Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idaho

Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom

The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons. Millions tune in each week to watch and listen to RPG players on podcasts and streaming platforms, while virtual tabletops connect online players across the world. Such shifts elicit new scholarly perspectives from a variety of disciplines. This collection includes essays on the transmedia ecology that has connected analog with digital and audio spaces. Essays explore the boundaries of virtual tabletops and how users engage with a variety of technology to further role-playing. Authors map the growing diversity of the TRPG fandom and detail how players interact with RPG-related podcasts. Interviewed are content creators like Griffin McElroy of The Adventure Zone podcast, Roll20 co-creator Nolan T. Jones, board game designers Nikki Valens and Isaac Childres and fan artists Tracey Alvarez and Alex Schiltz. These essays and interviews expand the academic perspective to reflect the future of role-playing.

Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age

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Jill Gutowitz

Essays

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland

"Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable...every page twinkles with brilliance." --Refinery29

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.

Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values--always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near--and very queer--future.

Girls Can Kiss Now

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Stephen King

Alabama

A Memoir of the Craft

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it—fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

On Writing

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

English

Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing

The Prose Reader -Ninth Edition

George. Orwell

CONDITION NOTES
Some sticker residue on front, easy removal with a little elbow grease. Has a handwritten dedication behind the front cover.

Here, in four volumes, is the best selection of Orwell’s nonfiction writing now available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions.

AN AGE LIKE THIS collects Orwell's essential early writings, including material that would later emerge in Down and Out in Paris and London, as well as observations on marriage, reviews of Henry Miller and J. B.
Priestley, reports from the Spanish Civil War, an examination of the meaning and value of Charles Dickens, and notes on the early years of the Second World War. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

1920-1940, COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS

In his 46 years, Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. This volume, one in a set of four, brings together a selection of his non-fiction work - letters, essays, reviews and journalism. His work is broad in scope, moving from English cooking to totalitarianism.

An Age Like This

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The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

A primer on persuasive writing for business, political, and educational writers, originally published as a best-selling college textbook, counsels practitioners on key principles without using cluttered language, in a straightforward guide that is complemented by user-friendly templates.

They Say / I Say

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Yann La Fleche

Cancelled library book. Very light wear on jacket. Red C on back inner jacket. Identification sticker on spine. Cancelled library barcode on back. Pages in great condition. Crisp, clean, devoid of scribbles. Please see photos for reference. Rare gem! 

Initiatic Philosophical Essay

The Fifth Kingdom Prophecy !!!VERY RARE FIND!!!

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This book is in super nice condition. It does have some highlighting in the first half but whoever was doing it was really careful with this book. It would be in Like New condition if not for the highlighting!


Alaska

A Guide to College Writing

Wordsmith

A passionate interest and a lifetime spent seeking out the world's finest ethnic jewelry has contributed to making the Ghysels collection one of the premier collections of its kind in the world. Jean-Pierre and Colette Ghysels have indulged their passion indiscriminately, according as much attention to ethnographic objects as to extraordinary pieces of ethnic jewelry. They are guided by a single criterion: the quality that gives rise to beauty, a strict standard indeed, but one made possible by their longstanding familiarity with #ethnic objects. A vast array of hair combs, pins, jewelry made to be woven into braids, nose rings, lip plugs, forehead ornaments and other related objects made out of the most diverse materials, many never before seen, are presented in beautifully composed #photographs. The book is divided into geographical sections and includes 200 annotated photographs, a glossary, an index, maps, and a general bibliography. The author's #essay describes the uses and meaning of the objects in different cultures and emphasizes the originality of the pieces.
About the Author
Anne van Cutsem is an art #historian and author of the first 3 books in this series dedicated to rings, earrings, and bracelets.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Maine

Africa, Asia, Oceania, America

A World of Head Adornment

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Illinois

The First Decade

October

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Cover shows signs of wear and previous owner wrote name and address of ownership inside front cover. For its age, it is still a very sturdy and well holding book.

Each section has a piece of writing from a well known author with questions at the end to help pick apart how the composition was put together and why/how that is effective. Despite being a book from 1969, it has great examples and great questions to help you understand how to put writing into action!

Massachusetts

Reading & Language Arts

Contexts for Composition

Joseph Epstein

Dust jacket ripped. FIRST EDITION! Pages worn.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Familiar Essays

The Middle of My Tether

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The mind and Faith of Justice Holmes 

Thomas Cooley

Short, diverse essays that spark students' interest--now with more reading support.

The Norton Sampler

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Lynne Gaetz

Suneeti Phadke

Cover is slightly bent. A couple pages are written in with pencil. Picture shown.

Paragraphs and Essays

'Writer's World' can help budding writers, whatever their skill level or ability to speak English, become stronger, more consistent and more creative writers.

The Writer's World

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Fifth Edition

This popular rhetoric/reader combines a brief, accessible introduction to argument with an anthology of provocative readings on contemporary issues.

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments

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Fourth Edition

Kirszner & Mandell: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook

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The Middle of My Tether

Max Lerner

The mind and Faith of Justice Holmes

Thomas Cooley

The Norton Sampler

Lynne Gaetz; Suneeti Phadke

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Lester Faigley

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments

Laurie G. Kirszner; Stephen R. Mandell

Kirszner & Mandell: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook

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Stephanie Hedge (Editor)

Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age

Jill Gutowitz

Girls Can Kiss Now

Stephen King

On Writing

Flachmann

The Prose Reader -Ninth Edition

George. Orwell

An Age Like This

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein

They Say / I Say

Yann La Fleche

The Fifth Kingdom Prophecy !!!VERY RARE FIND!!!

Pamela Arlov

Wordsmith

Anne Van Cutsem; Mauro Magliani (Photographer); Isabel Ollivier (Translator)

A World of Head Adornment

Annette Michelson (Editor); Rosalind E. Krauss (Editor); Douglas Crimp (Editor); Joan Copjec (Editor)

October

Stanley A Clayes & David G Spencer

Contexts for Composition

Joseph Epstein

The Middle of My Tether

Max Lerner

The mind and Faith of Justice Holmes

Thomas Cooley

The Norton Sampler

Lynne Gaetz; Suneeti Phadke

The Writer's World

Lester Faigley

Good Reasons with Contemporary Arguments

Laurie G. Kirszner; Stephen R. Mandell

Kirszner & Mandell: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook