Jay Winik

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Month That Saved America

April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. Here Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War's final days that will forever change the way we see the war's end and the nation's new beginning. Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States. It was not inevitable that the Civil War would end as it did, or that it would end at all well. Indeed, it almost didn't. Time and again, critical moments could have plunged the nation back into war or fashioned a far harsher, more violent, and volatile peace. Now, in a superbly told story, Winik captures the epic images and extraordinary history as never before. This one month witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond; a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare; Lee's harrowing retreat; and then Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later, and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation. In the end, April 1865 emerges as not just the tale of the war's denouement, but the story of the making of our nation. Provocative, bold, exquisitely rendered, and stunningly original, April 1865 is the first major reassessment of the Civil War's close and is destined to become one of the great stories of American history.

April 1865

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Cowboy life in art / photography/ illustration 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The unforgettable  west…

The cowboy in Art 

Carol S. Sheehan

Michael Skott

Mary Emmerling

A style and Source book

In full-color photographs, the book describes adobes, hadiendas, log cabins, ski lodges, ranches, farmhouses, cowboys, Indians, mountain men, and craftsmen of the American Southwest.

Mary Emmerling's American Country West

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Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Every day is extra

Greatest information of most famous writers/ poets worldwide 

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

A Mosaic of one hundred examplary creative minds

Genius

Malcolm Gladwell

Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed.

David and Goliath

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Wiley Sword

Great black and white pictures from 
Army military history institute 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War

Through diaries and letter written on the battlefield, in camps, and on the deathbeds of soldiers from north and south, Wiley Sword, writes about more than the Civil War. He writes of the complex working of a soldier's mind coming to grips with life and death in a time when his country was at war with itself. On Aug. 3, 1864, Illinois Lieutenant Frank Curtiss was ordered by his commander to take the 127th Illinois Infantry into a charge of the fortified Rebel lines.  He knew certain death was in store for him and his men.  He also knew little tactical superiority would be gained for lives lost and refused to do it.  Confederate Brigadier General Patrick Cleburne, one of the South's greatest military tacticians, left diaries showing he was striving to refine his methods to save lives while winning battles.  And then there is the Rhode Island Regiment's Major Sullivan Ballou who, in 1861 on the eve of the battle of Bull Run whowrote of courage and dedication to his cause. Wiley Sword constructs a picture of the military mind that still resonates in today's  wars.

Courage under Fire

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( and how to use it well)

What your money means

Michael Moore

Fearless, funny and furious, Michael Moore was #1 bestseller- still brilliant 

Notes George W. Bush's affiliations with Enron and big oil, presenting a tongue-in-cheek plan for ending his political career while charging political leaders with enabling a growing divide between American classes.

Dude, Where's My Country?

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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Tibet

Elise Paschen

Charles Osgood

Hear great poets read their work from
Tennyson to Plath

Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath

Combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken, this collection features the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Contributors range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes. Additional poems in print form allow the reader to further explore the poets' works.

Poetry Speaks

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Geoffrey C. Ward

Ken Burns

Dayton Duncan

An Illustrated Biography

Integrating material from his literary works, diaries, and letters, this illustrated portrait of one of America's greatest writers follows Twain from his childhood, through his travels thoughout the world, to his career as a journalist and author.

Mark Twain

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Kenneth Garrett

Brian Fagan

Zahi Hawass

In this handsomely illustrated work, Egypt, one of mankind's oldest and most remarkable civilizations, comes alive from its beginnings about 6,000 B.C. to the height of its power and eventual dramatic decline. 160 illustrations.

Egypt of the Pharaohs

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Charlotte Benton

Tim Benton

Ghislaine Wood

Style and age

This lavishly illustrated book brings together nearly 40 essays from leading experts in the field to discuss the phenomenon that was Art Deco.

Art Deco 1910-1939

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Harmer Johnson

Gillett G. Griffin

Rizzoli

Pre-Colombian art

Guide to the Arts of the Americas

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Alvin Jesephy

479 pages all information with beautiful illustration 

An Illustrated History

The Native American

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Josie Johnson

Kim Beil

Rachel Heise Bolten

Altair Brandon-Salmon

Maggie Dethloff

Marco Antonio Flores

Anna Lee

Veronica Roberts

Yechen Zhao

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

American Photography, 1929-1941

Reality Makes Them Dream

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The best Italian cookbook with tons of pictures

English

The  definitive professional guide to Italian ingredients techniques , including 300 step-by-step recipes 

Italian

Walter Erben

Joan Miró

The cover is a very special- velvety colorful paper - very artistic 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Joan Miro the man and his work

THIS BOOK ON MIRO IS A FINE EXAMPLE OF A SUCCESSFUL BOOK ON AN ARTIST. HIMSELF A PAINTER AND WRITER, THE AUTHOR WALTER ERBEN SUCCEEDED IN ENGAGING HIS GREAT ""COLLEAGUE"" IN NUMEROUS PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS AT THE ARTIST'S HOUSE IN MALLORCA. IN THESE TALKS MIRO GAVE ERBEN MANY INTERESTING AND INVALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO HIS ART, AS WELL AS HIS OWN INTERPRETATIONS OF HIS MOST SIGNIFICANT WORKS. THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY HAJO DUCHTING, AN ART HISTORIAN AND PAINTER, WHO WAS BORN IN DUSSELDORF IN 1949 AND CURRENTLY LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH. HE HAS SUPPLEMENTED ERBEN'S TEXT WITH A CHAPTER ON MIRO'S LATER LIFE AS WELL AS NUMEROUS INTERPRETATIONS OF A SELECTED NUMBER OF WORKS.

Miró

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Detailed story of the artist and his paintings

Rembrandt 

It is extraordinary literary phenomenon..

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides, the French and the English.

Because of Mark Twain's antipathy to institutional religion, one might expect an anti-Catholic bias toward Joan or at least toward the bishops and theologians who condemned her. Instead one finds a remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. The very fact that Mark Twain wrote this book and wrote it the way he did is a powerful testimony to the attractive power of the Catholic Church's saints. This is a book that really will inform and inspire.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.

-- Mark Twain



Mark Twain comes furtively like Nicodemus at night with this tribute to one of God's saints. In doing so he tells a secret about himself. It is as though the man in a white suit and a cloud of cigar smoke thought there just might be a place where people in white robes stand in clouds of incense.

-- Fr. George Rutler, Author, The Cure d'Ars Today



"Twain's understanding of history and Joan's place in it accounts for his regarding his book Joan of Arc as worth all of his other books together."

-- Edward Wagenknecht, The Man and His Work

"Joan of Arc is the lone example that history affords of an actual, real embodiment of all the virtues demonstrated by Huck and Jim and of all that Twain felt to be noble in man, Joan is the ideal toward which mankind strives. Twain had to tell her story because she is the sole concrete argument against the pessimistic doctrines of his deterministic philosophy."

-- Robert Wiggins, Mark Twain: Jackleg Novelist 

Joan of Arc

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Timothy Hilton

World of Art

Timothy Hilton has been an art critic for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday and has written art history books on Pre-Raphaelitism and Picasso among others.

Picasso

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Phrases According to necessary communication: food, museums, children,sport
Restaurants, booking a trip etc

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Phrasebook & Dictionary

Italian 

G. Frank Mitchell

Peter Harbison

M. De Paor

R. L. Stalley

1500 B.C, to 1500 A.D.

Treasures of Early Irish Art

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