Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The Golden Bowl 

I would’ve put the condition as ‘excellent’ but because of the tape and library sticker I put ‘good’. For being a withdrawn library book it is still in great shape. Please see pictures. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A Novel

"Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counterculture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong"--

History of Wolves

d64f620d-d743-46ef-9314-4ca89cbf3021-1

#paperback #classic #americanlit #americanliterature #homeschool #classroom #highschool #men #war #courage

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Red Badge of Courage 

Mark Twain

Azar Nafisi

R. Kent Rasmussen

Texas

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination In recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

b7b12849-9b46-4fb2-b27b-4f1eea23b9e1-1

Larry D. Sweazy

Withdrawn library book with the usual stickers. Please see pictures.

A Trusty Dawson, US Deputy Marshal Western

Two-time Spur and Will Rogers Medallion Award-winning author Larry D. Sweazy kicks off the first in an action-packed, historically-rich Western series, as U.S. Marshal Sam "Trusty" Dawson runs neck and neck with the devil in a race for revenge... Kosoma, Indian Territory. The outlaw Darby brothers have been sentenced to hang until dead. Witnessing the exectution are Amelia Darby, sister of the condemned men, as well as U.S. Deputy Marshal Sam "Trusty" Dawson and Judge Gordon Hadesworth. After justice is served, Trusty hits the trail, escorting the judge--and begrudgingly, Amelia--back to Oklahoma. Ambushed en route, the judge is murdered and Amelia vanishes, leaving Trusty to believe she led them into a trap for revenge. To find Amelia, Trusty will have to put his faith in Father Michael Darby, a fourth brother who gave up his criminal ways to take up the cloth and collar. Unwilling to let his sister continue to fall to the wicked evil that claimed the rest of his family, Michael joins the hunt for Amelia. But as their journey turns deadlier by the day, Trusty starts to doubt that Michael is truly on the righteous path...

Lost Mountain Pass

a46f604b-3c75-4269-b350-8147ce0e7478-0

#hardcover #vintage #exlibrary #classic #fiction #adultfiction #women #american #americanliterature #20thcentury  

She was a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and indomitable. Within her own lifetime she had become almost a legendary figure--stormy, glittery, tragic, but never dull.
Married at seventeen to one of the most colorful and ruthless of the great robber barons, she had known both the famous and interestingly infamous of two continents; had seen the gaudy world of the great Fifth Avenue chateaus come into being, flourish and decay; and now observed with wise, weary eyes the mad, turbulent world of the twentieth century.

At eight-four, she still had more zest for life than any of her descendants, all whom--with the exception of her great-granddaughter Janie--she privately despised. Charming people--but a sorry and disappointing lot who had inherited all the arrogance but none of the salty lustiness, the unscrupulousness but not the daring, that had won the Major, her husband, the friendship of Edward VII and had made her love him to the end in spite of his ruthlessness and infidelities.

And upon the thin, erect shoulders of Mrs. Parkington, her children still piled the problems with which they themselves had neither wisdom nor courage to cope.

Louis Bromfield has written a charming love story, a long, nostalgic novel which covers one of the most exciting, multi-colored periods of American history. A meretricious age, flashy, fantastic, corrupt, it was also an age of giants, of strength and growth and great visions. He has filled a dramatic and richly crowded story with people who are unmistakably of their era, whether it is the world of the nineteenth century, the pre-war period, or the confusing revolutionary world of today.

In Mrs. Parkington, Bromfield has created his most unforgettable character.

Mrs. Parkington

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nancy Stade

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

The Scarlet Letter

d1223056-57d8-4eb0-8039-c29a99473539-1

Herman. Melville

Washington

Moby Dick

d4516b66-6df8-4315-bc21-79154dc75c9b-1

Dented along base of spine/front cover. See photos. Otherwise perfect. 

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

7d235cc9-4ef7-4213-9bf8-ff7138f86521-1

Montana

The Blithedale Romance

Unread copy of The House of the Seven Gables. Shelf wear. Yellowing pages. Bantam Classics edition.

The House of the Seven Gables

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Slight edge wear. Tight binding. Pages like new. 

California

A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact she has married

The Great Gatsby

12cf47e5-382d-47c1-b947-ca497ba15689-1

Fiction paperback novel F Scott Fitzgerald very good condition edge of back cover worn, see pics, from smoke free home.  The Great Gatsby

Mississippi

The Great Gatsby novel Scribner paperback fiction

The Great Gatsby like new paperback 

#paperback #fiction #classicists #fscottfitzgerald #greatgatsby #americanliterature #classics #drama 

Minnesota

Jennifer Crusie

Alaska

Agreeing not to pursue a relationship after one date, unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey find themselves unwittingly thrown together again in the wake of such factors as a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a bizarrely intelligent cat. 250,000 first printing.

Bet Me

a2cc17e3-5cf4-410d-9022-079e89676dce-1

Elizabeth Berg

Patty Ann Murphy thought she had found the perfect man, until he told her he was gay.

Until the Real Thing Comes Along

889a458f-5f9b-42e7-ba8c-5cb5965f2f0d

Tight binding
No writing
Published by Washington Square Press 1975

The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories

Deluxe Clothbound Edition

A paragon of the Great American Novel, and a set text in schools and universities around the world, this is a classic that everyone should read. With its haunting and evocative depiction of the Roaring Twenties and post-war America, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest classics of the 20th century. The Great Gatsby is featured on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.

Pennsylvania

English

Introduction to American Literature (New Edition, 1911)

Richard Russo

Vermont

A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.

His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
 
In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as "...superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town."

The Risk Pool

e693568c-abda-4126-bd6e-dbc12df5f5e5-1

Louisa Alcott

Florida

A publishing first - the first and only complete collection of all Louisa May Alcott's Christmas short stories and novellas.

Louisa May Alcott has been loved for generations of readers for her timeless stories like Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys. Few authors have equaled her ability to bring characters to life in such a way that readers truly care for and believe in them-and are inspired to be like them.

Now for the first time, all of Alcott's known Christmas short stories and novellas have been gathered into a single exquisite collection, which is sure to brighten the holidays for book lovers.

Readers of all ages will cherish these fifteen enchanting tales filled with hope, sorrow, faith, joy, redemption, strength, and goodness.

Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury is a wonderful gift for oneself or a loved one.




Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury

49eb2387-6134-406f-9d90-ad3174ba779d-1

Utah

Willa Cather

Complete and unabridged paperback edition. O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918). Via Wikipedia.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Henry James

The Golden Bowl

Emily Fridlund

History of Wolves

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Mark Twain; Azar Nafisi; R. Kent Rasmussen

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Larry D. Sweazy

Lost Mountain Pass

Louis Bromfield

Mrs. Parkington

Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nancy Stade

The Scarlet Letter

Herman. Melville

Moby Dick

William Faulkner; William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Great Gatsby like new paperback

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli (Produced by, Notes by)

The Great Gatsby

Jennifer Crusie

Bet Me

Elizabeth Berg

Until the Real Thing Comes Along

O. Henry; edited and with an introduction by Harry Hansen

The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Brander Matthews

Introduction to American Literature (New Edition, 1911)

Richard Russo

The Risk Pool

Louisa Alcott

Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Great Gatsby

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!