Dara McAnulty

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

A BuzzFeed "Best Book of June 2021"

From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara's Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring―when "the sparrows dig the moss from the guttering and the air is as puffed out as the robin's chest―these diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are vivid, evocative, and moving.

As well as Dara's intense connection to the natural world, Diary of a Young Naturalist captures his perspective as a teenager juggling exams, friendships, and a life of campaigning. We see his close-knit family, the disruptions of moving and changing schools, and the complexities of living with autism. "In writing this book," writes Dara, "I have experienced challenges but also felt incredible joy, wonder, curiosity and excitement. In sharing this journey my hope is that people of all generations will not only understand autism a little more but also appreciate a child's eye view on our delicate and changing biosphere."

Winner of the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and already sold into more than a dozen territories, Diary of a Young Naturalist is a triumphant debut from an important new voice.

Diary of a Young Naturalist

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James Garvey

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Hidden Industry That Wants to Change Your Mind

In a philosophical polemic in the tradition of On Bullshit, James Garvey mourns the death of proper debate and reminds us of the value of rational argument. Philosopher James Garvey--described by the Guardian as having "a delicious style, often very funny, and a trick of ushering the reader right inside his thought experiments"--writes clearly and entertainingly about the dangers we face when we lose our grip on persuasion by rational means. But The Persuaders isn't just a requiem for rationality. It's a call to think again about the way we think now.

The Persuaders

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Elizabeth Rudnick

A deluxe novelization of the Walt Disney Studios film Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie. This visually dazzling live action film explores the origins of one of the most iconic Disney villains: Maleficent, the infamous fairy who curses Princess Aurora in Disney's animated classic Sleeping Beauty. This "origin" story is told from Maleficent's perspective, intersecting with the classic in both familiar and unexpected ways. The movie stars Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, and is directed by two-time Oscar-winning production designer Robert Stromberg (Avatar, Alice in Wonderland). The film co-stars Elle Fanning (Super 8) as the Princess Aurora, and features Sharlto Copley (District 9), Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Juno Temple (Atonement).

Maleficent

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Nicholas Bornoff

SKU#A2 Personal property stamped on first page and 2 sides. She pictures for condition.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Japan - National Geographic Traveler

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Christopher Somerville

This new edition offers the latest information on historic sites, city highlights, scenic drives, walking tours, and more--from London's venerable Westminster Abbey to John Lennon's boyhood home in Liverpool as well as the distinctive countries of Scotland and Wales.

National Geographic Traveler: Great Britain

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E. L. James

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.

Fifty Shades Darker (Movie Tie-In Edition)

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Becky Albertalli

Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford! William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist "A remarkable gift of a novel."—Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle "I am so in love with this book."—Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still "Feels timelessly, effortlessly now."—Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever "The best kind of love story."—Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met. Incredibly funny and poignant, this twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming out story—wrapped in a geek romance—is a knockout of a debut novel by Becky Albertalli.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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Founders of the Middle Ages (Antique) 1957

Julie Garwood

A Novel

"Action, drama, desire, revenge: Shadow Music includes all the necessary ingredients for romantics to plunge into the moors, mountains and magical myth of medieval Scotland."--The Roanoke Times

Prized for her exquisite beauty, Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel, the daughter of one of England's most influential barons, is a perfect bargaining chip for a king who needs peace in the Highlands: King John has arranged Gabrielle's marriage to a good and gentle laird. But this marriage will never take place. 

Upon her arrival in Scotland, Gabrielle is immediately entangled in Highland intrigue, as a battle royal flares between enemies old and new. For two sadistic noblemen, underestimating Gabrielle's bravery and prowess may prove fatal. Colm MacHugh, the most feared man in Scotland, makes no such mistakes about the captivating princess. Under his penetrating gaze, neither Gabrielle's body nor her heart is safe.

"No one does historical romance better than Garwood. . . . Gabrielle is an enchanting heroine."--The State (Columbia, S.C.)

"A compelling historical romance."--Publishers Weekly

Shadow Music

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Guillermo del Toro

Chuck Hogan

It has a pencil mark and a Personal Property stamp on the side as pictured, or I would have listed as "Like New." SKU #A6

Book Two of the Strain Trilogy

Last week they invaded Manhattan. . . . This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control's team—leads a band of survivors determined to put an end to these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may already be too late. Powerless and vulnerable, caught in the middle of a war between Old and New World vampires, humans find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. And an ancient text containing the vampires' darkest secrets will control the fate of us all.

The Fall

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Telaina Eriksen

Former Purchased Library Stock. Plastic Durable Dust Cover. Crisp, Clean Pages except for first page stamped by Library. See all pictures above for conditions.  SKU #A2

A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child (LGBT Book, Child Is Transgender or LGBTQ+)

In seventh grade, my now 20-year-old daughter came to my husband and I and said that she, "might like girls." Unlike made-for-television movies, I hadn't known or secretly suspected that she was gay. Even though I have many family and friends who are gay, including my sister who identifies as lesbian and my niece who identifies as bisexual, I still was taken by surprise and had immediate concerns and questions about parenting a child who was "different." This book is a combination of our story, other parents' stories and research as well as anecdotal evidence showing the strong need for familial support for LGBTQ children to be successful and emotionally healthy in our still very biased world.

Unconditional

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Masha Rumer

SKU #A6 Plastic Cover for durability. Former purchased Library Book.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children

A blend of on-the-ground reporting and personal anecdotes that weaves a tapestry of the immigrant experience, multicultural parenting, and identity in the US

Through her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it's like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.

With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. She visits a children's Amharic class at an Ethiopian church in New York, a California vegetable farm, a Persian immersion school, and more. Through these stories, she opens a window to a world of parenting unique to multicultural families. Immigrant readers will appreciate Rumer's gentle message about the kind of ethnic and cultural ambivalence that is born of having roots planted in many different soils, while in these pages non-immigrants get a fly-on-the-wall view of the unique experiences of newcomers.

Deeply researched yet personal, Parenting with an Accent centers immigrants and their experiences in a new country--emphasizing how immigrants and their children remain an integral part of America's story.

Parenting with an Accent

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Jim Nelson Black

Georges Sada

How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein

"An insider exposes plans to destroy Israel, hide WMDs, and control the Arab world"--Cover.

Saddam's Secrets

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Stephen King

The author of Bag of Bones presents a story about how men experience memories and find their courage, in a tale of stark survival and heroism in the face of a haunted past.

Dreamcatcher

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Allan Sherman

Plastic Cover. Some small discrepancies as Pictured. Slight bend in Book from Laying on its back. Needs to be sat upright. Please see pictures for conditions. In excellent shape for a vintage find. All pages chrisp and clean. Sku #66

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

(the Official History of the Sex Revolution, 1945-1973 : the Obscening of America, an R. S. V. P. (Redeeming Social Value Pornography) Document

The Sex Revolution is over - and we won! Sure, there are a few isolated pockets of propriety still to be mopped up, but most of the wholesome, clean-living people have taken to the hills. Tomorrow belongs to us, the Dirty-Minded Americans, and there are more of us than even we dared to dream. This book is an official battle-by-battle history of the American Sex Revolution. It documents the names, dates and scandalous events. And, it dispels some myths. For example, it proves once and for all that the younger generation could not have started the Revolution. The first shot was fired November 10, 1945-long before they were born. The Sex Revolution was started by the Americans who went through puberty before World War II. (But at the time, we had to call it the S_x Revolution; that's how uptight things were then.) One chapter, entitled, "Short Chapter, Long Footnote" consists of just the single word "F*ck" followed by an asterisk. The "Long Footnote" goes on for 20 more pages as he excruciatingly scrutinizes (no pun intended) the four-letter word, providing its possible origins, and our different ways of saying this forbidden word (like saying "screwed" or "I'm seeing him") without actually saying it. Sherman confesses that the word held such power over him personally, that he devoted nearly three full pages of this book to just typing the word again and again and again, until after about the 487th time of typing it, he found he wasn't nearly so traumatized by it anymore. "The Rape of the APE: the Official History of the Sex Revolution" is written by comedian (and self-proclaimed sex symbol) Allan Sherman, most famous for his hit single "Hello, Muddah! Hello, Fadduh! - A Letter from Camp Granada" -- a summer camp anthem which is still being sung 50+ years later.

The Rape of the APE* (*American Puritan Ethic) Vintage 1973

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Margaret Sayers Peden

Library Book that I purchased. Hard Plastic Cover for Durability. Excellent shape. All pages Crisp and Clean. Except for the word Discard on First Cover Page and side. (As pictured) SKU #A6.  This is in English.

"Ranging from the literature of colonialism and conquest to a contemporary look at Mexican life and letters, the book presents a cross-section of Mexican authors' thoughts on writing, including works by Carlos Fuentes, Bernardo de Balbuena, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, and others"--Provided by publisher.

Mexican Writers on Writing

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Alena Dillon

Formally Purchased Library Books. This Book has Never been cracked open to read. Stursy Plastic Cover. SKU A6

An Ordinary Story of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

My Body Is A Big Fat Temple is a memoir that charts the emotional journey of becoming a mother with humor and honesty, as well as investigating the natal shortcomings of our culture. It tracks Dillon, a writer in her thirties, as she debates having children, and then suffers a miscarriage, morning sickness, physical changes and impairments, anxiety, labor and delivery, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting during a plague, and finally blossoming into her new identity as a mother. This isn't the airbrushed billboard for motherhood women are too-often presented to preserve the sacred image of Madonna and Baby. Dillon prepares her readers for what to really expect--dry heaves, belly hair, dark nipples, crotch lightning, sweat, pain, delirium, lots of tears, and ultimately joy--so the odyssey is given its fair due. The cost of creating life is astronomical. It requires resilience and strength (and lots of bathroom breaks). But more importantly, these truths need to be shared in order to normalize them. With more stories like these, women with reservations for motherhood, and those in the midst of its fever dream, won't feel so alone. Pregnancy is a human imperative, endured by so many, and yet there is very little narrative nonfiction on the topic--I looked--which only makes the experience more isolating. The stories of women matter. The stories of mothers matter. Let's make ourselves heard.

My Body Is a Big Fat Temple

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A Book of Sacred Images from the Bhakti, or devotional Traditions of Yoga. Sacred Art is meant to open the Worlds of 3 dementions and the Spirit. Beautiful Full Color Pictures.SKU#A2

Avatar Art (Neo Vedic Paintings Celebrating Life) Rare

Mary Beth Norton

Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia. Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers & Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor, strangeness, and unruly passion. "An important, imaginative book. Norton destroys our nostalgic image of a 'golden age' of family life and re-creates a more complex past whose assumptions and anxieties are still with us."--Raleigh News and Observer

Founding Mothers and Fathers

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Amie Kaufman

Jay Kristoff

The electrifying conclusion to the "New York Times"-bestselling series that began in "Illuminae" and continues in "Gemina." With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken.

Obsidio

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Rick Brinkman

How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

This guide identifies ten types of difficult people on the job, including tanks, snipers, grenades, know-it-alls and think-they-know-it-alls. It shows how to get results with each type and explains: how difficult people think, what they fear and why they act as they do; why difficulty is in the eye of the beholder; and how to cultivate nine take-charge skills that turn conflict into cooperation. The book contains humorous cartoons and should help boost teamwork.

Dealing with People You Can't Stand

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Harlan Cohen

And 107 Other Issues You Might Run into in College

The #1 book on college life with over 125,000 copies sold, completely updated and revised.

The Naked Roommate

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Irene Spencer

My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

'Shattered Dreams' is Irene Spencer's true story of 28 tumultuous years in a 'plural marriage' in which she was one of ten wives.

Shattered Dreams

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M. G. Lord

Traces the history of the Barbie doll from her origins in postwar Germany to the present, noting her parallel development with women's movements

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