Dave Eggers

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.

Zeitoun

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#summer #combo #paperback #love #friendship #americana #adult #vintage

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

two book combo

Summer Sisters/Lake Wobegon Days

Donna Kooler

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Mexico

With more than 40 fabulous afghan patterns from master designer Donna Kooler, crocheters will grab their needles and stitch to their heart’s content. These incredible blankets come in a range of styles and colors; some are filled with country charm, others feature festive designs, still more are sophisticated, warm and cozy, and just right for masculine comfort. There’s one for a wedding present, soft and gentle afghans to cuddle baby, a cool cotton throw to keep away the chill, and more.


Donna Kooler's Crocheted Afghans

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#paperback #baseball #americanhistory #americana #Blackhistory #racism #sports

This paperback is in excellent structural condition - no wear on the spine or any evidence that it has been read. Some scuffing and discoloration on the edges of the pages as well as light stains and scuffs on the back cover.

Minnesota

Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues

Based on five years of research that included interviews with surviving Negro league players, this fact- and anecdote-filled account recreates the world o such legendary figures as Satchel Paige and Buck Leonard.

Invisible Men

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#baseball #americana #gravestones #cemetery #death #gallowshumor #quirky

There is some discoloration and scuffing around the edges of the pages but no wear on the spine.

Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball

An entertaining look at how a number of baseball players have left fthe game all too soon, this book covers murders, suicides, accidents and bizarre mishaps, deaths by alcoholism, and even deaths by sexually transmitted diseases. The ever amusing and interesting stories include James Phelps, who made a running catch, was bitten by a poisonous snake, finished the game, then promptly died; Harold B. "Rowdy" Elliott, who fell out of an apartment window in San Francisco in 1934 at the age of 33; Gus Sandberg, who's demise was when he decided to light a match to see how much gas was in the tank of his car; Dernell Stensen, who was shot in the chest and head and run over by his own SUV in 2003 at the age of 25; Len Koenecke, who got his head smashed in by a pilot as he tried to grab controls in the cockpit of a commercial airplane flying from Chicago to Buffalo in 1935; and love-sick, star-stuck Bob Lansford, who poisoned himself to death with a picture of a young actress in front of him in 1907. There are countless offbeat facts, trivia, and even specific locations of where many of the ballplayers are buried such as Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Billy Martin, and many more. The book also provides you with a grave-hunting for dummies chapter with tips on how to find your favorite deceased ballplayer.

Bury My Heart at Cooperstown

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Douglas Coupland

Paperback copy of JPod by Douglas Coupland

Oklahoma

Very evil ... Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of techno geeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfsfor the age of Google.

JPod

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Tayari Jones

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--

An American Marriage

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#garrisonkeillor #humor #lakewobegon #americana

Oregon

Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor.

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale.
 
In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears--a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

The Lake Wobegon Virus

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The Stories Of

"At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." --New York Times

With The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written.

As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks's place as one of the masters of American storytelling.

The Angel on the Roof

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Pennsylvania

Haunted America 

Crease mark on spine, some very light superficial wear (pictured). Excellent condition overall, never read.

Vermont

Vintage (1964) first printing of Hawthorne’s short story anthology collection by Signet Classics. Good binding, all pages in good condition. 

And other stories

The Celestial Railroad

Former US Navy copy of Millis’ important book on the history of the American military. Good binding, all pages intact, free of marks/marginalia.

A study of American Military History 

Arms and Men

#hardcover #baseball #worldseries #1800s #sportshistory #champions #americana #games #firstedition

Traces the history of the World Series prior to the twentieth century, offering an account of the games, the players, and the times.

The Baseball Encyclopedia and other records date the World Series from 1903. However, Lansche, SABR member and author of The Forgotten Championships, has compiled a record of an earlier series between the National League and an older American Association, as well as National League playoffs. Filled with sketches of old-time stars, accounts, and box scores of the games, this is an intriguing story of baseball's early years.

This book is in excellent condition, with no wear on the spine, binding, or pages. There is a slight break in the binding at the top ( see photo ). Published in 1991, first edition. 

The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered

Glory Fades Away

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#hardcover #exlibrary #poetry #americana #illustrated #history

Alaska

The Ballad of William Sycamore 

Very bottom of the front cover has small scuffs. 

Illinois

The Women of Brewster Place

has dust jacket (in fair shape- has tear and curling), book itself looks amazing 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book

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Mild cover wear, marks and dings. Has a few pages that seem to have been bent or maybe gotten damp at one point and make a line when the book is shut, pictured. Still very readable. 

 #paperback #history #1940s #the40s #culture #literature #anthology #nonfiction #americana 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval--as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s by some of today's finest writers.
 
In this enthralling book, contributions from the great writers who graced The New Yorker's pages are placed in historical context by the magazine's current writers. Included in this volume are seminal profiles of the decade's most fascinating figures: Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Here are classics in reporting: John Hersey's account of the heroism of a young naval lieutenant named John F. Kennedy; Rebecca West's harrowing visit to a lynching trial in South Carolina; and Joseph Mitchell's imperishable portrait of New York's foremost dive bar, McSorley's. This volume also provides vital, seldom-reprinted criticism, as well as an extraordinary selection of short stories by such writers as Shirley Jackson and John Cheever. Represented too are the great poets of the decade, from William Carlos Williams to Langston Hughes. To complete the panorama, today's New Yorker staff look back on the decade through contemporary eyes. The 40s: The Story of a Decade is a rich and surprising cultural portrait that evokes the past while keeping it vibrantly present.

Including contributions by W. H. Auden * Elizabeth Bishop * John Cheever * Janet Flanner * John Hersey * Langston Hughes * Shirley Jackson * A. J. Liebling * William Maxwell * Carson McCullers * Joseph Mitchell * Vladimir Nabokov * Ogden Nash * John O'Hara * George Orwell * V. S. Pritchett * Lillian Ross * Stephen Spender * Lionel Trilling * Rebecca West * E. B. White * Williams Carlos Williams * Edmund Wilson
 
And featuring new perspectives by Joan Acocella * Hilton Als * Dan Chiasson * David Denby * Jill Lepore * Louis Menand * Susan Orlean * George Packer * David Remnick * Alex Ross * Peter Schjeldahl * Zadie Smith * Judith Thurman

The 40s: the Story of a Decade

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Louis L'Amour

Arizona

In Treasure Mountain, Louis L'Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father--and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.

Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail--a trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind . . . and a secret worth killing for.

Treasure Mountain

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North Carolina

Decorating, Cooking, Gardening, Entertaining

Mary Randolph Carter, author of American Junk, Garden Junk, and American Family Style (all Viking Studio), is the Vice President of Advertising at Polo/Ralph Lauren. Carter lives in New York City and Dutchess County, New York.

American Family Style

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#paperback #americana #normanrockwell #museum #stockbridgemassachusettes 

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