Mark Twain

736 pages all things Mark Twain. “The year 2010 marks the rooth anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.” - from book description

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

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Timothy Keller

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller--whose books have sold millions of copies to both religious and secular readers--explores one of the most difficult questions we must answer in our lives: Why is there pain and suffering?

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering is the definitive Christian book on why bad things happen and how we should respond to them. The question of why there is pain and suffering in the world has confounded every generation; yet there has not been a major book from a Christian perspective exploring why they exist for many years.

The two classics in this area are When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, which was published more than thirty years ago, and C. S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain, published more than seventy years ago. The great secular book on the subject, Elisabeth Ku¨bler-Ross's On Death and Dying, was first published in 1969. It's time for a new understanding and perspective, and who better to tackle this complex subject than Timothy Keller?

As the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, Timothy Keller is known for the unique insights he shares, and his series of books has guided countless readers in their spiritual journeys. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering will bring a much-needed, fresh viewpoint on this important issue.

Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering

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Caitlin Freeman

Fun book to combine with art appreciation.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections, and Frozen Treats Based on Iconic Works of Art [a Baking Book]

Taking cues from works by Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, and Matisse, pastry chef Caitlin Freeman, of Miette bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee fame, creates a collection of uniquely delicious dessert recipes (with step-by-step assembly guides) that give readers all they need to make their own edible masterpieces.

From a fudge pop based on an Ellsworth Kelly sculpture to a pristinely segmented cake fashioned after Mondrian's well-known composition, this collection of uniquely delicious recipes for cookies, parfait, gelées, ice pops, ice cream, cakes, and inventive drinks has everything you need to astound friends, family, and guests with your own edible masterpieces.

Taking cues from modern art's most revered artists, these twenty-seven showstopping desserts exhibit the charm and sophistication of works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Avedon, Wayne  Thiebaud, and more. Featuring an image of the original artwork alongside a museum curator's perspective on the original piece and detailed, easy-to-follow directions (with step-by-step assembly guides adapted for home bakers), Modern Art Desserts will inspire a kitchen gallery of stunning treats.

Modern Art Desserts

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Edgar Poe

James Prunier

Clean pages. Poe short stories with illustrations and added helps in margins. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Gold-Bug, the Oval Portrait, The Cask of Amontillado, Some Words With a Mummy, the Tell-Tale Heart, the Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Gold Bug" and "The Oval Portrait" are two of the pieces included in this illustrated compilation of Poe's stories. Simultaneous.

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

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James Newton

Amazing testimony to the power of friendship in spurring on creativity and invention.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh

Describes the author's friendship with five influential people and portrays their characters and personal lives

Uncommon Friends

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Oscar Wilde

Camille Cauti

Torn page - 1st page. Pages yellowed but clean.

The handsome appearance of dissolute young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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R. C. Sproul

Inscription on inside cover. Underlining and marginalia on chapters 25-51. (See photo)

St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary

In John, the second volume in the St. Andrew's Expositional Commentary series, Dr. Sproul deals with major themes in his easily understandable style. Readers will find invaluable insights into the goals John had in writing his Gospel, the background for Jesus' time, and the meanings of some of John's most difficult passages. This introduction to the Gospel of John is packed with insights and exhortations that will draw the reader closer to the Savior and encourage him or her to a greater depth of love and devotion to Him. John presents the fruits of Dr. R.C. Sproul's lifetime of biblical study as expressed in his most recent calling. After a long and distinguished ministry as a teacher in various settings, Dr. Sproul accepted a call in 1997 to preach at St. Andrew's in Sanford, Florida. There, he adopted the ancient practice of preaching through books of the Bible, eventually working his way through several of them.

John

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George M. Marsden

Pages yellowing. Library stamp on title page. Otherwise clean copy.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Life

 A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and winner of the 2004 Bancroft Prize and of the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize

 

"The finest biography of this towering figure. . . . Marsden guides readers through Edwards's profoundly alien world with authority and fluidity."--Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly



A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared--a frontier civilization at the center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly available sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and religious battles shaped Edwards's life and thought. Marsden reveals Edwards as a complex thinker and human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment. In this, Edwards's life anticipated the deep contradictions of our American culture.

 

Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.

Jonathan Edwards

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Elizabeth Yates

The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

Amos Fortune, Free Man

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Sterling North

For all animal lovers. Pages a little yellow. Clean copy 

A Memoir of a Better Era

The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon.

Rascal

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Mary Mills

Patricia M. St. John

Many fond memories of reading this aloud to my children. One bent page corner. See photo.

A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance

Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette gets Lucien into trouble at school, he decides to get back at her by threatening the most precious thing in the world to her: her little brother Dani. But tragedy strikes. Annette is so filled with rage that she sets out to alienate and humiliate Lucien at every turn. As Lucien seeks to repent and restore, light floods both of their dark hearts and Christ proves that He makes all things new.

Treasures of the Snow

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Martha Stewart Living Magazine

At Christmas time Martha Stewart cookies are abundant at our house. Book has some marks on cover. Inside is clean.

The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share: a Baking Book

Provides nearly two hundred recipes for cookies of all shapes, sizes, and textures, as well as tips on tools, techniques, and packaging ideas.

Martha Stewart's Cookies

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Amor Towles

A Novel

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

A Gentleman in Moscow

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Cormac McCarthy

Border Trilogy (1)

Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure

All the Pretty Horses

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Alexander McCall Smith

Unread copy but pages are a little yellowed

#6 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Precious Ramotswe is challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a vistor who forces her to confront a painful secret from her past.

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

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Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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#7 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office.

Blue Shoes and Happiness

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Copy looks unread. Pages are yellowed - see photo 

#8 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Detective Precious Ramotswe has her hands full with her assistant's resignation, as well as a set of cases involving unexplained deaths at a nearby hospital, an allegedly cheating husband, and thievery at a local printing company.

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

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My daughters’ are enjoying going through this series lately.

#10 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

#9 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Precious Ramotswe heads to a Botswana game preserve to investigate the death of an elderly American tourist, while at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mma Ramotswe's husband suddenly decides to mortgage the garage.

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

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My daughters’ are enjoying reading through these lately

#5 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

Worrying about her upcoming marriage, Precious Ramotswe is confronted by the challenges of running her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and an investigation into the would-be suitors of a wealthy woman to determine if any are fortune hunters.

The Full Cupboard of Life

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

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John Steinbeck

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. "A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." —The New York Times

Of Mice and Men

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Vintage book. 2 places writing in pen (see photos). No book jacket.

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Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Timothy Keller

Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering

Caitlin Freeman

Modern Art Desserts

Edgar Poe; James Prunier (illus)

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

James Newton

Uncommon Friends

Oscar Wilde; Camille Cauti (intro & notes)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

R. C. Sproul

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George M. Marsden

Jonathan Edwards

Elizabeth Yates

Amos Fortune, Free Man

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Rascal

Patricia M. St. John, Mary Mills (revised by)

Treasures of the Snow

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Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

Alexander McCall Smith

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Blue Shoes and Happiness

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith

The Full Cupboard of Life

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Kidnapped

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

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