Bill Doolittle

Walter Cronkite

This is a 1998 hardcover art book, depicting the Kentucky Derby. In excellent condition in dust jacket please see photos.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

South Dakota

Run for the Roses

Celebrates the tradition and spectacle of the Kentucky Derby with photographs and text devoted to the legends, heroes, memorable moments, and rivalries of the past 125 years.

The Kentucky Derby

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This is a 1995 paperback edition of the treasures of the stars, featuring photos of all of the artworks at the Kremlin. It is presented by the Kansas international Museum. 10.5” x 8.5” by .5 “. It is preowned with the former owner’s name inside the front cover.


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

From the state museums of the Moscow Kremlin

Treasures of the Czars

Garrison

This is a 1993 hardcover edition with dust jacket. Please see photos for condition

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The mysterious man who ran the Civil War

The Lincoln No One Knows

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Alice Morse Earle

1993 publication American classic edition paperback in excellent condition please see photos

A lively account of the daily customs of the people of pre-Revolutionary America.

Home Life in Colonial Days

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David Bajo

This is a 2008 hardcover edition with thus jacket in excellent condition please see photos


A Novel

The 351 Books of Irma Acuri

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Jonathan Franzen

This is a 2010, 1st edition hardcover. There is slight damage to the dust jacket please see photos

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Freedom

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Judy Doenges

This is 1999 preowned hardcover volume with a dust jacket. There no markings or damage. Please see photos.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Stories and a Novella

Powerful stories about the many guises of family bonds.

What She Left Me

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David Halberstam


This is a 1994 first edition preowned hardcover with no markings in excellent condition. Please see photos. 

An account of the 1964 World Series baseball championship between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals.

October, 1964

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John M. Hull

This is a preowned paperback published in 1990 in good condition. Please see photos.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An Experience of Blindness

Touching the Rock

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Jon Krakauer

This is a first edition, 2015 publication date in excellent condition. Please see photos.

Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

A "narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana--stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape"--Dust jacket flap.

Missoula

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Martin Cruz Smith

This is a preowned paperback published in 2016. In good condition the  owner’s name is inscribed inside the front cover. Please see photos for condition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

From Martin Cruz Smith, "a master of the international thriller" (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice.

Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble.

Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis. This act of kindness leads them into the world of Partisans, random executions, the arts of forgery and high explosives, Mussolini's broken promises, the black market and gold, and, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon.

With Martin Cruz Smith's trademark suspense, action, and breathtaking romance during World War II Italy, The Girl from Venice is "a gripping evocation of a beautiful nation and of two people, trapped in the lunacy of war and the bravery it can inspire" (The Seattle Times).

The Girl from Venice

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Ronald B. Shwartz

This is a preowned 1999 volume. There is no marks inside. There is slight damage to the dust jacket at the top of the spine. Please see photos.


115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

For this ultimate book-lover's guide, more than one hundred famous writers have contributed original essays in response to the question, "What books have left the greatest impression on you and why?" The result is not a contrived list of Western civilization's "Great Books" but a heartfelt commentary on books--classic and otherwise--by the writers readers most admire.In a world of burgeoning book clubs, For the Love of Books offers literally hundreds of wonderfully readable recommendations. Contributors include: Diane Ackerman, Ann Beattie, Amy Bloom, Robert Bly, Rita Mae Brown, Christopher Buckley, Ethan Canin, John Casey, Gretel Ehrlich, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gail Godwin, Nadine Gordimer, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Harr, Tracy Kidder, Caroline Knapp, Elmore Leonard, Doris Lessing, Frank McCourt, Elizabeth McCracken, Arthur Miller, Michael Ondaatje, Cynthia Ozick, Robert B. Parker, Anna Quindlen, Carol Shields, Mona Simpson, John Updike, Wendy Wasserstein, Tobias Wolff, and many others.For the Love of Books is an invitation to fall in love with the books these writers love--and a fascinating window into the creative mind.

For the Love of Books

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Eduardo Galeano

This is a preowned volume with the previous owner’s name inscribed inside the front cover. Please see photos for condition.

Stories of Almost Everyone

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." 'Mirrors', Galeano's most ambitious project since 'Memory of Fire', is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??"Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, 'Mirrors' is a magic mosaic of our humanity.

Mirrors

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Salman Rushdie

This is a 2012/1st edition by Solomon Rushdie, hardcover in excellent condition please see photos


A Memoir

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle * Newsweek/The Daily Beast * The Seattle Times * The Economist * Kansas City Star * BookPage

On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran."
 
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov--Joseph Anton.
 
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.
 
It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

Praise for Joseph Anton
 
"A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
"A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
"Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book."--USA Today
 
"Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism."--The Wall Street Journal
 
"Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written."--The Independent (UK)
 
"A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty."--Le Point (France)
 
"Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus."--Los Angeles Review of Books
 
"Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book."--de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)
 
"One of the best memoirs you may ever read."--DNA (India)
 
"Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom."--The Boston Globe

Joseph Anton

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Norm Abram

The New Yankee Workshop

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Devin A. Garrity

This is a 1955 anthology of 44 Irish short stories it is preowned volume with the previous owners name inscribed inside as a gift. Please see photos.


An anthology of Irish short fiction

The Irish have always had a way with words. Long ago they took on a language not their own and learned to re-word it into pure magic. Nowhere is this magic more in evidence than in their short stories—stories that combine lyricism, humor and tragedy with rare imagination set in simple backgrounds, largely without props. The seemingly effortless art of the best Irish writers has an appeal that is naive and highly sophisticated at the same time; the disarming simplicity with which the tales are spun being somewhat misleading at first reading. In this anthology there are gathered, for the first time in America, some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety. All are a delight to read. All have universal appeal. Only 21 of the 44 have previously been published in this country.

44 Irish Short Stories

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James A. Autry

Willie Morris

This is the second volume of verse by James Autry with photographs taken by his stepmother Lola Mae Autry recording the 1940s and 1950s in Mississippi. It is preowned with no markings inside, in excellent condition. Please see photos.

Life after Mississippi

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Nathaniel Philbrick

This is a preowned paperback history of Plymouth colony and Mayflower, William Bradford, and the pilgrims. Please see photos.

Voyage, Community, War

A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England discusses such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the impact of King Philip's War.

Mayflower

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This is a book of the month 1993 edition of the memoirs of a woman of pleasure. It is a biography originally written in 1748. It is a paperback in excellent condition appears never to have been read. Please see photos.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Stephen Taylor

The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors

Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.

Calibans Shore

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James B. Stewart

 How the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder

Blind Eye

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Linda Fairstein

When a recently deceased body is discovered in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus during a donor gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Assistant DA Alex Cooper must infiltrate New York's museum society to catch a killer.

The Bone Vault

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Anika Fajardo

This is a preowned volume with no markings inside in excellent condition. Please see photos.

A Memoir of Finding Family

"Magical Realism for Non-Believers is set against the backdrops of Colombia and the United States (particularly Minneapolis) of the mid-1990s, and flashes back to the unsettled freedoms of the 1970s. It's the story of a half-Colombian, half-Minnesotan exploring her past and discovering her future, taking readers on a journey from the US to Fajardo's birthplace in Colombia and the discovery of a half-brother she never knew existed, to the creation of her own family in Minneapolis"--

Magical Realism for Non-Believers

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Michael Tolkin

This is a preowned. First edition there is no markings inside. There is two slight stains to the leading edge of the pages. Please see photos for condition.


"Frank Gale is sick of cheating on his wife, Anna, and he wants to tell her the truth, but in the right way. Everything looks better when he decides to take her and their daughter on a sudden trip to Mexico, where he can give Anna the carefully crafted letter that details the nature of his affair." "One mistake: He's late meeting them at the airport. He misses the plane; he'll have to take the next flight: and then everything changes." "In his first novel, the highly acclaimed The Player, Michael Tolkin explored the emotional geography of Griffin Mill, the Hollywood executive who literally gets away with murder. Now, in Among the Dead, the stakes are raised: What if the executive had a conscience? For Frank, there will be no escaping the consequences. A novel that begins as a domestic drama opens into a nightmare picture of the modern age." "Among the Dead is a penetrating, unsettling, and brilliantly written catalog of the truths that lie just beyond the reach of language; a diabolic, blackly comic illumination of the darker corners of the human mind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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