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In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwaters of New Mexico's Gila River and proposed to his bosses at the Forest Service that 500,000 acres of that rough country be set aside as...
—SIERRA MAGAZINE
Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador's cock–of–the–rock to a juniper titmouse's perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life's deepest questions all along the way. In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from...
Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to...
Inside Book Riot's Lit Stitch, you'll find a number of badass, bookish cross-stitch patterns to let you show off your love of all things literary. Some are for bookmarks, others are for wall decor, and still others can take on a whole host of finished outcomes. What...
Indianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-century German colonial imagination. Often manifested in romanticized representations of the past, Indianthusiasm has developed into a veritable industry in Germany and other European nations: there are Western and so-called "Indian" theme parks and a German hobbyist scene that attract people of all social
...Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of "things I won't do when I get old"—mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then...
Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic.
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L. Frank Baum's magical world of Oz comes to life in a way you never imagined! Follow the adventures of a young boy named Tip as he escapes the servitude of the mean old witch Mombi and runs away with his newly created magical companion, Jack Pumpkinhead. Along the way, they meet Sawhorse and follow the legendary Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City - now ruled by King Scarecrow! But when Jinjur overthrows King Scarecrow and Mombi returns, Tip
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Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year
"The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." –Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the...
92) Holidays on ice
94) The Magic of Oz
The creative process can be a grueling grind — but for some unlucky authors, it has ultimately proven to be fatal. In this morbidly fascinating volume, author P. H. Ditchfield catalogs writers who didn't survive the birth of their beloved masterpiece, as well as others whose reputations were destroyed as a result of a particular publication. It makes for a grim — but totally engrossing — read.
In The Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parkes offers reflections and stories from a lifetime of knitting through twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love,...
100) The Road to Oz
The fifth novel in Baum's beloved series of stories about the magical land of Oz, The Road to Oz recounts Dorothy's fourth interlude in Oz, during which she encounters whimsically imaginative characters such as Shaggy Man, Polychrome, and Button Bright. A masterwork of imaginative fiction, this book is a must-read for fans of classic children's literature.
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