Darrell D. Lau

Lao Tzu

The spine and cover is beaten up but the binding is intact. Otherwise the book is fine. Smoke free home. Pet free home.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Presents the sacred teachings of Taoism, including lessons on simple living, contentment, and prizing culture.

Tao Te Ching

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Janet Quin-Harkin

Wear and tear from age book holds up well. Writing from before me owner on the back of the cover page. Smoke free home. Pet free home.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Date for Saturday Night

Julie's schoolmates are impressed by the good-looking guy she was with. For the first time in her life she's the center of the "in" group. Will they find out that Danny is only her cousin?

Wanted

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Christine Husom

Very little blemishes. Mostly minor wear from existing. No pet home. Smoke free home.



The national bestselling author of Snow Way Out returns with more sparkling snow globes and cold-blooded murder...
It's that time of the year again-the Christmas rush is about to begin, and curio shop owner Camryn Brooks and her BFF, coffee shop owner Alice "Pinky" Nelson, need to hire additional help. Their former high-school classmate, Molly Dalton, is not exactly who they had in mind. Has the rich socialite worked a day in her life? But Molly practically begs for the job.
On her first day, Molly seems to be in her own little world, and Cami worries that her new employee may flake out. The problem turns out to be far worse than that when Cami discovers Molly dead in the back of the shop, after drinking a poisoned cup of coffee. Soon there is an avalanche of suspects as Cami starts shoveling through the clues-including a shattered snow globe of Marilyn Monroe. Now Cami will have to venture out of her safety zone before the pathological poisoner stirs up more trouble...
Snow globe-making projects and tips included!


The Iced Princess

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Lynsay Sands

You already know I didn’t read this book. Idk. I did however remove a giant sticker that’s been on it for years. Pro tip if you got a nurse friend that works in the hospital have them get you some adhesive remover because they’re amazing. Creases abound. Everywhere. On the outside that is because the inside is flawless. No pet home. No smoke home. Smoke free.

Also sidebar; idk who the author thought she was fooling. Regency romance is always like I don’t want to marry this old and or ugly dude. I want to marry this outrageously hot man. 

"Lynsay Sands spins a funny, laughable tale." --Eloisa James on Taming the Highland Bride Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, had been warned that Lady Clarissa Crambray was dangerous. From stomping on toes to setting wigs on fire, the stunning beauty was clearly a force to be reckoned with. Still, he's in need of a wife and is sure he can handle one woman and her "unfortunate past." Intrigued by the mysterious vixen, he soon discovers he's greatly underestimated the lady... Clarissa would like to find a husband, but perhaps not as much as her stepmother would like one for her. The woman has forbidden Clarissa from wearing her spectacles so she can look prettier, but how is she to see her potential suitors? Besides, she's already caused enough mayhem to earn a rather horrible nickname. Just when she is about to give up hope of anyone asking her to dance, a man comes to lead her to the dance floor...a dark, handsome blur of a man.

Love Is Blind

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Emily March

Well loved. Not by me. I won one of the books in this series in a giveaway and liked it a lot so I bought the rest which was a mistake. Creases everywhere by the front and back cover. Stains but no water damage. Ultimately the book is fine. No pet home. Smoke free home.

An Eternity Springs Novel

As their lives come together in Eternity Springs, Colorado, ex-college basketball coach Lucca Romano and schoolteacher Hope Montgomery seek to find peace from their own personal demons. Original.

Miracle Road

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Leslie Budewitz

This mass market has been read but not by me. The spine is shockingly in pristine condition but there is creases on the front and back cover. Pet free home. Smoke free home.

As the national bestselling Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries continue, the merchants of Jewel Bay, Montana, try to heat up chilly winter business with a new film festival. But their plans are sent reeling when a dangerous killer dims the lights on a local vendor... In an attempt to woo tourists to Jewel Bay and cheer up the townies, Erin Murphy, manager of the specialty local foods market known as the Merc, is organizing the First Annual Food Lovers’ Film Festival, filled with classic foodie flicks and local twists on favorite movie treats. But when her partner in planning, painter Christine Vandeberg, is found dead only days before the curtain rises, Erin suspects someone is attempting to stop the films from rolling. To make matters worse, Nick—Erin’s brother and Christine’s beau—has top billing on the suspect list. Convinced her brother is innocent and determined that the show must go on, Erin has to find who’s really to blame before Nick gets arrested or the festival gets shut down. But the closer she gets to the killer, the more likely it becomes that she’ll be the next person cut from the program... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

Butter off Dead

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Stephanie Bond

Idk man mass markets are really fragile. More fragile than my cactus that I was made a fool of by believing that they’re sturdy plants. Like I haven’t touched this book since I bought it. In fact I’m convinced no one has read this book ever because the moment you read a mass market paperback they look like they’ve been chewed by a dog with no teeth. Anyway cosmetic blemishes to the spine that are not creases. No pet home. Smoke free home.

3 Men and a Body

Carlotta Wren desperately needs a vacation from her life. So when hunky Cooper Craft invites her to ride with him to Florida for some fun in the sun and a VIP body pickup, it seems like the opportunity she's been waiting for.

Until her brother Wesley, eluding an irate loan shark, tags along to play chaperone...

Until they arrive to pick up their VIP body and are greeted by three different men--each one laying claim to the celebutante they've been hired to move...

And until Carlotta realizes that someone is very determined that they don't make it back to Atlanta with their famous cargo intact!



Body Movers

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Jane. Austen

Deidre Shauna Lynch

This book is vintage—older than me—from 1968. Some very minor blemishes on the ends of the spine. It legitimately looks like no one has read it. Including me. I didn’t read it. Signet Classic. Priced it as I saw other prices of it online.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

Persuasion

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Fern Michaels

Some damage to the edge of the front cover that is visible in the picture. Pet free home. Smoke free home.

The Sisterhood- a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . .


When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it's Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three children clustered together-bedraggled, silent, and scared out of their wits. As soon as he has brought the children to safety, Espinosa arranges an urgent meeting.

Charles, Abner, Jack, Dennis, Harry and the rest of the crew gather at BOLO headquarters to hear a shocking story that confirms their worst suspicions. Many more children are still in danger. But in order to protect and avenge the victims, the team must use more cunning than ever before. With so many vulnerable young lives at stake, one mistake would be too many . . .
Praise for Fern Michaels

"The Men of the Sisterhood series has it all . . . Michaels manages to surprise and delight fans of all ages with her novel's unexpected twists and turns."
-RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars, on High Stakes

Truth or Dare

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Robin LaFevers

Some damage to the bottom of the dust jacket from sitting on a shelf. Deckled edges. Pet free home. Smoke free home.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.

Courting Darkness

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Sarah Perry

Minor damage to the edges of the dusk jacket from sitting on a shelf. It seems there’s a publishing defect as there’s a crease on the end page glued to the book. Deckled edges. Pet free home. Smoke free home.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

“Masterful…scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” —Washington Post For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .

Melmoth

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Cristina Alger

No noticeable blemishes. No pet home. Smoke free home. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Banker's Wife

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Liz Braswell

Wear from sitting on a shelf. Barely noticeable. Smoke free home. Pet free home.

A Twisted Tale

What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney's Aladdin. When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. Praise for A Whole New World: "A magic carpet ride of a book! A fun and unpredictable retelling of the classic Aladdin story, a must-read for all of us Disney fans!" -Melissa de la Cruz

A Whole New World

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Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Very minor imperfections to edge. Slight tear to back dust jacket. Some slight bend to dust jacket for sitting on shelf. Pet free home. Smoke free home.

"Exceptional. This surprising, exhilarating suspense-filled tale of revenge and redemption is hard to put down." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge.

When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history with, she is forced to reexamine her own past--and the romantic relationship that changed the course of her life--for answers. Can she find a way to claim her heritage while keeping her secrets buried, or will the fallout from digging too deep destroy her?

Set against a post #MeToo landscape, Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ingenue delves into mother-daughter relationships, the expectations of talent, the stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when the things that once made you special are taken from you. Moving between Saskia's childhood and the present day, this dark, contemporary fairy tale pulses with desire, longing, and uncertainty, as it builds to its spectacular, shocking climax.

The Ingenue

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Ava Reid

Wear from sitting on a shelf on the hardcover. Otherwise book is like new. Has certainly never been touched since I bought it. No pet home. Smoke free home.

"Achingly atmospheric and beautifully sharp, A Study in Drowning will draw you in from the first page." --Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls Bestselling author Ava Reid makes her YA debut in this dark academic fantasy perfect for fans of Melissa Albert and Elana K. Arnold. Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she's had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad--Emrys Myrddin's epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him--is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin's family announces a contest to redesign the late author's estate, Effy feels certain it's her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming. Including Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. As the two rivals piece together clues about Myrddin's legacy, dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspire against them--and the truth may bring them both to ruin. Part historical fantasy, part rivals-to-lovers romance, part Gothic mystery, and all haunting, dreamlike atmosphere, Ava Reid's powerful YA debut will lure in readers who loved The Atlas Six, House of Salt and Sorrows, or Girl, Serpent, Thorn.

A Study in Drowning

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Elizabeth Rudnick

Evan Spiliotopoulos

Stephen Chbosky

Bill Condon

Cover somewhat warped from water damage. No mold. No water damage to pages. Some dents on front cover as well. Smoke free home. No pet home.

Beauty and the Beast

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Eve Evans

Don’t fight me on the history category. I was going to mark it fiction but it’s talking about ghosts. Places where ghosts are is historical right? Some wear from reading and ownership. No pet home. Smoke free home.

Take your mind on a historic journey. Explore the stories and legends behind some of the world's most paranormal locations. Some of the tales you will find in this book involve: bloody apparitions, residual hauntings, objects moving by unseen forces, unexplainable temperature changes, entities on stairwells, a cursed road, a dungeon that held one hundred and fifty bodies and multiple other phenomenon.

Paranormal Places

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Marie Kondo

Some dents and an odd binding error in the back that doesn’t affect readability. No pet home. Smoke free home.

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Fuminori Nakamura

Kalau Almony

ARC. Advanced Readers Copy. Some wear from ownership minor crease on front cover. No pet home. Smoke free home.

Searching for a woman who suddenly vanished from his life, Narazaki comes upon a religious group centered on an odd old man - and upon their enemies, a cult preaching sexual liberation

Cult X

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Very minor wear from ownership. No pet home. Smoke free.

Finding Serendipity

Chad Lutzke

John Boden

Very minor wear from ownership observable from the photo. No pets. Smoke free home.

After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in search of work out west. But before their last stop, a traumatic event in an empty train car steers their once-hopeful journey into a path of chaos filled with deceit, murder, grave robbing, and dormant secrets.

The Bedmakers

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Elizabeth Cooke

Has an author signature on the first page but no indentations so I’m ultimately unsure if it’s signed or not. Some wear on the edge from sitting one a shelf. No pet home. Smoke free home.

Mimi's Paris dilemma overwhelms her. She feels desolate, unappreciated, her celebrity status lost. The Parisiennes, the women of Paris, have turned against her. They are sympathique to the fate of a woman incarcerated for murder and reject Mimi, who was instrumental in bringing about that fate.In this, Book Two of The Mimi Series, new crimes are committed. Mimi again is instrumental in helping solve them because of her sensitive petit nez, which pursues nasal clues where no human can follow.Where few are aware of how truly skillful the little dog is, they slowly come to realize her value, and Mimi's reputation is gradually restored to its full power.

Mimi's Paris Dilemma

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Some wear on the bottom from sitting on a shelf otherwise no blemishes. No smoke home. No pets.

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before."--Bustle NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * Tordotcom * The New York Public Library * BookRiot The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather's room. She opens it--and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea's demise, but success could make her dreams come true. In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City--and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld. Praise for Gods of Jade and Shadow "A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . a whirlwind tour of a 1920s Mexico vivid with jazz, the memories of revolution, and gods, demons, and magic."--NPR "Snappy dialog, stellar worldbuilding, lyrical prose, and a slow-burn romance make this a standout. . . . Purchase where Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, and N. K. Jemisin are popular."--Library Journal (starred review) "A magical novel of duality, tradition, and change . . . Moreno-Garcia's seamless blend of mythology and history provides a ripe setting for Casiopea's stellar journey of self-discovery, which culminates in a dramatic denouement. Readers will gladly immerse themselves in Moreno-Garcia's rich and complex tale of desperate hopes and complicated relationships."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Gods of Jade and Shadow

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Elizabeth Bard

Some bending at the end of random pages from use. No pet home. No smoke home.

A Love Story, with Recipes

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? LUNCH IN PARIS is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Packing her bags for a new life in the world's most romantic city, Elizabeth is plunged into a world of bustling open-air markets, hipster bistros, and size 2 femmes fatales. She learns to gut her first fish (with a little help from Jane Austen), soothe pangs of homesickness (with the rise of a chocolate soufflé) and develops a crush on her local butcher (who bears a striking resemblance to Matt Dillon). Elizabeth finds that the deeper she immerses herself in the world of French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate. French culture, she discovers, is not unlike a well-ripened cheese-there may be a crusty exterior, until you cut through to the melting, piquant heart. Peppered with mouth-watering recipes for summer ratatouille, swordfish tartare and molten chocolate cakes, Lunch in Paris is a story of falling in love, redefining success and discovering what it truly means to be at home. In the delicious tradition of memoirs like A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, this book is the perfect treat for anyone who has dreamed that lunch in Paris could change their life.

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