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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or NeverHigh Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Best Price: $0.79
The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Best Price: $7.53
I wish I'd read this book 30 years ago when it came out. It's still as relevant today as it was...
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold WarThe Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Best Price: $4.88
Few books will set the hair on fire and make us stand to attention as will this book. In very...
Vegetable LoveVegetable Love
Best Price: $8.23
I've been using this book for a couple of years at this point. I joined a CSA and this book is...
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human PredicamentThe Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predicament
Best Price: $2.06
There are scientists who prefer to stick to peer reviewed publications, and they fret when they...


The Boys of My YouthThe Boys of My Youth
Best Price: $4.98
I rarely do reviews of books, but Beard's "The Boys of My Youth" has forced me to make...
Basin and RangeBasin and Range
Best Price: $5.95
The idea of examining American geology a slice at a time by following I-80 from east to west was...
Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.comThings I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.com
Best Price: $7.99
Fans of dooce.com and similar blogs will probably find this collection of essays on fatherhood...
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick BraggSomebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
Best Price: $7.46
I am a huge Rick Bragg fan, and enjoyed this collection of his previously published newspaper...
Due Considerations: Essays and CriticismDue Considerations: Essays and Criticism
Best Price: $11.75
You'll laugh out loud and at times want to cry. I've read the Rabbit series twice now and...


Place Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine ExperiencePlace Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine Experience
Best Price: $16.17
What is it like to live and write in Maine? Wesley McNair, Maine's premier anthologist, asked...
Classics for PleasureClassics for Pleasure
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When a writer is so convincing that he is able to persuade a reader [me] to look up obscure and...
The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $17.28
Montaigne explained his own purpose for writing these essays: To create a portrait of himself. ...
The White AlbumThe White Album
Best Price: $7.50
The traditional essayist is a sense-maker and an imposer of order, and in order to make sense...
The World As I See ItThe World As I See It
Best Price: $7.92
I read "Ideas and Opinions" before diving head first into this one, and I'm glad I...

Southern Ladies & GentlemenSouthern Ladies & Gentlemen
Best Price: $4.75
A very good read - very unflinching in terms of sexuality - quite bawdy in places.
The Road to Wigan PierThe Road to Wigan Pier
Best Price: $6.69
If for the sake of argument one suspends their ideological beliefs, the working conditions...
Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and EssaysLove, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays
Best Price: $3.00
Love, Poverty, War; or, if you will, Literature, Religion, Neo-conservatism , since these are...
Village in a Valley (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy)Village in a Valley (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy)
Best Price: $15.54
I was a bit disappointed in this book - Beverley seems to have not been as interested in his...
Pure DrivelPure Drivel
Best Price: $1.92
I have read Steve Martins other books and throughly enjoyed them. In looking for a new book I...

Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - A ParodyOptions: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - A Parody
Best Price: $1.40
As Windows user familiar with Apple products and the Apple story, I found this book to be very...
The Star ThrowerThe Star Thrower
Best Price: $4.00
I discovered this writer in college and consistently pass this book out to friends. They must...
Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2)Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2)
Best Price: $14.45
A great read. Part of a trilogy; I have just purchased the other two books as this book was so...
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (Modern Library Paperbacks)Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Best Price: $10.27
I was very excited to buy this book and begin reading it during the holidays. I skipped around...
Mike Nelson's Mind over MattersMike Nelson's Mind over Matters
Best Price: $3.89
Mike Nelson breaks out of movie-chat style comedy and into full blown humor column with this...

The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Twelfth EditionThe Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Twelfth Edition
Best Price: $35.98
My daughter needed this book for class and I found it on Amazon.com alot cheaper than it was at...
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected EssaysThe Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
Best Price: $12.89
I'm an English major, and last year, in my third year of university (I'm 27, however), I...
The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and BetrayalThe Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
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"The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception,...
Fraud: EssaysFraud: Essays
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A piercing and amusing volume of essays, Rakoff's collection recounts the wanderings of a radio...
Wampeters, Foma & GranfalloonsWampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
Best Price: $7.00
Hilarious, frightening, saddening, moving. I love this book and open it often, just to dip in...

Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary LivesObit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
Best Price: $1.75
There is a quiet dignity in the lives of everyday people. Look at the obituary pages and there...
Things I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.comThings I Learned About My Dad: Humorous and Heartfelt Essays, edited by the creator ofwww.dooce.com
Best Price: $7.99
Fans of dooce.com and similar blogs will probably find this collection of essays on fatherhood...
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
Best Price: $5.99
Many readers will probably be attracted to books like these after reading and enjoying Eco's...
The DANGEROUS SUMMERThe DANGEROUS SUMMER
Best Price: $6.50
For fans of Ernest Hemingway's 1932 classic account of the art of the bullfight, "Death In...
Strange CandyStrange Candy
Best Price: $7.48
It's a decent collection of short stories, with the dark sensual atmosphere that one expects...

On Beauty and Being Just.On Beauty and Being Just.
Best Price: $7.97
This is vintage Scarry. The book's purpose seems to be an attempt to create a mental switch in...
The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic MonthlyThe American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Best Price: $10.25
This anthology is a valued treasure, as it covers, in context, the most salient, if not the most...
Uh-OhUh-Oh
Best Price: $1.75
Robert Fulghum finds delight in the daily details of life. He paints a wonderful picture from a...
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, IIIUnspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
Best Price: $15.29
I have read hundreds of books dealing with every aspect of Christianity, religion, theology and...
It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your TwentiesIt's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties
Best Price: $4.32
I really enjoyed the heart felt and brutally honest stories in this book. Being a women in her...

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring)
Best Price: $3.75
Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant who served as an author of the Dartmouth Review during his...
The Partly Cloudy PatriotThe Partly Cloudy Patriot
Best Price: $24.72
That's the book I'm describing in my review title above, though it could apply to Sarah Vowell...
City Lights: Stories About New YorkCity Lights: Stories About New York
Best Price: $12.00
Dan Barry writes about New York as if it was a village. Its size is not as important as the...
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On ItIt Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
Best Price: $0.70
Stories about real life that make you laugh out loud and put a smile on your face about how good...
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About MarriagePaper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage
Best Price: $4.84
PAPER TRAILS is a collection of essays. Some are hilarious, some are sad, some are outrageous,...

Between Meals: An Appetite for ParisBetween Meals: An Appetite for Paris
Best Price: $7.82
Did anyone ever love Paris, or at least eating in Paris, like Liebling. I share his love for the...
The Monsters and the CriticsThe Monsters and the Critics
Best Price: $10.45
What most people do not realize when reading Tolkien is that he shaped his world with a...
Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern PhenomenaQueen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena
Best Price: $7.23
For those of us who are fascinated by the women of the South and the unique lives they lead,...
Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysAnatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
Best Price: $15.47
I bought this book in 1999, under the influence of a prominent professor of English literature;...
The Last Innocent White Man in America: And Other WritingsThe Last Innocent White Man in America: And Other Writings
Best Price: $13.09
"The last Innocent White Man in America: And Other Writings" is a great collection....

OrthodoxyOrthodoxy
Best Price: $20.69
G.K. Chesterton continues to charm and fulfill our quest for unvarnished, plain talk reminders...
The Mysterious Island (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)The Mysterious Island (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)
Best Price: $17.18
A group of civil war prison escapees manage to get wrecked on a strange island, after taking off...
Ron Carlson Writes a StoryRon Carlson Writes a Story
Best Price: $6.63
A book on the making of a story, not the creation of a novel, but a story by Ron Carlson. When...
Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward GuideParis Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
Best Price: $5.45
As an off-beat book that sems to be about Paris this was amusing but of limited value. The book...
Bad Dogs Have More FunBad Dogs Have More Fun
Best Price: $4.46
"Bad Dogs Have More Fun" is an unforgettable collection of more than seventy-five...

Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest ChefsDon't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
Best Price: $4.78
This was chosen for our book club based on an Amazon review. Of seven members present, only two...
    
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