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Geography of the Imagination
Forty Essays
Häftad, 2024
368 kr
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“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”—Washington PostForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—and …
Herbs and the Earth
An Evocative Excursion into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs
Av Henry Beston
Häftad, 2014
255 kr
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Midnights
A Year with the Wellfleet Police
Häftad, 2023
163 kr
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“Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line....A reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic.”—TimeFunny, touching, revealing, here is …
Herbs and the Earth
An Evocative Excursion into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs
Av Henry Beston
Häftad, 2024
182 kr
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“Charming, delightful, and a great companion for gardeners and naturalists alike.”—BooklistLavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue — the thinking gardener’s guide to herbs.Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature …
Stay Here with Me
A Memoir
Häftad, 2024
189 kr
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Novelist Robert Olmstead journeys back to his youth on his grandfather’s New Hampshire dairy farm to confront the ghosts that continue to afflict him in this coming-of-age memoir.Robert Olmstead has peopled his fiction with the rough-hewn farmers, loggers, and hired hands of rural New England …
Orchard
A Memoir
Häftad, 2023
182 kr
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A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman’s single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths …
On Becoming an American Writer
Essays and Nonfiction
Häftad, 2023
170 kr
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Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from …
More to Say
Essays and Appreciations
Av Ann Beattie
Häftad, 2023
184 kr
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“Earnest, amusing, and contemplative....though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.”—Publishers Weekly“Shimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an eclectic collection.”—Kirkus ReviewsAs deeply rewarding as her fiction, a selection of Ann Beattie’s …
Providence
Häftad, 2024
192 kr
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Attorney Adam Dwyer has six months to live. Carla Dwyer has to try and relax. Lieutenant Tom Cocoran has twenty years on the force. Baby and Skippy have a couple of hours to kill. All five of these people will never be the same after a series of violent events, hilarious as they are tragic, upset …
In the Merrimack Valley
A Farm Trilogy
Av Jane Brox
Häftad, 2024
186 kr
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“Of soil and soul…Ms. Brox has restored a lost world.”—Wall Street JournalA journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age.After years of …
