Roger Angell

This book is a collection of love stories from the popular New Yorker magazine. Written by the staff of the magazine, these fiction stories are beautifully illustrated and will capture your heart. The hardcover format of the book is durable and will last for years to come. It has a total of 448 pages and is published by Random House Publishing Group. The book measures 9.6 inches in length, 6.6 inches in width, and 1.5 inches in height, with a weight of 30.5 ounces. The book is in English language and was published in 1997. The genre of the book is fiction, with a topic of general romance.


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nebraska

A landmark anthology of fiction on the theme of love from the magazine that has defined the American short story for almost a century. Not all the stories gathered here have love or romance as their sole and central focus. But, taken together, they dramatize how affairs of the heart affect--permeate--every other aspect of our lives. Illustrations throughout.

Love Stories from the New Yorker

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Brooke Allen

Explore the fascinating world of our skeptical founding fathers with Brooke Allen's "Moral Minority". This 256-page book, published by Dee Publisher, Ivan R. in 2007, is a must-read for anyone interested in history, politics, and religion. 

The book measures 8.6 inches in length, 5.9 inches in width, and 0.7 inches in height, and weighs 12.5 ounces. It is written in English and covers a range of topics, including the United States' colonial period, political freedom, and the role of religion in politics. With its perfect format, this book is a great addition to any bookshelf.


Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Our Skeptical Founding Fathers

In her lively refutation of modern claims about America's religious origins, Brooke Allen looks back at the late eighteenth century and shows decisively that the United States was founded not on Christian principles at all but on Enlightenment ideas. Moral Minority presents a powerful case that the unique legal framework the Founding Fathers created was designed according to the humanist ideals of Enlightenment thinkers: God entered the picture only as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuous by his absence. The guiding spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, Ms. Allen explains, was not Jesus Christ but John Locke. In direct and accessible prose, she provides fascinating chapters on the religious lives of the six men she considers the key Founding Fathers: Franklin, Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton. Far from being the conventional pious Christians we too often imagine, these men were skeptical intellectuals, in some cases not even Christians at all. Moral Minority presents unforgettable images of our iconic founders: Jefferson taking a razor to the Bible and cutting out every miraculous and supernatural occurrence; Washington rewriting speeches others had crafted for him, so as to omit all references to Jesus Christ; Franklin and Adams confiding their doubts about Christ's divinity; Madison expressing deep disapproval over the appointment of chaplains to Congress and the armed forces, and of what we would now call "faith-based" initiatives. Enlivened by generous portions of the founders' own incomparable prose, Moral Minority makes an impassioned and scintillating contribution to the ongoing debate--more heated now than ever before--over the separation of church and state and the role (or lack thereof) of religion in government.

Moral Minority

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Daniel Kahneman

This book, titled "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, is a fascinating read for anyone interested in decision-making and problem-solving. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2013, this trade paperback has 512 pages and weighs 17 oz. The book is written in English and has an illustrator. 

It covers a range of topics including cognitive psychology, emotions, and decision-making. The book is perfect for those interested in education, psychology, business & economics, and philosophy. With a length of 8.2 inches, a height of 1.3 inches, and a width of 5.5 inches, this book is a great addition to any bookshelf.


Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Stephen Greenblatt

Explore the captivating world of Shakespeare's theater with this hardcover book, "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare" by Stephen Greenblatt. Published by Norton & Company, Inc. in 2004, this book takes you on a journey through the history and criticism of Shakespeare's work, from his early plays to his legendary status as a playwright. 

With 448 pages of literary criticism, biography, and drama, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare's theater and the history of theater in Europe. The book is in English and measures 9.5 inches in length, 6.5 inches in width, and 1.4 inches in height, with a weight of 27.7 ounces. It also includes illustrations by an experienced illustrator. Get ready to dive into the fascinating world of Shakespeare's theater with this insightful and entertaining book.


How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world's greatest playwright. A young man from the provinces--a man without wealth, connections, or university education--moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained?Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great works--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and more--that continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world's greatest writer. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare's plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and deliver "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare's vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine's #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book; A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR's Maureen Corrigan's Best.

Will in the World

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This book, titled "Farther Away : Essays" by Jonathan Franzen, is a literary collection published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2012. The book measures 7.8 inches in length, 5.4 inches in width, and 1.1 inches in height, with a weight of 16.2 ounces. It contains 336 pages and is written in English.

The book falls under the genre of Biography & Autobiography and Literary Collections, with topics covering Literary and Essays. This paperback format book is a great addition to any book lover's collection.


Farther Away 

Gregory Orr

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

English

An innovative and accessible guide to poetry-writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor of poetry. A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke’s "My Papa’s Waltz" and Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds"—those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into urgent and persuasive poems. It provides the poet with more than a dozen focused writing exercises and explains essential topics such as the personal and cultural threshold; the four forces that animate poetic language (naming, singing, saying, imagining); tactics of revision; ecstasy and engagement as motives for poetry; and how to locate and learn from our personal poetic forebears.

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry

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Jeanne Steig

William Steig

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Old Testament Made Easy

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Gift from Zeus and the Old Testament Made Easy

Retells stories from the Old Testament and Greek mythology in humorous, less-than-reverent verses.

Divine Comedies

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Brave New Boys Boxed Set 

Sigrid Rausing

What Have We Done

Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.

Granta 133

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Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford – and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in.

A Frank Bascombe Book

Let Me Be Frank With You 

Fred Morgan

An Approach to Writing Through Perception

Here and Now II

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Jean Rhys

Francis Wyndham

Charlotte Brontë

The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, New York Times Book Review).

Wide Sargasso Sea

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A History of the End of the World

Reading for Rhetoric

Gerald Levin

A Brief Rhetoric

Styles for Writing

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Robert Hartwell Fiske

The Grumbling Grammarian is back with a revised and expanded edition of The Dictionary of Disagreeable English. In this second edition, Robert Hartwell Fiske has added more language blunders, additional witty commentary, and a new feature that includes frequently asked questions about language. Fiske rails against "laxicographers and ding-a-linguists" who, with their misguided thinking, actually promote the dissolution of the English language. He also illustrates why dictionaries don't always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word. With concise instruction and numerous examples of misused words, Fiske makes it easier than ever to learn from others' mistakes.

The Dictionary of Disagreeable English

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James Atlas

A Biography

With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events—the Depression, World War II, the upheavals of the sixties—and amid all the complexities of the Jewish-immigrant experience in America, which generated a vibrant new literature. Drawing upon a vast body of original research, including Bellow’s extensive correspondence with Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, and many other luminaries of the twentieth-century literary community, Atlas weaves a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most talented and enigmatic figures in American intellectual history. Detailing Bellow’s volatile marriages and numerous tempestuous relation-ships with women, publishers, and friends, Bellow: A Biography is a magnificent chronicle of one of the premier writers in the English language, whose prize-winning works include Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, and, most recently, Ravelstein.

Bellow

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Richard Hofstadter

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.

"As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." --Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor 

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nigel Spivey

History

The Greek Myths Made Real

The author presents a retelling of classic Greek mythology including dramatic versions of "Jason and the Argonauts," "The Travels of Odysseus," "The Wrath of Achilles," and much more.

Songs on Bronze

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David Baker

Essays on Lyric Poetry

"These essays explore the history of the lyric poem, its rhetorical modes and strategies. It gives the contemporary reader a sense of the origin, evolution, and present status of the modes and means of lyric poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Radiant Lyre

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Stephen King

First edition. Book sleeve is worn. Book in great condition.

""Sometimes dead is better...."" When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.

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