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$19.95 Add to cartWhat makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. S
- Author: Brooker, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804270830
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
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Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
$16.00 Read moreIn this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food–from a great selection of re… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466810
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us about Our Greatest President
$18.00 Read more“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”–The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD – From the New York Times b- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855115
- Language: English
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré
$0.00 Read moreAn archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving listeners access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time
The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Ca- Author: Le Carré, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593632745
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Spoon River Anthology
$12.00 Read moreIn Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly f
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0486272753
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Read moreBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. 3: More Noncanonical Scriptures
$85.00 Read moreAn expansive compilation of New Testament apocrypha in English translation, featuring fascinating but heretofore unpublished texts.
New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 3, continues to unearth the vast dive- Author: Burke, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 713
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0802877931
- Language: English
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Seasons Greetings from George: The Christmas Cards of George MacKay Brown
$19.95 Read moreFrom the early 1960s to the late 1980s, George Mackay Brown wrote new Christmas poems which were printed on cards sent to his close family or friends, or, as the years went on, he designed his own car… [more below]
- Author: Brown
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1915530075
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
$19.00 Add to cartSixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthology
One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the yea- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081645
- Language: English
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Come My Children
$24.99 Read moreHekmat Al-Taweel (1922-2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative unearths a version of history long excluded from mainstream discourse and provides an unfamiliar perspect… [more below]
- Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza
- Author: Al-Taweel, Hekmat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1772126764
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
$16.95 Read moreSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dominguez, Maria Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400076137
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$16.95 Read morePrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows … [more below]
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178602
- Language: English
