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Our America: A Photographic History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America–a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by … [more below]
- Author: Burns, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0385353014
- Language: English
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Disney Bibbidi Bobbidi Academy #4: Cyrus and the Dragon Disaster
$6.99 Add to cartCyrus Silverstar wants to be as brave as his friends, the other students at Bibbidi Bobbidi Academy. But during his assignment to grant a child’s wish for a pet, he ends up spelling the most terrifyin… [more below]
- Author: Salinger, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1368098371
- Language: English
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They Never Threw Anything Away, Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It
$20.00 Add to cartThey Never Threw Anything Away
Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It
The parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed b
- Author: Linz, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1736734806
- Language: English
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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
$28.95 Add to cartApples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States’ “most endangered food.” The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at “critical” risk for extinction. Unique date palms, fou
- Author: Lohman, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324004665
- Language: English
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Sex and Rage
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitz’s talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.” —The New York- Author: Babitz, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1619029359
- Language: English
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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
$30.00 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclea
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0374601801
- Language: English
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The Stories of John Cheever
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one st… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: May 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0375724427
- Language: English
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
$18.99 Add to cart“The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0060920084
- Language: English
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Naked
$18.99 Add to cartWelcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and… [more below]
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0316777730
- Language: English
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Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
$19.99 Add to cart“Sedaris is a remarkably skilled storyteller and savvy essayist….And based, on this latest collection, he’s getting only better.” —Los Angeles Times
A guy walks into a bar car and… From here the- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03, 2014
- ISBN10: 0316154709
- Language: English
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Let’s Go Crazy
$18.99 Add to cartAlan Light, former writer for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of The Holy or the Broken, “gets inside Prince’s mind palace in Let’s Go Crazy–a history of the mak… [more below]
- Author: Light, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 147677675X
- Language: English
