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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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Otherwise known as the human condition
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Geoff Dyer |
A volume of nonfiction writings and essays by the National Book Critics Circle finalist draws on twenty-five years of work and includes pieces that reflect on subjects ranging from jazz and the Briti… |
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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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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
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Shirley Jackson,Laurence Jackson Hyman |
Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has only grown more exalted. … |
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Upstream
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Mary Oliver |
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, wh… |
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God save the Sweet Potato Queens
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Jill Conner Browne |
Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back!In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestsell… |
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True stories
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Francis Spufford |
"Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places,… |
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Live through this
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Clay Cane |
"This powerful book couldn't come at a more timely juncture. With our deep misunderstanding of racial identity, the murder of transgender women increasing at an alarming rate and the battle of faith … |
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Making it up
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Penelope Lively |
"Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you whe… |
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Letter to a future lover
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Ander Monson |
Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases b… |
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The life of images
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Charles Simic |
A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and t… |
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The girls in my town
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Angela Morales |
The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood a… |
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Sunshine State
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Sarah Gerard |
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues hauntin… |
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Junk mail
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Will Self |
Everything that makes Will Self's fiction so arresting and original is in evidence here in this collection of his best articles, book reviews and interviews from the Observer, the Guardian, the Indep… |
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Things That Are
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Amy Leach |
1 volume ; 20 cm |
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Yardwork
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Daniel Coleman |
1 online resource : |
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A burst of light
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Jen Keenan,Audre Lorde,Sonia Sanchez |
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for… |
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The Man Without a Country
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Edward Everett Hale |
The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr. |
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The pleasure of reading
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Antonia Fraser |
In this delightful collection forty-three acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. |
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Rhaffau Gwellt - Ysgrifau Ac Erthyglau
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Elfyn Pritchard |
287 pages ; 22 cm |
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