C. S. Forester

Historical fiction, naval
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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Hornblower and the Atropos

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Story of America’s Birthday

Tara L. Masih

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

English

Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field

Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism and History. Reference. With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction. The book's introduction provides, for the first time, a comprehensive history of the short short story, from its early roots and hitherto unknown early publications and appearances, to its current state and practice. This guide is a must for anyone in the field of short fiction who teaches, writes, and is interested in its genesis and practice.

Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction

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Elizabeth George

How to write
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One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

Filled with personal anecdotes and bits of memoir from a much loved writer, "Write Away" is an intelligent and functional guide to constructing a novel.

Write Away

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Jennifer L. Holm

Western travel of 16 year old in the 19th century

An Adventure

Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington Territory.

Thrown upon her wits in the wild, Jane must determine for herself whether she is truly proper Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia, faultless young lady and fiancee, or Boston Jane, as the Chinook dub her, fearless and loyal woman of the frontier.

An exciting new novel from Jennifer L. Holm, author of the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia.

Boston Jane

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Marilyn Hacker

Poems

Winter Numbers

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Kathleen Norris

A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

View our feature on Kathleen Norris's Acedia & Me.Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.

Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't summon the energy for daily tasks. Even as she struggled, Norris recognized her familiar battle with acedia. She had discovered the word in an early Church text when she was in her thirties. Having endured times of deep soul-weariness since she was a teenager, she immediately recognized that this passage described her affliction: sinking into a state of being unable to care. Fascinated by this "noonday demon," so familiar to those in the early and medieval Church, Norris read intensively and knew she must restore this forgotten but utterly relevant and important concept to the modern world's vernacular.

Like Norris's bestselling The Cloister Walk, Acedia & me is part memoir and part meditation. As in her bestselling Amazing Grace, here Norris explicates and demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition. Unlike her earlier books, this one features a poignant narrative throughout of Norris's and her husband's bouts with acedia and its clinical cousin, depression. Moreover, her analysis of acedia reveals its burden not just on individuals but on whole societies-- and that the "restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment phobia, and enervating despair that we struggle with today are the ancient demon of acedia in modern dress."

An examination of acedia in the light of theology, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris's own experience, Acedia & me is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation and reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always important.

Acedia and Me

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Robert McG. Thomas

The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Writer Robert McG. Thomas

Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly burning spark"(Columbia Journalism Review),Robert McG. Thomas Jr. commemorated fascinating, unconventional lives with signature style and wit.The New York Timesreceived countless letters over the years from readers moved to tears or laughter by a McG. Eschewing traditionally famous subjects, Thomas favored unsung heroes, eccentrics, and underachievers, including: Edward Lowe, the inventor of Kitty Litter ("Cat Owner's Best Friend"); Angelo Zuccotti, the bouncer at El Morocco ("Artist of the Velvet Rope"); and Kay Halle, a glamorous Cleveland department store heiress who received sixty-four marriage proposals ("An Intimate of Century's Giants"). In one of his classic obituaries, Thomas described Anton Rosenberg as a "storied sometime artist and occasional musician who embodied the Greenwich Village hipster ideal of 1950's cool to such a laid-back degree and with such determined detachment that he never amounted to much of anything." Thomas captured life's ironies and defining moments with elegance and a gift for making a sentence sing. He had an uncanny sense of the passion and personality that make each life unique, and the ability, as Joseph Epstein wrote, to "look beyond the facts and the rigid formula of the obit to touch on a deeper truth."Compiled by Chris Calhoun, one of Thomas's most dedicated readers, and with a fittingly sharp introduction from acclaimed novelist and critic Thomas Mallon,52 McGs.will win legions of new fans to the masterful writer who transformed the obituary into an art form.

52 McGs.

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Orson Scott Card

Writing instruction
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The elements of fiction writing

For more than 10 years, this successful series has helped writers improve their work -- one element at a time. Featuring quality instruction from award-winning authors, each book focuses on a key facet of fiction writing, making it easy for writers to find the specific guidance they're looking for.

Characters and Viewpoint

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Jon Winokor

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Illustrated

Arranged by subjects, writers share their writing correlated philosophies.

Writers on Writing

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Joyce Carol Oates

A Writer's Coming of Age

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow’s Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time—the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.

The Lost Landscape

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Biography of Louisa May Alcott 
Centennial edition
Exlibrary 
Library binding
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The story of the author of Little Women

Invincible Louisa

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Four Generations of Greatness

The Adams Chronicles

Angus Calder

Limited publication
Conference papers

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Typical vintage condition

Contents: Preface: Norman Buchan, M. P.; Introduction: Angus Calder; Byron the Radical: David Craig; Byron: Radical, Scotish Aristocrat: Andrew Noble; Byron and Catholicism: William Donnelly; Byron and Scott: P. H. Scott; The Provost and His Lord: John Galt and Lord Byron: Margery McCulloch; Lord Byron and Lord Elgin: Douglas Dunn; Byron: An Edinburgh Re-Review: John Curt; Byron, Scott and Scottish Nostalgia: J. Drummond Bone; "The Island: " Scotland, Greece, and Romantic Savagery: Angus Calder; "Byron Landing From a Boat" by George Sanders: Michael Rees; On Singing "Dark Lochnager: " Sheena Blackhall; Afterword: J. Drummond Bone^R

Byron and Scotland Radical or Dandy?

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Rare survival of a vintage children’s workbook teaching them about ballet. 

There are completely intact figures to rub onto pictured ballet positions. 

Instructions for making a model theater for the dancers to appear in are included. 

Sticker residue on cover
Page 13 became detached as I was handling the pamphlet
All pages are pictured

Ballet 

Ex library with all that entails and a smudge on the mylar library cover. 
Illustrated with photos. 

A Dancer’s Training

The Right Moves

Don McDonagh

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

How to Enjoy Ballet

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Barbara Aria

The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story

Misha!

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Veronica Black

A Sister Joan Mystery

A Vow of Chastity

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Prince Michael

Anthony Roberts

11 haunted castles!
Beautiful duotone photographs

Eleven Extraordinary Tales

Do you believe in ghosts? Perhaps you were once in an empty house, you were alone in that room, yet your intuition told you that someone or something else was there with you. A creak on the stairway, the rustle of a curtain, a barely perceptible change in the air . . . if you had stopped and listened, what else would you have found or seen?



From the gothic elegance of Powderham Castle in Devon, to the ruins of the Chateau de Lagnes in Provence, to the moated austerity of Schloss Schwarzenraben in Westphalia, Prince Michael of Greece has sought out eleven of the most celebrated haunted palaces and castles of Europe and describes them on the basis of his personal research and contact with their ghostly inhabitants. Who are the ghosts of these places? A serving woman, an Incan princess, a baronness whose lover was killed by her husband in a duel--Prince Michael gives voice to some of the many spirits who have waited so long to speak.



Through wonderfully evocative prose and duotone photographs, the settings and histories of these houses come to life, and the houses' owners bring forth their descriptions and documents as well. But the centerpiece of each tale is the ghost's own dramatic testimony, narrated in the first person by Prince Michael--each graceful tale full of passion and tragedy.



"If we were all prepared simply to acknowledge the existence of the inexplicable, many more of us would include ghosts among our acquaintances."--Prince Michael of Greece

Living with Ghosts

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Madeleine L'Engle

The page before the title page is missing
Nice dust jacket, but the price was clipped

Selected Poems

The Weather of the Heart

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Shorebird that migrates from Brazil to Greenland

Beautiful illustrations

Mylar library cover, but NOT exlibrary 

The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone

Checkerback’s Journey

Classic
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Good early copy

A Novel

The Honorary Consul

Diana Secker Tesdell

A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters.

Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London mix with marvelously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith, and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike's vacationing lovers retrace the route of Homer's Odyssey on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic "A Descent into the Maelstrom" to Ernest Hemingway's chilling "After the Storm" to Mark Helprin's heartbreaking "Sail Shining in White," the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.

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