Essays
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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
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a “brilliant” and “mesmerizing” (Popular Science) new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Winner of the Los Angeles Times B- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 154160671X
- Language: English
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Lessons from Leopold: Learning from the Land
$35.00 Read moreAldo Leopold (1887-1948), arguably best known for his posthumous A Sand County Almanac (1949), is considered by many the father of modern wildlife management. He developed and described many of the c
- Series: Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands
- Author: Nelle, Stephan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1648432484
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts
$7.95 Read moreBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0762453869
- Language: English
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter’s Always the Best Medicine: 101 Feel-Good Stories
$16.99 Add to cartStorytelling at its funniest! And a much-needed reminder that no matter what ails you, laughter is ALWAYS the best medicine.
Laugh your way through these feel-good stories that are sure to brighten yo- Author: Newmark, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1611591139
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$12.00 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.
In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688635
- Language: English
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Adventures in Obstetrics: Helping women deliver their babies with other humorous and heartfelt stories
$16.95 Add to cartFollow me through endless sleepless nights as women put their trust in me to give them safe passage through one of life’s most memorable experiences-having a baby.
I will tell you what life is like fo
- Author: Matsumura, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: August 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Good Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Shulman, Liz Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: February 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1963943325
- Language: English
