Essays
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display
$22.95 Read moreEssays, stories and poems on the interior lives of bookstores.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling. Thran, w
- Author: Thran, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0889714487
- Language: English
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Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life
$24.95 Read moreMillions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner … [more below]
- Series: Writers on Writing
- Author: Dixon, M. C. Benner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0472056476
- Language: English
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With All Her Mind: A Call to the Intellectual Life
$24.95 Read more“The feminine genius,” a term coined by Pope St. John Paul II, has become something of a buzzword in the Catholic world. But has the fullness of femininity been exhausted?
This collection of sevente
- Author: Bulman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1685780156
- Language: English
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How to Be a Canadian
$18.95 Read moreBeing Canadian can be a chore, says Will Ferguson, but it can be a lot of fun, too. For this follow-up to his runaway bestseller Why I Hate Canadians, Ferguson, a Canuck himself, recruited his brother… [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2008
- ISBN10: 1553653114
- Language: English
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Rewild Yourself: Making Nature More Visible in Our Lives
$24.95 Add to cartFor those readers who want to get closer to the nature all around them and bring it back into focus within their lives, this book is the ideal companion.
We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re fo- Author: Barnes, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1643132164
- Language: English
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Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective
$29.95 Read moreRevive Your Heart is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a conversation with one of the world’s most recognizable voices on Islam, Nouman Ali Khan.
This collection of essays is disar
- Author: Khan, Nouman Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 184774107X
- Language: English
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The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism
$40.00 Read moreThe Most Insightful and Profound Reflections on Tyranny.
Totalitarianism was the dominant phenomenon of the twentieth century. Deeply troubling questions endure regarding the nature of such tyrannical- Series: Religion and Contemporary Culture
- Author: Taylor, F. Flagg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 698
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1935191365
- Language: English
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Thank You for Not Reading
$15.95 Add to cartThank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1948830450
- Language: English
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The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis
$19.95 Read moreHonorable Award Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
“Timely and relevant, this offers plenty to think about.” — Publishers Weekly
From the winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award come
- Author: Kopecky, Arno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1770416099
- Language: English
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Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
$26.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD – A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality we need to hear in order to lean into a more freeing, loving, and liberating fai… [more below]
- Author: Uwan, Ekemini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0593239733
- Language: English
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How to Fail Successfully: Finding Your Creative Potential Through Mistakes and Challenges
$17.99 Read moreFrom Brandon Stosuy, cofounder of the Creative Independent, an interactive guide to navigating disappointments and finding happy accidents in a creative life, filled with advice from artists across di… [more below]
- Author: Stosuy, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1419746545
- Language: English
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Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$18.95 Read moreArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era.
Everything you read about Los Angeles is tru- Author: Intra, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1635901650
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
$23.95 Read more2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting e- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211629
- Language: English
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges–and rewards–of finding one’s way in the… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059349685X
- Language: English
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy
$18.00 Read moreThe Woke are killing comedy–and that makes being a comedian today better than ever!
The Woke–that humorless, joyless, shame-inducing virus–are killing comedy…and that is great for comedians! So a- Author: Perez, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1637582455
- Language: English
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
$17.99 Add to cart“An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.” —Doug
- Author: Cumming, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062435795
- Language: English
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Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
$16.00 Read moreDON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH–NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely es- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0525534164
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
$36.95 Read moreFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this co… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Frances Payne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527938
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
