Joe Posnanski

First printing. Very good copy, tight and clean. Strong binding.

The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover non-fiction best-seller.—Wikipedia 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

By America's premier sportswriter, written with full cooperation of Joe Paterno and his family, Paterno is the definitive account of the epic life of America's winningest college football coach. Published to coincide with Penn State football's first season without their legendary leader.

Joe Posnanski's biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe DiMaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as well as the coach's personal notes and files, Posnanski spent the last two years of Paterno's life covering the coach, on (and off) the field and through the scandal that ended Paterno's legendary career.

Joe Posnanski, who in 2012 was named the Best Sportswriter in America by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, was with Paterno and his family as a horrific national scandal unfolded and Paterno was fired. Within three months, Paterno died of lung cancer, a tragic end to a life that was epic, influential, and operatic.

Paterno is the fullest description we will ever have of the man's character and career. In this honest and surprising portrait, Joe Posnanski brings new insight and understanding to one of the most controversial figures in America.

1st ed./1st * Paterno

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J. D. Vance

California

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy

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William Manchester

Paul Reid

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

Spanning the years 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester's biography picks up shortly after Churchill became prime minister, as his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany.

The Last Lion

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Mark Dawidziak

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and “in great distress” on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own? Mystery and horror. Poe, who remains one of the most iconic of American writers, died under haunting circumstances that reflect the two literary genres he took to new heights. Over the years, there has been a staggering amount of speculation about the cause of death, from rabies and syphilis to suicide, alcoholism, and even murder. But many of these theories are formed on the basis of the caricature we have come to associate with Poe: the gloomy-eyed grandfather of Goth, hunched over a writing desk with a raven perched on one shoulder, drunkenly scribbling his chilling masterpieces. By debunking the myths of how he lived, we come closer to understanding the real Poe—and uncovering the truth behind his mysterious death, as a new theory emerges that could prove the cause of Poe’s death was haunting him all his life. In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe’s increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre.

A Mystery of Mysteries

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#paperback #nonfiction #biography #history #science #henriettalacks #cancer #autobiography 

Iowa

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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David Sedaris

Oregon

Naked

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The Billy Graham Story

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Here is one of the most interesting stories of the Twentieth Century. Gordon Lindsay narrates his conversion, call to the ministry and early years on the evangelistic field — a colorful account of preaching in new fields. Then he tells of God’s call to organize great city-wide salvation-healing campaigns, events which have made history in America and abroad. He includes many interesting incidents of outstanding miracles of healing, including instances of the raising of the dead. There are a number of sketches of various ministers whom God signally used to reach hundreds of thousands of people in America and foreign lands. There are remarkable incidents of the gifts of the Spirit in operation.

Gordon Lindsay also describes the inception of the great overseas revivals; how in the providence of God, The Voice of Healing was used to spearhead apostolic ministry in many nations. There are included chapters on overseas crusades and the building of many hundreds of churches all over the world. A book that you will treasure in your library.

Some of the Chapters

My Conversion to Christ
The Call to the Ministry
Three Young Preachers Try Their Wings
Experiences on the Evangelistic Field
William Branham Enters the Scene
Testing the Deliverance Ministry in Mexico
That Amazing Photograph
The Meetings in Scandinavia and the Raising of the Dead Boy
The Deliverance Revival Spreads Overseas
The Great Kansas City Flood
The Miami Court Trial
The Literature and Prayer Crusades
The Rendezvous at Greenwich
A Visitation from the Lord
The Holy Land Crusade
Traveling in the Interest of World Missions
Divine Healing in Our Family

Texas

An Autobiography

The Gordon Lindsay Story

Peter Baker

Susan Glasser

Blemish on the dust cover but book it is in good shake 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Washington Post * Fortune * Bloomberg

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.

For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.

A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford's campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W. Bush in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan's White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. He negotiated with Democrats at home and Soviets abroad, rewrote the tax code, assembled the coalition that won the Gulf War, brokered the reunification of Germany and helped bring a decades-long nuclear superpower standoff to an end. Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation.

His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. This masterly biography by two brilliant observers of the American political scene is destined to become a classic.

The Man Who Ran Washington

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Jeannette Walls

A Memoir

MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers.

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.

The Glass Castle

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Lauren Graham

Ohio

From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick."

Talking As Fast As I Can

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Kate Clifford Larson

The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

The revelatory, poignantstory of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation"

Rosemary

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Betty White

Has been in storage. Does not appear to have been red. No stains. Light wear to the edges to the cover. Nothing significant.
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My Life in Television

A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television—as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself. Betty White first appeared on television in 1949 and has gone on to have one of the most amazing careers in TV history, starring in shows such as Life with Elizabeth, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Golden Girls, among many others. She is one of the hardest-working actresses of any era, and her sense of humor and perennial optimism have seen her through half a century of industry changes and delighted millions of fans. Now, during Betty’s sixty-first year on screen, a year in which she has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity, her 1995 memoir makes a comeback too. Here We Go Again is a behind-the-scenes look at Betty’s career from her start on radio to her first show, Hollywood on Television, to several iterations of The Betty White Show and much, much more. Packed with wonderful anecdotes about famous personalities and friendships, stories of Betty’s off-screen life, and the comedienne’s trademark humor, this deliciously entertaining book will give readers an entrée into Betty’s fascinating life, confirming yet again why we can’t get enough of this funny lady.

Here We Go Again

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Robin Clifford Wood

Massachusetts

A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children's writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim.

Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel's long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel's history. She was determined to answer the questions that filled the house's every crevice: Who was this vibrant, talented artist whose very name entrances those who still remember her work? Why is that work--so richly remunerated and widely celebrated in her lifetime--so largely forgotten today? The journey into Rachel's world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible, unveiling a life fraught with challenge, and buried by tragedy, and yet incandescent with joy.

The Field House is a book about beauty--beauty in Maine island landscapes, in friendship, love, and heartbreak; beauty hidden beneath a woman's woefully unbeautiful exterior; beauty in a rare, delightful spirit that still whispers from the past. Just listen.

The Field House

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Cheryl Strayed

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Wild

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Laura Clery

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby and You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein. Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills! Now, in her first-ever book, Laura recounts how she went from being a dangerously impulsive, broke, unemployable, suicidal, cocaine-addicted narcissist, crippled by fear and hopping from one toxic romance to the next…to a more-happy-than-not, somewhat rational, meditating, vegan yogi with good credit, a great marriage, a fantastic career, and four unfortunate-looking rescue animals. Still, above all, Laura remains an amazingly talented, adorable, and vulnerable, self-described…Idiot. With her signature brand of offbeat, no-holds-barred humor, Idiot introduces you to a wildly original—and undeniably relatable—new voice.

Idiot

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Dave Pelzer

#paperback #nonfiction #childcalledit #biography #fiction #autobiography #bodymindspirit #bestseller 

One Child's Courage to Survive

Tells the story of a child's abuse at the hands of his alcoholic mother

A Child Called It

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#paperback #nonfiction #achildcalledit #fiction #selfhelp #psychology #biography #autobiography 

A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

The author continues the story of his own child abuse, and his experiences being a foster child moving in and out of five different foster homes

The Lost Boy

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Holly Madison

Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a fairytale of A-list celebrity parties to an oppressive regime of strict rules, scheduled sex, and a total loss of identity, so much so that she even contemplated suicide.

Down the Rabbit Hole

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New Jersey

A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

The comedian and Emmy-winning self-proclaimed "D-list" star celebrates those who supported her on her rise to fame and also offers intimate details in a humorous look at the funny woman's life.

Official Book Club Selection (Signed)

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Recapture God's glory with twelve compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministers to ever ignite the fires of revival! Revealing photographs help chronicle the lives of Aimee Sempte McPherson Smith Wigglesworth, Kathryn Kuhlman, William Seymour, and eight others. Draw crucial life applications for yourself from the lives of these mighty warriors.

Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed

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Paul Kalanithi

Abraham Verghese

#1 New York Times Bestseller. When Breath Becomes Air by. Paul Kalanithi. Hardcover. 

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

When Breath Becomes Air

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1971 first edition from Tree Books in Santa Barbara, CA. This is one of 500 copies printed (see last photograph). A collection of poetic memoirs from artist John Brandi’s travels to South America. Includes some of his illustrations throughout. The book is in great condition. There is some slight discoloration on the front and back covers. Very little shelf wear. No annotations except a pencil marking on the inside of the back cover denoting a previous bookseller’s price. 

New Mexico

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Vermont

Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope

The extraordinary saga of a man who, despite spending four decades in solitary confinement for a crime of which he was innocent, inspired fellow prisoners, and now all of us, with his humanity

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Joe Posnanski

1st ed./1st * Paterno

J. D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy

William Manchester; Paul Reid

The Last Lion

Mark Dawidziak

A Mystery of Mysteries

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

David Sedaris

Naked

John Pollock

The Billy Graham Story

Gordon Lindsay

The Gordon Lindsay Story

Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

The Man Who Ran Washington

Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle

Lauren Graham

Talking As Fast As I Can

Kate Clifford Larson

Rosemary

Betty White; Betty White

Here We Go Again

Robin Clifford Wood

The Field House

Cheryl Strayed

Wild

Laura Clery

Idiot

Dave Pelzer

A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer

The Lost Boy

Holly Madison

Down the Rabbit Hole

Kathy Griffin

Official Book Club Selection (Signed)

Roberts Liardon

Why They Succeeded and Why Some Failed

Paul Kalanithi; Abraham Verghese

When Breath Becomes Air

John Brandi

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Solitary