Cheryl Glenn

Loretta Gray

Mint condition hardback 5th Edition.  Also contains unopened InSite e-book and resources 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

English

Enhanced InSite E-book and resources also included 

THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK, Fifth Edition, is grounded in the belief that an understanding of the rhetorical situation--the writer, reader, message, context, and opportunity for writing--provides the best starting point for effective writing and reading. This comprehensive handbook guides student writers in employing that rhetorical understanding as they choose the most effective information to include, the best arrangement of that information, and the most appropriate language to use. The text moves students through the steps that constitute successful writing, from finding appropriate topics and writing clear thesis statements to arranging ideas and developing initial drafts. THE WRITER'S HARBRACE HANDBOOK also provides several sample student papers in various disciplines, along with instruction for successfully completing similar assignments. This edition has been updated to address the criteria in the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing as established by various governing bodies of writing instructors such as CWPA, NCTE, and NWP. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, Brief

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Andrea A. Lunsford

Marcia F. Muth

Research and documentation guide
Spiral bound
Compact format
Multidiclipline research 


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Research help for more than twenty-five disciplines, with five documentation styles and sample papers.

The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

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Ann Bancroft

Liv Arnesen

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica

In February 2001, former schoolteachers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen became the first women to cross the Antarctic continent on foot. Against all odds, they walked, skied, or ice-sailed for nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35°F, towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1700 miles of terrain riddled with rotten ice and deadly, hidden crevasses. Haunted by the failures of those who had attempted the crossing before them, they raced to complete the journey before the harsh Antarctic winter set in and 24 hours of daylight became 24 hours of impenetrable darkness. Though modern technology could not ensure rescue should they need it, website transmissions and satellite phone calls enabled more than 3 million children from 65 countries to bear witness to the journey. In accomplishing the seemingly impossible, Ann and Liv inspired classrooms and re-ignited the aspirations of more than twenty-thousand adults who wrote to thank and encourage them.Chronicling the dramatic details of this historic expedition,No Horizon Is So Far explores what drove Ann and Liv across the ice and ultimately into hearts and history books around the world. It traces the birth of their dream, its re-emergence when they were adults, their tenacious work to assemble the necessary money and gear, and their brutally taxing trek from the Norwegian sector to the American base at McMurdo Bay. About journeys both literal and figurative, each marked with suspense, danger, and incredible enduranceNo Horizon Is So Far celebrates two modern-day heroines and that which is heroic in all of us.

No Horizon Is So Far

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Catherine Coulter

Barely surviving a motel bombing while trying to rescue a kidnapped entertainer, FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver find themselves working against an unstable villain with designs on their families and fellow agents, while agent Ruth Warnecki follows leads about a lost treasure and a murdered music school student to the site of a hidden cave. Reprint.

Point Blank

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Oscar Wilde

A selection of fiction, drama, and prose by the controversial late nineteenth-century literary figure includes the chilling novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his account of his prison experience, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," and four complete plays--Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Salomé. Reissue.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

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Félix J. Palma

Reader’s Proof Copy by Simon & Schuster 2008

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Map of Time

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James Lee Burke

Helping the Fontenot family of sharecroppers from being forced away from their longtime home, detective Dave Robicheaux discovers a link between the eviction and the murder of a New Orleans fixer's girlfriend. Reprint. Tour. PW.

Burning Angel

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Jackie Copleton

'What and how much should I admit to myself, and to others? Should I begin with this acknowledgement: my daughter Yuko might be alive today if I had loved her in a different way?' When a badly scarred man knocks on the door of Amaterasu Takahashi's retirement home and says that he is her grandson, she doesn't believe him. But if you've become adept at lying, can you tell when someone is speaking the truth?Amaterasu knows her grandson and her daughter died the day the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki; she searched for them amongst the ruins of her devastated city and has spent years burying her memories of that brutal summer. So this man is either a miracle or a cruel trick. The stranger forces Amaterasu to revisit her past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance, the fierceness of a mother's love. For years she has held on to the idea that she did what she had to do to protect her family. but now nothing seems so certain. We can't rewrite history, but can we create a new future? Set against the dramatic backdrop of Nagasaki before and after the bomb, A DICTIONARY OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING is about regret, forgiveness and the exquisite pain of love.

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

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July 31, 1996
Collector’s Edition of Disney Adventures
Features the hunchback of Notrs Dame Movie-actors, real-life story and gargoyles.  Michael Jordan on back cover 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Disney Adventures Special Collector’s Edition

Doris Haggis-On-Whey

Benny Haggis-On-Whey

Humor, satire, and fun, sometimes not-so-factual giraffe information.  Great for a giraffe lover or someone who enjoys fun “Saturday Night Live” type humor. Excellent illustrations, photos and design. 

The Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance volume 1 no. 120 of 307

A collection of humorous trivia about giraffes makes no promises that everything the book reveals is true and discusses the giraffe's fondness for iced oatmeal cookies and the role of a giraffe's spots as intergalactic receptors.

Giraffes? Giraffes!

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Paul Auster

Honors program textbook.  Some light pencil class notes.  Intriguing novel of mystery. Combined dark humor with Hitchock-like suspense. Detective story 

Volume One of The New York Trilogy

A late-night phone call from a stranger involves Quinn, a mystery writer, in a baffling murder case stranger than his novels

City of Glass

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Hannah Arendt

How do we make sense of violence in our world?
Textbook with some highlighting. Philosophy, Honors Study. 

Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the twenty-first century. In this classic and still all too resonant work, Hannah Arendt puts her theories about violence into historical perspective, examining the relationships between war and politics, violence and power. Questioning the nature of violent behavior, she reveals the causes of its many manifestations, and ulitmately argues against Mao Zedong's dictum "power grows out of the barrel of a gun," proposing instead that "power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent."“Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times.”--The Nation

On Violence

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Milan Kundera

The story of two couples in a masterful novel.  Lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and existence seems to lose its weight.

A Novel

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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A summary restatement of Freud’s theory of the nature and mechanism of dreams.  Small textbook with penciled-in class notes.

The James Strachey Translation

On Dreams

Alice Sebold

#1 National Bratseller
Mesmerizing novel 
Out of tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense and even joy.  

When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their grief, her father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honor and begin the difficult process of healing. In the hands of a brilliant novelist, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching story about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.

The Lovely Bones

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Over 50 Life Lessons from the Queen of Comedy in one tiny 3.25” x 3” book.  Scenes from the shows, quotes and wise sayings.  Colorful dust cover and black hardcover. 

Wisdom from Lucy and the Gang!

The I Love Lucy Guide to Life

Scott Adams

Perfect condition.  
Hardcover with dust cover
Management handbook written in comic style
Vintage 1996

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in America (syndicated in more than 900 newspapers and read by more than 60 million people), presents a hilariously biting compilation of cartoons that expose the absurdities of corporate management. Dilbert is sweeping the nation. The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed him "the cartoon hero of the workplace," saying that the strip "has its finger on the pulse of the '90s white-collar workplace." Now online, it is one of the hottest Web sites on the Internet, and more than a million copies of the Dilbert cartoon books have been sold. In this latest cartoon compilation, Dilbert's canine sidekick, the Machiavellian Dogbert, presents a breakthrough management manual to help bosses stick it to their employees. All too often, new managers make mistakes like rewarding good work with good pay, communicating clearly and improving departmental efficiency. Dogbert shows that this could have devastating results: Employees begin to expect fair treatment and compensation, productive workers show results (making the managers look bad by comparison) and the department's future budget allotment could be decreased because it spends only what it needs. Drawn from years of experience tormenting Dilbert and advising his boss, Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook uses pithy essays, whose points are illustrated with hundreds of comic strips, to drive home the lost cause of the employee in the workplace. It is the perfect gift for bosses and office workers everywhere.

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

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New York Times Bestseller dust cover with Jo rips and mint condition hard cover. 
Perfect like-new condition (except for where my husband signed his name in first white page) This was purchased new by my husband in 1996. 

Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy. Lavishly illustrated with Dilbert  strips, these hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, management fads, bewildering technological changes and so much more, will make anyone who has ever worked in an office laugh out loud in recognition.

The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage -- management.

Since 1989, Scott Adams has been illustrating this principle each day, lampooning the corporate world through Dilbert, his enormously popular comic strip. In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.

Now he takes the next step, attacking corporate culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 100 hilarious cartoons, these 25 chapters explore the zeitgeist of ever-changing management trends, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, three-hour meetings, the confusion of the information superhighway and more. With sharp eyes, and an even sharper wit, Adams exposes -- and skewers -- the bizarre absurdities of everyday corporate life. Readers will be convinced that he must be spying on their bosses, The Dilbert Principle rings so true!

The Dilbert Principle

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JoAnna Harris

Excellent condition, no flaws. Candid, heartwarming and humorous presentation of heartbreak and recovery. Uplifting and entertaining. 

When the One Turns Out to Be Be Just Someone

More often than not, women tend to lose themselves in relationships, believing they have found "The One"-- the discovery that signifies the end of loneliness. The assurance of happily every after. If this relationship is lost, all seems lost. But what happens when you meet "The One" and he turns out to be just someone? What do you do when the love of your life becomes the heartbreak of your life?

JoAnna Harris understands. After a broken engagement, she was forced to confront the inevitable void after the break-up and truly answer the question -- Who am I without this relationship? While wading through intense heartbreak, JoAnna says, "I discovered that the end of my relationship was not the end of me. That in Christ, I am complete and whole."

Using her own story of heartbreak and healing, JoAnna will make you laugh and encourage you in your own journey to healing and discovery.

You Didn't Complete Me

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Lee Goldberg

Like new condition.  Based on the television series MONK.  Mystery, intrigue and comedy all in one. 

No one likes to come home to a mess, least of all Adrian Monk and Natalie. But when they return to San Francisco from an extended stay working as cops in New Jersey, Natalie discovers somebody has been sleeping in her bed. But they're not asleep, she is dead. If that isn't bad enough, investigators find marked money from a Federal sting operation stuffed under Natalie's mattress. Now her life is a real mess and she needs Monk's help to clean it up.

Mr. Monk Is a Mess

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Ellen Lust

Excellent condition with only a few pages having highlighted passages.  There is also a companion website listed with supplemental materials. This is a wonderful reference work for students studying the Middle East.  It presents the history and data of the area, and provides a rich understanding of the area. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Now in its twelfth edition, The Middle East continues to be the most comprehensive, balanced introduction to the region. This long trusted and time-tested resource has not only been updated for currency, but the scope of the book has also been thoughtfully modified to capture a more complex and complete picture of the Middle East. Its new editor, Ellen Lust, has gathered an outstanding group of scholars to bring important revisions to this edition: • new chapters on political economy, domestic and regional politics, and international relations have been added to the overview section; • new organization of the country profiles mirrors the topics covered in the overview section, making them more thorough, consistent, and easier to teach; • new profiles feature the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; • thorough updates on the latest events in the region, including election results from Iran and other countries, current immigration trends, developments in peace negotiations between Arab and Israeli leaders, as well as changes in diplomatic relations; and • more maps, tables, and figures show political and demographic data. Both students and instructors will appreciate the new online ancillaries that accompany this edition: a dynamic, interactive chronology of major events, a wealth of key documents, and lists of resources for further study. All of the maps, tables, and figures are available for download as well.

The Middle East, 12th Edition

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Mary Downing Hahn

Great condition!  Some slight wear on corners of cover.  A Ghost Story…an empty house full of secrets and mystery. 

Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion a series of events that lead to an unforeseeable result.

The Old Willis Place

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JoAnna Carl

Excellent condition.  No markings.  An engaging mystery involving a young bride, family secrets and chocolate. 

Caught up in a whirl of champagne and china patterns, bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over every detail of the wedding bash. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own mother. But this is bigger than the hot versus cold hors d'oeuvres debate- Sally McKinney doesn't even want to be at the wedding if it takes place in Warner Pier, her hometown.Irked that her mom might be MIA on the Big Day, Lee heads to her aunt's chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, for advice. There, the bride is shocked to learn that years earlier, her mother ran away on what would have been her own wedding day-hours before her fiance was found dead, an apparent suicide. Now, to smooth things over with her mother-and ease her own way down the aisle-Lee must untangle a mystery older than she is....


The Chocolate Bridal Bash

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John Green

Perfect condition with just a slight crease in cover and one or two underlined passages. New York Times Bestseller!    
Winner of the Edgar Award
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller

Millions of Copies Sold
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Embarking on an exhilarating adventure to find her, the closer Q gets, the less he sees the girl he thought he knew.

#1 Bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars John Green crafts a brilliantly funny and moving coming-of-age journey about true friendship and true love.

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

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