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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Novel 

An amnesiac writer's life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author. As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he's written two well-received books. It's his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he's been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can't remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible... Now, after years of burying and reinventing his past, Matija must confront it. Longing for connection, he might even win back the love of his life. But discovering the profound fears he has suppressed has its risks. Finally seeing the real world he emerged from could upend it all over again.

Dark Mother Earth

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly impressed with the accessibility of his language, and Williams's widely quoted dictum, "No ideas but in things," influenced a generation of American poets.
This fine selection offers readers the opportunity to study and enjoy the richness and variety of Williams's early work. More than 70 poems, published between 1917 and 1921, include "Peace on Earth," "Tract," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "Keller Gegen Dom," "Willow Poem," "Queen-Anne's-Lace," "Portrait of a Lady," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and many others.

Early Poems

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Heirloom Doilies

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Florida

A Novel

“A joyous, exuberantly fun-filled novel of second chances. An absolute delight from start to finish!” —Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author “Bracing, hilarious, warm, this novel is as wayward and mad as the human heart.” —Judy Blundell, New York Times bestselling author A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel following three generations of a boisterous family whose simmering tensions boil over when a home aide enters the picture, becoming the calamitous force that will either undo or remake this family—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over. When Kevin Gogarty’s irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate when she befriends the campus rebel at her new boarding school. Into the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia, Millie’s upbeat home aide, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet. With charm, humor, and pathos to spare, Good Eggs is a delightful study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family, despite its maddening flaws, can offer.

Good Eggs

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#paperback #history #Gandhi #Mandela #Lincoln #Einstein #Modern #Renaissance #RamsesII 

North Carolina

History

The Good, The Bad, The Brainy

Discover fun facts about the greatest figures from history through Basher's fresh and unique illustration style.History doesn't just happen; it was created by a crazy crew of characters from way back when. Find out why Archimedes said "Eureka!" in the bathtub, how Thomas Edison changed the world, and whether or not Einstein's brain was bigger than an ordinary guy's. Discover what Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela did that made them famous for being so good, and what Attila the Hun, Hitler, and Stalin did that made them infamous for being so bad. Learn about great leaders like Charlemagne and George Washington and bold ones like Caesar and William the Conqueror. Superstars of History will feature fun text, loads of facts, and Basher's cool illustrations to bring history's greatest characters to life for 8 to12 year olds.

Superstars of History

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Includes 4 novels: Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart; PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; The Promise of a Lie by Howard Roughan. #hardcover #contemporary #modern #fiction

Reader’s Digest Select Editions: Volume 4 2004 

#hardcover #bestamericanstories #fiction #newyorker #shortstories #stories #tcboyle #toothandclaw #modern 

Arkansas

And Other Stories

Since Descent of Manappeared in 1979, T. C. Boyle has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time; in a review of his most recent collection, After the Plague, The New York Timeshailed him as “a writer who can take you anywhere.” Which is exactly what Boyle does in Tooth and Claw.These fourteen stories, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and Playboy, display Boyle’s imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity, and astonishing range. Here you will find the whimsical tales for which Boyle is famous, including “The Kind Assassin,” about a radio shock jock who sets the world record for most continuous hours without sleep. Readers will love the comedic drama of the title story, about a man who must contend with a vicious cat from Africa that he has won in a bet. And who could resist the gripping power of “Dogology,” about a woman who becomes so obsessed with man’s best friend that she begins to lose her own identity to a pack of strays. Boyle here proves once again that he is “a writer who can take any topic and spin a yarn too good to put down” (Men’s Journal).

Tooth and Claw

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"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--

Count the Ways

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#hardcover #southafrica #family #postapartheid #Awardwinning #international #modern #multilayered #Johannesburg

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.

Triomf

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Library copy of Vollmann’s The Lucky Star. First edition, first printing. Perfect condition. #hardcover #fiction #literature #literary #modern #vollmann #experimental

Ohio

The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society

In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back.

After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction.

Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are.

The Lucky Star

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Oklahoma

Stories from the Corner

This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit, Million Dollar Baby "is not just fight fiction at its finest, it is excellent fiction, period" (Dan Rather).

Million Dollar Baby

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USA Today bestselling author Farrah Rochon launches a new series about three young women who become friends when the live Tweeting of a disastrous date leads them to discover they've all been duped by the same man. Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah-along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor -- have gone viral online. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status . . . For once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she's always dreamed of creating. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy, honey-eyed Daniel Collins at work. What are the chances? When it comes to love, there's no such thing as a coincidence. But is Daniel really boyfriend material or is he maybe just a little too good to be true?

The Boyfriend Project

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#photography #expressions #arts #modern #alvin #langdon #coburn

California

Symbolist Photographer

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

A Norton Anthology

A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets

Postmodern American Poetry

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#paperback #fiction #romance #theboyfriendproject #romcom #contemporary #modern 

Illinois

#paperback #novel #modern #fiction Uncorrected Proof #bestseller

"Random House book club"--Page 4 of cover.

The New Girl

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"It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia

A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

Newly engaged and unthinkingly self-satisfied, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is the prize catch of Temple Fortune, a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. He has been dating Rachel Gilbert since they were both sixteen and now, to the relief and happiness of the entire Gilbert family, they are finally to marry. To Adam, Rachel embodies the highest values of Temple Fortune; she is innocent, conventional, and entirely secure in her community--a place in which everyone still knows the whereabouts of their nursery school classmates. Marrying Rachel will cement Adam's role in a warm, inclusive family he loves.

But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum, Adam feels the first faint touches of claustrophobia, and when Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York, she unsettles Adam more than he'd care to admit. Ellie--beautiful, vulnerable, and fiercely independent--offers a liberation that he hadn't known existed: a freedom from the loving interference and frustrating parochialism of North West London. Adam finds himself questioning everything, suddenly torn between security and exhilaration, tradition and independence. What might he be missing by staying close to home?


The Innocents

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Georgia

Poe and Augie investigate the disappearances of several young women in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery- A trade paperback reprint of the second installment of Randall Silvis's acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe mystery series- Set seven years after On Night's Shore, Disquiet Heart delves deeper into the evolution of Poe's psycheDevastated by the loss of his beloved wife, Poe decides a change of scenery is in order. He reunites with his former investigative companion, Augie Dubbins, now a young man in search of adventure, and together the pair travel to Pittsburgh.Upon their arrival, Augie and Poe discover the city ravaged by a recent cholera epidemic.Even more alarming are the disappearances of several young, working-class women over the past six months. Finding themselves entangled in another mystery, Poe and Augie traverse the gritty, industrialized streets of Pittsburgh in the hopes of discovering thewhereabouts of the missing women - and their captor.

Disquiet Heart

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#hardcover #poetry #fiction #milkandhoney #feminism #modern #po #nonfiction 

Colorado

A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Milk and Honey

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#classic #modern #american #theater #arthurmiller 

New York

A View from the Bridge/ All My Sons

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"This powerful novel takes an honest, unflinching look at the challenges of modern parenthood from both sides of a marriage." - Tracey Lange, New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans A heartfelt debut that explores the complexity of a modern-day marriage when a new mother vanishes one morning and her husband must retrace events of their recent past to bring her home. Love isn't something that happens to you; it's something you must choose every day. From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely decisions that brought them together, it was easy to believe their relationship was special. But now, after several years of marriage, June is struggling as a new mom. At times, she wonders about the life she didn't choose--what might have been if she hadn't given up the lead role in a famous ballet to start a family. Feeling like a bad mom and more alone than ever, she writes to her deceased mother, hoping for a sign of what she should do next. One morning, Ben wakes to the sound of his baby and quickly realizes that June is gone, along with her suitcase. As Ben attempts to piece together June's disappearance, her new friends mention things he knows nothing about--a mysterious petition, June's falling-out with another mom, her strange fixation on a Greek myth. The more Ben uncovers about June, the more he realizes how little he actually knows her. And now the only way to bring June home is to understand why she left. Told through alternating perspectives of husband and wife, The Truth About Ben and June is a witty and wise page-turner about life's many crossroads and a heartfelt reminder that we create our own destiny.

Come Home, June Maxwell

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Handbook of Style for the Modern Dog

Few people realize that many dogs have a strong sense of style and innate good taste that goes beyond the dog dish. Dogs and their owners are about to be transformed by the narrator of the book and a dog's Virgil of the fashionista world, Sugar Magnolia. In her howlingly funny canine voice, Sugar gives fashion and lifestyle advice for transforming ordinary canines into modern petrosexuals - dogs of ultimate good breeding. From personal hygiene to commitment questions, dogs, and the humans who love them, will never be the same. Sample text in the section on eating - Human food? Too divine. Too easy to overindulge. A portly puppy is not a pretty puppy, so try to limit your intake. Be selective. A bit of cheese here, a morsel of ham there is really all you need. And just say no to chocolate. Chocolate is, alas, fatal for some dogs. Yes, it is true dear reader - chocolate can kill. You never know which dog it will strike or what the fatal quantity could be. One toxic truffle could be the end of you. There's plenty to eat without chocolate, trust me.

The Complete Petrosexual

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Iowa

Recipes for Modern Entertaining

Tasting Table's Cooking with Friends: Recipes for Modern Entertaining is Geoff Bartakovics' and Todd Coleman's first cookbook from TastingTable.com, whose delicious content inspires more than three million foodies daily, features recipes for the new style of entertaining where everyone pitches in.

Kristian Novak; Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)

Dark Mother Earth

William Carlos Williams

Early Poems

Laura Scott (Editor)

Heirloom Doilies

Rebecca Hardiman

Good Eggs

R. G. Grant; Simon Basher (Illustrator)

Superstars of History

Carolyn Hart; Cecelia Ahern; Mark Haddon; Howard Roughan

Reader’s Digest Select Editions: Volume 4 2004

T. C. Boyle

Tooth and Claw

Joyce Maynard

Count the Ways

Marlene van Niekerk

Triomf

William T. Vollmann

The Lucky Star

F. X. Toole

Million Dollar Baby

Farrah Rochon

The Boyfriend Project

Mike Weaver; Alvin L. Coburn (Photographer)

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Paul Hoover

Postmodern American Poetry

Farrah Rochon

The Boyfriend Project

Farrah Rochon

The Boyfriend Project

Harriet Walker

The New Girl

Francesca Segal

The Innocents

Randall Silvis

Disquiet Heart

rupi kaur

Milk and Honey

Arthur Miller

A View from the Bridge/ All My Sons

Alex Kiester

Come Home, June Maxwell

Nola Thacker

The Complete Petrosexual

Geoff Bartakovics; Todd Coleman

Tasting Table Cooking with Friends