1966 W.W. Norton Edition 
Some foxing on inside cover. Aged glue on binding of spine. Inside front cover only. All pages are secure. Original price on top right front cover is scratched out. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Scourge of the South

Thaddeus Stevens

Edward L. Ayers

Some flaws
- Sooling on outer boards.  Hidden belt dust jacket. See pictures. 
- Pages are great except for one corner fold. 
- No writings, highlights, or tears. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective. At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War. He does this by setting up at ground level in the Great Valley counties of Augusta, Virginia, and Franklin, Pennsylvania, communities that shared a prosperous landscape but were divided by the Mason-Dixon Line. From the same vantage point occupied by his unforgettable characters, Ayers captures the strategic savvy of Lee and his local lieutenants, and the clear vision of equal rights animating black troops from Pennsylvania. We see the war itself become a scourge to the Valley, its pitched battles punctuating a cycle of vicious attack and reprisal in which armies burned whole towns for retribution. In the weeks and months after emancipation, from the streets of Staunton, Virginia, we see black and white residents testing the limits of freedom as political leaders negotiate the terms of readmission to the Union. Ayers deftly shows throughout how the dynamics of political opposition drove these momentous events, transforming once unimaginable outcomes into fact. With analysis as powerful as its narrative, here is a landmark history of the Civil War.

The Thin Light of Freedom

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Ty Seidule

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about the Confederacy—that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and enslavement of Black Americans—and directly challenges the idea of honoring those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies—and how they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day. Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of the Confederacy—and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting.

Robert E. Lee and Me

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Heros Borcke

Complete in One Volume

Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence

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John L. Ransom

First 3 pages, bottom corners 1/4” damage.  See last picture. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Reprint of 1881 Edition by John Ransom 1st Sergeant 9th Michigan Calvalry. Diary of being a prisoner in the infamous Civil War POW Camp.Contains list of the dead. Name, Co. Regiment, Date of Death and Number of Grave in Cemetary.

Andersonville Diary - Escape - With List of the Dead

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Craig L. Symonds

Light crease on middle bottom center of front cover. 

Patrick Cleburne & the Civil War

Stonewall of the West

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Jeffry D. Wert

Excellent condition - 1987

Soiling on p. 219 and p. 229

Some folded corners

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864

From Winchester to Cedar Creek

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M. C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham #8 VG 1st Edition 1999

Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden #9 VG 1st Edition 1999

Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam #10 VG 1st Edition Bumped Corner

After ruining her hair with a home dye-job, the churlish but charming Agatha Raisin heads for the town's gossipy and suspicious hairdresser, only to find him dead in the middle of his shop, killed by poison-laced vitamins. 20,000 first printing.

Lot of 3 Agatha Raisin Cozy Mysteries 

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Death of a Chimney Sweep
Death of a Kingfisher 
Death of Yesterday 

In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it's up to Hamish to discover who's responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.

Lot of 3 Hamish Macbeth Cozy Mysteries

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Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest - VG Condition

The Girl in the Spider’s Web - VG Condition - Has slight lean - Canadian version

While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer, and, on her own, Lisbeth plots revenge against the man who tried to kill her. By the best-selling author of The Girl Who Played With Fire.

Lot of 2 Lisbeth Salander Millenium Seriesbooks

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Lisa Jackson

Now in paperback, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson returns to the merciless winters of Grizzly Falls, Montana, pitting two of her most fascinating characters—detectives and friends Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli—against a serial killer with his sights set on a beautiful Montana doctor… A sad, strange coincidence. . .that's Dr. Kacey Lambert's initial response to the deaths of two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. It's not like there was any real connection between Kacey and the B-movie actress or the elementary school teacher. But Detective Selena Alvarez suspects otherwise… One of the bodies contained traces of poison at the time of death. Selena and her partner, Detective Regan Pescoli, can find no motive for murder. But Kacey has started to notice ties between the dead women's lives and her own--all close in age, born within miles of each other. And all have links to Trace O'Halleran, the man Kacey just started dating. The deeper Kacey digs, the more reason she has to fear. More look-alikes are dying, and the killer is getting bolder and more brutal. And Kacey knows it's only a matter of time before hers is the next name on a list of those who were born to die…

Born to Die

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Joshua Mowll

Shanghai, 1920 - while on board the 'Expedient', Doug and Becca MacKenzie stumble across an amazing secret. What unfolds is a story of two young people caught up in an astonishing adventure and a story of an ancient order created to protect the world from evil.

2 Book Lot: Operation Red Jericho / Operation Typhoon Shore

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Esmond Wright

Biography of Benjamin Franklin 

Harvard University Press 

This first comprehensive biography in 50 years has taken advantage of Yale's massive edition-in-progress of Franklin's papers and of the many specialized studies inspired by the correspondence. Designed for the general reader, it is also a work for scholars, and includes an analysis of other interpretations of Franklin's career and personality.

Franklin of Philadelphia

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness" (The Associated Press). BOOKER PRIZE Nominee - GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick "What stays with you in 'Klara and the Sun' is the haunting narrative voice--a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear." --Booker Prize committee Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Klara and the Sun

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Nancy Atherton

All Hardcover, 1st Editions 

Series: The Paranormal Detective 
#11, 13, 14, 15, 16

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Another page-turning installment in Nancy Atherton’s beloved cozy mystery series featuring Aunt Dimity, phantom detective Lori Shepherd is no stranger to trouble and intrigue. But when Bill, her high-profile attorney husband, receives a number of chilling death threats aimed at his family, danger hits close to home. With Scotland Yard on the case, Bill decides to send Lori and their five-year-old twins to the safety of a remote island off the coast of Scotland. There, another mystery begins to unfold— Lori suspects that the locals on the island are making a fortune running an illegal smuggling operation. What else could explain their luxurious lifestyles? But after finding a human skull washed up on the beach, Lori fears something even more sinister is going on. With Aunt Dimity’s help, Lori begins to piece together the clues, unaware of the growing danger on the island. Will the murderous threats against her family finally catch up with her?Readers across America have fallen in love with Nancy Atherton’s mystery series and its popularity continues to grow and grow. With its wonderful storytelling and characters, and an evocative setting that leaps off the page, Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Seawill have fans getting their feet wet as they follow the indefatigable supernatural sleuth once again.

Lot of 5 Aunt Dimity Books 

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Dear Evan Hansen

Bill Bryson

Both are Hardcover, 1st Editions 

Some wear on the dust jacket of “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”

The author describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life.

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Travels in Small Town America

An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.

Lot of 2 Bill Bryson Books: The Lost Continent/African Diary

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Truman Capote

Couple of marks on 2 different pages. Appears to have been that way prior to printing?

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers

In Cold Blood

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John Grisham

Lot of 3 books in the  Theodore Boone series. Kid Lawyer has some creasing on different areas of the covers 

Theodore Boone is a teenager and a lawyer in a murder trial because he is the only one who knows the truth.

Lot of 3 Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer/The Accused/The Accomplice

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John Updike

Short Stories and a Sequel

The dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. Love, including an old woman's for her cats and a boy's for his embattled father, exerts its spell in all twelve; the title derives from a story in which an American banjo virtuoso demonstrates his licks to an enthralled Soviet audience in the heart of the Cold War, while being hounded by the epistolary aftermath of a one-night stand in Washington, D.C.

To these tales Mr. Updike has added a novella-length sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Several old strands come at last together, and the dead man's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium. The place is, as before, the area of Brewer, Pennsylvania; the time, the last months of 1999.

Licks of Love

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Stephen Birnbaum

Find out what Disney World was like in 1993. Includes Pleasure Island, Discovery Island, and River Country. 

Some creasing on front bottom right corner. 

Birnbaum's Walt Disney World, 1993

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Whitley Strieber

Art Bell

Great condition. Spine and covers are great. Foxing throughout. 

THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A DIRE WARNING FOR OUR FUTURE. The climatological nightmare portrayed in the motion picture The Day After Tomorrow isn't just a fantasy scenario. The first decade of the 21st century has seen some of the most violent weather on record, from devastating tsunamis to killer hurricanes. But scientific evidence suggests "the big one" is still in the making -- will you be ready? THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM WHAT WILL TRIGGER IT? Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic current to drop to a more southerly route, sending Arctic air barreling into overheated temperate zones. WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE? Sudden, dramatic changes in climate all over the world. . . . The most severe blizzards in history. . . . 100 mile-per-hour winds. . . . Shocking death rates. WHAT CAN WE DO TO STAVE IT OFF? Plenty. Talk-show host Art Bell and #1 bestselling author Whitley Strieber, our leading investigators of unexplained phenomena, offer a wealth of viable solutions in this brilliant examination of modern environmental science and weather-related disasters. We can take action today to avoid THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM.

The Coming Global Superstorm

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Jen Conley

Small spot on top of book. See pictures. 

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