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Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra.

Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived.

Music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share a candid, definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix.

These are the women of World War II who served in and out of uniform. The heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about.

Tyler Merritt tells hilarious stories of life as a black man in America, seamlessly weaving in lessons about privilege, the legacy of lynching, and why you don't cross black mamas.

For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses.

The wonder of the natural world surrounds us--from the Amazon rainforest to the snowy peaks of Mount Everest to the green spaces in big cities.

A powerful and intimate essay collection of gratitude, and an essential, enduring love letter to the queer community in which contemporary queer icons pay homage to those who helped pave their path

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself.

After her mother dies unexpectedly, Kat Chow, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief.

When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, she turns to creative nonfiction to recreate her great-grandparents' history, which was never officially documented by the state, in order

Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes listeners on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media, and the internet from the perspective of one southern

Part activist memoir, part climate change primer. Dr. Montano brings readers on an eye-opening journey studying some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened.

At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student and star athlete, but behind closed doors, undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc.

Journalist Julie K.