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  • Harold

    The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

    by Hal Holbrook ...
    In Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain, the beloved stage, film, and television actor Hal Holbrook presents an affecting memoir about his struggle to discover his true self, even as he learned to transform himself onstage.Abandoned by his mother and father when he was two, Holbrook and his two sisters commenced separate journeys of survival. Raised by his powerful grandfather, who died when ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away

    A Memoir

    by Rue McClanahan ...
    Rue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played.Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” ... Read more

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  • 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

    Edited by Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor ... Read more

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  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

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  • The Best American Noir of the Century

    Edited by James Ellroy, Otto Penzler ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This "impressive crime anthology" presents a century of American greed, crime and comeuppance by some of the genre's greatest authors ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).James Ellroy, the author of such noir classics as The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential, joins forces with award-winning editor Otto Penzler to present this treasure trove of stories. Ranging from the 1920s to the present day, ... Read more

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  • Hello Darlin'!

    Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life

    by Larry Hagman, Todd Gold ...
    On November 21, 1980, over 350 million people worldwide tuned in to find out: Who shot J.R.? In portraying the scheming, ruthless J.R. in Dallas during its run from 1978 to 1991, Larry Hagman reached a level of fame and recognition that is rare, if not unique. Now the man behind J.R. tells his own story in an autobiography that is at once rowdy and moving, self-searching and scandalous, juicy and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Long, Last, Happy

    New and Collected Stories

    by Barry Hannah ...
    A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection.A fitting summation of one of America's greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah's final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The ... Read more

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  • The Circus Fire

    A True Story of an American Tragedy

    by Stewart O'Nan ...
    The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944.It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • I, Fatty

    by Jerry Stahl ...
    In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of Permanent Midnight channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal crime-a national media scandal that set the precedent for those so familiar today. ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Ghosts Coast-To-Coast

    by William Uchtman ...
    "Every state has its own ghost. Every city has a few spirits. In Ghosts Coast to Coast, a friendly apparition named John takes the reader on a spirited journey through the fifty states visiting famous and obscure haunted houses throughout the United States. It's a haunting journey discovering the haunting activity of Ghosts Coast To Coast...." ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • This Old Man

    All in Pieces

    by Roger Angell ...
    Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life.Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Angell won the 2015 American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best ... Read more

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  • Good Poems, American Places

    by Various, Garrison Keillor ...
    Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape.Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us ... Read more

    $8.99 USD