Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

The Group

Fred Emery

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon

On 9 August 1974 the greatest political scandal of our times reached its climax with the resignation of Richard Nixon from the Presidency of the United States. Never before in American history had a President been forced to give up office. It was a stunning conclusion to a series of events that for drama and sheer improbability cannot be rivalled by fiction.

Watergate

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Diane Solway

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

His Life

Traces the legendary Russian dancer's climb out of poverty in the war-torn Soviet Union to become one of the century's most popular and influential artists. In order to separate reality from myth, the author draws on Soviet archives, family documents, diaries, correspondence, and about 200 interviews with his friends, peers, family, partners and professional colleagues. She takes us inside the great companies and shows how Nureyev changed the face of ballet and transformed the role of the male dancer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Nureyev

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First edition. Well used but pages in good shape.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Lives Of John Lennon

Ian McEwan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Sweet Tooth

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Arthur Miller

A Life

Timebends

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Robert HUGHES

Focussing on the architectural foundations of this Mediterranean city, the author's account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya, Spain and Europe also features political, economic and military insights.

Barcelona

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Harold Bloom

A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons.

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

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Third edition

Anglo-Saxon England

Seamus Heaney

An Anthology of Poetry

A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

The Rattle Bag

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The Bostonians

Translated by Constance Garnett

War and Peace

E. L. Doctorow

Billy Bathgate

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Weston Naef

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum began collecting photographs in 1984, it has amassed one of the greatest photography collections in the world. Naef has here selected more than 200 masterpieces from this collection and written commentaries on each. Ranging from the 1830s to the 1960s, these
photographs provide an informal history of the form and offer a rich sampling of the Getty's holdings. Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, Eugène Atget, André Kertész, Walker Evans, and Diana Arbus are among the more than 100 masters whose works are reproduced in this beautiful volume.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Photographs Collection Handbook of the Photographs Collection

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Essays about America buy famous American Writers

Great American Writers on Great American Things

Mom, the Flag, and Apple Pie

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Front cover missing but the pages are in great shape

Dear Souls

Leo Tolstoi

Colm Toibin

In Hadji Murat,Tolstoy recounts the extraordinary meeting of two polarized cultures--the refined, Europeanized court of the Russian tsar and the fierce Muslim chieftains of the Chechen hills. This brilliant, culturally resonant fiction was written towards the end of Tolstoy's life, but the conflict it describes has obvious, ironic parallels with current affairs today. It is 1852, and Hadji Murat, one of the most feared mountain chiefs, is the scourge of the Russian army. When he comes to surrender, the Russians are delighted. Or have they naively welcomed a double-agent into their midst? With its sardonic portraits--from the inscrutable Hadji Murat to the fat and bumbling tsar--Tolstoy's story is an astute and witty commentary on the nature of political relations and states at war. Leo Tolstoy is one of the world's greatest writers. Best known for his brilliantly crafted epic novels War and Peaceand Anna Karenina,he used his works to address the problems of Russian society, politics, and traditions.

Hadji Murat

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Anouilh

Antigone*

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Translated by Justin O’Brien

Exile and the Kingdom

Howard Norman

Northern Lights

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

W. H. Auden

Elizabeth Mayer

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

1786-1788

Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the grip of spiritual crisis. 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.

Italian Journey

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Aeschylus

Robert Fagles

W. B. Stanford

Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenides

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out to avenge his father's death; and in The Eumenides, Orestes is tormented by supernatural powers that can never be appeased. Forming an elegant and subtle discourse on the emergence of Athenian democracy out of a period of chaos and destruction, The Oresteia is a compelling tragedy of the tensions between our obligations to our families and the laws that bind us together as a society. The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin Classics. 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 Oresteia

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An Outline of European Architecture

Cavcasson

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