Essays
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The Ways of Paradise
$19.95 Add to cartIn his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Swede
- Author: Cornell, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804271063
- Language: English
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Waking Up the Dream State: Nine Environmental Cases That Shaped Louisiana
$24.95 Add to cartWaking Up the Dream State describes Louisiana’s long march toward environmental protection through nine lawsuits that have brought the state into the new era. All these cases, which range from the Vie… [more below]
- Author: Houck, Oliver A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1959569139
- Language: English
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Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, a… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000676
- Language: English
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
$35.00 Add to cartEric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner’s keynote has been American
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110619
- Language: English
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Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes
$23.95 Add to cartWith wit and humor, Michael Martone writes his life as one of brief bites, effervescent episodes, and meaningful meals illuminated by the luminaries on the other side of the table. In many ways Marton
- Author: Martone, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1960329774
- Language: English
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Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
$24.00 Add to cartAfter forming an intense bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as part of her undergraduate research, Ren?e Askins was inspired to found the Wolf Fund. As head of this grassroots organization, she … [more below]
- Author: Askins, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0385482264
- Language: English
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American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
$29.99 Add to cartPull back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports.
The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to be Feared examines football’s QB lifecycle: high school, college, the NFL,- Author: Wickersham, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1368099181
- Language: English
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Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
$23.99 Add to cartA curated compendium of poetry and prose from the award-winning poet Mary Oliver, including the book-length masterpiece The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, andessays from Long Li… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0306835819
- Language: English
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A Wilding Year: Bringing Life Back to the Land
$19.95 Add to cartAn exquisitely illustrated celebration of wildlife, highlighting the importance of rewilding and returning to nature.
Hannah Dale, the artist behind the successful gift company Wrendale Designs, takes- Author: Dale, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1849949387
- Language: English
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Feedsack Dresses and Wild Plum Jam Remembering Farm Life in the 1950s
$12.00 Add to cartI love watching old movies on television because I know how everything worked in them. The telephones transmitted messages – that’s all. The coffee makers just made coffee and only when you set them o
- Author: Kratz, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1792395957
- Language: English
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-
$30.00 Add to cartMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.
This collection of J- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613230
- Language: English
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Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It
$20.00 Add to cartLauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor.
“Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my fa
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146668
- Language: English
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Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet
$18.99 Add to cart“McNeil’s deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It’s captivating stuff.” Publishers Weekly
“Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait
- Author: McNeil, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 190995411X
- Language: English
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
$27.99 Add to cart“This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it.” — LING MA
From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls (“stylish and inspired”–New York Times Book Review), a sharp,
- Author: Bolin, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63440520
- Language: English
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The Zen of Flyfishing
$14.99 Add to cartA celebration of the beauty and grace of flyfishing through lyrical essays and spectacular photography.
Here is a beautifully written meditation on the art, grace, and style of fly fishing, presented- Author: Kaminsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1523524537
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Jungkook: The Triumph of Bts and the Making of a Global Pop Superstar
$28.99 Add to cartCelebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the center of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces that have made him a global icon.
Jungkook is one of the world’s biggest stars, peri- Author: Kim, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1668082764
- Language: English
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Little Miss Diagnosed: A Surgeon’s Guide to Breaking Bones and Bending Rules
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the real-life Meredith Grey, comes an inspiring collection of essays based on Dr. Erin Nance’s popular TikTok account @littlemissdiagnosed, detailing Dr. Nance’s journey as a young female orthope
- Author: Nance MD, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006341287X
- Language: English
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
$25.00 Add to cartNew York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered–all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, bu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Carpenter, Teresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0812974255
- Language: English
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review). “An infuriatingly gorgeous, important boo… [more below]
- Author: Liontas, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668085569
- Language: English
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Point Line Plane
$35.00 Add to cartPoint Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that in Ancient Rome windows were fitted with slices of marble because glass was so
- Author: Kuma, Kengo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 050002796X
- Language: English
