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Scholastic, New York. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine and rear cover creasing, no interior writing or marking.

Coach House Press, Toronto, 1991. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Sex, race, literature, and a philosophical commitment to not getting out of bed: in Eroshima, Dany Laferriere takes the themes that made How to make Love to a Negro an underground bestseller, and adds an explosive new ingredient - the bomb.

Coach House Press, Toronto. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, faint sun shadow.Racial and sexual politics collide in this cult classic that launched Laferrière as one of North America's finest literary provocateurs.Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1985. With raunchy humor and a working-class intellectualism, Laferrière's narrator wanders the slums of Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to save his life.With this novel, Laferrière began a series of internationally acclaimed social and political novels about the love of the world, and the world of sex, including Heading South and I Am a Japanese Writer.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2010. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 582 of 1000 copies.From the publisher: This collection of short fiction from award winning-author Jay Lake represents his favorites of his own work, both current and classic. With an emphasis on recent publications since his last short fiction collection in 2007, The Sky That Wraps showcases his reach in fantasy, science fiction, and the ambiguous territory in between. This volume includes two all-new stories, 'Coming for Green' and 'To Their Late Escape', as well as previously uncollected fan favorites 'The American Dead' and 'The Sky That Wraps The World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black.' Twenty other stories round out this wide-ranging survey of Lake's work.

3rd paperback printing.

Condition: Very good plus, light spine crease, light edge wear.

As human beings, we all share the desire for happiness and meaning in our lives. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. In this very special book, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps readers embark upon the path to enlightenment with a stunning illumination of the timeless wisdom and an easy-access reference for daily practice.
Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers toward enlightenment, How to Practice is a constant companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. This accessible book will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, and maintiaining mentaltranquility as the Dalai Lama shows you how to overcome everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive… Read More

Condition: Good, edge wear, spine creasing and light nicks, some sunning on front cover, rear cover has small tear at top edge.Quick and simple things you can do to save the Earth.

Yalu U. Press, New Haven. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good minus, edge and corner wear, tiny creases at corners, spine creasing and nicks, rear cover has slight edge creasing.The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra—an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Nietzsche's magnum opus clarifies not only Zarathustra's narrative structure but also the development of Nietzsche's thinking as a whole.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2005. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed, limited edition: number 321 of 500. From the publisher: two novellas by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Conference with the Dead.

National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 2012. 3rd edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, light nicks at spine ends. This is a heavy book which may require extra postage.This guide offers a wealth of information for travellers, offering specific recommendations from experienced globetrotters on how to get the best from every trip and includes ten best lists in over 60 categories with descriptions of each entry from best places to best sporting events.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket and near fine slipcase. This is the signed, limited, numbered, and deluxe edition that comes with a protective slipcase. Number 305 of 350 copies. From the publisher: The weird and wild wonders of the Drive-in world continue in this third volume. If you thought the first two books in the series were wacky, this one moves into a whole new realm of whacked and confused. Floods of Biblical proportions. A catfish that would swallow Jonah's whale. Horrid creatures almost as evil as man, and a look at the very machinery of the Drive-in Cosmos, and beyond. This is Joe R. Lansdale at his ironic best, dissecting humanity with a scapel and a chainsaw. And then it all gets the hammer.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2012. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe hardcover edition. From the publisher: In 1981, Joe R. Lansdale, then a noted short story writer, published his first novel, a paperback original entitled Act of Love. A ferocious account of the search for a killer known as the Houston Hacker, Lansdale's debut was written years before the Hannibal Lecter phenomenon left its mark on American popular culture, years before the 'serial killer novel' became a distinct--and highly marketable--publishing category. Thirty years after its initial... appearance, this pioneering novel continues to exert a raw but undeniable narrative force.Set in the vividly evoked urban squalor of Houston, Texas, Act of Love moves with great authority between the disordered mind of a compulsive killer and the increasingly desperate perspectives of the policemen who hunt him. In the process, it offers a detailed portrait of a complex murder investigation and anatomizes a city under… Read More

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2016. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 292 of 500 copies. Signed by both authors.Dana Roberts, renowned supernormal investigator hires on an eccentric assistant, Jana, to aid her in picturesque Italy to solve her most exciting and dangerous case yet. Romance and horror blend with blood and mystery as Dana's new assistant, the Watson to her Sherlock, uncover the awful truth about the legend of the bleeding wall, as old friendships change and new friendships blossom.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2005. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed and numbered limited edition. Number 415 of 750 copies.Sometimes you just want a little shot of surprise, like a cup of coffee with a bit of Irish in it. These are little shots and nothing more.Something to get you going in the morning, or to send you off to nighty-night land, maybe a wry chuckle in the middle of the day while visiting the throne. Not stories of Big Thinks, but little pops of pleasure and weirdness, sent to you directly from the mind of Joe R. Lansdale.

Arsenal, Vancouver, 2010. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear."A beautiful book, painting the dark side of Jean Genet: those moments that are the most fascinating about a writer."—Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point

Condition: Very good plus, light soiling on front cover and light edge wear. Small book, 4.5 by 5.5 inches. Illustrated.Children will love this beautiful classic tale. Rewritten and beautifully illustrated for young readers to enjoy again and again.

NCL/M & S, Toronto, 1983. First NCL edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, sun shadow on covers, creasing at spine, small crease at bottom right corner.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.

NCL/M & S, Toronto, 1990. Later printing. Condition: Very good minus, edge and corner wear, creasing at right corners, slight spine nicks.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.

Bantam Seal/M & S, Toronto, 1984. 13th paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and slight corner bumps, slight scuffing on cover near spine, spine has wrinkling, slight scuffing on rear cover.The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges… Read More

Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2019. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and spine wear, light corner bumping. Signed by the author.From the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen.Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief of police has stated that no concrete evidence of foul play has been discovered in the probe.I close the online search window, annoyed. These articles never have enough detail. They think my husband's first wife disappeared or they think she is dead. There's a big difference.My phone rings, jarring me away from my thoughts, and when I pick it up, it's an unknown number. The only answer to my slightly breathless hello is empty static.When the voice does finally come, it's female, low, muffled somehow.… Read More

Ace, New York. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle… Read More