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  • About a Mountain

    by John D'Agata ...
    Named One of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books Written by the New York Times Magazine, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editors' Choice.When John D'Agata helps his mother move to Las Vegas one summer, he begins to follow a story about the federal government's plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; the result is a startling portrait that compels a reexamination of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Making of the American Essay

    by John D'Agata ...
    Series series A New History of the Essay
    For two decades, essayist John D'Agata has been exploring the contours of the essay through a series of innovative, informative, and expansive anthologies that have become foundational texts in the study of the genre. The breakthrough first volume, The Next American Essay, highlighted major work from 1974 to 2003, while the second, The Lost Origins of the Essay, showcased the essay's ancient and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Halls of Fame

    Essays

    by John D'Agata ...
    "John D'Agata is an alchemist who changes trash into purest gold." —Guy Davenport, Harper'sJohn D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of America's myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. With topics ranging from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Your Father on the Train of Ghosts

    by John Gallaher, G.C. Waldrep ...
    Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six a day. As the collaboration deepened, a third "voice" emerged that neither poet can claim as solely their own.The poems of Your Father on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Uncle John's Fully Loaded: 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series Book 25 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    Take a seat and settle in—it's a gigantic treasury of trivia and humor for our twenty-fifth (is that porcelain?) anniversary!IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in HumorForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Together in a Sudden Strangeness

    America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

    Edited by Alice Quinn ...
    In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • After Henry

    Essays

    by Joan Didion ...
    The National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking "capture[s] the mood of America" in this incisive collection of essays.In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California; and New York, the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album confirms her reputation as one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God Save Texas

    A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

    by Lawrence Wright ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPRThe inspiration for the HBO Original documentary trilogy God Save ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Reinvention of the Human Hand

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    Strategically placed near the best seat in your home, Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader is jam-packed with great bathroom reading. It’s the gift that keeps on giving...and giving...and giving....The BRI’s 22nd all-new edition--*Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader--*is like reading several books all rolled into one: a history book, a weird news anthology, a science ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Best American Poetry 2011

    Series Editor David Lehman

    Edited by David Lehman, Kevin Young ...
    The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Big Thirst

    The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water

    by Charles Fishman ...
    Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book**” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst** is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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