Celeste Ng

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere. “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Everything I Never Told You

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Seth Rosenfeld

Fresh look at the legacy of the 1960s and the cautionary tale of unchecked secrecy and power. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI’s covert operations—led by Reagan’s friend J. Edgar Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a battleground in an epic struggle between the government and free citizens. The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files on which Subversives is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what the government was up to during a turning point in our nation’s history. Part history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America’s most popular presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and unchecked power.

Subversives

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Philip Delves Broughton

How to start a new business and the mindset it entails. Paperback. 

How to Think Like an Entrepreneur explores what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur - the ability to disrupt the status quo, use design thinking to generate fresh perspectives, build resilience and leap forward from failure - and ultimately lead us to the heart of great entrepreneurial thinking; an understanding of our deepest human needs.

How to Think Like an Entrepreneur: the School of Life

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Jean Casella

An unforgettable look at the precious horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Voices from Solitary Confinement

The UN Special Report on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond 15 days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than 80,000 people in isolation on any given day. Now, for the first time, the founders of Solitary Watch have collected a dozen first-hand accounts of life in solitary confinement. These first-hand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical and political dimensions of solitary confinement.

Hell Is a Very Small Place

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Artie Lange

Anthony Bozza

Howard Stern

Great condition. A comedic memoir full of outrageous and funny true stories from the actor. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

When stand-up comic Lange joined the cast of "The Howard Stern Show" in 2001, he provided a wit quick enough to keep pace with Stern's own. Wild, shocking, and drop-dead funny, "Too Fat to Fish" is Lange's reflection on his rise to stardom.

Too Fat to Fish

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Eila Mell

Journal for inspiration's on fashion. Good quality not used.

Inspirations to Help You Achieve Your Most Stylish Life

We deal with fashion every time we open our closets to get dressed. Some of us love putting together a look that tells the world who we are, while others are more practical with their daily choices. Either way (and whether we think about it or not), we all have personal style. This unique, in-depth journal combines practical motivation and wisdom with the spirited fun of fashion to help you perfect your best style. The Art of Fashion provides the in-depth information, guidance and space for creating a fully functional fashion look best suited to your personality and body type. Focused sections are devoted to everything from understanding measurements and fabrics to organizing your closet and planning your most productive shopping trips. Additional sections are devoted to fashion components such as dresses, pants, outerwear, and accessories (shoes, handbags, jewelry, and more). Prompts, tips, timeless garments, and inspiration are sprinkled throughout to help inspire new fashion ideas…whether you’re planning a night out or preparing for a major job interview. With a mix of lined and unlined sections perfect for note taking and sketching of potential outfits; creating looks for specific events, and jotting down fashion inspirations; this is the perfect gift for the fashionista in your life!

The Art of Fashion - a Journal

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christopher simon sykes

First edition biography of David Hockney. Entertaining knowledgeable biography full of anecdotes. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Biography, 1937-1975

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he knew he wanted to be an artist, and after leaving school he went on to study at Bradford Art College and later at the Royal College of Art in London. Bursting onto the scene at the Young Contemporaries exhibition, Hockney was quickly heralded as the golden boy of postwar British art and a leading proponent of pop art. It was during the swinging 60s in London that he befriended many of the seminal cultural figures of the generation and throughout these years Hockney's career grew. Always absorbed in his work, he drew, painted and etched for long hours each day, but it was a scholarship that led him to California, where he painted his iconic series of swimming pools. Since then, the most prestigious galleries across the world have devoted countless shows to his extraordinary work. In the seventies he expanded his range of projects, including set and costume design for operas and experiments with photography, lithography, and even photocopying. Most recently he has been at the forefront the art world's digital revolution, producing incredible sketches on his iPhone and iPad, and it is this progressive thinking which has highlighted his genius, vigor and versatility as an artist approaching his 75th birthday. In this, the first volume of Hockney’s biography, detailing his life and work from 1937 - 1975, Sykes explores the fascinating world of the beloved and controversial artist whose career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the last five decades. "The timing couldn't be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which — like Hockney's own work — is both conversational and perceptive." —Los Angeles Times "To read Christopher Simon Sykes' David Hockney is to marvel at the artistic gifts of the eccentric Yorkshireman who rose from a sometimes pinched childhood to hobnob with poet Stephen Spender and novelist Christopher Isherwood, to party with Mick Jagger and Manolo Blahnik." —The Plain Dealer "Prodigiously entertaining." —Financial Times “A chatty, knowledgeable, insider's biography, full of anecdotes.” —The Guardian

David Hockney

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Vicki Leon

Condition is basically new. Insightful witty portraits of historical women and ancient times. 

Piquant and witty collection excavates 200 pyramid-builders, poets, poisoners, physicians, power brokers and panderers of ancient times.

Uppity Women of Ancient Times

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Michael Jackson

Great beer guide. A breakdown of some of the best and classic brews. 

The World's 500 Best Beers

Which beers are the best? This book presents the inside stories on Czech and German lagers, Belgian wheat beers and Trappists, classic British ales, Irish stouts and American micro brews. It explains why beers taste the way they do, and notes their strength and ideal serving temperature.

Great Beer Guide

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John Carey

First edition hardcover like new. Biography of William Golding and memoir. 

The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

In 1953, William Golding was a provincial schoolteacher writing books on his breaks, lunch hours and holidays. His work had been rejected by every major publisher—until an editor at Faber and Faber pulled his manuscript off the rejection pile. This was to become Lord of the Flies, a book that would sell in the millions and bring Golding worldwide recognition. Golding went on to become one of the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged since World War II. He received the Booker Prize for the novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Stephen King has stated that the Castle Rock in Lord of the Flies continues to inspire him, so much so that he named his entertainment company after it and has placed the Golding novel prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis and Cujo. Golding has been called a British Vonnegut—disheveled and darkly humorous, perverse when it would have been easier to be bitter, bitter when it would have been easier to be lazy, sometimes more disturbing than he is palatable and above all fascinating beyond measure. Yet despite the fame and acclaim, the renowned author saw himself as a monster—a reclusive depressive ruled by his fears and a man who battled alcoholism throughout his life. In addition to being a schoolteacher, Golding was a scientist, a sailor and a poet before becoming a bestselling author, and his embitterment and alienation, his family, the women in his past, along with his experiences in the war, inform his work. This is the first book to unpack the life and character of a man whose entire oeuvre dealt with the conflict between light and dark in the human soul, tracing the defects of society back to the defects of human nature itself. Drawing almost entirely on materials that have never before been made public, John Carey sheds new light on Golding. Through his exclusive access to Golding’s family, Carey uses hundreds of letters, unpublished works and Golding’s intimate journals to draw a revelatory and definitive portrait. An acclaimed critic, Carey enriches crucially our appreciation of the literary work of Golding, bringing us, as the best literary biographies do, back to the books. And with equal parts lyricism and driving emotion, Carey brings to light a life that is extraordinary to the point of transcendent and a writer who trusted the imagination above all things.

William Golding

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Roman Jakobson

Very good condition but dust cover has small tears. A book on the examination of linguistic works and the science of language and semantics. 

World Languages

One measure of Roman Jakobson's towering role in linguistics is that his work has defined the field itself. Jakobson's contributions have now become a permanent part of American and European views on language. With his uncanny ability to survive devastating uprooting again and again--from Moscow to Prague to Upsalla to New York and finally to Cambridge--Jakobson was able to bring to each milieu new and stimulating ideas, which have broadened the perspective of linguistics while giving it new direction and specifying its domain. Linda Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston have assembled an intellectual overview of his work in linguistics from partial and complete works that they have arranged, introduced, and cross-referenced. Some appear here in print for the first time, others are newly translated into English. More than a convenient access to Jakobson's basic works, On Language presents a broad profile of the polymathic general linguist who suggested radical innovations in every area of linguistic theory. The breadth of Jakobson's engagement in linguistics is captured by the editors' informative introduction and by their perspicacious presentation of topics. His general view of the science of linguistics is followed by his stunning contributions to linguistic metatheory in the areas of structure and function. Various aspects of historical, typological, and sociolinguistics are also explored along with his phonological theory--perhaps his most influential contribution--and his views on grammatical semantics. A topic that increasingly preoccupied Jakobson in his later career, the interrelationship between sound and meaning, is presented here in detail. The concluding three essays focus on the various relations between linguistics and the human and natural sciences, which led Jakobson ultimately to be characterized as an interdisciplinary thinker.

On Language

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Stephen King

Pretty much brand new. Never read. Great and compelling stories, a great read with interesting facets of horror. 

In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.

Full Dark, No Stars

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William Davis

A doctor's suggestion about a myriad health issues and his solution. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

Wheat Belly

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William S. Burroughs

A surreal space Odyssey through the mind of Burroughs and his wounded galaxy. 

The Restored Text

"The Soft Machine is Burroughs' original cut-up novel, first in an experimental trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. A surreal space-age odyssey and a total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines, the book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space where nothing is true and everyting is permitted"--Back cover.

The Soft Machine

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Susan G. Lydon

Former drug addict and her journey of  New York times to the founding of rolling Stone.

Memoirs of a Survivor

Lydon, one of the founders of Rolling Stone, lived a charmed life until casual drug use progressed to heroin addiction.

Take the Long Way Home

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Adrian Desmond

A biography of Huxley who coined the term agnostic and the social challenges of the Victorian age 

Continuing his acclaimed study of the rise of the professional and the changes in industrial society in the late 19th century, Adrian Desmond again looks at the life of Thomas Huxley, and how it reflected the social challenges of the Victorian era.

Huxley Evolution's Highest Priest

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Denis Cosgrove

Examines the historical implications of the West and the idea of Earth as a unified sphere.

A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

"Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.

Apollo's Eye

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Neil Faulkner

Great condition. A book on the history of struggle and revolution in human society.

From the hunter-gatherers two million years ago to the ancient empires of Persia and China, and from the Russian Revolution to modern imperialism, humans have always struggled to create a better society than what came before. All over the world at numerous points in the past, a different way of life has become an absolute necessity, over and over again. This is a history of the humans in these struggles--the hominid and the hunter, the emperor and the slave, the dictator and the revolutionary. Reading against the grain of mainstream histories, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past has never been predetermined. From antiquity to feudalism, and from fascism to our precarious political present, choices have always been numerous and complex, and the possible outcomes have ranged broadly between liberation and barbarism. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives the transformative events of our many histories. This is a history of power, abuse, and greed, but also one of liberation, progress, and solidarity. In our fraught political present--as we face the loss of civil liberties and environmental protections, the rise of ethnonationalism, and the looming threat of nuclear war--we need the perspective of these histories now more than ever. The lesson of A Radical History of the World is that, if we created our past, we can also create a better future.

A Radical History of the World

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Corky Parker

An enchanting account and partial memoir about embracing crazy adventures and sculpting ones own path in the tropical land, enticing food and infectious culture of Puerto Rico and the human experience along the way 

Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island

One woman's story about facing change, trusting her instincts, and the adventure of running an eco-lodge in Puerto Rico

La Finca

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A unique journal that combines the motivation and the spirited fun of fashion to help you perfect your best style and how we present ourselves to the world.

A wonderful and thorough job on the breakdown of lives and a glimpse into ancient women in society. 

Richard Carlson

A great way to not sweat those minute factors and details that encapsulate our lives. 

Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over Your Life

Braille edition of the popular bestseller. "Let go of the idea that gentle, relaxed people can't be super-achievers," advises Dr. Richard Carlson in his widely popular self-help book, DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. In 100 chapters--each only a few pages long--Dr. Carlson shares his ideas for living a calmer, richer life. This book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 38 weeks and is No. 3 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Two small volumes in braille.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff

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The book-Hunter 

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

A unique and intriguing profile of the amalgamation of life under a mix of culture and genetics. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century

Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.

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