#hardcover #foodwriting #anthology #cookbook

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

A Library of America Special Publication

In this groundbreaking anthology, celebrated food writer Molly O'Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth-watering chapter on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam; William Styron on Southern fried chicken. American writers abroad, like A. J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Craig Claiborne, describe the revelations they found in foreign restaurants; travellers to America, including the legendary French gourmet J. A. Brillat-Savarin, discover such native delicacies as turkey, Virginia barbecue, and pumpkin pie. Great chefs and noted critics discuss their culinary philosophies and offer advice on the finer points of technique; home cooks recount disasters and triumphs. A host of eminent American writers, from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman to Thomas Wolfe, Willa Cather, and Langston Hughes, add their distinctive viewpoints to the mix.

American Food Writing celebrates the astonishing variety of American foodways, with accounts from almost every corner of the country and a host of ethnic traditions: Dutch, Cuban, French, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Irish, Indian, Scandinavian, Native American, African, English, Japanese, and Mexican. A surprising range of subjects and perspectives emerge, as writers address such topics as fast food, hunger, dieting, and the relationship between food and sex. James Villas offers a behind-the-scenes look at gourmet dining through a waiter's eyes; Anthony Bourdain recalls his days at the Culinary Institute of America; Julia Child remembers the humble beginnings of her much-loved television series; Nora Ephron chronicles internecine warfare among members of the "food establishment"; Michael Pollan explores what the label "organic" really means.

Throughout the anthology are more than fifty classic recipes, selected after extensive research from cookbooks both vintage and modern, and certain to instruct, delight, and inspire home chefs.

American Food Writing: an Anthology with Classic Recipes

ef68f47b-81b0-4c04-8112-cf612203230e-1

#hardcover #juvenilefiction #youngadult #shortstories #anthology #diverseanthology #yafiction #flyinglessons 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

Flying Lessons and Other Stories

1acad5a3-ced4-4091-9fee-08b38ca41cc0-1

#historicalromance #fiction #bestsellers #anthology 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This holiday season, steal away with the reigning queens of Regency romance -- plus one or two dukes, an heiress, and a headstrong beauty -- to a surprise snow storm, the comfort of a blazing fire, and the heat of a lover's kisses ...

A CHRISTMAS ABDUCTION by Madeline Hunter
Caroline Dunham has a bone to pick with notorious rake Baron Thornhill--and a creative plan to insure his undivided attention. Yet once in close quarters, she finds herself beholden to their smoldering connection . . .

A PERFECT MATCH by Sabrina Jeffries
Whisked away from a wintry ball by a commanding colonel, Cassandra Isles struggles with her feelings for Lord Heywood. For he is a man sworn to marry only for money--and Cass is an heiress who will accept nothing less than love . . .

ONE WICKED WINTER'S NIGHT by Mary Jo Putney
Dressed as a veiled princess, Lady Diana Lawrence is shocked to discover that the mysterious corsair who tempts her away from the costume ball is the duke she once loved and lost. Now ensconced with Castleton at a remote lodge, will she surrender to the passion still burning hotly between them?

Seduction on a Snowy Night

4ce18f98-77bb-4adf-a63f-f9f14c23bd0e-1

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Each volume offers an inviting mix of classics and less familiar pieces, complemented by concise genre introductions, short headnotes and annotations, brief author biographies, and a glossary of terms. The Readers also include access to innovative writing tips, study and review material, and much more at LitWeb and Norton Literature Online.

The Seagull Reader

1b35e138-c7dc-4299-9490-96ee6572e818-1

California

SIGNED

A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times.

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs

48618590-a035-476b-96c2-240edff55c43-1

#hardcover #nonfiction #family #humor #shortstories #anthology #davidsedaris #paperback p40jvvt

Massachusetts

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

42adfc2c-f1d9-469e-b29c-a0747cd9e3d9-1

#paperback #manga #shojo #anthology I’ve never read this volume, but it’s in excellent condition! No yellowing or spine damage. Check out my bookshelf for other books that tickles your fancy if you want! :)

Stories from the Creator of Fruits Basket

Collects a series of short graphic stories in which young men and women search for the things that mean the most to them, from the love of a deceased father to the perfect, uplifting melody.

Songs to Make You Smile

9f229cba-0d15-4b96-ba5e-189ed136e156-1

Some poems are heavily annotated (example photo included) #hardcover #poetry #poem #classic #shortstories #anthology #classiclit

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Delaware

English

James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's." Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the twentieth century.

This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' The Birds to versions of Brazilian sambas.

Poems, Prose, and Letters also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; and literary essays and statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishop's irresistibly engaging and self-revelatory letters. Of the fifty-three letters included here, written between 1933 and 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, and all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

1c196b6e-b8ec-4b87-a663-69531814dc2d-1

#hardcover #anthology #work #labor #history #rest

Primal curse or sacred duty? Drudgery and toil or the only sure route to human happiness? What we do defines us, and work is the subject of endless fascination. This anthology explores the nature of work and our attitudes to it from God's first punishment to the present day. It draws uponthe imaginative writing of novelists and poets and also on the works of theologians, economists, and philosophers; social investigators and journalists; and diarists, letter writers and autobiographers, all those who have analysed, observed, and portrayed the experience of work.As well as illustrating some of the occupations in which we earn our living, from physical labour to intellectual pursuits, from agriculture and industry to the City and the law courts, The Oxford Book of Work shows how the experience of work has changed over time, and how workers have respondedto, and writers represented, that changing experience. It considers the meaning of work that is done under physical compulsion and out of economic necessity and the validity of housework, schoolwork, and other kinds of unrewarded labour. Rest, leisure, and idleness exist in opposition to work andthe effects of redundancy and retirement are not overlooked. Keith Thomas's magisterial compilation and scintillating introductory essay show that while work provides us with a means of subsistence, it also makes possible all the pleasures and achievements of civilization.

The Oxford Book of Work

b0adb9a0-07bb-4032-82b2-627dda823204-1

#appalachiantrail #hiking #travel #anthology #adventure #essays #poems #geography

Maryland

The longest continuously marked footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail spans 2,140 miles across fourteen states--from Georgia to Maine--and travels through vastly different natural and social environments. Now, in a lively and eye-opening introduction to this national treasure, The Appalachian Trail Reader collects trail diaries, historical and personal essays, and poems that reflect the meaning of this great wilderness trail across both time and geography.
Here are the works of both well-known writers and anonymous raconteurs, including Henry David Thoreau, James Dickey, Aldo Leopold, James MacGregor Burns, Richard Wilbur, and many others. The trail's founding fathers Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery speak here, too, about their visions and plans, while excerpts from Appalachian Trail hikers' journals, from the 1930s to the 1990s, provide a firsthand, intimate portrait of walking the trail. And throughout, scientists' close observation of the natural world mingle with poet's evocations of the sweetness or the rigors of the wilderness experience.
A patchwork quilt of voices, both eloquent and raw, The Appalachian Trail Reader presents a rich introduction to the trail for those planning a walking trip, and a vivid scrapbook for those who have already hiked its mountains or valleys.


The Appalachian Trail Reader

33f755e6-a9fa-4236-9014-911a96b3d966-1

(J3) #hardcover #christmas #fiction #anthology

Texas

Traditional and modern selections capturing the spirit of Christmas are brought together to be read aloud and to enhance the joyfulness of the season

Christmas Treasury of Yuletide Stories and Poems

63fca135-e50f-4fa1-b1a6-dcc07f4b91fc-1

(J3) 1st/3rd, 1991.  Previous owner’s name and sticker on front endpaper, aged block, remainder marked. 

 #deankoontz #anthology #horror #suspense #thriller #firstedition #1stedition

Three Complete Novels - The Servants of Twilight; Darkfall; Phantoms

Dean R. Koontz

674ea91a-ab35-491a-9cba-c787dee34d14-1

#hardcover #children #fairytales #fantasy #fiction #anthology #collection #juvenilefiction 

Pennsylvania

A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore.

The World's Best Fairy Tales

7f1871f0-531f-4b83-8593-646ae6fe07b3-1

#hardcover #anthology #lucycorin #suspense #relationships #drama #humor 

Lucy Corin's dazzling new collection is powered by one hundred apocalypses: a series of short stories, many only a few lines, that illuminate moments of vexation and crisis, revelations and revolutions. An apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but what it exposes is the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate.

Three longer stories are equally visionary: in "Eyes of Dogs," a soldier returns from war and encounters a witch who may in fact be his mother; "Madmen" describes an America where children who reach adolescence choose the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; in "Godzilla versus the Smog Monster," a teenager is flustered by his older, wilder neighbor while California burns on the other side of the continent.

At once mournful and explosively energetic, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses makes manifest the troubled conscience of an uneasy time.


One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

c5e111d8-2ca5-457c-ad5d-13463a9b58e1-1

#hardcover #ghoststories #ghosts #anthology #barnesandnoblebooks #shortstories #ghoststories #halloween #spookystories #horror

Minnesota

Be afraid, be very afraid: really scary things can come in small packages, and these 100 frightening little tales offer big chills and thrills. They represent more than 150 year's worth of writing, and include the greats: H.P. Lovecraft ("The Terrible Old Man"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Stranger"), Lafcadio Hearn ("A Dead Secret"), Oscar Wilde ("The Sphinx Without a Secret"), and J. Sheridan Le Fanu ("The Ghost and the Bone-Setter"). Best of all, a variety of human emotions and behavior come to the fore, from avarice (August Derleth's "Pacific 421") to revenge (Thorp McCluskey's "Black Gold"), from jealousy (Steve Rasnic Tem's "Daddy") to honor (Edith Nesbit's "John Charrington's Wedding") to love (Darrell Schwietzer's "Clocks"). Using a minimum of elements, each ghost story in this collection will entertain, captivate, and evoke a powerful response in readers.
So be warned: you might not want to read these while you're all alone in the house...


100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

8a3c5448-6f7a-4911-b416-3bf288e34755-1

#anthology #theboneyard #horror #deankoontz

The Bone Yard

da5f5515-2ddf-47ee-a3b1-a24f4d821a85-1

Book only, no CDs. History of the first five years of Garth Brooks recording history. Interesting read for country and non-country music fans. #anthology #nonfiction #hardcover #garthbrooks #countrymusic 

Ohio

The First Five Years

Garth Brooks: The Anthology/Part I (Book only, no CDS)

#youngadult #romance #racerelations #anthology #paperback 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Stories about love

Color Outside the Lines

7096e88b-7522-4519-bc6a-6824df98bf09

Nebraska

Myths, tales and stories 

Fantastic worlds 

Book in excellent condition with the exception of a few ripples across the top of the front jacket cover and a tiny tear at top of back cover jacket.   #johnjuliusnorwich #quotes #musings #trivia #funfacts #tidbits #Christmas #anthology

More Christmas Crackers

b372e2f7-2679-4ff5-824f-710811b17979-1

#hardcover #shortstories #shortstory #anthology #mystery #detective #fiction #paulbishop

Hawaii

A Short Story Collection

The first short story collection by Shamus-award winning nominee Bishop shows that he is a talented and diverse storyteller. Bishop writes from his experiences as a detective for the LAPD. In Pattern of Behavior, a Fey Croaker novella written for this collection, Fey and her new partner take on a rapist whose past is about to catch up with him. When a flu epidemic strikes, Fey and her crew are stuck chasing a thief with a penchant for Christmas trees in The Thief of Christmas. And in the Shamus-nominated Quint and the Braceros, Ramon Quintana goes undercover to find the killer of a Mexican Maria don's son.

Pattern of Behavior

8e5fa49f-1934-4391-880f-7c258c178f37-1

Excellent condition because I dogeared 2 pages, but it’s otherwise untouched and like new. #hardcover #fiction #shortstories #youngadult #contemporary #romance #signed #anthology

SIGNED Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles

2c956c55-87a9-4722-9ee9-224bd787ed04-1

New York

An Anthology from Mark Twain to the Onion

New York TimesBestseller

The creator of The New Yorker's long running satirical column and "one of the funniest people in America" pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning)

Library of America's collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who's Who of the very best American comic writing. Classic pieces of American humor appear here, such as "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry and a selection from Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Contemporary writing is well represented, with entries from comedic geniuses like David Sedaris, Larry Willmore, Roy Blount Jr., Sloane Crosby, Bernie Mac, Wanda Sykes, and George Saunders plus laugh-out-loud lesser-known pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and The Onion.


Full List of Contributors
Mark Twain
George Ade
O. Henry
Sinclair Lewis
Anita Loos
Ring Lardner
H. L. Mencken
James Thurber
Dorothy Parker
S. J. Perelman
Langston Hughes
Frank Sullivan
E. B. White
Peter De Vries
Terry Southern
Lenny Bruce
Tom Wolfe
Jean Shepherd
Hunter S. Thompson
Douglas Kenney
Henry Beard
Bruce Jay Friedman
Philip Roth
Nora Ephron
Michael O'Donoghue
George W. S. Trow
Fran Lebowitz
Charles Portis
Donald Barthelme
Veronica Geng
John Hughes
Mark O'Donnell
Garrison Keillor
Bruce McCall
Molly Ivins
Calvin Trillin
Dave Barry
The Onion writers
Susan Orlean
Roy Blount Jr
George Carlin
Ian Frazier
David Rakoff
Bernie Mac
David Sedaris
Wanda Sykes
Jack Handey
David Owen
George Saunders
Jenny Allen
Sloane Crosley
Larry Wilmore

The 50 Funniest American Writers

32642e20-2652-40d2-9ead-e1dcc16bfb97-1

#paperback #fantasy #anthology #Horror #lovecraft 13

Oklahoma

When Jacqueline Fine experiences disturbing visions of a robed man before the crumbling edifice of a city, she's determined to prevent her nightmare from becoming a reality.

Molly O'Neill (Editor)

American Food Writing: an Anthology with Classic Recipes

Ellen Oh (Editor)

Flying Lessons and Other Stories

Mary Jo Putney; Madeline Hunter; Sabrina Jeffries

Seduction on a Snowy Night

Joseph Kelly (Editor)

The Seagull Reader

Leslie Kirk Campbell

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs

David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Takaya Natsuki

Songs to Make You Smile

Robert Giroux (Editor); Lloyd Schwartz (Editor)

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

Keith Thomas (Editor)

The Oxford Book of Work

David Emblidge (Editor)

The Appalachian Trail Reader

James Charlton (Editor); Barbara Gilson (Editor)

Christmas Treasury of Yuletide Stories and Poems

Dean Koontz

Dean R. Koontz

Belle Becker Sideman

The World's Best Fairy Tales

Lucy Corin

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (Selected by); Robert H. Weinberg (Selected by); Martin H. Greenberg

100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

Dean Koontz

The Bone Yard

Garth Brooks with Warren Zanes

Garth Brooks: The Anthology/Part I (Book only, no CDS)

Sangu mandanna

Color Outside the Lines

Eric S. Rabkin

Fantastic worlds

John Julius Norwich

More Christmas Crackers

Paul Bishop

Pattern of Behavior

Natalie C. Parker; Alaya Dawn Johnson; E. K. Johnston; Julie Murphy; Garth Nix; Veronica Roth; Sabaa Tahir; Brenna Yovanoff; Renée Ahdieh; Rae Carson; Brandy Colbert; Katie Cotugno; Lamar Giles; Tessa Gratton; Bethany Hagen; Justina Ireland

SIGNED Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles

Andy Borowitz (Editor)

The 50 Funniest American Writers

John French

The Lies of Solace