Essays
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Here’s What I Need You to Know: Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, and the Mundane
$15.95 Add to cartMany women have been there: juggling motherhood, a job, volunteer work, and chauffeuring kids to school and sports practices (a job in itself); it’s enough to send anyone running for the hills. In Her
- Author: Franklin, Shari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1957723335
- Language: English
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The Message
$30.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell–and the ones we don’t–shape our realities.
Ta-Neh- Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593230388
- Language: English
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The Exit Sign at the End of the Hall
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Snavely, Nada Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330341177
- Language: English
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We Found Love, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits
$26.00 Read moreLove songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fas… [more below]
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762487003
- Language: English
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60 Songs That Explain the ’90s
$21.99 Add to cartONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023
Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decad- Author: Harvilla, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1538759470
- Language: English
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartEnough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?
In contemporary society, much of o
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Williams, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1487013426
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska: Expanded 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Pitchfork’s 11 Best Music Books of 2021
Recommended book in Rolling Stones June 2021 Issue
With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In
- Author: Carnes, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1955904715
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2024
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris.
Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty-two
- Author: Morris, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351552
- Language: English
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Notes from an Island
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal about the island that informed her many works, with paintings from her longtime partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietil?.
In the bi- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643264796
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics
While the essays in thi- Author: Franzen, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422164
- Language: English
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Here, Now: Essays
$22.00 Read moreA deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss
In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that
- Author: Mirsky, Michelle Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 081014784X
- Language: English
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On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates
$12.99 Add to cartAn intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the
- Author: Owens, Zibby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991140232
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.
“This was the
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063333996
- Language: English
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreKelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she’d moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rai
- Author: McMasters, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076054
- Language: English
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Built Different: The Boston Celtics’ Historic Run to the 2024 NBA Championship
$17.95 Read moreThe Boston Celtics are NBA champions!
For more than a decade, the Boston Celtics’ perpetual promise was met with repeated disappointment. That all changed in 2024 with a resilient and remarkable grou- Author: Karalis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1637277377
- Language: English
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The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine
$16.00 Add to cartSearing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed
We know David Gr- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217007059
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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Mysticism
$18.95 Add to cartA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.
Why mysticism? It- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378248
- Language: English
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A Year of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 Stories of Intriguing Insects
$27.95 Add to cartA fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, with QR codes to video and audio to bring the creatures to life.
Just as birds have yearly rhythms, so do insects, bees, beetles, and butterflies- Author: Couzens, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1849947953
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 081298966X
- Language: English
