Jean Anouilh

Lucienne Hill

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Or the Honor of God

Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.

Becket (23rd Printing, 1960)

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

A Novel

Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time,
Lightning is a captivating tale of one man's curious fascination with the marvels of science.

Hailed by the Washington Post as "the most distinctive voice of his generation," Echenoz traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the age of twenty-eight to work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a long-lasting rivalry. After his discovery of alternating current, Gregor quickly begins to astound the world with his other brilliant inventions, including everything from radio, radar, and wireless communication to cellular technology, remote control, and the electron microscope.

Echenoz gradually reveals the eccentric inner world of a solitary man who holds
a rare gift for imagining devices well before they come into existence. Gregor is a recluse--an odd and enigmatic intellect who avoids women and instead prefers spending hours a day courting pigeons in Central Park.

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Echenoz once again demonstrates
his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist as he vividly captures the life of an isolated genius. A beautifully crafted portrait of a man who prefers the company of lightning in the Colorado desert to that of other human beings, Lightning is a dazzling new work from one of the world's leading contemporary authors.


Lightning

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Idaho

Jim Hawkins' dangerous search for pirate treasure offer a captivating glimpse into the world of sailors and sea voyaging.

Treasure Island

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#paperback #adventure #pirates #map #treasureisland #sailing #voyage 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

History

John Updike

Val Coleman

Rosellen Brown

Junius Edwards

Anthony Grooms

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Lee Martin

Natalie Petesch

Michael Thelwell

Alice Walker

James Baldwin

Lerone Bennett

Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown

R. V. Cassill

Henry Dumas

Diane Oliver

Z. Z. Packer

James W. Thompson

Eudora Welty

Joan Williams

Social Studies

An Anthology

During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs. Each story focuses on a particular, sometimes private, moment in the historic struggle for social justice in America. Events have a permanent effect on characters, like the white girl in ""Spring Is Now"" who must sort through her feelings about the only black boy in her school, or the black preacher in ""The Convert"" who tells a friend, ""This thing of being a man...The Supreme Court can't make you a man. The NAACP can't do it. God Almighty can do a lot, but even He can't do it. Ain't nobody can do it but you."" If a character survives - and some do not - the event can become a turning point, a vision for a better world. The sections into which the stories are grouped parallel the news headlines of the day: School Desegregation (1954 on), Sit-ins (1960 on), Marches and Demonstrations (1963 on), and Acts of Violence. In the last section, Retrospective, characters look back on their personal involvement with the movement. Twenty writers - eleven black and nine white - are represented in the collection. Ten stories were written during the 1960s. That the others were written long after the movement's heyday suggests the potency of that time as a continuing source of creative inspiration.

Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement

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Jean Findlay

Ex-library. Catalog markers. Very light shelf wear. Pages crisp and clean. Sharp and clear photography. No dog ears or scribbles. Thumb traffic light. Please see photos for reference.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

Provides a biography of Marcel Proust translator C.K. Scott Moncrieff, a man revealed to be a homosexual Catholic, a secretly lonely partygoer, a covert spy in Mussolini's Italy, and a brave war hero.

Chasing Lost Time

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Jean Maddern Pitrone

Texas

A Social History

For more than a century, Woolworth's five and dime stores represented Americana, mirroring the country's growth, its good times and bad, its foibles and its fads. The chain was founded by Frank W. Woolworth, who in 1879 established two stores--one in Utica, New York, which failed and was closed down, and another in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which succeeded and marked the beginning of the legacy of the Woolworth's Five and Tens. This work is a full account of the chain, its rags-to-riches founder, Frank W. Woolworth, and his flamboyant and tragic descendants. It traces the important role that Woolworth stores played in the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, as part of the Civil Rights movement (which tainted Woolworth's as the Big Business enemy of the downtrodden), and the gradual disintegration of the five and tens during the 1980s and early 1990s. The dramatic story is enhanced with important photos featuring such events as the closing of a Woolworth's in Germany by Nazi soldiers and the Greensboro sit-in as well as archival photos from Woolworth's 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversary booklets.

F. W. Woolworth and the American Five and Dime

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Great vintage book for anyone loving Donald Duck copyright 1939
Good condition for its age 


Colorado

Donald Duck and his Friends 

Jean Froissart

Geoffrey Brereton

Florida

One of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys, Crecy, Calais and Poitiers during the Hundred Years War. Yet they are only part of this vigorous portrait of medieval life, which also vividly describes the Peasants' Revolt, trading activities and diplomacy against a backdrop of degenerate nobility. Written with the same sense of curiosity about character and customs that underlies the works of Froissart's contemporary, Chaucer, the Chronicles are a magnificent evocation of the age of chivalry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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.

Chronicles

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#Pop culture #jean baudrillard #cultural theory #Matrix movies

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize his name from The Matrix movies, which claimed to be based on the French theorist's ideas).

Steve Redhead takes a fresh look at Baudrillard in relation to the intellectual and political climates in which he wrote. Baudrillard sought to produce a theory of modernity, but the modern world of the 1950s was radically different from the reality of the early twenty-first century. Beginning with Baudrillard's initial publications in the 1960s and concluding with his writings on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, Redhead guides the reader through Baudrillard's difficult texts and unorthodox views on current issues. He also proposes an original theory of Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism, presenting the theorist's work as "non-postmodernist," after Bruno Latour's concept of "non-modernity." Each section of the Reader includes an extract from one of Baudrillard's writings, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction that places the piece in context and puts the debate surrounding the theorist into sharp perspective. The conflict over Baudrillard's legacy stems largely from the fact that a comprehensive selection of his writings has yet to be translated and collected into one volume. The Jean Baudrillard Reader provides an expansive and much-needed portrait of the critic's resonant work.

The Jean Baudrillard Reader

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Jean M. Auel

OBRO again with dimensions of 7x4x1 1/2 so it's wide enough to fit in your pocket, if a little too thick for comfort.😅 Oh, and, uh, keep it away from the kiddies, know what I mean? 🤫

Earth's Children, Book Six

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks.
 
Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life, searching for wild edibles to make meals and experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandonii must take while honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And there are the Sacred Caves that Ayla's mentor takes her to see. They are filled with remarkable paintings of mammoths, lions, and bears, and their mystical aura at times overwhelms Ayla.
 
But all the time Ayla has spent in training rituals has caused Jondalar to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death, but through them Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change her world.
 
Sixth in the acclaimed Earth's Children® series

The Land of Painted Caves

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The Double Life of Pocahontas 

Make Way For Sam Houston 

#paperback #jean #craighead #george #sharkbeneaththereef

Like his father and grandfather before him, 14-year-old Tomás Torres dreams of catching a great shark in the Sea of Cortez -- and he will catch it, although there are other things he should be thinking about. With an education, her could someday become a marine biologist. Tomás's family want him to stay in school. But Tomás knows he will be more help to them if he leaves school now to become a fisherman. Should he drop out?

The choice is Tomás alone -- a difficult one for a boy just becoming a man. It is only underwater, in a confrontation with the fisherman's greatest prize and worst enemy, that Tomás finds the strength to make his decision.

Shark Beneath the Reef

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Ingrid Trobisch

J. Banyolak

Better Is Your Love Than Wine

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Outside cover is worn with a couple of tears - the is a school stamp on inside page - the text is in good condition 

There’s an Owl in the Shower

Jean Marzollo

Walter Wick

This book is a great one for the young child who is wanting to learn to read or just started reading. The Christmas rhymes book will get the young child in a mood to read this time of year, after all think most every child enjoys Christmas even if hate reading. This is a 1992 Scholastic printing of the book. The book is great for young readers especially with its boardback and easy wipe clean features, and think previous owners may have forgotten due to some light staining

Missouri

Rhyming text invites young readers to find hidden objects in photographs of various Christmas items.

I Spy Little Christmas by Jean Marzollo

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Jean Genet

New York

This comprehensive volume celebrates the legendary work of one of this century's most enigmatic, intriguing, and heralded writers by bringing together for the first time a generous selection of Genet's greatest work. Published to coincide with White's new biography of Genet.

The Selected Writings of Jean Genet

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Jean Beliveau

Wayne Gretzky

Chris Goyens

Allan Turowetz

Minnesota

My Life in Hockey

"Revised and updated: new material on a decade of personal challenge and a troubled game"--Cover.

Jean Béliveau

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Minor dings to dust jacket. No major flaws. Book is still in great shape. Small marks, bends, etc. to pages are possible. Ask any questions you may have. Colors may vary slightly from photos due to lighting.

ISBN: 0-517-55627-8

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ayla and Jondalar embark on a journey that takes them to the Mamutoi, the Mammoth Hunters, and Ayla must make a fateful choice between two men--Jondalar and Ranec, the Mamutoi's master carver, in a story of Ice Age Europe

The Mammoth Hunters By Jean M. Auel Hardback Book Fiction Novel

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Jean Howard

Book is in pristine condition - see pictures

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Michigan

A Photo Memoir

JEAN HOWARD, former Ziegfeld girl, MGM contract player, wife of a movie superagent, and one of Hollywood's most celebrated hostesses, is also a talented, perceptive photographer and an engaging raconteur. In this photographic memoir she provides a uniquely intimate look at the Hollywood she knew during the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and into the '60s.

Jean Howard's Hollywood

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New Jersey

Presents information and advice on techniques and methods of using food processors, explains the effects of processors on ingredients and mixtures, and provides 300 recipes designed for processor preparation.

Jean Anderson's Processor Cooking

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The Secret Life of The Lonely Doll by Jean Nathan 

#hardcover #cookbook #cooking #canning #recipes #foodprocessor

Explains when and how to use a food processor, presents over two hundred fifty recipes that require a labor-saving processor to be practical, and evaluates fourteen leading food processors on today's market.

This classic cookbook from 1979 is in good condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked and there is no damage from spills. Dust jacket has a few small tears, creases and discolorations (see photos). 446pp.

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