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  • The Grand Tour

    Around the World with the Queen of Mystery

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. In this fascinating travelogue of the prolific author's yearlong trip around the British Empire in 1922, Christie provides the clues to the origins of the plots and locales of some of her bestselling mystery novels. Containing never-before-published letters and photos from her travels, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Copenhagen Trilogy

    Childhood; Youth; Dependency

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman ...
    Series series The Copenhagen Trilogy
    A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Friday Afternoon Club

    A Family Memoir

    by Griffin Dunne ...
    **The instant New York Times bestseller • A TIME Must Read Book of the Year“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times“Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." —Washington Post"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail.” —Los Angeles Times“What a remarkable and moving story filled with twists and turns, the most famous of faces, and a complex family revealed with loving candor. I was blown ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    An Essay Collection

    by Joan Didion ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.With a forward by Hilton Als, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Where I Was From

    A Memoir

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Trip to Echo Spring

    On Writers and Drinking

    by Olivia Laing ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2014A *TimeMagazine* Notable Book of 2014Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of American literature**In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Murder Your Life

    A Memoir

    by Cat Marnell ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Scarlet Professor

    Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (Stonewall Book Award Winner)

    by Barry Werth ...
    During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

    The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

    by Gregg Hecimovich ...
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyA groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Walden

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."Walden is a series of 18 essays chronicling the two years that Henry David Thoreau spent sequestered in a cabin he built himself near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts in the mid ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

    Poems and Not Quite Poems

    by Nikki Giovanni ...
    “One of her best collections to date.” —EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni’s poetry has influenced literary figures from James Baldwin to Blackalicious, and touched millions of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Townie: A Memoir

    by Andre Dubus III ...
    Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice AwardsAmazon Best Book of the Month February 2011"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness."—Vanity FairAfter their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Capote's Women

    A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

    by Laurence Leamer ...
    **DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mean

    by Myriam Gurba ...
    “A painfully timely story . . . an artful memoir . . . a powerful, vital book about damage and the ghostly afterlives of abuse.” —Los Angeles Review of Books True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    National Book Award Winner

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Driving with Dead People

    A Memoir

    by Monica Holloway ...
    Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed to become a morbid child.Yet in spite of her father's bouts of violence and abuse, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Simple Passion

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Tanya Leslie ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Doctor Who Fooled the World

    Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines

    by Brian Deer ...
    Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations.2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category.From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Under the Table

    Saucy Tales from Culinary School

    by Katherine Darling ...
    A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipesTo anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a savory dose of reality in this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Sing Sing Files

    One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

    by Dan Slepian ...
    An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent menIn 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a 1990 murder they did not commit.Haunted by what the detective had told him, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Year of the Monkey

    by Patti Smith ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Riveting, elegant, humorous—this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids.Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Enough To Make A Cat Laugh

    by Deric Longden ...
    Throughout the 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a very painful business. She hardly ever trips over them these days, but they are always in danger of being mistaken for a cardigan, or being inadvertently locked away in the cellar.Ever since ... Read more

    $5.67 USD

  • The Seven Good Years

    A Memoir

    by Etgar Keret ...
    A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over ... Read more

    $10.99 USD