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By: Ackerman, D.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Bantam Book: 1980
Seller ID: 47
ISBN: 0553148524
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life. View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1997
Seller ID: 267
ISBN: 0385484518
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for yo... View more info
By: Armstrong, Karen
Price: $4.80
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2004
Seller ID: 2061
ISBN: 0375413189
Condition: Good
Ex-Library; Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures. Armstrong’s struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements—failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given prop... View more info
By: Bach, Bob and Ginger Mercer
Price: $6.25
Publisher: Atlanta, GA, Cherokee Publishing Company: 2009
Seller ID: 1696
ISBN: 087797375X
Condition: Good
A wonderful book about the life of Johnn (Johnny) Herndon Mercer that includes lyrics to many of his songs as well as many black and white photographs. View more info
By: Bartels, Peggielene and Eleanor Herman
Price: $8.65
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2012
Seller ID: 803
ISBN: 0385534329
Condition: Good
By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman
Price: $7.49
Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012
Seller ID: 799
ISBN: 0307742814
Condition: Very Good
Ex-Library; King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way ... View more info
By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman
Price: $7.49
Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012
Seller ID: 800
ISBN: 0307742814
Condition: Very Good
Ex-Library; King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way ... View more info
By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman
Price: $7.49
Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012
Seller ID: 802
ISBN: 0307742814
Condition: Very Good
Ex-Library; King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way ... View more info
By: Bartels, Peggielene; and Eleanor Herman
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Anchor Books: 2012
Seller ID: 1077
ISBN: 0307742814
Condition: Very Good
Ex-Library; King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way ... View more info
Price: $7.99
Publisher: New York, Morrow: 1985
Seller ID: 1132
ISBN: 0688137954
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero, a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself. View more info
By: Brinkley, David
Price: $4.49
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1995
Seller ID: 2086
ISBN: 0345374029
Condition: Good
Just how a young man growing up in a small southern town with only one one-hundred-watt A. M. Radio station and no network affiliation became one of the world's most respected broadcasters in the nation makes for a "grand and glorious adventure" in itself. Now, in this fascinating and charmingly candid memoir of a career spanning half a century, David Brinkley recollects from his own unique vantage point the remarkable, shaky beginnings of television news, the ever-changing social and political landscape of our country, and the colorful people who have crossed his path. He includes priceless m... View more info
Price: $2.59
Publisher: New York, Anchor Books/Doubleday: 1999, c1998.
Seller ID: 1263
ISBN: 0385483732
Condition: Fair
10% discount off sticker on front cover and pages are yellowed on edges.As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness... View more info
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2002
Seller ID: 1542
ISBN: 031242227X
Condition: Good
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provi... View more info
By: Cahalan, Susan
Price: $3.99
Publisher: New York:
Seller ID: 1073
ISBN: 1451621388
Condition: Good
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened? In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that ... View more info
By: Coleman, Ken; and Valenti, Dan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Literations: 1982
Seller ID: 49
ISBN: 0943514037
Condition: Fine
By: Collier, Peter and David Horowitz
Price: $4.69
Publisher: New York, Summit Books: 1984
Seller ID: 1433
ISBN: 0671447939
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
A national bestseller based on hundreds of interviews with family members and associates, archival research, and previously unused sources reveals the all-too-human saga behind a high profile political family. View more info
Price: $2.99
Publisher: Salem, VA, Rhymeo Ink: 1996
Seller ID: 1623
ISBN: 1562920502
Condition: Very Good
If you want to enjoy life to the fullest, you'll treasure this unique collection of inspiring proverbs. Eash on is a pointed, two-line motivatore that encourages yu to make the most of every moment. And because they are simple and clever, you'll remember them when you need them most! View more info
By: Dedman, Bill and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Price: $6.99
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2013
Seller ID: 1920
ISBN: 0345534522
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, ... View more info
By: Dunne, Dominick
Price: $6.49
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2009
Seller ID: 1231
ISBN: 0609603876
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble—$11 million worth. His problems begin when he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake story from an unreliable source and repeats it on a radio program. As a result of his flip comments, Gus becomes embroiled in a nasty slander suit brought by Kyle Cramden, the powerful congressman he accuses of being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, and he fears it could mean the end of him. The stress of the lawsuit makes it d... View more info
By: editors Of Time-Life Books
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Time-Life Books: 1992
Seller ID: 424
ISBN: 0809477351
Condition: Very Good
A collection of stories about heroes and courage; those that go above and beyond. View more info
