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Vendor: Grandmaster Flash
Birth of a Culture
Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash--one of the founding pioneers...- $49.99
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Vendor: Rachel Campos-Duffy
All American Patriotism: Celebrating 250 Years of America's Greatness
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Campos-Duffy and the Fox News family comes a celebration of the people, the history, and the spirit that make America great, from sea to shining sea.For 250 years, the United States has stood for hope, freedom,...- $45.99
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Vendor: Jenny Allen
Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas
"One of the funniest writers in America." That's what The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen--and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.With her eagle eye for the absurd...- $32.99
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Vendor: Nishta J. Mehra
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance. Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender,...- $32.99
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Vendor: Francis Durbridge
Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where...- $32.95
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Vendor: Reyna Grande
Migrant Heart: Essays about Things I Can't Forget
An ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival.What is the true power of stories? Can they heal the jagged edges of a traumatic...- $34.99
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Vendor: Gabriel García Márquez
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same passion and energy that marked his writing. Now the wisdom and compassion of these performances are available in English for the first time. I'm Not Here to Give a Speech records key events...- $19.95
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Vendor: Irvin D. MD Yalom
Creatures of a Day, and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of...- $29.95
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Vendor: George Orwell
Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
Viewed as too libelous to print in England until 1968, the title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive and snobbish boarding school and offers insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed."Why I Write" describes...- $29.95
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Vendor: Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov
This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze, encouraged by his equally lazy servant Zakhar and...- $34.95
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Vendor: Susan Abulhawa
Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide
Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza.In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the Culture...- $24.99
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Vendor: Christian Wiman
Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian
From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf--two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all. Whether you're seeking something to believe in or no longer...- $39.99
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Vendor: Amil Niazi
Life After Ambition: A Good Enough Memoir
"Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her--and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift." --Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased...- $29.99
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Vendor: Lawrence Burney
No Sense in Wishing: Essays
A BEST BOOK OF 2025: The New Yorker - Vulture - Kirkus Reviews "Earnest and engaging." --The New Yorker "Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I've ever read." --Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir An essay collection from culture critic...- $34.99
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Vendor: Zora Neale Hurston
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
"Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."--New York Times Book ReviewBased on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an...- $49.99
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Romances: The Winter's Tale; Pericles; The Tempest
Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Hannah Gordon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent. These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate...- $47.95
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Vendor: Savala Nolan
Good Woman: A Reckoning
A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations--from a writer Roxane Gay calls "vibrant and thoughtful."Gorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce, Good Woman: A Reckoning is acclaimed essayist Savala Nolan's follow-up...- $49.99
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Vendor: Savala Nolan
Good Woman: A Reckoning
A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations--from a writer Roxane Gay calls "vibrant and thoughtful."Gorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce, Good Woman: A Reckoning is acclaimed essayist Savala Nolan's follow-up...- $45.95
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Vendor: Alice Hoffman
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Fifteen beloved authors celebrate the life-changing bond with their canine companions in this heartwarming essay collection edited by New York Times bestselling author and lifelong dog lover Alice Hoffman.Anyone who has ever been fortunate enough to share their life with a dog knows the...- $29.99
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Vendor: Tamar Adler
Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day
From the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day."Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when we...- $34.99
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Vendor: David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative...- $24.98
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Vendor: Susan Orlean
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and On Animals--selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2024.The Best American series,...- $45.99
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Vendor: Kim Dana Kupperman
The Best American Essays 2025
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected--and most popular--of its...- $55.99
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Vendor: Jack Loeffler
A Pagan Polemic: Reflections on Nature, Consciousness, and Anarchism
A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler--itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector--whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and Stripes Forever" during an atomic bomb test...- $39.99
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Vendor: Zefyr Lisowski
Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
"A poignant, innovative, and urgent blend of memoir and criticism that has replenished my belief in how art and love can save your life."--Torrey Peters"This lyrical, thoughtful essay collection is as gripping as any horror movie." --Rax KingA sharply personal and expansive essay collection...- $39.99
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Vendor: Paul Bogard
Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World
"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carol J. Loomis
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
Carol J. Loomis first wrote about Warren Buffett for Fortune in 1966, when he was a little-known hedge fund manager in Omaha. They became close personal friends over the following decades, giving Loomis unique access and insight into the mind of the world's greatest...- $29.95
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Vendor: Iceberg Slim
The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
In The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the fierce and lyrical icon for criminal reformation describes himself as ill...from America's fake fa├ ade of justice and democracy. For Iceberg Slim, the illness may have been a detriment, but for us it's a gift. His...- $19.95
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Vendor: Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with sixteen...- $46.99
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Vendor: Craig Childs
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals...- $45.95
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Vendor: Kennedy Ann Scott
No Tea, No Shade: Life as a Drag Queen
Intimate, hilarious, and inspiring essays by celebrated drag queens Lagoona Bloo, Julie J., Olivia Lux, Alexis Michelle, Kennedy Ann Scott, and Nina West.Kennedy Ann Scott was awarded Teacher of the Year in Nashville, Tennessee. Olivia Lux starred in Rent and Kinky Boots. Julie J...- $49.99
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Vendor: Electric Literature
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.Featuring seventeen essays by trans people of color--spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists, and drag queens--Both/And explores what it...- $45.99
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Vendor: Maris Kreizman
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman--an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former "good Democrat" even further to the political leftAt the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is...- $35.99
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Vendor: Kapka Kassabova
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out the deep connection between people, plants, and place. The Mesta is one of the oldest rivers in Europe and the surrounding forests and mountains of...- $59.95
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Vendor: Martha Bayne
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more.More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by tearing up a photo...- $29.99
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Vendor: Sam Keith
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Author: Sam Keith, Richard L. ProennekeISBN-13: 9798200101689Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2010Format: CD- $16.99
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Vendor: Langston Hughes
Essential Langston Hughes CD
A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own commentary and reflections, on CD for the first time Collection includes: One Way Ticket - The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Puzzled - Trumpet Player - Ballad...- $12.95
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Vendor: Pria Anand
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
In this collection of medical tales "reminiscent of Oliver Sacks and the best of medical writing" (Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water), a neurologist reckons with the stories we tell about our brains, and the stories our brains tell us.A girl believes...- $39.99
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Vendor: Various Authors
What My Father and I Don't Talk about
A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complex--and sometimes contentious--relationships we have with our fathers.What My Mother and I Don't Talk About has become...- $39.99
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Vendor: James Patterson
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
The stories from booksellers and librarians--as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James PattersonTo be a bookseller or librarian, you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary.A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a...- $39.95
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Vendor: Ben Ratliff
Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening
A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writersOut the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff's runs started most days of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mayumi Inaba
Mornings Without MII
A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life.On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows...- $35.95
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Vendor: Sarah Perry
Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover
A fun, sophisticated illustrated collection of essays that catalogs the simple and not so simple pleasures of the eclectic world of candy from the award-winning author of After the Eclipse.A taxonomy of sweetness, a rhapsody of artificial flavors, and a multifaceted theory of pleasure,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Gay Talese
A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York
From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City."Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism." --Wall Street Journal"They fly in quietly--unnoticed, like...- $45.95
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Vendor: Carolyn McVickar Edwards
The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice, 5th Anniversary Edition
A collection of twelve traditional tales from around the world that honor the "return of the light" that takes place on the winter solstice The winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still," marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year,...- $32.99
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Vendor: Jerald Walker
Magically Black and Other Essays
In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black life and culture with equal parts candor and humor.In...- $35.99
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Vendor: Kenneth C. Davis
The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time--from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion--chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History.From ancient times to...- $49.99
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Vendor: Neil Gaiman
The View from the Cheap Seats Low Price CD: Selected Nonfiction
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style.An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Patterson
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
The stories from booksellers and librarians--as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James PattersonTo be a bookseller or librarian, you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary.A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a...- $35.95
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Vendor: Jerald Walker
Magically Black and Other Essays
In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black life and culture with equal parts candor and humor.In...- $45.95
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