Haruki Murakami

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Stories

Fifteen tales encompass the story of a man obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from a local zoo and that of a young mother whose sleeplessness provides her with a foretaste of death

The Elephant Vanishes

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Lots of scuffs and significant spine wear, but it holds up well. Pages are in good shape. 

Restoree

Andrés Barba

Lisa Dillman

Edmund White

A few minor dings on the bottom corners, and top of the back cover, but otherwise in great shape.

A "captivating" novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos (Boston Globe).



San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.



No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos.



Narrated by the social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a suspenseful, anguished fable that “could be read as Lord of the Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the profound originality of his world” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez).



"Wholly compelling.” --Colm Tóibín

A Luminous Republic

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The Incomplete Book of Running

D. P. Simpson

World Languages

The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries is Cassell, the preeminent publisher of dictionaries for over 120 years. For fast, easy reference and comprehensive listings, Cassell's Concise Latin-English, English-Latin Dictionary is unbeatable. It contains in concise form the words most frequently used in scholarly and academic usage. Cassell's Concise Latin-English, English-Latin Dictionary is easy to read and full of complete usage information that's simple to access. This invaluable volume, backed by the world's foremost language authority, is the most effective concise dictionary available to the Latin language.

Cassell's Concise Latin-English, English-Latin Dictionary

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Murder on the Orient Express

Toby Bishop

Louise Marley

In the Duchy of Oc, the most precious of creatures are the winged horses blessed by the goddess Kalla. When one is born, it is immediately taken to the Academy of the Air to be trained and watched over. But when a spirited peasant girl bonds with a winged horse of her own, the Academy gets more than it bargained for.

Airs Beneath the Moon

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Sabaa Tahir

Read once! Very minor ding in the bottom left of the back cover otherwise book is in great shape. Paperback

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--

An Ember in the Ashes

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Rebecca Skloot

In good shape!! a powerful and important story!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Sifton Tracey Anipare

A captivating fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan.



"With empathetic characters, terrifying monsters, and a cinematic feel, Yume is a dream that will keep readers awake at night." -- RICHARD FORD BURLEY, author of Displacement



Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best -- even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle.



Meanwhile, yokai feast and cavort around Osaka and Kyoto as the barrier between their world and the human world thins. Zaniel spends his nights walking the dream world and serving his demon "bodyguard," Akki. But there is a new yokai on the scene, and it has gotten on Akki's bad side. When Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what is real and, more importantly, what she really wants ... before her life spirals out of control altogether.



A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Yume

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Chris Mattison

This is an entry-level reference book for anyone looking for life history information and taxonomy of frogs and toads. The definitive entry-level science book for these amphibians!
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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A comprehensive photographic guide to the world's frogs and toads

With nearly 6,000 species currently identified, frogs and toads are the most familiar and abundant amphibians on the planet. Frogs and Toads of the World is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of this large and diverse group of creatures. Stunningly illustrated throughout with 200 color photographs, this one-of-a-kind book traces the evolution and classification of frogs and toads, providing detailed information about each of the 49 unique families and highlighting distinctive and notable species. It vividly describes their remarkable diversity in shape, color, and markings; anatomy and development; life cycle; habitats; the various methods they use to attract mates and hunt for food; and the physiological and behavioral tricks they use to survive and thrive around the world.

This indispensable guide also explores frogs' interaction with humans, from modern-day collection for the meat trade, scientific research, and the trade in exotic pets to how their survival is being threatened by habitat destruction, climate change, and disease.

 * A comprehensive guide to the natural history of frogs and toads
 * Features 200 stunning color photographs
 * Covers each of the 49 unique frog families
 * Describes anatomy, life cycle, habitats, survival tricks, and more

Frogs and Toads of the World

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Nicholas Ganz

Like new! A beautiful art book that would look amazing on someone's coffee table!

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Street Art from Five Continents

A thorough and comprehensive treatment of graffiti as an art form, this book contains an historical account of the medium, profiles of and interviews with prominent artists, analysis of different styles and trends, and more.

Graffiti World

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George R. R. Martin

Daniel Abraham

Read only once and kept on a shelf since. Wonderful condition!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons and the arrival of barbarian hordes. 75,000 first printing.

A Game of Thrones

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V. E. Schwab

Never read! My wife LOVES this series and upgraded our copy to a limited edition  

A Novel

STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes, connected by one magical city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king-George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered-and where Kell was raised alongside Rhys Maresh, the rougish heir to a flourishing empire. White London-a place where people fight to control magic, and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. And once upon a time, there was Black London. But no one speaks of that now. Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, ambassador of the Maresh empire, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.

A Darker Shade of Magic

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Yu Miri

Morgan Giles

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.

Tokyo Ueno Station

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My paperback copy from when I was young. First edition, scholastic, paper back..

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

This was my coffee I had in high school. Paper back from 2003.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sean P. Graham

Rick Shine

Dust jacket has some shelf-wear but otherwise book is in excellent shape!

125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of shedding its limbs. The 60-plus species of snakes found in Sean P. Graham's American Snakes have this ancestral journey to thank for their ubiquity, diversity, and beauty. Although many people fear them, snakes are as much a part of America's rich natural heritage as redwoods, bald eagles, and grizzly bears. Neither a typical field guide nor an exhaustive reference, American Snakes is instead a fascinating study of the suborder Serpentes. Brimming with intriguing and unusual stories- of hognose snakes that roll over and play dead, blindsnakes with tiny vestigial lungs, rainbow-hued dipsadines, and wave-surfing sea-snakes- the text is interspersed with scores of gorgeous full-color images of snakes, from the scary to the sublime.

American Snakes

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Joy Hakim

Book 9: War, Peace, and All That Jazz (1918-1945)

Model T's, woodframe airplanes, radios, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, jazz, flappers, Babe Ruth, the Depression, and the two World Wars--all in a thirty-year span.

A History of US

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Julie Kramer

Minor scuffs on jacket. Book itself is in GREAT shape 

Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year. Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heartbreaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap in the back of a dark movie theater. Both cold cases involve women named Susan strangled on the same day, one year apart. Last seen alive in one of Minneapolis’s poorest neighborhoods, their bodies are each dumped in one of the city’s wealthiest areas. Riley senses a pattern between those murders and others pulled from a computer database of old death records. She must broadcast a warning soon, especially to viewers named Susan, because the deadly anniversary is approaching. But not just lives are at stake— so are careers. November is television sweeps month, and every rating point counts at Channel 3. Riley must go up against a news director who cares more about dead dogs than dead women, a politician who fears negative stories about serial killers will hurt the city’s convention business, and the very real possibility that her source knows more about the murders than he is letting on. When Riley suspects the killer has moved personal items from one victim to the next as part of an elaborate ritual, she stages a bold on-air stunt to draw him out and uncovers a motive that will leave readers breathless.

Stalking Susan

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Published 2015. Novel  featuring Marvel hero Black Widow

Black Widow Forever Red 

Naoko Takeuchi

Minor yellowing on pages otherwise this is like new! 

Sailor Moon 1

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Kieron Gillen

Jamie Mckelvie

Has some minor scuffs on cover but pages are clean

Rue Britannia

"Originally published in single magazine format as Phonogram 1-6"--Indicia.

Phonogram

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#nature #herpetology #science #hardcover #outdoors #conservation #frogs book in very good shape, read only once! Minor wear on edges of dust jacket.

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