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Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover
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A Family Christmas Lib/E
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York
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The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice, 5th Anniversary Edition
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Magically Black and Other Essays
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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon CD Collection
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The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
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The View from the Cheap Seats Low Price CD: Selected Nonfiction
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
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Magically Black and Other Essays
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
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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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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class
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Vendor: Various Authors
A Word Is Not a Sparrow: A Benefit Anthology for Ukraine Relief
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Essential Thoreau CD: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
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Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
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Blue Pastures
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Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
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Inciting Joy: Essays
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The Major and the Missionary: A Love Story
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
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Mythologies Lib/E: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
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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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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
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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
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Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our...- $14.95
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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...- $36.95
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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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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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