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Vendor: Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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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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The Best American Essays 2024
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024
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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Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America--featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.In Bone of...- $39.99
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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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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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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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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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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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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...- $45.95
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Vendor: Judith Thurman
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades,...- $59.95
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Vendor: Joseph Epstein
Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead...- $55.99
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Vendor: Nell Greenfieldboyce
Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on...- $41.99
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
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Vendor: Kai Cheng Thom
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet...- $45.95
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Vendor: Kai Cheng Thom
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet...- $35.99
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Vendor: Roland Barthes
Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
Author: Roland BarthesISBN-13: 9798200083442Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d- $46.99
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Vendor: Girls Write Now
On the Art of the Craft: A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling
A writing companion, inspirational guide to the craft, and anthology featuring interactive multi-genre work from the acclaimed organization on its twenty-fifth anniversary.We all have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the mentoring and training or encouragement to become a great storyteller. Founded a...- $45.95
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Vendor: Ann Leary
I've Tried Being Nice: (Among Other Things): Essays
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House comes a collection of humorous essays about a lifelong people pleaser (and wife, mother, writer, and dog lover) who learns--at a certain age--the joy of not always having to be nice. Perfect for...- $34.99
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Vendor: Girls Write Now
On the Art of the Craft: A Guidebook to Collaborative Storytelling
A writing companion, inspirational guide to the craft, and anthology featuring interactive multi-genre work from the acclaimed organization on its twenty-fifth anniversary.We all have stories to tell, but not everyone gets the mentoring and training or encouragement to become a great storyteller. Founded a...- $39.99
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Vendor: Elspeth Barker
Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
A sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker--acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker's sharp and witty essays appeared regularly in the national...- $29.99
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
Colonial Dames and Good Wives
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.Audio copyright 2023Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is...- $36.95
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
Colonial Dames and Good Wives
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major U.S. Historian Series No. 3Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle published by Houghton Mifflin 1895.Audio copyright 2023Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1895. It is...- $31.95
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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...- $46.99
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Vendor: Kleaver Cruz
The Black Joy Project
A breathtaking and necessary love letter to a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, The Black Joy Project is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of ... moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient...- $41.99
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Vendor: Elisa Gabbert
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Author: Elisa GabbertISBN-10: 1665197552ISBN-13: 9781665197557Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2020Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $36.99
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Vendor: Michael Chabon
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays--heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise--on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's...- $19.99
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Vendor: Annie Liontas
Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
For readers of Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom, Esme Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos's Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ray D. Bradbury
Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
Essays discuss Bernard Berenson, Walt Disney, Federico Fellini, the cities of Paris and London, art, literature, history, science fiction, and the design of public placesAuthor: Ray D. BradburyISBN-10: 8200703282ISBN-13: 9798200703289Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.95
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Vendor: Brandon Stosuy
Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears
A beautifully-illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness--and the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel...- $29.99
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Vendor: J. Franklin Jameson
The History of Historical Writing in America
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsTHE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN AMERICA by J. Franklin Jameson, PhD, Professor of History at Brown University. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.Note: This book is "read as written." It was published in 1891. It is...- $26.95
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Vendor: Anthony Veasna So
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring...- $41.99
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Vendor: Irvin D. 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...- $34.95
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Vendor: Mark Bittman
The Best American Food Writing 2023
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman."In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing...- $41.99
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Vendor: Jaime Green
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take...- $41.99
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Vendor: Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes from Spirit
A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese's short writingsRichard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to...- $19.95
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As They Were
Written in her fine prosaic style as a series of vignettes, this rewarding book recounts the life and adventures of respected writer Mary Fisher during her travels in America and Europe. The events are filled with wonderful details of people, places, foods, and thoughts,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jonathan R. Eller
Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury
Iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory from the pages...- $55.99
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Vendor: Anthony Veasna So
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring...- $36.99
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Vendor: Roxane Gay
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between.Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big...- $41.99
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Vendor: Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2023
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest...- $46.99
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Vendor: Mark Bittman
The Best American Food Writing 2023
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman."In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing...- $41.99
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