George. Orwell

Russell Baker

Tea Obreht

No wear on pages or dog ears. Minor markings/writing as shown, otherwise great condition. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

75th Anniversary Edition

Animal Farm

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Was originally bought as a used library copy. No markings on interior but has some used stickers from previous seller. Very minor cover and binding damage. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes 

No Good Men Among the Living 

Chris Hedges

Minor writing in book (as shown), otherwise good condition. Dust jacket included. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble.

Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close--in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America--and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.


War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

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William A. Taylor

One or two pages with minor markings and dog-ears, otherwise in excellent condition. 

From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 

Military Service and American Democracy

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David Mack

Minor dog-ears on some pages, otherwise excellent condition. 

A Time to Heal

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Judith Shapiro

Alfred W. Crosby

Donald Worster

Minor markings (as shown), otherwise no major damage. Minor wear on cover and binding, was used as a textbook. 

History

Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

Mao's War Against Nature

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Naomi Alderman

No markings or damage. Bought and never read. 

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of President Obama's favorite reads of 2017 "The Power is our era's The Handmaid's Tale." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "Novels based on premises like the one at the core of The Power can quickly become little more than thought experiments, but Alderman dodges this trap deftly -- her writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields perfectly." --Michael Schaub, NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Book of 2017 **WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, THE POWER is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.

The Power

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Was used at time of purchase & I used it as a textbook for two semesters. Minor highlighting on pages & minor wear and tear, but overall good condition. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt 

Ina Rae Hark

No markings or damage. Pages are like-new and binding is not broken. 

Star Trek 

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Minor writing and dog-ears (as shown), otherwise good condition. Was used as a textbook. 

Globalization and War 

David Kieran

Minor writing (as shown), otherwise good condition. Dust jacket included. 

The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis 

Signature Wounds 

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Henri A. Frankfort

Michael Roaf

Donald Matthews

Minor underlining in book (as shown), minor binding wear and tear as this was used when bought and I used it for two semesters after that. Otherwise good condition. 

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient 

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Creighton Gilbert

Minor dog ear/writing (as shown), otherwise good condition. 

Sources and Documents

Italian Art 1400-1500

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Hannah Kent

One minor marking on front cover, dust jacket missing. Otherwise never read, no markings inside book, no damage or wear. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Based on a true story, tells the tale of a young woman in Iceland in 1829 who was accused of murder and sent to an isolated farm to await execution and tells the farmer's family her side of the story.

Burial Rites

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Caite Dolan-Leach

No dust jacket. Otherwise never read, no damage, markings or wear. 

"Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister Zelda is dead. [But is she?]"--Dust jacket flap.

Dead Letters

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Susan Isaacs

No dust jacket. Minor wear to front cover but otherwise never read. 

The ultimate novel of family dysfunction from New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs, combining her trademark sass and wit, her distinctive characters, with reflections on faith, family, and inheritance that both entertain and enlighten.

Imagine King Lear as a comedy . . .

Elegant, amusing, and profoundly nasty tycoon Gloria Garrison, née Goldberg, has a kingdom to bequeath to one of the grandchildren she barely knows. They're all twentysomethings who foolishly believe money isn't everything. Just shy of eighty, Gloria doesn't wish to watch the minutes tick by while the three dither over the issues of their generation--love, meaning, identity. She has summoned them all from New York for a weekend at her palatial home in Santa Fe. She has a single question to ask them: "Which one of you most deserves to inherit my business?" Gloria never anticipates the answer will be "not interested" times three. She created a brilliant, booming beauty business, Glory, Inc., that not only does well, but does good. And they say "no"? What's so grand about their lives that they would reject such a kingdom?

Daisy Goldberg is not only mad for movies, she's part of the film industry: East Coast story editor for one of the biggest studios. Her brother, Matt, the über-sports buff, has a great job in public relations with Major League Baseball. And their cousin Raquel Goldberg, half-Latina, all Catholic, is a Legal Aid lawyer. They may like their work, but do they really like their lives? Would they be so foolish as to hold against their grandmother the pain she inflicted on every member of the family? As far as Gloria is concerned, this isn't about tender feelings. It's about millions of dollars; it's about living a life the ninety-nine percent dream of and the one percent know.

The weekend is full of surprises, not only for Daisy, Matt, and Raquel but also for Gloria. Memories have a way of intruding at the most inopportune times. And is Gloria's tough hide as impenetrable as she has always believed? Susan Isaacs is at her formidable best in Goldberg Variations, a novel that is both wickedly witty and a deeply moving tale of family and reconciliation.

Goldberg Variations

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Cathy Marie Buchanan

No dust jacket. Minor damage to spine but otherwise never read. 

In belle âepoque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.

The Painted Girls

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David Baldacci

Dust jacket included. Never read, no damage, markings or wear. 

The #1 New York Times bestselling author with 150 million copies sold worldwide returns with his next blockbuster thriller. In David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series, FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with John Puller's high-stakes investigation, leading them both deep into the perilous world of organized crime -- a world neither of them will escape from unscathed.

Daylight

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Miranda July

Missing dust jacket but otherwise no wear, damage, or markings. Never read. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events. 50,000 first printing.

No One Belongs Here More Than You

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Johnny Wright

Good condition. Originally bought used, slight wear on cover, spine and bottom of book (as shown) but no damage or markings. 

A Novel Inspired on True Events

Am I Black or Right? was the environmental mindset of my upbringing. I have been writing this autobiography since 1987. It is difficult to believe how totally ignorant my existence was, which made my writing the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. The saddest part of all is that there are still members of my family who have not rid themselves of this handicap. I no longer hold animosity toward them, just pity. There are episodes in my book that do not pertain to race, but a psychoanalyst once told me that the more mixed blood you have, the more complex people appear. So, I added some of the bizarre decisions I have made in my life, which to me confirms her theory or lends an excuse for my actions. Some of the girls I went to school with lived on my block, one day one of them asked me "Teresa there are so many cute sailors always going in your house all the time and music playing how come you are out here playing ball?" Little did they know, I would have traded places with them at any time. I was torn between my biological heritage, being American, and my cultural training. Culture does regulate our lives at most turns. I had a hard way to go. Being a rebel and extremely curious, did not at all help my cause. I wanted to rid the whole thing and just be me, but Who and What the heck was I?

The Lost Chagall

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Sonya Cobb

"Sonya Cobb combines the rarified atmosphere of museum scholarship, illegal art trafficking, and the sticky desperation of young motherhood to craft a superbly written thriller."--Karen Engelmann, author of The Stockholm Octavo.

Her Heists Paid the Bills.
Her Family Paid the Price.

Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you'd expect to be stealing Renaissance masterpieces--and that's exactly why she's so good at it. Slipping objects out of her husband's office at the Philadelphia Museum of Art satisfies something deep inside, during a time in her life when satisfactions are few and far between.

Selling the treasures also happens to keep their house out of foreclosure -- a house that means everything to Sophie. But the FBI is sniffing around, and Sophie is close to destroying the very life she's working so hard to build. She knows she should give up her thieving ways. But she may no longer be in control. The Objects of Her Affection is a riveting story about the realities of motherhood, the perils of secrecy, and the art of appraising the real treasures in our lives.

"This thrilling, emotional, and tautly paced novel will appeal to fans of The Book Thief... Cobb's brilliant first novel is the story of a woman with nothing and everything to lose."--Booklist, starred review.

The Objects of Her Affection

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Alison Armstrong

Food and Drink from James Joyce's Dublin - an Irish Cookbook

The quintessential Irish cookbook: food and drink from James Joyce's Dublin. A joyous book celebrating the best of Irish cooking. An equally good read.

The Joyce of Cooking

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Steven Ozment

Some pages near the end of the book are slightly bent but otherwise no damage, markings or wear. 

Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town

In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father discovered that she was having secret, simultaneous affairs with a young nobleman and a cavalryman, he turned her out of the house in rage, but when she sued him for financial support, he had her captured, returned home and chained to a table as punishment. Anna eventually escaped and continued her suit against her father, her siblings and her home town in a bitter legal battle that was to last 30 years and end only upon her death.

Drawn from her surviving love letters and court records, The Burgermeister's Daughter is a fascinating examination of the politics of sexuality, gender and family in the 16th century, and a powerful testament to the courage and tenacity of a woman who defied the inequalities of this distant age.

The Burgermeister's Daughter

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Philip Roth

Minor wear on spine and cover. Pages are slightly yellowed due to age but otherwise good condition. Originally bought as a used copy. 

American Trilogy (2)

I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. In his heyday as a star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes—Ira marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as "an American taking his orders from Moscow." In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life, Philip Roth—who Commonweal calls the "master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional protrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch when the anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.

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