General Books


Mixed BlessingsMixed Blessings
Best Price: $8.43
What would it be like...to hear Barbara Brown Taylor preaching her first sermons at All Saints...
Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian HolocaustEating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust
Best Price: $3.98
This book is important in many ways, as the other reviewers have described. I just wanted to...
A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry & PoeticsA FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry & Poetics
Best Price: $17.72
This collection of essays by some of our best contemporary poets--including Donald Hall, Denise...
God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermon Series)God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Teaching Sermon Series)
Best Price: $8.14
Even this old heathen, raised as a Unitarian, finds Barbara Brown Taylor's writings reasonable...
Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed AmericaMuckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America
Best Price: $17.49
The original meaning of the word "muck" is "excrement"; the more general...


The Princessa : Machiavelli for WomenThe Princessa : Machiavelli for Women
Best Price: $2.52
Too many words, not enough examples. As a young female engineer, I was hoping to hear detailed...
On Grief and Reason: EssaysOn Grief and Reason: Essays
Best Price: $10.00
I do not know whether I will be able to read the pieces in On Grief and Reason. I had read the...
Horse Crazy: Women And the Horses They LoveHorse Crazy: Women And the Horses They Love
Best Price: $3.97
The stories by and about these women and their horse experiences are somewhat amateurish. While...
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In KindergartenAll I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Best Price: $0.50
Adorable! I mean, with a title like that, how could I NOT get this book? Even though some of...
The Lost ClassicsThe Lost Classics
Best Price: $21.92
It was written well before I was born and I felt like I had walked some of those same hills, and...


The Life of PoetryThe Life of Poetry
Best Price: $8.92
Ever wonder why people actively loathe poetry? Ever wonder why you should continue...
A Plea for Eros: EssaysA Plea for Eros: Essays
Best Price: $3.25
The well done cover is certainly alluring, even titiallating, along with the title, but "A...
Heart of Home: People, Wildlife, PlaceHeart of Home: People, Wildlife, Place
Best Price: $2.98
Heart of Home is a wonderfull collection of essays by a man who appreciates the natural world...
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing LifeBringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life
Best Price: $18.85
Serious, well-written, thoughtful and engaging. For any writer who seriously wants to pursue the...
Antonin Artaud: Selected WritingsAntonin Artaud: Selected Writings
Best Price: $26.91
Studying Artaud is one way of taking a deep dive off into the realm of the unknown. His...

The Sons (Schocken Kafka Library)The Sons (Schocken Kafka Library)
Best Price: $6.00
What happens when one imposes meat-eating on the other? What happens when the one doing the...
In Suspect TerrainIn Suspect Terrain
Best Price: $3.47
We have two copies of this book. Each has less than the guaranteed 210 pages. Caveat emptor.
On Being IllOn Being Ill
Best Price: $11.93
In this discerning and somewhat humorous essay, Virginia Woolf remarks on humanity's experiences...
Literary Essays of Ezra PoundLiterary Essays of Ezra Pound
Best Price: $11.35
I find that reading just the first two essay was worth the money I spent on this book. Pound...
Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary WeddingsAltared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings
Best Price: $2.95
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (O'Rourke, P. J.)Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (O'Rourke, P. J.)
Best Price: $3.28
I first got into PJ O'Rourke when I started reading his book "Republican Party...
MiamiMiami
Best Price: $7.43
This is a complex and detailed history chiefly of Cuban exiles in South Florida and the...
The Solitude of CompassionThe Solitude of Compassion
Best Price: $8.74
First published in France in 1932, The Solitude of Compassion is a collection of stories about...
The Best American Essays 2004 (The Best American Series)The Best American Essays 2004 (The Best American Series)
Best Price: $2.51
After reading the book, the above comments are quite accurate. I would just like to point out,...
On the Heights of DespairOn the Heights of Despair
Best Price: $7.90
This book is intense. Its intensity will put you under a spell for a while, but it will expire...

CATO: A TRAGEDY AND SELECTED ESSAYSCATO: A TRAGEDY AND SELECTED ESSAYS
Best Price: $10.80
The Roman senator, Cato the Younger (95 BC - 46 BC) stubbornly resisted Julius Caesar's rise to...
Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of DesireCleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire
Best Price: $5.83
Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles representing twenty years of...
Women Who Win: Female Athletes on Being the BestWomen Who Win: Female Athletes on Being the Best
Best Price: $2.00
Women Who Win: Female Athletes on Being the Best is an anthology of portraits of champion ten...
Priest to the Temple, Or, the Country ParsonPriest to the Temple, Or, the Country Parson
Best Price: $14.05
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman CapotePortraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
Best Price: $16.30
I was very excited to buy this book and begin reading it during the holidays. I skipped around...

The Funny Thing Is...The Funny Thing Is...
Best Price: $1.05
if i did not know that ellen was a millionaire, i would not have been able to tell by reading...
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John WatersCrackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
Best Price: $4.94
This book is hilarious and creepy all at once. It is also extremely well written by a unique...
She-Hulk, Vol. 3: Time TrialsShe-Hulk, Vol. 3: Time Trials
Best Price: $2.77
After the lousy plot writing of the original Savage She-Hulk, and the goofy, heavy-handed...
Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and PlacesNever in a Hurry: Essays on People and Places
Best Price: $11.11
This is my favorite of Naomi Nye's books. She has such a gift for describing human experiences...
Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and DevotionModern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion
Best Price: $7.89
Avoid this book like a plague. The collector of the stories, except for couple of short...

On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Bison Book)On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Bison Book)
Best Price: $6.98
There are not many books sold at Amazon.com that were written almost two centuries ago. There...
The Proust QuestionnaireThe Proust Questionnaire
Best Price: $21.65
Marcel Proust is still somewhat of an enigma from the past century. A man whose hefty...
The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to SolzhenitsynThe Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn
Best Price: $8.00
Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first...
Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings (Shambhala  Classics)Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings (Shambhala Classics)
Best Price: $8.69
I am not a scholar or a critic, I am just a person who really enjoys haiku and as such am...
Shadow and ActShadow and Act
Best Price: $8.36
not merely a statement on being a black man in america, but on being a man period. ellison is...

Cigarettes Are SublimeCigarettes Are Sublime
Best Price: $14.18
Smoking-related disease accounts for 3/4 of the deaths in this world. But you probably knew that...
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series)Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series)
Best Price: $4.93
"I would prefer not to." This insolent, yet passive, statement is the start of the...
Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and EcologyDharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology
Best Price: $10.82
Badiner, ed., Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, Berkeley, Parallax...
Before & After: Stories from New YorkBefore & After: Stories from New York
Best Price: $4.74
There's something creepy about how this group of self-indulged, narcissistic writers found a way...
New York RevisitedNew York Revisited
Best Price: $14.95

Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process (Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehen)Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process (Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehen)
Best Price: $20.00
I am going to see what could be made relevant to my research in English, but it was frustrating...
The Dyer's HandThe Dyer's Hand
Best Price: $11.91
This book of essays is a wonderful and surprising work, by the clear-minded and perceptive poet...
The Next Rodeo: New and Selected EssaysThe Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays
Best Price: $8.36
Who better to describe the Westerner condition than William Kittredge. Not only is he one of the...
The Force of SpiritThe Force of Spirit
Best Price: $5.98
"Sanders is the writer I turn to when I feel the need to slow down, pay attention, ponder...
Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage"Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage"
Best Price: $26.37
When Joseph and Emma Smith arrived in Ohio in 1831, several families offered them lodging, as...

The Book of the Courtier (Norton Critical Editions)The Book of the Courtier (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $11.50
There really was a Camelot. But it was in Italy. Urbino in northern Italy to be exact, in the...
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical EditionThe Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition
Best Price: $18.95
First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa?'s essay on the Chinese written language...
Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture (The Longman Literature and Culture Series)Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture (The Longman Literature and Culture Series)
Best Price: $51.79
Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture has been an invaluable resource...
Elements of RefusalElements of Refusal
Best Price: $14.65
If you agree with his ideas or not, he proves a well written, well sourced, well researched...
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their WorkShop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Best Price: $6.77
I first bought this book because I was doing research on Philip Roth. I did find it interesting...

AlaskaAlaska
Best Price: $5.64
Michner writes about places most of us are curious about yet don't know much about. Alaska is...
    
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