Xenophon

Rex Warner

George Cawkwell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persian employers, they were forced to march home through hundreds of miles of difficult terrain - adrift in a hostile country and under constant attack from the unforgiving Persians and warlike tribes. In this outstanding description of endurance and individual bravery, Xenophon, one of those chosen to lead the retreating army, provides a vivid narrative of the campaign and its aftermath, and his account remains one of the best pictures we have of Greeks confronting a 'barbarian' world.

The Persian Expedition

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Titus Livy

Aubrey De Selincourt

R. M. Ogilvie

Light creasing to spine. Bottom corner of front wrap & first few pages are bent. Clean text.

With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles, up to Rome's recovery after the fierce Gallic invasion of the fourth century bc. Livy vividly depicts the great characters, legends, and tales, including the story of Romulus and Remus. Reprinting Robert Ogilvie's lucid 1971 introduction, this highly regarded edition now boasts a new preface, examining the text in light of recent Livy scholarship, informative maps, bibliography, and an index. Translated by Aubrey de S&eacutelincourt with an introduction by Robert Ogilvie.

The Early History of Rome

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Saint Augustine

Henry Bettenson

John O'Meara

Creasing to front wrap & spine. Small tear at bottom of spine. Clean text.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans

City of God

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Mulk Raj Anand

Light wear. Stickers on back wrap. Pencilled numbers on last page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.

Coolie

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Cormac McCarthy

Minor wear. Darkening to pages. Clean and tight.

Border Trilogy (2)

In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region's ranchers.

The Crossing

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Lucinda Bassett

Good to Very Good condition. Minor wear. Light creasing to spine. Clean and tight.

Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life

From Panic to Power is Lucinda Bassett's inspiring account of the proven techniques she used to overcome anxiety disorder and regain control of her life.

A bestseller with more than 72,000 hardcover copies sold, From Panic to Power offers techniques and skills to the ever–growing number of people who are adversely affected by today's overwhelmingly stressful environment. Lucinda Bassett's effective program, which teaches people how to think differently and respond in a less anxious way, is enabling hundreds of thousands all over the world to transform their draining doubts, fears, and anxieties into positive energy and newfound freedom. Her methods allow sufferers to gain a new understanding of themselves and their challenges when dealing with anxiety and teach effective skills to help transform negative self–talk and destructive worry habits into recently discovered compassion and confidence.

From Panic to Power

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Light wear. Small mark on textblock. Otherwise clean and tight.

Generation of Swine

Barbara Kingsolver

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.

Prodigal Summer

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Agatha Christie

Crease & small tear on back wrap. Otherwise clean and tight.

A Miss Marple Mystery

Now with a beautiful new series look, The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie's first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple--as a dead body in a clergyman's study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide. Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone--even in the vicar--wishes he were dead. And very soon he is--shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.

The Murder at the Vicarage

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1973 Warner Paperback Library vintage mass market paperback. Moderate to heavy wear along front wrap. Creasing to spine and corner of back wrap. Indentations on first few pages. Previous owner's name written on first page. Yummy old book smell.

The Young Victoria 

1965 Penguin vintage mass market paperback. In very fragile condition with moderate wear and creasing. Pages have darkening, but text is clean. Spine is cocked. Yummy old book smell.

Rebecca

Jan Karon

Gift set containing 2 books: The Mitford Snowmen & Esther's Gift. Clean and tight hardcovers with dustjackets and slipcase.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

For the past two Christmases, readers have flocked home to Mitford and made The Mitford Snowmen and Esther's Gift runaway bestsellers. Brimming with the holiday spirit, an old-fashioned snowman-building contest, plenty of hot chocolate, and Esther's famous marmalade cake, this new boxed set of Mitford treats is guaranteed to fill readers--and stockings--with contagious good cheer.

Christmas in Mitford Gift Set

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Heather Morris

#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. “The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of human behavior existing side by side: calculated brutality alongside impulsive and selfless acts of love. I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.”—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Pigs in Heaven

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Matthew J. Bruccoli

Light curling & wear to wraps. Clean text.

A Dangerous Friendship

New research material is presented by special permission of the Hemingway estate in this revised edition of the correspondence between 1925 and 1940, including a group of Hemingway's letters about Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

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Kenneth Coleman

Clean text. Discoloration to wraps & minor wear. Sticker on back.

History

Since it was first published in 1955, Georgia History in Outline has been the standard concise history of the state. The third edition includes a major revision of the chapter on the twentieth century, reflecting in part new information and interpretation on modern Georgia from A History of Georgia and in part the author's personal knowledge of events since the 1920s.

Georgia History in Outline

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Don Wolfe

The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles

In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the "Black Dahlia" when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author Donald H. Wolfe discovers startling new evidence—buried in the files of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for more than half a century. With the aid of archival photos, news clippings, and investigative reports, Wolfe documents the riveting untold story that names the brutal murderer—the notorious Mafia leader, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel—and the motive—an unwanted pregnancy resulting from Short's involvement with the most powerful figure in Los Angeles, Norman Chandler. But Wolfe goes even further to unravel the large-scale cover-up behind the case. Wolfe's extensive research, based on the evidence he discovered in the recently opened LADA files, makes The Black Dahlia Files the authoritative work on the murder that has drawn endless scrutiny but remained unsolved—until now.

The Black Dahlia Files

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Rohinton Mistry

In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined

A Fine Balance

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Anita Shreve

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd is a woman who longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to the others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently remet, despite uncertainties about her health and future. Indeed, it is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption. This is Anita Shreve's most ambitious and moving novel to date, probing into human motivation with extraordinary grace and skill.

A Wedding in December

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Arthur & George

Kim Michele Richardson

"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"--

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

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Patricia Wakida

William Hohri

Fair to Good condition. Clean and tight except for minor water damage near back of book.

The Japanese American Internment Experience

Personal documents, art, propoganda, and stories express the Japanese American experience in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Only What We Could Carry

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Frances Vaughan

Marianne Williamson

Slight darkening to wraps. Gift inscription inside front wrap. 

Selections from a Course in Miracles

A selection of writings from a top-selling classic is a lay readers distillation of some of its most relevant passages as identified by a pair of theology and psychology scholars.

Accept This Gift

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Alan Lightman

Inscribed by author. 1st edition. Very Good condition with bumping to spine & bump to bottom edge of back board. Dustjacket  is in Excellent condition & wrapped in plastic cover.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alan Lightman's first novel,Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote inThe New York Timesthat the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical elements of the stories are grounded in precise, crystalline prose." WithThe Diagnosis, Lightman gives us his most ambitious and penetrating novel yet. While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition. By turns satiric, comic, and tragic,The Diagnosisis a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits.

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Xenophon; Rex Warner; George Cawkwell

The Persian Expedition

Titus Livy; Aubrey De Selincourt; R. M. Ogilvie

The Early History of Rome

Saint Augustine; Henry Bettenson; John O'Meara

City of God

Mulk Raj Anand

Coolie

Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing

Lucinda Bassett

From Panic to Power

Hunter S. Thompson

Generation of Swine

Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer

Agatha Christie

The Murder at the Vicarage

Tyler Whittle

The Young Victoria

Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

Jan Karon

Christmas in Mitford Gift Set

Heather Morris

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Barbara Kingsolver

Pigs in Heaven

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

Kenneth Coleman

Georgia History in Outline

Don Wolfe

The Black Dahlia Files

Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance

Anita Shreve

A Wedding in December

Julian Barnes

Arthur & George

Kim Michele Richardson

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Patricia Wakida; William Hohri

Only What We Could Carry

Frances Vaughan; Marianne Williamson

Accept This Gift

Alan Lightman

The Diagnosis

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