Literary Collections
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If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy: Essays on Ordinary Joy
$22.99 Add to cartThis endearing, giftable guidebook by Korean bestseller Dr. Rhee reflects on the wisdom he’s learned during his life: how to forgive, persevere, and stop the rat race, plus the joys of living simply a… [more below]
- Author: Hoo, Rhee Kun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1454954426
- Language: English
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartContagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or w- Author: Gabbert, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605890
- Language: English
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The Story Game
$17.95 Add to cartIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immig… [more below]
- Author: Tjoa, Shze-Hui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030752
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$27.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400442
- Language: English
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
$20.99 Add to cartA collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these per… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009722
- Language: English
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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship drove her family to the United States, setting her up to become an acci… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Prasad, Grace Loh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0814258972
- Language: English
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
$35.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of … [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0385548907
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$6.99 Read moreThe ULTIMATE, complete collection of the original Mowgli stories!
This collection of stories features Mowgli, a young boy who lives amongst the wildlife of the jungle. From being tracked and hunted by- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1944686320
- Language: English
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An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
$27.00 Add to cartA unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.
In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kin- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0374608253
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
$17.95 Read moreAn illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics–everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism–from the personal journals of Sonny R… [more below]
- Author: Rollins, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378264
- Language: English
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Pursuit 365: The Business Edition – 365 Entrepreneurs From Around The World Sharing 365 Inspirational Business Stories & Advice
$35.95 Add to cartIn this edition of pursuit:365, I am delighted to showcase 365 remarkable entrepreneurs hailing from six nations: the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and New Zealand. Eac
- Author: Hughes, Shelly Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: February 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1777612454
- Language: English
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A Book of Days
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and re… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593730380
- Language: English
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Love, Mom: Inspiring Stories Celebrating Motherhood
$29.99 Add to cartFrom Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, comes an inspiring collection of powerful first-person stories celebrating motherhood, from Fox News personalities and extraordinary moms around A
- Author: Saphier, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0063325659
- Language: English
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Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale
$13.95 Add to cartReading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.
Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Bo- Author: Yamazaki, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1958846694
- Language: English
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The Comics Journal #311
$22.99 Add to cartFeatured in this issue: An in-depth, personal conversation between Kate Beaton (Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Hark! A Vagrant) and Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), from the Pizza Island comics … [more below]
- Series: Comics Journal
- Author: Beaton, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875001208
- Language: English
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Returning to My Father’s Kitchen: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartA young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father
Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos d- Author: Macansantos, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148390
- Language: English
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Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World
$18.00 Add to cartAlbert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.
In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from L- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840026
- Language: English
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Wallflower at the Orgy
$21.00 Add to cartA bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pastimes–from one of the most creative minds of our time.
“Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody els- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0553385054
- Language: English
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The Mitfords
$22.99 Add to cart“Fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) and “Irresistible” (New York Times Book Review), The Mitfords is the critically-acclaimed collection of the never-before-published letters of the legendary Mitford
- Author: Mosley, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0061375403
- Language: English
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The Notes LP
$25.99 Add to cartRonald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejok… [more below]
- Author: Reagan, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0062066552
- Language: English
