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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: Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider Lib/E: Essays and Speeches
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference...- $66.99
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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: Caroline Kennedy
A Family Christmas Lib/E
Author: Caroline KennedyISBN-10: 1665165235ISBN-13: 9781665165235Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2009Format: CD- $20.97
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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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Vendor: Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." -- Eudora Welty, New York...- $49.99
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Vendor: Martin Luther King
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections on love and its transformative power--a stellar addition to Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins."I have also decided to stick with love for I know that love is ultimately the only answer to...- $49.99
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Vendor: Wesley Morris
The Best American Essays 2024
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman."Imparting some piece of yourself--any part--is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation," writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Padma Lakshmi
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
A collection of the year's top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi."Food and travel are natural companions," writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing...- $49.99
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Vendor: Sarah Smarsh
Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class
Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America--featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.In Bone of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Various Authors
A Word Is Not a Sparrow: A Benefit Anthology for Ukraine Relief
Artists in Ukraine have lost their livelihoods. The Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project was launched to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.It is a fundamental aspect of war to suppress story, language, and culture. Moved by this crisis of culture,...- $35.95
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Essential Thoreau CD: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
One Great Author. One Great CD."'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today."With these words, in response to prodding from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau embarked on a writing enterprise--his Journal--that occupied...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ian Fleming
Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BONDIan Fleming's world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches...- $41.99
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Vendor: Mary Oliver
Blue Pastures
""A gathering of gorgeous short pieces"" (Library Journal), Blue Pastures collects fifteen of Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver's prose works about nature, writing, and herself.""This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft.""--Library JournalWith consummate craftsmanship,...- $32.99
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Vendor: Simon Wu
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2024 A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick"Simon Wu manages to be both a shrewd critic and enthused aspirant of what passes for today's cultural capital. . . . with a disarming lack of cynicism that is both...- $36.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Finney Boylan
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great...- $49.99
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Vendor: Colm Tb匤
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great...- $45.95
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Vendor: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food...- $39.99
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Vendor: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food...- $45.95
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Vendor: Ross Gay
Inciting Joy: Essays
An intimate and electrifying new book of essays on joy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights. Ross Gay has made delight and joy his signature subject, and in Inciting Joy he expands on his ongoing study. For Gay,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Diana Pavlac Glyer
The Major and the Missionary: A Love Story
After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brother's letters, and did a little writing of his own. Then he got a letter from a stranger on the far side of the world. Over the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Maggie Nelson
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends...- $49.99
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