Literary Collections
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Gesar: Tantric Practices of the Tibetan Warrior King
$29.95 Read moreGesar of Ling is well known in Tibetan history, literature, and folklore. But, for Buddhist practitioners, he is an enlightened tantric protector and deity–an emanation of Padmasambhava. Engaging in … [more below]
- Author: Mipham, Jamgon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1611809150
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet a Moveable Feast
$14.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher*
Life-changing food adventures around the world.
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartl
- Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1786572095
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen
$21.95 Read moreA beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.
Buddhism migrated from India to China in the first century- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1611807131
- Language: English
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Leavetakings: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition
$22.00 Read moreThe classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material
Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherl- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0374538123
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
$22.00 Read moreA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Mo?e de Camondo.
63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1250851068
- Language: English
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The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
$16.95 Read moreNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives–including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleem… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220307
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
$22.00 Read moreA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS … [more below]- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593134656
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$26.00 Add to cart” A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that ma… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126464
- Language: English
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Correspondence
$16.50 Add to cartPaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg … [more below]
- Series: German List
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0857426427
- Language: English
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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The Lilac Tree: A Rabbi’s Reflections on Love, Courage, and History
$28.00 Read moreApplying Jewish values to our personal and communal lives.
Ammiel Hirsch has been one of America’s leading rabbis for more than three decades. A Zionist activist who spent his formative years in Israe- Author: Hirsch, Ammiel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587465
- Language: English
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I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963
$24.50 Read moreFrank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.
With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts o- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091800
- Language: English
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Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars: Astrology, Our Icons, and Our Selves
$17.99 Read moreA soulful exploration of the twelve astrological signs embodied by our living “stars”–from divas to philosophers, poets to punks–and the ways they can help us better understand ourselves and each ot… [more below]
- Author: Comstock-Gay, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264471
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Read morePraise for Arundhati Roy:
“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” –Howard Zinn
“Arund
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466736
- Language: English
