Andrew Gant

Stories behind 21 favorite Christmas songs and carols.  

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

A Celebration of the Surprising Stories Behind Your Favorite Holiday Songs

From Oxford professor and former choral director of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal---which performed at the royal wedding of William and Kate---a joyous account of the history behind our favorite carols.

The Carols of Christmas

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David Remnick

Book and 8 CDs containing all issues of the New Yorker from 1925-2006.  Outer cover has bent corners, but overall, still a usable reference.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine

The Complete New Yorker

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Paperback in good condition with all pages intact.  Make an Amish farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and animals.  

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Authentic Full-Color Architectural Models In H-O Scale

Pennsylvania Dutch Farm To Cut Out And Assemble :

Laurie Notaro

True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List

Humorist Laurie Notaro, author of "The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club," returns with a collection of the most hilarious stories from the most wonderful--and dreadful--time of the year.

An Idiot Girl's Christmas

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Gillian Fetlocks

The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family

Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne. The Crawfish family--Marry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick--are content wiling their days away with naughty charades and twenty-two course dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic takes down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden. Soon, cousin Isabich and her son, Atchew, the rightful heir to the Abbey, arrive to claim what'stheirs. Downstairs, the servants are running amok, as crippled weakling Brace is aggressively courted by teen hottie Nana, and lady's maid "Potatoes" O'Grotten and her flamboyant sidekick, Tomaine, cause trouble at every turn. The ensuing, insufferably overwrought melodrama takes the reader upstairs and downstairs, into parlours and drawing rooms, boudoirs and bathrooms, and across every class--from the classiest to the classless--in the social pecking order of Edwardian England. Uproariouslyfunny, with a wicked sense of humor thatDownton Abbeydiehards will enjoy, Gillian Fetlocks skewers your favorite characters with panache in this winning parody

Downtrodden Abbey

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Ree Drummond

Slightly yellowed endpages, but overall, a good, readable copy of the Pioneer Woman's life story.

Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story

"That's when I saw him—the cowboy—across the smoky room." I'll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne western rolled into one. Out for a quick drink with friends, I wasn't looking to meet anyone, let alone a tall, rugged cowboy who lived on a cattle ranch miles away from my cultured, corporate hometown. But before I knew it, I'd been struck with a lightning bolt . . . and I was completely powerless to stop it. Read along as I recount the rip-roaring details of my unlikely romance with a chaps-wearing cowboy, from the early days of our courtship (complete with cows, horses, prairie fire, and passion) all the way through the first year of our marriage, which would be filled with more challenge and strife—and manure—than I ever could have expected. This isn't just my love story; it's a universal tale of passion, romance, and all-encompassing love that sweeps us off our feet. It's the story of a cowboy. And Wranglers. And chaps. And the girl who fell in love with them.

The Pioneer Woman

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John Hodgman

True Stories from Secret Rooms

Both unflinchingly funny and deeply heartfelt, MEDALLION STATUS is a hilarious, thoughtful examination of status, fame, and identity. It s about the weird trauma that comes with success that feels unseemly to discuss (because who will sympathise with you?); about the addiction to status that sometimes (always) follows success; and about the way we all deal with those moments in public and private life when we realise we don t quite have it anymore.

Medallion Status

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Official magazine release for 1983 film.  Lots of text about the film and loads of color photos.  Covers aged, but overall good condition.

Return Of The Jedi Official Collectors Edition

Published by Scholastic in 1978, this softcover storybook includes text and lots of color photos.  Binding is not perfect, but no loose pages.  Cover still has good color.

The Star Wars Storybook

Quick cooking from Taste of Home in a large print, hardcover format.  Slightly wrinkled corner on back cover, but barely noticeable.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Taste Of Home 30-Minute Meals

Taste of Taste of Home

Fun recipes for Halloween, from "Creepy Bites & Sips" to "Five-Star Pumpkin Favorites."  Lots of color photos in a spiral-bound cookbook.

100+ Freaky Fun Recipes and Crafts for Ghouls of All Ages

Make magic this autumn when you dig into the essential guide, Taste of Home Halloween! Here you’ll find dozens of spooky, cute, spirited and fun Halloween foods to delight boys and ghouls of all ages. We tossed in top pumpkin-carving tips and party ideas, too! To round out the collection, cozy up with some of the best-loved recipes from the slow cooker as well as the pumpkin patch. Fall flavors abound in this keepsake collection of 100+ scrumptious recipes. And, the book concludes with a Day of the Dead bonus chapter brimming with lively Mexican flair! CHAPTERS: Pumpkin Carving Guide Creepy Bites & Sips Halloween Suppers Trick-or-Treat Sweets Fall Slow Cooker Classics Five-Star Pumpkin Favorites Bonus: Day of the Dead RECIPES INCLUDE: Great Pumpkin Desserts Spiced Pumpkin Custard Pie Day of the Dead Cookies Apple & Cider Mini Scones Halloween Punch Spooky Snack Mix Mummy-Wrapped Brie Witch’s’ Caviar Autumn Leaf Cutouts Ghostly Cupcake Cones Deluxe Walking Nachos Make-a-Monster Pizza Pear Cider Cauldron Dip

Taste of Home Halloween Mini Binder

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Edna Greene Medford

Hardcover in good condition.  Univ. of North Carolina Press.  Tight binding.

African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. For many, writing Lincoln was a last resort. Yet their letters were often full of determination, making explicit claims to the rights of U.S. citizenship in a wide range of circumstances. This compelling collection presents more than 120 letters from African Americans to Lincoln, most of which have never before been published. They offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers' and civilians' experiences in wartime. As readers continue to think critically about Lincoln's image as the "Great Emancipator," this book centers African Americans' own voices to explore how they felt about the president and how they understood the possibilities and limits of the power invested in the federal government.

To Address You As My Friend

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Eric Sloane

This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more. Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful narrative remains a milestone of Americana. 81 black-and-white illustrations.

Our Vanishing Landscape

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Alfred A. Cave

This book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies, the fur trade, and the cultural values and attitudes in New England. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.

The Pequot War

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Bill Bryson

Paperback with slightly yellowed endpages.  Binding is tight.  A good, readable copy.

Travels in Small Town America

An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.

The Lost Continent

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Elyssa East

Good, tight binding; clean book jacket.  

Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town

The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984, a brutal murder took place there: a mentally disturbed local outcast crushed the skull of a beloved schoolteacher as she walked in the woods. Dogtown's peculiar atmosphere -- it is strewn with giant boulders and has been compared to Stonehenge -- and eerie past deepened the pall of this horrific event that continues to haunt Gloucester even today. In alternating chapters, Elyssa East interlaces the story of this grisly murder with the strange, dark history of this wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. East knew nothing of Dogtown's bizarre past when she first became interested in the area. As an art student in the early 1990s, she fell in love with the celebrated Modernist painter Marsden Hartley's stark and arresting Dogtown landscapes. She also learned that in the 1930s, Dogtown saved Hartley from a paralyzing depression. Years later, struggling in her own life, East set out to find the mysterious setting that had changed Hartley's life, hoping that she too would find solace and renewal in Dogtown's odd beauty. Instead, she discovered a landscape steeped in intrigue and a community deeply ambivalent about the place: while many residents declare their passion for this profoundly affecting landscape, others avoid it out of a sense of foreboding. Throughout this richly braided first-person narrative, East brings Dogtown's enigmatic past to life. Losses sustained during the American Revolution dealt this once thriving community its final blow. Destitute war widows and former slaves took up shelter in its decaying homes until 1839, when the last inhabitant was taken to the poorhouse. He died seven days later. Dogtown has remained abandoned ever since, but continues to occupy many people's imaginations. In addition to Marsden Hartley, it inspired a Bible-thumping millionaire who carved the region's rocks with words to live by; the innovative and influential postmodernist poet Charles Olson, who based much of his epic Maximus Poems on Dogtown; an idiosyncratic octogenarian who vigilantly patrols the land to this day; and a murderer who claimed that the spirit of the woods called out to him. In luminous, insightful prose, Dogtown takes the reader into an unforgettable place brimming with tragedy, eccentricity, and fascinating lore, and examines the idea that some places can inspire both good and evil, poetry and murder.

Dogtown

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Good, tight binding.  Pages slightly water stained.  11th printing from 1988; compiled from Yankee Magazine.  

A Little Book Of Yankee Humor

Stephen Marlowe

Tight binding for paperback with slightly yellowed pages.

A Novel

Blends fantasy, adventure, and mystery to present a fictional account of the life of Edgar Allen Poe as seen through the eyes of Poe's legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

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Good, readable copy - binding and pages tight.  Dust jacket not perfect, but in good condition.

The Life And Music Of George Jones

The Grand Tour :

Published by Black Rain Press in 2004, this is a fictional account of two brothers in (also fictional) Romantic, Connecticut.

Romantic, Connecticut :

Publisher's remainder.  Oversize (10 1/2" x 10 1/2") book with beautiful color photos of illustrations by Wendell Minor.  Cover corners are not crisp and cover is not pristine, but still, a very good book.  Binding is tight.  

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art

Art For The Written Word :

Judy Blume

Good, readable, clean copy.  Paper cover has slight rips.  Binding is tight.

A novel inspired by a series of passenger airplane crashes that occurred in 1951 and 1952 New Jersey reimagines the impact of the tragedies on three generations of families, friends and strangers. Reading-group guide available. By the author ofSummer Sisters .

In the Unlikely Event

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Arthur Doyle

A Barnes & Noble Signature Edition containing many novels and short stories of Sherlock Holmes, including A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE, A CASE OF IDENTITY, THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY, THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS, THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP, THE BLUE CARBUNCLE, THE SPECKLED BAND, THE ENGINEER'S THUMB, THE NOBLE BACHELOR, THE BERYL CORONET, THE COPPER BEECHES, SILVER BLAZE, THE YELLOW FACE, THE STOCKBROKER'S CLERK, THE GLORIA SCOTT, THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL, THE REIGATE SQUIRE, THE CROOKED MAN, THE RESIDENT PATIENT, THE GREEK INTERPRETER, THE NAVAL TREATY, THE FINAL PROBLEM, and  THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.  Hardcover book is in good readable condition.

Presented in hardcover, this title has been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. It includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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John Updike

A good, readable copy of this Updike classic.  Has a slight crinkle on spine, but pages are not yellowed.  

“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.

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