Essays
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThis celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is “brilliantly entertaining…Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation’s best comi… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 2-Jul-07
- ISBN10: 0316013323
- Language: English
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Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears
$28.99 Read moreA 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 frus- Author: Stosuy, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668003457
- Language: English
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
“The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available e
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1328507971
- Language: English
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George MacDonald
$15.99 Add to cartC. S. Lewis said everything he wrote was influenced by George MacDonald. According to Lewis, there is “hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continuously close, to the Spirit of Chri
- Series: Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0060653191
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1668015544
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
$30.00 Add to cartGoodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0525556532
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$14.00 Add to cartA transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thor- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25, 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390448
- Language: English
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
$17.00 Add to cart“Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis–and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.” –Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books
“Vale… [more below]
- Author: Luiselli, Valeria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1566894956
- Language: English
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
$18.00 Add to cart“I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that c… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 1997
- ISBN10: 0802135293
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$29.99 Add to cart“Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn’t steal was the power of stories.”
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a collec
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691605
- Language: English
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
$17.95 Add to cart“Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1593760078
- Language: English
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores ho
- Author: Chee, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 1328764524
- Language: English
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I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
$18.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller, I’ll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.
Longlisted for the P
- Author: Klein, Jessi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062981609
- Language: English
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Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
$32.95 Add to cartA visually mesmerizing and environmentally conscious profile of the Olympic Peninsula. — Kirkus Reviews
- Contributors include Wendy Sampson, Loni Greninger, Gary Morishima, Maria Pascua, Jamie Valad
- Author: McNulty, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1680515292
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection that reveals what would become Joan Didi
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593312198
- Language: English
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Wilderness Essays
$16.99 Add to cartPart of John Muir’s appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1423607120
- Language: English
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
$21.99 Add to cartDelve into this “delightful” (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell’s writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on “minor geniuses” and idiosyn… [more below]
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0316076201
- Language: English
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The Book of Delights: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartAs Heard on NPR’s This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America’s most original and observant writers, award-… [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1616207922
- Language: English
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
$29.99 Add to cartActivist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brin
- Author: Soriano, Jen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063230135
- Language: English
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Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age
$24.95 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022366
- Language: English
