Ecco Press
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart
$28.00 Read more100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0544931882
- Language: English
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Dangling in the Tournefortia
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
There is not a wasted word in Dangling in the
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876855257
- Language: English
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet
The wea
- Author: Blum, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 006236863X
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition
$22.99 Add to cartCavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly tran… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 1976
- ISBN10: 0156198207
- Language: English
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Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015
$25.00 Read moreInitially published in 1998, Patti Smith’s Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Horses, Smith’s groundbreaking album,
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0062345168
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
$18.00 Add to cartFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”*
*(New York Time… [more below]- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0358056144
- Language: English
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
$19.99 Add to cartIn these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it.” We assume that the quick-thinking “hare brain” will beat out the
- Author: Claxton, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0060955414
- Language: English
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Vagina: Revised and Updated
$16.99 Add to cartOne of our bestselling and most respected cultural critics, Naomi Wolf, acclaimed author of The Beauty Myth and The End of America, brings us an astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural h
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0061989177
- Language: English
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The Food of Spain
$75.00 Read moreOne of our foremost authorities on Mediterranean, North African, and Italian cooking, Claudia Roden brings her incomparable authenticity, vision, and immense knowledge to bear in The Food of Spain. Th… [more below]
- Author: Roden, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061969621
- Language: English
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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973282
- Language: English
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
$18.99 Add to cart“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut,
- Author: Watson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0062853066
- Language: English
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Poor People
$19.99 Add to cartThat was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0060878843
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
$22.99 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK IN NONFICTION
“[A] tremendous new book.” —The Boston Globe
“Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion
- Author: Carney, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0062985426
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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The Tree
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fow
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997773
- Language: English
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Dearly: New Poems
$27.99 Read moreA new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses them
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 006303249X
- Language: English
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876851383
- Language: English
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The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
$17.00 Add to cartCharles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardon… [more below]
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 14 2012
- ISBN10: 015603073X
- Language: English
