Nonpareil Books
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Herbs and the Earth: An Evocative Excursion Into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs
$18.95 Add to cart“Charming, delightful, and a great companion for gardeners and naturalists alike.”–Booklist
Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue — the thinking gardener’s guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henr- Series: Nonpareil Books #12
- Author: Beston, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927734
- Language: English
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Providence
$18.95 Add to cartAttorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these pe
- Series: Nonpareil Books #17
- Author: Wolff, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928102
- Language: English
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In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy
$19.95 Add to cart“Of soil and soul…Ms. Brox has restored a lost world.”–Wall Street Journal
A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack
- Series: Nonpareil Books #16
- Author: Brox, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928188
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
$16.95 Read moreA very funny view of the great, and nearly great, people throughout history by New Yorker humorist Will Cuppy.
Hysterically funny (yet historically accurate), Cuppy transforms luminaries such as Nero- Series: Nonpareil Books #31
- Author: Cuppy, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1567923771
- Language: English
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Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police
$17.95 Read more“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line….A reminder that those assig
- Series: Nonpareil Books #2
- Author: Wilkinson, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927505
- Language: English
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On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
$17.95 Read moreDiscover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPhers
- Series: Nonpareil Books #1
- Author: McPherson, James Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927483
- Language: English
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Bear
$16.95 Read moreControversial, unsettling, shocking. This is the story of a 27-year-old, lonely, woman who, alone on an island, who discovers an obsessive passion–one that breaks an ancient taboo and that could very
- Series: Nonpareil Books
- Author: Engel, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0879236671
- Language: English
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The Orchard: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartA stirring memoir of a young, single woman’s laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and p- Series: Nonpareil Books #9
- Author: Robertson, Adele Crockett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927262
- Language: English
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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work
$28.95 Read more“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions–shame, love, grief–without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”–Wall Street Journal
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker fr- Series: Nonpareil Books #11
- Author: Maxwell, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927963
- Language: English
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The Lieutenant
$18.95 Read moreThe acclaimed author’s controversial 1967 debut was a novel of men at war–with themselves.
Lieutenant Dan Tierney is a Marine aboard the vast but labyrinthine and claustrophobic USS Vanguard, an air- Series: Nonpareil Books #6
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927610
- Language: English
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More to Say: Essays and Appreciations
$17.95 Read more“Earnest, amusing, and contemplative….though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.”–Publishers Weekly
“Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an ec- Series: Nonpareil Books #4
- Author: Beattie, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927521
- Language: English
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Any Bitter Thing
$18.95 Add to cartA gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply hidden truths we’re compelled to uncover.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy- Series: Nonpareil Books #5
- Author: Wood, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927718
- Language: English
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
$22.95 Read more“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link- Series: Nonpareil Books #10
- Author: Davenport, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927777
- Language: English
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Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl
$18.95 Read more“This is the most glamorous book you’ll read this year. Or any year.”–Washington Post
When forty-year-old Alison Rose got a job as a receptionist at the New Yorker in the mid-80s, she was taken up b- Series: Nonpareil Books #7
- Author: Rose, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927750
- Language: English
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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews
$18.95 Add to cart“A superb collection…Page after page, Gallant dazzles. Her voice and sensibility are penetrating, canny, graceful, and incisive.”–Washington Post
Best of the Year from Our Pages–The New Yorker En- Series: Nonpareil Books #8
- Author: Gallant, Mavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927890
- Language: English
