Stella Dong

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City

Shanghai at the turn of the twentieth century was the place to be. Opium was all the rage, parties were wild, and decadence was a way of life. Journalist Stella Dong looks back on a city that in its heyday was a thrilling combination of Las Vegas, the Wild West, Paris in the '20s, and Chicago during Prohibition. She captures the excitement of its most notorious years -- the decades before Mao's revolution -- when the city was populated with bankers, gangsters, revolutionaries, drug traffickers, gamblers, world royalty, industrial magnates, celebrities, and heiresses. Shanghai was the one place on the globe where no restrictions were placed on immigration. As a result, political refugees and outlaws sought its sanctuary. At that time, this truly international city was free of a central government's scrutiny and quickly became a breeding ground for revolutionary activity. This lively biography describes the thrill and excitement of those years.

Shanghai

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Jud Newborn

Annette Dumbach

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

"From its inception to its end, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is an account of German resistance to the Third Reich. Subject of the German film Sophie Scholl: The Last Days, this is the story of five university students and their professor, who, as the White Rose group, launched a clandestine campaign against the Third Reich. Declaring "We will not be silent! We are your bad conscience!" they exhorted the German people to stand up and fight for freedom, and risked all to reveal the persecution of the Jews months before news reached the outside world." "The narrative takes the reader from the early days of their crusade through their arrest and interrogation, and sets the historical and emotional stage for their daring exploits against one of the most terrifying regimes in history. Summarily executed for treason, they are now regarded as iconic figures of resistance the world over." "Included in the book are all seven of the original leaflets, transcripts of the trial and sentencing, photographs of the group members, and a foreword by author and radio personality Studs Terkel, making this an invaluable addition to World War II literature and window into human resilience."--BOOK JACKET.

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

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Oregon

The Way We Lived

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alabama

The Art Institute of Chicago

With this attractively designed little volume, even the most confirmed armchair traveller can tour one of the world's finest art collections. The 300 full-colour illustrations have been carefully chosen by the museum's director to highlight the very best of this outstanding collection.

Treasures of 19th and 20th Century Painting

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Arthur Miller

Small tear in dust jacket, but book is in excellent condition otherwise. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Life

Timebends

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William Faulkner

Utah

The Sound and the Fury

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Tony Hillerman

Wisconsin

Investigating the discovery of a skeleton at one of the holiest places in Navajo religion, Jim Chee and the newly retired Joe Leaphorn realize that the body is that of a missing person from one of Joe's long-unsolved past cases. 350,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Fallen Man

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Cynthia Kadohata

West Virginia

Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. Reader's Guide available. A Newbery Medal Book & ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.

Kira-Kira

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Cleveland Amory

Retired school library book. School’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back covers. Interior pages are in excellent condition. 

North Carolina

The Cat Who Came for Christmas

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Natalie Jenner

Ohio

A Novel

The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future.

Every Time We Say Goodbye

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Michigan

The Other Half of History

⭐ Women in Peace and War, 1900-1945

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Retired school classroom book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

When I was Young in the Mountains

Lisa Miles

Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out in the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

This book reveals a hundred years of major change and development, from the causes of World War One to the challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century.

Atlas of the 20th Century

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Mary Morris

Florida

"In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a saloon, lost three of their boys on the SS Eastland when it sank in 1915. Each family holds out hope that one of their remaining children will rise to carry on the family business. But Benny Lehrman has no interest in making hats. His true passion is piano--especially jazz. At night he sneaks down to the South Side, slipping into predominantly black clubs to hear jazz groups play. One night he is called out and asked to sit in on a group. His playing is first-rate, and the other musicians are impressed"--Amazon.com.

The Jazz Palace

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Massachusetts

The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century

In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to be unwed.

Drawing extensively on primary sources, including private journals, newspaper stories, magazine articles, advertisements, films, and other materials from popular media, Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women -- and the way they were perceived -- throughout the decades. From the nineteenth-century spinsters, of New England to the Bowery girls of New York City, from the 1920s flappers to the 1940s working women of the war years and the career girls of the 1950s and 1960s, single women have fought to find and feel comfortable in that room of their own. One need only look at Bridget Jones and the Sex and the City gang to see that single women still maintain an uneasy relationship with the rest of society -- and yet they radiate an aura of glamour and mystery in popular culture.

As witty as it is well researched, as thoughtful as it is lively, Bachelor Girl is a must-read for women everywhere.

Bachelor Girl

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New York

Great Mysteries of the 20th Century

The Eventful 20th Century

Ayn Rand

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb?

We the Living

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Erik Larson

First edition, in pristine condition. See photos. 

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

Thunderstruck

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Edith Warton

Jeffrey Meyers

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp'z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix] series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
 * New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
 * Biographies of the authors
 * Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
 * Footnotes and endnotes
 * Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
 * Comments by other famous authors
 * Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
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 * Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
 
Edith Wharton’s dark view of society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel The House of Mirth. Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New York socialite Lily Bart falls in love with lawyer Lawrence Selden, whose lack of money spoils their chances for happiness together. Dubious business deals and accusations of liaisons with a married man diminish Lily’s social status, and as she makes one bad choice after another, she learns how venal and brutally unforgiving the upper crust of New York can be.

One of America’s finest novels of manners, The House of Mirth is a beautifully written and ultimately tragic account of the human capacity for cruelty.


Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has published forty-three books, including biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, and George Orwell.

The House of Mirth

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Texas

Selected Stories

Spans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes"

Where I'm Calling From

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She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure--stormy, glittery, tragic, but never dull.
Married at seventeen to one of the most colorful and ruthless of the great robber barons, she had known both the famous and interestingly infamous of two continents; had seen the gaudy world of the great Fifth Avenue chateaus come into being, flourish and decay; and now observed with wise, weary eyes the mad, turbulent world of the twentieth century.

At eight-four, she still had more zest for life than any of her descendants, all whom--with the exception of her great-granddaughter Janie--she privately despised. Charming people--but a sorry and disappointing lot who had inherited all the arrogance but none of the salty lustiness, the unscrupulousness but not the daring, that had won the Major, her husband, the friendship of Edward VII and had made her love him to the end in spite of his ruthlessness and infidelities.

And upon the thin, erect shoulders of Mrs. Parkington, her children still piled the problems with which they themselves had neither wisdom nor courage to cope.

Louis Bromfield has written a charming love story, a long, nostalgic novel which covers one of the most exciting, multi-colored periods of American history. A meretricious age, flashy, fantastic, corrupt, it was also an age of giants, of strength and growth and great visions. He has filled a dramatic and richly crowded story with people who are unmistakably of their era, whether it is the world of the nineteenth century, the pre-war period, or the confusing revolutionary world of today.

In Mrs. Parkington, Bromfield has created his most unforgettable character.

Mrs. Parkington

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Discover the war that shaped the modern world - and the history of this global conflict

Now in Paperback!

Discover the war that shaped the modern world in Eyewitness: World War II. From the pre-war rise of Nazi Germany to the start of the war with the invasion of Poland in 1939 to Japan singing the surrender agreement in 1945, all aspects of the deadliest conflict in human history are covered in great detail with content that is accessible and appropriate for young readers.

For over 25 years, DK's Eyewitness books have been the most trusted nonfiction series in classrooms, libraries, and homes around the world. In summer 2014 this award-winning series will get a fresh new look both inside and out. The introduction of paperback editions, eye-catching jackets, and updated interiors ensure that the Eyewitness series will continue to be relevant in the ever-changing world of education and remain the go-to source for homework help, research projects, reluctant readers, ESL students, and, as always, to satisfy the minds of curious kids.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

⭐ World War II (book & CD)

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Tim O'Brien

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Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam, in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness

The Things They Carried

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Stella Dong

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Jud Newborn; Annette Dumbach

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The Way We Lived

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Treasures of 19th and 20th Century Painting

Arthur Miller

Timebends

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Cleveland Amory

The Cat Who Came for Christmas

Natalie Jenner

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Fiona MacDonald

⭐ Women in Peace and War, 1900-1945

Cynthia Rylant

When I was Young in the Mountains

Lisa Miles

Atlas of the 20th Century

Mary Morris

The Jazz Palace

Betsy Israel

Bachelor Girl

Reader’s Digest

The Eventful 20th Century

Ayn Rand

We the Living

Erik Larson

Thunderstruck

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Where I'm Calling From

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⭐ World War II (book & CD)

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The Things They Carried

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