Gratitude and Sass Staff

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

One Minute a Day of Gratitude and Sass: a Daily Gratitude Journal for Badass Women Who Take No Shit

Fuck All Y'All

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He Liyi

Claire Anne Chik

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Villager's Life

He Liyi belongs to one of China's minorities, the Bai, and he lives in a remote area of northwestern Yunnan Province. In 1979 his wife sold her fattest pig to buy him a shortwave radio. He spent every spare moment listening to the BBC and VOA in order to improve the English he had learned at college between 1950 and 1953. For “further practice,” he decided to write down his life story in English. Humorous and unfiltered by translation, his autobiography is direct and personal, full of richly descriptive images and phrases from his native Bai language.At the time of He Liyi's graduation, English was being vilified as the language of the imperialists, so the job he was assigned had nothing to do with his education. In 1958 he was labeled a rightist and sent to a “reeducation-through-labor farm.” Spirited away by truck on the eve of his marriage, Mr. He spent years in the labor camp, where he schemed to garner favor from the authorities, who nevertheless shamed him publicly and told him that all his problems “belong to contradictions between the people and the enemy.” After his release in 1962, the talented Mr. He had no choice but to return to his native village as a peasant. His stratagems for survival, which included stealing “nightsoil” from public toilets and extracting peach-pit oil from thousands of peaches, personify the peasant's universal struggle to endure those difficult years.He Liyi's autobiography recounts nearly all the major events of China's recent history, including the Japanese occupation, the Communist victory over the Nationalists in 1949, Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, the experience of the labor camps, and changes brought about by China's dramatic re-opening to the world since Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978. No other book so poignantly reveals the travails of the common person and village life under China's tempestuous Communist government, which He Liyi ironically refers to as “Mr. China.” Yet he describes his saga of poverty and hardship with humor and a surprising lack of bitterness. And rarely has there been such an intimate, frank view of how a Chinese man thinks and feels about personal relationships, revealed in dialogue and letters to his two wives.

Mr. China's Son

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Dean Koontz

In this terrifying novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz reveals the darkness in a woman's mind--and the killer lurking there...

Mary Bergen aids the police in solving crimes, those that have happened and those that are about to. Now this gifted clairvoyant is using her psychic gift to help track a serial killer. But something terrible from Mary's past has been invading her dreams and she is haunted by the sound of leathery wings. The killer knows secrets even she has locked away. Knows about the torture she was administered at the hands of a psycho when she was a little girl. And he is coming for her next.

The Vision

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Debra Kent

British edition. Beginning to yellow. See photos. 

Suburban wife and mother, Julia Flanagan is good to a fault. She always plays by the rules, does what she's told and puts her family first. To be honest, her life's become rather dull - and her sex life is humdrum, to say the least. But all that changes when Julia's best friends dare her to start living dangerously. At first, she only breaks little rules - mixing her recyclables, illegally downloading music - but when Julia meets a handsome professor at work, she finds that having started to live dangerously it's hard to stop...

Wife Living Dangerously

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Tiffany Baker

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake.

June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant ne'er-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her--and the town--nothing but grief.

June will do anything to cover up a dark secret she discovers after the crash, one that threatens to upend her picture-perfect life, even if it means driving the Snow family out of town. But she has never gone up against a force as fierce as the young Mercy Snow. Mercy is determined to protect her rebellious brother, whom the town blames for the accident, despite his innocence. And she has a secret of her own. When an old skeleton is discovered not far from the crash, it beckons Mercy to solve a mystery buried deep within the town's past.

Mercy Snow

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James Kelman

Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life – an intelligent, funny and humane novel.

The Busconductor Hines

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Michael Crichton

Richard Preston

Expected wear on edges and spine. Black marker spot on inside front cover. See photos. 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here, seven brilliant graduate students recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power—armed only with their knowledge of the natural world—they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself to survive. Melding scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction in vintage Michael Crichton fashion—completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston—Micro is an instant classic of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

Micro

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Anita Diamant

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-workingyouth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting,The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society.


The Red Tent

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Go Fuck Yourself I’m Coloring

Charlotte McGuinn Freeman

During a day hike in the Desolation Wilderness of the Sierra Nevada, the Baker family's life turns upside down when the youngest, a six year-old girl with Down Syndrome, disappears while playing hide-and-seek with her brother. Place Last Seen follows the paths of two stories--the Rescue and Search team's efforts to find Maggie and her family's attempts to come to terms with their loss. Clear, moving, and never sentimental, Place Last Seen explores the complicated bonds of family life.

Place Last Seen

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Stefan Spjut

Susan Beard

Cover has wear on the edges. See photos. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

What If Something Is out There?

In the summer of 1978, a young boy disappears without a trace from a cabin in the woods of Sweden. His mother claims he was abducted by a giant. Twenty-five-years later and the sightings of terrifying creatures lurking in the dark have returned. Print run 1,500.

Stallo

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Lily Burana

A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

The ultimate road trip; a daring and disarmingly honest odyssey across America with an ex-stripper who dusts off her dancing shoes for a farewell tour.

Lily Burana had been working as a journalist for five years when, on a cross-country assignment, she meets a cowboy in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They fall in love quickly, and in short order he proposes to her. Her cowboy doesnt flinch when she tells him about her past, but as the reality of the engagement sets in, Burana realizes that she cant settle down until she comes to terms with the business of stripping--the controversial but exhilarating crucible in which she came of age. She packs up a hairpiece, hairspray, Lucite platforms, garters, neon thongs, and body glitter, and enrolls in a stripping academy to perfect her routine. Zigzagging across America from the topflight gentlemens clubs of Dallas to the blue-collar go-go bars of New Jersey, from Anchorage to Tijuana, Las Vegas to Los Angeles, she even competes in the Miss Topless Wyoming competition. Along the way, she seeks out a host of colorful women who share with her the unwritten history of striptease: an over-looked and under-recorded American art form. And what she discovers--about the business, about the culture of strip clubs, and about herself--is truly remarkable.

While on the road, she recalls her start in the peep shows of Times Square and her groundbreaking legal battle for strippers rights, waged against one of the most notorious strip club owners in the country. With the benefit of her independence and experience, shes shocked to learn how much, yet how little, the world of striptease has changed. Insightful and reflective, Burana describes the clubs and bars, the patrons and other dancers in striking detail, and takes us into the nitty-gritty of a dancers life, bringing to light the variety of techniques and tricks of the trade.

Burana writes with immediacy and candor; hard-won wisdom and hard-bitten humor; a novelists voice and a journalists eye. Strip City is a shrewd take, free of illusion, on the darker, seamier side of America. She effortlessly conveys the atmosphere of a seedy strip joint; the exhilaration of a dancer on stage when she gets into her zone; and ultimately the complex emotional repercussions that arise when a woman takes off her clothes for money.

Strip City

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Hester Rumberg

Judith Sleavin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to Survive

Recounts the inspirational survival story of Judith Sleavin, who survived a sailboat accident that killed the rest of her family and rendered her paralyzed and subject to post-traumatic stress disorder. 50,000 first printing.

Ten Degrees of Reckoning

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Creature From the Black Lagoon Lives

Ray Blackston

Blackston presents a tongue-in-cheek look at contemporary culture as seen through the eyes of an unwary pagan screenwriter who writes a hit about the last unbeliever on Earth navigating in a thoroughly Christian world.

A Pagan's Nightmare

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Joan Elizabeth Lloyd

Edges are smudgy or I would rate it excellent. See photos. 

The owner of a highly successful business that caters to the desires of the rich and powerful, Erika Holland's world is filled with sensual enounters and new experiences where anything is possible, but the one man Erika wants more than anything is out of her reach until she unleashes an erotic campaign to make him hers. Original. 20,000 first printing.

The Price of Pleasure

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Gary Rosberg

Barbara Rosberg

Gary and Barbara Rosberg, a dynamic husband-and-wife team, share surprising new research about the unique needs of men and women. In this popular book (over 15,000 sold in hardcover), Gary talks to women, and Barbara talks to men about the top five love needs of men and women. Readers will discover how truly unique men and women are. The Rosbergs' honesty, vulnerability, and practical suggestions inspire couples to new levels of sacrificial, Christlike love.

The 5 Love Needs of Men and Women

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Sam Wyly

Andrew Wyly

Walter Isaacson

In this astute and provocative look at Texan policies, history, and culture, Sam and Andrew Wyly unpack the secrets behind the swagger. Discover how the Lone Star State has become an economic powerhouse and the number-one place to move in the country.

Texas Got It Right!

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Linda Jaivin

See pictures. Great shape, beginning to yellow. 

Four friends, Julia, Chantal, Helen, and Philippa, discuss their sexual experiences, but increasingly veer off into fantasy

Eat Me

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Rowland Bercy

It was alive, confused, and pissed! It could not understand why it was violently separated from its host and left to rot. Following an undeniable call to pursue the one who abandoned it and seek revenge, the quest for retribution had begun, and nothing or no one would stand in the way.

Unbortion

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Kitty Fitzgerald

Born with a disfigurement, Jack Plum is isolated, except for the basement 'Pigtopia' built with his father's help. Jack gives Holly Lock, a sensitive teenager, a piglet at the beginning of their friendship.

Pigtopia

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David Haviland

A latest entry in the series that includes Why Dogs Eat Poop presents a new treasury of nose-wrinkling medical facts, from the premise behind urine therapy to the potential side effects of flying with breast implants. Original.

Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar and Other Oddball or Gross Maladies, Afflictions, Remedies, and "Cures"

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Jim Dawson

A Cultural History of the Fart

A humorous look at the influence of flatulence in religion, science, music, literature, television, film, and radio

Who Cut the Cheese?

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Mojha Kahf

Growing up devoutly Muslim in her 1970s Indiana community, Syrian immigrant Najla Shamy and her siblings struggle to balance the cultures of America and their family, a coming-of-age challenge that the adult Najla remembers years later when she reconnects with friends from other mixed heritages. Original.

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