Essays
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The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure
$18.95 Add to cartWhether failing to restrain herself from trying to find greater meaning in roadkill, or to convince her dad that psychedelic mushrooms will not save his marriage, or to believably perform enthusiasm f
- Author: Zaleski, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270149
- Language: English
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Black!feminist!free
$29.95 Add to cartBLACK!Feminist!FREE! gathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her contributions.
- Author: Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0883784335
- Language: English
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Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings
$18.99 Add to cartThis book won’t fix you, but imagine how cool you’ll look carrying it around…
Maeve Dunigan has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The results have been … mixed. Nonethele
- Author: Dunigan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1464220441
- Language: English
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Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays
$16.99 Add to cartStudents will prepare powerful and successful admission essays with the tools provided in this invaluable, newly-updated resource for the college-bound.
Examples of 50 real essays are included, discuss… [more below]
- Author: Tanabe, Gen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1617602019
- Language: English
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How to Disappear and Why: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing.
Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor- Author: Minor, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1956046577
- Language: English
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Migrant Heart: Essays about Things I Can’t Forget
$29.00 Read more- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668055279
- Language: English
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In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
$20.00 Add to cartA couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning f
- Author: Carolla, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0307717380
- Language: English
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Dirty Truths
$26.95 Add to cartEssays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863174
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time There Was Truth: Or, Why We Need Fairy Tales
$28.00 Add to cartEssays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy tales
Fairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the confl- Author: Zipes, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282389
- Language: English
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The Site of Memory
$10.99 Add to cartThe Site of Memory describes Toni Morrison’s work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she expl… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1068591897
- Language: English
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Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Raw, undeniable, and tender.” –Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman
“As quietly earth-shattering as it is tenderly hopeful.” –Catherine Newman, New York Times bestsell- Author: Teer, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063440229
- Language: English
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On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World
$16.95 Add to cartAn antidote to political burnout and civic despair: drawing on mindfulness and modern wisdom to cultivate resilience, healthy engagement, and skillful presence in turbulent times
A compact, beautifull- Author: Engels, Jeremy David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1967175004
- Language: English
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The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker
$27.99 Add to cartA book of small rescues against despair.
In this deftly comedic and deeply contemplative memoir, the New York Times bestselling author faces life’s biggest curveball only to find resilience in the mos- Author: Gurwitch, Annabelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1968506063
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$19.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER – NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO – NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE
“Gossip is the only- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1538757419
- Language: English
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Walking as Embodied Worldmaking: Bodies, Borders, Knowledgescapes
$29.00 Read moreWritten and visual contributions from social scientists and artists offering a vibrant and multifaceted perspective on the phenomenon of walking
Walking is as much a cultural practice as it is an embod
- Author: Spahn, Lea Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9083499332
- Language: English
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Technology and Barbarism: Or: How Billionaires Will Save Us from the End of the World
$20.00 Add to cartThought-provoking pieces of nonfiction exploring the crossroads of technology with art and science, as well as how hard science fiction has inspired the craziest ideas of our times, for the good and t… [more below]
- Author: Nieva, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603185
- Language: English
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Every Cast: Chronicles of a Deeply Hooked Angler
$29.95 Add to cartEvery Cast – Stephen Sautner’s New Book Chronicles the Obsession of Angling
From trout to bonefish to striped bass, more than 60 stories written by a master storyteller For more than three decades, St- Author: Sautner, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092324
- Language: English
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Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire
$27.00 Add to cartA taboo-bursting, personal and cultural tour through different sexual fetishes that asks: Do we have the courage to look at our desires directly, and express them unapologetically?
The smell of leathe- Author: Fedorova, Anastasiia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1646223357
- Language: English
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Kawase Hasui: Capturing the Soul of Japan
$45.00 Read moreDiscover the timeless beauty of Kawase Hasui, the master of shin hanga, in this stunning new book, featuring his most breathtaking woodblock prints and expert insights into his legacy.
Kawase Hasui (1- Author: Uhlenbeck, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9464781181
- Language: English
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
$22.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024*
*A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a “beloved and wonderful writer” (George Saunders),… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1335453512
- Language: English
