Harper Perennial
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cart“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almos
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0060752513
- Language: English
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Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power
$20.99 Add to cartNPR’s Best Books of 2020
“Galvanizing and urgent….a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle.” –National Public Radio
A riveting true
- Author: Worley, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0062971328
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
$17.99 Add to cart“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”–Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
“Nora Ephron for the millennial generation.”-
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063319128
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes–this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at ho
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063142899
- Language: English
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Time Warped
$18.99 Add to cart“…a fascinating foray into the idea that our experience of time is actively created by our own minds and how these sensations of what neuroscientists and psychologists call “mind time” are created.”
- Author: Hammond, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062225200
- Language: English
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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
$17.99 Add to cart“DON’T believe the naysayers. The American Dream–the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you’ll make it–is alive and well.”
—New York PostAdam W. Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings is
- Author: Shepard, Adam W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061714275
- Language: English
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A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats
$15.99 Add to cartA Splintered History of Wood is a passionate and personal exploration of nature’s greatest gift: wood. In the successful tradition of books such as Salt and Cod, writer and carpenter Spike Carlsen exp
- Author: Carlsen, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0061373575
- Language: English
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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms
$16.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
- Author: Toms, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 1990
- ISBN10: 0060972955
- Language: English
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Quality School Ri
$16.99 Add to cart“This should be required reading by every school administator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers. There is no doubt that we need to sque… [more below]
- Author: Glasser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0060952865
- Language: English
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Patton: Genius for War, a
$24.99 Add to cart“Biography at its very best. Literate and meaty, incisive and balanced, detailed without being pedantic. Mr. D’Este’s Patton takes its rightful place as the definitive biography of this American warri
- Author: D’Este, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: September 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0060927623
- Language: English
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Journey of the Heart: Path of Conscious Love, the
$17.99 Add to cart“An extraordinarily good book, because it goes to the heart of the matter of human relationships. In a world in which so many live in crowded solitude and are afraid of intimacy or have difficulty und
- Author: Welwood, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0060927429
- Language: English
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With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
$19.99 Add to cart“The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” —Washington Post
“Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” –David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review
The definitive life
- Author: Oates, Stephen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0060924713
- Language: English
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Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
$26.99 Add to cart“This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement–meticulously documented, excitingly narrated, written with grace, wit, and passion.”- Howard Zinn
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- Author: Young, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 25 1991
- ISBN10: 0060921072
- Language: English
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
$18.99 Add to cart“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times
An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060820675
- Language: English
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Jacques and His Master
$16.99 Add to cartA deliciously witty and entertaining “variation” on Diderot’s novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera’s “private pleasure” in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
When
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0062219073
- Language: English
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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
$19.99 Add to cartNate Jackson’s Slow Getting Up is an unvarnished and uncensored memoir of everyday life in the most popular sports league in America–and the most damaging to its players–the National Football League
- Author: Jackson, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0062108034
- Language: English
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
$18.99 Add to cart“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of f
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062030345
- Language: English
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Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word ‘love, ‘ but deny it though you will, Mr
- Author: Russell, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0061792063
- Language: English
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Why Mars & Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress
$17.99 Add to cartThe phenomenal #1 bestselling author who revolutionized our understanding of male-female relations returns to the territory he intimately knows to help couples get past stress and find the loving rela
- Author: Gray, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061242977
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
