Introduction and Staff Picks from Matthew
I love books. Some of my fondest childhood memories are from ditching recess to read Tolkien and various myths and legends in the school library. I studied secondary education and linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno until 2018 when I was offered a job at ThriftBooks in the Sorting department. I was moved to non-ISBN receiving in spring 2019, and to Collectibles in June 2020. I am very pleased to have the opportunity to share some of my favorite recent finds along with one or two I stumbled on in our inventory.
Gone with the Wind
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![Gone With the Wind (text only) by M. Mitchell Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1658882549/1.jpg)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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![The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Illustrated Junior Library) Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1754629120/1.jpg)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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![One Hundred Years of Solitude Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1763201020/1.jpg)
Beloved
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![Beloved: Gift Edition (Non-Returnable) Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1565562968/1.jpg)
Staff Picks from Theia
Theia considers herself quite privileged as charged in locating and selling the ThriftBooks "gold." Having grown up in the Southern Sierra's, she now enjoys exploring the Northern Sierra's with her trusted horse Blue. Her connection with books is lifelong, and she devotes many waking hours contemplating their future. Her focus for this spotlight loosely speaks to time, place, and circumstance and her particular interest in history and the American West. The book she identified first, "Pony Tracks" by Frederick Remington, led her down a few rabbit holes but she insists her imagination didn't totally fail her. Had her circumstance--a deadline--not interfered, she would have kept going....
Rising from the Plains
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![Rising from the Plains Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1755343760/1.jpg)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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![Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1565561731/1.jpg)
The Journal of Jacob Fowler
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![The Journal of Jacob Fowler, Narrating an Adventure from Arkansas Through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, to the sou: Rces of Rio Grande Del Norte, 1821-22 Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1750679582/1.jpg)
True Grit
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![TRUE GRIT Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/736093332/1.jpg)
Sacagawea's Child: The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste Pomp Charbonneau
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![Sacagawea](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1324700269/1.jpg)
The Civil War: A Narrative
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![The Civil War: A Narrative - 3 Volume Box Set Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1652773031/1.jpg)
My Antonia
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![My Antonia (International Collectors Library) Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1752478453/1.jpg)
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916-1984
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![Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916-1984 Book Cover](https://icollectible.thriftbooks.com/cimage/1750678331/1.jpg)