A “Time Life” book copywrited 1962, editors Paul Engle and Joseph Langland asked contemporary poets to submit a piece of their choice and a brief note about the poem they picked.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nebraska

Poet’s Choice

Edward Rutherfurd

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Novel

"A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking."--The Orlando Sentinel

A master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through his saga of ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of a half-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the Old World.

Praise for London

"Remarkable . . . The invasion by Julius Caesar's legions in 54 B.C. . . . The rise of chivalry and the Crusades . . . The building of the Globe theatre . . . and the coming of the Industrial Revolution. . . . What a delightful way to get the feel of London and of English history. . . . We witness first-hand the lust of Henry VIII. We overhear Geoffrey Chaucer deciding to write The Canterbury Tales. . . . Each episode is a punchy tale made up of bite-size chunks ending in tiny cliffhangers."--The New York Times

"Hold-your-breath suspense, buccaneering adventure, and passionate tales of love and war."--The Times (London)

"Fascinating . . . A sprawling epic."--San Francisco Chronicle

London

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science -- and art -- of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson.

Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

An Autobiography

Originally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

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Pearl S. Buck

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.

The Good Earth

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Leigh Bardugo

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

"Readers will be wowed." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the sequel to the smash New York Times bestseller Ninth House from #1 bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

"Bardugo's imaginative reach is brilliant." -Stephen King

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory--even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.

Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies' most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.

Thick with history and packed with Bardugo's signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.

Hell Bent

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Jack Kerouac

In this haunting novel of intensely felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up, as Kerouac himself did, in the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouch hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack's fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and texture of his boyhood in Lowell as he relates Jack's adventures with this cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.

Dr. Sax

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Janet Fitch

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.

White Oleander

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Joel Davis

NO DUST-JACKET however a great quality copy besides that.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How Humans Create Language

Mother Tongue

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Sue Miller

A bit of sticker residue on the back cover bar code (pictured).

“Riveting . . . While I Was Gone [celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature.”
–The New York Times

“Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal, and forgiveness into a narrative that shines.”
–Time


Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her memories of that fateful summer in 1968, Jo begins to obsess about the person she once was. As she is pulled farther from her present life, her husband, and her world, Jo struggles against becoming enveloped by her past and its dark secret.


“[While I Was Gone] swoops gracefully between the past and the present, between a woman’s complex feelings about her husband and her equally complex fantasies–and fears–about another man. . . . [Miller writes] well about the trials of faith.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Quietly gripping . . . Jo shines steadily as the flawed and thoroughly modern heroine. As in her 1986 novel, The Good Mother, Miller shows how impulses can fracture the family.”
–USA Today

“Marvelous . . . poignant . . . powerful.”
–Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

While I Was Gone

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John Lloyd Wright

Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.

My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright

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Ernest Hemingway

James A. Michener

NO DUST-JACKET however a very quality copy despite that. :)

The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers.

The Dangerous Summer

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Betty Smith

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Roy Blount

The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof - Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences - With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, this book derives an organic take on language that is unlike any other.

Alphabet Juice

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The Poets Guide to the Birds

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Celtic Myths and Legends

Brian K. Vaughan

Inspired by true events, a provocative graphic novel examines the life on the streets of war-torn Iraq, raising questions about the true meaning of liberation through the experiences of four Lions, who escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid in the spring of 2003.

Pride of Baghdad

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Various Authors

This stunning keepsake comprises more than 30 love poems by world-renowned poets. Poems of Love will be counterbalanced by Poems of Hate--a collection of poems on wrath, jealousy, revenge, and hatred--which is publishing simultaneously.

Poems of Love

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The first forty-nine stories with a brief preface by the author

The Short Stories

“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” —Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works. Filled with tender memories of his first wife Hadley and their son Jack; irreverent portraits of literary luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft, A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. It is an elegy to a remarkable group of expatriates and a testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.

A Moveable Feast

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Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town

Pale Fire

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Forty Nebraska Poets

Complete Poems

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Maurice Sendak

Corners are a little rough and a few bends in pages; all pages very clean and well attached.

Where the Wild Things Are (Spanish Edition), a Caldecott Award Winner

Maurice Sendak's beloved Where the Wild Things Are, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal, is now available in a newly revised Spanish edition exclusive to Harper Arco Iris. Spanish speakers and listeners will now be able to join Max as he sets sail and becomes king of all Wild Things.

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Hell Bent

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Dr. Sax

Janet Fitch

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Joel Davis

Mother Tongue

Sue Miller

While I Was Gone

John Lloyd Wright

My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright

Ernest Hemingway; James A. Michener

The Dangerous Summer

Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Roy Blount

Alphabet Juice

Judith Kitchen & Ted Kooser (editors)

The Poets Guide to the Birds

T. W. Rolleston

Celtic Myths and Legends

Brian K. Vaughan

Pride of Baghdad

Various Authors

Poems of Love

Ernest Hemingway

The Short Stories

Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire

Greg Kuzma (editor)

Forty Nebraska Poets

Ernest Hemingway

Complete Poems

Maurice Sendak

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