Erin Rhoads

Another reminder of how not to waste or at least minimize it. BUT- this book is simple, fun, practicle. A great discussion starter!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Simple Zero-Waste Inspiration 365 Days a Year

A waste-free lifestyle is actually achievable—for everyone, every budget and every schedule. Not ready to dive straight into composting, or to go totally plastic-free yet? Waste Not Everyday is your step-by-step, day-by-day guide to simple, progressive lifestyle changes that will have a big effect on what you throw out, and on the health of our planet. With tips, tricks, recipes, motivation and inspiration, Erin Rhoads, well-known author of Waste Not and passionate waste advocate, takes you on a gentle journey towards zero waste, day by day. Split into four easy-to-follow parts, Waste Not Everyday features 365 achievable daily changes that will lead to a genuine shift in thinking and action, motivational reminders to help you keep sight of the bigger picture, as well as daily, weekly and monthly mini-challenges to help you progress.

Waste Not Everyday

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James Joyce

Clean with exception of price sticker on back cover. A very good reading/study copy!

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of the twentieth century s great coming-of-age novels. "

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

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William Golding

Lois Lowry

Jennifer Buehler

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

Lord of the Flies

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Aljean Harmetz

Margaret Hamilton

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM

A look at the making of the 1938 movie classic and its forever-famous stars provides behind-the-scenes facts and a new preface updating the information provided

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

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Robert McGee

“A new life awaits you.”

Trade pbk, 2003, 300pages

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

A workbook for Christians offers advice on how to appreciate the love of Jesus Christ while achieving a sense of self-esteem that is not compromised by the opinions of others or negative beliefs. Simultaneous.

The Search for Significance

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Devotions for/with children- 201 2 page devotions!

Devotions for Children

At Home With Jesus

Fiona Bayrock

Perfectly clean! Amazing facts for kids AND adults!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pop into a hidden world of underwater animal behavior with this charmingly illustrated introduction to sixteen bubble-blowing animals. Bubbles are for popping, fishing, finding food—and for sailing, playing, and shooting hoops! Who knew animals used bubbles for so many different things? Learn about how the water spider builds a bubble home underneath the water, how snapping shrimp use bubbles to talk to each other, or how dolphins play with bubbles as if it’s a game. Whether they are riding, breathing, or making bubbles, one thing is for sure—animals use bubbles in amazing ways.

Bubble Homes and Fish FaRTs

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Seuss

A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist. Reissue.

Horton Hears a Who!

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Adam Mansbach

Go the F**K to Sleep

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Gill Thompson

'An outstanding book made more poignant as it's threaded with events that actually happened. The characters and their moving stories will haunt you long after you finish the last page' Shirley Dickson, author of The Orphan Sisters 'OH MY HEART! Moved me DEEP FROM WITHIN. I cannot recommend it enough' The Writing Garnet 'I was RIVETED... I LOVED the book *****' I'm Hooked on Books Inspired by the real-life escape of thousands of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe on the Kindertransport trains to London, the new novel from the author of The Oceans Between Us Gill Thompson. For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris, My Name is Eva by Suzanne Goldring and A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman. Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away - even if it means never seeing her again. But when Eva is taken to a concentration camp, her secret is at risk of being exposed. In London, Pamela volunteers to help find places for the Jewish children arrived from Europe. Befriending one unclaimed little girl, Pamela brings her home. It is only when her young son enlists in the RAF that Pamela realises how easily her own world could come crashing down. Some of the 5* reader reviews for THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE: 'Such a gorgeous book. I loved and believed in all the characters, and thoroughly enjoyed their stories. Incredibly researched, it felt authentic. And the ending moved me to tears *****' 'OMG What an incredible read. It was so emotional about a Jewish girl. I was engrossed from start to finish and would highly recommend this book *****' 'This book was incredible... The story is realistic and believable. Once you start reading you will not want to stop *****' 'An emotional, haunting book filled with secrets throughout. Excellent *****' 'I loved the book and the way it was written. I will be reading more novels by Gill Thompson in the future as her interweaving of events with fictional characters is remarkable *****' 'This was a great book! There are secrets you will not see coming, but it makes it more heartwarming *****' 'It's not your normal evacuee story as it's intertwined with other stories which I really enjoyed. It had me gripped. I will be looking out for more books by this author *****' 'This is a very good book. I recommend you read *****'

The Child on Platform One: Inspired by the Children Who Escaped the Holocaust

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Emily Devenport

The Executives control Oichi's senses, her voice, her life. Until the day they kill her.An executive clan gives the order to shoot Oichi out of an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. A sentient AI, a Medusa unit, rescues Oichi and begins to teach her the truth--the Executives are not who they think they are. Oichi, officially dead and now bonded to the Medusa unit, sees a chance to make a better life for everyone on board.As she sets things right one assassination at a time, Oichi becomes the very insurgent the Executives feared, and in the process uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship that is their home.

Medusa Uploaded

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Hal Friedman

Cory Friedman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A True Story

A nonfiction account by the best-selling suspense author follows a family's decades-long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that from the age of five induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a nightmarish situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.

Against Medical Advice

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Humbart Smokey Santillo

65 pages, second edition 1993- very good clean condition

The Missing Link to Radiant Health

This is an excellent introduction to the food enzyme concept. It is written for the educated lay person or practitioner and develops the impact of enzymes on issues such as sports nutrition, weight control, and general digestive health.

Food Enzymes

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Albert Hubbard was a pioneer in making personal growth books available to what would be a growing market. This vintage copy is from 1950 and is in excellent condition. Leather bound and clean.

Hubbard believed that reading a page a day of great writing would benefit the person doing the reading. It was that simple and that pioneering.

The book will be a great addition to any library.

Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book

Karen Elliot

The meat of the 12 steps- a very helpful guide.

Interpreted by Hazelden Foundation

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

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Madonna

There is a name written on inside cover. Otherwise, the book is perfectly. The art in these Madonna books is terrific. From 2004.

Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, a little boy named Abdi was given a very big task -- to deliver the most precious necklace in the world to the queen.

Come along with Abdi on his fantastic journey into a magical world of ruthless rogues, savage snakes, and deadly dungeons, where he remembers the wise words of his mentor: "Everything we have been given in life is always for the best."

The Adventures of Abdi

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Andrea Beaty

Children’s book-a great one! Clean pages, clean cover. A few tiny tears on the dust jacket, but the rest of the book is so good you probably won’t even notice them!

A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

Rosie Revere, Engineer

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Mollie Katzen

From 1982, 310 pages, a classic among cookbooks. Very clean, perhaps unused

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

And Other Timeless Delicacies

The Enchanted Broccoli Forest

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Peggy Rowe

Mike Rowe

From 2020, very nice & clean- great dustjacket-pristine.
NYT bestselling author

Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before and after Mike’s rise to fame. Since the day they said, “I do,” Peggy’s previous “doting” lifestyle met with her husband John’s minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house to save energy, to squeezing out the last drop of toothpaste with a workbench vise, Peggy learned to pick her battles and celebrate the hilarity in each situation. Once their boys were born, woodstove mishaps and garbage dumping tales were the seed for Mike’s obsession with doing dirty jobs and the comical presence he is known for today. As Mike rose to fame, Peggy was his biggest fan—who gave motherly advice and constructive criticism, of course. She baked cookies for Mike to take to Joan Rivers for a Christmas party hostess gift, and even wrote fan letters under faux names and mailed them from different cities to Mike’s producer. By the time Mike hits it big, Peggy and John retire to face more adventures, with a lightning strike in their condo, an elderly friend who ate marijuana leaves, and entering into celebrity status by making Viva paper towel and Lee jeans commercials, plus so much more. Peggy’s stories relive the details that intrigue and entertain old and new fans alike. So if you want a bigger, even funnier take on the Rowe family, About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known delivers.

About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known

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From 2022. Very nice, very clean. NYT bestselling author

And Other Ways to Get Attention

Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career.

Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn't know how not to write--even through those years of constant rejection from publishing houses. But between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, Peggy's breakthrough finally came--at the age of eighty!

Vacuuming in the Nude is most likely her funniest prose to date as she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday situations.

From the family's beloved dog Shim, who thrived on piles of fresh, warm manure from the horse pasture--to vacationing on the sweltering beach with mosquitos the size of dune buggies--to the challenges of aging, Peggy Rowe delivers a hilarious array of stories that reflect her addiction to making people laugh. Even in her cancer support group, she manages to use her humor to affect others for the good.

If Peggy isn't putting her publisher on hold to finish a game of Mahjongg, she's at her kitchen table window-on-the-world taking notes for the next story for fans old and new to enjoy.

Vacuuming in the Nude

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6 large books- hardbacks with dust jackets published by Newsweek Books. Each volume is 9”x12”, and each is about 165 pages. All are in Excellent condition.
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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Six books of internationally famous places- Newsweek Books, 1972

Thomas Hardy

A classic 19thcentury fiction by thomashardy

The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.

The Return of the Native

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Alan Paton

South Africa, 1950s. Alan Paton was one of the 20th Century’s great African writers and helped make world aware of apartheid.  The line between Paton and Mandela is a straight one.

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful

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Lili Anolik

2019, 270 pages, very clean pages, minor cover wear. A very interesting book!

Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L. A.

The quintessential biography of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), the brilliant chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood hedonism and one of the most original American voices of her time.

"I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve's singular irresistible glitz." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

"The Eve Babitz book I've been waiting for. What emerges isn't just a portrait of a writer, but also of Los Angeles: sprawling, melancholic, and glamorous." --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter

Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA.

The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz, age twenty, posed for a photograph with French artist Marcel Duchamp in 1963. They were seated at a chess board, deep in a game. She was naked; he was not. The picture, cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex. She spent the rest of the decade on the Sunset Strip, rocking and rolling, and honing her notoriety. There were the album covers she designed: for Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few. There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Harrison Ford, to name but a very few.

Then, at nearly thirty, her It girl days numbered, Babitz was discovered--as a writer--by Joan Didion. She would go on to produce seven books, usually billed as novels or short story collections, always autobiographies and confessionals. Her prose achieved that American ideal: art that stayed loose, maintained its cool; art so sheerly enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment. Yet somehow the world wasn't paying attention. Babitz languished.

It was almost twenty years after her last book was published, and only a few years before her death in 2021 that Babitz became a literary star, recognized as not just an essential L.A. writer, but the essential. This late-blooming vogue bloomed, in large part, because of a magazine profile by Lili Anolik, who, in 2010, began obsessively pursuing Babitz, a recluse since burning herself up in a fire in the 90s.

Anolik's elegant and provocative book is equal parts biography and detective story. It is also on dangerously intimate terms with its subject: artist, writer, muse, and one-woman zeitgeist, Eve Babitz.

"A dazzling, gossip-filled biography of the wayward genius who knew everyone in Seventies LA." --The Telegraph (UK)

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