Essays
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
$22.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024*
*A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a “beloved and wonderful writer” (George Saunders),… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1335453512
- Language: English
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Sophie Calle: True Stories: 66 Short Stories: New Edition
$22.00 Read moreThe latest edition of Sophie Calle’s classic artist’s book features three new tales
First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition of True Stories returns with thr
- Author: Calle, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 2330182465
- Language: English
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Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate
$24.99 Add to cartWe all want to make sense of life–the good, the painful, the miraculous. Who are we? Why are we here? What should we do with our lives? How do we hold on to hope, in a world that is both beautiful an
- Author: Garber, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893480344
- Language: English
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On Censorship
$15.95 Add to cartAi Weiwei is one of contemporary art’s greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.
This publica
- Series: Pocket Perspectives
- Author: Weiwei, Ai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0500030820
- Language: English
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can’t Stop Laughing: 101 Feel-Good Stories
$16.99 Add to cartLife is better when you’re laughing! These feel-good, funny stories are the perfect pick-me-up.
These 101 true and hilarious stories serve as a reminder that humor is hiding in everyday moments. From- Author: Newmark, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1611594618
- Language: English
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Why Businessmen Need Philosophy: The Capitalist’s Guide to the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
$27.00 Add to cartThe intellectual tooks every business person needs in the boardroom. Includes two rare essays by Ayn Rand!
With government and the media blaming big business for the world economic crisis, capitalis- Author: Ghate, Debi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0451232690
- Language: English
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Just a Busy Season: Essays on Motherhood, an Unexpected Comedy
$28.99 Add to cartComedian and author of Birdie & Harlow @thedailytay shares an honest and hilarious essay collection on parenting young children, navigating social anxiety, and being a millennial woman.
“It’s just a b
- Author: Wolfe, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0063422379
- Language: English
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The Arches Reader
$24.95 Add to cartGeology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There’s something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a mass… [more below]
- Series: National Park Readers
- Author: Nichols, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1647691397
- Language: English
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A Brief Inhalation
$18.99 Add to cartDaragh Fleming’s A Brief Inhalation is a candid exploration of contemporary existence, dissecting themes of identity, dislocation, and introspection with a sharp, unflinching eye. Blurring the line be
- Author: Fleming, Daragh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1916938876
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: Webber, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0241645417
- Language: English
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Shosa: Meditations in Japanese Handwork
$45.00 Add to cartTwelve beautiful, mindfully created in-depth portraits of Japanese makers in words and photos, from a bamboo weaver to a tatami mat maker, from a ceramicist to a cook who specialises in puddings. Incl… [more below]
- Author: Gomez, Ringo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9460583806
- Language: English
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
$19.00 Add to cartYears before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor — and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowle… [more below]
- Author: Bageant, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339378
- Language: English
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Crossing Open Ground
$17.00 Add to cartIn Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment.
Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discus- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721835
- Language: English
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Walking Solo but Not Alone
$19.95 Add to cartEvery one of the books I note here is a light, each a gift from someone reaching from another time and place to offer us strength. The human spirit is capable of magnanimity that many of us have not e
- Author: Archibald, Jane Pitkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893080735
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
$29.00 Add to cartA vital testament to how art makes us who we are–and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.
Barbara Kruger once defined art as “the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh- Author: O’Grady, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 037461332X
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$18.00 Add to cartA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394628
- Language: English
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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
$34.99 Add to cartEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast hi
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353516
- Language: English
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The Common Uncommon: A Forest Journey
$28.99 Add to cartFor forty years, Bernd Heinrich has been ensconced in the woods of the northern, or boreal, forest, living in his log cabin amidst a vast sea of spruce, fir, and larch in the mountains of western Main
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324021101
- Language: English
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The Fullness of Time: Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows, and Stars
$32.00 Add to cartA joyful exploration of the forgotten art of marking time from nature’s daily rhythms and a call to notice the wonders of the living world, wherever you are.
Most of us live fully digitized lives, sta- Author: Haynes, Cathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593715454
- Language: English
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
$28.00 Read moreAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those work- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002380
- Language: English
