Larry McMurtry

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a memoir of his odyssey from rancher's son to critically acclaimed novelist, in a reminiscence set against the backdrop of the Lone Star State.

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

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R. A. Dick

Adriana Trigiani

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vintage Movie Classics

The basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain's story as a book, Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted. Originally published in 1945, made into a movie in 1947, and later adapted into a television sitcom in 1968, this romantic tale explores how love can develop without boundaries, both in this life and beyond. With a new foreword by Adriana Trigiani. Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

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Annie Proulx

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

First Edition

A button accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant finds its way into the lives, dreams, fantasies, sorrows, and intimacies of men and women of other immigrant groups in South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Maine, and elsewhere. 350,000 first printing.

Accordion Crimes

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Walter Isaacson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An American Life

Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.

Benjamin Franklin

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Joseph J. Ellis

George Washington

This book chronicles the life of George Washington, discussing his childhood, military years, presidency, and his impact on American politics.

His Excellency

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David McCullough

Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the American victory at Trenton.

1776

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Bruce Feiler

Inside the Heart of Japan

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.

Learning to Bow

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Peter Hoeg

Barbara Haveland

Slight water damage on bottom edge (see photos), bookcover is a bit mussed up but totally readable.

Remarkable story of the relationship of Madeline Burden, wife of a renowned British zoologist, and a stray ape in his laboratory. Somehow, she must free the ape from the scientists who would sacrifice his life to gain data about his intelligence. Part fable, part romance, and part slapstick comedy.

The Woman and the Ape

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Yann Martel

Life of Pi

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Richard Ford

Richard Ford's Independence Day--his sequel to The Sportswriter, and an international bestseller--is the only novel ever to have received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, with Women With Men, he reaffirms his mastery of shorter fiction with his first collection since the widely acclaimed Rock Springs, published a decade ago.

The landscape of Women with Men ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago, where Mr. Ford's various characters experience the consolations and complications that prevail in matters of passion, romance and love. A seventeen-year-old boy starting adulthood in the shadow of his parents' estrangement, a survivor of three marriages now struggling with cancer, an ostensibly devoted salesman in early middle age, an aspiring writer, a woman scandalously betrayed by her husband--they each of them contend with the vast distances that exist between those who are closest together. Whether alone, long married or newly met, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, the fine distinction of pleasing another as opposed to oneself, and a need for reliance that is tempered by fearful vulnerability.

In three long stories, Richard Ford captures men and women at this complex and essential moment of truth--in the course of everyday life, or during a bleak Thanksgiving journey, seismic arguments, Christmas abroad, the sudden disappearance of a child, even a barroom shooting. And with peerless emotional nuance and authority he once again demonstrates, as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, "a talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer."

Women with Men

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Italo Calvino

Tim Parks

Patrick Creagh

Martin McLaughlin

William Weaver

A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women, from a Count visiting Madame Odile's perfumery, to a London drummer stepping over spent, naked bodies.

Under the Jaguar Sun

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Eduardo Mendoza

Nick Caistor

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands--ever the fool for a pretty face--vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.

An Englishman in Madrid

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Howard Jacobson

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked - and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes.

The Finkler Question

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John Fowles

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.

The Magus

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Returning home to Thalia, Texas, to recover from a heart attack, Duane Moore is charmed by K.K. Slater, a billionairess who intends to open a nature reserve for the endangered black rhinoceros, but Homer Carmichael complicates Duane's romantic intentions.

Rhino Ranch

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Address book with artwork featuring redheads.

Address Book

Redheads

Peter Mayle

A month-by-month account of the author's experience in the first year of restoring a two-centuries old stone farmhouse in back country Provence, France.

A Year in Provence

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Garson Kanin

THE STORY: The vulgar, egotistic junkman Harry Brock has come to a swanky hotel in Washington to make crooked deals with government big-wigs. He has brought with him the charming but dumb ex-chorus girl Billie, whose lack of social graces embarrass

Born Yesterday

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Alan Aldridge

The only major collection of illustrated Beatles lyrics in book form, this commemorative edition features autobiographical comments and quotes from the Fab Four, interpretation of the lyrics from 206 songs, lavish, full-color illustrations, and specially commissioned photographs.

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

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Kim H. Johnson

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

This book celebrates the group's career with exclusive interviews, rare photographs, and an episode guide detailing the original TV shows still being aired daily across the country. Photos throughout.

The First 20 Years of Monty Python

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The Beach of Falesa

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Kate Farrell

An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry

Pairs visionary poetry by such writers as William Blake, Sappho, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes with works of art by such artists as Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, and Johannes Vermeer

Art and Wonder

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Bob Mankoff

Welcome to The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, a timeless tribute to the peerless power of the literary landscape. In 104 drawings, each of them certified by experts to be worth a thousand words (and some of them quite amusing), the essence of reading, writing, publishing, and shelving books is explored in all its glory and absurdity, from the stunning and sublime to the purple and pretentious. Here is Emma Bovary shrugging off those pesky bouts with existential boredom (on the tennis court), Dickens' fateful encounter with a martini (olive or twist?), and T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" thoughtfully rewritten for the Beavis and Butt-Head market ("April sucks"). Here is a long-awaited and wholly unprecedented comic takedown of that loftiest of all cultural arenas, the world of belles lettres. It is a world where books stamped with promises from Oprah stand alongside others arranged by the attention span they require, a world where the Bible can now be found in the self-help section. Here, finally, are dead-on portraits and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists, from Charles Barsotti to Roz Chast, Ed Koren to J.B. Handelsman, and Jack Ziegler to Victoria Roberts. In the bestselling tradition of such classics as The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons and The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons -- THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF LITERARY CARTOONS is manna straight from bookworm heaven.

The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons

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Larry McMurtry

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

R. A. Dick; Adriana Trigiani

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Annie Proulx

Accordion Crimes

Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph J. Ellis

His Excellency

David McCullough

1776

Bruce Feiler

Learning to Bow

Peter Hoeg; Barbara Haveland

The Woman and the Ape

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Richard Ford

Women with Men

Italo Calvino; Tim Parks; Patrick Creagh; Martin McLaughlin; William Weaver

Under the Jaguar Sun

Eduardo Mendoza; Nick Caistor

An Englishman in Madrid

Howard Jacobson

The Finkler Question

John Fowles

The Magus

Larry McMurtry

Rhino Ranch

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Redheads

Peter Mayle

A Year in Provence

Garson Kanin

Born Yesterday

Alan Aldridge

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

Kim H. Johnson

The First 20 Years of Monty Python

Dylan Thomas

The Beach of Falesa

Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Kate Farrell

Art and Wonder

Bob Mankoff

The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons

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