Nigel Slater

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

The Story of a Boy's Hunger

"Toast" is Slater's extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. A bestseller and award-winner in the United Kingdom, "Toast" is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond.

Toast

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Jonas A. Clark

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Jezebel is the warrior goddess who has gone unchallenged in our generation. This book will expose, in detail, the working of this spirit in the earth today.

Jezebel, Seducing Goddess of War

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Joshilyn Jackson

Author

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: a husband who's easing out the back door; and a best friend, who's laying siege to her heart in her front yard. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right; and the Crabtrees, who won't forget how they were done wrong. Now, in Between, Georgia, a feud that began the night Nonny was born is escalating and threatening to expose family secrets. Ironically, it might be just what the town needs...if only Nonny weren't stuck in between.

Between, Georgia

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Barry Denenberg

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia 1864

The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

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Walter L. Arnstein

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

1830 to the Present

This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century.

Britain Yesterday and Today

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Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw

Douglas P. Love

Renzo Gracie

Library discard with stamps/stickers. Clean, text unmarked, binding tight. 

My Wild Ride from Outlaw Biker to Undercover Cop

In 1977, Wayne 'Big Chuck' Bradshaw was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path. His toughness led to a heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. In Jersey Tough, Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets.

Jersey Tough

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John Strausbaugh

Clean, binding tight, faint reading crease

A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II

From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs; of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist sympathizers; of war protesters and conscientious objectors; of gangsters and hookers and profiteers; of latchkey kids and bobby-soxers, poets and painters, atomic scientists and atomic spies. While the war launched and leveled nations, spurred economic growth, and saw the rise and fall of global Fascism, New York City would eventually emerge as the new capital of the world. From the Gilded Age to VJ-Day, an array of fascinating New Yorkers rose to fame, from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Langston Hughes to Joe Louis, to Robert Moses and Joe DiMaggio. In VICTORY CITY, John Strausbaugh returns to tell the story of New York City's war years with the same richness, depth, and nuance he brought to his previous books, City of Sedition and The Village, providing readers with a groundbreaking new look into the greatest city on earth during the most transformative -- and costliest -- war in human history.

Victory City

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Anuradha Rao

Library discard with stampsstickers. Clean, text unmarked, binding tight. 

People of Color Protecting Our Planet

One Earth profiles Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] who live and work as environmental defenders. These twenty short biographies feature diverse activists of all ages from around the world. From saving ancient trees on the West Coast of Canada to protecting the Irrawaddy dolphins of India, learn about these environmental heroes and how they went from being kids who cared about the environment to leaders in their field. Book jacket.

One Earth

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Sam Sugar

The Perfect Crime

Imagine a system of justice in this country that strips its citizens of their Constitutional rights, voids their existing legal documents, gives others the right to spend their money and sell their assets, isolates them, and has the ability to limit the time they can spend with their loved ones. While you may be thinking of the criminal justice system, the previous description refers to a parallel system that preys on the elderly and is determined to deem them unable to care for themselves. It is a system that allows those in control to take full advantage of their "wards of the state"--legally and under the watchful eyes of judges. It is called guardianship.

Guardianship exists in every state, and while it has gone under the radar for many decades, Dr. Sam Sugar's new book, Guardianships and the Elderly, sheds light on this system, which enables those in-the-know to commit "the perfect crime." Dr. Sugar, a licensed physician and president of the Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship (AAAPG), as well as a victim of the system himself, has written a unique guide that can be used by anyone caught up in the world of guardianship.

The book begins by looking at the history of guardianship--from ancient times till today. It then provides a clear overview of how this system is set up to work--from the triggers that set it off to the different groups of people that make up the process: the judges, the guardians, and all their associates. The book goes on to detail the responsibilities given to these players and describes how easily they can manipulate the system to their own advantage. It also presents an accurate picture of just how difficult it is to free a family member from the system. There are things loved ones can do to fight the system, to be sure, but many obstacles and pitfalls await them in the battle.  This book is meant to prepare the reader for these eventualities and includes a comprehensive glossary, a helpful resource section, and a number of documents that may prove useful in the pursuit of real justice.

While the press has exposed some of the most heinous crimes committed by guardians, for the most part, those who know how to work the system continue to plunder their victims' estates. Guardianships and the Elderly is designed to explain the guardianship process clearly and make the reader aware of the common violations carried out by court insiders and their affiliates. The information found in this book can serve as a powerful tool when it comes to uncovering their crimes.

Guardianships and the Elderly

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Mattea Kramer et al /National Priorities Project

From history of the budget process to detail about the ongoing conflict in Washington, from charts explaining where every federal dollar goes to simple explanations of budget terminology, this book covers it all. A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget is for every American who wants to understand and participate in a process that affects all of us. It serves as a foundation for the novice reader, a reference tool for a more advanced audience, and is perfect for high school and college classroom use. Released to coincide with the fiscal year 2013 budget process and the 2012 presidential election, this guide includes up-to-the-minute numbers and explanation of President Obama’s 2013 budget request.

A People's Guide to the Federal Budget

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Robert Macfarlane

From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles. In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of the British archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall and from Cumbria to Suffolk, offering themed glossaries of hundreds of these rare, deeply local, poetical terms, organized by such geographical terrains as flatlands, uplands, waterlands, coastlands, woodlands, and underlands. Interspersed with this archive of place words are biographical essays in which Macfarlane writes of his favorite authors who have paid close attention to the natural world and who embody in their own work the huge richness of place language—from Barry Lopez and John Muir to Nan Shepard, J. A. Baker, and Roger Deakin. Landmarks is a book about the power of language and how it can become a way to know and love landscape, from a writer acclaimed for his own precision of utterance and distinctive, lyrical voice.

Landmarks

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Christopher Buckley

A Novel

Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump's White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president's reelection campaign.

Make Russia Great Again

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Sunny Baker

Kim Baker

Everything You Need to Know about Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Your RV

The Rver's Bible is the ultimate guide to living and traveling in a recreational vehicle.  From purchasing, maintaining, and driving the rig to navigating the emotional pitfalls of life on the road, this handbook covers all the bases. Now revised and updated, the RVer's Bible keeps you up-to-date with all the new technologies and systems of the 21st century RV.

The RVer's Bible

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Colista Moore

21st edition

A Student's Dictionary and Gazetteer

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Richard Pipes

Library discard with stamps. First end paper removed. Few pages with underlines

A History

From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea. With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. Drawing on much new information, Richard Pipes explains the countryis evolution from the 1917 revolution to the Great Terror and World War II, global expansion and the Cold War chess match with the United States, and the regime's decline and ultimate collapse. There is no more dramatic story in modern history, nor one more crucial to master, than that of how the writing and agitation of two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers named Marx and Engels led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.

Communism

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T. J. Tomasi

Mike Adams

Mike Corcoran

Library discard with stamps, stickers. Text unmarked. 

In How to Break 90, two PGA teaching pros offer a sensible approach to shooting sub-90 scores by eliminating the most dreaded numbers on a scorecard--double, triple, and quadruple bogeys. They focus on simple strategies, such as playing toward a personal par of "level fives" and how to finish the job on the green.

How to Break 90: an Easy Approach for Breaking Golf's Toughest Scoring Barrier

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Marc McCutcheon

Intended for writers who need authentic background for their writing, but makes a hipper-dipper read for the rest of us palookas, too. Covers popular slang as well as the terms and lingo specific to Prohibition, the Depression, WWII, the crime world, transportation, fashion, radio, and music and dance. Includes chronologies of events, movies, books, and songs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition to World War II

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Simon Schama

Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

In this magnificently illustrated cultural history--the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews--Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds.

It spans the millennia and the continents--from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain.

In The Story of the Jews, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are sung, mules are packed, ships loaded with spice and gems founder at sea.

And a great story unfolds. Not--as often imagined--of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians.

Which makes the story of the Jews everyone's story, too.

The Story of the Jews Volume One

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Sanna Feirstein

Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names

New York Historical Society docent Feirstein has written a historically rich guide to New York City that will entertain both New Yorkers and tourists as they walk through the Big Apple. The histories of the city's major neighborhoods, as well as the history of their names divide the book into sections, the remainder of which contains the names of streets, parks, plazas, corners, alleys, and avenues in that neighborhood and the history of each name. The guide is illustrated with bandw photos of New York's illustrious folk. c. Book News Inc.

Naming New York

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John Maddox Roberts

Unmarked, reading creases, binding starting to crack, lightly age-toned

"Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer, a relative of Decius and his family and the head of a powerful political clan, has been poisoned, and his infamous wife Clodia is immediately suspected of disposing of her rather inconvenient husband. Not entirely convinced of Clodia's guilt, Decius delves into the intricacies of Rome's ruling class and discovers that a clandestine, forbidden witches' cult is inextricably intertwined with some very highborn people. A trial for Clodia would be most unwelcome, as it could bring to light some well-kept secrets. To get to the bottom of the corruption that accompanies the intoxicating allure of this ancient city, Decius must form an uneasy alliance with Clodius, Clodia's brother and his sworn enemy, and be extremely careful not to step on any toes."--BOOK JACKET.

SPQR V: Saturnalia

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1974 BOMC Edition. Unmarked, binding sound. Small tears at Jacket edge. 

All the President’s Men

Andrew Hussey

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Secret History

If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau's photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf's serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much to romance and love poems as to prostitution and opium dens. The many pieces of the city coexist, each one as real as the next. What's more, the conflicted identity of the city is visible everywhere--between cobblestones, in bars, on the métro.

In this lively and lucid volume, Andrew Hussey brings to life the urchins and artists who've left their marks on the city, filling in the gaps of a history that affected the disenfranchised as much as the nobility. Paris: The Secret History ranges across centuries, movements, and cultural and political beliefs, from Napoleon's overcrowded cemeteries to Balzac's nocturnal flight from his debts. For Hussey, Paris is a city whose long and conflicted history continues to thrive and change. The book's is a picaresque journey through royal palaces, brothels, and sidewalk cafés, uncovering the rich, exotic, and often lurid history of the world's most beloved city.

Paris

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François Fressin

Martin Rees

The 50 Most Mindblowing Discoveries in Astronomy, Each Explained in Half a Minute

How hot is Venus? Can you distinguish between a pulsar and a quasar? Is there a universe or a multiverse? Where do we fit into the infinitely grand scheme of things? This book takes you on a cosmic tour, shedding light on objects and places, explaining some big ideas, concepts and discoveries.

30-Second Astronomy

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Myra K. Frommer

Harvey Frommer

Unmarked, lightly age-toned, binding sound

An Oral History of Growing up in the Borough in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s

In an oral history of growing up in the borough in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, the authors of the acclaimed It Happened in the Catskills return to a way of life that in many details exists now only as a memory. A handsomely designed and illustrated album that celebrates a special time and place.

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