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Didion and Babitz
When Eve Babitz died in 2021, her crumbling Hollywood apartment concealed a remarkable discovery: a stack of sealed boxes untouched for decades. Inside was a lost world—letters, artifacts, and intimate fragments of a dazzling, turbulent era that once pulsed through 7406 Franklin Avenue. That...- $ 450.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...- $ 500.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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Crying in H Mart
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene,...- $ 400.00
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Ninth Street Women
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as...- $ 500.00
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
In her acclaimed first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast turns her sharp wit and unmistakable style to one of life’s most difficult subjects: aging parents. Told through a blend of four-color cartoons, family photographs, documents, and a candid, often laugh-out-loud narrative, Chast’s memoir...- $ 350.00
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When I Grow Up
The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers. Based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies written by Eastern European Jewish teenagers on the eve of World War II—unearthed in 2017 from a church cellar in Lithuania—When I Grow Up brings to life...- $ 520.00
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
A Tyranny of Truth. Hannah Arendt—one of the twentieth century’s most profound political thinkers—remains a figure both celebrated and misunderstood. Best known for her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt offered a fierce defense of openness, freedom, and critical thought in political...- $ 520.00
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Einstein in Kafkaland
How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...- $ 550.00
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White Album
In The White Album, Joan Didion turns her razor-sharp gaze on the fractured psyche of 1960s America, capturing a country in the throes of upheaval and uncertainty. First published in 1979, this landmark collection of essays blends personal narrative with cultural critique, tracing the...- $ 350.00
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Memorial Days
Many cultural and religious traditions make space for grief, urging the bereaved to withdraw from daily life and tend to their sorrow. But in today’s world, grief is often met not with stillness, but with bureaucracy and to-do lists. That’s exactly what confronted Geraldine...- $ 400.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...- $ 400.00
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Rilke in Paris
At the turn of the 20th century, a young Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris—drawn by the brilliance of Auguste Rodin and unsettled by the city’s contradictions. Over the years, Paris became both muse and mirror for Rilke, inspiring reflections on art, beauty, poverty,...- $ 400.00
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Widow Basquiat
A lyrical and intimate memoir recounting the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Suzanne Mallouk and the renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s New York City, the narrative delves into Suzanne's life as a young Canadian runaway who becomes Basquiat's...- $ 400.00
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
In this profound memoir, Yiyun Li confronts the unimaginable grief of losing both of her teenage sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. Vincent died in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Li refrains from labeling her experience as "grieving,"...- $ 550.00
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Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest A groundbreaking blend of science, memoir and nature writing, Finding the Mother Tree reveals the hidden, interconnected world of forests—and the woman who uncovered their secrets. Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard transformed how we understand trees. Her pioneering research...- $ 350.00
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Wayfarer
A journey through ancient trails, wild landscapes and the quiet power of walking toward healing. When seasoned adventurer Phoebe Smith set out to walk the world-famous Camino de Santiago, she didn’t expect to lose her way—not on the trail, but in her life. Leaving...- $ 450.00
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Women We Buried, Women We Burned
A poignant memoir by journalist Rachel Louise Snyder, acclaimed for her work on domestic violence. In this deeply personal narrative, Snyder recounts her tumultuous journey from a childhood marked by loss and religious extremism to her evolution as a reporter confronting global injustices. At...- $ 450.00
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Notes to John
For several months, Joan Didion recorded conversations with her psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was...- $ 550.00
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Words Without Music
A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely...- $ 650.00
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The Light We Carry
In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering...- $ 450.00
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
It had never been done before. Not in 2,000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake,...- $ 600.00
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Cacophony of Bone
When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of that...- $ 550.00
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The Secret History of Here
The story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before. But...- $ 500.00
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The Outrun
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming...- $ 550.00
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Summer
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...- $ 500.00
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Winter
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasonal Quartet, the acclaimed Norwegian author continues his intimate project of writing to his unborn daughter, offering her glimpses of the world she is about to enter. 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but...- $ 450.00
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Spring
You don’t know what air is, and yet you breathe. You don’t know what sleep is, yet you sleep. You don’t know what night is, yet you lie in it. You don’t know what a heart is, yet your own heart beats steadily in...- $ 450.00
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Autumn
Written as a letter to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to introduce her to the world she will soon enter—not through grand declarations, but through the small, often overlooked details that make up a life. Each short essay, written daily, captures...- $ 450.00
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Becoming
In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares the story of her extraordinary journey—from growing up on the South Side of Chicago to becoming a lawyer, a mother, and a historic figure in American life. With honesty, warmth, and...- $ 430.00
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A Walk in the Woods
After two decades abroad, Bill Bryson returns to the United States with a plan to reconnect with his homeland—by attempting to hike the entire 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the trail winds through some of America’s most breathtaking and remote landscapes....- $ 400.00
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. After the sudden death of her mother, the collapse of her family and the unraveling of her marriage, she found herself in a deep emotional spiral....- $ 400.00
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Into the Wild
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson...- $ 350.00
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The Argonauts
Genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which...- $ 350.00
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How to Say Babylon
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya...- $ 450.00
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Health and Safety
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to...- $ 600.00
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Pageboy
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human...- $ 400.00
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Aftermath
Acclaimed author Rachel Cusk offers a raw account of life after the collapse of her ten-year marriage. Set in the aftermath of personal upheaval, the memoir follows Cusk as she navigates the complex process of rebuilding her identity—not just as a writer or woman,...- $ 500.00
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A Fine Brother
Flora Sandes, the only Western woman to officially serve as a soldier in World War I, became a national heroine when she fought alongside the Serbian Army and rose through its ranks. This compelling biography traces her remarkable journey—from her spirited almost tomboyish childhood...- $ 500.00
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In Order to Live
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto...- $ 400.00
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My Lady Parts
In My Lady Parts, Doon shares her experience on stage, screen and in real life, examining how our culture still expects women to adhere to certain stereotypes - and punishes those who don't. Doon looks at the stories we are telling and asks: what...- $ 550.00
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Written in Water
Written in Water: Keats's Final Journey offers a meticulously researched and evocative account of the last five months in the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. Departing London in September 1820 with his friend Joseph Severn, Keats embarked on a journey to Italy in...- $ 500.00
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Told with refreshing candor...- $ 550.00
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The Passage of Power
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to 1964. It is an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both John Kennedy’s 1960 presidential nomination and his decision to offer Johnson the vice...- $ 450.00
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The Art of Rivalry
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of...- $ 500.00
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Splendid and the Vile
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons....- $ 350.00
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All That She Carried
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faces the heartbreaking sale of her daughter, Ashley. In a desperate bid to protect her, Rose packs a cotton bag with a few precious items for her daughter—items that would be the last connection between...- $ 400.00
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Game of Queens
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century....- $ 360.00
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