Matt Haig

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year

"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."--The Washington Post

The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

The Midnight Library

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Robert Hellenga

Great condition with a used sticker on the cover.

On the morning of his fortieth birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he return to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwestern university town where he now teaches? On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snake-handling church in the Little Egypt region of Southern Illinois, rents a garage apartment from Jackson. Sunny and Jackson are drawn to each other, but then push comes to shove in this page-turning novel brimming with wit, substance, emotional depth-a fascinating and original story that delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form. Robert Hellenga was educated at the University of Michigan and Princeton University. He is a professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the author of the novels The Sixteen Pleasures, The Fall of a Sparrow, Blues Lessons, Philosophy Made Simple, and The Italian Lover. Visit his Web site at www.roberthellenga.com. Praise for Snakewoman of Little Egypt: "Both thoughtful and action-packed...Readers will once again find great pleasure in Hellenga's intelligent, generous-hearted work."-Chicago Tribune "A masterpiece. Thank you, Mr. Hellenga."-Washington Post Book World

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

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Leanna Ellis

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Plain Fear: Forgiven

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Anne Rice

Christopher Rice

From the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality--and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.

Ramses the Damned: the Passion of Cleopatra

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Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Dietlof Reiche

John Brownjohn

Book 1 in The Golden Hamster Saga

Move over, Stuart Little, there is a new mouse in town. Except this mouse is a hamster. And not just any hamster. He is a golden hamster of the highest order - and destined for great things.

Freddy is not happy with his boring treadmill life at the pet store. He continaully embarrasses himself in an attempt to get adopted. Freddy believes he will have a more civilized and exciting life as soon as he has a home. After a series of funny misadventures (including encounters with a fierce tomcat and two guinea pigs who speak in Shakespearean couplets) he teaches himself to read and write. He then pens his witty and heartwarming autobiography that tells of his journey to self discovery. A hamster has never been smarter or funnier in telling the tale of his exceptional life.

I, Freddy

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Bathroom Readers' Institute

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Uncle John's 27th Bathroom Reader is all new and better than ever!

Weighing in at a whopping 544 pages, Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader presents a wide-angle view of the world around us. It's overflowing with everything that BRI fans have come to expect from this bestselling trivia series: fascinating history, silly science, obscure origins...plus fads, blunders, wordplay, quotes, and a few surprises (such as some of the "creative" methods people have used to pay off their alimony). And yes, Uncle John's latest masterpiece is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your can! So hang on tight as you read about...

 

* Hairy superstitions
* Animals who act like people
* The Mother of the Father of our Country
* Really BIG Things
* Eugene Vidocq--the world's first private eye
* Bill Gates and his "Toilet Challenge"
* Unclassified: The story of the Freedom of Information Act
* How to behave like a gentleman...16th century style
* Great Gushers: The world's most incredible oil strikes
* Who's the Suzette in Crepe Suzette?
* Happy Sewerage Day!
And much, much more!


Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader

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Linda Robertson

One big happy family...living on the dark side.

Persephone Alcmedi's beloved foster daughter, Beverley, has been playing with a magical artifact that's far more dangerous than she realizes. Now Persephone must summon help from a mystical being so potent that even vampires fear him ... and the cost of his aid may be more than she's willing to pay. Seph, Johnny, and Menessos face threats from all side -- and a few from within.

Shattered Circle

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Laurie Halse Anderson

Very good condition with a few marker marks.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Meet Kate Malone-straight A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, girlfriend, unwilling family caretaker, emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it, as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all-or so she thinks. Then, like a string of chemical reactions, everything happens: the Malones' neighbors get burned out of their home and move in. Because her father is a Good Man of God (and a Not Very Thoughtful Parent), Kate has to share her room with her nemesis, Teri Litch, and Teri's adorable, troublemaking little brother. And through it all, she's still waiting to hear from the only college she has applied to: MIT. Kate's life is less and less under control-and then, something happens that blows it all apart, and forces her to examine her life, self, and heart for the first time. Set in the same community as the remarkable Speak, Catalyst is a novel that will make you think, laugh, cry, and rejoice-sometimes at the same time.

Catalyst

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320 pages. Great condition. 1989. ISBN 0-89577-321-X

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Dramatic True Stories of Nature's Awesome Powers

Great Disasters

C. J. Omololu

Ava and Lexi, high school seniors and identical twins, created an imaginary triplet, Alicia, to date and dump boys but now they're being stalked and impersonated by the sister they invented--and their former dates are turning up dead.

The Third Twin

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Great book for collectors of the Linda Carlton series.
Pages are yellowed and a little brittle at the corners. A little separation at the spine but intact.
Some pencil markings on the cover could probably be easily cleaned off. I didn't want to attempt it just in case.
There is also a faint pencil marking i side with the name and address of a previous owner.

ISBN 9362233274

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

First edition 1931

Linda Carlton's Ocean Flight

Glenn Taylor

“M. Glenn Taylor’s plain spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel’s inspired Working. The Marrowbone Marble Company is a novel of stirring clarity and power.” —Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite Author M. Glenn Taylor was nominated for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for his novel The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. Taylor returns spectacularly with The Marrowbone Marble Company, a sweeping story set against the changing landscape of post-World War II America that recalls The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and the early lyrical work of Cormac McCarthy. A masterwork of Southern fiction that the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina, John Casey, calls, “a terrific rough-and-tumble novel,” The Marrowbone Marble Company is a gift from a truly exhilarating American voice.

The Marrowbone Marble Company

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Fern Michaels

Toots and the Sisters travel to Charleston, where they search for the murderer of Ida's late husband--and try to protect Ida from similar fate.

Late Edition

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Linda S. Peavy

Jacket cover has some tearing and sticker reisdue. Book itself is in excellent condition. 

The Lives of Women on the Frontier

This volume reflets a wide variety of the experiences of women, from those who found liberty and confidence in undertaking work associated with men, to women who felt burdened by the wind, the weather, and the struggle of frontier life.

Pioneer Women

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Out of Egypt

Incorporates the latest New Testament scholarship to offer a fictional chronicle of the early years of Jesus Christ.

Christ the Lord

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Elizabeth Gilbert

The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

The Signature of All Things

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Book is in excellent condition. Jacket cover has some tearing.
First American edition 1973.

Livingstone

Elizabeth Kostova

The Phenomenal #1 Bestseller

An "innovative" (The New Yorker) retelling of the story of Dracula. Told with the flourish and poise of a talented storyteller, Kostova turns the age-old tale into a compelling "late night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle) When a young woman discovers a cache of ancient letters, she is thrown into the turbulent history of her parents' dark pasts. Uncovering a labyrinthine trail of clues, she begins to reconstruct a staggering history of deceit and violence. Debut novelist Elizabeth Kostova creates an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful and utterly unforgettable.

The Historian

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Larry McMurtry

Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.

Sin Killer

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Sarah Micklem

Unread condition. Has a little sticker residue over the ISBN.

A second book in the trilogy that began with the Locus Award-winning Firethorn finds the servant and lover of Sire Galan attempting to follow him into war, an effort during which a lightning strike garbles her speech, compromises her memory, and causes priests and soldiers to revere her as a prophet.

Wildfire

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Paul Corey

In excellent vintage condition with some sticker debris on the spine and an inscription inside. Pages are excellent.

Filled with anecdotes and descriptions of cat behavior from decades of personal observation.

Do Cats Think?

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Robin Sloan

"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--

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Matt Haig

The Midnight Library

Robert Hellenga

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

Leanna Ellis

Plain Fear: Forgiven

Anne Rice; Christopher Rice

Ramses the Damned: the Passion of Cleopatra

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Dietlof Reiche; John Brownjohn

I, Freddy

Bathroom Readers' Institute

Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader

Linda Robertson

Shattered Circle

Laurie Halse Anderson

Catalyst

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Great Disasters

Robert Hellenga

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

C. J. Omololu

The Third Twin

Edith Lavell

Linda Carlton's Ocean Flight

Glenn Taylor

The Marrowbone Marble Company

Fern Michaels

Late Edition

Linda S. Peavy

Pioneer Women

Anne Rice

Christ the Lord

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Signature of All Things

Tim Jeal

Livingstone

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Larry McMurtry

Sin Killer

Sarah Micklem

Wildfire

Paul Corey

Do Cats Think?

Robin Sloan

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