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  • The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Paperback

    The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Paperback

    The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.

    From Publishers Weekly

    The summer-beach reader has few better friends than Preston and Child, who, beginning with Relic (1995), have produced one (generally) smart and suspenseful thriller after another, most recently Thunderhead. Their new novel, which, like its predecessors, skirts the edge of science fiction, is their most expertly executed (though not most imaginative) entertainment yet. Its concept is high and simple: a scientific expedition plans to dig out and transport to New York harbor the mother of all meteorites from its resting spot on an icy island offshore Chile. The mission is nearly impossible: not only will the meteorite be the heaviest object ever moved by humanity, but the Chileans, if they learn of the mission, may decimate it in order to keep the meteorite. Six strong if broadly drawn characters propel the premise into action. There's bullheaded billionaire Palmer Lloyd, who funds the expedition, and three (of the many) people he hires to get the rock: world-class meteorite-hunter Sam McFarlane, disgraced for his obsession about possible interstellar meteorites; Captain Britton, disgraced alcoholic skipper hired to ferry the meteorite to the U.S.; and Eli Glinn, cold-blooded mastermind of an engineering firm dedicated to getting incredible jobs done, this one at the price of $300 million. There's Commandante Vallenar, a Chilean naval officer exiled to his nation's southern wastes, who will stop at nothing to defend Chile's honor and property. Finally, there's the meteorite, blood red, impossibly dense, possessed of strange and dangerous properties. Like the premise, the plot is simple, traversing a near-linear narrative that sustains serious tension as the expedition travels to Chile, digs out the meteorite and heads homeward, only to face both Vallenar and a ferocious storm. What the novel lacks in sophistication, it makes up for in athleticism: this is a big-boned thriller, one that will make a terrific summer movie as well as a memorable hot-day read.  
    Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Cimarronin : The Complete Graphic Novel by Neal Stephenson and Mark Teppo - Paperback
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    Cimarronin : The Complete Graphic Novel by Neal Stephenson and Mark Teppo - Paperback

    A disgraced outcast samurai living in early seventeenth-century Manila, Kitazume is contemplating ritual suicide when a divine force (of a sort) intervenes: Luis, a rogue Jesuit priest and Kitazume’s longtime friend. At Luis’s insistence, the samurai agrees to help smuggle a Manchu princess to Mexico. But little does he know that he’s really been dragged into an epic struggle for power.

    As they become embroiled in the deadly politics of New Spain, Kitazume uses his lethal skills to save his friends—and to find redemption. Meanwhile, Luis secretly works as a member of the legendary Shield-Brethren, whose mission is to see that neither China nor Spain controls the silver mines owned by Luis’s very father.

    As politics and greed collide, Kitazume must call upon his deadly skills once more. But he’s not just fighting to save his friends—he’s fighting for the redemption he so desperately craves.

    Packed with adventure, twists, and gorgeous visuals, Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel collects Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #1-3 and Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross #1-3.

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  • Closing the Circle : Pursah's Gospel of Thomas and a Course in Miracles - Paperback USED

    Closing the Circle : Pursah's Gospel of Thomas and a Course in Miracles - Paperback USED

    The superbly summarized history of Christianity in its preface prepares the way for a magnificent description of the connection between three modern spiritual masterpieces and the Bible which, until now, lay practically dormant. This book reads like a symphony that quickly leaves the intellect behind and takes the reader to the heart of Jesus' timeless message of our ultimate reality in God.

    Rogier van Vlissingen writes and teaches on spirituality guided by A Course in Miracles. He is involved in the IT business with a particular interest in security and secure transactions. He lives in New York.

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  • Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life by Gary R. Renard - Paperback Nonfiction

    Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life by Gary R. Renard - Paperback Nonfiction

          Join Gary Renard, the best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe and Your Immortal Reality, for the final installment of his trilogy: a fascinating roller-coaster ride to the mysterious truth behind the modern spiritual masterpiece A Course in Miracles. His teachers, Ascended Masters Arten and Pursah, will take you on a whirlwind tour of the afterlife; teach you a method that will, with practice, melt away all of your past bad karma; and reveal the “missing ingredient” to the popular self-help techniques of today.

          This book will blow your mind and hand you the key to enlightenment . . . at the same time! In the end, you will discover that, indeed, Love has forgotten no one.

     “No, I won’t give away any details here and spoil your reading fun. As with the earlier books, it’s not even those little personal details that make it an exciting read. They are just glitter. So, if not for the news items, why are we eager for more? The truth, for his growing body of steady readers, is that Gary has agreed to share his life with us, warts and all, and enables us to learn A Course in Miracles with him, in a fun and intense way, always going deeper and deeper into its experiential implications. The comedy of his life invites us to increasingly realize what the Course is actually saying.”

    Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen, author of Closing the Circle: Pursah’s Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles

    Love Has Forgotten No One is not really a book—rather, it’s a portal, a transport system, a rearranging of the mind. When you’ve finished reading it, I believe you’ll be closer to knowing your True Nature. All that, and Gary’s funny, too!”

    H. Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D., President, University of Santa Monica; co-author with Mary R. Hulnick, Ph.D., of Loyalty to Your Soul: The Heart of Spiritual Psychology

    Gary R. Renard is the best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe, Your Immortal Reality, and now the conclusion of his trilogy, Love Has Forgotten No One. Students of A Course in Miracles from all over the world consider his books to be the “CliffsNotes” for the Course, empowering them to read, understand, and apply its deep teachings to their everyday lives in a practical way. A winner of the Infinity FoundationSpirit Award, Gary has spoken in 43 states and 24 countries, and has been described as one of the most interesting and courageous spiritual speakers in the world.

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  • A Field Guide to the North American Family : An Illustrated Novella by Garth Risk Hallberg - Hardcover Fiction

    A Field Guide to the North American Family : An Illustrated Novella by Garth Risk Hallberg - Hardcover Fiction

    For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the suburbs of New York.  But when the patriarch of one family dies, the survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction.

    In sixty-three entries and an accompanying website, A Field Guide to the North American Family offers a collaborative portrait of two fictional specimens.  Photographers contributed this edition's lavish illustrations via afieldguide.com, an ongoing, networked internet community.  Though the novella's entries can be read straight through, alphabetical heading and cross-referenced design also enable readers to move through the narrative as they see fit.

    Part fiction, part reference work, part photo-essay, this singular Field Guide invites readers and participants to consider the state of the family...and to explore the future of the book.

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  • Black Tourmaline Meditation Grounding Stones incl. Pendulum - Imported from Australia

    Black Tourmaline Meditation Grounding Stones incl. Pendulum - Imported from Australia

    CRYSTAL HEALING - your Kit includes 1 Black Tourmaline Raw and 1 Black Tourmaline Pendulum in cloth Gift Pouch

    NATURAL STONES – 100% natural black tourmaline crystals mined from Australia

    THE PERFECT GIFT - for beginners or practitioners wanting to balance their Chakras, collect crystals, or just set up a beautiful relaxing space!

    We have carefully selected this beautiful pair to assist you in Chakra work, Reiki healing, crystal grids, home decor, gifts, and more!

     

    Kit Includes:

    ► 1 Black Tourmaline Raw Specimen from Australia – Size: 1”-1.5”

    ► 1 Black Tourmaline Cut and Polished Pendulum from Australia -  1.5-2” each

    ► Gift Pouch

    ► Chakra Guide

     

    Note: Since each crystal is struck from a different stone expect some slight color variations between each piece, and lot purchased. Like us humans they are imperfect in there perfect nature. 

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  • Pink Rose Quartz Crystal Bohemian Meditation Set incl. Pendulum - Imported from South America

    Pink Rose Quartz Crystal Bohemian Meditation Set incl. Pendulum - Imported from South America

    CRYSTAL HEALING - your Kit includes 1 Rose Quartz Raw Specimen, and 1 Rose Quartz Pendulum in cloth Gift Pouch

    NATURAL STONES – 100% natural pink rose quartz crystals mined from Madagascar

    THE PERFECT GIFT - for beginners or practitioners wanting to balance their Chakras, collect crystals, or just set up a beautiful relaxing space!

    We have carefully selected this beautiful pair to assist you in Chakra work, Reiki healing, crystal grids, home decor, gifts, and more!

     

    Kit Include:

    ► 1 Rose Quartz Crystal Rough Specimen from Madagascar – Size: 1”- 2”

    ► 1 Rose Quartz Cut and Polished Pendulum from Madagascar -  1-1.5” each

    ► Gift Pouch

    ► Chakra Guide

     

    Note: Since each crystal is struck from a different stone expect some slight color variations between each piece, and lot purchased. Like us humans they are imperfect in there perfect nature. 

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  • Call Me by Your Name : A Novel by André Aciman - Paperback

    Call Me by Your Name : A Novel by André Aciman - Paperback

    Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James Ivory

    A USA Today Bestseller 
    A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
    A Vulture Book Club Pick 

    An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time

    Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.

    Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Ficition

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times(Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

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  • The Seventh Plague : A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins - Paperback

    The Seventh Plague : A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins - Paperback

    "Fans of Clive Cussler, Steve Berry, and Michael Crichton should...have Rollins on their mandatory reading list."--Booklist («Starred Review«)

    In a breathtaking blend of scientific intrigue and historical mystery, #1 New York Times bestselling mastermind, James Rollins, reveals an ancient threat hidden within the pages of the Bible, one that threatens the modern world in

    The Seventh Plague

    If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened--could they happen again--on a global scale?

    Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive.

    His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.

    Are those plagues starting again?

    Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor's body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist's only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what's left of her father's work, she discovers a puzzling connection, tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley.

    To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear.

    As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science--a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world's children . . . decimating mankind forever.

    "[Rollins is] what you might end up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together."--New York Times Book Review on The Bone Labyrinth

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  • Age of Conan (The Barbarian) Board Game

    Age of Conan (The Barbarian) Board Game

    The Age of Conan Strategy Board Game allows players to each control one of the four majors kingdoms of Hyboria. Command armies, wield dark sorcery, or weave cunning intrigue – all are needed in order to conquer your enemies and make your kingdom the most powerful in the world. Yet, even the most powerful of rulers ignores one man at his great peril. Only one kingdom will harness the volatile alliance of the mightiest hero of all – Conan the Cimmerian.

    Age of Conan is a massive strategy board game based on the famous sword-and-sorcery hero created by R.E. Howard and designed by the same team of the award-winning War of the Ring game.

    The kingdoms of Aquilonia, Hyperborea, Turan and Stygia will fight with armies, magic and gold to subjugate and conquer; but Conan the Barbarian, the greatest Hero of this age, may turn the tide in favour or against any player.

    Age of Conan Strategy Board Game features lots of miniatures and top-level components.

    From the Manufacturer

    This is an age of strife and sorcery. An age of might, splendor, and decadence. In this age, powerful kingdoms fight for supremacy in the Hyborian world. Using armies, magic, and intrigue, these nations strive to expand their borders and increase their riches. Command the legions of imperial Aquilonia, the witches and monstrous creatures of frozen Hyperborea, the sorcerers and demonic servants of dusky Stygia, or the horse-hordes and cunning diplomats of the plains kingdom of Turan. Into this age of empire building, heroic achievements, and vile misdeeds steps Conan the Cimmerian black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, thief, reaver, slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet. Age of Conan is board game that puts players in control of one of the major kingdoms of the Hyborian age, period of history well known through the tales of Conan the Cimmerian, the barbarian hero created by Robert E. Howard. Players fight with armies, sorcery, and intrigues to make their kingdom the most powerful of the age, and to secure for their side the mightiest hero of all Conan the Cimmerian!

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  • Conan the Warlord by Leonard Carpenter - Paperback USED

    Conan the Warlord by Leonard Carpenter - Paperback USED

    In the ancient land of Nemedia, Conan of Cimmeria agrees to impersonate Baron Eihnarson's son and heir in order to escape a foul prison cell--at least until he can escape completely, with a pouch full of gold. Calissa, the Baron's sensuous daughter, has other plans for Conan, as does Evadne, the voluptuous rebel maiden. Palace intrigues swirl--poison in the cup and the assassin's dagger in the dark--and Conan must lead the army of Diander against the Cult of the Snake, the demon which burns and slays all whom it does not concert to half-serpent slaves of an ancient evil. In mouldering tombs the dead Lords of Einharson stir, and rise to strike down any who would threaten their line.

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  • Death of a Neutron Star (Star Trek Voyager, Book 17) by Eric Kotani - Mass Market Paperback

    Death of a Neutron Star (Star Trek Voyager, Book 17) by Eric Kotani - Mass Market Paperback

    When an alien scientist asks to join Captain Kathryn Janeway in the investigation of an unprecedented scientific find, Voyager is soon embroiled in a battle of wills among several alien races--each intent on decimating whole worlds in the process.

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  • Year One : Chronicles of the One, Book 1 by Nora Roberts - Hardcover
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    Year One : Chronicles of the One, Book 1 by Nora Roberts - Hardcover

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

    A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts―Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…

    It began on New Year’s Eve.

    The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed―and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.

    Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river―or in the ones you know and love the most.

    As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.

    In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.

    The end has come. The beginning comes next.

    About the Author

    NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Come Sundown, The Obsession,The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Maryland.

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  • Shanghai Girls : A Novel by Lisa See - Hardcover Literary Fiction
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    Shanghai Girls : A Novel by Lisa See - Hardcover Literary Fiction

    For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love--a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles.

    May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles to find brides.

    But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel’s Island (the Ellis Island of the West)--where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months--they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she’s pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.

    A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure from beloved and bestselling author Lisa See.

    From Publishers Weekly

    See (Peony in Love) explores tradition, the ravages of war and the importance of family in her excellent latest. Pearl and her younger sister, May, enjoy an upper-crust life in 1930s Shanghai, until their father reveals that his gambling habit has decimated the family's finances and to make good on his debts, he has sold both girls to a wealthy Chinese-American as wives for his sons. Pearl and May have no intention of leaving home, but after Japanese bombs and soldiers ravage their city and both their parents disappear, the sisters head for California, where their husbands-to-be live and where it soon becomes apparent that one of them is hiding a secret that will alter each of their fates. As they adjust to marriage with strangers and the challenges of living in a foreign land, Pearl and May learn that long-established customs can provide comfort in unbearable times. See's skillful plotting and richly drawn characters immediately draw in the reader, covering 20 years of love, loss, heartbreak and joy while delivering a sobering history lesson. While the ending is ambiguous, this is an accomplished and absorbing novel.  
    Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - Paperback
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    The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - Paperback

    Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action."

    Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.

    From Publishers Weekly

    Starred Review. Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama's political success and Oprah Winfrey's financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850). Alexander reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration, delineating its transformation into the war on drugs. She offers an acute analysis of the effect of this mass incarceration upon former inmates who will be discriminated against, legally, for the rest of their lives, denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Most provocatively, she reveals how both the move toward colorblindness and affirmative action may blur our vision of injustice: most Americans know and don't know the truth about mass incarceration—but her carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable book should change that.
    Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson - Paperback

    Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson - Paperback

    Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved. 

    Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders’ letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market’s slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by “feeding them up,” dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage. 

    Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution“ in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery.

    From Publishers Weekly

    Instead of focusing on cotton plantations or broad historical patterns, this extraordinary study is a flesh-and-blood daily history of the slave market. NYU history professor Johnson takes readers inside the Dixie slave pens and traders' coffles (long rows of slaves manacled and chained to one another). His focus is New Orleans, North America's largest slave market, hub of a trade that decimated African-American slave communities by tearing families asunder--destroying marriages and separating children from parents. Using former slave survivors' narratives, letters written by slaveholders, docket records of cases of disputed slave sales and Southern medical and agricultural journals, Johnson interweaves the voices of traders, buyers, auctioneers and the slaves themselves. He shows that, for white Southern slaveholders, buying slaves buoyed a fantasy of manly bourgeois self-control, speculative savvy and economic independence. Slaves, meanwhile, assessed the character of particular buyers and sometimes, at enormous risk, manipulated a sale to their own advantage. The evil business of slavery has seldom been exposed with so much humanity and insight as in this eloquent study, scholarly yet wholly accessible, a compelling cross-sectional microcosm of millions of human tragedies.  
    Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. 

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  • Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - Paperback
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    Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - Paperback

    Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.

    Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.

    While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .

    A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.

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  • Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? by Mike Lemieux - Paperback
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    Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? by Mike Lemieux - Paperback

    A Compilation Highlighting the Blunt and Uncompromising Teachings of Arten and Pursah on a Course in Miracles

    Review

      "What Mikey's done with this book is create avaluable tool for directly accessing Courseconcepts (as taught by Arten and Pursah) in a topic-based fashion.  Additionally, he's added his rathercolloquial insights which make this book a light, humorous read, a refreshingchange from most Course-relatedmaterials.  My first book, The Disappearance of the Universe, isfrequently referred to as the 'can opener' that helps students open the ratherheady A Course in Miracles book.  Dude,Where's My Jesus Fish? is like a cheat sheet that helps you make thegrade.  If this book turns more folksonto A Course in Miracles - and Iexpect it will - then we have Mikey to thank for growing our beloved Course community and helping us all toget Home."      
     ~ Gary Renard, the best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe of theUniverse and Your Immortal Reality

       
    "Mikey's straight talk and irreverent, humorous style, in addition to his obvious understanding of A Course in Miracles, make this book a perfect companion to The Disappearance of the Universe.  Well done, and giddy-up brother Mikey!"  
    ~ Gene Bogart, Producer and Co-host of the The Gary Renard Podcast

    About the Author

    Mike posts daily quotes from Gary Renard's The Disappearance of the Universe, Your Immortal Reality, and Love Has Forgotten No One (along with scenic pictures) on his Dude, Where's My Jesus Fish? fan page on Facebook: facebook.com/DWMJF

    Mike also posts daily quotes from A Course in Miracles on his J-Dog: The Voice of A Course in Miracles page on Facebook: facebook.com/JDogACIM

    For more about Mike, visit his website: giddyupmikey.com/About_Mike.html

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