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Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
$19.99 Add to cartWhen ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they’d rescued, she’d be a temporary presence. But Alfie’s feathers were n
- Author: Safina, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086483
- Language: English
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
$27.99 Add to cart44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, P?draig ? Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, rev
- Author: Tuama, Pádraig Ó.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086165
- Language: English
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Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086203
- Language: English
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Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartSince its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless int
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086246
- Language: English
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Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions and Tastes of the World’s Sacred Spaces
$50.00 Add to cartMonasteries, temples, mosques, and synagogues have long been centers of culinary innovation. No mere relics of the past, they reflect our modern world and are as dynamic and fundamental to our society
- Author: Eddy, Jody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0393651738
- Language: English
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Cicada Summer
$16.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfath
- Author: McKeen, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073810
- Language: English
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Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
$21.99 Add to cartSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, lique
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074604
- Language: English
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There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
$29.99 Add to cart“Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,” Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson’s publishe
- Author: Watson, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076429
- Language: English
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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals about Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece o
- Author: Bierman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020679
- Language: English
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How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
$18.99 Read moreFrom facial recognition–capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents–to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves
- Author: Wiggins, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074582
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Darling: Poems
$26.99 Add to cart“The poet of rapture and tenderness” (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God.
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867196
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$35.00 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066253
- Language: English
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Come to the Window
$27.99 Add to cartIt’s 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama–harrowing and
- Author: Norman, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 132407633X
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
$18.99 Add to cartPhosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has
- Author: Egan, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074728
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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More Mexican Everyday: Simple, Seasonal, Celebratory
$35.00 Add to cartRick Bayless transformed America’s understanding of Mexican cuisine with his Mexican Everyday. Now, Rick returns with an all-new collection of uniquely flavorful recipes, each one the product of his e
- Author: Bayless, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0393081141
- Language: English
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement
$29.99 Add to cartIn England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman–if there were such
- Author: Gibson, Susannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881385
- Language: English
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Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World
$29.99 Add to cartHoneybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities
- Author: Keim, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007087
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017–revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)–critics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076143
- Language: English
