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Author
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This debut essay collection is full of sardonic wit and charm, and Crosley effortlessly transforms what could have been stereotypical tales of mid-20s life into a breezy series of vignettes with uproariously unpredictable outcomes. From the opening The Pony Problem to the hilarious Bring-Your-Machete-to-Work Day (which will ring true for any child of the early 1990s who played the first Oregon Trail computer game), Crosley is equal parts self-deprecating...
45) Turtle Island
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1974.
Lexile measure
1380L
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Naature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 159 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Essays dealing with loss, pain, responsibility and ethics. The collection ruminates on place and violence and the faith it takes to hold a family together in the face of death"--
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Finally, mentor texts written by teenagers, to help your students craft convincing arguments. In this new collection of 100 essays curated by The New York Times, students will find mentor texts written by their peers-13-to-18-year-olds-on a wide range of topics, including social media, race, video games, lockdown drills, immigration, tackle football, and the #MeToo movement. All of the essays were either winners or runners-up from New York Times...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion--a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Engaging, unusual essays written over the last two decades, on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal--from the explosive date rape debates of the '90s to the ubiquitous political adultery of the '00s, from Anton Chekhov to Celine Dion. Here is Mary Gaitskill the essayist: witty, direct, penetrating to the core of each issue, personality, or literary trope (On Updike: "It is as if [he] has entered a tiny window marked 'Rabbit,' and, by...
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xvii, 267 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today. Teenage girls today live their life in words--in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how they conduct their friendships and present themselves to the world, but they are also creating a formidable body of personal written work. This generation's unprecedented comfort level with the written word has led to a fearless new American literature. These...
Publisher
Black Balloon Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times--be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
224 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, "The Window Seat,"...
Author
Publisher
www.CreateSpace.com
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of Kay G. Rock's monthly columns from the "Bucks County Herald", 2011-2015, Lahaska, Pennsylvania.
"Fasten your seatbelts, we're going for a ride! Readers of all ages will relate to these observations of the journey of life with all its bumps, turns, and exhilaration. "Over the Hill and Gaining Speed" is a collection of non-fiction essays that explore, examine and observe the transition to retirement through the lenses of travel, daily...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction. This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt;...
60) Selected essays
Author
Pub. Date
[1841-1844]
Physical Desc
Also available online.
Language
English
Description
"Essays" most commonly refers to Ralph Waldo Emerson's first two series of essays that include Self-reliance, Compensation, Over-soul, Circles, The poet, Experience, and Politics. They are commonly associated with transcendentalism and romanticism.
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