Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports $35.00

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Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2001) The pursuit and wielding of power may be America’s most intoxicating and sometimes revolting pastime. John M. Barry, award-winning author ofRising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997), purveys American uses and abuses of might in the media, in Washington, in Olympians, and … Continue reading Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports

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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions $24.00

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New York,  NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The creator of the popular webcomic “xkcd” presents his heavily researched answers to his fans’ oddest questions, including “What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?” and “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?”

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A Death in Belmont $35.00

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New York, NY: Henry Holt (2006) A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since “In Cold Blood.” In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in … Continue reading A Death in Belmont

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Legends of the Fall $350.00

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New York: Delacorte (1979) Previous owner’s name in ink. Good, well-read copy with aged, sunned dust jacket with light wear. The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels — “Legends Of The Fall,” “Revenge,” and “The Man Who Gave Up His Name” — confirmed Jim Harrison’s reputation as one of the finest American writers … Continue reading Legends of the Fall

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Arkansas $50.00

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San Francisco, CA: McSweeney’s Books (2008) Arkansas is a biting first novel full of wet T-shirt contests, illicit drugs, and cross-country road trips. There are the days: the dappled grounds, the aimless yardwork, the hours in the booth giving directions to families in SUVs. And then there are the nights: crisscrossing the South with illicit goods, … Continue reading Arkansas

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Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery $75.00

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New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press (1998) Inscribed copy Where in mystery fiction is a blues hero? You can find him in New Orleans, Louisiana, living in his battered 1920s warehouse or playing harmonica at JoJo’s Blues Bar in the French Quarter. His name is Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saint turned blues historian at … Continue reading Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery

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The Torrents of Spring $4,000.00

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New York: Scribner (1926) This is a very good copy of Hemingway’s first novel with a first edition, first printing of only 1,250 copies.  The inside is clean, except for end paper fade, and not price clipped. The top right corner board tip is bumped. The front of the dust jacket has small pieces missing … Continue reading The Torrents of Spring

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Sympathy for the Devil $250.00

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New York, NY: Doubleday (1987) Army issue to the core, Sergeant Hanson and his buddies Quinn and Silver are superb soldiers, but their lust for war leads to catastrophe in Vietnam

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A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season $150.00

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New York: Harcourt (1995) Signed by the author Willie Morris and the illustrator Barry Moser. Fine in dust jacket.

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Ruin Falls $26.00

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New York, NY: Ballantine (2014) Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving their remote home in the Adirondack Mountains behind for a while. Instead, she feels uneasy. Her children, eight-year-old Reid and six-year-old Ally, have only met their paternal grandparents a handful of times. But … Continue reading Ruin Falls

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Jubilee $200.00

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London: Hodder & Stoughton (1967) First English Edition, published one year after the American edition. Fine with dust jacket. A beautiful copy.

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What Stands in a Storm $25.00

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New York, NY: Atria Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstorm of April 2011, a weather event that killed 348 people. April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states … Continue reading What Stands in a Storm

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Doing the Devil’s Work $26.00

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New York, NY: Sarah Crichton Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. A gripping third chapter for one of the most unforgettable and compelling heroines in crime fiction “You have a temper, Officer Coughlin, and a propensity for violence . . . You’re a bit of a hazard. To others. To yourself.” Maureen Coughlin is … Continue reading Doing the Devil’s Work

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A Long Time Gone $25.95

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New York: New American Library (2014) “We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back….” When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore … Continue reading A Long Time Gone

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Point of Origin $40.00

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New York, NY: Putnam (1998) Near fine in dust jacket.

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The Bone Tree $1,500.00

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New York, NY: Harper Collins/William Morrow (2015) Fine. Two-volume manuscript in clear plastic wrappers. Both volumes are signed by the author. The binding on the second volume is a little loose, as received from the publisher.

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood $14.95

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New York, NY: Pantheon Books (2004) Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph … Continue reading Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

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A Parchment of Leaves $23.95

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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (2002) Set in 1917, A Parchment of Leaves tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all … Continue reading A Parchment of Leaves

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The Watch: Stories $75.00

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New York, NY: Norton (1989) In a collection of stories exploring the meaning of time in human encounters, some characters fight against it, others strive to recapture more innocent times, and still others create their own time and place

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City on Fire $30.00

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New York, NY: Knopf (2015) As new in dust jacket. The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by … Continue reading City on Fire

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