Essays
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing
“A beautiful book–at once intimate and sweeping, informative and moving.” –Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky Earth is- Author: Bjornerud, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250875919
- Language: English
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Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers–at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience
- Author: Gurba, Myriam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1643265148
- Language: English
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Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present
$32.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most important figures in American journalism — acclaimed historian, Pulitzer finalist, staff writer at the New Yorker, and dean of Columbia Journalism School–a devastatingly insight… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 059397820X
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
$18.99 Add to cartSusan Orlean–the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and On Animals–selects twenty science and nature essays that represe
- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 006341421X
- Language: English
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Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds
$26.99 Add to cartA celebration of sisterhood, featuring more than 50 personal stories by Viola Davis, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Arianna Huffington, Octavia Spencer, and many more.
The heartwarming follow-up t- Author: Roberts, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1368115810
- Language: English
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the James Beard Award-winning chef, food justice activist, and bestselling author Bryant Terry.
The innovative and celebrated chef, f
- Author: Terry, Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063464683
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2025
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino.
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s
- Author: Tolentino, Jia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063351595
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$14.00 Add to cartJohn Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become a famed conservationist when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, not long after the Civil War. He was so captivated by w… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968654
- Language: English
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Winter Sun
$18.00 Add to cartBeautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her “private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest” (The New York Times Book Review)
Fanny Howe’s richly- Author: Howe, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975208
- Language: English
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Add to cartThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593992210
- Language: English
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All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
$29.00 Add to cartHype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. Food dominates our every waking minute. In this dazzling cultural history, acclaimed food writer Ruby Tandoh traces the story of how–and why-… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217207862
- Language: English
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The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry
$29.99 Add to cartSo begins Arabelle Sicardi’s blazingly original collection of essays. A former beauty editor, Arabelle has devoted their entire adult life to the subject of beauty–they have analyzed it, criticized i
- Author: Sicardi, Arabelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0393531627
- Language: English
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Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?: Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis
$28.99 Add to cartFrom TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually
- Author: Rallo, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063417537
- Language: English
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We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: (Tips, Tales, Travels)
$17.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A RUPAUL’S BOOK CLUB PICK
A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024!
One of Vulture‘s Best New Audiobooks of 2024.
“A delightful and sharp-witted tour through a l
- Author: Janetti, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 006332976X
- Language: English
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Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country
$18.00 Read moreTwo survivors of California fires compile a guide for living physically, mentally, and emotionally amid ecological destruction.
When warm temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds combine they produ
- Author: Burlison, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1849356084
- Language: English
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Got Your Legends: Ranking Americas Sports Franchises and Their Most Iconic Figures
$27.99 Add to cartESPN personality and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg (Got Your Number, Got Your Answers) and mega-producer Hembo rank the franchises of the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL from best to worst a… [more below]
- Author: Greenberg, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1368108571
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time: Temporality and Agency in Thoreau’s Era and Ours
$40.00 Read more- Author: Dolan, Kathryn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0881460737
- Language: English
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The Second Common Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$20.99 Add to cartHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028166
- Language: English
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A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book – A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris – Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines,
- Author: Barnes, Cinelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1938235711
- Language: English
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Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
$15.99 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER High Plains Book Award
FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
FINALIST for the Indigenous Voices Award
Longlisted for the First Nation Communities
- Author: Good, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1443467847
- Language: English
