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Everything I Know About Love
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly...- $ 350.00
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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...- $ 380.00
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Just Kids
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert...- $ 400.00
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The Year of Magical Thinking
A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....- $ 350.00
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I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
The book continues Baek Sehee’s candid journey through the quiet, persistent weight of dysthymia—chronic, low-level depression. A sequel to the bestselling I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, this follow-up delves deeper into Baek’s emotional landscape as she navigates life, therapy,...- $ 380.00
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The Illustrated Walden
A timeless reflection on nature, solitude, and self-reliance—now beautifully restored in its original illustrated form. First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden remains a profound meditation on simple living, spiritual discovery, and the rhythms of the natural world. In this special edition—originally released...- $ 500.00
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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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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her-what to call it?-depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work,...- $ 550.00
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The Hidden Ways
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its...- $ 500.00
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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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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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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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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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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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Savor
Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan Favorite" of Bravo's Top Chef. After the taping wrapped and before the shows aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, which eventually became terminal. Not one to ever...- $ 500.00
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré...- $ 400.00
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A Flat Place
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud is a beautifully written blend of memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection that explores the emotional and psychological significance of flat landscapes. Often dismissed as dull or featureless, these terrains become sites of deep meaning as Masud, shaped...- $ 350.00
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A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir delivers a stark and unflinching account of her mother’s final days. Written with clarity, tenderness, and unsparing honesty, this memoir traces the physical and emotional unraveling of a once-vibrant woman, as witnessed by a daughter grappling with love, guilt, and helplessness....- $ 300.00
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is a beautifully written exploration of how uncertainty and disorientation can lead to growth and discovery. Combining memoir, philosophy, and cultural history, Solnit reflects on moments of loss and transformation in her own life while...- $ 500.00
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The Dun Cow Rib
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye’s joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of...- $ 450.00
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The Lonely City
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works...- $ 450.00
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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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Notes on Heartbreak
With the sharp wit and emotional intelligence of Dolly Alderton and Sally Rooney, this fierce, funny, and unsparing memoir explores the dizzying highs of love and the devastation of its end, from an acclaimed British Vogue writer. You never forget your first love —...- $ 350.00
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A Marriage at Sea
A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck. Maurice and Maralyn are an unlikely pair: he’s solitary, intense, and methodical; she’s magnetic, driven, and full of ambition. What binds them is a shared fear of living an unfulfilled life—and a bold dream of escape....- $ 400.00
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The Year of Magical Thinking
A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....- $ 550.00
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
This elegant clothbound edition features Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on December 7, 2017. Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for the emotional depth and precision of his fiction, Ishiguro reflects in this lecture on...- $ 350.00
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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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Ginseng Roots
When Blankets debuted in 2003, Craig Thompson’s memoir of first love and lost faith in rural Wisconsin captivated readers and earned multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. Now, in his long-awaited return to autobiographical storytelling, Thompson explores the story that Blankets left untold. Ginseng Roots...- $ 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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Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
The definitive biography of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. In this deeply researched and compelling portrait, Arthur Lubow traces Arbus’s remarkable evolution—from a privileged but restless young woman to a groundbreaking artist whose intimate, unsettling photographs changed the course...- $ 400.00
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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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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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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.- $ 500.00
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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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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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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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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including...- $ 550.00
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The Years
The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6...- $ 400.00
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Knife
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife.What...- $ 650.00
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Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built...- $ 650.00
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst...- $ 400.00
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The Liars' Club
A 20th-anniversary edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, featuring a new foreword by Lena Dunham. When it was first published twenty years ago, THE LIARS' CLUB took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new...- $ 360.00
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Pageboy - Signed
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate...- $ 500.00
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in...- $ 350.00
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Madly, Deeply
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard’s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and...- $ 400.00
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