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Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Gift of Wings
Written by Mary Henley Rubio
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 18, 2011
Price: $16.99
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased – are only part... Read more >
The Gift of Wings
Written by Mary Henley Rubio
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 18, 2011
Price: $16.99
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery – her son, maids, friends, relatives, all now deceased – are only part... Read more >
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Speak, Memory
An Autobiography Revisited
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.
From... Read more >
An Autobiography Revisited
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.
From... Read more >
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Typing
Written by Matt Cohen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada... Read more >
Written by Matt Cohen
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada... Read more >
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Byron
Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Written by Benita Eisler
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $20.99
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life... Read more >
Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Written by Benita Eisler
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $20.99
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life... Read more >
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Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $16.99
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet... Read more >
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $16.99
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet... Read more >
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Passionate Minds
Women Rewriting the World
Written by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art.
Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret... Read more >
Women Rewriting the World
Written by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art.
Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret... Read more >
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Where I Was From
Written by Joan Didion
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Where I Was From, in Didion’s words, “represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Where I Was From, in Didion’s words, “represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about... Read more >
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J. D. Salinger
A Life
Written by Kenneth Slawenski
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $27.00
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls “energetic and magnificently researched”—a book from... Read more >
A Life
Written by Kenneth Slawenski
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $27.00
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in The Times of London calls “energetic and magnificently researched”—a book from... Read more >
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J. D. Salinger
A Life
Written by Kenneth Slawenski
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $13.99
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations... Read more >
A Life
Written by Kenneth Slawenski
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $13.99
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations... Read more >
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Cocaine's Son
A Memoir
Written by Dave Itzkoff
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, “for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.”
... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Dave Itzkoff
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $12.99
With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, “for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.”
... Read more >
Algerian White
A Narrative
Written by Assia Djebar
Translated by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi... Read more >
A Narrative
Written by Assia Djebar
Translated by David Kelley and Marjolijn de Jager
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi... Read more >
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Algren at Sea
Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings
Written by Nelson Algren
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever... Read more >
Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings
Written by Nelson Algren
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever... Read more >
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Chicago's Nelson Algren
Written by Art Shay
Foreword by David Mamet
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alley... Read more >
Written by Art Shay
Foreword by David Mamet
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn’t pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave Shay’s camera entrance into the back-alley... Read more >
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Girl Boy Girl
How I Became JT Leroy
Written by Savannah Knoop
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really... Read more >
How I Became JT Leroy
Written by Savannah Knoop
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really... Read more >
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Grand Central Winter
Stories from the Street
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and... Read more >
Stories from the Street
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and... Read more >
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A Man Without a Country
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by Daniel Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $23.95
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter... Read more >
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by Daniel Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $23.95
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter... Read more >
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Souvenirs of a Blown World
Sketches for the Sixties, Writings about America, 1966-1973
Written by Gregory Mcdonald
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Bestselling author of the Fletch series Gregory Mcdonald presents firsthand accounts of major events during the sixties and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurti, Phil Ochs, Andy Warhol, and others. The year was 1966, and fresh off the heels of his controversial debut novel Running Scared, Mcdonald was hired to... Read more >
Sketches for the Sixties, Writings about America, 1966-1973
Written by Gregory Mcdonald
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Bestselling author of the Fletch series Gregory Mcdonald presents firsthand accounts of major events during the sixties and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurti, Phil Ochs, Andy Warhol, and others. The year was 1966, and fresh off the heels of his controversial debut novel Running Scared, Mcdonald was hired to... Read more >
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Conversations with Anne Rice
An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work
Written by Michael Riley
Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
In the novel that introduced Anne Rice to the world, Interview with the Vampire, a reporter seeks out the facts behind an extraordinary life. In the years since, Anne Rice has created a remarkable and acclaimed body of work--encompassing her celebrated Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels, two... Read more >
An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work
Written by Michael Riley
Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
In the novel that introduced Anne Rice to the world, Interview with the Vampire, a reporter seeks out the facts behind an extraordinary life. In the years since, Anne Rice has created a remarkable and acclaimed body of work--encompassing her celebrated Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels, two... Read more >
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How Reading Changed My Life
Written by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across... Read more >
Written by Anna Quindlen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $7.99
THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across... Read more >
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Reading Jackie
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $27.95
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $27.95
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors...
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Reading Jackie
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $11.99
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $11.99
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors...
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Reading Jackie
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $22.50
Her Autobiography in Books
Written by William Kuhn
Read by Susan Denaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $22.50
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors...
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Kafka Was the Rage
A Greenwich Village Memoir
Written by Anatole Broyard
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylish written, mercurially witty... Read more >
A Greenwich Village Memoir
Written by Anatole Broyard
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fledgling avant-gardist, intoxicated by books, sex, and the neighborhood that offered both in such abundance. Stylish written, mercurially witty... Read more >
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue... Read more >
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue... Read more >
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I'll Tell You A Secret
A Memory Of Seven Summers
Written by Anne Coleman
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 5, 2010
Price: $11.99
"Memory opens for me through my body. I slip back because I catch a smell, hear a sound, or hold an evocative flavour on my tongue. But these single-sense glimpses of or gusts from the past are often fleeting. More compelling for me, more total, is when my whole body, the... Read more >
A Memory Of Seven Summers
Written by Anne Coleman
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 5, 2010
Price: $11.99
"Memory opens for me through my body. I slip back because I catch a smell, hear a sound, or hold an evocative flavour on my tongue. But these single-sense glimpses of or gusts from the past are often fleeting. More compelling for me, more total, is when my whole body, the... Read more >
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