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Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern (American Women Writers)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: June 1986

Seller ID: 351060

ISBN: 0813511682

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed exclusively for men. Based on the author's life, the novel reflects her spirit of practical feminism-that a woman was only truly independent when she was financially independent.

Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper co...
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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: November 1989

Seller ID: 373721

ISBN: 025206125X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe brings together, in one convenient edition, all of the information a reader needs to understand Poe's stories. Readable, attractive, and accessible to a general reader or student, it also provides a useful resource for the scholar and specialist. Stuart Levine and Susan Levine tracked down information that is often highly specialized and hard to come by through an extensive program of literary sleuthing--an investigation that took him through the hundreds of places where scholars make their contributions to knowledge.

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The Female Marine' and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 1998

Seller ID: 393231

ISBN: 1558491244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is the first complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, together with The Female Marine, provide a unique portrayal of prostitution and interracial city life in early-nineteenth-century America.

The alternately racy and moralistic narrative recounts the adve...
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Swing Time

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd:

Seller ID: 436760

ISBN: 0241980267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dick and Jane Reader: Rainy Day Fun: Dick and Jane Picture Readers

By: 0/Denega, Danielle

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: August 2005

Seller ID: 413251

ISBN: 0448439859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Oh Oh, no It s raining, it s pouring Dick and Jane are stuck indoors on a rainy day. Don t worry There s plenty of family fun to be had inside like board games, baking, and story time."
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LEGOÂ® CITY: Detective Chase McCain: Stop that Heist!

By: 0/Lego

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.: February 2013

Seller ID: 416528

ISBN: 0545495962

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When the smartest crooks in LEGO(R) City plot to rob the Museum of its priceless blue diamond, it is up to Detective Chase McCain and his SWAT team to save the day Reading is always fun in LEGO(R) City

What Is a Princess? (Disney Princess) (Step into Reading)

By: 1/Liberts, Jennifer

Price: $1.50

Publisher: RH/Disney: August 2016

Seller ID: 416424

ISBN: 0736436669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Disney princesses are adventurous, kind, and ready for anything This Step 1 Deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader is perfect for children ages 4 to 6. The book features Snow White, Belle, Jasmine, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, plus more than 30 shiny stickers of all the princesses
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ASPCA kids: Rescue Readers: I Am Picasso

By: 2/Froeb, Lori C.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: SFI Readerlink Dist: October 2015

Seller ID: 413292

ISBN: 0794435149

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fourth in the ASPCA Rescue Readers series, this Level 2 reader follows the adventures of Picasso, a puppy that is adopted by a free-spirited artist and her young son. Beautifully illustrated and written to be appropriate for readers ages 4-7, this book is perfect for kids just beginning to read on their own.

Inspired by ASPCA animal rescue and adoption stories. Read about the everyday details of family life through the curious eyes and mind of a class pet. This story is told with exuberance and humor from the pet's point of view with appropriately leveled vocabulary. Woven into the story i...
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Black Sun: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: October 2014

Seller ID: 414846

ISBN: 0062323741

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America's foremost defenders of the natural environment.

Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. Like Lady Chatterley's lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness kingdom. She, in turn, awakens in him the pleasure of love. Then she mysteriously disappears, plunging him into desolation.<...
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Flatland

By: Abbott, Edwin A.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 399998

ISBN: 1519664508

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This Workman Classic Schoolbooks edition contains:
* Background/Introduction
* Biography
* Footnotes
* Vocabulary and Comprehension/Extension questions after each chapter
* Discussion Questions suitable for students or book clubs
* Extension activities

Flatland was first published in 1884 and is a unique combination of satirical comment on Victorian society and mathematical exploration of geometry and the first through fourth dimensions. Though not as well-known as Jonathan Swift's satire, Gulliver's Travels, it has been commented on by Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Car...
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Flatland (Illustrated)

By: Abbott, Edwin A.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Malachite Quills Publishing: October 2012

Seller ID: 446324

ISBN: 1623750318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic of scientific and mathematical fiction, Flatland is the story of a Square as he journeys through new dimensions. He experiences Spaceland (a universe with three dimensions), Lineland (a universe of one dimension), and Pointland ( a universe no dimensions). This work of literature looks at the world through a purely mathematical lens to help us better understand the concepts of dimension as well as the sociological implications of hierarchies. Finally, the Square dares to dream of a land with four dimensions, an incredible idea which gets him banished from Spaceland.
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The Woman in the Dunes

By: Abe, Kobo

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: April 1991

Seller ID: 409153

ISBN: 0679733787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd youn...
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Ruined Map

By: Abe, Kobo

Price: $6.50

Publisher: August 2011

Seller ID: 410606

ISBN: 0375726527

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Like New

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.

Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these he embarks upon an ever more puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's dangerous underworld, where he begins to lo...
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Minaret

By: Aboulela, Leila

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2010

Seller ID: 103470

ISBN: 0802170145

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Leila Aboulela's American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman -- once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London -- gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upper-class Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the yo...
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Anthills of the Savannah

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2015

Seller ID: 63527

ISBN: 0385260458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart

In the fictional West African nation of Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the president's cabinet for life, and one of the leader's oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the opportunistic editor of the state-run newspaper--another childhood friend--Chris's loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kanga...
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No Longer at Ease

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1994

Seller ID: 100609

ISBN: 0385474555

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy

When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. No Longer at Ease, the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy, depicts the uncertainties that beset the nation of Nigeria, as independence from colonial rule loomed near. In Obi Okonkwo's experiences, the ambiguities, p...
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A Man of the People

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1989

Seller ID: 114377

ISBN: 0385086164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption

As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts--and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into ch...
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Things Fall Apart

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1994

Seller ID: 429591

ISBN: 0385474547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warr...
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Things Fall Apart

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1994

Seller ID: 429846

ISBN: 0385474547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Things Fall Apart

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1994

Seller ID: 429924

ISBN: 0385474547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

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Category: Fiction [P]