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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: Moyra Davey (Editor)
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe firsthand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy,...- $14.99
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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: David Mitchell
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
David Mitchell's 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths...- $24.99
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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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Vendor: M. F. K. Fisher
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: John Steinbeck
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period...- $24.99
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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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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...- $46.99
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Vendor: Gregg Hecimovich
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
Named a Most Anticipated Title by: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post!A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by...- $46.99
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Vendor: Gregg Hecimovich
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
Named a Most Anticipated Title by: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post!A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by...- $41.99
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Vendor: Janice MacLeod
Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection
Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod's years-long endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to...- $31.95
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Author: Henry David ThoreauISBN-10: 8200135853ISBN-13: 9798200135851Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2008Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs- $46.99
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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...- $46.99
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Vendor: Ross Gay
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
Pre-order now! The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy shares this new chronicle of small, daily wonders--and it is exactly the book we need in these unsettling times. Ross Gay's essays have been called "exquisite" (Tracy K....- $45.00
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Vendor: 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...- $59.95
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Vendor: Sandra Guzmán
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume.Daughters...- $57.99
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Vendor: Esme Weijun Wang
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right...- $25.99
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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 timesBased on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World...- $57.99
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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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: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Colm Tb匤
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 Tb匤 opens this stunning...- $39.99
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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 timesBased on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World...- $57.99
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Clarice Lispector
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cricas
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her cricas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canap駸."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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