Essays
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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Add to cartPraise for Arundhati Roy:
“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” –Howard Zinn
“Arund
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466736
- Language: English
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Trout Magic
$16.95 Add to cartTrout Magic is a warm, joyous, and maverick look at trout fishing and its attendant tall tales, strange happenings, and all-around fishing lore. Traver recounts the story of a mysterious “dancing fly,… [more below]
- Author: Traver, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0671661949
- Language: English
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Christian Reflections
$17.99 Add to cartShortly after his conversion in 1929, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend, “When all is said (and truly said) about the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by God’s mercy, an enormous common ground.” F… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: October 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0802871844
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
$21.00 Add to cartBrilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders collects forty of John Gierac… [more below]
- Series: John Gierach’s Fly-Fishing Library
- Author: Gierach, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0684868598
- Language: English
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New York Times Book of Sports Legends
$25.95 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The New York Times Book of Sports Legends profiles 50 of America’s greatest sports figures, vividly captured in incisive biographical essays, on-the-scene coverage of their triu… [more below]
- Author: Vecchione, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0671760394
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$18.00 Add to cart“A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127665
- Language: English
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The Midrange Theory: Basketball’s Evolution in the Age of Analytics
$18.95 Read moreAt its core, the goal of any basketball team is relatively simple: take and make good shots while preventing the opponent from doing the same. But what is a “good” shot? Are all good shots created equ
- Author: Partnow, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1637270968
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
$19.00 Add to cartThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column–including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garc… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593137043
- Language: English
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Kerplunk!: Stories
$19.00 Add to cartPatrick F. McManus’s gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country… [more below]
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0743280504
- Language: English
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The Trees in My Forest
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the
New England Book Award Best
Nonfiction Award
and the Franklin Fairbanks
Award of the Fairbanks MuseumIn a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929421
- Language: English
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Trans Central Station
$9.99 Read more‘No, I was not trapped in the wrong body. I was trapped in the wrong universe. In order to become who I was, I had to break the world open.’
Trans Central Station reflects on a trans life lived before… [more below]
- Author: Pollack, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1068240997
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Bed: A Physician’s Journey into the Human Side of Medicine
$19.99 Add to cartA transformative exploration of patient care that emphasizes empathy, communication, and the emotional journey of both patients and clinicians, urging healthcare professionals to prioritize human conn
- Author: Awua-Larbi, Stella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318831928
- Language: English
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Plugin House: Modern Prefab Architecture
$45.00 Add to cartA manifesto for a new age of architecture, Plugin House presents innovative, sustainable, and community–driven solutions to the global housing crisis. Challenging conventional architectural practices
- Author: People’s Architecture Office
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0500027587
- Language: English
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Ridiculously Good-Looking Saunas: Ridiculously Good Looking Saunas
$65.00 Add to cartRidiculously Good-Looking Saunas reimagines the sauna as a space of radical design, cultural depth, and elemental beauty — where architecture and atmosphere merge in the pure pursuit of presence. Far
- Author: Selman, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 3967042111
- Language: English
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
$15.95 Add to cartWhen it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algor
- Author: Fry, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357368
- Language: English
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Mean Boys: A Personal History
$28.99 Read more“Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”-Torrey Peters
A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed pre- Author: Mak, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635577942
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Add to cartRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
$35.00 Add to cartFor the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.
Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Leba
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Gibran, Kahlil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: October 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0307267075
- Language: English
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope
$28.95 Add to cartThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Kinney, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377236
- Language: English
