Yaa Gyasi

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Novel

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

Transcendent Kingdom

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Tom Wolfe

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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James Welch

Washington

In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence

Fools Crow

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Hanya Yanagihara

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine - Slate - Newsday - Buzzfeed - The Economist - Newsweek - People - Kansas City Star - Shelf Awareness - Time Out New York - Huffington Post - Book Riot - Refinery29 - Bookpage - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A Little Life follows four college classmates--broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition--as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara's stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

A Little Life

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California

Hilary Mantel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome and many of his people, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. By the Hawthornden Prize-winning author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. 40,000 first printing.

Wolf Hall

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Another library close out gem! Only used in research area & looks like new! Has original dust jacket on.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The New Oxford Book of English Prose

Roy Peter Clark

Texas

Word Craft for Fast Times

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing. In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, HOW TO WRITE SHORT guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.

How to Write Short

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Justin Torres

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories—personal and collective. Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay—playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized—has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator trade stories—moments of joy and oblivion—and resurrect lost loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? Inspired by Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pedro Páramo, Voodoo Macbeth, the book at its own center and the woman who created it, oral histories, and many more texts, images, and influences, Justin Torres's Blackouts is a work of fiction that sees through the inventions of history and narrative. An extraordinary work of creative imagination, it insists that we look long and steady at the world we have inherited and the world we have made—a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.

Blackouts

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After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. A first novel. Reprint.

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

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Feast of Love: The Most Beautiful Love Letters of All Times and All Countries Edited by Carlo Betocchi (1954, Hardcover) *Italian Language Edition* - Vallecchi, Florence, publishers - Front section messy, with pasted in author bio and other muckety muck; rear board also has info on the title pasted in; possible notes to internal text.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Festa D’Amore (Italian Edition)

Published 1967, 1st Edition/1st Printing - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings/borrower card - Binding loose, bookplate affixed, internal margin note on table of contents (possibly elsewhere)

End of the Game and Other Stories

Published 1930 - Half Leather Edition, Modern Readers Series

The Way of All Flesh

Published 1937 - ex-library copy with several internal marks and stamps

Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction

Published 1967 - Essay Index Reprint Series - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings; spine torn on top, taped over

Men Seen: Twenty-Four Modern Authors

Yvonne Daley

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Vermont

A State of Mind

A beautifully illustrated survey of more than sixty-five years of work by one of the most pioneering and influential names in bicycle design. Since Cino Cinelli began making frames in Italy in the 1940s, Cinelli has set the standards for bicycle and component design. Cinelli has led the evolution of professional cycling and defined the ideal of the classic bicycle: from the classic Supercorsa racing frame to the cutting-edge MASH fixed-gear pursuit bikes ubiquitous on the urban riding sce≠ from innovations such as the first plastic racing saddles to the controversial Spinaci handlebars, banned from competition; and from timeless components, such as the Alter stem, to iconic meetings of art and design such as Keith Haring’s treatment of the hour record-setting Laser. With contributions by legendary riders such as Felice Gimondi and Gilberto Simoni, and by collaborators, from artists like Mike Giant to designers such as San Francisco’s graphic impresario Benny Gold, and featuring a conversation between fashion designer Sir Paul Smith and Cinelli president Antonio Colombo, Cinelli is the definitive look at how beauty and technology can meet in this simplest form of design.

Vermont Writers

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Mike Austin

Gregory Clark

Richard Y. Duerden

Gail T. Houston

Suzanne Lundquist

Peter J. Sorenson

Bruce W. Young

David L. Cowles

English

The Critical Experience: Literacy Reading, Writing, and Criticism

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Albert Camus

Laura Marris

This copy is clean, bright, and tight. There is just a slight bit of shelf wear to the dust jacket.

New York

“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of Books The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers. • "A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague. This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.

The Plague

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Mark P. O. Morford

Robert J. Lenardon

Indiana

An introductory text to classical mythology, which provides a survey of classical Greek and Roman mythology for readers with little or no background in classical literature. It has been extensively revised to introduce Greek and Roman myths of creation, Greek sagas and local legends.

Classical Mythology

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Arkansas

J. M. Coetzee

A Novel (Penguin Ink)

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

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Massachusetts

Alabama

Eleanor Catton

All the world's a stage--and nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair with his underage student, and though her friends pretend to be dismayed, they are secretly curious and jealous. They obsessively examine the details of the affair under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming recital as she implies. When the local drama school turns the story of the scandal into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With both performances--the musicians' and the acting students'--approaching, the boundaries between dramas real and staged, private and public, begin to dissolve. THE REHEARSAL is a tender portrait of teenage yearning and adult regret, an exhilarating, darkly funny, provocative novel about the complications of human desire.

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Transcendent Kingdom

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

James Welch

Fools Crow

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Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

John Gross

The New Oxford Book of English Prose

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Blackouts

Heidi W. Durrow

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Carlo Betocchi

Festa D’Amore (Italian Edition)

Julio Cortazar

End of the Game and Other Stories

Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

E.M. Delafield

Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction

Paul Rosenfeld

Men Seen: Twenty-Four Modern Authors

Yvonne Daley

Vermont Writers

Mike Austin; Gregory Clark; Richard Y. Duerden; Gail T. Houston; Suzanne Lundquist; Peter J. Sorenson; Bruce W. Young; David L. Cowles

The Critical Experience: Literacy Reading, Writing, and Criticism

Albert Camus; Laura Marris

The Plague

Mark P. O. Morford; Robert J. Lenardon

Classical Mythology

Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

J. M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

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A Little Life

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A Little Life

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The Rehearsal