Richard Blackwell

Minor wear on dust jacket, book itself is in great condition! 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

From Rags to Bitches 

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Notation on front page. Otherwise like new. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

A Northern Classic 

Contains additional text and illustrations to the study of the author's adventures as a child, young woman, wife and fellow explorer with her husband in Alaska.

Two in the Far North

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In excellent condition, it had two paper clips inside, used as bookmarks, which left indentations on the pages, see photos. 

Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers

Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their lives and their art. Each essay demonstrates the breadth of experience of twenty-seven individuals united in the creative expression of a Native American heritage. Each has a different relation to that heritage, and in describing it through personal and family history, with verse and in anecdotes, the writers give a strong image of the different cultures that have shaped them. This is living history and the kind of collective memoir that makes for fascinating and rewarding reading--one of the most vivid and diverse portraits of Native American culture available today.

Here First

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Erica Jong

Theresa Rebeck

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A striking deluxe edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong’s groundbreaking classic Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibited, outspoken protagonist of Erica Jong’s revolutionary novel. First published in 1973, Fear of Flying caused a national sensation, fueling fantasies, igniting debates about women and sex, and introducing a notorious phrase to the English language. Forty years later, Isadora’s honest and exuberant retelling of her sexual adventures—and misadventures—continues to provoke and inspire, and stands as an iconic tale of self-discovery, liberation, and womanhood. With provocative cover art by illustrator Noma Bar, this special fortieth-anniversary edition will introduce a new generation of women to Jong’s pioneering novel. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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.

Fear of Flying

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Frances Lear

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

The Second Seduction

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Casey Wilson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Vermont

Essays

Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multi-talented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn't afraid to share. In this dazzling collection of essays, skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to understand human nature. Whether she's extolling the virtues of eating in bed, processing the humiliation over her father's late in life perm, or exploring her pathological need to be liked, Casey is witty, candid, and full of poignant and funny surprises. Humorous dives into her obsessions -and areas of personal expertise-Scientology and self-help, nice guys, reality television shows-are matched by touching meditations on female friendship, grief, motherhood, and identity. Reading The Wreckage of My Presence is like spending time with a close friend-a deeply passionate, full-tilt, joyous, excessive, compulsive, shameless, hungry-for-it-all, loyal, cheerleading friend. A friend who is ready for any big feeling that comes her way and isn't afraid to embrace it.

The Wreckage of My Presence

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Author shares entries from his journal about life lessons, spiritual experiences and his relationship with God. Written in the styles of journal notes and poems. 

Texas

Poems and Epics from God

As I've gone on my walk with God, He has given me these poems in various situations. I don't want the credit or praise for the words anymore than a scalpel would get the credit for the work of the doctor in an operation. I've grown from what the Lord has taught me and I hope these poems will bless you too.

A Pen... in the Hand of God

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Pennsylvania

Kindertransport

Brad A. Lewis

New Jersey

Rowers are a strange breed. In one of athletics' most demanding sports, they spend hours each day training for races that no one sees & fewer still appreciate. Why would someone want to coach in such an unpromising enterprise?

Wanted: Rowing Coach 

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Celeste Edmunds

Richard Paul Evans

Florida

Garbage Bag Girl

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Die Graue Erde (The Gray Earth) 

This #hardcover is entirely in #French. Yellowing pages but text is clean. With dust jacket. #classic #USSR #Russia #Stalin #autobiographical? #prophetic #GreatPurge

Le pavillon des cancéreux 

Alice Munro

Minnesota

Stories

Presents a collection of stories which illuminate the moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate, and is set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron.

Dear Life

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Joy Kogawa

Ohio

'A moving vision of an affront to democratic principles... A tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility' - New York Times

Obasan

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Thomas Jefferson :In His Own Words

Pico Iyer

First Edition 
The book is in excellent condition with firm binding and clean pages. There are no markings. The dust jacket has minor wear.

~ "When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.

All this he did. And then he met Sachiko.

Vivacious, attractive, thoroughly educated, speaking English enthusiastically if eccentrically, the wife of a Japanese "salaryman" who seldom left the office before 10 P.M., Sachiko was as conversant with tea ceremony and classical Japanese literature as with rock music, Goethe, and Vivaldi. With the lightness of touch that made Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Pico Iyer fashions from their relationship a marvelously ironic yet heartfelt book that is at once a portrait of cross-cultural infatuation -- and misunderstanding -- and a delightfully fresh way of seeing both the old Japan and the very new."


New Mexico

Four Seasons in Kyoto

With the same lightness of touch that made his widely-praised Video Night in Kathmandu so captivating, Iyer now tells the story of The Lady and the Monk. Pretty, in her early 30s, and a typically bourgeoise Japanese housewife, Sachiko is locked into her arranged life--and yet utterly fascinated by the West. What happens when the tea ceremony and rock music cross paths is the focus of this delightful novel, which evokes both the old and the very new Japan.

The Lady and the Monk : Four Seasons in Kyoto

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Jeffrey Brown

Maryland

A Memoir in Slices

A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown's first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true.

Little Things

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Susan Jane Gilman

West Virginia

Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless

From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

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Mitchell Jackson

California

Notes on an All-American Family

“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This “spellbinding” (NPR) book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Mitchell Jackson, his family, and his community. Lauded for its breathtaking pace, its tender portrayals, its stark candor, and its luminous style, Survival Math reveals on every page the searching intellect and originality of its author. The primary narrative, focused on understanding the antecedents of Jackson’s family’s experience, is complemented by survivor files, which feature photographs and riveting short narratives of several of Jackson’s male relatives. “A vulnerable, sobering look at Jackson’s life and beyond, in all its tragedies, burdens, and faults” (San Francisco Chronicle), the sum of Survival Math’s parts is a highly original whole, one that reflects on the exigencies—over generations—that have shaped the lives of so many disenfranchised Americans. “Both poetic and brutally honest” (Salon), Mitchell S. Jackson’s nonfiction debut is as essential as it is beautiful, as real as it is artful, a singular achievement, not to be missed.

Survival Math

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Larry McMurtry

Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a memoir of his odyssey from rancher's son to critically acclaimed novelist, in a reminiscence set against the backdrop of the Lone Star State.

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

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Jennings Michael Burch

The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival

Left by his incapacitated mother at a Catholic orphanage in Brooklyn, Burch describes his unhappy life as a foster child, experiences as a runaway, struggle for survival, growth of self-reliance, and triumph over loneliness. Reissue.

They Cage the Animals at Night

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Chip Gaines

Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff





Now available in paperback with bonus content and a new cover!



The most important step is the first one. Dive into Chip Gaines' personal playbook and start learning how to succeed in business--and in life. A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller!

The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known as the star of HGTV's Fixer Upper, as well as a renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of five in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn't quite work out as planned.

Capital Gaines offers you a ringside seat as Chip relives some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way, written with Chip's trademark humor.

In addition to personal stories from Chip's journey, you'll discover:

 * How to work toward success--and how to determine what that looks like
 * The power of living in a way that rejects fear
 * How to embrace small acts of courage and be bold to go all in
 * What it takes to truly balance your family and career

Capital Gaines is the playbook you need to start redefining success and going after it, no matter what that means to you.

Capital Gaines

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North Carolina

Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait's degraded image.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Albert Camus

David Hapgood

Nebraska

Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rose above the loses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria

The First Man

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