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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Swimming Pool

    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the ... Read more

    Was 13,35 € Now 11,65 €

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  • Butts

    A Backstory

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

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  • Bobos in Paradise

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  • The Best American Travel Writing 2016

    Edited by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," these questions start us on the path of ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

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    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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    by Robert Atwan ...
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