Small mark on front cover, otherwise like new condition 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula (3 novels)

Calvin Coolidge

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition

"This book is the forgotten classic of presidential writing--a massive hit in its own time and a model for how today's presidential memoirs might be better. Coolidge was a terrific writer." --Craig Fehrman, author of Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge. Now she presents an expanded and annotated edition of that president's masterful memoir. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is as unjustly neglected as Calvin Coolidge himself. The man caricatured as "Silent Cal" was a gifted writer. The New York Times called him "the most literary man who has occupied the White House since 1865." One biographer wrote that Coolidge's autobiography "displays a literary grace that is lacking in most such books by former presidents." The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility--rare qualities in Washington. The autobiography offers great insight into the man and his philosophy. Calvin Coolidge's leadership provides urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt and government power. Shlaes and coeditor Matthew Denhart, president of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, underscore those lessons in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge's text. This handsome new edition is the first to appear in nearly fifteen years. It includes several of Coolidge's greatest speeches, more than a dozen photographs, a timeline of Coolidge's life, and other new material. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

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Thomas Pynchon

Water damage in back does not affect readability 

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity's Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's "Ulysses" was to the first.

Gravity's Rainbow

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Pages are clean—no markings—see picture of bottom left corner

Vanity Fair

Margaret Atwood

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The internationally bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye delivers her most subversively funny novel yet--a provocative tale of three women caught in a diabolical war between the sexes. Imaginative and suspenseful . . . a virtuoso performance.--Publishers Weekly.

The Robber Bride

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Aldous Huxley

Nicholas Mosley

The first chapter is annotated, but no other markings.

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.

Point Counter Point

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Robert Bloomfield

Despite his literary successes-- publishing six volumes of poetry, a play, and a children's book-- Robert Bloomfield never escaped from poverty or anxiety and died early and in distress. This penniless history supports the description of Bloomfield as the most successful of the self-taught "peasant poets" of the Romantic period and underscores the incredible odds that any of his writings should be discovered at all. This selection of Bloomfield's poems was originally published in 1998 and was the first scholarly edition of his work. Bloomfield believed that his patron, Capel Lofft, had altered the text excessively, and so this edition has completely restored Bloomfield's own, much fresher text from the autobiographical manuscript at Harvard University. Revised and enlarged, this version also includes a selection of Bloomfield's prose prefaces and explanatory notes, a chronology of his life, and a list of further reading.

Robert Bloomfield: Selected Poems

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Huxley Aldous

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and -- to his amazement -- give him hope.

Island

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St. Mawr & The Man Who Died

David Herbert Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence's landmark volume of writings on American literature includes major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. This edition is newly corrected and uncensored and includes four versions of Lawrence's pioneering essay on Whitman.

Studies in Classic American Literature

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Jane Smiley

A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.

A Thousand Acres

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Benedict Anderson

Social Studies

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism...

Imagined Communities

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William R. Stegner

Spine title: Narrative theology. Includes bibliographical references.

Narrative Theology in Early Jewish Christianity

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Main Street

W. Somerset Maugham

A young man struggling for self-realization is caught up in a destructive love affair

Of Human Bondage

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Kamala Markandaya

Indira Ganesan

Featuring a new introduction, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Reissue.

Nectar in a Sieve

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Leo Tolstoy

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Charlotte Brontë

Susan Ostrov Weisser

Oscar. Wilde

Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1847,Charlotte Brontë’sJane Eyreis an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature. Poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and the later torture of boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employer—the dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears apart their relationship, forcing Jane to face poverty and isolation once again. One of the world’s most beloved novels,Jane Eyreis a startlingly modern blend of passion, romance, mystery, and suspense.

Jane Eyre

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Emily. Dickinson

The jacket is a little dirty, but the book itself is in excellent condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Jamie Fuller

In her fictionalization of Emily Dickinson's diary, Jamie Fuller paints a fascinating picture that will deepen any reader's understanding and appreciation of one of America's greatest and most enduring poets. Line drawings throughout.

The Diary of Emily Dickinson

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Yann Martel

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a son he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Mirror Machine", is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine in his grandmother's attic. The man's fascination with the object is juxtaposed with the longwinded reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother.

Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.



The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

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C. S. Lewis

With a New Introduction of the Three Books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality

Mere Christianity

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Michael Lucey

Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

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The Misfit of the Family

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Roy A. Rappaport

Meyer Fortes

Jack Goody

Edmund Leach

Stanley Tambiah

Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.

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