Literary Collections
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the Rose
How to Travel With a Sal
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 015600125X
- Language: English
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Campfire Stories: The Redwood Coast
$18.95 Add to cartImmerse yourself in a unique blend of literature and lore about the Redwood Coast
- Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the Redwood coast
- Contributors include Julia Butt
- Author: Kyu, Ilyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1680517546
- Language: English
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Momma May Be Mad: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartMomma May Be Mad: A Memoir is an inventive and striking memoir about motherhood, madness, and the grace of second and third chances. Kerry Neville shares the story of how she was caught in the perfect
- Author: Neville, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1963695410
- Language: English
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Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles–earth, water, air and fire–exploring the foundations of the city with his trademark wisdom, elegance, and incisiveness.
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- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162640142X
- Language: English
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
$29.00 Add to cartThe first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and … [more below]
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668036371
- Language: English
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
$19.00 Add to cartDiscover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclas… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668095823
- Language: English
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If I Must Die
$17.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deep
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196615
- Language: English
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Roaring Stream
$21.99 Add to cartThe Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch’an and Zen Buddhist literature. It offers readers a tour through more than a m
- Series: Ecco Companions
- Author: Foster, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 088001511X
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Jane Austen: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Novels
$35.00 Add to cartThe Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revol
- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004184
- Language: English
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Medea
$7.98 Read moreAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
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- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
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Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment
$29.00 Add to cartA collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.
Wild Fictions b- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 022684532X
- Language: English
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Heyday: 50 Years of California Publishing
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Anklam, Emmerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146536
- Language: English
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Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1851, two aspiring landscape artists, Jervis McEntee and Joseph Tubby, set out for the Adirondacks on a sketching expedition that would test not only their mettle as artists but as outdoorsmen. Hea
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0815611765
- Language: English
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Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time
$24.99 Add to cart“All points on a circle are always the same distance from the center.” These exquisite personal essays trace the orbit of author Samina Najmi as she reflects on events, people, and places that shape h
- Author: Najmi, Samina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1949487482
- Language: English
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibran… [more below]
- Author: Hedva, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1638933537
- Language: English
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The Years of Blood
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer
ISELE MAGAZINE EDITOR’S CHOICE: 25 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025
THE MODACULTURE 10 ANTICIPATED AFRICAN BOOKS OF 2025
OP- Series: Poetic Justice Institute
- Author: Agarau, Adedayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511619
- Language: English
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Campfire Stories: The San Juan Islands: Tales & Travel Companion
$18.95 Add to cartImmerse yourself in a unique blend of literature and lore about the the San Juan Islands
- Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the San Juan Islands
- Contributors include
- Author: Kyu, Ilyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1680517562
- Language: English
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Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It: Essays
$23.33 Read moreMordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine).
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book a- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031672
- Language: English
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Love Will Save Us, Right?: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartA tender, funny, stunningly candid memoir about the joys and challenges of parenting a neurodivergent young adult that reads like a heady concoction of Dorothy Allison, Anne Lamott, Alison Bechdel and
- Author: Partido, Suzette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869180
- Language: English
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The Essays of Henry David Thoreau
$24.00 Add to cartA definitive collection of Henry David Thoreau’s major essays, annotated and introduced by Lewis Hyde.
Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau’s politics from his interest in natu
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551476
- Language: English
