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Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic

Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic

Author: Megan Volpert
ISBN: 9780820362465
Format: Paperback
$55.31

In this highly philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom Petty song, Volpert’s essays comb...  Read More >>

Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures

Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk...

Author: Phoebe Wagner ,  Brontë Christopher Wieland
ISBN: 9781952271502
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community...  Read More >>

Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction

Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History...

Author: John Gruesser ,  Susan F. Beegel
ISBN: 9781648430206
Format: Hardback
$100.32

Features essays by prominent literary scholars that showcase natural history and the multifaceted role of animals...  Read More >>

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker...

Author: Jelani Cobb ,  David Remnick
ISBN: 9780008498740
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni...  Read More >>

Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality...

Author: Lenny Henry ,  Marcus Ryder
ISBN: 9780571368518
Format: Paperback
$27.99

This is more than a book - it's an incitement to change people's perceptions, with a wider reach in the updated...  Read More >>

Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language

Author: George Orwell ,  D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781851246021
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse...  Read More >>

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the...

Author:
ISBN: 9780008469306
Format: Paperback
$22.99

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture...  Read More >>

Writing in Difficult Times: A Bilingual Essay Anthology

Writing in Difficult Times: A Bilingual Essay Anthology...

Author: Nicholas Wong ,  Mei Ting Li
ISBN: 9789887564614
Format: Paperback
$43.86

Writing has always been a difficult subject to talk about, let alone writing an honest account about how one's creative...  Read More >>

The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations

The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations...

Author: Samuel Hazo
ISBN: 9780268206949
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Essays examine the relationship between poetry and public speech, the pursuit of the literary life, to reading within...  Read More >>

Walls: Essays, 1985-1990

Walls: Essays, 1985-1990

Author: Kenneth A. McClane
ISBN: 9780268207151
Format: Hardback
$198.00

McClane's book of autobiographical essays deals with his personal experiences with death, race, relationships, and...  Read More >>

Etude sur le suicide dans la litterature francaise du XVIIIe siecle

Etude sur le suicide dans la litterature francaise du...

Author: Cyprien Guignard
ISBN: 9791037771049
Format: Paperback
$54.34

Le present ouvrage propose aux lecteurs de se plonger au coeur des textes du XVIIIe siecle qui ont parle, de pres...  Read More >>

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction...

Author: Annie Proulx
ISBN: 9780008534394
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben...  Read More >>

The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes and Stories

The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes...

Author: Nadia Caterina Munno ,  Katie Parla
ISBN: 9781797156033
Format: Audio
$79.17

TikTok sensation and beloved home cook Nadia Caterina Munno, a.k.a. The Pasta Queen, presents a cookbook of never-before-shared...  Read More >>

Spilt Milk

Spilt Milk

Author: Courtney Zoffness
ISBN: 9781952119583
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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The Traces Lib/E: An Essay

The Traces Lib/E: An Essay

Author: Mairead Small Staid
ISBN: 9798212242288
Format: Audio
$216.48

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The Guardian Queen: Queen Elizabeth II end of an era, The world of a queen

The Guardian Queen: Queen Elizabeth II end of an era,...

Author: Julia Clark
ISBN: 9798361442485
Format: Paperback
$34.29

I tried really hard to read slowly so I could stretch it up. But unfortunately the story swept me up like a tidal...  Read More >>

Nene's Prose

Nene's Prose

Author: Ancel Mondia
ISBN: 9789360162962
Format: Paperback
$18.48

"""Nene's Prose is composed of twelve essays written by Ancel Mondia. P.O.W.E.R. highlights wishes on a twenty-seventh...  Read More >>

Les Caractères

Les Caractères

Author: Jean de la Bruyère
ISBN: 9782382744383
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Sous la forme de maximes, de réflexions et de portraits, Les Caractères (1688) sont une véritable critique de la...  Read More >>

Lettres sur les Aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient

Lettres sur les Aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient...

Author: Denis Diderot
ISBN: 9782382744369
Format: Paperback
$49.16

"Diderot interroge un aveugle-né pour savoir quelle idée éveille en lui la notion de symétrie ou encore de beauté....  Read More >>

Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley...

Author: Stanley Crouch ,  Mirron Willis
ISBN: 9798212252041
Format: Audio
$203.25

The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous...  Read More >>

The Roving I: Collected columns, wit, wisdom, and self-exposure of Woody Weingarten

The Roving I: Collected columns, wit, wisdom, and self-exposure...

Author: Woody Weingarten
ISBN: 9780990554363
Format: Paperback
$48.00

The Roving I, with wit and wordplay, can spark laughter and tears. Readers can mine gold from the author's 70 favorite...  Read More >>

Im Spiegel der Erinnerungen: letztes Buch

Im Spiegel der Erinnerungen: letztes Buch

Author: Klaus Wachowski
ISBN: 9798360140375
Format: Paperback
$55.28

"Mein letztes Buch. Jedenfalla habe ich nicht mehr vor, eine Weitere Sammlung zu veröffentlichen. Mit 71 habe ich...  Read More >>

If but My Gaze Could Heal: A Book of Poems

If but My Gaze Could Heal: A Book of Poems

Author: Colin Greer (Colin Greer)
ISBN: 9781590566688
Format: Hardback
$52.67

An engaging, moving, and poignant book of poetry from a well-known leader, educator, and writer with notable endorsements...  Read More >>

Stay

Stay

Author: Lisa Rimmert
ISBN: 9781736830406
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A heartwarming and humorous memoir about one woman's naïve attempts to ignore, deny, and will away her dog's mortality....  Read More >>

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