the most engaging and interesting years of Larry's life - his childhood in India and Burma, his Bohemian life in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Gather Me

    A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

    by Glory Edim ...
    An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni MorrisonFor Glory Edim, that "friend of my mind" is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Roman Year

    A Memoir

    by André Aciman ...
    The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman’s family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

    by Gail Crowther ...
    An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Heaping Coals

    From Media Firebrand to Anglican Priest

    by Michael Coren ...
    **“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRYFrom England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren charts his encounters with people of faith, fame, and fortune.**Michael Coren writes of his life leading up to entering the seminary and being ordained. Growing up in a working-class mixed ... Read more

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  • Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth

    **“Do not. Confuse me. With. The facts. I tell the truth.”—Jimmy Breslin, quote as remembered by Richard EspositoThe first-ever biography of America’s greatest crime reporter**In a newspaper career spanning decades, Jimmy Breslin covered the stories that he knew mattered most: the human stories beyond the front page. From the JFK assassination, to the Son of Sam killings, mafia heists, the Crown ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Use of Photography

    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories.Includes 14 black and white still-life photographs by the authors.**Love and death cohabit in The Use of Photography, with alternating chapters by the two authors. First published ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Position of Spoons

    And Other Intimacies

    by Deborah Levy ...
    A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.Deborah Levy’s vital literary voice speaks about many things.On footwear: “It has always been very clear to me that people who wear shoes without socks are destined to become my friends and lovers.” On public parks: “A civic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Unti Nonfiction

    Unti Nonfiction has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied

    Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism

    Can a journalist be a revolutionary? Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn explores the life and work of his famous radical journalist fatherLeading Middle East correspondent surveys the life and work of his father, the groundbreaking radical journalist, Claud Cockburn, and meditates whether journalist can still change the world. Claud started on Fleet Street in the 1930s - where he reported ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Connie

    A Memoir

    by Connie Chung ...
    In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to break into the television news industry. This is her extraordinary story, told with incisive wit and remarkable candor.Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Shadows of the Past

    by Harry Hykko ...
    "Shadows of the Past" weaves an intricate tapestry of music, redemption, and the resilience of the human spirit. Enter the enigmatic world of Alex Blackwood, a rock star whose legendary mystique conceals a past riddled with shadows. After four decades in the shadows, he emerges into the spotlight once more, poised for an unforgettable stadium gig that sparks intrigue across the music landscape ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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