James A. Michener

Jean-Paul Tremblay

Discarded library book. All the usual markings. Actual pages and spine are great. Decked edge. First edition

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.

Centennial

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Thomas Mann

Old library book. Pages are clean. Spine is strong. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."

Death in Venice

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Margaret Atwood

Discarded library book, but pages are clean  and spine is in great shape. No marginalia. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize

Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.

This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again.

The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.

With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.


From the Hardcover edition.

Oryx and Crake

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Ayn Rand

Leonard Peikoff

Old library discard. Hardcover version of small paperback. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

(Centennial Edition)

The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as a heroic being, in a special centennial edition of the seminal novel, first published in 1957. Reissue.

Atlas Shrugged

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George Orwell

Erich Fromm

Beaten up cover. Old library book. Pages are clean. 

1984

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Dalton Trumbo

Pages and spine are clean. Former library book. Typical markings of that. 

First published in 1939 Dalton Trumbo's story of a young soldier horribly maimed in the First World War became an immediate best seller. The book also became the most popular anti war book of the Vietnam peace movement.

Johnny Got His Gun

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Basically brand new. Has a library card holder inside but, virtually unread. 

A Novel

Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

The Marriage Plot

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Arthur C. Clarke

Discarded library book. Normal shelf wear. Great binding. Clean pages. 

The food of the gods.--Maelstrom II.-- The shining ones.--The wind from the sun.--The secret.--The last command.--Dial F for Frankenstein.--Reunion.--Playback.--The light of darkness.--the longest science-fiction story ever told.--Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, esq.-- Love that universe.--Crusade.--The cruel sky.--Neutron tide.--Transit of earth.--A meeting with Medusa.

The Wind from the Sun

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Discarded library book. Clean pages and strong spine. 

2061: Odyssey Three

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Frank Herbert

Ripped front cover. Pages and spine are clean and strong. 

Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities--making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies....

Children of Dune

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Herbert Franke

Pages and spine are clean. Discarded library book. Basic shelf wear. 

Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.

Now the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as these factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders--fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor....

Heretics of Dune

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Pages and spine are clean. Normal shelf wear. Former library book. 

Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire

Chapterhouse: Dune

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Robert A. Heinlein

Discarded library book. Normal shelf wear. Pages and spine are clean and strong. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Valentine Michael Smith, born and raised on Mars, arrives on Earth stunning Western culture with his superhuman abilities

Stranger in a Strange Land

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Neil Gaiman

Closer to excellent than good. Pages and spine are clean. Corner of cover has slight tear. 

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. A groundbreaking work as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Audrey Niffenegger

Basic shelf wear. Pages and spine are clean. 

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

The Time Traveler's Wife

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Marcus Luttrell

Patrick Robinson

Pages and spine are clean and in tact. Typical shelf wear. Name on it. 

The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history. His squadmates fought valiantly beside him until he was the only one left alive, blasted by an RPG into a place where his pursuers could not find him. Over the next four days, terribly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell crawled for miles through the mountains and was taken in by sympathetic villagers who risked their lives to keep him safe from surrounding Taliban warriors. A born and raised Texan, Marcus Luttrell takes us from the rigors of SEAL training, where he and his fellow SEALs discovered what it took to join the most elite of the American special forces, to a fight in the desolate hills of Afghanistan for which they never could have been prepared. His account of his squadmates' heroism and mutual support renders an experience that is both heartrending and life-affirming. In this rich chronicle of courage and sacrifice, honor and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers a powerful narrative of modern war.

Lone Survivor

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Simon Winchester

Typical yellowing. Name written on it. Pages and spine are great. 

A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale, " this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary genius, madness, and the making of the"Oxford English Dictionary."

The Professor and the Madman

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Ian McEwan

Only thing keeping it from being new is yellowing and basic shelfwear. 

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

Atonement

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Douglas Adams

Pages and spine are great. Cover is not. 

When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest-and late-client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record "Hot Potato"? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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John Berendt

Pages and spine are in good shape. Name on edge. Basic shelf wear. 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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Charles. Dickens

Frederick Busch

Jane Smiley

Good shape paperback. Sitting on shelf for years. 

Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.

Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education- facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family.

Filled with memorable characters and scenes, Hard Times is a daring novel of ideas-and, ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and imagination.

With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
and an Afterword by Jane Smiley

Hard Times

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Read once. Been sitting on a shelf for years. Name written on edge. 

Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Andre Dubus

Back cover has a missing corner. Otherwise pages and spine are clean. 

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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Stephen King

Pages and spine are solid. Basic yellowing. Back cover is ripped and in rough shape. 

After Flagg, the evil court magician, sees a mouse chance upon a grain of dragon sand behind Prince Peter's shelves and die--as did the king--in fire and smoke, he plots to imprison Peter in the Needle and seize control of the kingdom. Reissue.

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James A. Michener; Jean-Paul Tremblay

Centennial

Thomas Mann

Death in Venice

Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake

Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff

Atlas Shrugged

George Orwell

1984

Dalton Trumbo

Johnny Got His Gun

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot

Arthur C. Clarke

The Wind from the Sun

Arthur C. Clarke

2061: Odyssey Three

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

Herbert Franke

Heretics of Dune

Herbert Franke

Chapterhouse: Dune

Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land

Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler's Wife

Marcus Luttrell; Patrick Robinson

Lone Survivor

Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

Ian McEwan

Atonement

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Charles. Dickens; Frederick Busch; Jane Smiley

Hard Times

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Andre Dubus

House of Sand and Fog

Stephen King

The Eyes of the Dragon

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