gorgeous copy of Poe’s well-known works! it is the lifetime library edition :)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

New New Scientist

amazing book to learn more about the human species! loved every moment of reading it, but it no longer serves me :)

The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence

If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, or that you can read other people's minds? Do you really know why you blush, yawn and cry? Why 90 per cent of laughter has nothing to do with humour? Or what will happen to your mind after you die? You belong to a unique, fascinating and often misunderstood species. How to be Human is your guide to making the most of it.

How to Be Human

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Robert Coles

wonderful collection of leaders throughout history! no markings, but there is a sticker on the back as noted in the second photo :)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others. Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in our homes, schools, communities, and nation. We need to "hand one another along" in life, says Coles, quoting his friend Walker Percy, and in Lives of Moral Leadership he explores how each of us can be engaged in a continual and mutual life-giving process of personal and national leadership development. Coles discusses how the actions of the American president affect the way people feel about themselves and the country, and-citing the influence of Shakespeare's Henry V on Robert Kennedy, and of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on his own mother--explains how reading literature can motivate action and growth. The way in which moral leaders emerge today, and for all time, comes vividly to light in this brilliant book by one of America's finest teachers and writers.

Lives of Moral Leadership

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Annie Dillard

beautiful copy! the pages have aged, but not compromised the binding :)

A beautiful repackaging of Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism.



"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." -- Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.

Living by Fiction

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Willa Cather

dover thrift edition! the pages have aged, but the binding is not compromised; a few bends at the edge — well-loved :)

In the late nineteenth century, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia and a ten-year-old orphan boy arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.

My Antonia

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Tina Fernandes Botts

Rosemarie Tong

reference for feminist thought! excellent for a social studies or gender studies class :)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

A More Comprehensive Introduction

A classic resource on feminist theory, Feminist Thought offers a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, and ecofeminism. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised, and now includes a new chapter on Third Wave and Third Space Feminism. Also added to this edition are significantly expanded discussions on women of color feminisms, psychoanalytic and care feminisms, as well as new examinations of queer theory, LGBTQ and trans feminism. Learning tools like end-of-chapter discussion questions and the bibliography make Feminist Thought an essential resource for students and thinkers who want to understand the theoretical origins and complexities of contemporary feminist debates.

Feminist Thought

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Parkinson Judy

bought this book at a second-hand shop! lovely quality besides the marker :)


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adult.

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adults.

Featuring all the mnemonics you'll ever need to know, this fun little book will bring back all the simple, easy-to-remember rhymes from your childhood'once learned, fix the information in the brain forever'such as learning to count by reciting ?One, Two, buckle my shoe, Three, Four, knock at the door.' Packed with clever verses, engaging acronyms, curious'and sometimes hilarious'sayings that can be used to solve a problem or cap an argument.

Take a trip back to the classroom, and rediscover the assortment of practical memory aids covering a range of different subjects, including spelling, time, mathematics, history, general trivia, and much more. The information is organized in short snippets by category such as:
* Geographically Speaking: Remember North East South West by reciting Never Eat Slimy Worms or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.
* Time and the Calendar: ?Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have 31 excepting February alone; And that has 28 days clear; With 29 in each leap year?
* Think of a Number: Know the Roman numerals by remembering ?I Value Xylophones Like Cows Dig Milk?
* World History: ?In fourteen hundred, ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, And found this land, land of the Free, beloved by you, beloved by me?

The clever verses, engaging acronyms, curious sayings are endless. Guaranteed to amuse and inform, here is a perfect gift for any language lover'complete with a To/From gift plate.

I Before E (Except after C)

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Elie Wiesel

Geoffrey Strachan

a book I bought at a second-hand shop! really good condition — only needs to be wiped clean for the marks to come off :)


A sinister judge hosts weary strangers whose air travel is interrupted by weather and plays mystical games of terror with them

The Judges

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Stephen G. Michaud

Hugh Aynesworth

brand new book! read some of it, but never finished it. looking for a good home :) 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Death Row Interviews

What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with the handsome, charismatic Bundy, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 young women dead, this chilling exposé provides a shocking self-portrait. Speaking eerily in the third person, Bundy reveals appalling details about his crimes and methods and recounts his two daring jailbreaks. Bundy also offers his thoughts on other infamous serial killers. Here's the book features: Told via a third-person "confession," Bundy details how, and often why, he killed many of his 30-odd victims, including how he lured them and how they were killed. Bundy reveals his motivations, his tactics, and how he evaded law enforcement on a victim-by-victim basis. Much of the book is told is Q&A form, making it detailed a window into the thinking of a serial murder, as explained by one.

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