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Manazuru
$16.95 Add to cartStartlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.
Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and s- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1640090185
- Language: English
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays
$10.00 Add to cartA brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from “America’s greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living” (Chicago Tri… [more below]
- Series: Counterpoints
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1640094571
- Language: English
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays
$16.95 Read more“”Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here.”” —The New York Times Book Review
In this collection o- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1640091408
- Language: English
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The Other Mother
$18.95 Read moreAn “extraordinary” page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family (Alice
- Author: Harper, Rachel M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095926
- Language: English
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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
$16.95 Add to cart“In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1640091580
- Language: English
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The Suitcase
$15.95 Add to cartSergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects–the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from th… [more below]
- Author: Dovlatov, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437335
- Language: English
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The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
$16.95 Add to cart“Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don’t get any better than these.” —People
As part of Counterpoint’s celebration of beloved Amer- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092102
- Language: English
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None But the Righteous
$16.95 Read moreLyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction
“[A] profound de- Author: James, Chantal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095624
- Language: English
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
$16.95 Add to cartThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1582434840
- Language: English
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Strange as This Weather Has Been
$17.95 Add to cartA West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review… [more below]
- Author: Pancake, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159376166X
- Language: English
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Cocaine Nights
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the iconic author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, Cocaine Nights features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort.
The remarkable bestse- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1582435707
- Language: English
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Colorful
$16.95 Read moreA beloved and bestselling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a second chance is perfect for readers of The Midnight Library.
“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!”- Author: Mori, Eto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1640094423
- Language: English
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Last of the Curlews
$15.95 Add to cartIn this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew’s perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor c… [more below]
- Author: Bodsworth, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437351
- Language: English
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It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
$15.95 Add to cartAn impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.
When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lectur- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1619021145
- Language: English
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Standing by Words
$16.95 Read moreAn urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society.
In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry consider- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437459
- Language: English
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The Revisioners
$16.95 Read moreThis New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year from the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, On the Rooftop, is “a powerful tale of racial tensions across generations” (People) th… [more below]
- Author: Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1640094261
- Language: English
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
$17.95 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman’s later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter you… [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092005
- Language: English
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One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
$17.95 Read more“If you’ve ever wondered how a messed up kid like you or me might master the wisdom of Zen, One Blade of Grass is the adventure for you. It’s great company–and after reading it, you might recognize t… [more below]
- Author: Shukman, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092625
- Language: English
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The Memory of Old Jack
$15.95 Add to cartOld Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.
The story tells of the most sea- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 1582430438
- Language: English
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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
$17.95 Add to cartIn this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth–both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1619028379
- Language: English
