Monday
07Sep2009
Books for the taking
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 07:07PM | Category | Author | Title | Notes |
| Biography | Stein, Gertrude | Wars I have seen | autobiograpy |
| Business | Barnes, Ralph | Motion and Time Study | 1930's industrial manual - cool pictures ultra-dry text |
| Business | Bennis, Warren | Managing the dream | Reflections on leadership and change. |
| Business | Dezenhall, Eric | Damage Control | Harback - case studies on the public relation nightmares |
| Business | Fisher, Roger | Getting to yes | A business classic on negotiation |
| Children | Allende, Isabel | City of the beasts | Teen literature |
| Children | Andersen, Hans | The emperor's new clothes | A business book (just kidding) |
| Children | Baglio, Ben | The first olympics | Children's literature - grade school |
| Children | Burks, Brian | Soldier Boy | Boy's literature - grade school |
| Children | Byfield, Barbara | The man who made gold | Children's literature - grade school |
| Children | Carlson Natalie | The family under the bridge | Children's literature - grade school |
| Children | Kipling, Rudyard | Captain Courageous | Classic children's literature |
| Children | Packard, Edward | The mystery of Chimney Rock | Children's literature - grade school |
| Children | Paulsen, Gary | Brian's winter | Children's literature - teen |
| Children | Sachar, Louis | Wayside school gets a little stranger | Children's literature - grade school |
| Children | Twain, Mark | The adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Schoolbook version with study guide |
| Children | Boy's life book of outer space stories | Children's literature - grade school | |
| Children | Sleeping beauty | children's book | |
| Children | The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, world war II soldier | Children's literature - teen | |
| Essays/nonfiction | Anzaldia, Gloria | Borderlands, La Frontera | The experince of the mestiza woman |
| Essays/nonfiction | Badinter, Elisabeth | Fausse route | french feminism (in french) |
| Essays/nonfiction | Badinter, Elisabeth | XY - De l'identite masculine | Well-bred french feminism - in french |
| Essays/nonfiction | Bejamin, Jessica | The bonds of love | Psychoanalysis and feminism. Heavy-duty. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Bolen Jean | Goddesses in evey woman | female psychology |
| Essays/nonfiction | Borges, Luis | Seven nights | A slim book of literary criticism |
| Essays/nonfiction | Chodorow, Nancy | The powe of feelings | Personal meaning in psychoanalysis, gender and culture |
| Essays/nonfiction | Cixous, Helene | Coming to writing | Serious french literary essays translated into english |
| Essays/nonfiction | Clement, Catherine | Opera | The femal characters in opera |
| Essays/nonfiction | Clezio, JM | Le reve Mexicain | The french take on Mexico - in French |
| Essays/nonfiction | Codrescu, Andrei | The dog with the chip in his neck | Essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Crosley, Sloane | I was told there'd be cake | Hilarious book of personal essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Eco, Umberto | Misreadings | essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Eco, Umberto | Misreadings | essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Firenzuola, Agnolo | On the beauty of women | Academic book on the concept of beauty in renaissance italy |
| Essays/nonfiction | Fisher, Seymour | Body consciousness | An academic book. How we get to view our bodies. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Flax, Jane | Thinking fragment | feminism and postmodernism in the west |
| Essays/nonfiction | Gergen, Kenneth | The saturated self | Identity in contemporary life |
| Essays/nonfiction | Goldberd, Natalie | The long quiet highway | Writing inspiration |
| Essays/nonfiction | Goldstein, Michael | The experience of anxiety | essays on psychiatry |
| Essays/nonfiction | Hooks, Bell | Feminist theory from margin to center | African American feminist theory |
| Essays/nonfiction | Hurston, Zora Neale | Dust Tracks on the road | Classic african american literature |
| Essays/nonfiction | Huston, Zora Neale | Folklore, memoirs and other writings | essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Inchbald, Elizabeth | A simple story | 18th century feminism |
| Essays/nonfiction | Johnson, Spehen | Character styles | Fundamentals of psychology |
| Essays/nonfiction | Kingston, Maxine | The woman warrior | Feminine myths. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Kolenda, Pauline | Cultural construction of women | Academic feminist essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Kondo, Dorinne | Crafting selves | Power and gender in the Japanese workplace |
| Essays/nonfiction | La Bruyere | les characteres | Classic 17th century french - in french |
| Essays/nonfiction | Lawler, Jennifer | Dojo Wisdom for writers | Small book of writing inspiration |
| Essays/nonfiction | Locke, John | Second treatise of government | |
| Essays/nonfiction | Moore, Robert | The king within | Jungian king myth |
| Essays/nonfiction | Moraga, Cherrie | This bridge called my back | writings by radical women of color |
| Essays/nonfiction | Myler, Thomas | How scandal brought boxing to its knees | A jock book |
| Essays/nonfiction | Nietzche, Friedrich | The Gay Science | Philosophy. Good grief I read this in high school? |
| Essays/nonfiction | Nietzche, Friedrich | Thus spoke Zarathustra | There goes another Nietzche book from MP's shelves |
| Essays/nonfiction | Paley, Grave | Just as I thought | Literary and political essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Paz, Octavio | La hija de Rapaccini | A tiny serious book in spanish |
| Essays/nonfiction | Paz, Octavio | Solo a deux voix | Interview with Julian Rios - in french |
| Essays/nonfiction | Sacks, Oliver | The man who mistook his wife for a hat | essays on neurological disorders |
| Essays/nonfiction | Said, Edward | Orientalism | The origins of orientalism in Europe |
| Essays/nonfiction | Sansot, Pierre | Les gens de peu | Antropology - in French |
| Essays/nonfiction | Schor, Julier | The overspent american | Too late: we're overspent |
| Essays/nonfiction | Sedaris, David | Dress your family in corduroy and denim | Humorous personal essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Sontag, Susan | Illness as metaphor | A very serious book of literary essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Steedman, Carolyn | Landscape for a good woman | a study of english working class women |
| Essays/nonfiction | Stocker, Margaret | Judith | A thick book on the myth of Judith and Holofernes. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Taylor Charles | The ethics of authenticity | Canadian philosophy |
| Essays/nonfiction | Taylor, J | Eva Perron | The peronian myth. Written by a rice prof. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Thoreau, Henry | Wladen | Classic. But three copies?? |
| Essays/nonfiction | Walker, Alice | In search of our mother's garden | prose and essays |
| Essays/nonfiction | Weedon, Chris | Feminist Practice and Postculturalist Theory | There you have it. Now you know how I squandered my youth. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Wickes, Frances | The inner world of choice | childhood development book. |
| Essays/nonfiction | Le code noir | The french slavery law code - in french | |
| Fiction | Album, Mitch | The five people you meet in heaven | inspitational - sort of |
| Fiction | Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim | Literature |
| Fiction | Austen, Jane | Mansfield park | fluffy |
| Fiction | Barrico, Allesandro | Silk | quick read. Entertaining. |
| Fiction | Bellamy, Edward | Looking backward | 19th centurey literature (I think) |
| Fiction | Bellow, Saul | Seize the day | literature |
| Fiction | Bourin, Jeanne | Les peregrines | Novel about the french croisades - in French |
| Fiction | Buck, Pearl | Pavillion of women | A classic. I always enjoy re-reading Pearl Buck. |
| Fiction | Calvino, Italo | Mr. Palomar | Calvino is a delightful italian author. I love his stories. |
| Fiction | Cambor, Kathleeen | The book of mercy | A mystery - with a mysterious dedication from the author |
| Fiction | Cather, Willa | Death comes to the archbishop | Classic. Everyman's libray hardback edition. |
| Fiction | Cerda, Martha | La senora rodriguez y otoros mundos | literature - in Spanish |
| Fiction | Chatelet, Noelle | Histoires de bouches | French short stories - in french |
| Fiction | Chatwin, Bruce | UTZ | I love this story! Set in France too. |
| Fiction | Chevalier, Tracy | La vierge en bleu | American author translated into french. |
| Fiction | Coetzee, J.M | Disgrace | A very good, thought-provoking read. Boy! I have a hard time parting with this one |
| Fiction | Cook, Robin | Crisis | Thrills |
| Fiction | Cooper, James Fenimore | The prairie | 400 pages on the American frontieer |
| Fiction | Crighton, Michael | Five patents | Thrills |
| Fiction | Crighton, Michael | State of fear | Thrills |
| Fiction | Deloria, Ella | Waterlily | Story of a native american woman |
| Fiction | Divakaruni, Chitra | Arranged marriages | A great story - indian literature - couldn't put it down |
| Fiction | Djebar, Assia | Les femmes d'Alger | New french/arab contemporary literature - in french |
| Fiction | Dostoevsky, Fyodor | The brothers Karamazov | Two pounds of russian literature - an excellent Constance Garnett translation |
| Fiction | Eco, Umberto | Loana | French translation |
| Fiction | Farrell, J.G | The siege of Krishnapur | A great english colonial war story |
| Fiction | Fitzgerald, Scoot | Babylon revisited | literature |
| Fiction | Fox, Paula | A servant's tale | Contemporary Caribbean literature |
| Fiction | Frank, O'Connor | Stories | Mid century male short stories, what can I say? |
| Fiction | Gibbons, Kay | Divining Woman | A great story. |
| Fiction | Gordon, Mary | Pearl | |
| Fiction | Grisham, John | The associate | Thrills |
| Fiction | Grisham, John | The brethren | Audio tapes - thrills |
| Fiction | Grisham, John | The last juror | Thrills |
| Fiction | Haien Jeannette | The all of it | An irish story |
| Fiction | Irving, John | A prayer for Owen Meany | So satisfying, like all Irving's books. |
| Fiction | Irving, John | The world according to Garp | a classic |
| Fiction | Kellor, Garrison | Lake Wobegon Days | Always entertaining |
| Fiction | Kenison, Katrina | The best of American short stories | Used in a writing class - got all the classics |
| Fiction | King, Stephen | Umney's last case | short story in a tiny book |
| Fiction | Kinsolver, Barbara | Best American short stories | 2007 edition |
| Fiction | Koontz Dean | Velocity | Thrills |
| Fiction | Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of maladies | Great indian literature |
| Fiction | Lawrence, DH | The plumed serpent | Think DH Lawrence in Mexico |
| Fiction | Leavitt, David | Family dancing | literature |
| Fiction | Lewis, C.S. | The dark tower | Classic literature - suitable for teens |
| Fiction | Lewis, Stephen | The dumb shall sing | literature |
| Fiction | Leyner, Mark | The tetherballs of Bougainville | God knows what this is |
| Fiction | London, Jack | The Jack London reader | Literature - o.k for children |
| Fiction | Mann, Thomas | The magic mountain | Classic literature - lots of it |
| Fiction | Mason, Bobbie Ann | Clear Springs | Coming of age story. Very nice read |
| Fiction | McCockle, Julie | July 7th | Well written contemporary literature - sort of a chick book |
| Fiction | McCorckle, Jill | Carolina Moon | |
| Fiction | Moore, Lorrie | Like Life | One of Lorrie Moore's first books. Very well written short stories |
| Fiction | Moore, Lorrie | Self help | Her first book. Very funny. |
| Fiction | Morrison, Tonei | The bluest eye | Classic of African American literature |
| Fiction | Nemirovsky, Irene | Le vin de solitude | in French |
| Fiction | Orseman, Erik | Une comedie francaise | French bourgeois literature - in french |
| Fiction | Oyone, Ferdinand | Le vieux negre et sa medaille | French attack on french colonialism. In french. Uh-oh! |
| Fiction | Proust, Marcel | Du cote de Guermande | In French |
| Fiction | Rahimi, Atiq | Syngue Sabour | Very powerful novel about women in afghanistan. In French |
| Fiction | Robinson, Mary | An amateur guide to the night | Children's literature - grade school |
| Fiction | Rushdie, Salman | East/West | |
| Fiction | Sebold, Alice | The lovely bones | Great story. Coming into flim. |
| Fiction | Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | The original story. |
| Fiction | Shute, Nevil | A town like Alice | A good story. There's a movie of the same. |
| Fiction | Tan, Amy | The hundred secret senses | Comfy read - great story - a chick book |
| Fiction | Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | A doorstop of Russian literature and another Constance Garnett translation |
| Fiction | Tremblay Michel | La traversee du continent | Canadian contemporary literature - in French |
| Fiction | Trollope. Anthony | The spotted dog and other stories | 19th centurey literature |
| Fiction | Tyler, Ann | Ladder of years | I love this story! Definitely a chick-book escape |
| Fiction | Vian, Boris | L'automne a Pekin | In French |
| Fiction | Vonnegut, Kurt | Hocus Pocus | literature |
| Fiction | Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughter house five | A classic! |
| Fiction | Waugh, Evelyn | Decline and Fall | A classic. |
| Fiction | Wharton, Edith | Madame de Treyme | A tiny book - short story |
| Fiction | White Bailey | Sleeping at the starlite motel | A light story ala Ann Tyler |
| Fiction | White Edmund | The beautiful room is empty | Never read it. Must be someone else's |
| Fiction | Wolfe, Tom | A man in full | A southern gent' story of greed and fall |
| Fiction | American Short Ficton | Vol 10, issue 38 summer 2007 | |
| Fiction | Harpur Palate | Volume 7 issue 1 | |
| How-to | Baxter, Harry | How to read music | I could never learn. You try. |
| How-to | Brungardt, Kurt | Complete book of abs for women | I gave up on tight abs - might work for you |
| How-to | Calabro, Rose | Living in the raw | Raw cooking vegan recipes |
| How-to | Cookshack | Get smoking | 190 award-winning smoker oven recipes |
| How-to | Cotton, Leo | Old Mr. Boston official bartender's guide | Boozy recipes |
| How-to | Farmer Fannie | Original 1896 cooking-school cookook | Actually a tiny reproduction |
| How-to | Galloway | Book on running | Method to run marathon (not that I ever did) |
| How-to | Gordon, Deborah | Ants at work | book on bugs |
| How-to | Hines, Emmett | Fitness Swimming | Great swimming workouts |
| How-to | Hitt, Jack | Off the road | Travel book about Compostella |
| How-to | Jensen, Bernard | Guide to diet and detoxification | I could never follow a diet |
| How-to | Lawrence, Allan | Running and racing after 35 | fitness book |
| How-to | Maleska Eugene | Daily NYT crosswords | Thursday level - too advanced for me |
| How-to | Prudhomme, Paul | Old-time Louisiana recipes | cookbook |
| How-to | Townbridge, John | The Yeast Syndrome | Lotsa yeast everywhere. Yikes! |
| How-to | Whittman. Kate | Brittany Gastronomique | Recipe book - in english |
| How-to | Clothes | A picture book of 90's classics | |
| How-to | McCormick & Schmicks seafood restaurant cookbook | ||
| Humor | Larson, Gary | Far side observer | comics |
| Humor | Salajan Joanna | Zen Comics | Slim book of zen cartoons |
| Poetry | Banerjee, Chitra | Leaving Yuba City | Poetry |
| Poetry | Eluard, Paul | Capitale de la douleur | Painful french poetry - in french |
| Poetry | Eluard, Paul | Derniers poemes d'amour | French love poems - in French |
| Poetry | Hall, Donald | Old New Poems | poetry |
| Poetry | Masters, Edgar | Spoon River Anthology | Classic poetry |
| Poetry | Theobald, John | The lost vine | medieval french poetry translated into english |
| Religion/spirituality | Andre-Delastre, Louise | St. Agnes | A very pious little book on the life of St. Agnes |
| Religion/spirituality | Daila Lama | Deity Yoga | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Donnell, Thomas | A Thomas Merton Reader | Christian spirituality |
| Religion/spirituality | Geshe Sopa, Lhundup | Cutting through appearances | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Gross, Rita | Buddhism after patriarchy | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Johnson, Franklin | True Womanhood | 19th century manual on how women should behave. Oh Lord! |
| Religion/spirituality | Klein. Anne | Knowledge and liberation | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Merton. Thomas | contemplatice prayer | |
| Religion/spirituality | Norbu, Namkhai | The crystal and the way of light | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Rinbochay, Khetsun Sangpo | Tantric practice in yingma | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Rinbochay, Lati | Mind in tibetan buddhism | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Sohl, Robert | The gospel according to zen | interesting religious cross-study |
| Religion/spirituality | Trungpa, Chogyam | The myth of freedom | Tibetan buddhism |
| Religion/spirituality | Wisse, Ancrene | Guide for Anchoresses | A glimpse into medieval spirituality |
| Religion/spirituality | Religion of the United States - vol 2 | A school book | |
| Self-Help | Dyer, Wayne | Your sacred self | self-help |
| Self-Help | Ford, Debbie | The dark side of the light chasers | self-help |
| Self-Help | Garfield, Charles | Wisdom circles | a guide about building small groups |
| Self-Help | Gawain, Shakti | Living in the light | self-help |
| Self-Help | Jaksch, Mary | Learn to love | Cute. Quick read. With pictures. |
| Self-Help | Levine Stephen | Who dies | An uplifting books on mortality (just kidding) |
| Self-Help | Moore, Thomas | Soul mates - honoring the mysteries of love and relationships | self-help |
| Self-Help | Myss, Carolyn | The creation of health | health, spirituality |
| Self-Help | Rohrer, Norman | Facing anger | self-help |
| Self-Help | Wlaker, Barbara | The Crone | Book on women and aging |


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