Minor shelf wear but overall excellent condition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Rabbit Redux

Elise Paschen

Charles Osgood

Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath

Combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken, this collection features the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Contributors range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes. Additional poems in print form allow the reader to further explore the poets' works.

Poetry Speaks

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Slight tear on cover but otherwise in great condition!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Uplifting Words From the Forever First Lady

I ❤️ Michelle

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Ian Rankin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ex Library 

Envisioning a half-serious art-theft scheme after a chance encounter with a crime boss, divorced banker Allan and frustrated art professor Robert share their idea with fellow art enthusiast Mike, who encourages them to carry out their plan. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Exit Music. 60,000 first printing.

Doors Open

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Alice Walker

A Writer's Activism

America's beloved author of The Color Purplewrites here about her life as an activist, in a book rich in belief in the world as savable, if only we will act on our beliefs. Here are a superb writer's thoughts on politics, culture, feminism, race, religion, raising a daughter, writing and living.

Anything We Love Can Be Saved

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Helen Maryles Shankman

Stories

A radiant debut collection of linked stories from a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, set in a German-occupied town in Poland, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion. 1942. With the Nazi Party at the height of its power, the occupying army empties Poland’s towns and cities of their Jewish populations. As neighbor turns on neighbor and survival often demands unthinkable choices, Poland has become a moral quagmire—a place of shifting truths and blinding ambiguities. Blending folklore and fact, Helen Maryles Shankman shows us the people of Wlodawa, a remote Polish town: we meet a cold-blooded SS officer dedicated to rescuing the creator of his son’s favorite picture book, even as he helps exterminate the artist’s friends and family; a Messiah who appears in a little boy’s bedroom to announce that he is quitting; a young Jewish girl who is hidden by the town’s most outspoken anti-Semite—and his talking dog. And walking among these tales are two unforgettable figures: the enigmatic and silver-tongued Willy Reinhart, Commandant of the forced labor camp who has grand schemes to protect “his” Jews, and Soroka, the Jewish saddlemaker and his family, struggling to survive. Channeling the mythic magic of classic storytellers like Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer and the psychological acuity of modern-day masters like Nicole Krauss and Nathan Englander, In the Land of Armadillos is a testament to the persistence of humanity in the most inhuman conditions.

In the Land of Armadillos

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Haim Hazaz

Dan Miron

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

History

A pioneering writer of extraordinary complexity, his body of work represents a gigantic literary project that ranges from Jerusalem to Paris, from shtetls in the Ukraine to the sandstorms of the Yemen.

The Sermon and Other Stories

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Christopher Moore

A Love Story

Waking up after a fantastic night only to discover that his girlfriend is a vampire and has transformed him into one, Thomas C. Flood adapts to his new powers while dealing with a dangerous faction of bloodsuckers trying to kill off all other vampires.

You Suck

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Alice Waters

Techniques to Learn by Heart: a Cookbook

Alice Waters has been a champion of the sustainable, local cooking movement for decades.nbsp; To Alice, good food is a right, not a privilege. nbsp;In the Green Kitchen presents her essential cooking techniques to be learned by heart plus more than 50 recipes--for delicious fresh, local, and seasonal meals--from Alice and her friends.nbsp; She demystifies the basics including steaming a vegetable, dressing a salad, simmering stock, filleting a fish, roasting a chicken, and making bread. An indispensable cookbook, she gives you everything you need to bring out the truest flavor that the best ingredients of the season have to offer.
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Contributors: Darina Allen * Dan Barber * Lidia Bastianich * Rick Bayless * Paul Bertolli * David Chang * Traci Des Jardins * Angelo Garro * Joyce Goldstein * Thomas Keller * Niloufer Ichaporia King * Peggy Knickerbocker * Anna Lappé & Bryant Terry * Deborah Madison * Clodagh McKenna * Jean-Pierre Moullé * Joan Nathan * Scott Peacock * Cal Peternell * Gilbert Pilgram * Clair Ptak * Oliver Rowe * Amaryll Schwertner * Fanny Singer * David Tanis * Poppy Tooker * Charlie Trotter * Jerôme Waag * Beth Wells

In the Green Kitchen

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Maeve Binchy

Taped on dust jacket, bind is shifted due to storage, some minor stainingnon book edge, remainder mark, general shelf wear

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

First US Edition

Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are hot new additions to the Dublin scene with their new catering company, but some people in the city, including their families, are not so keen on the idea of their success. 500,000 first printing.

Scarlet Feather

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Mary Gordon

First Edition 

While temporarily separated from her husband, on an academic fellowship in France, Anne Foster must cope with writing a catalogue for an important art exhibition and dealing with the sitter he has hired for her children.

Men and Angels

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Dave Cullen

Discusses the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, reflecting on the killers' histories and and the portrayal of the event by the media.

Columbine

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Newt Gingrich

William R. Forstchen

Minor shel wear in dust jacket, remainder mark

Lee and Grant - The Final Victory

Traces the events surrounding the pivotal battle of August 1863, during which Lee and Grant both cross the Susquehanna and make decisions that culminate in the war's outcome.

Never Call Retreat

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Oliver Sacks

Book of the Month Edition - very light marks on DJ spine, very light shelf wear

Seven Paradoxical Tales

The author of Awakenings profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

An Anthropologist on Mars

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David Sedaris

Former Library Book (Seattle) - Brodart Cover 

Former Library Book

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best.

Calypso

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Nora Ephron

Some pages have been unglued from binding

And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

A collection of essays offers a humorous look at the ups and downs of being a woman of a certain age, discussing the tribulations of maintenance and trying to stop the clock, menopause, and empty nests.

I Feel Bad about My Neck

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Also a 1967 film starring Jane Fonds, Michael Caine, and Faye Dunaway
Minor aging on pages, shelf wear 

Book Club Edition

Hurry Sundown - Volume 2 (BCE)

Jung Chang

Three Daughters of China

A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present

Wild Swans

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P. D. James

Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh leaves London to vacation in Norfolk and becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the perpetrator of a series of murders of young women, which continues even after the murderer's capture

Devices and Desires

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Marine Painting

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Martin Terry

1788-1900

Australia presented its early artists with problems and challenges that called for a different approach. As this book reveals, some of the finest works by Australian impressionist painters took as their subjects ships and the sea.

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