Essays
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Why Government Is the Problem
$5.00 Add to cartFriedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by “we, the people.” Instead of Lincoln’s government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” we now have a government “o… [more below]
- Series: Essays in Public Policy
- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 18
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0817954422
- Language: English
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Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James
$17.95 Add to cartA compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James
William James–psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker–is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfull- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691215375
- Language: English
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Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening
$18.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers
Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bron- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453282
- Language: English
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Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth
$19.95 Add to cartWater Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.
The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate cris- Author: Paskus, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890920072
- Language: English
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Snow Fleas and Chickadees: Everyday Observations in the Sierra
$28.95 Read moreIn Snow Fleas and Chickadees, Eve Quesnel invites readers to join her on strolls through the forest surrounding her neighborhood in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe. The book serves as an e… [more below]
- Author: Quesnel, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1647791898
- Language: English
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Why I Am Not a Christian and What I Believe (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$10.95 Add to cartOne of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not a Christian” is an eloquent critique of religious beliefs and dogma. Originally delivered as a lectur… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: November 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1962572196
- Language: English
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Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless
$19.95 Add to cartLiving mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty
In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest
- Author: Dean, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918561
- Language: English
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That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today
A cri- Author: Young, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593317114
- Language: English
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The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World
$21.95 Add to cartIn The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World, a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer, Ted Levin, spent Covid rediscovering his valley and the joys of watching the … [more below]
- Author: Levin, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989178421
- Language: English
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The Buddhist Years
$35.00 Add to cartA brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinking
From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always consid
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1644284618
- Language: English
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Worthy of the Event: An Essay
$19.95 Add to cartA trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence
Move over Michel de Montaigne, there’s a new girl in town
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- Author: Blaxell, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1964322995
- Language: English
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One Foot on the Platform: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Journey
$21.99 Add to cartThe final word from one of popular music’s greatest critics.
In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey ba
- Author: Goddard, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1487010435
- Language: English
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If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.
“With charm and humor- Author: Deruiter, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444507
- Language: English
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Wow, You Look Terrible!: How to Parent Less and Live More
$26.99 Add to cartFrom Jimmy Kimmel Live! co-head writer Danny Ricker comes a self-help manifesto for parents on the brink of despair, guaranteed to help you reclaim the three things you lost when you had kids: your ti… [more below]
- Author: Ricker, Danny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1368110916
- Language: English
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The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life
$19.00 Add to cartThe author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions–“an engaging personal journey about finding what you nee… [more below]
- Author: Coggins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668004690
- Language: English
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The Waypoints: From 400 Farewells and 3,000 Miles
$21.32 Add to cartA Physical Journey, A Spiritual Adventure
At the age of sixty-one, Diane Gansauer committed to something great: hiking the entire length of the Continental Divide Trail, from Mexico to Canada.
Over a se
- Author: Gansauer, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Carpenter, Nora Shalaway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1961853078
- Language: English
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Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Fuhrman, Cmarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456524
- Language: English
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The View from Here: Reflections on the Deep North, the Wild East
$22.95 Add to cartFranklin Burroughs grew up in South Carolina and has lived in Maine for more than fifty years. This new collection includes brief essays originally published in Down East magazine’s “Room With a View”
- Author: Burroughs, Franklin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751888
- Language: English
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We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction: Essays
$28.99 Add to cart“Funny, relatable, honest, and most of all, just like Tess Sanchez, a really good time.” –Mindy Kaling, actress and New York Times bestselling author
A funny and heartfelt essay collection about work- Author: Sanchez, Tess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 166806085X
- Language: English
