![]() Traditional bookseller grading used - fine is our highest grade (an "A"), very good is above average (a "B), good is average (a "C"). Call us at 20 or contact us by Our web page is Oak-covered hills, we built a "bookhouse" for our books. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierraįoothills of Amador County, about 35 miles east of downtown SacramentoĪnd between Ione & Sutter Creek. ![]() (open every day fromġ0-5) The emphasis there is on Western Americana, children¿s books We have a large booth dedicated to books (called Books Upstairs) at theĪntiques Upstairs Mall, 5 Main Street, Jackson, CA. We have been selling books by mail order and on the internet since 1993. Only about 50% of our stock is catalogued, so please inquire if you are searching for specific titles. We also have a large selection of books signed by the author and uncorrected proof copies. ![]() Of the approximately 60,000 volumes in stock, the majority are hardcover first editions, although we also stock vintage science fiction paperbacks as well as sf digests and pulps. We try to offer many uncommon books, and have a large selection of first books, and books by authors who are less frequently collected. the name used by Volk and Iiams, Booksellers- specializes in first editions of twentieth century literature, with an emphasis on women authors, African American, Native American and Latin American authors - plus mystery & detective fiction, science fiction & fantasy, poetry and children's & illustrated books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To the other half of the galaxy he’s a pariah. As a result, I have huge hopes for Spaceside, which is set to be released in August, and I am very excited to see how Mammay tops his amazing first book.įollowing his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler returns to a mixed reception. Planetside was an incredible debut from Mammay, who blended together mystery and science fiction elements to create an outstanding space military thriller with an absolutely explosive ending that I still cannot get over. Stay tuned to see reviews of these books when I get a copy of them.įor this week I look at Spaceside by Michael Mammay, the sequel to one of my favourite books from 2018, Planetside. Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy. ![]() ![]() ![]() These works include collection Contemplation (Betrachtung) and A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt), some individual stories which were published in a literary magazine. His unique writing style and the situations he depicted his works are described by the term Kafkaesque.ĭuring the life of Franz Kafka, very few of his works got published. Kafka’s best works include “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”), The Trail (Der Process), and The Castle (Das Schloss). It explores themes of guilt, absurdity, existential anxiety, and alienation. His short stories and novels feature the protagonists that are completely isolated, encountering surrealistic or bizarre predicaments and inconceivable socio-bureaucratic powers. His works are a blend of elements of fantasy and realism. He was German-speaking and widely regarded as one of the influential figures of the literature of the 20 th -century. Franz Kafka was a Bohemian short-story writer and novelist. ![]() ![]() Chief among them is that, by cutting through the sterile debate for or against the market, it makes it easier to ask sharper questions about public policy" (The Economist). ![]() Sen describes and advocates has great attractions. A more sentient measure of the usefulness and value of development is whether it expands "real freedoms that people enjoy." Sen examines other determinants of a nation's wealth, such as social and economic arrangements, political and civil rights, industrialization and technological progress and modernization, factors that can substantially contribute to expanding human freedom. Note: These citations are software generated and may contain errors. ![]() ![]() Io he seneli.ally asaisst markers would be alnost as odd as being generically against. He focuses on the tendency of Western economics to emphasize gross national product or aggregate wealth as indicators of national well-being. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens. parcel ofthe basic liberties that people have rcason to value. ![]() Fine in a fine dust jacket.Īmartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics, has produced a work of eminent value. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I was a person who who just found herself in literature quite young. And in these books I could start to kind of encounter people, understand people and have that stability that I was seeking throughout all of these moves. ![]() ![]() And the kind of one constant was the fact that I could go to the library with my library card and check out books. I was born in Ghana, but then we lived in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama. My family moved around a lot when I was a child. I loved reading more than just about anything else in my life at that point. And it's something I found that even as I've grown distant from that, I can't completely disentangle who I am from this early period. And yet I think when you spend that much time in a place - and so it really was such a huge part of my life. I was raised in the church, as they say, but I haven't continued to attend, and have kind of lost a lot of that early grounding that I had as I grew older and started to feel kind of politically differently than some of the teachings that I learned when I was younger. Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. Gyasi's 2020 novel, 'Transcendent Kingdom, focuses tightly on a daughter and mother, replacing the sweep of familial history with the collision and intermingling of faith and science. ![]() You know, similarly to Gifty, I grew up Pentecostal. Book Reviews 'Homegoing' Is A Sprawling Epic, Brimming With Compassion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with James for a chat where he spoke about what it took to get connected with these dangerous ultra groups, the immense influence the different factions have displayed over the years and about some of the seriously hairy situations he found himself in around the world. From attending organised forest fighting in the Ukraine, to hanging out with the head of Lazio’s Irriducibili ultras and even getting chased by machete wielding fans in Indonesia, Montague immersed himself in this generally hidden world, emerging with a fascinating and revealing book. On his travels James witnessed all aspects the ultra scene first hand and how it has evolved over the years. In preparation for writing his superb book, 1312: Among The Ultras, he spent years meeting some of the most feared characters who dwell within this powerful subculture. One man who has seen this passion, and indeed violence, up close and in person, is author James Montague. For some hardcore fans, these heightened emotions, mixed with an unwavering devotion to their clubs can even spill over into violence. Those of us instilled with a love for football know how a loss on a Saturday afternoon can ruin a whole week, whereas a win can make all of life’s problems fade away in an instant. Few sports throughout the world have fans who are quite as passionate as supporters of the beautiful game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Originally Kaplan, Aaron’s father anglicized the family name en route to America.) Copland Senior put down roots in Brooklyn, where he owned a small department store the family lived upstairs and helped to run the business. His name was Aaron Copland.Ĭopland was the youngest of five children born into a family of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. Many of her pupils went on to have impressive careers, but none more so than a twenty-one-year-old New Yorker who had started in music late but was determined to become a composer. The critic–composer Virgil Thomson famously declared, “Every town in America has two things - a five-and-dime and a Boulanger pupil.” He was talking about the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose school at Fontainebleau Palace, just outside Paris, became a mecca for young composers from the United States.īoulanger was one of the defining forces of American music in the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() The exposure of his activities came after the tabloid Expressen requested the release of documents from the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) and published information from the Säpo files along with information gained through interviews with former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky about Guillou's case. In October 2009, it was revealed that Guillou had been recruited by the KGB in 1967. He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. In 1973, he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with Liza Marklund and his common-law wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp. ![]() Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. ![]() Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a Swedish author and journalist. ![]() ![]() William Barber, David Cummings, Charlotte-Davis Black, Emmy Dowers and Mia Wilks as the school children.Arnold Brown and Emma Tate as the snail flock.A joyous, empowering story about the natural wonders of the world and discovering that no matter how small you are, you can make a difference. ![]() The Snail and the Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a ride on the tail of a friendly humpback whale. The special premiered on BBC One in the U.K. The voices of the main characters include Dame Diana Rigg, Sally Hawkins and Rob Brydon. The short film is based on the 2003 picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The Snail and the Whale is a 2019 British-South African short computer-animated TV film, directed by Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon, and produced by Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic Light Pictures, in association with Triggerfish Animation Studios where the film was animated. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience-but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks. ![]() She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.Īs Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. ![]() They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. ![]() |