Hunter S. Thompson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

A Strange and Terrible Saga

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is--in this short work of nonfiction.
 
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again."
 
Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

Hell's Angels

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

James L. W. West III

A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.

A Short Autobiography

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The front cover doesn’t stay flat down, and there’s a little bit of water damage, but only on the corners of some pages

The English Patient

Stephen Gregory

He seems to have it all: a lovely wife, a happy child, and a delightful little cottage he has inherited, nestled deep in the Welsh hills. But with the good comes the evil. For he must care for his brutally slain uncle's fiendish cormorant and must fight an evil spawned from hell itself. Martin's.

The Cormorant

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James Baldwin

Reissued Edition

One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation.

This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985.

In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings--a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"--and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes.

Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

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David Zinczenko

Ted Spiker

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

Whether you want to change your body to improve your health, your looks, your athletic performance, or your sex appeal, The Abs Diet - by David Zinczenko with Ted Spiker - offers you a simple promise: If you follow this plan, you will transform your body so that you can accomplish each and every one of those goals. The Abs Diet lets you enjoy the foods you crave. It's not low-carb, low-fat, or low-anything else. It's just a smart, sensible, healthy plan that will give you the body you want in weeks. The Abs Diet will show you how to eat to keep your body's natural fat burners stoked at all times so you burn fat and build muscle all day, every day—even when you sleep. And you'll never feel hungry, restricted, or deprived.

The Abs Diet

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Broom of the System

Anton Chekhov

Nicholas Slater Pasternak

A little bit of water damage to the cover, but holding together really well, and the pages inside are in good condition

Essential Stories

A beautiful collection of 13 classic Russian short stories by “the greatest short story writer who has ever lived” (Raymond Chandler) Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed, and this variety of tone and temper is collected in this essential new collection. Chekhov wrote stories throughout his writing career, and this selection has been chosen from amongst his life’s work, including many of his greatest works, alongside unfamiliar discoveries, all newly translated. From the masterpiece of minimalism “The Beauties”, to the beloved classic “The Lady with the Little Dog”, and from “Rothschild's Fiddle” to bitterly funny “A Living Chronicle”, the stories collected here are the essential collection of Chekhov’s greatest tales. CONTENTS: The Beauties (1888) The Man in a Box (1898) A Day in the Country (1886) A Blunder (1886) About Love (1898) Grief (1886) The Bet (1889) A Misfortune (1886) Sergeant Prishibeyev (1885) The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) The Huntsman (1885) The Privy Councillor (1886) The Kiss (1887)

The Beauties

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Alexander Pope

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Works of Alexander Pope

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Candide

Men Without Women

Stephen King

The Green Mile

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A History of Irish Nationalism

The Green Flag

Harold G. Moore

Joseph L. Galloway

Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

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Graham Hancock

The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon.
After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends -- revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time -- from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail -- this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries.

Sign and the Seal

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Dai Sijie

A Novel

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Alice Munro

Stories

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013

In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.

Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her--she must count on herself.

Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus--from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.

The Love of a Good Woman

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Charles. Dickens

Philip Horne

Some lightly bent pages and a slight tear in the corner of the spine.

Oliver Twist

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Anaïs Nin

From a Journal of Love -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)

A year in the life (1931-1932) of writer Anais Nin when she met Henry Miller and his wife June.

Henry and June

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Bruce Chatwin

Well-loved book, but still in good condition

Gives an account of Bruce Chatwin's journey through Patagonia, where he searched for almost-forgotten legends, Butch Cassidy's log cabin, and the descendants of Welsh immigrants.

In Patagonia

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Philip K. Dick

Some used stickers on here, but otherwise in fine condition

The Inspiration for the Films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Beautiful edition, some light wearing on corners

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Tale of Two Cities

Still readable, and good for another read through, but definitely beat up.

Homage to Catalonia

Some marginalia and annotations, inscription in pen, still readable, includes criticism and sources

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hell's Angels

F. Scott Fitzgerald; James L. W. West III

A Short Autobiography

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The English Patient

Stephen Gregory

The Cormorant

James Baldwin

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

David Zinczenko; Ted Spiker

The Abs Diet

David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System

Anton Chekhov; Nicholas Slater Pasternak

The Beauties

Alexander Pope

Works of Alexander Pope

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Candide

Ernest Hemingway

Men Without Women

Stephen King

The Green Mile

Robert Kee

The Green Flag

Harold G. Moore; Joseph L. Galloway

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Graham Hancock

Sign and the Seal

Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Alice Munro

The Love of a Good Woman

Charles. Dickens; Philip Horne

Oliver Twist

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Henry and June

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In Patagonia

Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Charles Dickens

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Homage to Catalonia

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Heart of Darkness

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