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Poetry

Shadow Train by John Ashbery Penguin Books

...the poems are concerned with "language on a very plain level" and the "deeper outside" things, or, as the title poem says, "the truth inside meaning."
--Penguin Books

12 pages out of the 50 pages have some writing in pencil on it.
Cover is ok. Worn. Inside the book, title page is missing

$.50 | ISBN 0-14-042.288-9 | 50 Pages | In Stock: 1

Treasured Poems that Touch the Heart compiled by Mary Sanford Laurence 1996

The poems in this book were chosen for their ability to express the apprehension, elation, emptiness, and ennui that are the pulse of life.
--Bristol Park Books

Poems by: Eliot, Stevenson, Blake, Tennyson, Longfellow, Lowell, Fields, Patmore, Guest, MacDonald, Weaver, Burns, Browning, Gibran, Greene, Spenser, Teasdale, Wyatt, Marlowe, Whittier, O'shaughnessy, Wordsworth, Gabriel, Untermeyer, Rossetti, Kilmer, Campbell, Emerson, Keats, Rley, Seeger, Wilde, Bronte, Byron, and others.

Condition: Excellent

$2.00 | ISBN: 0-88486-116-3 | 256 Pages | In Stock: 1

Yowl Selected Poems About Cats Illustrated by Ferris Cook A Bulfinch Press Book, 2001: Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, Joan Aiken, Nancy Willard, Pablo Neruda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Keats, Ogden Nash, Denise Levertov, Weldon Kees, Langston Hughes and 16 more.
$4.00 | Condition: Excellent | Pages: 63 | In Stock: 1

To Woo & To Wed Contemporary Poets on Love and Marriage Edited by Michael Blumenthal Poseidon Press, 1992

At once eloquent, witty, beautiful, and profound, To Woo and To Wed reveals the powerful and wide-ranging responses to married life of more than a hundred of our finest contemporary poets.

Among the Poets: Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Randall Jarrell, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Robert Penn Warren, William Butler Yeats and many more.

$1.00 | Condition: Fair | Pages: 266 | In Stock: 1

Essays and Memoirs

Walking Light by Stephen Dunn W.W. Norton & Company, 1993

Stephen Dunn is one of the strongest voices of his generation.
--Stephen Dobyns, New York Times Book Review

Condition: Good, Dustjacket worn but book is good

$1.00 | ISBN: 0-393-03488-7 | 187 Pages | In Stock: 1

Music

Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr Ballantine Books, 1992

Writing with grace and clarity... he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles of the right and left brain in perceiving music.
--Wall Street Journal

$2.00 | Condition: Good | Pages: 212 | In Stock: 1

Music in American Life by Jacques Barzun Indiana University Press-1965

A penetrating look at the virtues and vices of our musical culture by the Author of The House of Intellect.

$.50 | Condition: Fair | Pages: 122 | In Stock: 1

Fiction

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Atria Books, 2003

A breatheless, real-time adventure...Exciting, fast-paced, with an unusual high IQ.
--San Francisco Chronicle

Angels & Demons is one hell of a book---I had a hard time putting it down.
--Dale Brown

Condition: Fair, Cover jacket torn, page edges dirty but inside pages are good

$1.00 | ISBN: 0-7434-8622-6 | 572 Pages | In Stock: 1

The Fig Eater by Jody Shields Little Brown & Company, 2001

Gripping
--New York Times

Hypnotically Entrancing
--USA Today

Stylish and Compelling
--J.F. Freedman, Chicago Tribune

Condition: Good

$2.00 | ISBN: 0-316-78564-4 | 311 Pages | In Stock: 1

The Harmony Silk Factory by TASH AW Penguin Group, 2005

Mesmerizing
--San Francisco Chronicle

A beguiling narrative mosaic...bewitchingly written...mercilessly gripping.
--The Times (London)

First reaction: Wow! Second reaction: Read it.
--Asian Week

Condition: Good

$2.00 | ISBN: 1-59448-174-1 | 408 Pages | In Stock: 1

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Back Bay Books, 2005

Hypnotic...A thrill ride through history.
--Brian Richard Boylan, Denver Post

Quite extraordinary...Kostova is a natural storyteller...She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late -night page turner.
--San Francisco Chronicle

Condition: Fair

$1.00 | ISBN: 0-316-01177-0 | 676 Pages | In Stock: 1

Hunger by Knut Hamsun Translation and Afterword by Robert Bly Introduction by Paul Auster The Noonday Press, 1998

Something new is happening here, some new thought about the nature of art is being proposed in Hunger. An art that is indistinguishable from the life of the artist who makes it...an art that is the direct expression of the effort to express itself.
--Paul Auster

The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

After reading Hunger, one can easily understand why Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
--James Goldwasser, Detroit News

Condition: Good/ Cover bent on edges, inside the book is good

$2.00 | ISBN 0-374-52528-5 | 243 Pages | In Stock: 1

Contemporary Australian Short Stories Edited by Murray Bail Faber and Faber, 1988: In The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories the novelist Murray Bail sets out to demonstrate the short story's special place in his country's culture and, by implication, to challenge Patrick White's celebrated condemnation of Ausralian literature as a 'dreary dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism'.
$1.00 | Condition: Fair | Pages: 413 | In Stock: 1

The Best American Short Stories (1996) Edited by John Edgar Wideman with Katrina Kenison Houghton Mifflin, 1996

Selected from U. S. and Canadian Magazines
by John Edgar Wideman
with Katrina Kenison

With an Introduction by John Edgar Wideman

$2.00 | Condition: Good | Pages: 363 | In Stock: 1

The Best American Short Stories (1999) Edited by Amy Tan with Katrina Kenison Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Selected from U. S. and Canadian Magazines
by Amy Tan
with Katrina Kenison

With an Introduction by Amy Tan

$2.00 | Condition: Good | Pages: 410 | In Stock: 1

The Best American Short Stories (2000) Edited by E. L. Doctorow with Katrina Kenison Houghton Mifflin, 2000

Selected from U. S. and Canadian Magazines
by E. L. Doctorow
with Katrina Kenison

With an Introduction by E. L. Doctorow

$1.00 | Condition: Fair | Pages: 381 | In Stock: 1

Humor

The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory Little Brown and Company, 1993

Cleveland Amory writes about the details of all our lives...warm, funny, delicious.
--Katherine Hepburn

Condition: Good, Dustjacket torn in one spot

$2.00 | ISBN:0-316-03744-3 | 260 Pages | In Stock: 1

Horror

Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King Viking Penguin, 1993

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me
--Aretha Franklin

Condition: Good, Dustjacket has white sticker on it partly peeled off

$2.00 | ISBN: 0-670-84452-7 | 305 Pages | In Stock: 1

Gerald's Game by Stephen King Viking Penguin, 1992

Stephen King gives us his most ambitious work yet--a novel of brilliant intensity, excruciating suspense, and uncanny insight into the dark corners of the indomitable female psyche.
--Viking

Condition: Good, dustjacket is torn, white label on front torn off, inside of the book is good

$1.00 | ISBN: 0-670-84650-3 | 332 Pages | In Stock: 1

Plays

Death and the King's Horseman A Play by Wole Soyinka Hill and Wang, 1975

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize For Literature

Based on an incident that took place in 1946, Death and the King's Horseman is Soyinka's powerful examination of the explosive tension between traditional African culture and the West.

$1.00 | Condition: Good | Pages: 77 | In Stock: 1