Essays
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Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity
$19.95 Add to cartWhat happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US dip… [more below]
- Author: Dubrow, Jehanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365264
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
$17.95 Add to cartInspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. Th
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1629631108
- Language: English
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each–from Ep… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1501129023
- Language: English
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Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating insight into notable political speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path.
For almost every delivered speech, there exists- Author: Nussbaum, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1250245672
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$29.00 Read moreOne of Vanity Fair’s Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0316485349
- Language: English
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My Life: Growing Up Asian in America
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of thirty heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces “that highlights the humanity and multitudes of being Asian American” (Kirkus Reviews, starred), for fans of Minor Feelings.There ar… [more below]
- Author: Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Ent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1982195363
- Language: English
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Math Without Numbers
$19.00 Add to cartAn illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call “math”
The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to th- Author: Beckman, Milo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1524745561
- Language: English
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Orwell on Truth
$16.99 Add to cartOver the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, co… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0358065054
- Language: English
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The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth–and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eise… [more below]
- Series: Moth Presents #2
- Author: Burns, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904429
- Language: English
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
$19.95 Add to cartAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to g
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003316
- Language: English
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Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Callin… [more below]
- Author: Levins Morales, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 147800309X
- Language: English
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
$16.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR’s SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOU
- Author: Rush, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313818
- Language: English
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Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris
$50.00 Add to cartThe definitive and only authorized biography of Josef Koudelka–an intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography’s most renowned and celebrated artists.
Throughout his more than sixty-y- Author: Harris, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1597114650
- Language: English
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Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
$14.95 Add to cartA laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife.
Laurie Notaro has proved everyone wrong: she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age
- Author: Notaro, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542033500
- Language: English
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I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life
$16.95 Add to cartA humorous and relatable look into the joys and pitfalls of living in New York City.
There is no city quite like New York City, for better or worse. I Love(ish) New York is a hilarious relatable colle- Author: Solomon, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216554
- Language: English
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The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays
$16.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.
In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Ch
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643517
- Language: English
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Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartJoy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by c
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Nelson, Jessica Hendry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365475
- Language: English
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Ha-Hallelujah!: Laugh Hard Love More Intentionally Live More Devotedly
$15.95 Add to cartI love to laugh! I also love to tell stories! For me, that’s a risky combination. But more importantly, I want to help people to grow deeper in love with King Jesus.
I firmly believe that the Creator f
- Author: Mallette, Kim M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888320839
- Language: English
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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time
$35.00 Read moreLinking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape’s power.
In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been pur- Author: Sax, Boria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147905
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
