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Paperback. Zustand: Good. .a page turning, international, sensually romantic, rags to riches, grape to wine saga. -A Woman's WriteFrom author Linda Sheehan, who's part of a Napa wine dynasty, comes a story of grapes, wine, first crushes, and juicy redemption. Dreading the desk job that awaits her after high school, eighteen-year-old Vivian Goodyear takes off for pre-World War II Paris, where she supports herself as an artist's model.Flash forward to modern day Manhattan where, inspired by Vivian's courage, her grand-niece Samantha leaves her pressure cooker career to work the grape harvest in France. There, between picking grapes in the vineyard and crushing them in the cellar, she gets lessons in the art of making wine and in the art of making love. But when her world is turned upside down, a link from Aunt Vivian's past could right it in a tale of being on top, sinking to the bottom, and coming up for glorious air.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mike O'Shea and Andy Cotto knew each other their entire lives. Born days apart on the same block, baptized in the same water, the two friends were inseparable growing up and into adulthood.After celebrating their 40th birthdays together, Mike falls ill and dies shortly after. The impact on Andy is enormous, and he spirals into a depression that threatens everything he holds dear.Through memory and support, Andy is able to reconcile his grief and appreciate the power of male friendship and the beauty of life.Pasta Mike is a testimony to the bonds men share and the vulnerabilities beneath the stoic surface.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A taut, compelling family tale. -Kirkus ReviewsMillington Valley is a quintessential small Pennsylvania town: families go back generations. Football rules. Kids drink while adults look the other way. High school is a whirlwind of aspiration and rivalry, friendship and jealousy. When smart and pretty Molly Hanover moves to town and attracts the attention of the football team's hero, Wade Thornton--a nice guy with a bad drinking habit--longtime friendships are threatened and a popular cheerleader tries to turn the school against Molly.The young couple's future is shattered when Wade, drunk, wrecks his truck and Molly is thrown through the windshield. She wakes from a coma to find her beauty marred and her memory full of holes. As she struggles to heal, she becomes sure that something terrible happened before the accident. And there is somebody in the valley who doesn't want her to remember.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Who are you kidding? No one is completely satisfied with the grades they get on exams or with the life that comes along with it. This book explains why, shows how the two are related, and--with the help of stories, jokes, cartoons, games, myths, statistics, pop quizzes, personal anecdotes, generally hidden facts, practical advice, some analysis, and a dash of theory--tells you what you can do to ring the bell on exams and in life. No kidding! Authored by a famous professor who reveals the inner secrets of his trade, How to Take an Exam. interplays two totally disparate subjects, then brings them together in a revealing indictment of `higher' education and the world it produces. A delightful tour de force that entertains while it educates. Funny, serious, practical, impractical, a delight to read. - Howard Zinn, Boston University A delighful tour de force that entertains while it educates.An invaluable tool both for taking exams and examining society. - Dr. Michael Parenti, noted author and lecturer No student can afford to be without How To Take an Exam.don't miss this book, if you want to learn how to beat the system, that is the exam system as well as the political one. - Prof. James O'Connor, University of California, Santa Cruz Humerous, scary and angry.The tips Ollman offers about examinatons are flawless, and the wisdom he presents about political economy communicates by anecdote and example rather than by programmatic analysis. - Prof. Andrew Ross, New York University A wonderful combination of Oxford scholarship, Marxist insight, Jewish humor, and revolutionary pedagogy. Ollman at his best. - Michael Savas, University of Athens Ollman has done it again! He's brought together radical scholarship and a hilarious sense of humor to produce this unique book. - Ira Shor, City University of New York Bertell Ollman, winner of the 1st Charles McCoy Life Time Acheivement Award of New Political Science from the American Political Science Association (2001), has authored many books, among which is Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich (Black Rose Books: 1978). He is currently teaching at New York University in the Department of Politics. 2001: 216 pages, 70 cartoons, bibliography and index. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Set at the dawn of the Cold War, this posthumous novel was inspired by author Richard Miles' contemporaneous experiences and his personal acquaintance with notorious Soviet spy Donald Maclean and revised by his niece Jill Rose.Curiously, I had never seen a dead body up close before, despite having served in a naval cruiser on the Arctic convoys in the early years of the war.In September 1945, idealistic young naval Lieutenant Tom Davis is assigned by the British Embassy in Washington to investigate an apparent suicide. He becomes enmeshed in a daring scheme proposed by his charismatic superior Sylvan Ross to kidnap a leading nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and spirit him to Britain. As the plot unfolds, Tom is torn between his personal loyalty to Ross and his growing fear that his mentor is himself a Soviet spy. A close friend is killed, and an unexpected antagonist almost costs Tom his own life. Wrestling with moral issues for which there are no easy solutions, Tom lays his career and reputation on the line in the shocking finale.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Who are you kidding? No one is completely satisfied with the grades they get on exams or with the life that comes along with it. This book explains why, shows how the two are related, and--with the help of stories, jokes, cartoons, games, myths, statistics, pop quizzes, personal anecdotes, generally hidden facts, practical advice, some analysis, and a dash of theory--tells you what you can do to ring the bell on exams and in life. No kidding! Authored by a famous professor who reveals the inner secrets of his trade, How to Take an Exam. interplays two totally disparate subjects, then brings them together in a revealing indictment of `higher' education and the world it produces. A delightful tour de force that entertains while it educates. Funny, serious, practical, impractical, a delight to read. - Howard Zinn, Boston University A delighful tour de force that entertains while it educates.An invaluable tool both for taking exams and examining society. - Dr. Michael Parenti, noted author and lecturer No student can afford to be without How To Take an Exam.don't miss this book, if you want to learn how to beat the system, that is the exam system as well as the political one. - Prof. James O'Connor, University of California, Santa Cruz Humerous, scary and angry.The tips Ollman offers about examinatons are flawless, and the wisdom he presents about political economy communicates by anecdote and example rather than by programmatic analysis. - Prof. Andrew Ross, New York University A wonderful combination of Oxford scholarship, Marxist insight, Jewish humor, and revolutionary pedagogy. Ollman at his best. - Michael Savas, University of Athens Ollman has done it again! He's brought together radical scholarship and a hilarious sense of humor to produce this unique book. - Ira Shor, City University of New York Bertell Ollman, winner of the 1st Charles McCoy Life Time Acheivement Award of New Political Science from the American Political Science Association (2001), has authored many books, among which is Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich (Black Rose Books: 1978). He is currently teaching at New York University in the Department of Politics. 2001: 216 pages, 70 cartoons, bibliography and index.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Stern excels at being a creative storyteller. He pens a great novel of technically oriented women and their grit." -Authors ReadingTo deal with her present, she must face her past.In 1985, a young Laura Rodriguez goes to Silicon Valley to start a career as a computer programmer. She finds a job at a quirky startup run by a family with secrets.In 2016, a now middle-aged Laura faces growing professional and family crises and the most divisive presidential election in recent history. She fears losing her job in the wake of a merger, and she distrusts her new millennial boss. Her daughter has cancer, her son quit a lucrative programming job and moved back home, and her marriage is crumbling-especially when an old flame reenters her life.Laura must seek solutions from a past she wants to forget. She may find them in the computer that changed her life, the Amiga.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Semifinalist for the Kore Press Memoir AwardWhen Karen O'Reilly's 28-year-old friend and roommate dies by suicide on a bright New Year's Day, Karen, also suffering from severe depression, decides that she needs to do something drastic to avoid following a similar path. Six months later she leaves her comfortable western existence behind to work with refugees in Uganda.In this candid and irreverent memoir, Karen tells the story of working with people seeking refuge -- from war, and torture, and genocide -- as a young woman seeking refuge from herself. She describes the unexpected connections she makes with the refugees with whom she works: the Somali woman who, pitying her, prays for her to find a husband; the suspected Rwandan g nocidaire who argues with her about soccer and makes her undrinkable coffee; the transgender Burundian woman who commissions a matching rooster-print blouse and skirt for her, as a thank you gift. Outside of work, she tries to forget the corruption and sexual abuse she is shocked to encounter in the humanitarian world. She drinks gin, dances at illicit gay bars, sees local psychiatrists with unorthodox ideas, and tries to make sense of the refugees' stories and her own. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This dystopian adventure will appeal to adult and young adult readers alike. -Publishers' WeeklyA group of teenage students, while exploring deep within the rainforest, barely survive an encounter with a wild and surprisingly magical boar. In doing so, they discover that events that threaten to destroy their entire civilization have already been set into motion.The Black Tide, the annual rampage of millions of giant ants through the rainforest, has been coerced by the Demon Queen to take a path that will send it tearing through the farmlands that support the Citadel, their home.While the adults frantically race to prepare for the coming disaster, one of the teenagers who survived the boar attack, Malcolm, begins to experience violent visions of the past. He learns that he's no longer alone in his own body. His revelations lead the group of teenagers to discover that many of the leaders within the Citadel are similarly possessed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The theft of priceless books from a public library and the bloody attack on a security guard trying to protect them set Detective Kim Jansen on a twisting road of contradictory evidence and multiple suspects.At the center of the mystery is a 100-year-old family secret tied to photographer Edward S. Curtis' 20- volume masterpiece, The North American Indian.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. On an exotic cloaked island in the Mediterranean, reside the mystical purple-eyed Ara'Jaeons, a race created millennia ago to oversee Earth's elements.Mercy Markos, a young Ara'Jaeon girl, is sent to the Tray, a private school and training center for children of the Ecclesia, an elite group of Ara'Jaeons responsible for guarding the elements. Upon arrival at the Tray and unhappy with her displacement, Mercy accidentally encounters three Metalicons, the terrifying faction made up of dark and mysterious Ara'Jaeons, and she is made aware of a troubling, ancient prophecy involving her bloodline.While grappling with this discovery, Mercy and her newfound friends, Phin Jaymes and Fire Twins, Tambora and Vesuvius St. Clair, are thrown into the decades-old, unsolved murder of High Elder Jonathan Broomfield. The group must work together to bring justice, despite the heartbreak and betrayal it causes.With a remarkable backdrop of fantasy and mystery, readers will enjoy connecting with Mercy as she encounters new companionships, mistrust, deceit, heartbreak, and self-discovery; and as through her resolve, she learns the value of friendship, family, and self-confidence.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure is the story of Jacoby Pines, a disheartened American who arrives in Italy on holiday, and decides he never wants to leave. What follows is a wine-soaked, food-filled, travel-laden adventure about one man's quest for an antiquated existence in the modern world.Any reader with a passion for food, wine, literature, and, most of all, the streets of Florence, will find the release of Andrew Cotto's latest novel, Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure, a rare delight to the senses and intellect. -The Brooklyn Rail.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A taut, compelling family tale. -Kirkus ReviewsMillington Valley is a quintessential small Pennsylvania town: families go back generations. Football rules. Kids drink while adults look the other way. High school is a whirlwind of aspiration and rivalry, friendship and jealousy. When smart and pretty Molly Hanover moves to town and attracts the attention of the football team's hero, Wade Thornton--a nice guy with a bad drinking habit--longtime friendships are threatened and a popular cheerleader tries to turn the school against Molly.The young couple's future is shattered when Wade, drunk, wrecks his truck and Molly is thrown through the windshield. She wakes from a coma to find her beauty marred and her memory full of holes. As she struggles to heal, she becomes sure that something terrible happened before the accident. And there is somebody in the valley who doesn't want her to remember.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good.