Essays
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An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life
$22.95 Add to cartThe power of solitude to deepen a life.
In his twenties, Michael N. McGregor traveled to the remote Greek island of Patmos to spend two winter months alone, 6,000 miles from home. It was a time before
- Author: McGregor, Michael N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1958972746
- Language: English
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Elbows Up!: Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance
$18.00 Add to cartA blazing collection of responses to the U.S.’s shocking annexation threats and the swell of Canadian national unity that followed, from a remarkable array of Canada’s sharpest and most influential mi… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 077103220X
- Language: English
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Balls: How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Saved America
$30.00 Add to cartBestselling sports and politics commentator Clay Travis explains how Democrats are alienating men and why Trump really won. And it all comes back to sports.
Democrats don’t have a Trump problem. They- Author: Travis, Clay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0316598933
- Language: English
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You May Feel A Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility’s Heart-Wrenching Ride
$22.95 Add to cartYou May Feel a Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility’s Heart-Wrenching Ride tells the maddening, mysterious story of one woman’s unexplained infertility through a spectrum of emotions that wi… [more below]
- Author: Gallo Ryan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1963115589
- Language: English
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Lifeform
$18.99 Add to cartFrom actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the … [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0316264032
- Language: English
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I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood
$24.00 Add to cartI’ll Mature When I’m Dead is the New York Times bestseller from “the funniest man in America” (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave B… [more below]
- Author: Barry, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0425238989
- Language: English
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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
$17.99 Add to cart“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifica
- Author: Sunstein, Cass R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 006269619X
- Language: English
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Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to you- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0812984765
- Language: English
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A Hope Observed: Finding Solace Through Shared Stories of Grief
$29.99 Add to cartIn the midst of overwhelming or lingering grief, sometimes the only comfort is knowing that you’re not alone. This courageously honest, beautifully designed book offers solace through shared stories o
- Author: Bannon, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893480405
- Language: English
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The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality
$16.95 Add to cartWhat if life isn’t just a part of the universe . . . what if it determines the very structure of the universe itself?
The theory that blew your mind in Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism is back, with- Author: Lanza, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1953295800
- Language: English
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Cape Cod
$19.00 Add to cartThoreau’s classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux
Cape Cod ch- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140170022
- Language: English
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$18.00 Add to cartIn these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0679768203
- Language: English
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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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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
$24.00 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize Finalist
In this captivating exploration of the natural world, acclaimed author Lewis Thomas takes readers on a compelling journey into the intricacies of life and mortality. The med- Author: Thomas, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140243194
- Language: English
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A Generous Life: Reflections on Inspired Giving
$22.95 Add to cartA bold and imaginative guide for donors who want to make their giving more meaningful, from a pioneering thinker in the field of philanthropy.
In 1989, Peter Karoff, a businessman with a passion for s- Author: Karoff, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311155
- 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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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
$19.99 Add to cart“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”–Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestsel
- Author: Bennett, Max S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063286351
- 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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Out There: Dispatches from My Personal Wilderness
$18.95 Add to cartOut There recounts one man’s search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this
- Author: Garland, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1595343253
- Language: English
