Seamus Heaney

Library edition. Contains stickers and stamps. Also, some writing/annotating throughout. See photos.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

A definitive choice of the Nobel Laureate's best poems, this volume gathers the landmark works from Heaney's 12 previous collections and brings the reader up to date with work he has published since 1987.

Opened Ground

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Chief Dan George

Helmut Hirnschall

Part of first page ripped off. See photo.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Poems

This book combines the two best sellers My Heart Soars & My Spirit Soars in one volume, eloquently illustrated throughout by Helmut Hirnschall. Poetic and spiritual, this book has a universal message to all people. Chief Dan George was an accomplished performer, poet, philosopher, champion of Native peoples and loving patriarch of a large family.

The Best of Chief Dan George

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Susan Niditch

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ancient Israelite Literature

In this volume in the Library of Ancient Israel, Susan Niditch examines the impact of the Israelite oral tradition on its written legacy. This investigation yields a renewed understanding of the literary character of the Hebrew Bible.

Oral World and Written Word

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Benjamin R. Merkle

There is a name inscription on the title page. See photo.

The Life of Alfred the Great

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders. Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty. "Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart?and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" ?George Grant, author of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon

White Horse King

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Robert B. Parker

The New York Times bestselling Western from Robert B. Parker Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or remorse. Now, Hitch and Cole have followed him to the small town of Appaloosa. What follows is a dance of wills where villains are cast in shades of grey, where heroes hide in the blackest shadows, where women can betray with frightening ease, and where Hitch and Cole will discover the price of responsibility, honor, and loyalty in the Old West.

Appaloosa

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David Rosenberg

Rediscovering the Voices of the Original Text

This is a modern paraphrase of chapters from various books of the Hebrew Bible (Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jonah, etc.) and Apocrypha (Judith and Maccabees).

A Poet's Bible

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Kapka Kassabova

Some writing and underlining throughout. See photo.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free.” —Peter Pomerantsev In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays in the “Red Riviera” on the Black Sea, she remembers playing on the beach only miles from a bristling electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward toward the enemy: the citizens of the totalitarian regime. Kassabova discovers a place that has been shaped by successive forces of history: the Soviet and Ottoman empires, and, older still, myth and legend. Her exquisite portraits of fire walkers, smugglers, treasure hunters, botanists, and border guards populate the book. There are also the ragged men and women who have walked across Turkey from Syria and Iraq. But there seem to be nonhuman forces at work here too: This densely forested landscape is rich with curative springs and Thracian tombs, and the tug of the ancient world, of circular time and animism, is never far off. Border is a scintillating, immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and exterior geographies.

Border

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Truman Capote

Some creases and bends on cover as well as some slight wear and tear. Some underlining throughout as well. See photos.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Essays of Truman Capote

Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the author’s last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather,” Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capote’s brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, “a stylist of the first quality.” But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance. Praise for Portraits and Observations NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD “A must-have treasure for Capote fans . . . These are delicious, dramatic, and tender nonfiction portraits and tales.” –NPR’s Morning Edition “A wonderful volume . . . Nearly every page can be read with real pleasure. . . . No matter what his subject, [Capote’s] canny, careful art gives it warm and breathing life” –The Washington Post Book World “Every piece is a treasure. . . . Pages and pages of remarkably evocative, careful and well-observed prose [delineate,] in a measured and elegant manner, one of the most remarkable American literary lives of the twentieth century.” –Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Portraits and Observations

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Yasushi Inoue

Yoko Riley

The first English translation of a Japanese literary classic br>Originally published in Japanese in 1959, this classic Japanese novel by writer Yasushi Inoue takes place during the Japanese Warring Era (1467-1573)

The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan

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Sigrid Undset

The Master of Hestviken, Vol. 2

Set in medieval Norway, The Snake Pit follows Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity.

The Snake Pit

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Volume IV of the Master of Hestviken

Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, The Son Avenger suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of Olav the Bad, Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or King Lear.

The Son Avenger

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Michael Waddell

Mike Schoby

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Life Lessons from the Field

Television personality and star of the Outdoor Channel Waddell offers great hunting stories along with indelible folk wisdom.

Hunting Booger Bottom

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Arthur L. Liman

A Life of Cases, Counsel, and Controversy

For Decades, Arthur L. Liman represented the very best ideals of his profession. In this absorbing memoir, completed just before his death, Liman looks back on his spectacular career, his greatest cases, and the ways the legal profession has changed - for better and worse - over the past half century.

Lawyer

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David Brion Davis

The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Links the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism in a history of the institution of slavery in the United States.

Inhuman Bondage

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Ibn Khaldûn

Franz Rosenthal

Bruce B. Lawrence

An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

This prolegomenon was written in the 14th century by the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldūn, & laid the intellectual foundations for philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography & economics. This translation was first published in 1958 in three volumes.

The Muqaddimah

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Scott Dawson

Birth Place of America

Croatoan

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Jen Mann

Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges

The author offers her witty, acerbic observation on life in suburban America, taking on topics like marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood politics.

People I Want to Punch in the Throat

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Pete Blaber

Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

“A book about the complexities of combat that's just as applicable for dealing with the complexities of business and our personal lives.”—Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO, Amgen As a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter—terrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life. In this book, you will learn the same lessons he learned, while experiencing what the life of a Delta Force Operator is like—from the extreme physical and psychological training to the darkest of shadow ops all around the world. From each mission, Pete Blaber has taken a life lesson back with him. You will learn these enlightening lessons as you gain insights into never-before-revealed missions executed around the globe. And when the smoke clears, you will emerge wiser, more capable, and better prepared to succeed in life than you ever thought possible.

The Mission, the Men, and Me

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Uzodinma Iweala

Chinua Achebe

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The River Between

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Margaret Verble

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this debut novel chronicles the life and loves of a headstrong, earthy, and magnetic heroine.



Eastern Oklahoma, 1928.



Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the US Government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality. Her prospects for a better life are slim, but when a newcomer with good looks and books rides down her section line, she takes notice. Soon she finds herself facing a series of high-stakes decisions that will determine her future and those of her loved ones.



Maud's Line is accessible, sensuous, and vivid. It will sit on the bookshelf alongside novels by Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and other beloved chroniclers of the American West and its people.

Maud's Line

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John Saul

The Serial Thriller Complete in One Volume

As a developer prepares to destroy the old Blackstone Asylum to make way for a new shopping complex, the evil and fear long hidden inside the vacant structure are unleashed on the town of Blackstone, in an omnibus edition containing all six episodes of the serial thriller. Reprint.

The Blackstone Chronicles

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James A. Michener

Steve Berry

A Novel of Afghanistan

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, in 1963."--Back of title page.

Caravans

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Jonathan Lynn

Antony Jay

This book, based on the award-winning British series, is filled with the same subtle, savage wit that so elegantly skewers the arrogance of the ruling class. "Should be required reading for every politician and/or government leader in America".--Washington Post. Illustrated.

The Complete Yes Minister

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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell's action-packed series that captures the gritty texture of Napoleonic warfare--now beautifully repackaged It's 1809, and Napoleon's army is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the 95th Rifles. He must lead them to safety--and the only way of escape is a treacherous trek through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain.

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Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground

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The Best of Chief Dan George

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White Horse King

Robert B. Parker

Appaloosa

David Rosenberg

A Poet's Bible

Kapka Kassabova

Border

Truman Capote

Portraits and Observations

Yasushi Inoue; Yoko Riley

The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan

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The Snake Pit

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The Son Avenger

Michael Waddell; Mike Schoby

Hunting Booger Bottom

Arthur L. Liman

Lawyer

David Brion Davis

Inhuman Bondage

Ibn Khaldûn; Franz Rosenthal; Bruce B. Lawrence

The Muqaddimah

Scott Dawson

Croatoan

Jen Mann

People I Want to Punch in the Throat

Pete Blaber

The Mission, the Men, and Me

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Margaret Verble

Maud's Line

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The Blackstone Chronicles

James A. Michener; Steve Berry

Caravans

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The Complete Yes Minister

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