Essays
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review). “An infuriatingly gorgeous, important boo… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668085569
- Language: English
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Point Line Plane
$35.00 Add to cartPoint Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that in Ancient Rome windows were fitted with slices of marble because glass was so
- Author: Kuma, Kengo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 050002796X
- Language: English
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a “brilliant” and “mesmerizing” (Popular Science) new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Winner of the Los Angeles Times B- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 154160671X
- Language: English
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Lessons from Leopold: Learning from the Land
$35.00 Read moreAldo Leopold (1887-1948), arguably best known for his posthumous A Sand County Almanac (1949), is considered by many the father of modern wildlife management. He developed and described many of the c
- Series: Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands
- Author: Nelle, Stephan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432484
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts
$7.95 Read moreBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0762453869
- Language: English
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine: 101 Feel-Good Stories
$16.99 Add to cartStorytelling at its funniest! And a much-needed reminder that no matter what ails you, laughter is ALWAYS the best medicine.
Laugh your way through these feel-good stories that are sure to brighten yo- Author: Newmark, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1611591139
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$12.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.
In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688635
- Language: English
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Adventures in Obstetrics: Helping women deliver their babies with other humorous and heartfelt stories
$16.95 Add to cartFollow me through endless sleepless nights as women put their trust in me to give them safe passage through one of life’s most memorable experiences-having a baby.
I will tell you what life is like fo
- Author: Matsumura, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: August 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Shulman, Liz Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: February 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1963943325
- Language: English
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The Art of the Myth: Maine Essays
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is it like to train as a whitewater guide? What special skills do you need to forage for fiddlehead ferns? What do a handful of Maine auction houses have in common? Why did a village suddenly for
- Author: Burke, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Points of Tangency: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the pages of Points of Tangency, a sequence of brilliant personal essays, Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of meeting and then marrying his now wife. His story, to
- Author: Morris, Scott Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329502
- Language: English
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Downstream from Here: A Foreign Correspondent Discovers Home
$29.95 Add to cartAfter plum assignments in Washington, London, Paris, and Buenos Aires, TIME magazine correspondent Charles Eisendrath gave up the glamor. It wasn’t that he’d gotten it wrong-
the career, the stories-it
- Author: Eisendrath, Charles R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1965278175
- Language: English
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Being (Sick) Enough: Thoughts on Invisible Illness, Childhood Trauma, and Living Well When Surviving Is Hard
$19.95 Add to cartWise, visceral essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer, neurodivergent trauma-resolution guide Jessica Graham
In an unapologetic look at living- Author: Graham, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation
$19.95 Read moreA kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific research
Creature Needs is a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss that- Author: Kondrich, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918316
- Language: English
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Low: Notes on Art & Trash
$17.95 Add to cartRaised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance-
- Author: Johnson, Jaydra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589076
- Language: English
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
$26.99 Add to cartA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original f… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593581342
- Language: English
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No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays
$28.95 Add to cartCelebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation–on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (… [more below]
- Author: Greene, A. Kendra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108086
- Language: English
