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Birds, art, life : a year of observation
by Kyo Maclear
"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady, the slow accumulations of knowledge, and the lulls that leave room for contemplation. A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk, Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after birds in the urban environment and explores what happens when the core lessons of birding are applied to other aspects of art and life. Moving with ease between the granular and the grand, peering into the inner landscape as much as the outer one, this is a deeply personal year-long inquiry into big themes: love, waiting, regrets, endings. If Birds Art Life was sprung from Maclear's sense of disconnection, her passions faltering under the strain of daily existence, this book is ultimately about the value of reconnection--and how the act of seeking engagement and beauty in small ways can lead us to discover our most satisfying and meaningful lives"
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The book of delights
by Ross Gay
"Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"
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The cost of living : a working autobiography
by Deborah Levy
Drawing on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value and meaning, the two-time Booker Prize finalist, in a living autobiography, critiques the roles that society assigns to us and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals.
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The empathy exams : essays
by Leslie Jamison
A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others
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The end of the end of the earth : essays
by Jonathan Franzen
A provocative new essay collection by the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections includes an exploration of his complex relationship with his uncle, an assessment of the global seabird crisis and his young adulthood in New York.
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Essays After Eighty
by Donald Hall
A former poet laureate presents a new collection of essays delivering a gloriously unexpected view from the vantage point of very old age.
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Feel free : essays
by Zadie Smith
In a collection of essays arranged into five sectionsIn the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Freethe best-selling author of Swing Time discusses important questions about our world that readers will immediately recognize.
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I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death
by Maggie O'Farrell
The award-winning author of The Hand That First Held Mine presents a memoir told entirely in 17 near-death experiences stemming from a dangerous childhood illness, accidents, an encounter with a disturbed person and the author's daily efforts to protect her daughter from the vulnerabilities of a high-risk condition.
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Let me tell you what I mean
by Joan Didion
A volume of 12 previously uncollected early pieces shares insights into the authors evolving literary style and includes reflections on such topics as a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a Vegas WWI veteran reunion and a visit to San Simeon.
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Morningstar : growing up with books
by Ann Hood
The award-winning author of The Book That Matters Most reveals the personal stories behind her written works, describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town and the books that shaped her love of literature, her political views and her travel ambitions.
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One long river of a song : notes on wonder
by Brian Doyle
A playful, evocative book of spiritual essays for both religious and secular readers draws on the late award-winning Portland Magazine editors vast body of writing and explores small everyday miracles and love in all its forms. 15,000 first printing.
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The rub of time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump
by Martin Amis
The acclaimed author of The Zone of Interest presents a definitive collection of essays and reportage from the past 30 years, in a volume that explores subjects ranging from sports and celebrity to the literary masters who inspired him and today's contentious political climate.
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The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations
by Toni Morrison
An anthology of the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s essays, speeches and commentary on society, culture and art includes her powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr. and her poignant eulogy for James Baldwin. (literary collections).
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Squirrel seeks chipmunk : a modest bestiary
by David Sedaris
The author of Holidays on Ice and When You Are Engulfed in Flames provides an original collection of outrageously funny fables featuring animals with unmistakably human failings, including a kitty cat that struggles to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, squirrel and chipmunk lovers separated by prejudiced family members and much more. 750,000 first printing.
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Upstream : selected essays
by Mary Oliver
A collection of essays with a new piece on Provincetown, follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently and to observe with passion
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What are we doing here? : essays
by Marilynne Robinson
A new essay collection by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gilead assesses today's political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society's political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.
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