Paola Ramos

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Nevada

The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite his vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. Now, journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to vote for and support issues that seem so at odds with their self-interest. From coast to coast, cities to rural towns, Defectors introduces readers to underdog GOP candidates, January 6th insurrectionists, Evangelical pastors and culture war crusaders, aiming to identify the influences at the heart of this rightward shift. Through their stories, Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society. We meet Monica de la Cruz, a Republican congresswoman from the Rio Grande Valley who won on a platform centered on finishing “what Donald Trump started” and pushing the Great Replacement Theory; David Ortiz, a Mexican man who refers to himself as a Spaniard and opposed the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador in New Mexico; Luis Cabrera, an evangelical pastor pushing to “Make America Godly Again;” Anthony Aguero, an independent journalist turned border vigilante; and countless other individuals and communities that make up the rising conservative Latino population. Cross-cultural and assiduously reported, Defectors highlights how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics.

Defectors (ARC)

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Gail Crowther

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before. Just as she did with her “deliriously fast-paced and erudite” (Library Journal) dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Gail Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance.

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood (ARC)

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Kenji Kuroda

Defense attorney Phoenix Wright, aided by his psychically gifted assistant, Maya, investigates a number of cases as he attempts to uncover the truth and bring the guilty to justice.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, vol. 1

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Brian Sibley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Includes four posters depicting Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth with maps from The Hobbit, Beleriand, and Numenor, accompanied by a manual describing the signicance of geographical evolution in the author's works.

The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth

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Earthquake Dynamics of Structures: A Primer, 2nd Edition

Ryan Holiday

Stephen Hanselman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

The Daily Stoic

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Ottessa Moshfegh

A Novel

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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Tom Cole

The Last Paradise

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Brian Connolly

Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America

Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between public and private life, while antislavery writers lamented the ramifications of breaking apart enslaved families. Phrenologists and physiologists established reproduction as the primary motivation of the incest prohibition while naturalizing the incestuous eroticism of sentimental family affection. Ethnographers imagined incest as the norm in so-called primitive societies in contrast to modern civilization. In the absence of clear biological or religious limitations, the young republic developed numerous, varied, and contradictory incest prohibitions. Domestic Intimacies offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth century. Historian Brian Connolly argues that at the center of these convergent anxieties and debates lay the idea of the liberal subject: an autonomous individual who acted on his own desires yet was tempered by reason, who enjoyed a life in public yet was expected to find his greatest satisfaction in family and home. Always lurking was the need to exercise personal freedom with restraint; indeed, the valorization of the affectionate family was rooted in its capacity to act as a bulwark against licentiousness. However it was defined, incest was thus not only perceived as a threat to social stability; it also functioned to regulate social relations—within families and between classes as well as among women and men, slaves and free citizens, strangers and friends. Domestic Intimacies overturns conventional histories of American liberalism by placing the fear of incest at the heart of nineteenth-century conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship and individualism, social contracts and personal freedom.

Domestic Intimacies

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Ai Yazawa

Shirley Kubo

When Yukari is asked to be the runway model for the clothing label Paradise Kiss, her life is turned upside down as she juggles college and career.

Paradise Kiss, vol. 5 

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

20th Anniversary Edition

One of the most popular comic artists in the world, Ai Yazawa, returns with a 20th anniversay edition of the fashion-inspired comic that made her an international sensation, Paradise Kiss. This new edtion celebrates 20 years since Paradise Kiss began serialization in Japan and combines the original 3 volume release into 1 beautiful package. High fashion and hot drama come together in Paradise Kiss. One of the manga to launch the manga boom globally Paradise Kiss combined stunning design work and YA themed naratives that made it a multimillion unit seller worldwide.

Paradise Kiss

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Donald J. Trump

Meredith McIver

The author describes the secrets of investing in real estate, and offers advice on spending money like a billionaire, and also includes a behind the scenes look at his television program "The Apprentice."

(Signed 1st/1st) Think Like a Billionaire

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Lydia Michaels

Callan MacGregor's tortured past is awakened when the woman he secretly loves is brutally attacked. His heart will not rest until vengeance is served. Bestselling author, Lydia Michaels, delivers a devastatingly dark psychological thriller that haunts and hypnotizes. Violence made me vicious and my sins are too many to count. When I look at her, I'm reminded of everything that is good and pure in this world. My redemption is hopeless, so I keep my distance, fighting the temptation to get closer to her, even when her eyes invite me in. Everyone I love eventually disappears, so I must keep my distance to keep her safe. It is the price I pay for the ruthless horrors I've committed. Until I see her hurt. Now nothing, not even my past, could keep me away.

Hurt (Indie Edition)

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(Signed) The Foods of Georgia’s Barrier Islands: A Gourmet Food Guide of Native American, Geechee and European Influences on the Golden Isles 

Chie Shinohara

Volumes 1-25. 21-25 are sealed. 1-20 are first printings, the others  that are still sealed probably are too. All are in excellent condition, 1-14 have a light crease on the spine from reading, some have yellowing on the edges as pictured

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Youri, a pretty Japanese girl, begins to notice that water becomes agitated whenever she goes near it. One night, hands appear out of a puddle and Youri is dragged into an ancient village. Captured by armed troops, Youri is taken to the queen's palace and learns her fate in the queen's plans for the kingdom.

Red River, Vol. 1-25

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Burns’ Poems

Sam Dolgoff

Signed by the editor. Front cover is torn

Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939

(Signed) The Anarchist Collectives

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Jim Harrison

Novellas

A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."

(Signed) The Beast God Forgot to Invent

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Shojo Beat Sampler 3

Kohta Hirano

Duane Johnson

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There's a secret organization somewhere in England created to defend the Queen and country from monsters of all sorts. Yes, it's hard to believe in this day and age... but really, isn't this the true age of monsters?

Hellsing 6

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Chronicles the exploits of the secret Hellsing Organization, formed by the Hellsing family to protect England and the Protestant church from vampires and other monsters, and its top operative, the vampire Alucard.

Hellsing 2

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Hellsing 1

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Nan Rymer

Adam Arnold

The grand finale of a series of slapstick teen comedy manga titles in the spirit of 'American Pie' and 'Animal House'. Naru and Keitaro learn the truth about their forgotten past and discover the identity of Keitaro's long lost love.

Love Hina 14

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Miki Aihara

Find the courage to become a star!

Life's not easy when you're living in the shadow of your famous parents. Can shy Yura, the daughter of an award-winning composer and a world-renowned actress, find the courage to step out on her own now that her super-celebrity parents are getting divorced?

As Yura's friends gather to celebrate the premiere of the first episode of her TV show, she's nowhere to be seen. Having taken up Q-ta's offer of a hot springs vacation, Yura finds herself alone with him in a luxurious hotel room. Is she prepared to go all the way with Q-ta, or will her manager Mizurogi spoil the fun once again...?

Honey Hunt, Vol. 5

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Anil A. Chopra

Earthquake Dynamics of Structures: A Primer, 2nd Edition

Ryan Holiday; Stephen Hanselman

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Tom Cole

The Last Paradise

Brian Connolly

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Ai Yazawa

Paradise Kiss, vol. 5

Ai Yazawa

Paradise Kiss

Donald J. Trump; Meredith McIver

(Signed 1st/1st) Think Like a Billionaire

Lydia Michaels

Hurt (Indie Edition)

Yvonne J. Grovner; Cornelia Walker Bailey; Doc. Bill

(Signed) The Foods of Georgia’s Barrier Islands: A Gourmet Food Guide of Native American, Geechee and European Influences on the Golden Isles

Chie Shinohara

Red River, Vol. 1-25

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Burns’ Poems

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(Signed) The Beast God Forgot to Invent

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Shojo Beat Sampler 3

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