National Gallery of Art of London Staff

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

The world's best-loved painters and writers are celebrated in a series combining brilliant art with writings by great literary figures.This text highlights lords, ladies, mothers, children, and peasants portrayed in art and prose by Goya, Manet, Shakespeare, and other artists.

People in Art

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Mary Robison

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

After a ten-year silence, Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. "Why Did I Ever" takes readers along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary--a tale as fierce and taut as its fictional teller.

Why Did I Ever

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Fredrik Backman

A Novel

Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm In this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. A feel-good story in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Fredrik Backman's novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. "If there was an award for 'Most Charming Book of the Year, ' this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down" (Booklist, starred review).

A Man Called Ove

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Helen Oyeyemi

Signed copy of Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel."--

Gingerbread - Signed by Author

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The Married Lovers

Guy Delisle

Helge Dascher

A Journey in North Korea

Pyongyang

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Derf Backderf

Ex-Library copy
Spine is cracked
Pages are clean and unmarked


Includes eBook exclusive bonus material! You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer, the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper, seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, ôJeffö was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides. In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche; a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.

My Friend Dahmer

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John Gray

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

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David Simon

First edition and first printing
In Mylar dust jacket

A Year on the Killing Streets

"Remarkable . . . a true crime classic . . . a journalistic masterpiece. . . . (A) saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. . . . This is interior reporting at its finest".--"Associated Press". An Edgar Award winner and the basis for the popular television series of the same title.

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Homicide

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Spark of Life

Michael Gibson

Ex library well-loved copy
Some smudging on pages

This volume cover Gauguin's entire career from his first particitation on the impressionist exhibitions of the 1870s, to his pivotal work in Brittany and Arles and his materpieces fro Tahiti and Marquesas Islands painted in the 1890s.- DUST JACKET.

Paul Gauguin

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A. Kenneth Snowman

Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia

Think Faberge, and what comes to mind are images of fabulous, glittering jewelry, the mystery and allure of Europe's great royal courts and, of course, the magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs made for the Russian Tsars. Carl Faberge was, first and foremost, a goldsmith, and the exquisite objects that came out of the Faberge workshop at its peak represent the ultimate refinement of the goldsmith's art. Each piece was designed with the express purpose of bringing joy to its recipient. Accomplishments of the Faberge workshop were not limited to precious metals and lapidary work. Their enameling techniques consistently attained a subtlety adn brilliance of technique that had rarely been matched elsewhere - the work glows with richly colored enamels used with unrivaled virtuosity.

Carl Faberge

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter

1957 vintage hardcover of teen romance novel Angel On Skis by Betty Cavanna

Angel on Skis 

Essays-Philosophy

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 9

All three books of the trilogy included. Books are in good to excellent condition

American Trilogy: (1) American Pastoral, (2) I Married A Communist (3) The Human Stain

Reading & Language Arts

Tout Savoir CP

Maud Casey

I marked this book’s condition as good because a couple pages are dog eared and a few pages have slight water damage. Otherwise the pages are clean and free of markings. 

Isabelle, a woman in her thirties without any of the trappings of a grown-up life, has just been fired from her job at a San Francisco phone company. Returning to the midwestern suburb of her childhood, Standardsville, Illinois, she contends with her dating single mother, a neighbor who once appeared on The Honeymooners, and an ex-boyfriend. She also becomes a mystery shopper for a temp agency, posing as a variety of potential tenants for newly built suburban communities to access their exclusive services. Enchanted by the possiblities of disguise, Isabelle spins a web of lies that keeps the world at a distance until she unearths long-kept secrets that force her to rethink everything she thought she knew.

The Shape of Things to Come

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Nancy Milford

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Biography

Zelda Sayre started out as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, they rode the crest of the era to its collapse and their own. As a result of years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband’s career and her own talent.

Zelda

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Nathanael West

Brand new book (bought from Book outlet recently) and never read. 

Two Novels

Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."

Cool Million Dream Life Balso Snell

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Angela Carter

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan Sophi Fevvers—the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec—is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes him—and the reader—on an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia—a tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it.

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National Gallery of Art of London Staff

People in Art

Mary Robison

Why Did I Ever

Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove

Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread - Signed by Author

Julius Horwitz

The Married Lovers

Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher

Pyongyang

Derf Backderf

My Friend Dahmer

John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

David Simon

Homicide

Erich Maria Remarque

Spark of Life

Michael Gibson

Paul Gauguin

A. Kenneth Snowman

Carl Faberge

Carolyn Keene

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter

Betty Cavanna

Angel on Skis

Edgar Allen Poe

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe Volume 9

Philip Roth

American Trilogy: (1) American Pastoral, (2) I Married A Communist (3) The Human Stain

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Tout Savoir CP

Maud Casey

The Shape of Things to Come

Nancy Milford

Zelda

Nathanael West

Cool Million Dream Life Balso Snell

Angela Carter

Nights at the Circus

J. D. Salinger

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour

Fay Weldon

After the Peace

Joan M. Brierton

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