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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...- $ 350.00
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Tuesdays with Morrie: 25th Anniversary Edition
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague—someone older, patient, and wise who saw you for who you were when you were young and searching. Someone who helped you view the world...- $ 400.00
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Bread of Angels
A reflective and poetic essay in which Patti Smith blends memory, spirituality, and the creative process into a meditation on artistic devotion. Drawing on her deep admiration for writers such as Arthur Rimbaud, she explores the power of literature and its ability to transform...- $ 450.00
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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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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,...- $ 350.00
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Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's. From an early age, John Robison struggled to connect with the world around him. As a teenager, his unusual behaviors earned him a reputation as a social misfit. It wasn’t until he was forty that Robison received a life-changing diagnosis:...- $ 280.00
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Educated
Tara Westover grew up in the remote mountains of Idaho, the daughter of survivalists who shunned mainstream society. She was 17 the first time she entered a classroom. With no formal education and no one to protect her from a violent older brother, her...- $ 300.00
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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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Blue Nights
From one of America’s most powerful writers comes a work of profound honesty about grief, memory, and the passage of time. In Blue Nights, Joan Didion reflects on the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, exploring the fears, doubts, and questions that accompany...- $ 500.00
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The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. Unable to speak aloud, Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct his thoughts, letter by letter. The result is a book that answers the questions so many have wanted to ask but never knew...- $ 350.00
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Thinking in Pictures
My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition). First published in 1995, this groundbreaking book presents an unprecedented perspective: Temple Grandin writes as both a scientist and a person with autism, offering an insider’s view of a world rarely understood from within. In her vivid and...- $ 380.00
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
My Father Bleeds History. A landmark work of graphic literature, Maus transforms the history of the Holocaust into something intimate, immediate, and profoundly human. Using striking allegory—Jews portrayed as mice, Nazis as cats, Art Spiegelman chronicles his father’s survival through the unimaginable brutality of...- $ 350.00
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Walk Through Walls
In 2010, more than 750,000 people queued at Marina Abramović’s landmark MoMA retrospective, waiting for the chance to sit silently across from her in The Artist Is Present—an unprecedented durational performance that unfolded over 700 hours. This historic event, celebrating nearly five decades of...- $ 350.00
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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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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....- $ 400.00
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale
And Here My Troubles Began Widely regarded as one of the most important graphic novels ever created, Maus is a devastating and deeply personal account of survival, memory, and inherited trauma. Through stark, unforgettable imagery—Jews rendered as mice, Nazis as predatory cats—Art Spiegelman recounts...- $ 350.00
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Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague—someone older, patient, and wise who saw you for who you were when you were young and searching. Someone who helped you view the world...- $ 300.00
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A Girl's Story
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux returns to a defining moment in her past. Fifty years earlier, during the summer of 1958, the eighteen-year-old Ernaux found herself overwhelmed by another person’s will and desire. She surrendered to a man who soon abandoned her, leaving...- $ 400.00
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Novelist as a Vocation
Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the...- $ 400.00
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Surrender
40 Songs, One Story. As one of the most iconic figures in music, and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono has been written about for decades. But in Surrender, he finally tells his own story. In his unmistakable voice, Bono takes...- $ 550.00
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
ctor and dancer Alyson Stoner offers a raw and unflinching memoir—spanning family violence, betrayal, eating disorders, and religious trauma. Though their story begins in Hollywood, its haunting relatability speaks to anyone navigating identity, privacy, and mental health in a digital age. Raised on sets...- $ 560.00
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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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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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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat rose from tagging walls in New York City to commanding the spotlight of the global art world. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art traces his electrifying journey through the turbulent, glamorized 1980s—a time of artistic revolution, celebrity...- $ 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Art Work
On the Creative Life. Sally Mann reflects on the creative process through a collection of personal stories, insights, and lessons drawn from her life and career as an artist. Blending humor, honesty, and thoughtful reflection, the book explores themes such as hard work, risk-taking,...- $ 650.00
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M Train
In M Train, Patti Smith invites readers into her daily ritual at a quiet Greenwich Village café, where black coffee fuels reflections that drift between memory, dream, and reality. From this intimate starting point, her journey unfolds across a vivid landscape—visiting Casa Azul, the...- $ 300.00
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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
The mind behind iconic songs like "Suzanne", "Bird on a Wire", and "Hallelujah" stands as one of the most influential songwriters of his era—an artist deeply engaged with questions of spirituality, love, power, and meaning. Long before his music career took off, Cohen had already...- $ 350.00
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
With a foreword by Hilton Als, this collection gathers essays written between 1968 and 2000 by the celebrated essayist and journalist Joan Didion, many of them published together for the first time. The pieces offer a revealing look into Didion’s mind and working process,...- $ 400.00
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South and West
Joan Didion, acclaimed bestselling author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has long kept notebooks filled with overheard conversations, interviews, essay drafts, and collected articles. Two extended excerpts from her 1970s notebooks offer a sharp and...- $ 400.00
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Night
A powerful new English translation by Marion Wiesel brings renewed clarity to Elie Wiesel’s most renowned work: Night, a stark and deeply moving autobiographical account of his experiences as a teenager imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Rendered by Marion Wiesel, the author’s wife and...- $ 250.00
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton first met at a poetry workshop at Boston University, where an immediate connection quickly developed into a complicated rivalry fueled by both admiration and envy. In the years that followed, the...- $ 400.00
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Happening
In 1963, twenty-three-year-old Annie Ernaux discovers she is pregnant. Unmarried and alone, she is overwhelmed by shame and fear. In a society where such a pregnancy would mark both her and her family with social disgrace, she knows she cannot keep the child. Written...- $ 300.00
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Picasso's War
How Modern Art Came to America. In 1939, Pablo Picasso was celebrated in Europe but widely rejected in America. Within a year, that changed dramatically. This is the story of how one groundbreaking exhibition transformed him into a cultural icon in the United States....- $ 350.00
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The Blood Countess
Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster. Whispers have long haunted the castle, the village, and the dark woods: the countess of one of Europe’s oldest families is a killer, some say bathing in her victims’ blood. When the king’s men storm her...- $ 580.00
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Plagued by Fire
The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright is often remembered as a towering egotist who valued little beyond his own genius. Less visible is the man who understood—and suffered for—the choices he made. In this masterful biography, Paul Hendrickson reveals...- $ 350.00
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The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss
A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. The creator of Horton the Elephant, the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, and a delightful cast of beloved children’s characters, Dr. Seuss stands as a towering figure in children’s literature. Yet he was a private individual,...- $ 880.00
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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...- $ 500.00
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BTS: A Little Golden Book Biography
BTS’s rise to fame has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. This boy band’s incredible journey comes alive—from their early days in South Korea, to becoming one of the world’s biggest music sensations with hits, to delivering speeches at the United Nations. For BTS, it’s all...- $ 110.00
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