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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

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of black women in the United States. Equally awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating an at times tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds, be it by stories of dating outside one's culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and other stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in.

Send Her Back and Other Stories ✨️ARC✨️

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A collection of poetry, dreams and visions from different periods from various writers from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany and Cornwall.  #poetry #visions #dreams #Scotland #Wales #Ireland #anthology #Celtic #Brittany #Cornwall

Maryland

A Treasury of Poetry, Dreams & Visions

The Book of Celtic Verse

#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

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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

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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

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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

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#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

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Anthology

Chicks in Chainmail

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

Ohio

SIGNED Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles

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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

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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

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(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

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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

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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

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Wisconsin

Offers a collection of 13 football mysteries from top writers in addition to a novella about a college football star who delves into a forty-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a star player.

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

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#shortstories #anthology #contemporary #korea #appalachian 

ARC COPY

"There is not a wasted word in these thirteen taut and thrilling stories of grief, exile, and devotion." --Silas House, author of Southernmost

A Korean woman in rural Kentucky clings to the love found in her new marriage as the mountain above her washes away.
A dutiful daughter struggles to help her father navigate their shared grief--and the sudden release of dangerous, exotic animals.
A new father driven by his pride confronts Japanese soldiers in a harrowing raid on his home.
In his debut collection, Michael Croley takes us from the Appalachian regions of rural Kentucky and Ohio to a village in South Korea in thirteen engaging stories in which characters find themselves, wherever they are, in states of displacement. In these settings, Croley guides his characters to some semblance of home, where they circle each other's pain, struggle to find belonging, and make sense of the mistakes and bad breaks that have brought them there. Croley uses his absorbing prose to uncover his characters' hidden disquiet and to bring us a remarkable and unique collection that expands the scope of modern American literature.

Any Other Place: Stories

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New Jersey

17 Tales Across Realms and Space

In this collection of stories by acclaimed young adult authors the Latin American diaspora travels to places of fantasy and out into space.

Reclaim the Stars

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Tennessee

13 Tales of Villainy

A collection of classic fairy tales and stories, from Medusa to Sherlock Holmes, retold from the villains' points of view by teams of authors and "BookTubers."

Because You Love to Hate Me

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New Hampshire

Fifteen young adult authors and one real-life rock star band together for one epic--and interconnected--take on a memorable high school rite of passage.

A daughter of rock 'n' roll royalty has a secret crush. A lonely ticket taker worries about his sister. An almost-famous songwriter nurses old wounds. A stage manager tires of being behind the scenes. A singer-songwriter struggles to untangle her feelings for her best friend and his girlfriend. In this live-out-loud anthology, the disparate protagonists of sixteen stories are thrown together for one unforgettable event: their high school's battle of the bands. Told in a harmonic blend of first- and third-person narrative voices, roughly chronological short stories offer a kaleidoscopic view of the same transformative night. Featuring an entry from Justin Courtney Pierre, lead vocalist of Motion City Soundtrack, Battle of the Bands is a celebration of youth, music, and meeting the challenges of life head-on.

With stories by Brittany Cavallaro, Preeti Chhibber, Jay Coles, Katie Cotugno, Lauren Gibaldi, Shaun David Hutchinson, Ashley Poston, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Eric Smith, Jenn Marie Thorne, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Jasmine Warga, Ashley Woodfolk, and Jeff Zentner, and featuring Motion City Soundtrack's Justin Courtney Pierre.

Battle of the Bands

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Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Correction s Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls "a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration - of being a reader and a writer." At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.

How to Be Alone

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#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #emergency #doctor #er #medical #humor #anthology #memoir #paperback Great condition. 

True Stories From The Nation's ERs

A doctor presents a collection of anecdotes from the world of medicine, culled from the accounts of more than fifteen thousand fellow ER staffers, that share their most memorable, shocking, heartbreaking, and funny moments in the emergency room. Reprint. K.

Emergency!

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#hardcover #selfhelp #teachergift #teachers #shortstories #anthology #scriptures #quotations #inspiration #giftsforteachers #giftbook #gift 

Stories, Sayings and Scriptures to Encourage and Inspire

Everyone needs a hug--a good many and often. Hugs affect everything from our physical health to our emotional well-being. Hugs encourage, comfort, assure, and affirm the heart and spirit. This unique series has become a national best-selling gift-book line. Each beautifully designed hardcover book has an innovative two-color interior.

Hugs for Teachers

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Louisiana





It Happened One Night . . . and nothing was ever the same again!

Once upon a time, four superstar storytellers--New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with Jacquie D'Alessandro and Candice Hern--came up with a delicious idea. What if they each wrote a story about a proper young lady stranded at a remote inn away from society's constraints What would happen And how long would it take for her to give in to desire

In these four amazing tales, four heroines will come face-to-face with the men who got away . . . only to discover that, instead of anger, there is still a passionate connection that cannot be denied. And while each of their lives is quite different, and their pasts utterly unique, they will all make a common discovery--that one night can change everything . . . forever.

Molly O'Neill (Editor)

American Food Writing: an Anthology with Classic Recipes

Kaseke Munashe

Send Her Back and Other Stories ✨️ARC✨️

John Matthews

The Book of Celtic Verse

Mary Jo Putney; Madeline Hunter; Sabrina Jeffries

Seduction on a Snowy Night

David Emblidge (Editor)

The Appalachian Trail Reader

Joseph Kelly (Editor)

The Seagull Reader

Leslie Kirk Campbell

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs

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

100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

Esther M. Friesner, editor

Chicks in Chainmail

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

Belle Becker Sideman

The World's Best Fairy Tales

James Charlton (Editor); Barbara Gilson (Editor)

Christmas Treasury of Yuletide Stories and Poems

Dean Koontz

Dean R. Koontz

John Julius Norwich

More Christmas Crackers

Lucy Corin

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

David Baldacci; Lawrence Block; Dennis Lehane; Brad Meltzer; Anne Perry; Otto Penzler (Editor)

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

Michael Croley

Any Other Place: Stories

Zoraida Córdova

Reclaim the Stars

Amerie (Editor)

Because You Love to Hate Me

Lauren Gibaldi (Editor); Eric Smith (Editor)

Battle of the Bands

Jonathan Franzen

How to Be Alone

Mark Brown

Emergency!

Martha McKee; Vanessa Bearden (Illustrator); Caron Chandler Loveless

Hugs for Teachers

Stephanie Laurens; Candice Hern; Jacquie Dalessandro; Mary Balogh

It Happened One Night