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The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual), The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving elements of magical realism and surrealist twists t
- Author: Sotolongo, Pascha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076445
- Language: English
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreKelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she’d moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rai
- Author: McMasters, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076054
- Language: English
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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
$19.99 Add to cartBears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come int
- Author: Dickie, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086998
- Language: English
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No Bones
$26.99 Add to cartNo Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland–but don’t tell Amelia that. She’s the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn’t want to know what’s going on. But
- Author: Burns, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 039332303X
- Language: English
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The Bank of Fear
$14.95 Add to cartHit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator’s billions. From London to Switzerland, a
- Author: Ignatius, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346293
- Language: English
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A Symmetry: Poems
$15.95 Read moreThe poems in Ari Banias’s thrilling and discursive second collection, A Symmetry, unsettle the myth of a benevolently ordered reality. Through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, Banias conten
- Author: Banias, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064528
- Language: English
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Tall Trees, Tough Men
$26.99 Add to cartThe New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the… [more below]
- Series: Vivid, Anecdotal History of Logging and Log-Driving in New E
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319172
- Language: English
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On Becoming a Novelist
$15.00 Read moreOn Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner’s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication… [more below]
- Author: Gardner, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393320030
- Language: English
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
$18.95 Add to cartAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What b… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340023
- Language: English
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99 Add to cartThis incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an… [more below]
- Author: Nirenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347915
- Language: English
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
$17.95 Add to cartAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and J
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 039335833X
- Language: English
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Favorite African Folktales
$13.95 Add to cartMandela, a Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected these thirty-two tales with the specific hope that Africa’s oldest stories, as well as a few new ones, be perpetuated by future generations and be app… [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326241
- Language: English
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Write for Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations)
$16.95 Read moreHow would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective commun
- Author: Wheelan, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064463
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
$18.99 Add to cartConfessing to “familiarity with the devils,” Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her ne
- Author: Karlsen, Carol F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317595
- Language: English
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Now We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems
$15.95 Read moreKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarik?nit–drinking at home, alone in your underwea
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021942
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Add to cartThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
$150.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compa… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 3500
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0393292495
- Language: English
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
$17.99 Add to cartAmericans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restauran
- Author: Mester, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035234
- Language: English
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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s not you, it’s the food.
We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. Th
- Author: Van Tulleken, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076267
- Language: English
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$32.50 Add to cartWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges o
- Author: Light, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066210
- Language: English
