The New Generation: Fiction for Our Time from America's Writing Programs
Anchor, October 1987. Paper Back. More
Anchor, October 1987. Paper Back. More
Scottish Poetry Library, 2005. Postcards. More
Oxford Univ Pr, September 1975. Paper Back. Light shelf wear and some stains to the cover. More
Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, March 1964. Paper Back. Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. Winner of the Bancroft Prize. 'A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. In The Wild Darkness, Brodkey, who died of AIDS on January 26, 1996, examines his his passage from the ranks of the living to the fraternity of the dying with the same irony and lucidity he brought to his association with his acclaimed..... More
Farrar, 1982, January 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Simon & Schuster, April 1991. Hardcover. Washington Post White House correspondent for the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the only writer to cover Reagan throughout his entire political career, Lou Cannon now offers the authoritative account of the most significant presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Includes an index..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. More
William Morrow & Company, October 1988. Hardcover. In 1984, Thurston Clarke set out to see the equator first hand. His expedition spanned three continents, countless interviews, and some of the hardest traveling imaginable. Three years later, he had completed one of the last great adventures on earth. More
BkMk Press, December 2013. Paper Back. Poetry. BEAUTY MARK, a poetry collection by Suzanne Cleary, was chosen by Kevin Prufer for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. BEAUTY MARK uses images and subjects drawn from American popular culture to find transcendent meanings in the natures of beauty, time, and especially..... More
HarperTorch, January 2009. Hardcover. "This engaging, wonderfully written narrative provides fresh insight into this complex woman. It is a triumph." --Doris Kearns Goodwin Catherine Clinton, author of the award-winning Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, returns with Mrs. Lincoln, the first new biography in almost 20 years of Mary Todd..... More
Little Brown & Company, October 1980. Hardcover. More
Avon Books, June 1982. Paper Back. Creasing and fading to the cover. More
Harvard Univ Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Some small closed tears, chipping and rubbed corners on the jacket. Two bumped corners on the boards. More
Wilderness House Press, June 2012. Paper Back. This modernized straight-forward translation of Sophocles' Ajax highlights the nature of man's potential nobility as he faces outward enemies and inner demons. Fresh insights into current issues of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the maltreatment of enemy bodies on the battlefield are dealt with..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. ""We Are Lincoln Men"" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Collins Publishers, February 2009. Hardcover. Epstein presents a fresh angle on Abraham Lincoln as seen by his three young private secretaries--the men who knew him better than anyone outside his immediate family. More
Simon & Schuster, June 1984. Hardcover. More
Metropolitan Books, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of "Backlash"--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that..... More
Palgrave MacMillan, October 2007. Hardcover. In 1856 a struggling young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln entered the national limelight through his involvement in the Anderson case in Springfield, Illinois. Julie Fenster's narrative describes how the case revealed Lincoln's potential. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Routledge and Paul, January 1978. Hardcover. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. 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..... More
Vintage, April 1985. Paper Back. Cover is coming loose. More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it..... More
Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1985. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. More
Pomegranate Communications Inc, January 1998. Postcards. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Houghton Mifflin, February 1991. Hardcover. From the author of the acclaimed travel adventure Stranger in the Forest an exotic ten-year journey through the remote country of Yemen. A rich tape stry of ancient customs, contemporary politics, and dazzling landscapes is described in this compelling search for buried meaning in distant..... More
Henry Holt & Co, February 1987. Hardcover. Fading to dust jacket. More
Oxford University Press, March 1985. Paper Back. Spine of cover is slightly shelf worn. More
Penguin Books, September 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, September 1996. Hardcover. 4 cassettes / 4 hours Read by the author, Paul Hendrickson A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism "Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best..... More
New Millennium (GB), February 2004. Hardcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2009. Hardcover. Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in..... More
Grand Central Publishing, December 1994. Paper Back. The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. Culture of Complaint is a call for the reknitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized..... More
Puffin, July 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Xs Books, December 1987. Paper Back. Shelf wear to cover and spine is sun-faded. More
Viking Books, November 1999. Hardcover. From Thucydides' classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground-fighting against the Iraqi forces during the Gulf War, The Book of War presents the face of battle over the course of more than 2,000 years. Acclaimed historian John Keegan brings..... More
Penguin Books, November 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on..... More
Random House, March 1993. Hardcover. More
Free Press, October 2012. Hardcover. The remarkable story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood--and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world. The incredible story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder..... More
Stein and Day, January 1968. Hardcover. Tears to front and back of dust jacket and overall shelf wear. More
Random House Inc, October 1998. Hardcover. When the secret World War II diaries of Victor Klemperer, a distinguished historian at the University of Dresden, a German patriot, and a Jew, were published in Germany two years ago, they became a huge bestseller. "The acclaim is the result of Victor Klemperer's..... More
Random House, February 1987. Hardcover. More
Granite Press, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear to cover. More
Granite Press, January 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Macmillan, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Plume, July 1994. Trade Paperback. A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz. The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1979. Paper Back. A few pages stained. Cover has some shelf wear. More
Doubleday, October 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A revealing look at Iran by an American journalist with an insider's access behind Persian walls The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and..... More
Pantheon, January 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in..... More
Ticknor & Fields, January 1993. Hardcover. More
Viking Adult, April 1981. Cloth. Jacket is faded and chipped along the edges. More
Harcourt, June 1979. Hardcover. Chipping to one edge of dust jacket. More
Knopf Publishing Group, February 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In his acclaimed book Lincolns Virtues, Miller explored Abraham Lincolns intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his ethical biography, showing the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician transformed into an oath-bound head of state. In his acclaimed book 'Lincoln's Virtues,' Miller explored..... More
Henry Holt & Company, June 1994. First American. Hardcover. In 1560, Lope de Aguirre joined the search for El Dorado, the expedition that would cross a continent--and which experienced a mutiny led by Aguirre himself. Now, sifting through source materials, Stephen Minta offers his own adventurous re-creation of Aguirre's legendary..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2004. Hardcover. Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers to the American Revolution. Filled with illuminating discussions of American leaders, the book's range is extraordinary-from the sex lives of..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1994. Paper Back. This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries... From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1993. Hardcover. More
Cleveland State U Poetry Center, January 2008. Paper Back. Poetry. Bern Mulvey's THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS is a study in intimacy--an intimacy conspiring across cultures, languages, families and landscapes despite histories of war, racism and difference. In our time of global connections, Mulvey has created a poetry of negotiation..... More
Viking Adult, January 1985. Hardcover. Small tears to dust jacket at top and bottom of the spine. More
Viking Adult, August 1989. Hardcover. More
Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1989. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Top corners bumped and jacket slightly torn. More
Penguin USA, December 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, sheds light on America's westward expansion, and celebrates the American spirit. More
Gardners Books, April 2003. Trade Paperback. More
E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, June 1984. Hardcover. In her highly acclaimed debut novel, the bestselling author of Shelter introduces the Hampsons, an ordinary, small-town American family profoundly affected by the extraordinary events of history. Here is a stunning chronicle that begins with the Depression and ends with the Vietnam War..... More
Pocket, April 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing and a small tear to the cover. More
Random House (NY), June 1990. Hardcover. After eight years of economic polarization under Ronald Reagan, during which armies of the homeless took to city streets and hordes of the newly superrich took to yachts and country clubs, preeminent political consultant Kevin Phillips assesses the political consequences. Illustrated. Fading to the..... More
Free Press, February 1999. Hardcover. Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer - all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as "the Family." As only..... More
Doubleday Books, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. For almost half a century--as a magazine editor and as the author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of articles--Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central political and intellectual debates in this country. Now, in this beautifully written and powerfully argued book, he..... More
Signet Classics, December 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Top edge of the boards and the print block is tanned/faded. More
Vintage, January 2011. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation's first African American president. Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers..... More
Pantheon, November 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander. More
Penguin Classics, August 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of..... More
Random House (NY), March 1995. Hardcover. The award-winning author of Golden Days and The Rest Is Done With Mirrors now tells her life story and that of her family--one in which heavy drinking and, later, recreational drugs, were something of a family tradition. A fiercely funny and deeply empathetic book..... More
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1983. Paper Back. More
Signet Classics, July 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. A landmark in the development of psychological realism, Stendhal's masterpiece chronicles a young man's struggles with the dualities of his nature. Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces whose imagination is afire with Napoleonic ideals, sets off to make his fortune in..... More
Prometheus Books, January 2007. Hardcover. Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, January 1994. Paper Back. Introducing the life cycles of the main animal groups, this series provides an overview of key physical characteristics and covers the life cycle from birth, or hatching, to death, looking at growing up, feeding, mating, keeping safe, threats and survival. Each title includes..... More
Floating Island Publications, March 1982. Paper Back. Several pages wavy/damp-stained. More
Bill Coats Ltd. Paper Back. Some stains to the cover. More
Bantam, July 1985. Paper Back. Shelf wear and creasing to the cover. More
Texas A&M University Press, August 1988. Trade Paperback. Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Jackson was undoubtedly one of the most influential military commanders of the Civil War. Had he not met his death early in May, 1863, his influence could well have changed the course of the war. Frank E. Vandiver's..... More
Penguin Books, April 1984. Paper Back. More
Mutabilis Press, December 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Plume, March 1985. Paper Back. Front cover torn at the spine. More
Simon & Schuster, June 1989. Hardcover. Jacket is faded. Some stains to the text block. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1998. Hardcover. Focusing on the crucial years between 1831 and 1842, Wilson's skillful analysis of the testimonies and writings of Lincoln's contemporaries reveals the individual behind the legends. We see Lincoln as a boy: not the dutiful son studying by firelight, but the stubborn rebel determined..... More
Plume, April 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Simon & Schuster, October 1985. Hardcover. Several small tears to bottom of jacket. More