The Coast of Akron is the story of the gloriously unorthodox, maladjusted, brilliant Haven family from Akron, Ohio. In the thirty years since artists Jenny and Lowell met, inspired each other, and separated, Lowell has achieved international fame. But five years ago, he suddenly stopped painting and the world wants to know

The Coast Of Akron

Literature & Fiction

ADRIENNE MILLER

Contemporary

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

A crown of feathers and other stories

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS

Illness As Metaphor

SONTAG, SUSAN

Short Stories & Anthologies

342 pages. Many b/w historical photos.

The Cajuns: From Acadia to Louisiana

History

Rushton, William

Americas

The new tutor at Goody Hall is pleased with his job but can't help feeling there is something peculiar about the household.

Goody Hall

BABBITT, NATALIE

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Taken from back cover:Every so often a gifted writer manages to produce a travel book that, while dealing with a place our culture he knows well, still has all the sharpness and strangeness of a dispatch from the dark side of the moon. Such a book is Andrew X. Pham's remarkable "Catfish and Mandala"-Adam Goodheart, the New York Times book review.Far more than a travelogue.... Catfish and Mandala is a seamlessly constructed work deftly combining literary techniques with careful, evenhanded reportage.... Pham opens readers to the full sadness of the human condition on both sides of the world, marveling at spiritual resilience amid irreconcilable facts.---Roland Kelts, The Philadelphia Inquirer.Engaging, vigorously told.... A fresh and original look at how proud the anemones on the wars losing side reconciled having their identity abruptly hyphenated to Vietnamese- American.---Gavin Scott, Chicago Tribune.

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Travel

Pham, Andrew X.

Asia

The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages, in Beirut, and in Grenada--and in each case they have failed. Gabriel tells how and why each was crippled by faulty intelligence, clumsy execution, or poor planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Much of his information is still classified by the Pentagon and is revealed here for the first time. Finally, Gabriel offers a prescription for reform based on his twenty-one years of military experience.

Military Incompetence

Engineering & Transportation

Richard A. Gabriel

Engineering

The Book is brand new from inside only some shelf wear, but remains fully functioning and easily readable. Some marking, Good copy ,in good condition. No missing pages. May not include accessories such as CD. It comes from free smoking envirnment. Has minor wear and/or markings

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Farther Away

Biographies & Memoirs

Franzen, Jonathan

Arts & Literature

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