Essays
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Other People’s Mothers
$28.00 Add to cartA nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age
Relationships
story told through one young woman’s relationships with the mother figures in
her life
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fr- Author: Wade, Julie Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081149
- Language: English
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles–earth, water, air and fire–exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness.
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- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162640142X
- Language: English
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
$29.00 Add to cartThe first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036371
- Language: English
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
$19.00 Add to cartDiscover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclas… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668095823
- Language: English
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Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment
$29.00 Add to cartA collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.
Wild Fictions b- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 022684532X
- Language: English
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibran… [more below]
- Author: Hedva, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1638933537
- Language: English
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Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time.
“Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andr? Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile al
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869393
- Language: English
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Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We Live
$15.00 Add to cartDriftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creat
- Author: Kubasta, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1967311765
- Language: English
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We’re Alone: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453533
- Language: English
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Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation
$17.95 Add to cartAn occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life.
In these essays by scholar and self-initiated witch Brooke Palmieri, occult history, the eternal now, and our magickal queer- Author: Palmieri, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902657
- Language: English
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Heretic: A Queer Revolt Against Evangelicalism, Empire, and the Lies We Are Sold
$18.99 Add to cartA 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 comfortab
- Author: Kadlec, Jeanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 006348904X
- Language: English
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Dead and Alive: Essays
$32.00 Add to cartA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in t- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168989
- Language: English
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
$24.00 Add to cartNaturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research,… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Pinto, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469689790
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation: Essays on Nurturing a Passion for Reading
$30.00 Add to cartInspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world’s most beloved writers.
Remember
- Author: Orchard, Jennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992125
- Language: English
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Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7
$22.99 Read moreIn this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani Valent and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, reveal how their lives were turned upside down in the w
- Author: Kofman, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0646714368
- Language: English
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Janet Flanner’s World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
$17.99 Add to cartThe pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. … [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 015645971X
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402836
- Language: English
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I’ve Tried Being Nice: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a “zany, relatable essay collection” (Oprah Daily), told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser. “Ann Leary is a damn delight…Read thi… [more below]
- Author: Leary, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1982120363
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Box Set
$15.95 Add to cartTo paraphrase the Bard, though they be but little, they are fierce… A pocket-sized box set of three 3″ hardcover Bard books, the perfect gift for your favorite Shakespeare enthusiast.
Behold a delu- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0762459433
- Language: English
