![]() ![]() Every item we sell is authentic vintage, one-of-a-kind, and anywhere from 20 to 100+ years old! Thank you for visiting. ![]() Your vintage book will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap. Please do contact me with any of your questions about the vintage books and will gladly send additional pictures. I do my best to give a good description of the books plus use the pictures as a visual aid. The books listed are vintage and gently used. Wonderful book for apple lovers! Approximate measurements: 9 x 8 1/4". Other Items: Old pricing listed on dust jacket. ![]() Title: An Apple Harvest, Recipes and Orchard Lore So begins Frank Brownings account of his lifelong fascination with the fruit his parents grew in their orchard in the. Together, they pay homage to the ancient fruit of temptation in this charming illustrated companion to apple and cider cookery. Writer and NPR contributor Frank Browning delves into the apple’s ancient history and his own upbringing on a Kentucky apple orchard food writer Sharon Silva draws upon her childhood on a Sonoma family farm. Recipes From An Apple Harvest by Frank Browning and Sharon Silva Written by Sharon Silva Description: Recipes included in this excerpt: Winter Salad with Apples and White Cheddar Pork Loin Stuffed with Fresh and Dried Apples Apple Sorbet with Ginger Crisp, juicy, sweet-tart apples. ![]() The world’s most storied fruit is also among the most amazingly versatile cooking of ingredients. ![]()
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![]() In the midst of his training, Tau reconnects with his childhood love, Zuri, now among the so-called “Gifted” caste of mystic warriors who help Omehi soldiers fight the Hedeni. ![]() Exiled from Kerem, Tau finds his way into a military academy, where his physical prowess and intense diligence soon separate him from other recruits. And when Tau’s father steps in to fight in his son’s place and is killed under a Noble’s command, Tau vows revenge on all who abetted the murder. Even after Nobles and Lessers band together to fight Hedeni marauders and dragons, they battle among themselves for status and honor. And young Tau, who refers to himself as “High Common,” is still considered a “Lesser” even by friends who are placed in the higher “Noble” stratum. Among the Omehi, caste divisions are strictly defined and often brutally enforced. ![]() As this saga opens, Tau is a novice swordsman who hails from a rural village called Fief Kerem in a coastal corner of a mythic ancient Africa where the Omehi, or Chosen, people live in ongoing, centurieslong conflict against the Hedeni. ![]() To the grand parade of brooding swashbucklers and formidable warriors striding along the thoroughfares of epic fantasy, one can now add the name of Tau Solarin. ![]() The swords-and-sorcery genre deepens its presence on the African continent with this rough, tough page-turner replete with demons, dragons, and really bad dreams. ![]() ![]() how doing stand-up comedy became an important part of her healing process and.why Chanel Miller learned about the details of her assault through a news article.In so doing, she shed light on other women’s experiences of sexual assault and the way that the US court system lets them down. In the blinks that follow, you will get a personal look into the life of a formidable woman and artist who endured a terrible assault and made it her mission to find a way to heal. ![]() ![]() Instead of being seen as her own person, she had to stand quietly by while the press and defense lawyers decided how to portray her. During the long court battle against college student Brock Turner, she was referred to as “Emily Doe,” “the victim,” or worse, “Brock Turner’s victim,” as if she somehow belonged to her rapist. When Chanel Miller stood up against the man who sexually assaulted her, she discovered how profoundly disempowering it was to lose her real name. What’s it like to be at the center of a widely publicized rape trial and, at the same time, have no one know who you really are? What’s in it for me? Learn about a courageous woman’s fight for justice. Drawing parallels between her own experience and the structural mistreatment of women in the court system, she explains what made her determined to share her story and empower other survivors. In Know My Name (2019), Chanel Miller presents her side of what happened when she was sexually assaulted by Stanford student Brock Turner and forced to endure a long and traumatizing trial in the public eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() The man decides to close his eyes in preparation for death. It is rigged to fall when the weight is removed. ![]() The man is standing on a plank held up by the weight of the sergeant. The narrator describes him as having “a kindly expression which one would hardly have expected in one whose neck was in the hemp” (6). ![]() He is good-looking and from his dress seems to be a planter. The reader learns that the man being hanged is about 35 and a civilian. No one is moving except the men on the bridge. Other soldiers watch the hanging from a hillside leading to the river below. At the ends of the bridge are soldiers assigned to prevent anyone from crossing. Standing behind him, the narrator says, are “his executioners-two private soldiers of the Federal army” and their commander (4). Part 1 begins with an unnamed man about to be hanged from a railroad bridge, which readers later learn is the Owl Creek Bridge in northern Alabama. For a moment in Part 3, however, Bierce switches to present tense. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is written in three parts in the third-person past tense. The story is in the public domain and can also be accessed online for free. ![]() This study guide cites the edition of the story found in the 2009 e-book The Floating Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than a million copies sold, Chaos is “a groundbreaking book about what seems to be the future of physics” by a writer who has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the author of Time Travel: A History and Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman ( Publishers Weekly). ![]() In this seminal work of scientific writing, James Gleick lays out a cutting edge field of science with enough grace and precision that any reader will be able to grasp the science behind the beautiful complexity of the world around us. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones-and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before. ![]() In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. The million-copy bestseller by National Book Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist James Gleickthe author of Time Travel: A Historythat reveals the science behind chaos theoryA work of. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. The “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information ( Chicago Tribune).įor centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. ![]() ![]() ![]() With mounting dread, the story unfolds from multiple perspectives across three different points in time. With it’s complex plotting and strong character development, The Night She Disappeared really is one of the best crime-mystery-thriller novels I’ve read this year. This is the first book by Lisa Jewell that I’ve read and I found it to be impressive and compelling, so much so, that despite it’s length (465 pages), I read it over one day and late into the night, unable to put it down, that’s how consumed I was with finding out what had actually happened on the night Tallulah disappeared. It certainly seemed that way for Tallulah, who was just a really lovely young woman, doing her best to juggle motherhood and college, not asking for much at all and completely appreciative of all the help provided to her by her mother and brother, yet she had not one, but two toxic relationships pressing in on her prior to her disappearance. ![]() I wonder sometimes if certain people are more unfortunate than others in the sense that they have personalities that make them more of a magnet for the manipulations of toxic people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis native’s genre-bending book demonstrates her road to adopting abolitionist politics and makes the argument for why the new abolitionism - the push to end prisons and policing in the United States - ought to be the future of the country. Part memoir, part political and social commentary, the St. ![]() The story also exemplifies her approach in Becoming Abolitionists, documenting and tying together personal and political recollections and events that have shaped her worldview. This minor but revealing incident illustrates how poor people are treated in American systems, especially its legal systems, according to Purnell. Later, Purnell’s mother explained to her that because she was part of the free lunch program, the lunch lady had decided that she was “unworthy of chocolate milk” and attempted to deny her of it. ![]() To her surprise, a teacher intervened and told her she did not have to pay. Pernell deduced that because a peer had been allowed to obtain the coveted drink after giving this beverage gatekeeper some money, she could do the same when she brought a few coins the next day. Early into her debut book Becoming Abolitionists, the lawyer and organizer tells the story of a lunch lady who denied her attempt at taking chocolate milk from the cafeteria provisions one day. Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of FreedomĪs a child, Derecka Purnell’s first memorable encounter with redressing injustice on her own behalf was in kindergarten. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He received a degree in economics from the University of London, and was an editor and journalist in Israel before moving to New York in 1952. Sitchin was born to a Jewish family in Baku, the capital of then Soviet Azerbaijan, and raised in Mandatory Palestine (which in 1948 became the modern state of Israel). ![]() 4.2 Astronomical and scientific observations.His work has been criticized for flawed methodology, ignoring archaeological and historical evidence, and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims. Sitchin's ideas have been resoundingly rejected by scientists, academics, historians (including Sumerologists, Orientalists and Assyriologists) and anthropologists who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages. He asserted that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he stated was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. Zecharia Sitchin (J– October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. London School of Economics, University of London ![]() ![]() Pramoedya's father was an educator and a member of a pro-independence group called Budi Otomo. ![]() Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Prah-MOU-dia ah-NAHN-ta Tour) was born in Blora, in central Java, on February 6, 1925, when Indonesia was still a colony of the Netherlands. Pramoedya has often been compared with Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissident writers around the world. ![]() He later documented his experiences in a memoir, Nyanyi sunyi seorang bisu (The Mute's Soliloquy, 1995, translated 1999). For a 10-year period beginning in 1969 he was held in a notorious prison camp on the island of Buru, writing four novels while he was imprisoned, or narrating them orally when he had no access to writing materials. ![]() ![]() His writing had special force because he lived that history, doing much of his best work while imprisoned as a result of his dissident activities.įirst it was Indonesia's Dutch colonizers who put Pramoedya in prison, then the independent country's first two rulers. Arguably Indonesia's best-known writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also known as Pramoedya or Pram (1925–2006), was the author of novels that chronicled much of that Southeast Asian country's turbulent history. ![]() ![]()
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