Robert Darnton

Deep dive into primary sources describing the events and activities leading up to the storming of the Bastille.  Not much on the terror but more the political events with a starting point with Louis XV and leading  up to July 14,1789. A great outlining of how much is perception so of course relevant to today.  This is kind of dense and much different than just a chronicle of dates, people and events.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Paris, 1748-1789

The Revolutionary Temper

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Nancy Drew Mystery Story The Clue in the Crumbling Wall yellow matte version originally published in 1945.  Spine is worn.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Clue in the Crumbling Wall

Yellow matte version of Nancy Drew Mystery Story The Witch Tree Symbol originally published in 1955

The Witch Tree Symbol

Penelope Lively

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.


Moon Tiger

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Cixin Liu

Ken Liu

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Three-Body Problem

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James Hollis

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Understanding Our Darker Selves

Many seemingly unexplainable behaviors are manifestations of what Jung termed the Shadow, that unconscious part of the self that contradicts the image of the public self. Hollis suggests that becoming more attuned to the complexity of behavior is the first step toward wholeness.

Why Good People Do Bad Things

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Gordon D. Sherreffs

Paperback, blurb describes as a fierce, violent tale of passion and greed on the 17th century Spanish seas.  

Captain Cutlass

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Lisa Taddeo

The book is in excellent condition but the jacket has minimal soiling

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post * NPR * The Atlantic * New York Public Library * Vanity Fair * PBS * Time * Economist * Entertainment Weekly * Financial Times * Shelf Awareness * Guardian * Sunday Times * BBC * Esquire * Good Housekeeping * Elle * Real Simple “THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one...It blew the top of my head off and I haven’t been able to stop thinking or talking about it since.” —Elizabeth Gilbert “Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking book...Breathtaking...Staggeringly intimate.” —Entertainment Weekly “A breathtaking and important book…What a fine thing it is to be enthralled by another writer’s sentences. To be stunned by her intellect and heart.” —Cheryl Strayed A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. Hailed as “a dazzling achievement” (Los Angeles Times) and “riveting page-turner that explores desire, heartbreak, and infatuation in all its messy, complicated nuance” (The Washington Post), Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women has captivated readers, booksellers, and critics—and topped bestseller lists—worldwide. In suburban Indiana we meet Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. Starved for affection, Lina battles daily panic attacks and, after reconnecting with an old flame through social media, embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming. In North Dakota we meet Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who allegedly has a clandestine physical relationship with her handsome, married English teacher; the ensuing criminal trial will turn their quiet community upside down. Finally, in an exclusive enclave of the Northeast, we meet Sloane—a gorgeous, successful, and refined restaurant owner—who is happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Based on years of immersive reporting and told with astonishing frankness and immediacy, Three Women is both a feat of journalism and a triumph of storytelling, brimming with nuance and empathy. “A work of deep observation, long conversations, and a kind of journalistic alchemy” (Kate Tuttle, NPR), Three Women introduces us to three unforgettable women—and one remarkable writer—whose experiences remind us that we are not alone.

Three Women

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1958 Edition of Cassell’s German- English Dictionary published by Funk & Wagnalls. Fair condition 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

World Languages

German-English  English-German

The New Cassell’s German Dictionary

New book.  Adventure at sea story in the tradition of Patrick O’Brien set during the American Revolutionary period. 

The Fox and The Faith

James T. de Kay

A history of the Macedonian chronicles the period between its 1810 launch at Woolwich to its burning in 1922 and covers its presence during the War of 1812, the slave trade, the great Irish famine, and the Civil War.

Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Lucia Graves

The Shadow of the Wind

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Becky Cooper

Hardback in excellent condition with dust jacket 

A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

For readers gripped by In Cold Blood and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, We Keep the Dead Close is both a haunting true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at a prestigious institution and a lyrical memoir of obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men. You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget.1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. The professor still taught at the University. On the next telling a story begins to unfold, one that Cooper will follow for 10 years, one of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. Though the rumor prove false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history.

We Keep the Dead Close

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Mieko Kawakami

Sam Bett

David Boyd

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE. On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. The story of these three women reunited in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo is told through the gaze of Natsu--thirty years old, an aspiring writer, haunted by hardships endured in her youth. Over the course of their few days together in the capital, Midoriko's silence will prove a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and family secrets. On yet another blistering summer's day eight years later, Natsu, during a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless. One of Japan's most important and best-selling writers, Mieko Kawakami mixes stylistic inventiveness, wry humor, and riveting emotional depth to tell a story of contemporary womanhood in Japan. Breasts and Eggs recounts the intimate journeys of three women on the path to finding peace and futures they can call their own. "Original and deeply moving...This book is a gift."--Laura van den Berg A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR Vogue・Thrillist・The Millions・ Literary Hub・Now Toronto

Breasts and Eggs

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D. T. Max

Popular science explanation and survey of prion diseases and how the puzzle of what they are was pieced together.  Great overview. 

A Medical Mystery

Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

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Beth Hensperger

This is a large over 600 page book with 30 bread machine recipes.  For some reason I ended up with 2 copies.  This one is pretty much new but there is discoloration on the page edges.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes

The author, a "master baker," reveals how she transcended her skepticism over bread machines and discusses the wide variety of techniques and breads available to home bakers. Simultaneous.

Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

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C. S. Forester

Napoleonic era British naval adventure.  

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

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Nancy Drew Mystery The Mystery of the 99 Steps

The Mystery of the 99 Steps

Nancy Drew Mystery The Secret of The Wooden Lady  no 27. Book is clean but binding is separated at page 46 (see photo) can be taped.


The Secret of the Wooden Lady

Nancy Drew Mystery Nancy’s Mysterious Letter #8

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter

Michael Isikoff

A Reporter's Story

A quarter of a century after "All the President's Men stunned the nation, "Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff gives us an equally explosive behind-the-scenes account of the scandals that rocked the Clinton presidency in his critically acclaimed "New York Times bestseller, Uncovering Clinton. As a reporter for the "Washington Post and "Newsweek, Michael Isikoff established himself as an astute observer of the Clinton presidency. But as he investigated allegations of presidential misconduct, he unwittingly became a primary character in the unfolding drama. This is a story he alone could tell -- not only a gripping narrative populated by an entertainingly bizarre cast of characters, but also a nuanced and scrupulously fair account of the major players and events in the Clinton scandals. It is surely the definitive account of our nation's biggest political scandal since Watergate.

Uncovering Clinton

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Into Thin Air

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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Sarah Vowell

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From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.

Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.

Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.

With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

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Robert Darnton

The Revolutionary Temper

Carolyn Keene

The Clue in the Crumbling Wall

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The Witch Tree Symbol

Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger

Cixin Liu; Ken Liu

The Three-Body Problem

James Hollis

Why Good People Do Bad Things

Gordon D. Sherreffs

Captain Cutlass

Lisa Taddeo

Three Women

Harold T Bettetidge

The New Cassell’s German Dictionary

Dan Parkinson

The Fox and The Faith

James T. de Kay

Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922

Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves

The Shadow of the Wind

Becky Cooper

We Keep the Dead Close

Mieko Kawakami; Sam Bett; David Boyd

Breasts and Eggs

D. T. Max

The Family That Couldn't Sleep

Beth Hensperger

Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

C. S. Forester

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Carolyn Keene

The Mystery of the 99 Steps

Carolyn Keene

The Secret of the Wooden Lady

Carolyn Keene

Nancy’s Mysterious Letter

Michael Isikoff

Uncovering Clinton

Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air

Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance

Sarah Vowell

Unfamiliar Fishes

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