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Author:Amitav Ghosh
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
A journalist who "illuminates the human drama behind the headlines" writes about today's dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly)."An uncannily honest writer," Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and...- $19.99
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Author:Isaac Fitzgerald
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction "The best of what memoir can accomplish . . . pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy."...- $36.99
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Author:Jim Harrison
The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison's essays and journalism--some never before published.New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with...- $31.95
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Author:Joe Vallese
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has...- $41.95
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Author:Audre Lorde
Selected Works of Audre Lorde
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde's intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of listeners. Self-described black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to...- $41.99
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Author:Ann Beattie
More to Say: Essays & Appreciations
As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie's essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always...- $36.95
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Author:Mairead Small Staid
The Traces: An Essay
The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.Mairead Small Staid's debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of...- $36.95
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Author:Nina Siegal
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during...- $51.99
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Author:Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices
Fresh and electrifying--stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in...- $51.99
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Author:Jim Harrison
The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison's essays and journalism--some never before published.New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with...- $46.95
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Author:Sohla El-Waylly
The Best American Food Writing 2022
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally...- $46.99
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Author:Jeanna Kadlec
Heretic: A Memoir
A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was...- $36.99
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Author:Dick Gregory
The Essential Dick Gregory
Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP(R) Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta. A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller...- $41.99
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Author: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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Author:Huma Abedin
Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
Listening in the Dark breathes new life into an ancient wisdom by taking a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition and how we can harness it to change our everyday lives and the world. Have you ever had a feeling about...- $36.99
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Author:Meghan Daum
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Author: Meghan DaumISBN-10: 8200002934ISBN-13: 9798200002931Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs- $41.99
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Author:John Lennon
The John Lennon Letters
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and...- $29.98
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Author:Colm Tóibín
A Guest at the Feast: Essays
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a collection of brilliant essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change and about cancer, priests, popes, and homosexuality. It is a glorious tribute to the art of writing.Colm Tóibín opens this stunning...- $39.99
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Author:Joseph Campbell
Correspondence: 1927-1987
Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholarsThis brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a fascinating cast of correspondents, ranging from friends and cowriters to renegade...- $36.99
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Author:Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
"Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary...- $14.99
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Author:Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
"Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary...- $19.99
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Author:Ian F. Svenonius
Against the Written Word
If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omegaAgainst the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press, the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and...- $31.95
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Author:James Alan McPherson
On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard...- $31.95
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Author:Ann Beattie
More to Say: Essays & Appreciations
As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie's essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always...- $31.95
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Author:Nina Siegal
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during...- $41.99
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Author:Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices
Fresh and electrifying--stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.Relations punctures the human illusion of separation. New and established storytellers reshape the narratives that divide and subjugate, revealing the truth of our shared humanity despite differences in...- $41.99
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot...- $44.95
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Author:Alexander Chee
The Best American Essays 2022
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of virtuosity and power (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the...- $41.99
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Author:Maggie Nelson
Bluets
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human--via 240...- $19.95
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Author:Ian F. Svenonius
Against the Written Word
If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omegaAgainst the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press, the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and...- $36.95
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Author:Virginia Woolf
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among...- $39.99
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Author:Joe Vallese
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has...- $31.95
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Author:C. S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays...- $49.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot...- $64.95
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Author:James Alan McPherson
On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard...- $36.95
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Author: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...- $24.95
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Author:Lydia Lunch
So Real It Hurts
"So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It's a mission statement. A few bleeding slices straight from the butcher shop. A sampler from an enormous archive of work that will, no doubt, be pored over by grad students, book lovers,...- $19.99
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Author:Jennifer de Leon
White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing
Sometime in her 20s, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, What would you do if you just gave yourself permission? While her parents had fled Guatemala more than three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't...- $24.99
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Author:Ilan Stavans
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the Covid-19 Pandemic
As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days...- $46.99
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Author:Ernesto Che Guevara
La Guerra de Guerrillas
El Che Guevara escribió este libro luego del triunfo de la revolución en Cuba con el objeto de generar un breve manual para extender la revolución a otros países del mundo. A través de los años se ha convertido en referente para enfrentar diversos...- $34.99
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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience the timeless wit and wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of...- $29.99
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Author:Jenifer Lewis
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what's happening in the world today, told through her...- $41.99
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Author:Jenifer Lewis
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what's happening in the world today, told through her...- $36.99
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Author:Mia Mercado
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SUMMER READAnd, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I'm expected to play?Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of...- $41.99
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Author:Mia Mercado
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY SUMMER READAnd, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I'm expected to play?Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of...- $36.99
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Author:N. Scott Momaday
Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind
Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.--American ScholarFrom Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit.Language and the imagination work...- $24.99
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Author:Minnie Driver
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing...- $41.99
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Author:Minnie Driver
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing...- $36.99
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Author:Jonathan Van Ness
Love That Story Lib/E: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on...- $66.99
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Author:Jonathan Van Ness
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexual abuse and addiction, being diagnosed with HIV) have existed alongside great joy and positivity (landing a breakout role on...- $41.99
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