Essays
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
$21.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her person… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 29 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752560
- Language: English
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Everyday Extraordinary: A Scientist Ponders a Lifetime of Magical, Bizarre, and Paranormal Experiences
$29.95 Read moreExperiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that–stories–but for some people the rabbit … [more below]
- Author: Markovsky, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093797
- Language: English
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On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes
$20.00 Add to cart“As a man who long convinced himself that he lived on the edge of the world, here’s my wish for you: Embrace the awe. Allow yourself to feel alone. Then remember you are not.”
The thirty-three writers
- Author: Welch, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1540270165
- Language: English
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Rubble Masonry
$29.95 Add to cartRubble Masonry is a collection of lyric essays that takes its title from the practice of stone masons who, rather than using materials cut to ideal measurements, work with found rocks’ natural shapes…. [more below]
- Author: McLarney, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0807185892
- Language: English
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Advice No One Asked for: Essays
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the Emmy-nominated comedian who created “the best segment in late night” (Vulture) comes this hilarious and practical collection of advice for how to live your best life in love, at work, and in … [more below]
- Author: Hagel, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1668079615
- Language: English
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The Season of Birds and Stones: Essays
$24.95 Add to cartThe essays that make up The Season of Birds and Stones grapple with questions of what wilderness means and how we can interact with and learn from other species. Set in some of our most stunning publi… [more below]
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Renfro, Yelizaveta P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0820377309
- Language: English
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Fully Baked: A Messy Memoir
$29.00 Read moreAn astonishingly candid and funny memoir that will make you laugh and cry while it steals your heart, from a renowned stand-up comedian and veteran SNL writer who is “an expert in making light of life… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Rosebud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1668016222
- Language: English
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1,000 Days in America: An Illustrated History of the Moments That Defined a Nation
$50.00 Read moreA 250th anniversary celebration of the U.S. featuring 1,000 singular moments that shaped the American journey from pre-history to present
Filled with more than 300 illustrations, sidebars, and timelin- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1426224397
- Language: English
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Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps
$27.00 Add to cart“[Mom] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real.” —Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice)
“Isay brings a satisfying second collection of StoryCorps selections- Author: Isay, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143118803
- Language: English
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Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002-2025
$24.99 Add to cartThe “essential” (Bari Weiss) book on Jewish identity and Zionophobia, “which should be required reading” (Bernard-Henri L?vy).
Catalyzed by the kidnapping and murder of his son, Wall Street Journal rep- Author: Pearl, Judea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: December 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1895131731
- Language: English
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Considerations on Western Marxism
$19.95 Add to cartThis synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russi… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Perry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: March 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0860917207
- Language: English
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
$21.00 Add to cart“[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”–Vogue
It’s the expos? to end all expos?s–the truth about the suburbs: where they planted t- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0345471725
- Language: English
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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
$35.00 Add to cartMichael Parenti’s most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture.
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0872864820
- Language: English
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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
$19.00 Add to cartThis moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more is “a unique and authentic snapshot of what it means to be Native in the 21st century” (Joey Clift, comedian and TV writer), featuring… [more below]
- Author: Illuminative
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668021714
- Language: English
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Big Baby: On Endings, Beginnings, and an Interdimensional Cat
$30.00 Add to cartFrom comedian and viral sensation Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way.
- Author: Thornton, Kevin James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836769
- Language: English
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas
$21.99 Add to cartPart cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Dru
- Author: Druckman, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324075562
- Language: English
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Colored People Time: A Case for (Casual) Rebellion
$28.00 Add to cartA celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective memory
In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel explores how race, culture, and histor- Author: Fidel, Manny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593730666
- Language: English
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We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from Cbgb to Gilman and Beyond
$29.95 Add to cartIn We’re Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of r
- Author: Peraino, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1501780328
- Language: English
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No Dumb Questions: And All of Our Dumbest Answers
$30.00 Add to cartJason and Travis Kelce–brothers, Super Bowl champions, and New Heights podcast hosts–tackle their first book, No Dumb Questions, where the 92%ers get in on the fun to ask questions about sports, sci
- Author: Kelce, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489570
- Language: English
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Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights
$45.00 Add to cartIn the context of architecture and real estate, the value of design–be it financial or social value–remains largely unmeasured, overlooked, and inadequately researched. By failing to acknowledge the
- Author: Dr Chegut, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1951541979
- Language: English
