Patricia Lanza

Hardback without dust jacket in excellent condition. Not issued with dust jacket. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!

Explains how to use a system of layered mulch materials, including newspaper, leaves, and grass clippings, to provide a nutrient-rich base for healthy gardens and robust flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruits

Lasagna Gardening

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Jenny Hendy

Hardback in dust jacket, both in excellent condition. 64 pages. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Decorative Groundwork to Transform Your Garden 

An inspirational guide to making fabulous floors and surfaces in the garden.

The Garden Floor

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Jan Harold Brunvand

Paperback in excellent condition except for slight wear at front and back cover corners . Price in pencil on front end paper. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

More New Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites

"Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled".--Time.

The Mexican Pet

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Paperback in excellent condition except for slight wear at corners. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

And Other Urban Legends

Discusses over forty stories of improbable events told as true and embelished with local details which the author calls urban legends.

The Choking Doberman

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Paperback in excellent condition except for slight crease on front cover, upper right corner. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Presents a collection of examples of major American urban legends, one of the most common forms of contemporary American folklore, and explains their popular appeal.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

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Terry Brooks

Paperback in fair condition. Spine shows wear. Front cover has crease on lower right corner. Back cover has crease along spine and slight wear at edges. 

Book Fourof The Heritage of Shannara

The fourth volume of The Heritage of Shannara, which continues one of the most popular fantasy series of all time.

The Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands, poisoning everything with their dark magic. And their leader is determined to destroy all the Scions of Shannara. For Walker Boh, he dispatches the Four Horsemen. For Wren, he sends an untrue friend. And for Par, he devises the most terrible fate of all. With these traps cleverly laid, the charges given by the shade of the Druid Allanon are doomed to failure--unless Par can discover a way to harness the power of the Sword of Shannara.

Thus continues the enthralling Shannara epic, a spellbinding tale of adventure, magic, and myth...

The Talismans of Shannara

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Paperback in fair condition. Wear on spine and bottom edges of front and back covers. 

Book Three of The Heritage of Shannara

The third volume of The Heritage of Shannara, which continues one of the most popular fantasy series of all time

"Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren.

It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Esterland knew of them -- except, finally, the Addershag.

The blind old woman had given instructions to find a place on the coast of the Blue Divide, build a fire, and keep it burning for three days. "One will come for you."

Tiger Ty, the Wing Rider, had come on his giant Roc to carry Wren and her friend Garth to the only clear landing site on the island of Morrowindl, where, he said, the Elves might still exist, somewhere in the demon-haunted jungle.

Now she stood within that jungle, remembering the warning of the Addershag: "Beward, Elf-girl. I see danger ahead for you . . . and evil beyond imagining." It had proved all too true.

Wren stood with her single weapon of magic, listening as demons evil beyond all imagining gathered for attack. How long could she resist?

And if, by some miracle, she reached the Elves and could convince them to return, how could they possibly retrace her perilous path to reach the one safe place on the coast?

The Elf Queen of Shannara

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Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.

But his removal from Paranor was not altogether a terrible thing, for Bremen learned that dark forces were on the move from the Northlands. That seemingly invincible armies of trolls were fast conquering all that lay to their south. That the scouts for the army--and its principal assassins--were Skull Bearers, disfigured and transformed Druids who had fallen prey to the seductions of the magic arts. And that at the heart of the evil tide was an archmage and former Druid named Brona!

Using the special skills he had acquired through his own study of Magic, Bremen was able to penetrate the huge camp of the Troll army and learn many of its secrets. And he immediately understood that if the peoples of the Four Lands were to escape eternal subjugation they would need to unite. But, even united, they would need a weapon, something so powerful that the evil magic of Brona, the Warlock Lord, would fail before its might...

First King of Shannara

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George Mandos

Paperback in fair condition.  Wear at corners and front cover corners. 

From Poker, to Roulette, to Slots - The Rules, Strategies and Secrets You Need to Beat the Odds

Mandos teaches the rules and etiquette to all casino games, and provides the tips and strategies necessary to beat the house. Illustrations.

The Everything Casino Gambling Book

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Marian Morash

Oversized paperback. Covers have wear around edges and corners. Text is in good condition. Price in pencil on front end paper. Previous owner’s address label inside front cover. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

There's never been a cookbook like it. An incomparable variety of enticing recipes (more than 800) ... Basic gardening information ... Shopping tips for nongardeners ... Cooking inspirations for whatever you've plucked from the garden today or found fresh in the market ... Vegetables as accompaniments ... Vegetables as main courses (including recipes that use meat, fish, and poultry) ... Vegetable soups, appetizers, salads, relishes ... Even vegetable breads, pies, cakes, cookies. And more, as demonstrated over the years on The Victory Garden public television series. A whole world of vegetable delight. Book jacket.

The Victory Garden Cookbook

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Wonders of the Modern World Explained 

How Do They Do All That?

Technology, Space, Science, Medicine 

Popular Science: The Book of Answers

Fascinating  Facts and Shocking Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History and More

The Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists

248 pages. Constable & Robinson Ltd. Printed for Barnes & Noble. ISBN 978-1-4351-5868-9. 

The Science of Murphy’s Law

Why The Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down 

Drawings by Peter Parnall. Hardback in good condition in dust jacket in poor condition. Dust jacket has tears at bottom of spine and bottom of front cover. 

A Handbook th the Country

Beyond Your Doorstep

Miranda Smith

Ana Carr

Hardback without dust jacket in excellent condition except for some sun fade on spine and front and back cover 

Discusses the life cycles of insects, diseases, and weeds, the plants they affect, and the latest organic controls to keep them in check.

Rodale's Garden Insect, Disease and Weed Identification Guide

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Jean Markale

Paperback in very good condition except for back cover, upper left hand corner chewed by a very bad kitten. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture

While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization. An expert in Celtic studies, Markale regards myth as a branch of history, and explores mythological material to reveal the culture that gave rise to it. The alternative historical vision that emerges is both convincing and exciting.

* One of the most comprehensive treatments of Celtic civilization ever written.

* A cornerstone of Western civilization and the major source of its social, political, and literary values, Celtic civilization occupied the whole of Western Europe for more than a millennium.

* Unlike the Middle Eastern forerunners of the Greco-Roman world, Celtic civilization is still alive today.

The Celts

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Paperback in poor condition. Front cover has damage as does the spine. Copy is loose but is good enough for a reading copy. 

Point of Violence

Tony L. Whitehead

Paperback in good condition with slight wear at edges of front cover. Back cover has damage midway up left edge, opposite the spine. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Gender Constructs and Social Issues

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Ann Louise Keating

Paperback in excellent condition. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde

As self-identified lesbians of color, Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde negotiate diverse, sometimes conflicting, sets of personal, political, and professional worlds. Drawing on recent developments in feminist studies and queer theory, AnaLouise Keating examines the ways in which these writers, in both their creative and critical work, engage in self-analysis, cultural critique, and the construction of alternative myths and representations of women. Allen, Anzaldúa, and Lorde move within, between, and among the specialized worlds of academia and publishing; the private spaces of families and friends; the politicized communities of Native Americans, Chicanas/os, and African Americans; and the overlapping yet distinct worlds of feminist, lesbian/gay, and U.S. women of color. They translate their lives into words and enact new forms of identity that blur the boundaries between apparently distinct peoples. Keating explores how, by revising precolonial mythic and cultural traditions, they invent new ways of thinking that destabilize the networks of classification. Author note: AnaLouise Keatingteaches English and Women's Studies at Eastern New Mexico University.

Women Reading Women Writing

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Shari Benstock

On the Limits of Genre

Textualizing the Feminine

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Clayton Koelb

Paperback with covers enclosed in protective tape. Spine appears to be sun faded. 

Essays on the Present and Future of Literary Theory

The Current in Criticism is meant to provide the reader with a wide spectrum of current thinking, a sampling of some of the arguments, attitudes, and perspectives, which participate in the swirl of intense speculative energy that is so characteristic of contemporary theory. The editors describe this collection of 14 essays as a tentative assessment of where we are and where we might be going in literary study, of what is current in criticism and of where the critical current might be tending.

The Current in Criticism

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Norma Rosen

Hardback without dust jacket in excellent condition. A volume in the SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Sarah Blacher Cohen, Editor. 

Writing As a Woman and a Jew in America

For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such major influences on our time as T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow. Accidents of Influence combines critical analysis with personal response and autobiographical moments. It includes quotidian encounters in friendship, sex, society, art, politics, response to violence, and religious observance, which struggle for moral ground in this post-Holocaust era.

Accidents of Influence

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Christine Di Stefano

Hardback without dust jacket in excellent condition. 206 pages. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory

On the underwater environment and the mechanisms of deterioration of the materials likely to found on a shipwreck, and the theory and practice of conserving the artifacts recovered. Covers on-site storage, transport of artifacts, and requirements for exhibition after conservation treatment. Di Stefano (political science, U. of Washington) offers a new perspective on the dimension of gender in modern political thought in order to elucidate what is specifically masculine in political theory. Attempting to clear some conceptual space for feminist political theory, she provides critical readings of Hobbes, Marx, and J.S. Mill. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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