by Barbara Kingsolver

Twenty-two optimistic and articulate essays by the author of High Tide in Tucson cover such topics as nature, family, literature, gardening, adolescence, genetic engineering, civil rights, TV, and the joys...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2003

by Barbara Kingsolver

An illustrated anthology of twenty-five essays explores the themes of family, community, and the natural world while considering such specific topics as modern motherhood, paper dolls, and high-tide oysters. Reprint....Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2003

by Robert James Waller

From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 1994

by Malcolm Gladwell

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2010

by Douglas Hunt

Riverside Anthology of literature (1988 publication)

Publication Date: Jan 1988

by Gilbert H. (EDT)/ Wiener, Harvey Muller

Now in its Ninth Edition, "The Short Prose Reader" is a superb rhetorically organized collection of high-interest, brief essays (no more than 3 pages each) combined with extensive support for...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1999

by Stephen (EDT) Greenblatt

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2005

by Lisa (EDT)/ Adler, Stephen J. Grunwald

Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women's singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2005

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 6 essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that colored his thought. In addition to...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 1993

by Octavio Paz

Engrossing essays that reflect the author's vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 1991

by Dave Eggers

This 'great volume' highlights the 'very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more' ('OK ).' Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2009

by Dave Eggers

From 'Q & A' by Dave Eggers A group of senators and assemblypersons were pressing The Best American Nonrequired Reading on a number of questions relating to the collection, so...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Greg (EDT) Johnson

On New Years Day, 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal that she maintains to this present day. When the journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Studs Terkel

The Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews. Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2008

by Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2001

by Sandra Martz

This enchanting collection of writings and photographs evokes the beauty, humor and courage of women living in their later years and tells of the endearing moments of joy--and passion--to be...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1991

by Amy Tan

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Publication Date: Oct 2003

by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1994

by Owen Dudley/ Richardson, Graham Edwards

A literary collection of the way Christmas is observed by different cultures.

Publication Date: Sep 1982

by Ira Glass

A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure-capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling,...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Matt Kellogg

Selected as the winners of Random House's national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the newest, brightest young writers you haven't...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2006

by Albert Camus

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic...

Publication Date: Jun 1971

by Robert James Waller

The author of the phenomenal #1 national bestsellers The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend now presents a collection of his reflections on life, love, loss,...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1995

by William S. Burroughs

I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one ) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2000

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publication Date: Apr 1982

by Peter Washington

Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly selected,...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1996

by Barbara Kingsolver

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world...Read More

Publication Date: May 2002

by Lillian (COM) Faderman

Publication Date: Dec 1995

by Alison Pace

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Publication Date: Nov 2012

by Matsuo Basho

Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2006