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Winner of the National Outdoor Book AwardLonglisted for the Reading the West Book Awards"Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author R...

"Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection th...

"Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection th...

Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of...

In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenan...

Norma Fontaine lives in a world of handy tips and sensible advice. Whether it's choosing the right girdle or honing her feminine allure, she measur...

A companion to the groundbreaking bestseller Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this remarkable volume portrays the striking similarities an...

“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel–box perfect.” —The New York Times Book ReviewGina Berriault...

Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a centu...

Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a centu...

Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a centu...

Janet Frame, born in 1924, is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author. Her early life in small South Island towns seemed, at times, e...

No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. Fro...

On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to won...

As a once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for the final time, the residents of an upstate New York town must reckon with a shocking act th...

"Lin-Greenberg’s web of characters illustrate the complex lives of ordinary people." —Time As a once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for t...

A bestseller when originally published in 1938, a lost noir classic given new life in this edition featuring an introduction from Matt Groening.A n...

Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor"In this surprisingly upbeat memoir, Annabelle Gurwitch writes about the financial curveballs that...

Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor"In this surprisingly upbeat memoir, Annabelle Gurwitch writes about the financial curveballs that...

After writing two extremely well received biographies—the first about Anne Sexton and the second about poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath—world–reno...

If you have a language question, where do you go for the answer? How do you keep proper syntax from sounding stiff, and, on the other hand, how do ...

In the spring of 2006, Bill Porter traveled through the heart of China, from Beijing to Hong Kong, on a pilgrimage to sites associated with the fir...

Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States. She is the only W...

9 translations of Zen Buddhist sutras and sacred texts from the first 1,000 years of Zen—presented in a travel-friendly package for on-the-go readi...