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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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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...- $36.95
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Vendor: 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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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...- $31.95
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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...- $49.95
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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...- $54.95
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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...- $36.95
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Vendor: Gabriel Garc? M疵quez
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Throughout his life, Gabriel Garc? M疵quez 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Frederick Joseph
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
[A] scorching treatise on toxic masculinity. Joseph's critiques of the patriarchy... both overt and ingrained are razor-sharp, but it's the clear-eyed reckoning of his own place within it that tethers the soul of his book. --Publishers WeeklyJoseph has learned a great deal from bell...- $36.99
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Vendor: Frederick Joseph
Patriarchy Blues Lib/E: Reflections on Manhood
In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Friend examines the culture of masculinity through the lens of a Black man. What does it mean to be a man today? How does the pervasive yet elusive...- $66.99
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Vendor: Wendy K. Pirsig
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: QualityThe ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment. --Robert M. Pirsig, 1962More...- $27.99
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Vendor: Wendy K. Pirsig
On Quality Lib/E: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--quality--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works. The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment.Robert...- $46.99
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Vendor: Jessi Klein
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You'll Grow Out of It.Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Jessi Klein
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You'll Grow Out of It.Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of...- $36.99
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Vendor: David Mamet
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Mamet
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm...- $36.99
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Vendor: David Mamet
Recessional Lib/E: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm...- $66.99
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Vendor: Reyna Grande
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives. -BooklistIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh NguyenA unique collection of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Stefano Massini
The Book of Nonexistent Words
The internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino's mesmerizing Invisible Cities.How many times have words not been enough?How many...- $36.99
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Vendor: Louise Erdrich
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Louise Erdrich's moving meditation on the experience of motherhood--the first nonfiction work by one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.Louise Erdrich's first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay's Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the...- $41.99
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Vendor: Louise Erdrich
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Louise Erdrich's moving meditation on the experience of motherhood--the first nonfiction work by one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.Louise Erdrich's first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay's Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the...- $46.99
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Vendor: Robin Miles
Sensuous Knowledge Lib/E: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that...- $49.99
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Vendor: Robert F. Kennedy
RFK: His Words for Our Times
Earphones Award WinnerIn honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: His Words for Our Times, a celebration...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carol J. Loomis
Tap Dancing to Work Lib/E: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
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...- $99.95
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Vendor: David Sedaris
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to...- $40.00
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Vendor: Ann Patchett
These Precious Days CD: Essays
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett's prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jim Morrison
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison CD: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics
Performed by Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, Liz Phair, Oliver Ray, Tom Robbins, Frank Lisciandro, Anne Morrison Chewning, Sefton Graham, and Ian Morrison. Includes Jim Morrison's final poetry recording, now available for the first time, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his...- $29.99
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Vendor: Susan Orlean
On Animals
Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as a national treasure by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book--gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. How we interact with animals has...- $34.99
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Vendor: Lewis-Giggetts
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy--in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today.When Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts published a piece in The Washington...- $34.99
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Vendor: Alan Cumming
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate--and most importantly--a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability. --Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainThere is absolutely no logical reason...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Sedaris
Happy-Go-Lucky
An Audie Award Winner David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on...- $45.00
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Vendor: John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition--and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention." --Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re: Thinking The instant #1 bestseller from John Green,...- $35.00
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Vendor: David Sedaris
The Best of Me
Author: David SedarisISBN-10: 1549139703ISBN-13: 9781549139703Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2021Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.30w x 1.50d- $25.00
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Vendor: David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait...- $35.00
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Vendor: Jelani Cobb
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani Cobb.This latest anthology from the pages of the New Yorker is a bold and...- $75.00
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