Fine Art book of poetry and photography. Signed by both authors.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

Prequel to West of Mercy

Life and Times of Gudger

Craig McCarthy

The New Art of the Club Flyer

Covered with inventive, unfurling doodles, hand-drawn lettering, and image of sexy figures and party animals, the flyers reproduced here are created from drawings, tracing, photocopies, photographs, cutouts, and collages. They look back to the flyers inspired by the cut-and-paste era of the late 1980s but are given inspirational new form in the current scene. By turns provocative, subversive, shocking, decorative, and witty, these flyers offer an intriguing alternative history of London's ever-changing club circuit. The book features work by Wolfgang Tillmans, Sophie Thunder, and Ray Cesar advertising a variety of venues, ranging from Heaven to Bistrotheque. Craig McCarthy studied art at Camberwell College of Arts and the Royal College of Art and is a practicing artist. He has also contributed to Dazed & Confused, Grafik, and Vorn magazines.

Fly by Night

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The History of Cleveland County in the 20th Century 

Century Stories

Randy Bacon

In like new condition. Exhibition catalogue 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Portraits and Stories of Our Homeless Friends

THE ROAD I CALL HOME is a significant book spotlighting the breathtaking photographic portraits of the homeless and their stories. Through the lens of multi award winning, prominent photographer, filmmaker and humanitarian, Randy Bacon, THE ROAD I CALL HOME beautifully presents over 200 pages of portraits and narratives from the exhibition, which has traveled to numerous museums, galleries and venues nationwide. THE ROAD I CALL HOME features simple, direct, emotive, casual studio portraits that emphasize the beauty, dignity and integrity of the homeless and is accompanied by heartfelt narratives, personally told by each person. The unforgettable photography and stories are rooted in compassion and belief that, as a community, we can approach homelessness by choosing to see the beauty of each person in front of us - rather than the issues that overwhelm us. Homelessness is an issue that can easily overwhelm us. You don't have to go far in everyday life to literally come face-to-face with homelessness. We see the stark reality as we drive through our communities, as we walk down our streets and within the media. We see the heartbreaking struggle of too many people that don't have a house, which stirs emotion in each of us. Homelessness is an issue of humanity - over 600,000 people are homeless in the United States, a staggering 150 million humans living homeless worldwide and almost 2 billion living with inadequate housing. THE ROAD I CALL HOME looks to build new awareness about our relationship to homelessness and to each other - to give a voice to the voiceless and begin conversations that will be catalysts for people to get involved. THE ROAD I CALL HOME challenges viewers to look at homelessness with eyes of love and compassion, not negative judgment - to inspire people to simply acknowledge those in need, trusting that we are the same and just wanting to love and be loved. When we take time to listen to another person's journey, we begin the process of turning a stranger into a friend and opening our hearts to another human being.

The Road I Call Home

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West of Mercy 

Tim Peeler

Clayton Joe Young

First Season

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Scott Owens

Images from and near Catawba County

Though Scott Owens wasn't born and raised in Catawba County, you would never know it by his poetry-so intimately connected with our county that you see and feel the images all around you as you read. He loves our country roads, small-town shops, crazy Hickory streets, open vistas, and iconic landmarks. His poetry, complemented beautifully by Clayton Joe Young's photography, takes the reader on a trip through our Foothills home-and what a pleasure that journey is! - Austin Allran, Author of The Legend of the Isle of Cats, Catawba County Commissioner and Former State Senator 'Round Here is a testament to the beauty and significance of Catawba Valley. Through the harmonious blend of poetry and photography, Scott Owens and Joe Young invite readers to immerse themselves in the essence of this place - our home! - to appreciate its history and the embedded connections forged between its people and the land. It is a celebration of the enduring spirit of a community and a tribute to the power of "place." - Louise Humphrey, Retired Director of the Hickory Public Library Not the dry history of when and where, these poems and images do something miraculous; they connect us to the past in a sensory way. William Faulkner once wrote about the past not being dead, in many ways not even past, and Scott's pen and Joe's eye demonstrate how such is possible. Their stellar work has made local history accessible in a new and vital way. - Richard Eller, Author and Catawba County Historian As a lifelong resident of Catawba County, this book of poems and pictures has magically transported me to the time of my youth. I read Scott's words and look at Joe's photos, and I'm a small child again. I reminisce on my loving Ridgeview Community. I remember my family working at the Howard Johnson's on Highway 64-70. My soul is further stirred remembering how I met my wife here, raised my family here, and embarked on a career in Law Enforcement here. Overpowering in its beauty, this collection of poetry and striking images captures the soul of who we are and where we come from. - Steve Hunt, Retired City of Hickory Law Enforcement officer Scott Owens is the author of 20 collections of poetry and recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Next Generation/Indie Lit Awards, the NC Writers Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. His poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac eight times, and his articles about writing poetry have been used in Poet's Market four times. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and to be NC Poet Laureate. Owens holds degrees from Ohio University, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Greensboro. He is Professor of Poetry at Lenoir-Rhyne University, and former editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and Southern Poetry Review. He owns and operates Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse and Gallery and coordinates Poetry Hickory in Hickory, NC. Clayton "Joe" Young is the author of 11 books and is an award-winning photographer with a background in photojournalism. Young's work has been exhibited throughout the United States in solo and juried exhibitions. In 2014, Young earned the Certified Professional Photographers (CPP) designation from Professional Photographers of America In May of 2015, Young earned a MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the Director and Senior Professor for the Photographic Technology Program at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, NC. www.joeyoungphoto.com

Round Here

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An Augury of Birds

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The Henry River Mill Village

We See What We Want to See

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Scott Owens describes his new volume of poetry: "I grew up in two worlds: my father's parents' world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother's parents' world of dirt roads, livestock, growing our own food, and endless woods. That second world was undeniably harder than the first. The work was dirtier, and there was more of it. The homes had fewer luxuries: no cable, no AC, never more than one bathroom. Even death was different. In town, death was a polished event that took place elsewhere: hospitals, nursing homes, slaughter houses, funeral parlors. On the farm, animals were killed every week and most people died at home, and their bodies stayed there until they were buried." "Somehow, however, that second world still seemed much more alive, much more real and vital. Despite that vitality, I was aware that most people knew almost nothing about that second world. It was then, and is increasingly now, an undiscovered country where life and death exist side by side with a natural intensity missing from the artificial world of the city." "This book, " Owens tells us, "dedicated to my grandfather (one who knew how to own land), is a record of my undiscovered country and the people who lived there." Critical Acclaim "Landscape and memory are seamlessly merged in this excellent volume. Like all the best writers of place, Scott Owens finds the heart's universal concerns in his vivid rendering of piedmont Carolina." -Ron Rash, Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University "There's not a speck of sentimentality in the rural poetic Americana framed by Scott Owens in "For One Who Knows How to Own Land." There are dead crows, red dirt earth, barking dogs, burning coal, fox traps, and flooding rivers. These stories matter. The poems all rattle and sing. This is a jolt of strong coffee for a watery time." -John Lane, author of "The Woods Stretched for Miles: Contemporary Nature Writing from the South" "In "For One Who Knows How to Own Land, " poet Scott Owens creates, with a mature voice, childhood reminiscences of pastoral summers in the red-dirt rural Piedmont of upstate South Carolina. This, his most affecting collection to date, is a remarkable sensory journey that registers narrative moments along the entire emotional scale from harsh to tender, from the threatening to the anodyne. Through the magical nature of memory, these poems of mystery and loss prove again and again that 'The boy who left this country/ never stopped hearing its names/ echo in his ear.'" -Tim Peeler, author of "Checking Out" "'Why should this be home?' Scott Owens asks us in 'Homeplace, ' his question as much about leaving as going back. We walk his train tracks and ridges as if they were our own, as though home were 'something you held tight before you, / your back bending against its going away.' In this both visceral and meditative rendering of place, decay and rebirth are part of the same landscape. I applaud the skill that directs us down a path of experience and familiarity to 'stone steps/ that dead-end in mid-air.' His poetry is wise in knowing the weight of its own footsteps." -Linda Annas Ferguson, author of "Dirt Sandwich"

For One Who Knows How to Own Land

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Thinking about the Next Big Bang in the Galaxy at the Edge of Town

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Garrison Keillor

Handwriting inside cover. Otherwise very good condition. Included cd

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Accompanied by a CD containing the radio show host's songs, a charming picture book celebrates the relationship between a father and his little girl, following them throughout the day as they turn ordinary events into the extraordinary!

Daddy's Girl

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Eastman Kodak Company Staff

Handwriting on cover. Otherwise very good condition.

Information on products, materials, equipment and procedures that can produce superior color negatives, transparencies and prints.

Kodak Color Darkroom Dataguide

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Kodak Black-and-White Darkroom Dataguide 

Nicholas Sparks

The Notebook

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William Safire

Peter Galassi

Susan Kismaric

A Century of Photography from the New York Times

The spectacular photographs in this book have been selected from 17 million prints preserved in the extensive picture library of The New York Times They provide a spellbinding sampling from this unimaginably rich archive of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of a great newspaper. Underlying them all is the immediacy that makes news photography a vital part of history. 150 illustrations.

Pictures of the Times

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Jim Stone

A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques

This popular book presents creative darkroom techniques in a step-by-step format. It includes multiple printing, montage, toning, reticulation, infrared film, high contrast, combination coloring, dye transfer, liquid emulsions, Sabattier, and much more. Darkroom Dynamics has the information and photographs to expand the the reader's awareness of the sophisticated images which are possible in photography today. Darkroom Dynamics has been written to be easily comprehensible to the novice photographer attempting experimental photography for the first time. It serves not only as a forum for the serious display of experimental and manipulated photographs but also as a comprehensive source on how to make these images. Presents creative darkroom techniques in an easy to follow format. Simple enough for the novice photographer to understand. Shows experimental and manipulated photographs and describes how to make them.

Darkroom Dynamics

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Joy McKenzie

Abundant photographs and illustrations visually enhance the fundamental information offered in this new book for learning the manual operation of basic equipment, including a 35 mm camera. Unique in its use of student photographs, this introductory-level book provides a starting point for work in black and white photography that fosters ideas, inspires creativity, and serves as a method for measuring oneâ€™s own work and techniques. Basic darkroom skills are examined including proper exposure of the negative, processing film, and printing, with an emphasis on camera techniques that helps readers fine-tune their personal vision while also serving as a foundation for more advanced photographic techniques.

Exploring Basic Black and White Photography

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Sam Quinones

The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015--Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015--Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015--St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015--The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All Year--Audible's Best Books of 2015--Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015--Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico. Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents--Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.

Dreamland

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Sonia Nazario

Wear on covers. First page folded and wrinkled.

The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject. Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.” Praise for Enrique’s Journey “Magnificent . . . Enrique’s Journey is about love. It’s about family. It’s about home.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines . . . as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.”—People (four stars) “Stunning . . . As an adventure narrative alone, Enrique’s Journey is a worthy read. . . . Nazario’s impressive piece of reporting [turns] the current immigration controversy from a political story into a personal one.”—Entertainment Weekly “Gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told.”—The Christian Science Monitor “[A] prodigious feat of reporting . . . [Sonia Nazario is] amazingly thorough and intrepid.”—Newsday

Enrique's Journey

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Joe Simpson

The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

Touching the Void

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Clayton Young

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