River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize – serie
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22 produkter
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus
A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey
Häftad, 2010
94 kr
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Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was …
Enders Hotel
A Memoir
Häftad, 2008
234 kr
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In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold …
Where the Trail Grows Faint
A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
Av Lynne Hugo
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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"This is Hannah," Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. "Would you like to pat her?""I don't know," the woman responds warily. "Dogs are complicated."So, of course, is life, especially as the years accumulate and the …
Inside Passage
Av Kurt Caswell
Häftad, 2009
218 kr
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Although finding a way to feel at home in the world is ultimately the life's work of us all, rarely has the search ranged as far or found as precise and moving an expression as it does in An Inside Passage. Winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Kurt Caswell's narrative …
Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
Häftad, 2011
203 kr
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There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humor, a will to understand the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and a narrative …
Mountains of Light
Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite
Häftad, 2012
197 kr
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The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what's inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, …
Untouched Minutes
Häftad, 2012
173 kr
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What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved? On a moment's notice, for instance, would you lunge between that person and an assailant's knife strike? In that same situation, what would you be willing do for yourself? And what if there were nothing, ultimately, to be …
So Far, So Good
Häftad, 2013
234 kr
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Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind buffeting his eighteen-year-old body a mile above an old volcano’s jagged debris, and yet again, …
Young Widower
A Memoir
Häftad, 2014
234 kr
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John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life together …
World Before Mirrors
Av Joan Connor
Häftad, 2006
220 kr
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"What do you do for a living?" the podiatrist (or the photographer or the woman in the train station) asks, and Joan Connor answers, "I'm a writer," waiting with a cringe for the inevitable rejoinder: "Oh, boy, do I have a story for you!" How such offerings, not stories but small reports from the …
MINE
Essays
Av Sarah Viren
Häftad, 2018
217 kr
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This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man’s furniture while he’s on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a hand, or a child, or a country, or a story …
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Häftad, 2019
291 kr
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Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman …
Try to Get Lost
Essays on Travel and Place
Av Joan Frank
Häftad, 2020
251 kr
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Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word 'hotel,' and the …
Disequilibria
Meditations on Missingness
Häftad, 2023
231 kr
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Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction PrizeDisequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday …
Aligning the Glacier's Ghost
Essays on Solitude and Landscape
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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Rooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude. This stunning and evocative debut gives shape to …
Off Izaak Walton Road
The Grace That Comes Through Loss
Av Laura Julier
Häftad, 2025
231 kr
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Loss and sorrow can overwhelm even the strongest person, forcing them to reckon with their emotions whether they want to or not. In this extraordinary debut, Laura Julier recounts her reckoning, which took place in an old cabin tucked away on a hidden and forgotten gravel road along the Iowa River. …
Love and Other Fish
Essays on Wonder, Loss, and Transformation
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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A debut essay collection probing the multifaceted range of experiences, both common and unusual, that define human interaction with our wild and human-made worlds. In this luminous debut collection, wilderness guide Hannah Hindley explores small creatures, big landscapes, and the shimmering …
House of Fragile Things
Essays on Impermanence
Av Anne Goldman
Häftad, 2027
215 kr
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Winner of the 2026 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, these essays explore connections between humans and the natural world. Earth is a house full of fragile things: people and protozoa, redwoods and sun beetles, sea anemones and fleas. Like the Earth, humans are each houses unto themselves. …
Girls in My Town
Essays
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother’s childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, …
Rough Crossing
An Alaskan Fisherwoman's Memoir
Häftad, 2017
231 kr
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Knowing next to nothing about fishing, Rosemary McGuire signed on to the crew of the Arctic Storm in Homer, Alaska, looking for money and experience. Cold, hard work and starkly sexist harassment were what she found. Here is her story of life on a fishing boat as the only woman crew member. Both an …
Rock Cycle
Essays
Av Kevin Honold
Häftad, 2021
251 kr
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The past is a living thing, palpable as the weather. In this collection of essays, Kevin Honold explores themes of history and its fading significance in modern American life. ""Remembrance is morbid, unprofitable,"" he writes. ""It's impractical, impolite in certain company."" These words remind …
What Cannot Be Undone
True Stories of a Life in Medicine
Häftad, 2022
251 kr
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In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical …
