Essays
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Orient: Two Walks at the Edge of the Human
$18.95 Add to cartJoin renowned author David Hinton on two walks into the wild beauty and archaeological ruins of the desert Southwest, where he maps the edges of consciousness and our place in the Cosmos.
Walks in the- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1645472752
- Language: English
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig–edited by Eleanor… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0399574476
- Language: English
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The Generous Exchange: How Attention to Beauty, Goodness and Excellence Restores Us and Our World
$18.00 Read more- Author: Sirois, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 9798989945238
- Language: English
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Funny Money
$18.99 Add to cartFrom esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s bank… [more below]
- Author: Singer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: June 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0618197273
- Language: English
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You Have a New Memory
$28.00 Add to cartAn open-hearted interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature and “finding the depth an… [more below]
- Author: Arata, Aiden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1538767597
- Language: English
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Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is
“Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different:- Author: King, Rax
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688457
- Language: English
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Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful read redefining the meaning of genius while illuminating the ways in which Black Americans have found various ways to thrive despite insurmountable obstacles.
Black genius sits at the heart- Author: Johnson, Tre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593186478
- Language: English
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No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement
$22.95 Add to cartA collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting from activists on the ground and rousing articles fr
- Author: Herskind, Micah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska
$30.00 Add to cartBen Weissenbach–an digital native with little prior wilderness experience–embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska with some of the state’s most distinguished and auda… [more below]
- Author: Weissenbach, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1538758334
- Language: English
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But: Life Isn’t Like That, Is It?
$19.95 Add to cartLife’s stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.
Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: e
- Author: Whalley, Boff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887440897
- Language: English
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
$18.00 Add to cartThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some neve
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 080215722X
- Language: English
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Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
$20.95 Add to cartEssays on raising a family and creating sustainable communities in diverse cultural and ecological landscapes
- Author: Buntin, Simmons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1595343113
- Language: English
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Summers in Squid Tickle: A Newfoundland Odyssey
$29.99 Add to cartRobert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside, located in Newfoundland’s rugged northeast, seemed like a good place
- Author: Finch, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051310
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$34.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217171064
- Language: English
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The Unforgiving Hours: The Grit, Resilience, and Perseverance at the Heart of Endurance Sports
$28.95 Add to cartThrough the exploration of incredible physical feats–some well-known and some only passed around watering holes and campfires–endurance athlete and journalist Shannon Hogan takes us into the world o… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1646047796
- Language: English
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559684
- Language: English
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Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman Maclean, and others
$21.00 Add to cartPowerful stories about the way sports can bring together fathers and sons, to work out their differences and express their love for each other.
Fathers & Sons & Sports presents a powerful lineup of re- Author: Lupica, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 1933060700
- Language: English
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Good (Enough) Mother: Stories and Essays
$14.99 Add to cartA collection of honest and poignant essays and vignettes from acclaimed writer Ashley Fenker about her journey to motherhood against all medical odds, written for anyone who has ever wondered if their
- Author: Fenker, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992383102
- Language: English
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
$17.00 Add to cartIn her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.
“A meditation on the fact that literature itself l- Author: Li, Yiyun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589104
- Language: English
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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
$18.95 Add to cartA passionate defense of the humanities from one of today’s foremost public intellectuals
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the impo- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0691264392
- Language: English
