NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Snack-food style blends with health-food substance for a most satisfying meal."
Inky Fool blogger Forsyth debuts with a breezy, amusing stroll through the uncommon histories of some common English words.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A trove of fine writing on big issues, albeit at the expense of more playful exemplars of the contemporary essay."
Well-told pieces on a narrow range of subjects define the latest iteration of the Best American Essays franchise.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Mostly engaging, diverse tales of offbeat travel adventures."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"An anthology that reads like a long, engaging annual magazine."
An eclectic annual that will leave readers marveling over many of the discoveries and puzzling over the inclusion of a few.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A showcase for clean, plain-English science and nature writing and a treat for readers."
Ariely (Psychology and Behavioral Economics/Duke Univ.;
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves, 2012, etc.) presents a smorgasbord of top-notch science writing covering everything from the 1,000 species in the human gut to efforts to reverse-evolve a chicken into a dinosaur.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Articulate, funny, informed and bitchy--guaranteed to both delight and disconcert."
The acclaimed essayist and former editor of the
American Scholar presents a provocative collection of essays that illustrate the ways a writer can employ biographical detail.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Bubbling with energy and conviction but less practical than an old-fashioned style manual."
Self-help for aspiring writers, who need, it seems, to zap the red sauce of their prose with tangier verbs.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Fun and intelligent but disjointed reading."
A collection of essays by a regional theater actress and writer about the relationship of voice to identity.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Proof that science writing online is healthy and growing. For naive surfers, an anthology like this will help separate the wheat from the chaff."
A collection of solid science writing celebrating a diversity of topics, writer credentials and styles.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"A beautiful evocation of love, friendship and community."
An anthology celebrating sisterhood and the special bonds that connect Latinas from diverse backgrounds.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Rothbart has admirable wit, but his sensitive-wiseacre persona gets repetitive."
A collection of personal essays by a man with a knack for stumbling into alcohol- and lust-fueled predicaments.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Mostly fascinating, lively writings on a spectrum of topics relevant to women and men with a literary bent."
Of-the-moment essays about popular culture, literature and the author's unconventional life.
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