Sarah Churchwell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby

Originally published: London: Virago, 2013

Careless People

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Augusten X. Burroughs

A Memoir

An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself. By the author of Running with Scissors. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Robert M. Edsel

Slight wear on edges, slight darkening of paper, otherwise perfect condition 

The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire.On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles.Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler.An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

Saving Italy

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Erika Swyler

A Novel

One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015 **Includes a bonus short story by Erika Swyler, "The Mermaid Girl"** "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading."—Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's family have drowned--always on July 24, which is only weeks away. As his friend Alice looks on with alarm, Simon becomes increasingly worried about his sister. Could there be a curse on Simon's family? What does it have to do with the book, and can he get to the heart of the mystery in time to save Enola? In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.

The Book of Speculation

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Sisters in Arms

Cicero

Niall Rudd

#paperback #classics #philosophy #ancientrome

`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, and sets out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of utopia. This is the first complete English translation of both works for over sixty years and features a lucid Introduction, a Table of Dates, notes on the Roman constitution, and an Index of Names.

The Republic and the Laws

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Alexander McCall Smith

#paperback #fiction #ladydetectives #mystery #no1ladiesdetectiveagency 

Irrepressible sleuth Precious Ramotswe searches for a young man who vanished many years ago on the African plains, while dealing with her engagement to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, sudden and unexpected motherhood, and her recently promoted new assistant.

Tears of the Giraffe

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Celia Rees

#hardcover #witches #historicalfiction #Youngadult 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

In a sequel to Witch Child, a vision of Mary Newbury--who was accused of being a witch by her Puritan village in the 1600s--comes to Agnes Herne, a young, modern-day descendant who has an uncanny connection to the past and, like Mary, has special powers.

Sorceress

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Carolyn Meyer

#paperback #fiction #queenelizabeth #middlegrade #youngadult #historicalfiction

A Young Royals Book

Written in the first-person, this tale addresses the years before this princess's coronation and the struggles she faced in order to stay alive under the reign of her sister Mary. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

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#paperback #middlegrade #queenmary #historicalfiction

Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Mary, Bloody Mary

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#fiction #historical #historicalfiction #histfic #paperback #worldwithoutend 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.

World Without End

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#fiction #fantasy #ya #youngadult #paperback #romance #retelling 

The Storyteller’s Daughter

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Angels & Demons

#fiction #historical #historicalfiction #histfic #paperback #massmarket #Roman

A Novel of Roman England

Hadrian’s Wall

#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #hardcover 

Famous for his suspenseful fiction that delivers sheer emotional power, David Morrell, the bestselling author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fifth Profession, and Assumed Identity, here presents a mesmerizing novel of intrigue and high-action thrills...Fallen star journalist Matt Pittman holds a gun in his hand, ready to commit suicide...until he's abruptly interrupted by a phone call and a bizarre assignment: to write the obituary of a man who is not yet dead. Suddenly, clinging desperately to a life he'd so recently been eager to discard, Matt is thrust into the heart of a global conspiracy whose sinister machinations promise a terrifying endgame. He will find himself both a murder suspect by the police and a target for murder by invisible assassins determined to destroy him. Now Matt Pittman is on a desperate, great final story -- and his last byline may be written on a tombstone.

Desperate Measures

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#nonfiction #humor #comedy #hardcover #southern #journalism

Won’t You Come Home, Billy Bob Bailey?

#nonfiction #history #hardcover #brokaw #america 

The renowned television journalist focuses on a remarkable generation of Americans, born in the 1920s, who came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era. TV tie-in. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

The Greatest Generation

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#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #hardcover #rainbowsix #tomclancy 

In a novel of military intrigue, formidable ex-Navy SEAL John Clark takes on a world-threatening band of terrorists

Rainbow Six

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#fiction #mystery #detective #paperback #suspensethrillers #crime

Southern  Cross 

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Cross

#fiction #historical #historicalfiction #histfic #paperback #tudor #royalty

Chronicles the adventures of Arthur Dudley, the illegitimate son of Elizabeth I and Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester--a child presumed dead by his real parents who learns his true identity upon the death of his adoptive father.

The Queen's Bastard

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The Split Worlds - Book One

Reissues of "Between Two Thorns" (Book 1), "Any Other Name" (Book 2), and "All is Fair" (Book 3) in Emma Newman's popular urban fantasy Split Worlds Series to tie into the release of the newest original book in the series: "A Little Knowledge."

Between Two Thorns

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#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #paperback #memoir 

Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

A wisecracking foreign correspondent recounts her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan while sharing cautionary observations about the region in its first post-Taliban years and the responsibilities of the U.S. and NATO.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages. Reissue.

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