Simon & Schuster, July 2003. Paper Back. At 4:33 P.M. on March 3, 1966, the skies above Jackson, Mississippi, turned an ominous yellow before going suddenly and violently black. A tornado of the F-5 category -- the most lethal -- struck without warning. It tore roofs off buildings, twisted metal..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dust jacket. Blue cloth with red & white lettering on spine. Discolored/sunned board margins & spine. Edgeworn jacket. Red end pages. NOT price clipped: original price: 7.95 on flap. Complete number line: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. Cloth. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Several small closed tears to top and bottom of the jacket. Yellowing and some stains to text block. More
Random House Trade, January 1975. Cloth. In price-clipped, tanned, edgeworn dust jacket with a two inch tear at top edge of front panel. Heavy foxing to text block edge. Previous owner's name inked neatly at top of f.f.e.p. More
Walker & Company, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The extraordinary genius of Archimedes--scientist, mathematician, engineer, and showman. Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and measure the spillage to determine the..... More
One World, March 2021. Paper Back. A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human "Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD..... More
Penguin Press, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail..... More
Harcourt, October 1990. Hardcover. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Complete number line. Maroon cloth spine with gray paper covered boards. Clean & marked interiors. Map of Paris in 1920s on end pages front & rear. More
Picador, September 2020. Paper Back. "One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it..... More
Other Press, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage a union of impossible odds and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1982. Hardcover. Faintest trace of jacket wear. More
Columbia University, August 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Politics and the Novel clarifies the role of revolutionary ideas in fiction, establishing the role of the political novel, and tracing the growth of this novel into the 20th century. Examples are drawn from such classics as Stendhal's The Red and the Black..... More
Elephant Room Press, January 2014. Paper Back. For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction..... More
Sligo Press, 2000. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on title page by J. Michael Lennon. Inked marginalia on several pages; else, very good. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2016. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - From the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Features "Family Treasures,"..... More
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her children In the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson's four children have grown from savages into full-fledged..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1933. Cloth. Maroon cloth without jacket. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
Back Bay Books, October 2020. Paper Back. From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book. With the virtuosic synthesis of..... More
Random House, February 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of healing and self-discovery. "A work of breathtaking creativity."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love "Elegant..... More
University of Illinois Press, January 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Les Fleurs de Tarbes, ou la terreur dans les lettres, first published as a single volume in 1941, was considered by Jean Paulhan to be the furthest-reaching expression of his thinking about literature and language. It is now recognized as a...... More
The Dial Press, February 2021. Hardcover. Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders--Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others--share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty. Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together..... More
Wiley, August 2010. Trade Paperback. An intriguing look at Bernie Madoff the man, and his scam Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews. From the values Madoff was taught growing up in the working class town of Laurelton..... More
