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  • Heroes of Postman's Park

    Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London

    by Dr John Price ...
    The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing fifty-four ceramic plaques commemorating sixty-two individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque tells a tragic and moving story, but the short narratives do little more than whet the appetite and stimulate the imagination about the lives and ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One by One, the Stars

    Essays

    by Ned Stuckey-French, Elizabeth Stuckey-French ...
    Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
    A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the center of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on his first essay collection when he died of cancer in 2019.That collection, One by One, the Stars, presents new, highly ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • Consider the Lobster

    And Other Essays

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    A celebrated collection of David Foster Wallace’s witty and deeply observant essays exploring everything from lobster festivals and politics to the nature of human suffering, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest**.****"brilliantly entertaining...**Consider the Lobster **proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" —**Cleveland Plain Dealer</em... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Draft No. 4

    On the Writing Process

    by John McPhee ...
    The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Uncle John's Fully Loaded: 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series Book 25 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    Take a seat and settle in—it's a gigantic treasury of trivia and humor for our twenty-fifth (is that porcelain?) anniversary!IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in HumorForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Gumption

    Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

    by Nick Offerman ...
    The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day—Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans.”To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their humor and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Telling True Stories

    A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

    Edited by Mark Kramer, Wendy Call ...
    Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series Book 26 - Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Annual
    The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that's flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics.The twenty-sixth annual edition of Uncle John's wildly successful series is all-new and jam-packed with the BRI's patented mix of fun and information. Open to any page and you may find an interesting origin (like the origin of the snow globe) or a piece of obscure ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy

    Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals

    by Dinty W. Moore ...
    Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy,I have a hot crush on the em dash. What does my need to stuff—while simultaneously fracturing—my sentences—with the meandering, the explanatory, the discursive, the perhaps not-entirely-necessary—say about me?—Cheryl StrayedHave you ever wished there were an advice columnist for writers, but one who didn’t take things so damned seriously? This unique writing guide ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 60s: The Story of a Decade

    by The New Yorker Magazine, Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt ...
    Series series New Yorker: The Story of a Decade
    This fascinating anthology collects notable New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century—including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, and Muriel Spark—alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of today’s finest writers.Here are real-time accounts of these years, brought to immediate and profound life: Calvin Trillin reports on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD