Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Church Choir Mysteries 

The Unsuitable Suitor 

Harold Bloom

Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Modern Critical Views Series.

New Jersey

Gathers critical essays representing literary discussions about Alice Walker and her work, including essays on some of her specific works, Walker's relationship to other authors, and her treatment of gender and race themes.

Alice Walker

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The Golden Bowl 

John Updike

Ink spot on base, dust jacket has edge clipped. See photos. Otherwise pristine. Fitst Trade Edition 

Michigan

Trista+a1o, an African-Brazilian street kid, and Isabel, an upper-class teen fresh from convent school, fall in love and flee from her rich father and the toughs he has sent in pursuit of them. Simultaneous.

Brazil

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#hardcover #fiction #humor #literature #novel

Wisconsin

A Novel

The New York Times called Porter Shreve's first novel, The Obituary Writer, "an involving and sneakily touching story whose twists feel less like the conventions of a genre than the convolutions of a heart -- any heart." Newsday hailed the book as "a substantial achievement," and Tim O'Brien described it as "taut, compelling, and moving . . . beautifully written, engrossing from start to finish." Shining with the same heart and humor, Shreve's second novel, Drives Like a Dream, is a smart, wry tale about a modern-day mother in the midst of a lifestyle crisis -- and her outlandish attempts to get her family back.
Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. She hasn't seen them together in more than a year, and now her ex-husband is about to remarry a woman half his age. And the insults keep coming: Lydia is stuck on a book she's writing about Detroit's car industry, which uncannily parallels her own life -- out with the old model, in with the new. She's poured her soul into her family, only to be abandoned in the City of Dream Machines. But then a twist of fate introduces her to Norm, an eco-car fanatic out to remake her and the world. Is he the answer to all of her problems, or does he hold the one secret that just might get her children back to Detroit, home for good?
A warm, funny, and affecting novel that's sure to appeal to anyone who has longed for an alternate life, Drives Like a Dream confirms that sometimes when you set out for a spin, the twists and turns can be perfectly rewarding -- and right.

Drives Like a Dream

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#fiction #mystery #hardcover #thriller #charlesdickens #literature 

Georgia

a novel

The Last Dickens

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Name written on inside cover - some discoloration from aging 

Dragon Seed

Purchased at an estate sale, has blank property stamp in inside cover board, see photo, no dust jacket. Glenco Literature Library

Alabama

Reading & Language Arts

The Red Badge of Courage with related readings

Ship of Fools 

#hardcover #nonfiction #fiction #shortstories #nativeamericanliterature #teaching #education #literature #ela #english

New York

Glencoe's new collection of ethnic anthologies gives students access to a wealth of literature written by some of the best classic authors and the finest contemporary voices. Each anthology, organized thematically into five relevant themes, combines literature and art as powerful expressions of the group's cultural story. Glencoe Native American Literature features the works of writers like William Least Heat-Moon, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Dorris, N. Scott Momaday, and many more!

Glencoe Native American Literature

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #jenniferegan #brooklyn #bookofthemonth #literature 

Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished"--

Manhattan Beach

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Lester L. Laminack

Reba M. Wadsworth

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Making the Most of Read-Alouds Across the Day

Lester and Reba not only provide us with a bold new framework for weaving read-alouds seamlessly into the fabric of the classroom, they also show us how to do it with grace and art. At the heart of their work are richly annotated lists of read-alouds for a variety of purposes. The authors' intimate knowledge and experience with these books make the annotations sing. - Lucy Calkins Open this book and invite the richness, the excitement of story and poetry into your classroom every single day. Take note, chapter by chapter, of the endless possibilities and ways to steer your students toward the powerful enchantment of books. Laminack and Wadsworth ask you to never forget "the power of literacy in the lives of learners," and this book will serve as a perfect reminder, time and time again. - Rebecca Kai Dotlich, author of Lemonade Sun and Other Poems of Summer The read-aloud of yesteryear was often limited in its ambition and application - a well-intended routine for getting students' attention or settling them down. But today's read-aloud is a vibrant, deliberate part of good teaching, an essential, effective strategy for introducing sophisticated ideas to young learners throughout the school day by immersing them in rich language and literate behaviors. The influence of reading aloud can be profound, and Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature shows you how to plan for and implement the read-aloud for maximum instructional effect. Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature revolutionizes the read-aloud. Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth lay out six types of read-alouds each of which targets key instructional goals, including: addressing standards in the curriculum building community demonstrating the craft of writing enriching vocabulary enticing children to read independently modeling fluent reading. Whether you read aloud once a day, or six times a day, Laminack and Wadsworth give you all the strategies you need to make the read-aloud a successful and effective way to lead your students to new understandings. You'll discover how, why, and when to read aloud, and find both specific suggestions for planning instruction around it and numerous ideas for entry points into it. Best of all, they provide an extensively annotated list of four hundred titles to use with each of the six types of read-aloud, including ample suggestions for how each fits within the reading and writing curriculum.

Learning under the Influence of Language and Literature

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Jennifer Egan

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. “A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” (The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

New Hampshire

the mirror & the light

Former library copy, but doesn’t have a ton of stickers or markings and is a really nice copy! 1960s 

Sentimental Tommy 

Sholom Aleichem

Hannah Berman

Except for light staining and slight fraying along the top pages and back cover, the book is in solid, sturdy shape!

The first-ever translation of Sholom Aleichem into English ...

The first work of Sholom Aleichem's to be translated into English-this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem's personal supervision-Stempenyu is a prime example of the author's hallmark traits- his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue, his workaday mysticism, and his historical documentation of shtetl life.

Held recently by scholars to be the story that inspired Marc Chagall's "Fiddler on the Roof" painting (which in turn inspired the play that was subsequently based on Aleichem's Tevye stories), Stempenyu is the hysterical story of a young village girl who falls for a wildly popular klezmer fiddler-a character based upon an actual Yiddish musician whose fame set off a kind of pop hysteria in the shtetl. Thus the story, in this contemporaneous "authorized" translation, is a wonderful introduction to Aleichem's work as he wanted it read, not to mention to the unique palaver of a nineteenth-century Yiddish rock star.

Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance

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Alexandre Dumas

California

Falsely accused during the final days of Napoleon's reign, Edmond Dantès is imprisoned in the bleak Chateau d'If. After a hair-raising escape, he launches an elaborate plot to extract a bitter revenge against those who betrayed him. Amazingly based on actual events, Dumas' labyrinthine tale is popular fiction of the highest mark.

The Man in the Iron Mask

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This hardcover edition of "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee is a must-have for any book lover's collection. With its elegant design and 288 pages, this novel is a true classic that explores the themes of family life and literary fiction.


Published by HarperCollins in 2015, this book is written in English and has dimensions of 9 inches in length, 6 inches in width, and 1 inch in height. It weighs 19.7 ounces and is categorized under "Books & Magazines" and "Books." The book is perfect for those who appreciate the genre of fiction and are interested in the topics of classics and family life.

Go Set A Watchman

Willa Cather

The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of immigrants. Reader's Guide available. Reissue.

My Antonia

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Japan’s Golden Harvest 

A “One Evening” World Missionary Tour

Margaret Atwood

Florida

Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

The Blind Assassin *

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Published 1937 Harvard University Press 
Removed from public library circulation 


Minnesota

History

A Background for the Study of Literature 

Tides in English Taste (1619-1800)

#hardcover #fiction #memoir #historical #literature #truthorfiction 

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.

Moonglow

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Paul Gallico

Some aged shelf wear on jacket. Mostly at the edges. Pages in great shape for the age. Crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn. In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores. The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.

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The Unsuitable Suitor

Harold Bloom

Alice Walker

Henry James

The Golden Bowl

John Updike

Brazil

Porter Shreve

Drives Like a Dream

Matthew Pearl

The Last Dickens

Pearl S. Buck

Dragon Seed

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage with related readings

Katherine Ann Porter

Ship of Fools

Glencoe McGraw-Hill Staff (Created by)

Glencoe Native American Literature

Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach

Lester L. Laminack; Reba M. Wadsworth

Learning under the Influence of Language and Literature

Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach

hilary mantel

the mirror & the light

J. M. Barrie

Sentimental Tommy

Sholom Aleichem; Hannah Berman

Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance

Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask

Harper Lee

Go Set A Watchman

Willa Cather

My Antonia

Nelson E. Hinman; World Literature Crusade

A “One Evening” World Missionary Tour

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin *

B. S Prague Allen

Tides in English Taste (1619-1800)

Michael Chabon

Moonglow

Paul Gallico

Snow Goose