Romano Guardini

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

You may have read the Catechism of the Catholic Church and you may have studied the Baltimore Catechism, too, but if you don’t know the Catechism that Jesus gave us, you don’t know your Faith. Christ taught us the Lord’s Prayer as the first and most important of all our catechisms. If you haven’t considered it carefully, now’s the time to begin — and here’s the book to help you uncover the riches Christ placed in these familiar words. Unlock the secrets of the Lord’s Prayer Msgr. Romano Guardini, acclaimed author of The Rosary of Our Lady and The Art of Praying, here reveals the holy wisdom of these 55 words of Jesus. With Msgr. Guardini’s gentle help, you’ll: ✓ Develop a greater love for the Lord’s Prayer ✓ Come to understand God’s tender care for you ✓ Discover His holy will for you ✓ Learn how to live always in His love, and ✓ Develop the strength to live in conformity with His holy will. In a word, The Lord’s Prayer will help you to pray better . . . and to live better.

The Lord's Prayer

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Lesley Hazleton

Book is in good shape. Mild wear with underlining in first few pages. Please see pictures.

A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother

An intriguing portrait of the human side of Mary, the mother of Jesus, draws on Judaic and Christian history, theology, and anthropology, to reconstruct the life of a young peasant girl, through her diverse roles as mother, teacher, wise woman and healer, activist, and more, exploring her grief over the death of her son and how she transformed that pain into renewal and wisdom. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Mary

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Naomi Klein

Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction. National Indie Bestseller. Winner of the Pacfic Northwest  Book Award.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Trip into the Mirror World

What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity - all we have to meet the world - so unstable? To find out, Klein decided to follow her double into a bizarre, uncanny mirror world- one of conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers and demagogue hucksters, where soft-focus wellness influencers make common cause with fire-breathing far right propagandists (all in the name of protecting 'the children'). In doing so, she lifts the lid on our own culture during this surreal moment in history, as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as deep fakes proliferate and whole nations flip from democracy to something far more sinister. This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass. It's for anyone who has lost hours down an internet rabbit hole, who wonders why our politics has become so fatally warped, and who wants a way out of our collective vertigo and back to fighting for what really matters.

Doppelganger

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John Barrell

John Bull

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse

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John B. Alexander

Richard Groller

Janet Morris

Book in good shape. Please see the pictures. 4.55 on Goodreads

The Warrior's Edge

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Marcel Beyer

John Brownjohn

Hard cover with a dust jacket. 1st edition

Sound engineer Hermann Karnau embarks on a project recording the voices of the dying and hurt in pain, agony, and anguish, while eight-year-old Helga Goebbels records the sounds of her family, and through a twist of fate both characters come together in Hitler's bunker, where a cataclysm is about to take place.

The Karnau Tapes

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Antony Johnston

The Coldest City

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! November 1989. MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton was sent to Berlin to investigate the death of another agent, and the disappearance of a list revealing every spy working there. She found a powder keg of mistrust, assassinations and bad defections that ended with the murder of MI6's top officer, as the Berlin Wall was torn down. Now Lorraine has returned from the Cold War's coldest city, to tell her story. And nothing is what it seems.

Atomic Blonde

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Agatha Christie

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.

A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.

Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by "spirits" that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him....

Taken at the Flood

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Susan Wiggs - 8 book pack

Bruce Ballenger

The inside of the book is excellent. Outside has mild wear,  bends, and sticker residue. Please see the pictures.

English

A Guide to Writing Research Papers

Featuring an engaging, direct writing style and inquiry-based approach, this popular research guide stresses that curiosity is the best reason for investigating ideas and information. An appealing alternative to traditional research texts, "The Curious Researcher" stands apart for its motivational tone, its conversational style, and its conviction that research writing can be full of rewarding discoveries. Offering a wide variety of examples from student and professional writers, this popular guide shows that good research and lively writing do not have to be mutually exclusive. Students are encouraged to find ways to bring their writing to life, even though they are writing with "facts." A unique chronological organization sets up achievable writing goals while it provides week-by-week guidance through the research process. Full explanations of the technical aspects of writing and documenting source-based papers help students develop sound research and analysis skills. The text also includes up-to-date coverage of MLA and APA styles.

The Curious Researcher

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Erich Fromm

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm's work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.

Escape from Freedom

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Sara Shepard

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pretty Little Liars #3: Perfect

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Tracy K. Smith

Poems

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize

* Poet Laureate of the United States *
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *

New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
--from "No Fly Zone"


With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

Life on Mars

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Michael Pennock

Mild wear, cover and some pages crease. Please see the pictures.
2013 

Framework Elective B: a History of Catholicism

(© 2013) The Subcommittee on the Catechism, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has found that this catechetical high school text is in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and fulfills the requirements of Elective Course B of the Doctrinal Elements of a Curriculum Framework for the Development of Catechetical Materials for Young People of High School Age.This Is Our Church: A History of Catholicism is a comprehensive, readable, and faith-filled portrait of two thousand years of Catholic history that highlights important events, people, trends, and teachings. Complete with photos, charts, and chronologies, This Is Our Church is a rich resource for high school students interested in a study of each major period in the life of the Church.Following a traditional chronological look at Church history, this text explores the Church as a mystery that reveals the hidden presence of God. This Is Our Church uncovers glimpses of this mystery from the Church's earliest roots in the original covenants made between God and Israel, through its institution by Christ, and onward in human history from the apostolic age to the present.

This Is Our Church

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John Cabeen Beatty

The Fourth Part of Gaul by Beatty, John Cabeen SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use

A novel of the Veneti Gaul revolt against Caesar and the epic voyage of its survivors to the New World

In 58 B. C. Rome was the superpower of the Mediterranean world, and in that year Julius Caesar took up the governorship of the Roman Province in southern France or Gaul, as it was then called. The Roman Senate expected Caesar to govern the province, extract a reasonable amount of revenue, and guard the frontier against incursion by the many Gaulish tribes to the north. Caesar had something else in mind -- the conquest of all Gaul. Within two years he deftly employed his legions to inflict a series of catastrophic defeats upon the Gauls and occupied the eastern half of the country. He then put his troops into winter quarters, sending a single legion under its commander, Publius Crassus, west into Brittany with orders to take hostages to keep the peace. Crassus took the hostages but could not keep the peace. The fiercely independent tribes led by the Veneti bitterly resented giving hostages to Rome. At their first opportunity they seized Roman officers as hostages, then demanded return of their own hostages in exchange. When Publius Crassus rejected their demands, the Gauls revolted. The Fourth Part of Gaul is the story of that revolt as experienced by Marcus Brutus Pontus, a young tribune and staff officer, one of the hostages taken by the Gauls. His captors place the inquisitive young officer in the hands of a Veneti magistrate for safekeeping. This assignment insures him a unique position from which to view the spread of the insurrection and the huge naval battle between the Gaulish sailing fleet and Caesar's Roman galleys. Marcus narrowly escapes death during the catastrophic defeat of the Gauls. In the aftermath of the battle, many Gauls fleeing Caesar's wrath sail for Britain, while a small party of five ships crammed with families and soldiers sails west on the Atlantic. Led by a Greek pilot, they follow a long forgotten Carthaginian trade route taking with them their captive tribune. In the course of the long voyage, Marcus learns to navigate and handle the ship. His developing relationship with the sister of the expedition's leader involves him increasingly in the struggle of the expedition to survive the frigid winter and treacherous attack on their settlement at the mouth of the Connecticut River. By spring the Gaulish leaders come to see their Roman hostage as the essential key to their survival in the hostile environment of the new land. They themselves have become uniquely dependent on the hostage they have taken.

The Fourth Part of Gaul

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Tommy Orange

The dust jacket has mild wear. Please see the pictures.

National Book Critics Circle Award 2018.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years


A Novel

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather. Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions -- intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.

There There

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Thomas Cathcart

Daniel Klein

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Teaches philosophy through one-liner jokes, vaudeville humor, cartoons, and limericks.

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

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You are a Bada**

Beverly K. Bachel

How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens

Research shows that effective goal setters have less stress, concentrate better, and are more satisfied with their lives. For teens, goal setting is linked to improved school performance, motivation, and self-esteem.

What Do You Really Want?

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Ernest Kurtz

Katherine Ketcham

Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward  understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets and Greek thinkers, Buddhist sages and Christian disciples, is a message as timeless as it is  timely. This insightful work draws on the wisdom stories of the ages to provide an extraordinary wellspring of hope and inspiration to anyone thirsting for spiritual growth and guidance in these troubled times.

Who are we? Why so we so often fall short of our goals for ourselves and others? By seeking to understand our limitations and accept the inevitably of failure and pain, we being to ease the hurt and move toward a greater sense of serenity and self-awareness. The Spirituality Of Imperfection brings  together stories from many spiritual and philosophical paths, weaving past traditions into a  spirituality and a new way of thinking and living that works today. It speaks so anyone who yearns to find meaning within suffering. Beyond theory and technique, inside this remarkable book you will find a new way of thinking, a way of living that enables a truly human existence.

The Spirituality of Imperfection

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David Muench

Marc Muench

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Portrait of a State

Colorado looms large in our minds---where the western prairie terminates on the eastern flank of the mighty Rocky Mountains---endless landscapes, infinite blue skies, and superlative mountain ranges that have inspired everyone who's lived in, hiked, or even just seen them. From the impossibly jagged peaks and sparkling waters of the Front Range to the long, golden grasses of the eastern plains, this tour of Colorado will dazzle you. The towering heights of the Fourteeners, those Rocky Mountain peaks with elevations over fourteen thousand feet in height to the short-grass prairies and the sand dunes of the east and southern parts of the state, Colorado is a rich tapestry of scenery and landscapes.

Colorado

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Richard Grant

True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi

"Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote"--

The Deepest South of All

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Joan Chittister

Does not have a dust jacket. Please see the pictures.

Twelve Moments in Every Woman's Life

"In concert with Swanson's art, Chittister's prose explores, through the biblical story of Ruth, a series of twelve life-defining moments in every woman's life"--Publisher description.

The Book of Ruth

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J. Verne.

The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas in the mid-nineteenth century as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.

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