#hardcover #nonfiction #relationships #family #funny #humor #dad

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, the 29-year-old author moves in with his 73-year-old dad, whose straightforward, expletive-laden advice and opinions became a hit on Twitter and are now offered in a hilarious collection. 50,000 first printing.

Sh*t My Dad Says

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#hardcover #fiction #stephencolbert #nonfiction #humor #firstedition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The host of the popular Colbert Report show celebrates the lighter side of the modern world's most relevant issues, providing straightforward discussions of such topics as faith, politics, and how the author believes the country can reacquire its nerve. 500,000 first printing.

I Am America (and So Can You!)

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#hardcover #fiction #jkrowling #youngadult #mystery #adult 
The book jacket is a little dirty but otherwise in excellent condition 

The Casual Vacancy

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#hardcover #history #historicalfiction #revolutionarywar 
It used to be a library book, so there are marks from some of the cover tape and some of the library stickers are still on the book

A Novel of the American Revolution

Fleeing the family farm disguised as a man after killing her abusive stepfather, Josie Summers meets and marries the Reverend John Trethman, but when he is kidnapped by British soldiers, Josie must risk her life to find her husband.

Brave Enemies

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#hardcover #Rome #history #art #adventure #detective
A pencil mark on the first page; otherwise good condition 

In a thriller of astounding menace and power, the acclaimed author of A Season for the Dead returns to the landscape he has made his own-the seething landscape of modern-day Rome-where ancient crimes lie hidden beneath colorful, bustling avenues. Here a teenage girl has disappeared, a detective is exploring a 2000-year-old ritual-and an astonishing mystery is about to unravel in a city of secrets and rage....

The Villa of Mysteries

In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because Costa knows what the two officers don't: that in the morgue at Rome's police headquarters, a forensic pathologist is examining the strange, mummified corpse of another
girl, whose disappearance and death bear haunting similarities....

Police pathologist Teresa Lupo is Nic's colleague, friend, and his only equal when it comes to breaking the rules to get results, whatever the cost. Now, after years of living with the dead, Teresa insists that her superiors move quickly to save a life. Poring over the body of the girl in the morgue, she has found too many similarities between the girls, including a unique, leering tattoo. Lupo is sure that the vanished girl is headed for a bizarre ancient Bacchanalia involving virgins and sacrificial murder-a ritual that is only days away.

As Nic and Teresa claw at the case from two sides-and as Nic finds himself at once puzzled and beguiled by the missing girl's seductive mother-a chilling picture is beginning to emerge...of secret relationships and sexual depravity, organized crime and unimaginable corruption. With the clock ticking down on a young girl's life, Nic and Teresa are about to make the most horrifying discovery of all-in a pit of human darkness, where an age-old malevolence still endures, evil has consumed innocence...and a very modern vengeance has begun.

A spellbinding mix of suspense, forensic science, and human drama, The Villa of Mysteries will catch you off guard at every turn-a novel that is at once heartbreaking and impossible to put down.

The Villa of Mysteries

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#hardcover #wwi #worldwar #history #historicalfiction 
It used to be a library book, so there are some marks from the book jacket tape and it still has the library stickers.

This exciting debut novel is the love story of a Jewish girl and an Armenian-American soldier who together enter a maze of underground politics at the conclusion of the First World War. Yael Weiss, an eighteen-year-old from St. Louis, reinvents herself as the twenty-five-year-old Methodist Yale White when she travels to Paris with the YMCA to work in a soldiers’ canteen. Dub Hagopian–the doughboy she has a carried a torch for all the way across the Atlantic–is at once the patriotic child of immigrants from Rhode Island and, covertly, a member of Erinyes, an organization dedicated to avenging the Armenian massacres of 1915. In her jaunty, engaging style, Mitchell captures the atmosphere of political carnival surrounding the Paris Peace Conference, where Yale, Dub, and their crowd gather, bursting with both the passionate ideals and the devil-may-care energy of youth. When they decamp to a château outside Paris, where Erinyes is hatching a radical plan and Armenian war orphans are billeted, Yale and Dub will face the largest decisions of their young lives. A beautiful love story,The Last Day of the Waris also a tragicomic farce about the workings of history and a testament to the moral fortitude of men and women swept up in the tide of their extraordinary times.

The Last Day of the War

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#hardcover #humor #DaveBarry #computers

The front and back of the book have some staining and rough edges.

These short, amusing pieces are particularly suited to those who are not impressed with computers, enjoy a few laughs, & can absorb some sexual innuendos.

Dave Barry in Cyberspace

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#paperback #religion #devotional #advice #selfhelp

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

What You Say (and Don't Say) Will Improve Your Relationships

Presents a thirty-day devotional to help readers tame an unruly tongue and turn it into an asset, sharing short stories, anecdotes, soul-searching questions, and scripturally based personal affirmations.

30 Days to Taming Your Tongue

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Jane Austen's Little Advice Book

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#paperback #nonfiction #writing #MLA

Has a name written in blue ink inside the cover and on the side of the pages; otherwise is in perfect condition 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The handbook takes readers through the research paper process step by step, and includes information on narrowing the topic, outlining, note taking, etc. Before dealing with such mechanics of writing as spelling, punctuation, and format, the manual covers

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

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#paperback #Joyce #dead #Irish #literature

Some notes and underlining in pencil; used book stickers on spine and back

As part of Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, this edition of The Dead, by James Joyce contains carefully seclected critical essays which approach the book from several contemporary critical perspectives.

The Dead

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#paperback #nonfiction #fiction #truecrime #history #chicago #serialkillers #holmes

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

The Devil in the White City

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#hardcover #adventure #fiction #explosiveeightteen #janetevanovich #stephanieplum #bountyhunter #women

Front cover has a small sticker; back cover has a barcode sticker

A Stephanie Plum Novel

A latest entry in the best-selling series that includes Sizzlin' Sixteen, Finger Lickin' Fifteen and Smokin' Seventeen finds bounty hunter Stephanie Plum once again on an exciting and page-turning adventure.

Explosive Eighteen

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#hardcover #fiction #fantasyfiction #fantasy #janetevanovich #wicked 

Back cover has a barcode sticker and some smudges

Wicked Appetite

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#paperback #Roman #history #romanempire #romanhistory

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Roman Empire

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#paperback #education #adams #HenryAdams #autobiography 

The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over Adams's lifetime. Adams concluded that his traditional education failed to help him come to terms with these rapid changes; hence his need for self-education. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling and other aspects of his youth, was time wasted; thus his search for self-education through experiences, friendships, and reading.

The Education of Henry Adams

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The owner of a struggling B&B in a picturesque Idaho town, Cate Nightingale, a young widow and mother, is forced to turn for help to her mysterious handyman, Calvin Harris, when a trio of vicious thugs threatens her and the entire town, demanding the possessions of a guest who vanished days before. 175,000 first printing.

Cover of Night

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#hardcover #davebarry #humor #life #columnist

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Guide to Marriage and/or Sex, Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, Claw Your Way to the Top, Stay Fit and Healthy until You're Dead

Four books in one volume by this best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and syndicated columnist. First time ever in hardcover, four of his hilariously funny hits. Line art throughout.

Dave Barry's Guide to Life

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#hardcover #atmospheric #beforethemovie #fiction #madeintomovie #sovietrussia #sovietunion #suspense 

"Robert Harris meets Gorky Park in Child 44, Tom Rob Smith's stunning thriller--sure to be one of the most talked about debut novels of the year"--Provided by the publisher.

Child 44

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#hardcover #genesis #dystopia #dystopian #Greek

A stunning novel that's as rich in ideas as it is in suspense, destined to become a modern classic of post-apocalyptic literature

Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she'll be admitted into the Academy--the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she's been taught isn't the whole story. And the Academy isn't what she believes it to be. In this brilliant novel of dazzling ingenuity, Anax's examination leads us into a future where we are confronted with unresolved questions raised by science and philosophy. Centuries old, these questions have gained new urgency in the face of rapidly developing technology. What is consciousness? What makes us human? If artificial intelligence were developed to a high enough capability, what special status could humanity still claim? Outstanding and original, Beckett's dramatic narrative comes to a shocking conclusion.

Genesis

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#paperback #Patterson #crusades #historicalfiction #gross

You are about to begin the most thrilling James Patterson novel yet. Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to discover that his terrifying nightmare has just begun. Merciless killers have slain his young son, kidnapped his wife, Sophie, and destroyed his town in their search for a priceless relic from the Crucifixion. Hugh's quest to find Sophie is one of the most pulse-pounding adventures, mysteries, and unforgettable love stories in all of thriller fiction.

The Jester

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#hardcover #theatre #Shakespeare #elizabethan #HarvardClassics #Harvard #Marlowe #Elizabeth #English

Elizabethan Drama, Volume I

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Science

Solomon/Berg/Martin, BIOLOGY is often described as the best majors text for LEARNING biology. Working like a built-in study guide, the superbly integrated, inquiry-based learning system guides you through every chapter. Key concepts appear clearly at the beginning of each chapter and learning objectives start each section. You can quickly review the key points at the end of each section before moving on to the next one. At the end of the chapter, a specially focused Summary provides further reinforcement of the learning objectives. The ninth edition offers expanded integration of the text's three guiding themes of biology (evolution, information transfer, and energy for life) and innovative online and multimedia resources for students and instructors

Biology

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#paperback #history #AmericanHistory #America 

History

The American Journey, a cornerstone series for the U.S. History market, successfully blends the coverage of political and social histories of our great nation throughout the series. With this focus, the authors show that our attempt to live up to our American ideals is an ongoing journey. This journey, while still a work in progress, is increasingly more inclusive of different groups and ideas. The path that led the authors to The American Journey began in the classroom with their students. The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students. The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American Journey. American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context. This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

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