Kristy Woodson Harvey

This New York Times bestseller is rated 4.2 out of 5 on Goodreads. Fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Jennifer Weiner will thoroughly enjoy this book. 
Paperback in very good condition 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

This instant New York Times bestseller--that's "perfect for fans of beach reads, P.S. I Love You, and anything by authors Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand" (Country Living)-- follows two childhood friends who discover that love and family can be found in unconventional ways.

Recently separated Amelia Saxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed "abandoned," she's put in the unenviable position of telling Parker--and dredging up old wounds in the process.

Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of his beloved wife three years ago. He has all but forgotten about the frozen embryos, but once Amelia reveals her discovery, he knows that if he ever wants to get a part of Greer back, he'll need to accept his fate as a single father and find a surrogate.

Each dealing with their own private griefs, Parker and Amelia slowly begin to find solace in one another as they navigate an uncertain future against the backdrop of the pristine waters of their childhood home, Cape Carolina. The journey of self-discovery leads them to a life-changing lesson: family is always closer than you think.

"Deliciously plotted, intricately constructed, gorgeously written, and brimming with hope, Under the Southern Sky will steal your heart and make you think about first loves, second chances, and the unforeseeable twists of fate that guide us all" (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).

Under the Southern Sky

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The #1 New York Times best-selling series.

Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.   A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
 
“A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars

“With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly

“‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People

“You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen


Rated a very respectable 3.9 out of 5 on Goodreads, this book contains a sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Anna Bell

Very reminiscent of Sophia Kinsella’s style of humor and writing, this book is rated a very respectable 3.9 out of 5 on Goodreads

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Abseiling, wind-surfing, climbing a mountain - the things the terrified Abi Martin will do for love

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart

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Maria Semple

A Novel

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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ONE OF THE MILLIONS’ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024, NAMED BEST OF JUNE BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND BOOKRIOT, A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK, LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
 
“Like the work of Jackson Pollock, the novel reveals itself the longer one spends time with it. Keep looking, the chaos will start to show its pattern, its rhythm, its dimension and its awe-inspiring color.” - New York Times Book Review
 
“An astonishingly accomplished novel…Just stunning.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
A stirring, unsparing novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student that “reads like a direct communication from the soul,” (Justin Torres) from the virtuoso author of Sink. 

After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg prison for the statutory rape of his then-teenage mother. Meanwhile, he and his best friend Ray, a fellow vet, are alternatingly bonding over and struggling with their shared experience and return to civilian life, locked in their own rhythms of lust, heartbreak, and responsibility.

Balancing the joys and frustrations of single fatherhood, his studies, and ceaseless shifts at the hospital as he becomes closer than he ever imagined to his father, Joseph tries to articulate vernacular understandings of the sociopolitical struggles he recounts as participant-observer at home, against the assumptions of his friends and colleagues. GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER is a powerful examination of every day black life—of health and sex, race and punishment, and the gaps between our desires and our politics. 

Unread paperback Advanced Reader’s Copy in like new condition 

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

Jojo Moyes

This #1 New York Times bestseller is rated an impressive 4.3 out of 5 on Goodreads!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE WITHERSPOON X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon From the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture on Netflix, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic--a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.

The Giver of Stars

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Charlaine Harris

1st book of the Midnight, Texas series, which is now a new TV series on NBC.

Get ready for the second season of Midnight, Texas on NBC with the first book in Charlaine Harris' paranormal mystery series about a small town where only outsiders fit in...

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and the Davy highway. It's a pretty standard dried-up western town.

There's a pawnshop with three residents. One is seen only at night. There's a diner, but people stopping there tend not to linger. There's a newcomer, Manfred Bernardo, who just wants to work hard and blend in. But Manfred has secrets of his own...

Midnight Crossroad (TV Tie-In)

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DON'T MISS SEASON 2 OF MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVELS! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-stoplight town of Midnight, Texas, a place where no one is quite what they seem... There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, where the residents like to keep to themselves. When psychic Manfred Bernardo finds himself embroiled in a scandal and hounded by the press after one of his regular clients dies during a reading, he turns to enigmatic, beautiful, and dangerous Olivia Charity for help. Somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight... Includes an excerpt of Night Shift

Day Shift

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Lawrence J. Cohen

Rated 4.2 out of 5 on Goodreads, this book was the winner of The NAPPA 2001 Gold Award

An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence

A clinical psychologist presents an innovative, hands-on approach to using play in all facets of parenting, explaining how children use play to communicate feelings, get close to those they care about, help alleviate stressful situations, release tension, and foster emotional healing. Winner of the 2001 NAPPA Gold Award. Reprint.

Playful Parenting

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Elin Hilderbrand

Rated a respectable 3.9 out of 5, this book in fair-to-good condition from Elin Hilderbrand, “The Queen of Summer/Beach Reads” does not disappoint 

Identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike...or live more differently. Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking. Two beautiful islands only eleven miles apart. Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic fashion designer Eleanor Roxie-Frost. She's also inherited her mother's questionable parenting skills--Tabitha's teenage daughter, Ainsley, is in full rebellion mode--and a flailing fashion boutique on Nantucket in desperate need of a cash infusion. One unforgettable summer that will change their lives forever. After more than a decade apart, Harper and Tabitha switch islands--and lives--to save what's left of their splintered family. But the twins quickly discover that the secrets, lies, and gossip they thought they'd outrun can travel between islands just as easily as they can. Will Harper and Tabitha be able to bury the hatchet and end their sibling rivalry once and for all? Before the last beach picnic of the season, there will be enough old resentments, new loves, and cases of mistaken identity to make this the most talked-about summer that Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket have experienced in ages.

The Identicals

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Rated 4.- out of 5 on Goodreads, this sequel to The Surviving Sky has been noted as better than the 1st book

Advanced Reader’s Copy; Uncorrected Proof 

The Unrelenting Earth

Santa Montefiore

Rated 4.1 out of 5 on Goodreads, this International bestseller is the 1st book of a trilogy series

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Previously published as The Girl in the Castle

Ireland. The early twentieth century.

Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war.

Read their story -- and see why JOJO Moyes says that "Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore." 

Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill grows up in Castle Deverill, on the sunning green ghills of West Cork, Ireland -- the same place her ancestors have always dwelled. She isn't fully Irish, as the son of the local veterinarian likes to tease her; but this doesn't stop Kitty and Jack O'Leary from falling in love...

Bridie Doyle, daughter to Castle Deverill's cook, cherishes her friendship with Kitty. Yet she can't help dreaming of someday having wealth, having glamour, having... more. And when she discovers Kitty's darkest secret, Bridie finds herself growing to resent the girl in the castle who seems to have it all.

As Irish and British forces collide in Southern Ireland, Jack enlists to fight -- and Kitty throws herself into the cause for Irish liberty, running messages and ammunition between the rebels. But , her allegiance to her family and her friends will soon be tested... and when Castle Deverill comes under attack, the only home and life she's ever known are threatened.

A powerful story of love, loyalty, and friendship, The Girl in the Castle is an exquisitely written novel set against the magical, captivating landscape of Ireland -- perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY and KATE MORTON.

The Girl in the Castle

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V. E. Schwab

Rated 4.2 out of 5 on Goodreads, this is the very first fantasy book I ever read and devoured it!  Definitely on my top 20 faves lists.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.

Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine
#1 Library Reads Pick--October 2020
#1 Indie Next Pick--October 2020
BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST--Book of The Month Club

A "Best Of" Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Also by V. E. Schwab

Shades of Magic
A Darker Shade of Magic
A Gathering of Shadows
A Conjuring of Light

Villains
Vicious
Vengeful

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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Donna Tartt

One of my all time top 10 favorite books.  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; and the Malaparte Prize.

The movie does not do this #1 National bestseller justice at all.  

Unread paperback listed in like new condition due to the front cover corners having a small crease and 2 tiny tears at the bottom of the front cover and spine

The Goldfinch

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Sarah James

Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is The Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by the entertainment industry. Annie Laurence definitely hopes to rub elbows with the stars - maybe then she can get her movie made. After a devastating surprise breakup, she moved from New York to Hollywood to start her new life as a screenwriter of murder mysteries--only to learn that the controlling studio head thinks women can only write light romances. At her second night at the Canteen, however, a particularly vicious critic is murdered. Annie falls in with the critic's old friends, a bitter and cynical group--each as uniquely unhappy in their life and career as Annie is in hers--that call themselves the Ambassador's Club. Even though the critic's death is officially ruled a suicide, Annie comes to believe that one friend-- or maybe a disgruntled former friend-- is trying to off the group one by one. Unfortunately, that now includes her. "This vibrant, utterly delightful mystery expertly captures the drama, glamour and absurdity of wartime Hollywood. Sarah James's swift dialogue, dry wit and clever characters transport you into a 1940s movie, where the jokes are quick, the love affairs scandalous and the cast as charming as they are flawed. Underneath it all, James's deep knowledge of the era's movies and music lends an authenticity that makes the rest shine even brighter. I laughed, I gasped and I never wanted it to end. This should head straight to the top of every must-read list." --Brianna Labuskes, author of The Librarian of Burned Books

Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

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Jed Rubenfeld

Cleverly written, with great premise of Freud to perform psychoanalysis to solve the murder.  Book listed as in fair-to-good condition due to discoloration on several of the first and last pages

'Manhattan, 1909. On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York on his first --and only -- Visit to the United Sates, a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse appartment, high above Broadway. the following night, another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents' home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American disciple, Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her memory, and to piece together the killer's identity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit, and lead them on a thrilling journey -- into the darkest places of the city, and of the human mind' --rear cover.

The Interpretation of Murder

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Eowyn Ivey

Rated 4 out of 5 on Goodreads, this paperback book is in very good condition 

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

The Snow Child

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Jeff Wilser

"The author sprints through a broad range of topics--from coffee to green tea, tequila to Vitamin Water, to apologizing and swearing, [sifting] through each study to reveal everything from the merits of procrastination to the downsides of yoga"--Amazon.com.

The Good News about What's Bad for You - The Bad News about What's Good for You

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Laura Ingraham

Raymond Arroyo

America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots

Of Thee I Zing

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Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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Velma Wallis

Rated 4.1 out of 5 on Goodreads, this book is Winner of The 1993 Western States Book Award; as well as the Award Winner of the 1994 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award

Softcover book in VERY good condition; does have an inscription on one of thd 1st pages (see last picture)


An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

An Athabascan Indian of Alaska's Yukon flats, author Velma Wallis retells a classic legend wherein two old women are abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine and must survive on their own or die trying. A wise and simple story now in paperback. Winner of a 1993 Western State Book Award.

Two Old Women

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Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Rated an imposing 4.7 out of 5 on Goodreads, this daily devotional by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami leads iseekers to their ultimate self realization.

Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics

For fifty years Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami exemplified and taught the profound truths of yoga and Sanatana Dharma, guiding seekers to live fruitful, fulfilling spiritual lives and realize the Self within. Book jacket.

Merging with Siva

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Jeffrey Archer

First U.S. Edition
Each short story has “a red herring” buried within, waiting for the reader to uncover.  The last story has a choice of 4 endings!  

Here, from one of the world's greatest storytellers, are 12 tales of passion and intrigue that display Jeffrey Archer's renowned ability for the unpredictable yet satisfying twist. Just as he as done in his two previous bestselling short story collections, A Twist in the Tale and A Quiver Full of Arrows, Archer excites and amuses from start to finish.

Twelve Red Herrings

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Patrick Ness

This 3rd book of The Chaos Walking is rated 4.2 out of 5 on Goodreads

Chaos Walking: Book Three

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

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Under the Southern Sky

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Anna Bell

The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Joseph Earl Thomas

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

Jojo Moyes

The Giver of Stars

Charlaine Harris

Midnight Crossroad (TV Tie-In)

Charlaine Harris

Day Shift

Lawrence J. Cohen

Playful Parenting

Elin Hilderbrand

The Identicals

Kritika O. Rao

The Unrelenting Earth

Santa Montefiore

The Girl in the Castle

V. E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

Sarah James

Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

Jed Rubenfeld

The Interpretation of Murder

Eowyn Ivey

The Snow Child

Jeff Wilser

The Good News about What's Bad for You - The Bad News about What's Good for You

Laura Ingraham; Raymond Arroyo

Of Thee I Zing

Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Velma Wallis

Two Old Women

Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Merging with Siva

Jeffrey Archer

Twelve Red Herrings

Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men (with Bonus Short Story)

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