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1) Cape Cod
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54 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Mezzanine
G844C64.T 1961
1 available
G844C64.T 1961
1 available
Northampton Forbes Library - Mezzanine
G844C64.T 2004
1 available
G844C64.T 2004
1 available
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This is the story those who love to walk the length of lonely beaches, for Thoreau walks alone in this book.
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67 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.H946y 2022
1 available
Y.H946y 2022
1 available
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.H946y 2023
1 available
Y.H946y 2023
1 available
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"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
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In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself.
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53 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.G2535o 2023
1 available
Y.G2535o 2023
1 available
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside...
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. John Green's...
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5 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - A&M Audio
CD Y.Sm695f 2018
1 available
CD Y.Sm695f 2018
1 available
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Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, the book offers a survey of recent events in culture and politics, as well as the author's own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive.
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72 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.At96b 2022
1 available
Y.At96b 2022
1 available
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"A new collection of essays from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Short Description / Web 'About this Book' From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we...
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78 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.OL43u 2016
1 available
Y.OL43u 2016
1 available
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A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley's life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it's scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or squinting down the barrel...
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28 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.J246m 2019
2 available
Y.J246m 2019
2 available
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With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline...
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42 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.R921d 2018
1 available
Y.R921d 2018
1 available
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"In these nine essays, [the author] provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader"--Amazon.com.
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"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
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"Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends the culinary, medical, and personal in a book of lyrical essays, accompanied by recipes"--
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47 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
ZC.F411i 2022
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ZC.F411i 2022
1 available
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"Here, in these four crisp essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion...
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39 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.Eh84h 2020
1 available
Y.Eh84h 2020
1 available
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A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.
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17 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"--
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious...
18) Coventry: essays
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18 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.C961c 2019
1 available
Y.C961c 2019
1 available
Description
The author's first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
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26 copies.
Northampton Forbes Library - Stacks
Y.L527w 2016
2 available
Y.L527w 2016
2 available
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This collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's recent talks, essays, introductions is the best manual we have for exploring the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...