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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
$19.99 Add to cartApples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States’ “most endangered food.” The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at “critical” risk for extinction. Unique date palms, fou
- Author: Lohman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086335
- Language: English
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The Waters
$18.99 Add to cartOn an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp–an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan–herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of
- Author: Campbell, Bonnie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324105151
- Language: English
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DAO de Jing
$27.99 Add to cartThis bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079169
- Language: English
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
$32.99 Add to cartIn imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while s
- Author: Barraclough, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089237
- Language: English
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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
$22.99 Add to cartWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem–including
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881989
- Language: English
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A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters
$22.99 Add to cartUnlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this “new species of trouble” afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways.
With clear-eyed compassion, in vivid narrative and in part… [more below]
- Author: Erikson, Kai T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0393313190
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$19.99 Add to cartTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers–such as Gran Fu
- Author: Massie-Blomfield, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078758
- Language: English
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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 Read moreHit 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 Add to cartOn 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
