The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life

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Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings

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Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance

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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

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Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands

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C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction

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All of Us: The Collected Poems

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Forever in Your Embrace

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Rosebloom

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Ashes in the Wind

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Crossfire: A Litany for Survival

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A Rose In Winter

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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

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Into Light Volume Two

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Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

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The Best American Short Stories 2022

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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

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Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

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The Writer's Room

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Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany

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In the Land of Men: A Memoir

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Essays One

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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Judderman: The Eden Book Society

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The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence: Poems from the early 20th century author of countless classics

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City of Night

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So Worthy My Love

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The Hurly Burly and Other Stories

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Literary Life: A Second Memoir

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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

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Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer's Journey through Greece

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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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The Devil and Harper Lee

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Papillon

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Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life

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This Boy's Life

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Angela's Ashes

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Capote: A Biography

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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

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Marriage Story

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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

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Lit: A Memoir

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The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

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People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks

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Chronicles: Volume One

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Shakespeare

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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language

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