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Vendor: David Sedaris
Calypso
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris' cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.When he buys a beach house on the Carolina...- $29.99
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Vendor: Natalie Baszile
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
From the author of Queen Sugar--now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay--comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black...- $44.99
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Vendor: David Sedaris
A Carnival of Snackery Lib/E: Diaries (2003-2020)
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas-tered it.If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men...- $123.99
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Vendor: David M. Rubenstein
The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The David Rubenstein Show--American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton...- $49.99
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Vendor: Janet Metzger
Essays One
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her a magician of self-consciousness, while Rick Moody hails her as the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Zora Neale Hurston
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
The first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution over decades of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.You Don't Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative...- $51.99
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Vendor: Alice Walker
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and...- $55.99
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Vendor: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the YearA Kirkus Prize Finalist for NonfictionA Southern Book Prize FinalistAn NPR Best Book of 2020An Esquire Best Book of 2020A BookPage Best Book of 2020A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020A Wall Street Journal Holiday...- $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: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the YearA Kirkus Prize Finalist for NonfictionA Southern Book Prize FinalistAn NPR Best Book of 2020An Esquire Best Book of 2020A BookPage Best Book of 2020A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020A Wall Street Journal Holiday...- $24.99
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Vendor: Sarah Krasnostein
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle
"Deeply beautiful, and never simple." ―James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A HistoryAn unforgettable tour of the human condition that explores our universal need for belief to help us make sense of life, death, and everything in between.For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Walker
Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they talk about money;...- $39.99
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Vendor: Colleen Kinder
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
A celebration of the adventure that is other people. --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the 65 writers who grapple with...- $43.99
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Vendor: Colleen Kinder
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
A celebration of the adventure that is other people. --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the 65 writers who grapple with...- $43.99
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Vendor: Sarah Krasnostein
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle
"Deeply beautiful, and never simple." ―James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A HistoryAn unforgettable tour of the human condition that explores our universal need for belief to help us make sense of life, death, and everything in between.For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a...- $39.99
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Vendor: Chris Barker
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters: A BBC Radio 4 Adaptation
Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are...- $12.95
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Vendor: David Remnick
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change--including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth...- $55.99
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Vendor: Tom Wolfe
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine: And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
In this 1976 collection of essays, Americana icon Tom Wolfe explores the social status strife of the 1970s, eviscerating trends of faux-sympathy and self-absorption, going as far as to coin the term The 'Me' Decade to describe the period's narcissism. And when paired with...- $24.99
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Vendor: Various Authors
Tales of Two Americas Lib/E: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
Author: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 1665247975ISBN-13: 9781665247979Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 6.60h x 6.10w x 1.20d- $69.99
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Vendor: Derek Jarman
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 - 1990
A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace...- $29.99
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
The Tempest Set of 2 Audio CDs
A professional cast has recorded the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare text of The Tempest, with sound effects and accompanying music. The set of two cassettes or audio CDs is accompanied by notes and a synopsis of the play.Author: William Shakespeare, Naxos AudiobooksISBN-10: 0521603854ISBN-13:...- $35.99
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Vendor: William Shakespeare
King Richard III Audio CD Set (3 Cds)
Kenneth Branagh plays Shakespeare's Richard III in this new recording for the acclaimed Naxos AudioBooks series. A full supporting cast of distinguished actors performs the complete New Cambridge Shakespeare text of the play, with accompanying music. The set of three cds is accompanied by...- $40.99
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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...- $36.99
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Vendor: Ernest Hemingway
Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway
An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.In the public imagination, Ernest Hemingway looms larger than life. But the actual person behind the...- $34.99
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Vendor: Rob Roth
Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends--Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Kristin Chenoweth
My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves
A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves--including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo, and Billie Jean King, among...- $29.99
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Vendor: Gabriel Garc? M疵quez
Living to Tell the Tale
One of the most acclaimed and revered Nobel laureates begins to tell us the story of his life ...Living to Tell the Tale spans Gabriel Garc? M疵quez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the...- $44.95
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Vendor: Bram Stoker
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
Known as an actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) took complete responsibility for season after season at London's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theater. Beginning in 1878, author Bram Stoker worked for Irving as a business manager at...- $44.95
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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...- $55.99
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Vendor: Halimah Marcus
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term "horse girl," broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds. As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus' imagination. When she wasn't around horses she was pretending to be...- $39.99
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Vendor: Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle, with eBook Lib/E
Author: Charles DarwinISBN-10: 8200130266ISBN-13: 9798200130269Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2008Format: CD- $76.99
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Vendor: Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Author: Audre LordeISBN-10: 1799984478ISBN-13: 9781799984474Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 5.67h x 5.83w x 0.63d- $34.99
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Vendor: Jan Morris
In My Mind's Eye Lib/E: A Thought Diary
Author: Jan MorrisISBN-10: 1665128488ISBN-13: 9781665128483Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2019Format: CD- $19.99
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Vendor: Andrew Blauner (Editor)
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate
An Authorlink Top Five Book of 2020 As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People's Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation's prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to...- $36.95
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Vendor: Ingrid Wall
A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall
A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family's loss, and a legacy preserved.Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead...- $24.99
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Vendor: David M. Rubenstein
The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects...- $39.99
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Tales of Lonely Trails
Zane Grey wrote about the West and lived it as well. Tales of Lonely Trails is a collection of true travel tales describing his explorations of uninhabited areas of the West, much of it on pack horses with a guide.Here are descriptions of his...- $34.95
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Vendor: Richard Wagamese
One Story, One Song
A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life. In quiet tones and luminous language, wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, Wagamese shares...- $29.95
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Vendor: Charles Bukowski
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house - read 'em and weep." - Tom Waits Born from Bukowski's columns, the...- $19.99
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Vendor: George Gordon 1788- Byron
Don Juan
Lord Byron's satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womanizer and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly...- $44.99
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Vendor: Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Linnet Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a devoted husband, she has everything anyone could wish for. But as the happy couple set out on an idyllic honeymoon cruise on the Nile, storm clouds are gathering... Linnet's former...- $26.95
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