Charlotte MacLeod

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The inimitable Professor Peter Shandy and his wife, Helen, are hot on the trail of a kidnapper and a murderer in the tenth adventure by the award-winning author of Something in the Water. MacLeod serves up unalloyed pleasure.--Publishers Weekly.

Exit the Milkman

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Peter Matthiessen

Spine is uncreased, some small scuffs and wear at the corners and along the edges.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart".

The Snow Leopard

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Vintage 1959 Grove Press Unexpurgated (uncensored) edition.

Spine is lightly creased.

Lady Chatterly's Lover

Neil Gaiman

Ex-library book, still has some tags and library stamps that have been crossed out.

A Novel

One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life. Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie. Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself. Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."

Anansi Boys

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Anthology of science fiction published in 2008. Authors include Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, and Ian McDonald.

Dustjacket has a crease on one of the tongues.

Galactic Empires

Mike Resnick

Spine is creased, outside of pages are yellowed by age.

Alternate Presidents

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Lou Aronica

Spine is creased, one page has a tear, there is some wear and scuffing to the edges of the cover and along the spine. First page has a name and date inscribed in pen of a former owner.

Here for the first time anywhere are 25 all-new stories from the leading edge of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. Bold, shocking, sly and visionary, these astonishing stories have one thing in common: they push the imagination to its limits--and then beyond.

Full Spectrum

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Book Club Edition printed in 1970.

Several tears in dust cover, discoloration on the back dust cover, scuffing and general wear along the spine.

Passenger to Frankfurt

Hardcover edition printed in 1966.

Tear on bottom of dust cover, some scuffing and general wear along edges of dust cover particularly at corners. 

Third Girl

Yukio Mishima

Ivan Morris

Front and back cover has some small discolorations, front bottom corner is creased, pages are extensively inscribed. Lots of notes!

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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David Attenborough

Dust jacket is damaged on top edge near spine.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Life on Earth

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A Portrait of the Earth

This book discusses and pictures life in various environments such as deserts, grasslands, oceans, and the sky.

The Living Planet

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Laura Esquivel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical ranch must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. A first novel. National ad/promo. Tour.

Like Water for Chocolate

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

America 1900-1999

Letters of the Century

George W. Aguilar

Discoloration of cover, small star sticker in back cover.

Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation

In this remarkable personal memoir and tribal history, we learn about Aguilar's people, the Kiksht-speaking Eastern Chinookans, who lived and worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds of the Columbia River at Five Mile Rapids.

When the River Ran Wild!

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Frans de Waal

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." --Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic


Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition--in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos--to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal--and human--intelligence.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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Stephen Jay Gould

Cover is discolored, cover along spine is scuffed.

Reflections in Natural History

Essays from the author's column This view of life, published in Natural history.

Bully for Brontosaurus

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Robert Hughes

The Fraying of America

Met lit. opg. Critical description of various aspects of American culture. One chapter is mainly concerned with American censorship concerning the arts.

Culture of Complaint

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Arne Westerman

Burt Silverman

How to Become a Famous Artist Through Pain and Suffering with Many Almost-True-To-Life Cases Plus Easy-To-Follow Greatness Directions

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Kenn Oberrecht

Some discoloration of the outside edge of pages, front bottom corner of cover is bent.

Oregon and Washington: Scenic Driving Tours along Coastal Highways

Continue up Highway 101 along the panoramic coastline of Oregon and Washington to view rocky cliffs, crashing surf, and pristine villages. Learn interesting facts and colorful history about communities from Brookings, Oregon, all the way to the Canadian border. "The best way to see the panoramic Pacific Coast is to drive, and the best way to drive is with these books beside you. These two books are an encyclopedia of destinations of the coastal communities, both large and small". The Longview News Journal

Driving the Pacific Coast

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Sally G. McMillen

Spine has some damage along thw top edge.

Black and White in the Old South

Unlike their Northern counterparts, Southern women lived in relative obscurity, giving rise to, and often making them victims of, myth and exaggeration. In Southern Women, Professor McMillen considers diaries, letters, and other personal accounts as well as the latest scholarly research to present an alternate view into the lives of antebellum Southern women, helping to dispel myths about how these women lived. This intriguing narrative assesses similarites and differences among the various classes of Southern women, as well as interracial and class relationships. A wholly new chapter on Southern women and the Confederacy--including rare scholarship on yeoman and poor farmwives--and photographic essay help make the second edition of this versatile text ideal as supplementary reading in the U.S. History survey as well as in courses on Southern, Social, and Women's, and African American History.

Southern Women

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Joe Conason

James Roosevelt

Al Franken

How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal

Social Security is facing the most serious, well-financed, and determined threat to its existence since its inception in 1935. For Americans to make sense of the barrage of conflicting messages on the subject, it's necessary to understand who is behind the campaign to "reform" Social Security, what the campaign aims to achieve, and how it misrepresents its goals. Best-selling author Joe Conason exposes why and how this is happening. "The Raw Deal explores the Right's privatization goals, Bush's hard-fought privatization campaign (built on a stacked "study"), the corporate interests behind the plan, the media campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security, and how the swindle can be stopped. Conason's no-apologies, no-nonsense approach clears up the myriad misperceptions surrounding this important, confusing issue and gets to the truth about the big Social Security bluff.

The Raw Deal

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Some Die Eleoquent

Bernard Cornwell

Cover has corner torn off and tearing on the bottom edge.

"It was a bloody awful shot," Sharpe said. "My mother could lay a gun better than that." "I didn't think you had a mother," Private Garrard said. "Everyone's got a mother, Tom." "Not Sergeant Hakeswill," Garrard said, then spat a mix of dust and spittle. . . . "Hakeswill was spawned of the devil." Richard Sharpe—Soldier, hero, rogue—the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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Charlotte MacLeod

Exit the Milkman

Peter Matthiessen

The Snow Leopard

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Lady Chatterly's Lover

Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys

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Galactic Empires

Mike Resnick

Alternate Presidents

Lou Aronica

Full Spectrum

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Passenger to Frankfurt

Agatha Christie

Third Girl

Yukio Mishima; Ivan Morris

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

David Attenborough

Life on Earth

David Attenborough

The Living Planet

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate

Lisa Grunwald; Stephen J. Adler

Letters of the Century

George W. Aguilar

When the River Ran Wild!

Frans de Waal

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Stephen Jay Gould

Bully for Brontosaurus

Robert Hughes

Culture of Complaint

Arne Westerman; Burt Silverman

How to Become a Famous Artist Through Pain and Suffering with Many Almost-True-To-Life Cases Plus Easy-To-Follow Greatness Directions

Kenn Oberrecht

Driving the Pacific Coast

Sally G. McMillen

Southern Women

Joe Conason; James Roosevelt; Al Franken

The Raw Deal

Catherine Aird

Some Die Eleoquent

Bernard Cornwell

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