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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction : Work From 1970 To the Present (07 Edition) by Lex Williford Publisher Comments An exceptional showcase of topflight memoir, literary journalism, personal essay, and cultural criticism, this uniquely comprehensive collection is the first and only creative nonfiction volume to cover all genres, from magazine writing to book excerpts.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ordinary Magic: Everyday Life as Spiritual Path by John Welwood Publisher Comments Spiritual practice and meditation are often thought of as being the province of priests, monks, and nuns—those few individuals who have returned from the preoccupations of day-to-day life. This inspiring book reveals how the simple practice of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) 2007 by David Foster Wallace (Editor) Publisher Comments Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Essays of Century (00 Edition) by Joyce Carol (ed.) Oates Publisher Comments This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of Americas tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hard Time : Understanding and Reforming the Prison (3RD 02 Edition) by Robert Johnson Publisher Comments A seminal work, this is a unique text in that it provides personal accounts from prisoners telling what it is really like to live in prison as well as historical and contextual information. It is the personal stories, which provide a realistic and... (read more) List Price $87.50 Your price: $59.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Norton Book of Personal Essays (97 Edition) by Joseph (ed.) Epstein Publisher Comments In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--various opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mind Readings : Anthology for Writers (02 Edition) by Gary Colombo Publisher Comments How do your senses and memory work? What is the nature of consciousness? What sets your intelligence apart from that of animals and computers? Mind Readings urges your students to think carefully about such questions -- questions about cognition, or the... (read more) List Price $60.65 Your price: $41.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for the New Millennium by Robin Morgan Publisher Comments Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen Publisher Comments Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short--very short... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Next American Essay (03 Edition) by John Dagata Publisher Comments In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gardens," D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies From the Women of York Prison (07 Edition) by Wally Lamb Publisher Comments For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties by Elaine Showalter Publisher Comments In 1926 and 1927, the Nation published 17 anonymous essays by "women active in professional and public life." The editor's objective was "to discover the origin of their modern point of view toward men, marriage, children, and... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption by Sara Holloway Publisher Comments This volume is an honest, heartwarming, and heartbreaking collection featuring important authors personally involved in all sides of adoption. Here are more than 20 pieces, many published for the first time.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves by Camille Peri Publisher Comments The challenges facing mothers in the twenty-first century go well beyond tantrum control and potty training. Camille Peri and Kate Moses, the founding editors of Salon.com's "Mothers Who Think" column and the subsequent anthology of the same name, have... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) by Chistopher Hitchens Publisher Comments The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is reliable and yet still surprisingthe best of the best” (Kirkus Reviews).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Century of American Historiography (10 Edition) by James M. Banner Publisher Comments Editor James M. Banner, Jr. has compiled a collection of 15 historiographical essays by respected scholars to provide an up-to-date overview of major topics in American History. Each essay offers a concise and insightful assessment of a central field... (read more) List Price $14.20 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination. As they pertain to the scandal, the... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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