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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
$14.95 Add to cart“Familiarity breeds contempt–and children.” “It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.” “Never tell a lie–except for practice.”
This attractive gift edition of the renowned American humorist’… [more below]- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 2013
- ISBN10: 048648923X
- Language: English
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The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
$16.95 Read more“In Berry’s new book, The Art of Loading Brush, he is a frustrated advocate, speaking out against local wastefulness and distant idealism; he is a gentle friend, asserting, as he always has, the hope … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1640091580
- Language: English
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Islands of Women
$16.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1906, a young girl discovers a near lifeless, naked woman washed onto the shore of Pine Cove Key, a small island off the west coast of Florida. The child is convinced the woman is her
- Author: O’Hara, Eileen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306068
- Language: English
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The Evergreen Collection: Exceptional Stories from Across Washington State
$24.95 Add to cartWhile working for Washington State Magazine, eleven journalists traveled throughout the region to interview farmers, chefs, wine tasters, mountain climbers, scientists, and more. The resulting stories
- Author: Clark, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0874224233
- Language: English
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
$18.00 Add to cartOne of America’s most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, … [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1439183449
- Language: English
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Calamities
$18.00 Read moreWINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP
A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature…. [more below]
- Author: Gladman, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1940696275
- Language: English
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Essays in Humanism
$14.99 Add to cartThe great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy a- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1453204636
- Language: English
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Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
$24.00 Add to cartIn the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South. Founded in 1948 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil… [more below]
- Author: Houghton, Sophia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674564
- Language: English
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Black Voices
$11.99 Read more“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”–James Baldwin
An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American auth- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0451527828
- Language: English
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Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker
$17.00 Add to cartKathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America’s preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper hav… [more below]
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139213
- Language: English
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
$17.99 Add to cartOn the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a
- Author: Brautigan, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0395974690
- Language: English
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Before the Sabbath
$14.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer-one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge-history, science,
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1933435305
- Language: English
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Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera
$15.95 Add to cart“Hafen has done a great service to the study of American Indian literature by collecting in one book several published and unpublished pieces. . . . A wonderful and enlightening collection.”—Choice
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- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803299192
- Language: English
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Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
$7.95 Read moreScience and religion are compatible, declares the famous physicist. In these essays, Einstein views science as the basis for a “cosmic” religion, embraced by scientists, theologians, and all who share… [more below]
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0486470105
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner (Expanded)
$26.60 Add to cartEdith Warner (1893-1951), who lived by the Rio Grande at the Otowi Switch in northern New Mexico, has become a legendary figure owing largely to her portrayal in two books: The Woman at Otowi Crossing
- Author: Warner, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826319785
- Language: English
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We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula
$17.00 Add to cartFlorida is more than just fodder for hard-boiled crime novels and zany farces. This anthology of new stories and essays challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write abou
- Author: Hinton, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 194168176X
- Language: English
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The Passenger: California
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Growing Uncertainty in the Central Valley by Anna Wiener – How Does
- Series: Passenger #10
- Author: AA VV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1787704297
- Language: English
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Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts
$19.95 Add to cartAn unprecedented compendium of milestones in the history of American literature, this anthology presents all of the “first” literary works that broke barriers, inaugurated new traditions, and prove th
- Author: Baer, Ulrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1735778982
- Language: English
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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
$18.99 Add to cart“The gift of Oliver’s poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable” ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814129
- Language: English
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The Essential Ginsberg
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing the legendary and groundbreaking poem “Howl,” this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg’s poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pa
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0062362283
- Language: English
