Item Name & Description: the complete Knights of Breton Court trilogy by Maurice Broaddus (King Maker, King's Justice, King's War), signed by the author.

The series starts with King Maker. Description: On the streets of Indianapolis, the ancient Arthurian cycle is replaying in the lives of rival street gangs. Told through the eyes of King, as he ( Read more... )

Item Name & Description: a box of paperbacks of Japanese fiction in English translation, specifically:

Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Waves, by Yukio Mishima
Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction, ss anthology, ed. Alfred Birnbaum
Stories of Osaka Life, by Oda Sakunosuke
Seven Japanese Tales, by Junichiro ( Read more... )

Item Name & Description: two books by Leila Ahmed: WOMEN AND GENDER IN ISLAM and A BORDER PASSAGE; one book by Fatima Mernissi: THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE.

These books are extremely accessible to western audiences, which is probably why I had them in undergrad. They're good primers for folks with no grounding in Islam.

Starting Bid: $15

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Item Name & Description: 2 books in a set: 1) Hildegrad of Bingen: Selections from her Writings and 2) When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone

Starting Bid: $10

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E-mail: jhameia.goh(@)gmail.com

Bidding is now open and ends Sunday, February 25, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST. How to bid.

Item Name & Description: 2 books at one go in this set: STRANGE PILGRIMS by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Edith Grossman, and FULL WOMAN, FLESHLY APPLE, HOT MOON, selected poems by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Mitchell. FULL WOMAN is a bi-lingual book: original on one side, English on the other.

Starting Bid: $10

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Item Name & Description: 3 books: ASH by Malinda Lo, THE GREEN MAN, eds Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, and THE FAIR FOLK ed Marvin Kaye

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Item Name & Description: a large USPS Priority Mail flat-rate box (12" x 12" x 5-1/2"), filled with your selection of books from this listWe have moved to reading almost exclusively in electronic format, and as a result are getting rid of many books that we will never (re-)read in paper. Six hundred fifty-five of them, to be precise ( Read more... )

Item Name & Description: A set of three books from Quirk-- Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, adapted by Seth Grahame-Smith AND Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters AND Android Karenina adapted by Ben Winters.

Starting Bid: $15

Notes: Will ship anywhere, so long as bid matches shipping cost.

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Item Name & Description: Jo Walton's Small Change trilogy:

1. Farthing
2. Ha'Penny
3. Half a Crown

All three are original hardcovers. Farthing is a second printing, the other two are first printings. Half a Crown is a review copy and so has two pages of publicity material laid in. All three books have been read, but gently, so they are still in excellent ( Read more... )

Item Name and Description: a signed/inscribed copy of each of my 3 books -- Desideria, The Winter Triptych, and Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties.

About Desideria, Booklist says: Kornher-Stace’s exceptionally well-crafted debut plays out in a byzantine milieu of madhouses and melodramatic theater in an unnamed seventeenth-century European ( Read more... )