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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape…
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Henry David Thoreau |
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as… |
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The Professor and Other Writings
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Terry Castle |
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambi… |
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To everything on earth
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Kurt Caswell |
"Collected essays on the nexus of fate, community, and nature by a group of writers and scholars that have collaborated on several initiatives and projects tied to the same. By looking at external la… |
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The best American essays 2001
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Kathleen Norris |
A collection of twenty-six essays by American authors, chosen by guest editor Kathleen Norris as the best to be published in 2000, including selections by Stephen King, Diane Ackerman, and Reynolds P… |
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The devil problem and other true stories
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David Remnick |
The Devil Problem and Other True Stories is David Remnick's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin's Tomb. While Remnick has continued to visit and report on Russia, he has also written on… |
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I'm back for more cash : a Tony Kornheiser collection : (because you can't take two hundred newspap…
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Tony Kornheiser |
A compilation of humor from the "Washington Post" columnist and radio-TV commentator takes on the world of politics, social institutions, technology, and the media. |
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News from the world
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Paula Fox |
A collection of stories, essays, and autobiographical pieces. |
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Mothers through the eyes of women writers
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Zora Neale Hurston,Natalie Angier,E. M. Broner,Erica Jong,Judith Shapiro |
"Through a wide cross-section of age and cultural background, The Source of the Spring explores how our perceptions of mothers in women's lives have changed over the generations. In prose that ranges… |
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Some remarks
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Neal Stephenson |
"A collection of essays from #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson"-- |
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
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David Sedaris |
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the A… |
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Novels and essays
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Frank Norris |
In his brief career -- he died at 32 -- Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and F… |
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Piecework
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Pete Hamill |
In a new volume of journalistic essays, the eclectic author of A Drinking Life offers sharp commentary on diverse subjects, such as American immigration policy toward Mexico, Mike Tyson, television, … |
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Invisible Green
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Donald Revell |
<em>Invisible Green: Selected Prose</em> begins with the series of nine essays published in <em>American Poetry Review</em>, essays which enact intimate and yet capacious converse with, and among, an… |
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The century that was
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James Giblin |
A collection of essays by well-known authors for young people, reflecting on various aspects of life in twentieth-century America, including politics, the environment, sports, fashion, and civil righ… |
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The End of Youth
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Rebecca Brown |
*The End of Youth* is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid… |
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Best American essays 2013
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Robert Atwan,Cheryl Strayed |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals. |
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Ransoming pagan babies
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Warren Hinckle |
"From his galvanizing exposés in Ramparts magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first … |
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Lonesome rangers
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Leonard, John |
"John Leonard is back with the off-beat, wide-ranging style that earned his last book, When the Kissing Had to Stop, a place among the Voice Literary Supplement's "25 Favorites of 1999." Now, with an… |
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The best American nonrequired reading 2013
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Alix Ohlin,Peter Hessler,Jim Gavin,Nick Hornby,Dave Eggers,Sebastian Rotella,Cynthia Gorney,Jennifer Egan,Kyle Minor,Miroslav Penkov,Alexander Maksik,Kiese Laymon,Madhuri Vijay,Alexis Schaitkin,Pamela Colloff,Ana Arana,Kim Philley |
Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. |
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The uncollected David Rakoff
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David Rakoff |
Bestselling and Thurber Prize-winning humorist David Rakoff was one of the most original, delightfully acerbic voices of his generation. Here, in one place, is the best of his previously uncollected … |
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