#paperback #bodymindspirit #dreams #psychology #history

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"A MASTERPIECE ON DREAMS...This book is a singular resource.... If it inspires you to remember your dreams, this book will change your life. If it inspires you to act on your dreams, this book will change the world." --Henry Reed Author of Getting Help from Your Dreams and Dream Solutions In this brilliantly researched and thorough study, internationally recognized dream authority Robert L. Van de Castle examines the vital role that dreams have played throughout history, from the dreams of ancient Sumerian kings to the pioneering dream research of nineteenth-century psychologists. Our Dreaming Mind delves into the most provocative experiments that scientists are conducting on the dreaming mind in this century and surveys ongoing dream experiments: dreams and sexual arousal, the impact of pregnancy on dreams, the connection between dreams and creativity, and the possibility of paranormal dreams. "In Our Dreaming Mind, Robert Van de Castle pulls decades of accumulated wisdom together in a sweeping panorama unsurpassed in the literature for its scope, its insight, and its ability to captivate its readers. --Stanley Krippner Director of The Saybrook Institute Editor of Dream Time and Dream Work "IMMENSELY READABLE...A monumental history of dreams." --Publishers Weekly "Our Dreaming Mind is really a dream come true--the most comprehensive, authoritative, and inspiring book on dreams I know about. At heart, this book is about human consciousness and our place in the universe. A magnificent contribution." --Larry Dossey, M.D. Author of Meaning & Medicine: A Doctor's Tales of Breakthrough and Healing AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

Our Dreaming Mind

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#fiction #history #paperback #nonfiction #historical #truecrime #hhholmes #devilinthewhitecity #worldsfair #murdercastle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

The Devil in the White City

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Lot of 10 receipts. 100+ years old. #history #paperback #ephemera #paper 

Lot of 10 receipts from 1909 - Springfield MA

Offers examples of the qualities that make America a deserved leader of the Western world, as well as a target for criticism and terrorism, and refutes four major critiques.

What's So Great about America

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#SIGNED — 1840 Treasury Speech By James Buchanan. Original Printed Text Of speech on an Independent Treasury delivered by Senator Buchanan on January 22, 1840, prior to his Presidency. Tipped-in signature affixed to front cover backside of hardcover pamphlet-style case. #vintage #antique #history

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

SIGNED — President James Buchanan Treasury Speech

Has normal wear, else book is clean and tight. #lewisandclark #hardcover #history #nonfiction 

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West

Undaunted Courage

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The Year of the Conquest

The year 1066 is one of the most important dates in the history of the Western world: the year William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings and changed England and the English forever. The events leading to-and following-this turning point in history are shrouded in mystery. Distorted by the biased accounts written by a subjugated people, many believe it was the English who ultimately won the battle, since the Normans became assimilated into the English way of life. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, David Howarth gives us memorable portraits of the kings: Edward the Confessor, Harold of England, William of Normandy, as well as the leading political figures of the time. Howarth describes the English commoners: how they worked, fought, died, and how they perceived the overthrow of their world from their isolated shires.

1066

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From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Davis Carrie’s readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. #history #paperback #nonfiction #americanhistory

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

More than 1.6 million copies sold! Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"? 9/11: What really happened? How did America elect its first black president? From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this newly revised, expanded, and updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition

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#hardcover #nonfiction #winstonchurchill #biography #history #thetreasureshop-nonfiction 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Bleak Expectations -- The Rising Threat -- A Certain Eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and Dust -- The Americans -- Love Amid the Flames -- One Year to the Day -- Epilogue.

The Splendid and the Vile

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#film #screenwriting #history #writing #movies #Hollywood 

A History of American Screenwriting

Screenwriters have always been Hollywood's stepchildren. Yet, popular impressions aside, screenwriters have been central to moviemaking since audiences got past the sheer novelty of seeing pictures that moved at all. Soon they wanted to know: What happens

What Happens Next

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#fiction #history #paperback #marionohio #ghost

Haunted Marion features a collection of ghostly and unexplained tales in and around Marion, OH. Josh Simpkins has been sharing stories of Marion's haunted spots at SpookyMarion.com since September of 2008. Join Simpkins as he takes a look at famous local haunts, such as the "Death Cloth" which resides at the Warren Harding home and many other tales of the unknown.

Haunted Marion Ohio

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#paperback #steinbeck #history #literature #cainandabel #classic #fiction 

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translato

East of Eden

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#biography #history #feminism #kickasswomen #lgbtq  

A Salute to 50 Magnificent Women

From astronauts and abolitionists to computer coders and crack journalists, these fearless women have paved the way for equal rights in science, politics and the arts. FEMME MAGNIFIQUE celebrates their achievements in a book that can live on in teenage bedrooms, corporate boardrooms and libraries around the world.Featuring over 100+ astounding writers & artists from around the world united by a deep love and appreciation for the comics medium and its peerless power of graphic storytelling.

Femme Magnifique

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#history #nonfiction #library #reesesbookclub

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 “A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post “CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING.” —The New York Times * “MESMERIZING…RIVETING.” —Booklist (starred review) A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries—from the bestselling author hailed as a “national treasure” by The Washington Post. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves. Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.

The Library Book

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Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

#history #adultfiction #romance #adult #fiction

the graphic novel

Aging crime novelist Hector Lassiter thought that his adventures were long behind him. But then he's delivered a treasure worth killing for: the skull of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.With brooding poet Bud Fiske and hard-as-nails beauty Alacia Vincente, Hector must make a mad dash across the American southwest. If he can sell the skull to highest bidder he'll score big. But in the meantime has to dodge bullets from deranged fraternity members, aging soldiers of fortune, and crooked feds. Originally published as an Edgar-nominated novel, this adaptation is brought to life with beautiful two-color art reminiscent of the classic era of pulp fiction.

Head Games: The Graphic Novel

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Signature of 21st President originally lifted from a check and tipped-in to free page on frontispiece. #history

Published 1885 in Washington, DC, the 363 page #hardcover volume is bound in black cloth with gilt-stamped lettering.

Additional photos on request. #RareBooks #OldBooks

SIGNED—1885 State Papers of Chester A. Arthur

Book 2 of the #Outlander series. #fiction #paperback #historicalfiction #history #romance

In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser

Dragonfly in Amber

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#nonfiction #paperback #history #library 

And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door. Joshua Hammer writes about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty of their culture. His story is one of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

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The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

Richard Godbeer describes the witch hunt that took place in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1692, detailing the story of Kate Branch, a seventeen-year-old afflicted by strange visions and given to wails of pain and fright, who accused several women of bewitching her.

Escaping Salem

#nonfiction #history #paperback #puertorico #flu #influenza #1918 #latinamerica

Llegada, Difusión e Impactó de la Influenza en Puerto Rico, 1918-1919

La Epidemia Reinante

#nonfiction #history #hardcover #thetitanic #1912book #firstedition This book is over 100 years old. It shows it’s age but is fully readable and has some awesome pics in it. 

Thrilling Stories of Survivors with Photographs and Sketches

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

Traces the story of a seventeenth-century mistress who significantly influenced the Catholic church and international policy in Rome during the reign of her lover and brother-in-law, Pope Innocent X, in an account that describes her humble origins, strategic marriages, and Vatican powers. 40,000 first printing.

Mistress of the Vatican

#history #nonfiction #hardcover #leatherbound Beautiful leather bound book published by the Easton Press. Pages traced gold. 

Robert L. Van de Castle; Robert Van De Castle

Our Dreaming Mind

Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City

The Oliver & Howland Co

Lot of 10 receipts from 1909 - Springfield MA

Dinesh D'Souza

What's So Great about America

James Buchanan

SIGNED — President James Buchanan Treasury Speech

Stephen E. Ambrose

Undaunted Courage

David Howarth

1066

Kenneth C. Davis

Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition

Erik Larson

The Splendid and the Vile

Marc Norman

What Happens Next

Josh Simpkins

Haunted Marion Ohio

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Femme Magnifique

Susan Orlean

The Library Book

Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City

Craig McDonald

Head Games: The Graphic Novel

Chester A. Arthur

SIGNED—1885 State Papers of Chester A. Arthur

Diana Gabaldon

Dragonfly in Amber

Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Richard Godbeer

Escaping Salem

Mayra Rosario Urrutia

La Epidemia Reinante

Logan Marshall

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Eleanor Herman

Mistress of the Vatican

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay

The Federalist Papers