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World Biofictionalists in Translation

Seventeen authors of the world's most famous biofictions discuss their works with literary scholars to answer vitally important questions about the relevance and power of literature.How do authors metapho…

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Alexis Lathem
Lambs in Winter

Finding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earthAfter half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her husband on a s…

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Angela Pelster
The Evolution of Fire

"The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written---vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on."---Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Th…

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Julianna Glasse
This Is What Happens When Women Read

An empowering story of self-actualization by a former Christian pop star whose life was transformed by reading.At the peak of her fame, Julianna Glasse seemed to have everything she wanted: a successful c…

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Bethany Layne,
Biopics of the House of Windsor

Explores biopics about moments of crisis for the House of Windsor and how these productions, along with Netflix's long-running series The Crown, both represent and enact the Royal Family's post-crises reh…

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Daniela Rea,
Fruto

Mothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means."Daniela Rea's Fruto is a calm room late at night where women gather to talk: with their stories and their words they take c…

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Lawrence Burney
No Sense in Wishing

Atria Books

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews"Earnest and engaging." ---The New YorkerA personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal…

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Amy Reading
The World She Edited

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"Meticulously researched." ---The New York Times" A first-rate biography." ---Washington PostA lively …

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Wolverton Hill,
The Boy Who Became a Parrot

Enchanted Lion

Written with style and heart by Wolverton Hill and illustrated with whimsical art by Laura Carlin, this love letter to Edward Lear brings him wonderfully to life for young readers.Edward Lear popularized …

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Ann Powers
Traveling

*An ObserverBest New Biographies of 2024*?*Now in paperback!*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the song…

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A Disciplined Passion

Beginning with a friend and colleague's reminiscences of Keith Garebian's early teaching years at a Catholic high school in Montreal, this collection ranges from accolades and detailed overviews by a vari…

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Louise Erdrich
Blue Jay's Dance, The

Harper Perennial

Intimate, honest and generous meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and maintaining an artistic life, from the celebrated novelist and poet."Observant, tender and honest." &quo…

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Lee Child
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection.'Essential reading for all Reacher fans.' STEVE CAVANAGH'Need a Lee Child/Reacher fix? Of cours…

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Hicham Cheikh Hassan
The Day the Pagers Exploded

An intimate account of the 2024 Lebanon war, written by a father, husband, and doctor, offering a profound sense of the existential uncertainty together with the ordinary day-to-day dimensions of war &quo…

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Hicham Cheikh Hassan
The Day the Pagers Exploded

An intimate account of the 2024 Lebanon war, written by a father, husband, and doctor, offering a profound sense of the existential uncertainty together with the ordinary day-to-day dimensions of war &quo…

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Emilie Pine
On Being Seen

When Emilie Pine's debut essay collection, the fiercely candid Notes to Self , was first published she didn't imagine herself as someone breaking a silence. She only knew that she was breaking a fiction -…

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Christopher Priest, Nina Allan
The Illuminated Man

'The best account yet of the life of one of the great English-language writers of the last century.' - The New World'A brave and moving book' - Adam Sisman, the Guardian 'Fascinating...very timely ...will…

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Paul Grondahl
Andy Rooney

A hilarious and heartbreaking biography of one of America's most popular commentators and beloved curmudgeons, whose biting wit and homespun humor earned him comparisons to Mark Twain and Will Rogers.Andy…

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Katherine Hollander
Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht

An illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht which produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature, and theory while in exile from Nazi Germany.Bertolt B…

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April Jones Prince,
Who Was Mark Twain?

Penguin Young Readers Group

A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, h…

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