Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 CONAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ATWSummary: The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploring the challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saqi Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESSummary: "This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times--be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Balloon Publishing 2019
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLISummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROOMessud, Claire
Summary: In this collection of 26 personal essays, Claire Messud opens a window on her life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESRushdie, Salman
Summary: "Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word, and solidify his place as one of the most original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 RUSSummary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by author and critic Vivian Gornick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESSummary: Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BESSummary: American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMEGreene, Thomas Christopher
Summary: Greene's capacity for true storytelling is at its finest, and it's a great gift to us all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rootstock Publishing 2024
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Summary: In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLESummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: "Ice melt; sea level rise; catastrophic weather; flooding; drought; fire; infestation; species extinction and adaptation; water shortage and contamination; intensified social inequity, migration and cultural collapse. These are but some of the changes that are not only predicted for climate changing futures, but already part of our lives in Canada. Although these transformations are global and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caitlin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 RISClark, John Lee
Summary: In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.41 CLAGerard, Sarah
Summary: Sunshine State 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 GERMcDermott, Alice
Summary: "A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021