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[thebitchwiththebooks]

Hello! My name is Liz, and yes, I am the bitch with the books. Trust and believe I still have many more to upload on here. All original posts of mine are books that are for sale, tagged as #my books. 

Prices range from $12-$17. Free shipping, currently shipping to USA only. Prices are listed on each book post. Payment is done via PayPal. Here is a link to everything I’ve listed. I will update the posts to reflect whether a book is still available, or if it has sold. Majority paperbacks, a few hardcovers. I’ve had these books for years, but everything is either brand-new quality, or a bit worn but still great quality. 

If you are interested in any books I’ve posted, here is a short request form to fill out. If the form is not working for you, please send me a message! First come, first served, and I will fill the requests in the order they are received. 

All sales are final, meaning no returns or refunds. In exceptional cases (ex. I sent you the wrong book) please contact me and I will do my best to resolve the issue. You can send any questions to my ask box. Thank you :)

[thebitchwiththebooks]

Escapism by Yi-Fu Tuan // $14

"'Who,' writes the distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, 'hasn't--sometime--wanted to escape? But from what?' In his fascinating look at the idea of escape, Tuan suggests that all human culture is really a kind of flight, an evasive mechanism, a means of not facing. Our shelters give us refuge from the weather, our cities give us protection against nature red in tooth and claw, our religion and institutions give us solace against the certainty of death. 'A human being,' he says wryly, 'is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is.' Tuan examines the artifacts of our present civilization to buttress his argument. The cornucopia of the modern supermarket, for instance, with its 'dazzling pyramids of fruits and vegetables, its esplanades of meat,' which promises ceaseless abundance, and the growth of escape-to-nature ideas, which, he insists, depend on an antithetical escape from nature (nature being, in his definition, 'what remains or what can recuperate over time when all humans and their works are removed'). That escape to nature, he suggests, relies on an unfortunate abstraction, one of simplicity. Images of nature, he continues, are often formed from wishful thinking and not from direct experience, and they tend therefore to lack the complexity of reality. Tuan's vigorous essay is provocative, challenging, and a pleasure to read."

Paperback. Top edge displays the slightest bit of wear, but otherwise the overall condition is like new. 203 pages.

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I know her tumblr would be fire

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the key to not fanonizing your faves is to simply become academia-brained about it. never make a statement about a character you can’t back up with at least three references to the source material

[thebitchwiththebooks]

College Girl by Patricia Weitz // $15

"College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also painfully insecure. She transferred from the nearby blue-collar branch college to the University of Connecticut, but feels ashamed of her working-class background and intimidated by her new classmates. At twenty, she’s still a virgin, never even having had a boyfriend. At school, Natalie hides out most weekends in the library—until she meets Patrick, her fantasy (she thinks) of a cultured, intellectual Prince Charming. But the more time they spend together, the more Patrick brings out her worst insecurities. And before Natalie’s ready, she winds up losing her virginity— and her sense of direction, as her emotional responses take a dangerously self-destructive turn. Soon it’ll take only the most extreme measures to reclaim her sense of self, her confidence, and her ambition. Insightful, moving, and achingly self-aware, College Girl is an intensely real portrait of a character whose insecurities are recognizable to us all, and of a time of life that changes everything."

Hardcover. The dust jacket has some very light marks and wear, barely noticeable water damage towards the bottom front, but still great condition. There is one page near the beginning of the book that had a slightly folded top corner. The rest of the pages are perfect. 326 pages.

[thebitchwiththebooks]

Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir by David Thomson // $14

"From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties. Told with elegance and restraint, partly from the point of view of a child, partly from that of an adult, it is the story of a lonely, stammering boy cared for by a matriarchy of his mother, grandmother, and an upstairs tenant, Miss Davis, to which he adds an imaginary sister, Sally. At the heart of this story is David Thomson’s profound sadness at being abandoned by a cold and distant father who visits only on weekends and keeps, as Thomson later discovers, another household. Thomson gives a vivid picture of London in the aftermath of the war, whether it is his grandmother bringing him to a street corner to see Churchill or the bombed-out houses that still smelled of acrid smoke where, though forbidden, he played. Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed in Henry V, Red River, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane were part of his rich imaginative life, one that gained him a scholarship to public and eventually film school. And though his father could never tell his son he loved him, he spent the first part of vacations with him and he came back most weekends, taking Thomson to everything from boxing to cricket matches. But as Thomson admits, “I am still, years after his death, bewildered and pained by my father, and trying to love him—or find his love for me.” Try to Tell the Story is a haunting and unsentimental look at the fragility of family relationships, a memoir of growing up in the absence of a full-time father, with movies and sports heroes as one’s only touchstones."

Hardcover. Tiniest bits of wear in the corners of the dust jacket but otherwise like new. 214 pages. The pages are perfect. They have the faux worn/torn "deckle edges" that some books have, pictured below.

Back cover:

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I have female hysteria AND male loneliness

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"this character is not canonically bisexual" to YOU. i know them personally

[thebitchwiththebooks]

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot // $16

"For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye.

In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth."

Paperback. Tiniest bits of wear in the top and bottom corners of the spine. Marking towards the bottom of the back was not done by me. Otherwise, the pages are perfect and the book is like new. 442 pages.

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[thebitchwiththebooks]

Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn // $16

"Sixteen-year-old Violet loves reading manga and wearing scarves made from kimono fabric, so she's thrilled when her father's new painting commission means a summer trip to Japan. But what starts as an exotic vacation quickly turns sour when priceless sketches by van Gogh are stolen from her father's client and held ransom for a painting by the artist. The problem is that nobody knows where the painting is hidden, and until they find it, all their lives are in danger.

Joined by her friend Reika, Violet searches for the missing van Gogh in a quest that takes her from the Seattle Art Museum to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo to a secluded inn in Kyoto. As the mystery deepens, Violet's not sure whom she can trust. But she knows one thing: she has to find the painting and the criminals--before it's too late."

Hardcover. Very slight wear on the bottom and corners of the dust jacket. Pages are perfect. 364 pages.

[thebitchwiththebooks]

The Seeker by R. B. Chesterton // $16

"When graduate student Aine Cahill uncovers a journal proving that her aunt Bonnie was an intimate companion of Henry David Thoreau’s during his supposedly solitary sojourn at Walden Pond, she knows that she has found the perfect subject for her dissertation.

She decides to travel to Walden Pond herself to hunker down and work on her writing, but it quickly becomes clear that all is not as it seems in Thoreau’s woodland retreat. The further Aine delves into Bonnie’s diary the more she finds herself wondering about her family’s sinister legacy and even her own sanity—is there really a young girl lurking in the woods?

As tragedy strikes a nearby town and suspicion falls on Aine, she scrambles to find the truth behind Thoreau’s paradise."

Hardcover. Almost imperceptible marks + barely noticeable bends in the corners of the dust jacket. Pages are perfect. 302 pages.

[thebitchwiththebooks]

Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger // $14

"A weekend retreat in the woods and an innocent game of three truths and a lie go horribly wrong.

Deep in the forest, four friends gather for a weekend of fun.

Truth #1: Rob is thrilled about the weekend trip. It’s the perfect time for him to break out of his shell…to be the person he really, really wants to be.

Truth #2: Liam, Rob’s boyfriend, is nothing short of perfect. He’s everything Rob could have wanted. They’re perfect together. Perfect.

Truth #3: Mia has been Liam’s best friend for years…long before Rob came along. They get each other in a way Rob could never, will never, understand.

Truth #4: Galen, Mia’s boyfriend, is sweet, handsome, and incredibly charming. He’s the definition of a Golden Boy…even with the secrets up his sleeve.

One of these truths is a lie…and not everyone will live to find out which one it is."

Hardcover. Almost imperceptible marks on the front cover of the dust jacket. Inner front bottom of dust jacket has mild discoloration, not noticeable from outside. Barely noticeable discoloration on top corner of the first few pages but otherwise perfect. 261 pages.

[thebitchwiththebooks]

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller // $12

"Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her memories of that fateful summer in 1968, Jo begins to obsess about the person she once was. As she is pulled farther from her present life, her husband, and her world, Jo struggles against becoming enveloped by her past and its dark secret."

Paperback. Some wear/light discoloration on the cover but the pages are perfect. 266 pages.

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