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Darksong – Book Two Of The Legendsong – Isobelle Carmody Very Good Condition Paperback 763 pages Publisher: Viking 2002 GoodReads Description: These are the signs by which the Unraveller shall be known: Half-blind yet seeing all, marked by visioning yet without Darkfall mark, who lives yet sings the death song, who is born yet is not of the Song of Making, who is gifted from the Great Waters, who is crowned in bright flame … Legendsong of the Unykorn. After crossing to the troubled world

Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century – Daniel B. Botkin Like New Condition Hardcover 241 pages Oxford University Press 1990 Goodreads description: Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of forests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans - the threats to our environment are numerous, raising justifiable concern among most of us and genuine alarm in some. But as scientist Daniel Botkin argues in this provocative book, our ability to solve these problems is l

The Quincunx – Charles Palliser Very Good Condition Vinyl covered paperback. Former library book. 1221 pages Penguin Books 1990 Fiction Goodreads Description: The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century Engli

The Mind’ s Eye – Oliver Sacks Like New Condition Paperback. 260 pages Picador Publishing 2010 Goodreads description: In "The Mind's Eye", Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognise faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is

Ill Fares The Wind – Tony Judt Like New Condition Hardcover. 237 pages The Penguin Press 2010 Goodreads description: Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallises what we’ve all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease ab

Invisible – Hugues de Montalembert Very Good Condition. Hardcover 127 pages Atria Books 2010 Goodreads description: The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen “You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you never think it will happen to you. It happened to me one evening.” One summer night in 1978, Hugues de Montalembert returned home

Voltaire: Voltaire and Enlightenment – John Gray Like New Condition. Paperback 54 pages Phoenix Books 1998 Goodreads Description: Voltaire’s savage laughter range out across eighteenth-century Europe, puncturing the pomposities and hypocrisies of power. Kings and cardinals felt the sting of his satire; governments and aristocracies endured his derision. Yet the aims of the Enlightenment’s clown were nothing if not serious: to throw back the blinds of ignorance and superstition and let the

Goodreads description: A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer—his “Keltjin potatoes” are justifiably famous—has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath,