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changheart_ A Change of Heart: A Memoir (used hardcover) By Claire Sylvia
and William Novak.
1997, Little Brown, 237pp. A dancer and choreographer relates the amazing story of the aftermath of her heart and lung transplant, and how she came to feel the strong presence of the donor--an 18-year-old killed in a motorcycle accident--in her life.
(Library discard with usual markings. VG+ in VG DJ in mylar wraps)
$3.00
1.5 lbs
limabeans_ Lima Beans and City Chicken: A Memoir of the Open Hearth (used hardcover) By Martina Durbin.
1989, E P Dutton, 172pp. True reminiscances of growing up in a steel town - Funny & real.
(Library discard with usual markings. VG+ in VG+ DJ in mylar wraps)
$5.50
1 lb
sisterlife_ My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance (used trade paperback) By Maria Flook.
1998 (1999), Broadway Books. Two sisters who lead separate paths connect after years apart.
(Near Fine)
$6.00
1 lb
lemstanis_ Highcastle: A Remembrance (used hardcover) By Stanislaw Lem.
1995, Harcourt Brace, 146pp. Science fiction writer recounts his youth in Lvov, Poland, in the 1920s and 1930s. Recent translation of 1975 book in Polish.
(VG in VG DJ in wraps. Library discard with usual markings. First U.S. edition)
Poland
$8.50
1 lb
salzmanmar_ Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (used hardcover) By Mark Salzman.
1995, Random House, 273pp. 1st. His recollections of growing up as the oldest child in a middle-class household in Connecticut, son of a piano teacher and a social worker. He was, from the age of six, an eccentric with enormous aspirations, who stood out from his conventional family--and everyone else in the neighborhood. .
(Library discard with usual markings. VG+ in VG+ DJ in mylar wraps)
$8.00
1.5 lbs
bonehouse_ Remembering the Bone House: An Erotics of Place and Space (used hardcover) By Nancy Mairs.
1989, Harper & Row, 273pp. 1st.
(Fine in Fine DJ in mylar wraps)
$6.00
2 lbs
heymannsbi_ Bittersweet Triumph (used hardcover) By Betty Heymanns.
1977, Doubleday, 191pp. Cerebral Palsy Nonfiction Biography.
(VG in Good DJ)
$7.50
1 lb
beachcombe How Daddy Became a Beachcomber: (AUTOGRAPHED) (used hardcover) By Marilyn Hedley.
1957, Bruce Humphies Inc, 143pp.
(Near Fine in Fair DJ. Inscribed by the Author)
$9.50
1 lb
eleni Eleni (used hardcover) By Nicholas Gage.
1986, Random House, 470pp. "A Savage War, A Mother's Love, and A Son's Revenge - A Personal Story." Author's account of his mother's torture and murder in a mountain village in Greece during occupation by Communist guerrillas.
(VG+ in Good DJ)
$4.75
2.5 lbs
makingscen Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years At Yale, 1966-1979 (used trade paperback) By Robert Brustein.
1984, Limelight Edition, 341pp. "Brustein - for thirteen years, dean of the Yale School of Drama and founding director of the Yale Repertory Theatre...traces the development of these two institutions during the period he helped build them into what ... ".
(Near Fine)
$6.00
1.5 lbs
patrimony Patrimony: A True Story (used trade paperback) By Philip Roth.
1991, Simon & Schuster, 283pp. "Roth recounts the last days of his irascible, charming and sometimes maddening father as the elder Roth suffers with a tumor."
(VG)
$4.25
1 lb
smalltown Secrets of a Small Town: The Extraordinary Confessions of Ordinary People (used hardcover) By Jerry Biederman.
1991, Scripps Howard, 157pp. "Author went to an undisclosed small town in American and ask eveyone he met to tell him a secret."
(Near Fine in VG DJ)
$5.50
2 lbs
homefires_ Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America (used hardcover) By Donald Katz. 1992, Aaron Asher Books, 619pp. 1st. (Library discard with usual markings. Good in Good DJ in mylar wraps)
(1/27/00) - Also listed on Post-War Years: 1945-1969 .
$3.50
3 lbs
sleepers Sleepers (used mass-market paperback) By Lorenzo Carcaterra.
1995 (19956), Ballantine, 370pp, 7x4". "Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells it all in spare, stylish prose. With relentless momentum and sheer drama."
(VG)
$3.00
1 lb
amdreams American Dreams: Lost & Found (used hardcover) By Studs Terkel.
1980, Pantheon, 470pp. Lives and dreams of ordinary americans.
(VG in Good DJ. DJ price clipped. First Edition)
$3.00
3 lbs
holeworld A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (used hardcover) By Richard Rhodes.
1990, Simon & Schuster, 27pp. "About a young man whose mother killed herself and his tortures from a stepmother and orphanages."
(Library discard with usual markings. VG in VG DJ in mylar wraps)
$5.50
2 lbs
worldspain Worlds of Pain; Life in the Working-Class Family (used hardcover) By Lillian Breslow Rubin.
1976, Basic Books, 268pp. "Angers, frustrations, and small joys of life in the American white working class." Based on interviews with working-class Americans in the 1960s and 1970s.
(VG in Good+ DJ. Gift inscription on FEP. Price clipped on DJ)
$4.75
2 lbs
zaminame Zami, a New Spelling of My Name (used trade paperback) By Audre Lorde.
1982 (1997), The Crossing Press, 256pp. Originally published by Persephone Press, as part of the Crossing Press Feminist Series. .
(Near Fine)
$6.00
1 lb
