Tim O'Brien

Pages are unmarked. Binding is tight. Some moisture rippling to the bottom of some pages. Name blacked out inside cover.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried  is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.

The Things They Carried

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Erich Maria Remarque

Arthur Wesley Wheen

Pages are clean but have a bit of yellowing. Cover has some wear.

A Novel

The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war

All Quiet on the Western Front

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E. L. Konigsburg

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories--one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team--that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.

How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team?

It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen?

It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued.

Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.

The View from Saturday

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Pearl S. Buck

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.

The Good Earth

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Pat Conroy

A novel about the fictional family of an American fighter pilot.

The Great Santini

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Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight.

White Fang

The Cage

Play based on Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.

Diary of Anne Frank

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Donald H. Dunson

Pages have some highlighting and corner folds. Binding is tight.

The Loss of Innocence in Uganda

Sunday Obote was only seven when he was kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in northern Uganda. His life abruptly changed from peaceful village life, where he fished and hunted with his friends, to the savagery of the LRA. Sunday was turned into a child soldier trained to kill on demand, even killing other children.

Child, Victim, Soldier

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pages are clean. Binding is tight. Cover has some wear.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Memoir

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

Wait till Next Year

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Bernie Chowdhury

Pages are unmarked. Binding is tight. Stain along top corner of pages.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths

"Superbly written and action-packed, The Last Dive ranks with such adventure classics as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air."--Tampa Tribune

Spurred on by a fatal combination of obsession and ambition, Chris and Chrisy Rouse, an experienced father-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve wide-spread recognition for their outstanding and controversial diving skills by solving the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented, World War II German U-boat that lay only a half day's mission from New York Harbor.

The Rouses found the ultimate cost of chasing their personal challenge: death from what divers dread the most--decompression sickness, or "the bends." In this gripping recounting of their tragedy, author Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver, explores the thrill-seeking, high-risk world of deep sea diving, its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and notorious tragedies.

The Last Dive

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Chip Lovitt

Payes are clean, binding is tight. Pages have yellowing.

Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski

Discusses the skating careers of champion figure skaters Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski.

Skating for the Gold

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Book has some wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Some creasing to spine. Over 4400 recipes and 500 photos.

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The Culinary Arts Institute Cookbook

Slow Cooker Recipe Collection

Sunset Publishing Staff

"Over 120 delicious recipes for your crock-pot slow cooker"--Cover.

Crockery Cook Book

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Weight Watchers International, Inc. Staff

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

From the Kitchens of Weight Watchers

Slim Ways with Pasta

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Scott Grundy

Now available in trade paperback, here are 200 recipes that provide sound, sensible and deliciously effective ways to help bring down blood cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

American Heart Association's Low-Fat, Low Cholesterol Cookbook

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Dana Cowin

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Entire Year of Recipes

Almost one million subscribers heartily agree: there's always something delicious going on in Food & Wine. And it's all here in the annual cookbook, which includes every recipe published in the magazine during 2007 more than 600 of them accompanied by scrumptious-looking photographs. The contributors remain absolutely stellar, cuisine's finest, including such cookbook authors, chefs, and food luminaries as Jacques Pepin, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Paula Wolfert, and Al Roker. Plus, this year's volume is organized seasonally, so it's even easier to find the right recipe for the right occasion. Mouthwatering dishes like Emeril Lagasse's Shrimp-and-Corn Bisque, Mario Batali's T-Bone Fiorentina with Sauteed Spinach, and Thomas Keller's Over-the-Top Mushroom Quiche were tested on home appliances, making them easy to re-create and delicious to eat. In addition, the volume includes 50 brand-new test-kitchen tips, as well as an extensive glossary of accessible wines. Here's real food that real people who want to eat well can actually prepare; recipes that reflect the many ways we cook today.


Food and Wine Annual Cookbook

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The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year

Every year, the editors of "Food Wine" search for the most delectable dishes from the creme de la creme of cookbooks. Here are their selections: more than 100 fully kitchen-tested, temptingly photographed dishes taken from the 25 best cookbooks of the year.

Best of the Best

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Chris-Rachael Oseland

Tom Gordon

Brand new first edition hardcover. Price sticker on back cover


The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery

When you crack the cover of The Hobbit, the very first chapter is about an unexpected dinner party.Tolkien takes us on a journey through the rural village where he spent the happiest days of his childhood. This book makes your kitchen a stop on that literary journey with authentic period recipes from Tolkien's youth celebrating the best in English country cooking.These delicious recipes celebrate an earlier time when no one cared about carbohydrates, butter made everything better, and life stopped at 4 p.m. for tea and cakes.There are recipes for each of the seven Hobbit meals of Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevenses, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, and Supper.If you're entertaining guests from outside the Shire, there are a dozen recipes with vegan variations, such as Apple Hand Pies, Mushroom Stuffing, and Ginger Oat Bread. A dozen more can be made gluten free, such as Shire Made Sausage, Mushroom Soup, and Roasted Apples. Meat lovers don't need to worry, because they can enjoy Braised Oxtail, Herb Crusted Lamb Chops, and Steak and Ale Pie.The Hobbit was Tolkien's love letter to the happiest parts of his childhood. This book is a love letter back, thanking him for taking us on that journey with him.So the next time you are faced with an unexpected party, lay out a nice afternoon tea with Plum Heavies, Shire Scones, and Mini Mincemeat Pies in preparation for a culinary adventure.

An Unexpected Cookbook

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Bob Harper

Danny Pellegrino

First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Shed Pounds, Build Strength, Eat Real Food

How do you prevent those constant food cravings and feelings of deprivation when trying to lose weight? Host of The Biggest Loser and celebrity trainer Bob Harper’s Super Carb Diet is the answer. Harper focuses on nutrient-dense foods that are big in flavor and allow certain kinds of carbohydrates at targeted times during the day. In The Super Carb Diet you’ll find: - How to eat carbs earlier in the day for sustained energy - A list of super-carb foods - Limited snacks but larger and more varied meals - A way of eating that’s sustainable - Super-charged weight loss The Super Carb Diet will keep millions of dieters from giving up after Week One. The program leads you through precise plate proportions, balancing good protein, low fat, high fiber, and nutrient density. Not only will you lose significant weight and whittle your waistline, you’ll walk away from the table feeling happy and full.

The Super Carb Diet

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Connect with the power of your dreams & live your best life

Conscious Dreamer 

Adam Davies

Pages are clean and binding is tight.  Cover has some wear and a small crease. Pages have some yellowing.

Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living"). His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not). His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?). His publishing job is entry level (with no exit in sight). BUT... Harry Driscoll has a dream (if you call an unfinished manuscript hidden in the closet a "dream"). Harry Driscoll has a girl (although intercourse is out of the question). Harry Driscoll even has feelings. (He asked this girl, one day in the park, to be in his life forever--and meant it!) And the other girls? They're not the problem. (The problem is, Harry Driscoll cannot allow himself to say the word "love.")

The Frog King

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Pages are clean and binding is tight.  Staple bound paperback. Excellent condition except for name written on first page.

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