Ned Vizzini

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That’s when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he’s just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping—until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety. Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

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Alice Sebold

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 750,000 first printing.

The Lovely Bones

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David Morrell

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Famous for his suspenseful fiction that delivers sheer emotional power, David Morrell, the bestselling author of First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fifth Profession, and Assumed Identity, here presents a mesmerizing novel of intrigue and high-action thrills...Fallen star journalist Matt Pittman holds a gun in his hand, ready to commit suicide...until he's abruptly interrupted by a phone call and a bizarre assignment: to write the obituary of a man who is not yet dead. Suddenly, clinging desperately to a life he'd so recently been eager to discard, Matt is thrust into the heart of a global conspiracy whose sinister machinations promise a terrifying endgame. He will find himself both a murder suspect by the police and a target for murder by invisible assassins determined to destroy him. Now Matt Pittman is on a desperate, great final story -- and his last byline may be written on a tombstone.

Desperate Measures

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Victor O'Reilly

When war photographer Hugo Fitzduane discovers the body of a local student hanging from a branch of a tree in his yard, he becomes involved in a terrorist plot. 

Wear and tear in the cover sleeve, but the book is in great shape

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Games of the Hangman

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Malcolm Gladwell

A book that examines the factors to success. Slight wear in the sleeve cover but the book is in very good condition. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Story of Success

Outliers

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William Shakespeare

John E. Hankins

The classic Romeo and Juliet. 1960 paperback. A fold on the cover and yellowing of pages. 

Incorporating thirty-eight volumes of Shakespeare's work, this superb series is distinguished by its skilled and unobtrusive editing, under the scholarly and sensitive supervision of Alfred Harbage.

Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information.

Romeo and Juliet

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Todd Burpo

Lynn Vincent

A boy shares a story of how he left his body during surgery

A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Heaven Is for Real

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Rebecca West

The New Meaning of Treason (1964) is a revision and expansion of her earlier work The Meaning of Treason (1949). It explores the evolving nature of treason in the mid-20th century, particularly in the context of Cold War espionage and ideological betrayals. Initially focused on British traitors like William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, the updated version extends its analysis to Soviet spies such as Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five. West examines how modern treason differs from traditional notions, emphasizing the role of ideology, espionage, and shifting loyalties in a rapidly changing world. Her work blends journalism, biography, and political analysis, offering a sharp critique of those who betray their nations for totalitarian causes.

Light wear on the sleeve cover and slight yellow of the pages. 

The New Meaning of Treason

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Burt Hirschfeld

Inside the cloakrooms and bedrooms of Washington! 

Moment of Power

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Ariel Levy

Small defect on bottom corner. Small amount of wear on back cover 

Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women's movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi's Backlash and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women today.

Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them.

In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the bestseller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture--the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be "one of the guys." And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women's movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved.

Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come, it only proves how far they have left to go.

Female Chauvinist Pigs

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Andre Dubus

Small bend on the corner of the back cover. Minor marking on back cover.  

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

When a former colonel of the Iranian Air Force and his family purchase a small California home at auction, they are faced with a great conflict as the former owner and her police officer boyfriend fight to get it back at any cost.

House of Sand and Fog

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Eric Schlosser

Light wear and tear. Small bit of highlighting in the first 30 pages

Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.

Reefer Madness

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Stephenie Meyer

Minor wear on the glossy sleeve. No rips or markings 

A Novel

A member of a species that takes over the minds of human bodies, Wanderer is unable to disregard his host's love for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies. A first adult novel by the author of Eclipse.

The Host

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Ted Dekker

But of wear on the corners of the sleeve, no markings, pages appear to be cut uneven from printing 

Immanuel's Veins

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Harry F. Saint

Light wear on the book sleeve and top was dusty, no pen markings inside, 

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

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Zhi Gang Sha

Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your Life

East meets West as renowned healer and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sha teaches readers a radical new way to heal through meditation and communication with the soul.

This introductory book in the Soul Power series takes integrative medicine to a whole new and exciting place far beyond "mind over matter," emphasizing instead the concept of "soul over matter." Soul Wisdom is Dr. Sha's gift from the Divine, the wisdom of a higher power channeled into a practical guide for anyone interested in opening their souls to heal their bodies and minds.

Soul Wisdom

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Mike Sharpe

300 multi-wing aircraft in col. accompanied by country of origin, type, powerplant, performance, weights, dimensions, and armament. Text summarises their development and service history.

Biplanes, Triplanes and Seaplanes

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Melvyn Bragg

Bega, a lovely Irish princess gifted with miraculous powers, and Padric, a magnetic British warrior-prince, find themselves torn between spiritual fulfillment and physical desire, ideals and political expediency, in a novel set against the backdrop of the seventh-century dawn of Christianity. 100,000 first printing.

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