A little beat up on the outside but inside there are no markings- some yellowing though

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Grimms Fairy Tales

Lois Lowry

Edges are kind of bent but not too noticeable 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life. An ALA Notable Book for Children & Newbery Medal Winner. Reissue.

The Giver

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Aldous Huxley

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit

"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal 

The beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Brave New World also includes Huxley's essay, "Brave New World Revisited" and features a foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization. 

Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. 

Brave New World

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Deborah Paredez

Some folding on the edge but other than that it’s like new

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

An ethnography on the significance of Selena's afterlife for Latino identity

Selenidad

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Arthur Miller

Pages are a bit yellow; read it once for a class

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

Death of a Salesman

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Henry D. Thoreau

Jonathan Levin

Pages are a bit yellow but other than that in excellent condition 

Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp'z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix]http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp'userid=t82oXkNABr series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
 * New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars
 * Biographies of the authors
 * Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
 * Footnotes and endnotes
 * Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
 * Comments by other famous authors
 * Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations
 * Bibliographies for further reading
 * Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works.
 
Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government''s interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau''s poetry.
 

Jonathan Levin is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Literature and Culture at SUNY-Purchase. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, modernism and modernity, and environmental studies. He is the author of The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism, as well as numerous essays and reviews.

Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Rupi Kaur

Bent on like two or three pages but other than that in excellent condition 

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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Nia Shanks

Bent on the front side; other than that still in great condition 

Be More, Not Less

You sweat, burn, and fast until you're exhausted...only to fall into a tailspin of stress, overindulgence, and blame. If you're like most women, you've been through this vicious cycle more times than you can count. But what if fitness wasn't about fixing flaws and shrinking sizes? What if your workout could be uncomplicated, energizing, and even fun? Fitness coach Nia Shanks has helped countless clients reinvent their mindset around exercise, nutrition, and body image. Based on her wildly popular blog, Lift Like a Girl is so much more than a workout program. It's an empowering lifestyle built around discovering the strength you never knew you had. Along with her practical, step-by-step approach for getting proven results in the gym, Nia breaks through the weight-loss clich s that keep too many women dissatisfied, depressed, and constantly on a diet. Find out how good it feels to lift like a girl, and leave the gym feeling more awesome than ever.

Lift Like a Girl

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"A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity"--Amazon.com.

Milk and Honey

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Kaveh Akbar

Basically brand new but accidentally bent some pages :-/

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny Howe



This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.

From "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before"
 
      Sometimes you just have to leave


whatever's real to you, you have to clomp


through fields and kick the caps off


all the toadstools. Sometimes


you have to march all the way to Galilee


 


or the literal foot of God himself before you realize


you've already passed the place where


you were supposed to die. I can no longer remember


the being afraid, only that it came to an end.
 
 


Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Tin House, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.

 

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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Gloria Anzaldúa

Has some marks on the edges but other than that it’s basically brand new 

Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color

A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to published pieces by Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Norma Alarcon and Trinh T. Minh-ha. "At one level or another, all the work in the collection seeks to find ways to understand and articulate our multiple identities and senses of place...."Making Face/Making Soul" is an exciting collection of dynamic, important writings that all women of color and white feminists will learn from, enjoy, and return to again and again and again."--"Sojourner" ..".the pieces are stunning in what they risk and reveal..."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"

Making Face, Making Soul - Haciendo Caras

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Book is basically brand new; has only been opened to take pictures

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Dracula

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Constance Garnett

Book hasn’t been opened except for the pictures; some yellowing on the edges

Crime and Punishment

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Jane. Austen

Isobel Armstrong

Frank W. Bradbrook

Human foibles and early-nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of country English family life

Pride and Prejudice

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Carol Hardy-Fanta

Talks about politics relating to Latinos, and the differences between the men and women’s experiences 

Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston

Through an in-depth study of the Latino community in Boston, Carol hardy-Fanta addressees three key debates in American politics: how to look at the ways in which women and men envision the meaning of politics and political participation; how to understand culture and the political life of expanding immigrant populations; and how to create a more participatory America. The author's interviews with Latinos from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America and her participation in community events in North Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and the South End document the often ignored contribution of Latina women as candidates, political mobilizers, and community organizers. Hardy-Fanta examines critical gender differences in how politics is defined, what strategies Latina women and Latino men use to generate political participation, and how culture and gender interact in the political empowerment of the ethic communities. Hardy-Fanta challenges the notion of political apathy among Latinos and presents factors that stimulate political participation. She finds that the vision of politics promoted by Latina women—one based on connectedness, collectivity, community, and consiousness-raising—contrasts sharply with a male political concern for status, hierarchy, and personal opportunity.

Latina Politics, Latino Politics

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John Slyce

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Perverspective

Patrick Hughes' pictures are hard to describe, but easy to enjoy. Hughes makes moving pictures. His libraries, skyscrapers and mazes seem to turn around and follow you like the eyes in portraits are said to do. Flat on the page they don't 'work', but when animated by the motion and mind of the viewer his pictures spring to life. For well over thirty years, Hughes has captured the hearts and perceptual thoughts of an ever-expanding public with his art. In this book, the first to handle the entirety of Hughes' production, John Slyce gives an entertaining and intelligent account of the artist's formation and the implications of his paradoxical art.

Patrick Hughes

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Wonderful Ways to Talk to Him

Dear God

Luis J. Rodriguez

Autobiography of gang life and how the author was able to get out of it 

La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A.

This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.

Always Running

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Sandra Cisneros

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness

The House on Mango Street

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Scott O'Dell

In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.



This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building a shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Jessica Knoll

A Novel

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.

Luckiest Girl Alive

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Cathy Guisewite

Charles Schulz

A modern Everywoman, Cathy has endeared herself to millions of fans who share her daily struggles with the four basic guilt groups: Food, Love, Mother and Career. This comic page heroine blazed a trail for single working women and continues her pursuit of perfection against odds every woman can relate to. We read. We identify. We laugh. Aaack

Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon

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Gerald Corey

Not the latest edition, but still, Corey was an excellent professor and very knowledgeable about group counseling and psychology 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy

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Beverly Tatum

Revised Edition

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. "An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life."-Jonathan Kozol

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Rupi Kaur

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Rupi Kaur

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Kaveh Akbar

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Carol Hardy-Fanta

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Dear God

Luis J. Rodriguez

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Sandra Cisneros

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Scott O'Dell

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Jessica Knoll

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Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon

Gerald Corey

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