Notting Hill Editions, November 2019. Hardcover. Calling all dog-lovers: On Dogs collects essays about man's best friend by Charles Dickens, Vita Sackville-West, Brigitte Bardot, and Shakespeare, among others, with an introduction by acclaimed actor, comedian, and adopter of strays Tracey Ullman. Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with..... More
Storey Publishing, LLC, December 2017. Trade Paperback. More
Pryor Publications, March 1994. Trade Paperback. More
New Directions, November 2019. Hardcover. In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote..... More
American Roots, December 2016. Hardcover. Sarah Orne Jewett places her most famous short story, "A White Heron," in her native Maine. Originally published in 1886, it's a coming-of-age story about a young city girl now living with her grandmother in the country. She comes out of her shell in nature..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2023. Trade Paperback. "Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself."So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in..... More
Grove Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The..... More
Grove Press, July 2021. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things..... More
American Roots, October 2014. Hardcover. Renowned playwright Eugene O'Neill composed this work in 1940 to comfort his wife about the death of their Dalmatian, Blemie. Better known for his despairing and pessimistic dramas, O'Neill's touching piece, written in the voice of the dying pet, is somehow uplifting and joyous in..... More
Greystone Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. A new edition of Candace Savage's bestseller with a new forward by the author More than 50,000 copies of all editions of Bird Brains sold worldwide. More
Little, Brown and Company, June 2011. Hardcover. More
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2016. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Best Book of 2015, The Wall Street Journal Love is the driver for Wendy Williams's new book, The Horse . . . [an] affectionate, thoroughgoing..... More
Bibliotech Press, January 2023. Trade Paperback. Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in..... More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong..... More
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