Mary Towne

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

A cheerleader and a football player begin a relationship that is the envy of their peers, but they come to realize they don't really know each other at all.

Supercouple

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Some damage to spine. Yellowed from age. #paperback #oldie #dede #middleschool #kids #adventure #chapterbook #80s #kids #ya

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

DeDe Takes Charge

Francine Pascal

Oklahoma

Hard Choices - Sweet Valley High - 1988

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George Warren has been looking forward to taking his girlfriend, Enid Rollins, as a passenger on his first licensed flight. But George loses control of the plane and is forced to make a crash landing.

Crash Landing! - Sweet Valley High - 1985

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80s Trivia Quiz is the ultimate book for pop culture afficionados who wish they could take a DeLorean back to 1985! With 600 80s Trivia Quiz questions over 85 themed rounds, this book is designed for both social trivia nights or solo quizzing and traverses the 4 pop culture topics of movies, music, TV, games and more.

Texas

80s Trivia Quiz

Jenny Pentland

Tennessee

A Memoir





A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame.



Growing up, Jenny Pentland's life was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. But that was only the beginning of the drama. Roseanne Barr's success as a comedian catapulted the family from the Rockies to star-studded Hollywood--with its toxic culture of money, celebrity, and prying tabloids that was destabilizing for a child in grade school. 

By adolescence, Jenny struggled with anxiety and eating issues. Her parents and new stepfather, struggling to help, responded by sending Jenny and her siblings on a grand tour of the self-help movement of the '80s--from fat camps to brat camps, wilderness survival programs to drug rehab clinics (even though Jenny didn't take drugs). Becoming an adult, all Jenny wanted was to get married and have kids, despite Roseanne's admonishments not to limit herself to being just a wife and mother. 

In this scathingly funny and moving memoir, Pentland reveals what it's like to grow up as the daughter of a television star and how she navigated the turmoil, eventually finding her own path. Now happily married and raising five sons on a farm, Pentland has worked tirelessly to create the stable family she never had, while coming to terms at last with her deep-seated anxiety. 

This Will Be Funny Later is a darkly funny and frank chronicle of transition, from childhood to adulthood and motherhood--one woman's journey to define herself and create the life she always wanted. 

This Will Be Funny Later

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More than an action packed novel! Includes 5 exciting programs for your computer!

Utah

Micro Adventure No. 2 - Jungle Quest

Across the Great Divide - 1980

Garry Mulholland

Cover is faded by the sun. Pages are pristine, like new. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco

Every one of these 500 songs, from “Anarchy in the UK” to “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” helped reshape popular music and culture. Illuminating essays pay tribute to their undeniable power. “Spaces pithy commentaries with sleeve and label art. With its in-your-face attitude and strong opinions, this is a good one.”—Booklist

This Is Uncool

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John Coyne

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

The Shroud

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Small tear in cover. Price sticker damage. Shelf wear.

"A devil in disguise. The Wakefield twins are wild with excitement. Glamorous, sophisticated Susan Devlin is coming to Sweet Valley from New York City. For two weeks, Elizabeth will show her around town while Jessica has the time of her life in New York. At first, Suzanne seems to be the most perfect girl in the world. She's beautiful and friendly and not the least bit stuck-up. All the boys of Sweet Valley are absolutely crazy about her. But when Suzanne accuses Mr. Collins of trying to seduce her, Elizabeth knows there's more to Suzanne than meets the eye.

Too Good to Be True - Sweet Valley High - 1984

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Merlyn Forrest Steele couldn't refuse the offer—work for a living for one month, and her father would stop his clumsy matchmaking attempts. Maybe she'd somehow find a man who had eyes for her, not her bank account, and meanwhile, she could prove she was no dilettante heiress.

So it was ironic that the first man to penetrate her defenses in her new life would be the one who was looking for just that…Not that she'd have the sardonic, arrogant Cameron Thorpe, even if he asked her. Let him go ahead and marry some insipid little heiress—he'd get exactly what he deserved…But why did this thought give Merlyn no comfort at all?

Lady Love

Pennsylvania

Dark Angel

Patricia Lee Gauch

Fridays

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Elizabeth Levy

Working at the Dome, a sports arena in New York City, during a pre-Olympic skating exhibition, Kelly meets two competitive male skaters whose lives become threatened by a string of mysterious accidents.

Cold As Ice

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Beverly Cleary

Hardcover. Pages are clean and tight. Cover may show slight shelf wear.

Wisconsin

Newbery Medal winner Beverly Cleary continues to amuse readers with her wonderful, blunderful Ramona Quimby! 

Life can move pretty fast--especially when you're in the third grade, your teenage sister's moods drive you crazy, and your mom has a suspicious secret she just won't share.

Plus, Mr. Quimby's new job offer could have the entire family relocating. It's a lot to handle for Ramona. But whatever trial comes her way, Ramona can count on one thing for sure--she'll always be Ramona...forever!

The classic Ramona books continue to make readers ages 6-12 smile in recognition and pleasure.

Ramona Forever

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Doogie Horner

California

The Illustrated Holiday Classic

A delightful Christmas storybook for adults based on the action-packed Die Hard movie 

All John McClane wants for Christmas is to reunite with his estranged family. But when his wife's office holiday party turns into a deadly hostage situation, he has to save her life before he can get home in time for Christmas!

The unconventional fan-favorite movie Die Hard is now an illustrated storybook--complete with machine guns, European terrorists, and a cop who's forced to rely on all his cunning and skills (and the help of a fellow officer) to save the day. Based on the classic "Night Before Christmas" poem and filled with whimsical illustrations, this cleverly reimagined homage is destined to become a holiday classic. 

*Contains adult material including violence and strong language. Reader discretion is advised. Ho-ho-ho.

A Die Hard Christmas

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#hardcover #1980s #vintage #weeklyreader #80s #christmas #holidays #santa #santaclaus #kids 

Oregon

Santa Claus: The Movie 

Zulema Renee Summerfield

Ohio

A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick A debut novel about an imaginative girl in the year following her parents' divorce, and what happens when her creeping premonition that something terrible will happen comes true in the most unexpected of ways. The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. EVERY OTHER WEEKEND drops us into the sun-scorched suburbs of southern California, amid Bret Michaels mania and Cold War hysteria, with Nenny, a wildly precocious, nervous nelly of an eight-year-old, as our guide to the newly rearranged life she finds herself leading after her parents split. Nenny and her mother and two brothers have just moved in with her new stepfather and his two kids. Her old life replaced by this new configuration, Nenny's natural anxieties intensify, and both real and imagined dangers entwine: earthquakes and home invasions, ghosts of her stepfather's days in Vietnam, Gorbachev knocking down the door of her third grade class and recruiting them all into the Red Army. Knock-kneed and a little stormy-eyed, she is far too small for the thoughts that haunt her, yet her fears are not entirely unfounded. Indeed, tragedy does come, but it comes at her sideways, in a way she never had imagined. With an irresistible voice, Summerfield has managed to tap the very truth of what it is to have been a child of her generation, bottle it, and serve it up in devastating, hilarious, heartfelt doses. EVERY OTHER WEEKEND beautifully and unsettlingly captures the terrible wisdom that children often possess, as well as the surprising ways in which families fracture and reform.

Every Other Weekend

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Jamie Suzanne

Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, along with their brother Steven, suspect their mother of having an affair with a younger man, and they are determined to find out the truth

Sweet Valley Twins #24: Jumping to Conclusions

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Andy Mulvihill

Jake Rossen

Read once. Memoir for the owners son of action park. If you live by it or seen the documentary you know it. 

New Jersey

Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park

"Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington Post The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son. Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures--sometimes with tragic results. Though it closed its doors in 1996 after nearly twenty years, it has remained a subject of constant fascination ever since, an establishment completely anathema to our modern culture of rules and safety. Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park's idiosyncratic founder, Gene Mulvihill. From his early days testing precarious rides to working his way up to chief lifeguard of the infamous Wave Pool to later helping run the whole park, Andy's story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son's struggle to understand his father's quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey. Packing in all of the excitement of a day at Action Park, this is destined to be one of the most unforgettable memoirs of the year.

Action Park

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#paperback  #romance #80s #bodiceripper # #Americanwest  #classicromance

Avenging Angel 

Quan Barry

A Novel

"Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials ... follows the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team, who will do anything to make it to the state finals-even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers"--

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