Grace Olmstead

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind

"A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands."—Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places we’ve left behind. In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in search of greener pastures, better jobs, and college. Those who stay are left to contend with thinning communities, punishing government farm policy, and environmental decay. Grace Olmstead, now a journalist in Washington, DC, is one who left, and in Uprooted, she examines the heartbreaking consequences of uprooting—for Emmett, and for the greater heartland America. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Uprooted wrestles with the questions of what we owe the places we come from and what we are willing to sacrifice for profit and progress. As part of her own quest to decide whether or not to return to her roots, Olmstead revisits the stories of those who, like her great-grandparents and grandparents, made Emmett a strong community and her childhood idyllic. She looks at the stark realities of farming life today, identifying the government policies and big agriculture practices that make it almost impossible for such towns to survive. And she explores the ranks of Emmett’s newcomers and what growth means for the area’s farming tradition. Avoiding both sentimental devotion to the past and blind faith in progress, Olmstead uncovers ways modern life attacks all of our roots, both metaphorical and literal. She brings readers face to face with the damage and brain drain left in the wake of our pursuit of self-improvement, economic opportunity, and so-called growth. Ultimately, she comes to an uneasy conclusion for herself: one can cultivate habits and practices that promote rootedness wherever one may be, but: some things, once lost, cannot be recovered.

Uprooted

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Rudyard Kipling

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A dozen fables by one of the world's great storytellers propose whimsical explanations of how certain animals acquired their distinctive physical characteristics: "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Whale Got His Throat," "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "The Elephant's Child," and 7 others.

Just So Stories

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Cynthia Rylant

Using simple language and humorous, everyday experiences, Poppleton's fun Fall adventures can be enjoyed by a beginning reader or read aloud to a younger child.

Poppleton in Fall

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Some writing on covers, inside front cover
Binding tight.

Socks @1973 ed

Has dust jacket.
Modern Library edition (NOT former library).
Has black and white photos in middle

Complete and unabridged

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Age of Fable + Ths Age of Chivalry + Legends of Charlemange

Bulfinch's Mythology 

Galloway

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Busman's Honeymoon

The Murder at the Vicarage

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in "Thank You, Jeeves."

Thank You, Jeeves

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A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring an Alpine hat, a black amber statuette, and the dreaded Totleigh Towers. In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Bertie's newt-breeding friend Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeline Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to take his place. Understandably, Bertie is aghast. It seems like certain suicide, but Jeeves must find a way to save his employer from the clutches of the drippy Madeline. If he fails, Bertie's bachelor days -- not to mention Jeeves's leisure time -- will be at an end.

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

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Leave It to Psmith

P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves.

The Code of Woosters

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There seems to be little Bertie Wooster can do without the help of Jeeves these days. Formidable aunts, unbidden guests, and other headaches are small potatoes for the ever-resourceful Jeeves. Here is another heavenly dose of humor and intrigue from "the greatest comic writer ever" (DougLas Adams).

Carry on, Jeeves

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Gary Larson

The Far Side Gallery 5

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Xavier Deneux

(Board Books for Baby Learners, Touch Feel Books for Children)

Featuring spreads each with raised shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, these two new TouchThinkLearn books offer the youngest learners an irresistible opportunity to explore their universe in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name: these modes of perception combine in a dynamic way to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Discover--and experience a train by tracing the raised railcar on one side and feeling the excavated shape of the track on the other! Clusters of related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversations to encourage the language skills so crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

TouchThinkLearn: Vehicles

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How a Book is Made

Polly Athan

A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Cook Today

A peek at dining in the past with meals you can cook today.

Molly's Cookbook

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Rosemary Verey

Countrywoman's Year

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Comb-bound
Art instruction plus master works including ancient art

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

Second edition

ARTistic Pursuits: Grades K-3 Book One An Introduction to the Visual Arts

Jerry Apps

Steve Apps

Old Farm: A History

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Allen Say

The amazing tricks two American soldiers perform on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan.

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