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Borderlands/La Frontera, The New Mestiza: Third Edition
Gloria Anzalda
Aunt Lute Books
Aunt Lute Books
Rooted in Gloria Anzalda's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of...
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
Editors of New York Magazine
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence,...
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Fuchsia Dunlop
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
A new memoir by the most talented and respected British food writer of her generation. Award-winning food writer Fuchsia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning she vowed to eat everything she was offered,...
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A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.” – Los Angeles Times “Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and...
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Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America #186)
Katherine Anne Porter
Library of America
Library of America
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory. Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of...
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Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of...
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The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)
John M. Shanahan
Collins
Collins
You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less. Edited by entrepreneur John M. Shanahan, who created the wildly successful Hooked...
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Robert M. Sapolsky
Scribner
Scribner
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and...
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern Library
Modern Library
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson...
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