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Inger Christensen
(163)
Summary: Christensen formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with...
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Call #: 839.8 CHR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Christopher Hitchens
(9,393)
Summary: Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas...
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Call #: 814.54 HIT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Ann Patchett
(26,550)
Summary: "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in...
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Call #: 814.54 PAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ann Patchett
(26,584)
Summary: "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in...
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Ann Patchett
(26,868)
Summary: "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK 814.54 PAT
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
Molly McCully Brown
(541)
Summary: In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body -- in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful...
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Call #: 818.6 BRO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jonathan Franzen
(2,071)
Summary: This book gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes -- both human and literary -- that have long preoccupied him....
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Call #: 814.54 FRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Zadie Smith
(7,292)
Summary: A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
BOOK
Call #: 814 SMI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Zadie Smith
Summary: A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming.
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by
Hanif Abdurraqib
(10,907)
Summary: In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing...
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Call #: 782.42166 ABD
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Mary Laura Philpott
(12,837)
Summary: Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir in essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life's to-do...
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Helen Ellis
(8,612)
Summary: A fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
BOOK
Call #: 817.54 ELL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Mary Laura Philpott
(12,817)
Summary: Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir in essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life's to-do...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK 305.244 PHI
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
Laura Lippman
(1,269)
Summary: Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist.
BOOK
Call #: B LIPPMAN
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Megan Stielstra
(1,431)
Summary: From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice. In this poignant and inciting collection...
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BOOK
Call #: 814.6 STI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Ross Gay
(1,562)
Summary: A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and...
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Call #: 814.6 GAY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Tom Segura
(8,655)
Summary: Segura is known for his twisted takes and irreverent comedic voice, but after a few busy years of work and parenting, he just wants to hide from everything. In this collection of true stories, he...
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Call #: 792.7 SEG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Lauren Hough
Summary: As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous...
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by
Melissa Febos
(6,944)
Summary: When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and...
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BOOK
Call #: 155.3 FEB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Nichole Perkins
(2,333)
Summary: Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we...
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Call #: B PERKINS
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Helen Ellis
(3,087)
Summary: When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion...
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Call #: 817.54 ELL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Casey Wilson
(15,850)
Summary: Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn't afraid to share. In this dazzling collection of essays, skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and...
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Call #: B WILSON
Location: Adult Biographies
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Lauren Hough
(9,043)
Summary: As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous...
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Call #: B HOUGH
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Elissa Washuta
(1,277)
Summary: Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together...
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Call #: 133.43 WAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Samantha Irby
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The...
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Sarah Gerard
(1,582)
Summary: Offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
BOOK
Call #: 814.6 GER
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Bassey Ikpi
(3,521)
Summary: Bassey Ikpi explores her life -- as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist -- through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and...
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Call #: 616.895 IKP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Samantha Irby
Summary: Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. This is the life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates...
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Samantha Irby
(41,073)
Summary: Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. This is the life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates...
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R. Eric Thomas
(10,745)
Summary: Author R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went -- whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or...
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Call #: B THOMAS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Samantha Irby
(41,133)
Summary: Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. This is the life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates...
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Call #: 817.6 IRB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Marilynne Robinson
(862)
Summary: A new essay collection 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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Call #: 814.54 ROB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Mary Oliver
(15,423)
Summary: A collection of essays 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.
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Zadie Smith
(24,730)
Summary: Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time Written during the early months of lockdown,...
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Call #: 824 SMI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Barbara Ehrenreich
(612)
Summary: A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.
BOOK
Call #: 306 EHR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Richard Russo
(935)
Summary: In these nine essays, Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader.
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Call #: 814.54 RUS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Rick Bragg
(4,375)
Summary: "Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies,...
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Call #: 818.54 BRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Marina Keegan
(49,112)
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon...
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BOOK
Call #: 818.6 KEE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Marina Keegan (read by Emily Woo Zeller )
(49,110)
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK 818.6 KEE
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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Terry Tempest Williams
(1,649)
Summary: In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered,...
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Call #: 363.7384 WIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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