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used books bought during the year 2014
January 2014
"Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790" by Ellis Waterhouse [The Pelican History of Art]
"A Companion To Shakespeare Studies" Edited By H. Granville-Barker & G. B. Harrison
"The Right Stuff" a novel by Tom Wolfe
"Seasons At Eagle Pond" essays by Donald Hall
"Charlotte Gray" a novel by Sebastian Faulks
"Ann Vickers" a novel by Sinclair Lewis
"Maiden Castle" a novel by John Cowper Powys
"Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand" memoir by Nathaniel Branden
"His Excellency George Washington" biography by Joseph J. Ellis
"The Politics Of Rage: George Wallace, The Origins Of The New Conservatism, And The Transformation Of American Politics" by Dan T. Carter
"Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders" fantasy by Neil Gaiman
"Pictures At An Exhibition" a novel by D. M. Thomas
"Kate Remembered" (Katharine Hepburn) by A. Scott Berg
"Last Night at the Lobster" a novel by Steward O'Nan
"The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987" Edited By Hans Bak & Foreword By Robert Cowley
"The Side of Brightness" a novel by Colum McCann
"Smiling Through The Apocalypse: Esquire's History Of The Sixties"
"Empire By Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century" by Ivan Musicant
"True History of the Kelly Gang" a novel by Peter Carey
"Sketches And Travels In London" by W. M. Thackeray
"The Newton Letter" a novel by John Banville
"Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders" by Neil Gaiman
"Brideshead Revisited" a novel by Evelyn Waugh
"White Noise" a novel by Don DeLillo
"On Chesil Beach" a novel by Ian McEwan
"A Friend From England" a novel by Antia Brookner
"Desirable Daughters" a novel by Bharati Mukherjee
"Public and Private Papers" by President Thomas Jefferson
"The Civilization of Charlemagne" by Jacques Boussard
"The Celestial Railroad And Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Philosophy Of Nietzsche" Edited, with an Introduction, by Geoffrey Clive
"On The Eve" a novel by I. S. Turgenev (A New Translation By Gilbert Gardiner)
"The Mandarins" a novel by Simone de Beauvoir
"Psycho-Analysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women" by Juliet Mitchell
"Andrew Jackson" a biography by Robert V. Remini
"Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness: A Case Study In Contemporary Criticism" Edited by Ross C. Murfin
"The Sorrows Of An American" a novel by Siri Hustvedt
"La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal Of The Century" by Hilary Spurling
"Greasy Lake & Other Stories" by T. Coraghessan Boyle
"Webster's Concise World Atlas" With 80 maps in full color
"U and I: A True Story" by Nicholson Baker
"Matthew Joseph Bourgeois Bohemian" biography by David E. Shi
"A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories Of Edna O'Brien" by Edna O'Brien
"Einstein: The Life and Times" biography by Ronald W. Clark
"Radical Christian Communities" by Thomas P. Rausch, S.J.
"The Blind Assassin" a novel by Margaret Atwood
"Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Galapagos: World's End" by William Beebe
"Turtle Moon" a novel by Alice Hoffman
"Go East, Young Man: The Early Years" The Autobiography of William O. Douglas
"Difficult Loves" a novel by Italo Calvino
"The Portable Poe" Edited by Philip Van Doren Stern
"The Almost Moon" a novel by Alice Sebold
"The Great Gatsby" a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Fathers" a novel by Herbert Gold
"The Green Mirror" a novel by Hugh Walpole
"Mystery On The Mountain: The Drama Of The Sinai Revelation" by Theodor Reik
"Eva Luna" a novel by Isabel Allende (Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
"Marya: A Life" a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
"The Human Comedy" a novel by William Saroyan
"A Man And Two Women" a novel by Doris Lessing
"The Good Terrorist" a novel by Doris Lessing
"The Fixer" a novel by Bernard Malamud
"The Tenants" a novel by Bernard Malamud February 2014
"Portrait in Sepia" a novel by Isabel Allende
"The Piano Tuner" a novel by Daniel Mason
"Iron House" a novel by John Hart
"Welcome To Hard Times" a novel by E. L. Doctorow
"The White South" a novel by Hammand Innes "A gripping story of the sea and the Antarctic icefields"
"The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters Of The Avant-Garde Duchamp, Tinguely, Cage, Rauschenberg, Cunningham" By Calvin Tomkins
"American Religious Thought: A History" by William A. Clebsch
"The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer
"Wonderful Fool" a novel by Shusaku Endo
"The Soldier's Return" a novel by Melvyn Bragg
"Dreaming War: Blood For Oil And The Cheney-Bush Junta" essays by Gore Vidal
"The Tortilla Curtain" a novel by T. C. Boyle (a Penguin Ink Edition)
"The Face Thief" a novel by Eli Gottlieb
"Digging to America" a novel by Anne Tyler
"Flowers Of Evil" poetry by Charles Baudelaire
"The Songlines" Memoir by Bruce Chatwin
"The Amateur Marriage" a novel by Anne Tyler
"The Middleman and Other Stories" by Bharati Mukherjee [National Book Critics Circle Award Winner]
"Nectar In A Sieve" a novel by Kamala Markandaya
"For Reasons Of State" essays by Noam Chomsky
"The Life And Times Of Theodore Roosevelt" biography by William Henry Harbaugh
"August 1914" a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer
"Afterwords: Novelists On Their Novels" Edited By Thomas McCormack
"Lives of Girls And Women" a novel by Alice Munro
"Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You" Stories by Alice Munro
"The Rise Of The Greeks" by Michael Grant
"Strong Motion" a novel by Jonathan Franzen
"Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present" by Michael B. Oren
"Forest of the Pygmies" novel by Isabel Allende
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" a novel by Mohsin Hamid
"Blue Diary" a novel by Alice Hoffman
"Diderot: The Embattled Philosopher" biography by Lester G. Crocker
"Perfect Recall" stories by Ann Beattie
"The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up The Yangtze, And Back In Chinese Time" by Simon Winchester
"Noah's Compass" a novel by Anne Tyler
"Ten Days In The Hills" a novel by Jane Smiley
"How To Read A Book" The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
"Laments For The Living" Short Stories by Dorothy Parker
"Boyhood: A Memoir" by J. M. Coetzee
"The Dancer Upstairs" a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare
"Desert Places" A woman's odyssey with the wanderers of the Indian desert by Robyn Davidson
"Pigeon Feathers and other stories" by John Updike March 2014
"The Orphan Master's Son" a novel by Adam Johnson
"Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch" a novel by Dai Sijie [Translated from the French by Ina Rilke]
"Winter Trees" poetry by Sylvia Plath
"Practical Magic" a novel by Alice Hoffman
"Utopian: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil" intellectual biography by David McLellan
"Skerrett" a novel by Liam O'Flaherty
"Like Trees Walking" a novel by Ravi Howard
"From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet" travel memoir by Vikram Seth
"Documentary Expression And Thirties America" by William Stott
"Freedom Loyalty Dissent" essays by Henry Steele Commager
"Great Short Works Of Fyodor Dostoevsky"
"South Of The Big Four" a novel by Don Kurtz
"Shadow Tag" a novel by Louise Erdrich
"Five Skies" a novel by Ron Carlson
"Candide or, Optimism" by Voltaire [A New Translation By Peter Constantine] Modern Library
"American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964" biography by William Manchester
"The Complete Poems" by Anne Sexton
"Spandau: The Secret Diaries" by Albert Speer
"N.P." a novel by Banana Yoshimoto [Translated from the Japanese by Ann Sherif]
"Proust At The Majestic: The Last Days Of The Author Whose Book Changed Paris" by Richard Davenport-Hines
"Lions of West: Heroes And Villains Of The Westward Expansion" by Robert Morgan
"Revolutionaries: A New History Of The Invention Of America" by Jack Rakove
"Slaugherhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History Of The 1960s Antiwar Movement" a Memoir by Carl Oglesby
"Feed" a novel by M. T. Anderson
"The Last September" a novel by Elizabeth Bowen
"An Equal Music" a novel by Vikram Seth
"Psycho-Analysis and Feminism" by Juliet Mitchell
"Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses To the Nazi Rise To Power" by Andrew Nagorski
"The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941" by Robert S. McElvaine
"Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction" by Allen C. Guelzo
"Diplomacy" by Henry Kissinger
"The Good Priest's Son" a novel by Reynolds Price
"The Lure Of The Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside 1750-1840" by Alain Corbin
"The Wapshot Chronicle & The Wapshot Scandal" two novels by John Cheever
"Studies In Classical And Byzantine Manuscript Illumination" by Kurt Weitzmann
"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville A Norton Critical Edition Edited By Harrison Hayford And Hershel Parker An Authoritative Text Reviews And Letters By Melville Analogues And Sources Criticism
"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
"Lives Of The Poets" Six Stories & Novella by E. L. Doctorow
"Perfect Recall" New Stories by Ann Beattie
"Big Sur And The Oranges Of Hieronymus Bosch" memoir by Henry Miller
"The Final Days Of Jesus" (The Most Important Week Of The Most Important Person Who Ever Lived) by Andreas J. Kostenberger & Justin Taylor With Alexander Stewart
"Acts: An Exegetical Commentary: Introduction And 1:1-2:47" Volume 1 by Craig S. Keener
"The Year Of The Barricades: A Journey Through 1968" by David Caute
"The Travels" Marco Polo [Penguin Classics]
"The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed" by Michael Meyer
"The Reindeer People: Living With Animals And Spirits In Siberia" by Piers Vitebsky
"Bandit: Dossier Of A Dangerous Dog" by Vicki Hearne
"Tales of the Unexpected" by Roald Dahl
"Acts" [Baker Exegetical Commentary On The New Testament] by Darrell L. Bock
"A Theology Of Luke And Acts: God's Promised Program, Realized for All Nations" by Darrell L. Bock [Biblical Theology Of The New Testament]
"Nature, Man and Woman" by Alan W. Watts
"Friend Of My Youth" Stories by Alice Munro
"Motoring With Mohammed" a travel memoir by Eric Hansen
"Zodiac" science fiction by Neal Stephenson
"Faithless: Tales of Transgression" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Handling Sin" a novel by Michael Malone
"The Hungry Tide" a novel by Amitav Ghosh
"Work Song" a novel by Ivan Doig
"The Prisoner of Heaven" a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"& Sons" a novel by David Gilbert
1:07 p.m. - 2014-11-24
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