Essays
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Notes from an Island
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned artist and writer, a deeply personal nature journal about the island that informed her many works, with paintings from her longtime partner, artist Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietil?.
In the bi- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643264796
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics
While the essays in thi- Author: Franzen, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422164
- Language: English
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Here, Now: Essays
$22.00 Read moreA deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss
In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that
- Author: Mirsky, Michelle Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 081014784X
- Language: English
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On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates
$12.99 Add to cartAn intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from today’s authors and advocates about what it means to be Jewish, how life has changed since the
- Author: Owens, Zibby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991140232
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.
“This was the
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063333996
- Language: English
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreKelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she’d moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rai
- Author: McMasters, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076054
- Language: English
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Built Different: The Boston Celtics’ Historic Run to the 2024 NBA Championship
$17.95 Read moreThe Boston Celtics are NBA champions!
For more than a decade, the Boston Celtics’ perpetual promise was met with repeated disappointment. That all changed in 2024 with a resilient and remarkable grou- Author: Karalis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1637277377
- Language: English
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The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine
$16.00 Add to cartSearing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed
We know David Gr- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217007059
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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Mysticism
$18.95 Add to cartA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.
Why mysticism? It- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378248
- Language: English
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A Year of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 Stories of Intriguing Insects
$27.95 Add to cartA fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, with QR codes to video and audio to bring the creatures to life.
Just as birds have yearly rhythms, so do insects, bees, beetles, and butterflies- Author: Couzens, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1849947953
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 081298966X
- Language: English
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” –Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, acad
- Author: Stielstra, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0062429205
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
$25.00 Add to cartA witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls
In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestati
- Author: Lorusso, Silvio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9083350134
- Language: English
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The Physics of Superheroes: More Heroes! More Villains! More Science! Spectacular Second Edition
$19.00 Add to cartA complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught “Everything I Needed to Know- Author: Kakalios, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1592405088
- Language: English
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A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men’s trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And thi… [more below]
- Author: Capetillo, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136070
- Language: English
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The Little Box of Feminist Flair: With Pins, Patches, & Magnets
$9.95 Add to cartSmash the patriarchy in style with The Little Box of Feminist Flair
With fabulous, fearless females like Michelle Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, and Beyonc (c)- rendered as graphic, cro
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Mancuso, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0762463449
- Language: English
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Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm
$19.99 Read morePull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the farm we’re all obsessed with
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- Author: Clarkson, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1405946539
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$19.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
