Essays
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Conversations of Socrates
$17.00 Read moreAfter the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenop… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1990
- ISBN10: 014044517X
- Language: English
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Immortal Gestures: Journeys in the Unspoken
$22.00 Add to cartThere is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial li
- Author: Young, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992087
- Language: English
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The Rockford Anthology
$24.00 Add to cartScrew Capital of the World. Forest City. Home of the Rockford Peaches of A League of Their Own fame. Rockford, Illinois, has many identities, most oriented toward the past. These days, the fastener in
- Series: Belt City Anthologies
- Author: León, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270122
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies
This 20th ann- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214881
- Language: English
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La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women’s rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.
La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars,
- Series: Essays
- Author: Orloff, Carolina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1917260164
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartDrawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber’s most important essays and interviews.
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is somethi- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397642
- Language: English
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Fire Ants
$22.00 Add to cartThat’s your first lesson in East Texas-where words stretch like summer days and stories run deeper than the Red River itself. In Fire Ants, O’Banion delivers a witty, unvarnished portrait of growing u
- Author: O’Banion, Cason E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 31 2025
- ISBN10: 162288292X
- Language: English
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The Land Is Holy
$24.95 Read moreFLORA AND FAUNA POPULATE THE LYRICAL ESSAYS IN THIS DEBUT NONFICTION COLLECTION.
“I don’t think you ever move on from leaving a life behind.” Flora and fauna populate the lyrical essays in The Land i- Author: Keim, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1737718480
- Language: English
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Notes on Heartbreak: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Lord, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063468492
- Language: English
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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING
In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how
- Author: Coenen, Catharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1632064057
- Language: English
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Above Us Only Sky: Essays
$17.95 Add to cart“These essays on a woman’s wild ride through life give us Marion’s bracing tonic-of-truth voice in splendid form–her voice that is always brilliantly funny, intelligent, brave, haunting, and full of … [more below]
- Author: Winik, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1640093087
- Language: English
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
$29.95 Add to cartJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intel… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1590174933
- Language: English
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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism
$32.00 Add to cartSelected pieces on nature, history, politics, and urban culture from a master of the nonfiction narrative.
Writing on subjects as divergent as the mega-fires that burned the grasslands of the Great Pl- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0374603103
- Language: English
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An Eye For Joy
$19.95 Add to cartThis charming and eccentric little book invites readers to embrace the impulse to wonder, the practice of noticing, and the deep inclination toward joy no matter life s difficulties. Through short, sp… [more below]
- Author: Guilfoyle, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: November 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1961864398
- Language: English
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I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power
$30.00 Add to cartWith style and straight talk, musician and activist Lachi redefines disability as a cultural movement, an empowering identity, and a blueprint for innovation that you can’t afford to ignore.
Lachi is a… [more below]- Author: Lachi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593851579
- Language: English
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Life After Ambition: A Good Enough Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartChanneling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Amil Niazi stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life… [more below]
- Author: Niazi, Amil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056038
- Language: English
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The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings
$35.00 Add to cartThe ultimate collection of Einstein’s scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativity
The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0691131074
- Language: English
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Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
$29.95 Add to cartA beautiful companion volume to the hugely popular The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady–a trove of exquisite paintings and notes from the same author that have been unpublished and unseen for decad… [more below]
- Author: Holden, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0789344289
- Language: English
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Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty
$26.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to you- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0812994264
- Language: English
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Political Fictions: From the Middle Ages to the Post-Truth Present
$23.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed historian illuminates today’s political situation by examining the relationship between governing and storytelling, from the Middle Ages to the “post-truth” present, in these engaging ess… [more below]
- Author: Boucheron, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1635423759
- Language: English
