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At Home in the World
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Labor Day
When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard’s memoir broke a silence concern- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250046440
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a countr
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013720
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
$19.00 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. W- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002486
- Language: English
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
“A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical recon- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509122X
- Language: English
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Listen to This
$27.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610688
- Language: English
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker
$30.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2000, Harper’s Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion
- Author: McManus, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312422520
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
$20.00 Read moreAs an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans ab
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250750113
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’
$26.00 Add to cartYoung Eliot: From St. Louis to “The Waste Land” was hailed as “exceptional” and “assiduous” (The New York Times). Robert Crawford’s meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After “The Waste
- Author: Crawford, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872812
- Language: English
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern Living
Sloane Crosley returns to the form tha- Author: Crosley, Sloane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250310415
- Language: English
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Heart: A History
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was so- Author: Jauhar, Sandeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234662
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartIn this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher Andr? Comte-Sponville reexamines the classical virtues to help us understand “what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live.” In the p
- Author: Comte-Sponville, Andr?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805045562
- Language: English
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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
$25.99 Add to cartPhilosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist S ren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world.
S ren- Author: Carlisle, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798426
- Language: English
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Silver Swan
$25.99 Add to cartMen who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebell
- Author: Bingham, Sallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787335
- Language: English
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Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang
$22.00 Add to cartA PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire
Couldn’t put it down. – Charlamagne Tha God
Mesmerizing. – Raekwon da C- Author: Hawkins, Lamont U-God
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250191173
- Language: English
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429576
- Language: English
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums
$18.00 Add to cartIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach’s The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world
Humans, please turn your gu- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858852
- Language: English
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Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
$18.00 Add to cartA dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.
Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and- Author: Lowe, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849217
- Language: English
