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Tennessee

A Novel

A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability

Tender Is the Night

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #mystery #literature #autism #bestseller #drama 

New York

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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#paperback #teaching #writing #literature #education

English

LOT of 2 teacher books / at a glance essays & at a glance paragraphs 

#paperback #fiction #fantasy #classics #sciencefiction #dystopia #literature

Missouri

Fahrenheit 451

#paperback #fiction #margaretatwood #bookerprize #literature #absorbing 

Front and back covers are in fairly good condition. Book has water damage on top and bottom, affecting some pages and causing some warping (see pictures).

Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

The Blind Assassin

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Arizona

This intriguing novel by Matthew Pearl is a must-have for your library.

The Dante Club

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#paperback #CulturalStudies #teaching #literature #sociology #context #theory #essays

Iowa

Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies and the Teaching of Literature

This book of essays offers perspectives for college teachers facing the perplexities of today's focus on cultural issues in literature programs. The book presents ideas from 19 scholars and teachers relating to theories of culture-oriented criticism and teaching, contexts for these activities, and specific, culture-focused texts significant for college courses. The articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Cultural Criticism: Past and Present" (Mary Poovey); (2) "Genre as a Social Institution" (James F. Slevin); (3) "Teaching Multicultural Literature" (Reed Way Dasenbrock); (4) "Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching" (Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier); (5) "Teaching in the Television Culture" (Judith Scot-Smith Girgus and Cecelia Tichi); (6) "Multicultural Teaching: It's an Inside Job" (Mary C. Savage); (7) "Chicana Feminism: In the Tracks of 'the' Native Woman" (Norma Alarcon); (8) "Current African American Literary Theory: Review and Projections" (Reginald Martin); (9) "Talking across Cultures" (Robert S. Burton); (10) "Walter Mitty in China: Teaching American Fiction in an Alien Culture" (H. W. Matalene); (11) "Text, Context, and Teaching Literature by African American Women" (Sandra Jamieson); (12) "Sethe's 'Big, Bad' Love" (Chauncey A. Ridley); (13) "Baldwin, Bebop, and 'Sonny's Blues'" (Pancho Savery); (14) "Filiative and Affiliative Textualization in Chinese American Literature" (David Leiwei Li); (15) "The Unheard: Vietnamese Voices in the Literature Curriculum" (Renny Christopher); (16) "Narrative Theory in Naguib Mahfouz's 'The Children of Gebelawi'" (Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist); and (17) "The Mixed Blood Writer as Interpreter and Mythmaker" (Patricia Riley). (SR)

Understanding Others

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

1889,Primer

English Literature

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Pennsylvania

A Novel 

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, now a major motion picture starring Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims—until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee’s third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that elevate their own survival above justice and decency.

Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Ink Edition)

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #jenniferegan #brooklyn #bookofthemonth #literature #pulitzerprize 

Colorado

Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished"--

Manhattan Beach

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#paperback #fiction #requiredreading #invisibleman #ralphellison #literature 

Michigan

Invisible Man

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#paperback #romance #fiction #bestseller #literature #biographicalfiction

Washington

"Electrifying." --Booklist (starred) Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control. Sutton saw only one way out and only one way to win the girl of his dreams. So began the career of America's most successful bank robber. During three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List. But the public rooted for the criminal who never fired a shot, and when Sutton was finally caught for good, crowds at the jail chanted his name. In J.R. Moehringer's retelling, it was more than need or rage that drove Sutton. It was his first love. And when he finally walked free--a surprise pardon on Christmas Eve, 1969--he immediately set out to find her. "What Hilary Mantel did for Thomas Cromwell and Paula McLain for Hadley Hemingway . . . J.R. Moehringer now does for bank robber Willie Sutton." --Newsday "Thoroughly absorbing. . . . Filled with vibrant and colorful re-creations of not one but several times in the American past." --Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row "[J.R. Moehringer] has found an historical subject equal to his vivid imagination, gimlet journalistic eye, and pitch-perfect ear for dialogue. By turns suspenseful, funny, romantic, and sad--in short, a book you won't be able to put down." --John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road and The Commoner

Sutton

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#paperback #fiction #classic #classics #jamesjoyce #literature #shortstories

Illinois

A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language James Joyce’s Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of “dear dirty Dublin” at the turn of the twentieth century. These fifteen stories, including such unforgettable ones as “Araby,” “Grace,” and “The Dead,” delve into the heart of the city of Joyce’s birth, capturing the cadences of Dubliners’ speech and portraying with an almost brute realism their outer and inner lives. Dubliners is Joyce at his most accessible and most profound, and this edition is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author’s original wishes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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 translators.

Dubliners

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#paperback #williamfaulker #classics #fiction #literature 

"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner
 
Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Light in August

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California

This fashion season is all for the plus-size woman! That's because the new silhouette is feminine and shapely - and because you know how to look as great as you feel. Just for you, Lion Brand® Yarn has created five fabulous outerwear garments in crochet. These delicious designs drape, swing, or cling in the manner that flatters you most. Choose an urban wrap of sparkly Moonlight Mohair or a vest in suede and eyelash yarns. Slip into a sleeved shawl of soft and washable Homespun or a swing coat in bouclé and eyelash yarns. Or indulge yourself with a copper-colored shrug of Incredible ribbon yarn. The crochet patterns range in size from Large to 4X, and each will add grace and flair to your wardrobe. Enjoy the raves and second glances you'll get while wearing these sweet enhancements. It's your time to shine! Stapled; 20 pages.

Stylish Plus Fashions (Leisure Arts #4686)


The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

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This volume brings together an international cast of scholars from a variety of fields to examine the racial and colonial aspects of the First World War, and show how issues of race and empire shaped its literature and culture. The global nature of the First World War is fast becoming the focus of intense enquiry. This book analyses European discourses about colonial participation and recovers the war experience of different racial, ethnic and national groups, including the Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians, Maori, West Africans and Jamaicans. It also investigates testimonial and literary writings, from war diaries and nursing memoirs to Irish, New Zealand and African American literature, and analyses processes of memory and commemoration in the former colonies and dominions. Drawing upon archival, literary and visual material, the book provides a compelling account of the conflict's reverberations in Europe and its empires and reclaims the multiracial dimensions of war memory.

Race, Empire and First World War Writing

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school and the various beautiful young ladies who capture his heart.

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

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Ohio

Upon reading the latest universally acclaimed novel by the flamboyant French novelist Nicolas Fabry, Sir Edward Destry is shocked to discover that it is, in fact, the story of his own lover, who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances

Death by Publication

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#paperback #fiction #classic #literary #literature #pierrechonderlosdelaclos

Virginia

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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Perfect copy of Ballard’s Millenium People. Zero flaws.  #paperback #classic #literature #literary #modernclassic #fiction

Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People "seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do" (Los Angeles Times).

Millennium People

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Fantastic copy of J.G. Ballard’s classic Cocaine Nights. First edition, 2nd printing. Perfect condition. #hardcover #mystery #noir #classic #ballard #mustread #literature #contemporary 

Features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort

Cocaine Nights

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And Other Stories

The characters in Kevin Canty’s new collection are people we all know. People who are perhaps ourselves, searching, often in the wrong places, for something meaningful, or real, or at least, for a moment, right. Here are couples like Vincent and Laurie, who after beginning an ill-timed relationship, escape for a weekend at the beach, where they confront their inevitable separation. There is also Olive, a recovering drug addict, sent on a mission to help her nephew, who finds herself in an illicit relationship with both him and his problems. And a young boy nicknamed Flipper, sequestered for a summer at a “fat” camp, who finds unexpected comfort in the company and forbidden gifts of a pregnant teenager.

In these stories, Canty demonstrates both deep understanding and a powerful grasp of language and continues to set himself apart as a master of the short story.

Honeymoon

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Volume 1 of the Tales of the City series
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Florida

For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Tales of the City

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Texas

"'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide." "Set in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter also sheds light on the nineteenth century in which it was written, as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears. The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative critical edition."--BOOK JACKET.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender Is the Night

Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Lee Brandon

LOT of 2 teacher books / at a glance essays & at a glance paragraphs

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

Matthew Pearl

The Dante Club

Joseph F. Trimmer (Introduction by); Tilly Warnock (Editor)

Understanding Others

Rev. Stopford Brooke M.A.

English Literature

J. M. Coetzee; C. C. Askew (Illustrator)

Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Ink Edition)

Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

J. R. Moehringer

Sutton

James Joyce; Terence Brown (Introduction by, Notes by)

Dubliners

William Faulkner

Light in August

Oscar Wilde; Gary Schmidgall (Introduction by)

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

Santanu Das (Editor)

Race, Empire and First World War Writing

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Jean-Jacques Fiechter

Death by Publication

Ernest Dowson (Translator); Peirre Choderlos De Laclos; Alfred Mac Adam (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

J. G. Ballard

Millennium People

J. G. Ballard

Cocaine Nights

Kevin Canty

Honeymoon

Armistead Maupin

Tales of the City

Nathanial Hawthorne; Nancy Stade (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

The Scarlet Letter