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The Glorians

Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”―Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and, ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”―Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and,
... Read more

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The Hour of Land

A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, ... Read more

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An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams,
... Read more

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The Soft City

Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City

by Terry Williams ...

Series series The Cosmopolitan Life
There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more adventurous experiences awaited for those in the know.In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams, with the help of accomplices and ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more adventurous experiences awaited for those in the know.In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams, with the help of accomplices and
... Read more
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God, Gains, and Giggles

How One Capricorn Teaches Fitness and Faith with a Side of Laughter

by Terry Williams ...

Narrated by Terry Williams ...

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8 hours 14 min

A father of three children: two sons, Tony and Tyree, and one daughter, Twila, and a grandson, Jalani. A God-fearing man. Born in January, a Capricorn that teaches fitness and faith with a side of laughter. Who artfully combines physical fitness with spirituality and humor in an inspiring and incredibly entertaining way. Certified Fitness Trainer who bridges the worlds of fitness and faith and ... Read more

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A father of three children: two sons, Tony and Tyree, and one daughter, Twila, and a grandson, Jalani. A God-fearing man. Born in January, a Capricorn that teaches fitness and faith with a side of laughter. Who artfully combines physical fitness with spirituality and humor in an inspiring and incredibly entertaining way. Certified Fitness Trainer who bridges the worlds of fitness and faith and
... Read more
The Con Men

Hustling in New York City

by Terry Williams, Trevor B. Milton ...

Series series Studies in Transgression
This ethnography of NYC's scammers presents "a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life…timely, incisive, and poignant" (Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street).This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Sociologists Terry Williams and Trevor ... Read more

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This ethnography of NYC's scammers presents "a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life…timely, incisive, and poignant" (Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street).This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Sociologists Terry Williams and Trevor
... Read more
The Cocaine Kids

The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring

by Terry Williams ...

Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months "hanging out" with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages
... Read more
Teenage Suicide Notes

An Ethnography of Self-Harm

by Terry Williams ...

Series series The Cosmopolitan Life
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeenReading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide is uncomfortable, but we ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeenReading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide is uncomfortable, but we
... Read more
Life Underground

Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York

by Terry Williams ...

Series series The Cosmopolitan Life
Winner, 2024-2025 New York City Book Awards, New York Society LibraryAboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents’ world, seeking to understand life on the ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

Winner, 2024-2025 New York City Book Awards, New York Society LibraryAboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents’ world, seeking to understand life on the
... Read more
When Women Were Birds

Fifty-four Variations on Voice

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."—Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."—Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she
... Read more
Red

Passion and Patience in the Desert

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power and ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power and
... Read more
Finding Beauty in a Broken World

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

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"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a
... Read more

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The Glorians

Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

by Terry Tempest Williams ...

Narrated by Terry Tempest Williams ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”?Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and, transformative moments ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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“I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope.”?Richard Powers, author of The OverstoryFrom the visionary New York Times bestselling author, a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty in the desert, climate change, and, transformative moments
... Read more

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