M. F. K. Fisher

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Arizona

Autobiographical Essays

This marvelous collection of autobiographical essays by the celebrated, much-adored M.F.K. Fisher covers her life, family, food, and adventures.

As They Were

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Madeline in London 

Henry Adams

D. Perkins

Previously published as Chapters 1-6 of Adams' "History of the USA during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson"

The United States in 1800

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A Doonesbury book

Still a Few Bugs in the System 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Critical Anthology 

The Many Faces of Primitive Art 

From Quiche to Humble Pie 

Word Mysteries and Histories 

Berkeley Breathed

Loose Tails

Bloom County

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Agatha Christie

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

After Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move into an old house, they discover a message concerning the death of a woman who had once lived there

Postern of Fate

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Miss Marple Meets Murder 

Claire Sponsler

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England

Provides a cultural and historical context for medieval popular drama. In Drama and Resistance, Claire Sponsler explores the intertwined histories of bodily subjectivity, commodity culture, and theatricality in late medieval England. In a fascinating consideration of popular drama in the period from 1350 to 1520, she argues that many types of performances during this time represented cultural evasions of the imposition of disciplinary power. The medieval theater was a social site where resistance, masked from the full scrutiny of authority by theatricality, was practiced, articulated, and enacted. Sponsler examines three key discourses of authoritarian bodily and commodity control -- clothing laws, conduct literature, and Books of Hours -- and pairs them with three kinds of theatrical performances that enact resistance to disciplining codes -- Robin Hood performances, morality plays, and Corpus Christi pageants. She considers the contradictions and inconsistencies in the repressive official discourses and analyzes the ways in which the staging of forbidden acts like cross-dressing, social and sexual misbehavior, and violence against the body challenged these discourses. Drawing on recent social theory, Drama and Resistance is an important contribution to medieval studies and the history of theater.

Drama and Resistance

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Christopher Brooke

The 400 years covered by this volume saw two Danish invasions and the Norman Conquest of England. Each conquest carried with it extensive political and social changes. Alfred began the work of creating a unified kingdom out of the shambles of the smaller kingdoms that had fallen under Viking raids. The ninth and tenth centuries saw the settlement of the Danes and the eleventh the emergence of a strong monarchy under the Danish King Cnut. "With the English kingdom grew up the first semblance of national institutions," writes Professor Brooks--institutions of central and local government which made the English monarchy among the most mature in the Europe of its time.... These established institutions were not destroyed by the Normans; they adapted and developed them.

Although England had had close ties with the continent before the Conquest, after 1066 English cultural and social life was greatly enriched through the French influence. During this time the Church was finding new inspiration in monastic and papal reform and a great intellectual revival culminated in the creation of universities. Professor Brooke describes all the cultural and political developments of these years and shows how the reign of Henry III ushered in a "great age of art and architecture" and a "new attitude to government," which began to work by consent of the governed.

From Alfred to Henry III, 871-1272

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David Starkey

The Struggle for the Throne

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.

From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.

Elizabeth

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Pamela Peeke

Cindy Crawford

A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation

The author adapts her "Body-for-LIFE" program for the specific requirements of women to create a resource designed to produce a lifetime of fitness.

Body for Life for Women

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101 Feng Shui steps to transform your life 

The Declutter Workbook 

Simon Winchester

A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale, " this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary genius, madness, and the making of the"Oxford English Dictionary."

The Professor and the Madman

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Pen marks/drawing on dust jacket (see photos).

Get a Grip on Dreams 

Adriano Rampazzo

Tara Stevens

An innovative graphic cookbook for young adults containing 50 quick, simple, and classic recipes from the Silver Spoon kitchen.

Chop, Sizzle, Wow - The Silver Spoon Comic Book

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Scott Adams

A Dilbert Book

Presents a collection of five years worth of "Dilbert" Sunday comic strips, many of which have never appeared before outside the Sunday papers.

Dilbert - a Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00

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Carlo Collodi

The carpenter Gepetto has carved an extraordinary marionette called Pinocchio out of a special piece of wood. But what a scamp that Pinocchio turns out to be! He pulls off Gepetto's wig and races out the door in search of adventure. Pinocchio finds plenty, but he is so mischievous and so very disobedient that despite the advice of Cricket and the Blue Fairy, he always seems to land in trouble. Yet Pinocchio is also kindhearted and loving, traits that, if he can only learn to behave, may help him realize his dream of becoming a real boy. For over a hundred years, children have delighted in this tale, now in a handsome new edition for a new generation.

Pinocchio

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Janet Craig

Discusses the characteristics and behavior of different kinds of spiders.

Amazing World of Spiders

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pen scribbles on inside of dust jacket, and doesn't glow in the dark anymore, but it's still a beautiful book.

The Golden Touch

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Jenny Lee

A Love Story

A national indie bestseller! Meet Anna K: every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way... At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile, Anna's brother, Steven, and his girlfriend, Lolly, are trying to weather an sexting scandal; Lolly’s little sister, Kimmie, is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Steven’s best friend, Dustin, is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie. As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life, Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all. That is...until the night she meets Alexia “Count” Vronsky at Grand Central. A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure, Alexia is everything Anna is not. But he has never been in love until he meets Anna, and maybe she hasn’t, either. As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together, she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship, she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all. Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting, Jenny Lee's Anna K: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy's timeless love story, Anna Karenina—but above all, it is a novel about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak.

Anna K

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Meg Cabot

When You're a Social Reject Like Me, Steph L.

Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.

How to Be Popular

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Don Stewart

John Pfeiffer

The Bare Minimum on Discovering America, the Boston Tea Party, the California Gold Rush, and Lots of Other Stuff Dead White Guys Did

What does Miley Cyrus have in common with Sacagawea? How could Steve Jobs have helped Eisenhower? What does the moon landing have to do with the Hilton sisters? In less time than it takes to recite the preamble to the Constitution, most Americans can spout off all their U.S. history knowledge. (Hint: it starts with ?In 1492? and ends with ?sailed the ocean blue.?) That?s because most history books are as interesting as the phone book?and have the same number of pages. The average Joe (the guy who TiVo?d John Adams on HBO but won?t make Colonial Williamsburg his next vacation spot) needs a witty and edgy history book?and he has it, with with this guide. Hysterical authors?and self-described slackers?Don Stewart and John Pfeifer give readers the bare minimum on important events such as: The Civil War (the war that pitted brother vs. brother?about the bruthas) The expedition of Lewis and Clark (the ultimate road trip) The Boston Tea Party (not much of a party unless that tea was from Long Island) The assassination of JFK (one vacation that ended particularly badly) Combining current pop culture references and accessible historical information, this satirical book catches readers up on what they slept through in History 101.

The Slackers Guide to U. S. History

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Still a Few Bugs in the System

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Word Mysteries and Histories

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Postern of Fate

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David Starkey

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Get a Grip on Dreams

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Carlo Collodi

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