These books are just stunning, I highly recommend them. Of course check trigger warnings, and to each their own.

Robert C. O'Brien

This copy would be Like New except somebody put a paper over the back cover and then wrote on it with a pen or pencil. Left dents all over it. You can almost read what they wrote, but they overlapped quite a bit so it’d be like an archeology dig to sort out which layers went together. 
But, as you can see from the photo, there’s no damage to the back cover that takes away any of the image. It’s just dented. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alaska

Some extraordinary rats come to the aid of a mouse family in this Newbery Medal Award–winning classic by notable children’s author Robert C. O’Brien. Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

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Deesha Philyaw

Minnesota

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions. There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who has a crush on the preacher's wife. At forty-two, Lyra realizes that her discomfort with her own body stands between her and a new love. As Y2K looms, Caroletta's "same time next year" arrangement with her childhood best friend is tenuous. A serial mistress lays down the ground rules for her married lovers. In the dark shadows of a hospice parking lot, grieving strangers find comfort in each other. With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be, and as free as they deserve to be.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Looking for more books by the same author as The Great Gatsby, try this book out. Tragic Romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the couple Dick and Nicole Diver. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

A Novel

A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability

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