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Cover of Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
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Now Comes Good Sail­ing: Writ­ers Reflect on Hen­ry David Thoreau
Andrew Blauner
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The New Oil Paint­ing: Your Essen­tial Guide to Mate­ri­als & Safe Practices
Kim­ber­ly Brooks
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Dylan & Me: 50 Years of Adventures
Louie Kemp
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Paint­ed Pome­gran­ates and Needle­point Rab­bis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Cre­ate Community
Jodi Eich­ler-Levine
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Chil­dren’s
KenKen For Kids!
Sophie Kudler
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Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodi­gies to Late Bloomers
Clau­dia Kalb
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27 Essen­tial Prin­ci­ples of Sto­ry: Mas­ter the Secrets of Great Sto­ry­telling, from Shake­speare to South Park
Daniel J. Rubin
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What Kids Did: Sto­ries of Kind­ness and Inven­tion in the Time of COVID-19
Erin Sil­ver
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The Cap­tain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thur­man Munson
Dan Epstein
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A Won­der­ful Guy: Con­ver­sa­tions with the Great Men of Musi­cal Theater
Eddie Shapiro
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Leono­ra in the Morn­ing Light: A Novel
Michaela Carter
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Your Sto­ry, Well Told: Cre­ative Strate­gies to Devel­op and Per­form Sto­ries that Wow an Audience
Corey Rosen
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The His­to­ry of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle
Wayne Fed­er­man
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After: The Oblig­a­tion of Beauty
Mindy Weisel
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O is for Obsession

Nes­sa Rapoport
September 1, 2020
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Meshug­gah Food Faces
Bill Wurtzel
Claire Wurtzel
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