Sarah Posner

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump

A "masterful and meticulous"* feat of reportage that explains one of the central mysteries of the Trump era: the unholy marriage of Trump and the evangelicals, as officiated by the alt-right. *Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money Why did so many evangelicals turn out to vote for Donald Trump, a serial philanderer with questionable conservative credentials who seems to defy Christian values with his every utterance? To a reporter like Sarah Posner, who has been covering the religious right for decades, the answer turns out to be far more intuitive than one might think. In this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement's core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda-and are actively using the erosion of democratic norms to roll back civil rights advances, stock the judiciary with hard-right judges, defang and deregulate federal agencies, and undermine the credibility of the free press. Increasingly, this formidable bloc is also forging ties with European far right groups, giving momentum to a truly global movement. Revelatory and engrossing, Unholy offers a deeper understanding of the ideological underpinnings and forces influencing the course of Republican politics. This is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.

Unholy

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Laura Ingraham

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Americans didn’t just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents? In Billionaire at the Barricades, Laura Ingraham gives readers a front row seat to the populist revolution as she witnessed it. She reveals the origins of this movement and its connection to the Trump presidency. She unmasks the opposition, forecasts the future of the Make America Great Again agenda and offers her own prescriptions for bringing real change to the swamp of Washington. Unlike most of her media colleagues, Ingraham understood Trump’s appeal and defied those who wrote his political obituary. Now she confronts the president’s critics and responds to those who deny the importance of his America First agenda. With sharp humor and insight she traces the DNA of the populist movement: from Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, to Nixon’s Silent Majority, to Reagan’s smashing electoral victories. Populism fueled the insurgency campaigns of Buchanan and Perot, the election of George W. Bush, and the Tea Party rallies of the Obama presidency. But a political novice—a Manhattan billionaire—proved to be the movement’s most vocal champion. This is the inside story of his victory and the fitful struggle to enact his agenda.

Billionaire at the Barricades

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Molière

Donald M. Frame

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Translates seven plays of Moliere and comments upon the background of each dramatization

The Misanthrope and Other Plays

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Charles. Dickens

Frederick Busch

A. N. Wilson

A young English lawyer is drawn into the turmoil of the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Featuring a new Afterword by Balaam, this collection contains the novel "The Country of Pointed Firs" and several stories in which Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous towns along Maine's coast. Revised reissue.

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

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Mark Twain

Justin Kaplan

John Seelye

Offers a history of the river, describes Twain's experiences as a riverboat pilot, and shares tall tales, character sketches, and observations about the Mississippi.

Life on the Mississippi

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A little cover wear from being read. No creases in spine or pages.

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’s most profound chronicler of the human comedy.

Anita Shreve

A little spine creasing, but thoroughly intact book.

A wandering writer, who boards at an herbalist's house in Maine, finds herself becoming more and more involved in the lives of the villagers

Jan/Feb 2014, Jan/Feb 2017, March/April 2017, May 2017, June 2017, November/December 2017.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This old house magazine lot

Greatheart Silver

Bob Edwards

Book jacket a little damaged. Sticker remnant on front.
Signed by author.

Get it, read it, and pass it on.
--Bill Moyers

""Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more people in and out of the news business will get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrow's principles can be reversed.""
--Bob Edwards

Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism

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Ben Judah

How Russia Fell in and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

A lively, inside account of Putin's years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime "A beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating--undermined by corruption and a failure to modernise economically."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times "Ben Judah, a young freelance writer, paints a more journalistic--and more passionate--picture in Fragile Empire. He shuttles to and fro across Russia's vast terrain, finding criminals, liars, fascists and crooked politicians, as well as the occasional saintly figure."--The Economist From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russian citizens. Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people. Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin's successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.

Fragile Empire

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Mary Roach

Book jacket a little wrinkled. Book in great condition otherwise.

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

A whimsical assessment of the science of sexual physiology considers the lighter side of such topics as the arousal of cadavers, mythologies about a woman's ability to experience orgasm, and the ineffectiveness of Viagra on female pandas. By the author of Stiff and Spook.

Bonk

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Issue 70 of BBC History Revealed magazine.

BBC History Revealed

Christos Gage

STONEHOUSE

Before you play the video game, get to know the heroes of MARVEL'S AVENGERS! The stage is set with all-new stories leading directly into the events of the highly anticipated game - featuring all your favorite heroes! Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor and Hulk are the Avengers, but when the Lethal Legion strikes, it's going to take more than their usual teamwork to save the day! When Tony Stark discovers his enemies have co-opted his technology for nefarious purposes, it's up to him to stop the leak. But can his teammates be trusted - or is something more sinister at play? And can Captain Marvel help set things right? Avengers Assemble! Collecting: Marvel's Avengers: Iron Man (2019) 1, Marvel's Avengers: Thor (2020) 1, Marvel's Avengers: Captain America (2020) 1, Marvel's Avengers: Hulk (2020) 1, Marvel's Avengers: Black Widow (2020) 1

Marvel's Avengers: Road to A-Day

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Scott Snyder

Charles Soule

Giuseppe Camuncoli

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Barnes and Noble Exclusive

Undiscovered Country Volume 1

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James Joyce

Edna O'Brien

Malachy McCourt

Fifteen short stories evoke the character, atmosphere, and people of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century

Dubliners

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Oscar. Wilde

Sylvan Barnet

Elise Bruhl

Michael Gamer

Offers newly edited texts of five of the British playwright's works, including the great farcial comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.. Reissue.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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Jules Verne

Kim Stanley Robinson

Follows Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans as they venture deep into a volcanic crater in Iceland on a journey that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries. Reissue.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Michael Meyer

Leslie Feidler



One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's irreverent and incisive commentary on nineteenth century Americans encountering the Old World. Come along for the ride as Twain and his unsuspecting travel companions visit the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Rome, the Vatican, Genoa, Gibraltar, Odessa, Constantinople, Cairo, the Holy Land and other locales renowned in history. No person or place is safe from Twain's sharp wit as it impales both the conservative and the liberal, the Old World and the New. He uses these contrasts to "find out who we as Americans are," notes Leslie A. Fiedler. But his travelogue demonstrates that, in our attempt to understand ourselves, we must first find out what we are not.

With an Introduction Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Leslie A. Fiedler

The Innocents Abroad

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Elizabeth Frank

Mark Dawidziak

Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada.

Roughing It

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Eileen Panetta

A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865

This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended.

On Shattered Ground

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James Comey

Essentially pristine condition. No damage at all.

Truth, Lies, and Leadership

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

A Higher Loyalty

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Ian Littlewood

Travel and Sex since the Grand Tour

Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. After reading what Littlewood demonstrates, readers will never look at tourists in quite the same way again.

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