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Here is New York
Written by E.B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell
Format: Hardcover, 58 pages
Publisher: Little Bookroom
On Sale: January 1, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-892145-02-4 (1-892145-02-2)
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls... Read more >
Written by E.B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell
Format: Hardcover, 58 pages
Publisher: Little Bookroom
On Sale: January 1, 2000
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-892145-02-4 (1-892145-02-2)
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls... Read more >
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Here is New York
Written by E.B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell
Format: eBook, 58 pages
Publisher: Little Bookroom
On Sale: March 30, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-479-1 (1-59017-479-8)
To purchase a copy of this ebook, please see the “buy” links on the right-hand side.
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one... Read more >
Written by E.B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell
Format: eBook, 58 pages
Publisher: Little Bookroom
On Sale: March 30, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-479-1 (1-59017-479-8)
To purchase a copy of this ebook, please see the “buy” links on the right-hand side.
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one... Read more >
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hardcover.
The Colossus of New York
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3124-5 (1-4000-3124-9)
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.
A masterful evocation of the city... Read more >
Written by Colson Whitehead
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3124-5 (1-4000-3124-9)
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities.
A masterful evocation of the city... Read more >
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Ill Nature
Written by Joy Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71363-7 (0-375-71363-8)
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letters... Read more >
Written by Joy Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71363-7 (0-375-71363-8)
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letters... Read more >
Leap
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75257-8 (0-679-75257-9)
With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity–based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights.
Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist’s prophetic vision and her own personal experiences... Read more >
Written by Terry Tempest Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75257-8 (0-679-75257-9)
With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity–based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights.
Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist’s prophetic vision and her own personal experiences... Read more >
It's the Little Things . . .
An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures
Written by Craig Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75896-6 (0-375-75896-8)
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called “The Final Word.” In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life—clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs—and looked back on his childhood in the country with fondness and an infectious sense of humor... Read more >
An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures
Written by Craig Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75896-6 (0-375-75896-8)
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called “The Final Word.” In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life—clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs—and looked back on his childhood in the country with fondness and an infectious sense of humor... Read more >
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In Ruins
A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature
Written by Christopher Woodward
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3086-6 (1-4000-3086-2)
In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the... Read more >
A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature
Written by Christopher Woodward
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3086-6 (1-4000-3086-2)
In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the... Read more >
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An Enlarged Heart
A Personal History
Written by Cynthia Zarin
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4271-5 (1-4000-4271-2)
An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary... Read more >
A Personal History
Written by Cynthia Zarin
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4271-5 (1-4000-4271-2)
An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
