Vintage 1957! Very cool nostalgic book! We all know Pippi Longstocking! Full of funny, fun stories. Aging on the outside the pages from shelf life and being vintage. Some age spots on the outer spine but in other wise really great condition!

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Pippi goes on board 

Cool nostalgic library card holder in back, as pictured, all the stamps and stickers are pictured. Published in 1995, it’s in really good condition for being a vintage library book. Very nostalgic! 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

3 Spine Tingling Tales

Fright Time 

A tiny bit of sticker residue on the back, but other wise in great condition. I read these when I was a kid!! I loved them! School stamp on inside front cover as pictured. 

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

E. Nesbit

Age on the outer edge of pages from
Shelf life, and the usual slightly worn edges. Slight musty smell that isn’t bad but might possibly be noticeable to a few people. 

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet.

The Railway Children

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Karuna Riazi

A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that's a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair.

Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet...

It didn't look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked...elegant.

It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images--a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider--and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand.

The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.

The Gauntlet

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Amanda Foody

Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.

The Accidental Apprentice

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Lorie Langdon

Former library book, library stamp and retainer mark on top. I removed the clear cover. 

A reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic "Oliver Twist, " in which Oliveris really Olivia, a girl forced to live as a boy for her own safely until sheis rescued from the streets to take her place in society.

Olivia Twist

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Both books were published in 1985, worn edges, one book has a small tear on the back cover as pictured. Some bent corners. One has a sticker in the back ( to it adds to the vintage 80s appeal). 

Adventures in Oz

2 book bundle- Brand new adventures in Oz

Rupert Holmes

The Mcmasters Guide to Homicide

From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award-winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to "delete" their most deserving victim.

Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you've probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this "Poison Ivy League" college--its location unknown to even those who study there--is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate...and where one's mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.

Prepare for an education you'll never forget. A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you'll ever read.

Rupert Holmes's much celebrated career ranges from chart-topping story songs with surprising twists--"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"--to Tony Award-winning whodunit musicals--The Mystery of Edwin Drood--Edgar Award-winning comedy-thrillers--Accomplice--and the Nero Wolfe Best American Mystery Novel nominated Where the Truth Lies, made into an Atom Egoyan motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. Called "an American treasure" (Los Angeles Times), "a true Renaissance man" by Newsweek, "a comic genius" (Kirkus Reviews) and simply "a genius" (The Times, London), Rupert Holmes brings his wickedly clever storytelling talents to this outrageous and darkly comic mystery set in a secret, idyllic campus where students learn how to "do in others as you would have others do you in."

Murder Your Employer

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Politics of pain

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Kim Newman

Former library book, stamps, stickers, and retainer mark as pictured 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The stunning new novel starring the superpowered Amy Thomsett from the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula

Of course, Drearcliff Grange School was haunted.

Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever the limping ghost is seen, terror strikes. And the lopsided, cracked-face, glass-eyed creature might well be the most serious threat the Moth Club have ever faced.

The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School

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Peter Mayle

Very slightly worn around the edges from shelf life 

When lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt's last adventure in France ended, he thought it'd be a while before he was back, especially with the beautiful Elena Morales to keep him in Los Angeles. But a job offer from the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul soon has Sam and Elena in sunny Marseille, on a quest for further excitement . . . and delectable dining. Yet as competition over the valuable local waterfront grows more hotly disputed, Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself in the middle of an increasingly intrigue-ridden and dangerous real estate grab.

Will Sam survive to enjoy another bowl of bouillabaisse? All will be revealed in the wonderfully satisfying climax to this as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the south of France.

The Marseille Caper

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Good condition, other than yellowing from shelf age, and creasing/ bent places on the edges. 

A Novel of Provence

Tired and fed up, tycoon Simon Shaw seeks refuge in Provence, where he encounters a pretty Frenchwoman who lures him into purchasing a little hotel that proves far more troublesome than quaint. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Hotel Pastis

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Published in 1987, has yellowing from age, and the cover has some dents and wrinkles from shelf life, and as pictured there is a bar code sticker on the back. Really cute book! 

Mrs Piggle-Wiggle 

Jonathan Odell

Not sure if the signature in on the first page is the authors or someone else’s but other than that it’s in really good condition 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League is a brilliant reimagining and republication of Jonathan Odell's debut novel, The View from Delphi.Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, and inspired by his Mississippi childhood, Odell tells the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida - one wealthy and white and the other poor and black - who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another. Embittered and distrusting, Vida is harassed by Delphi's racist sheriff and haunted by the son she lost to the world. Hazel, too, has lost a son and can't keep a grip on her fractured life. After drunkenly crashing her car into a manger scene while gunning for the baby Jesus, Hazel is sedated and bed-ridden. Hazel's husband hires Vida to keep tabs on his unpredictable wife and to care for his sole surviving son. Forced to spend time together with no one else to rely on, the two women find they have more in common than they thought, and together they turn the town on its head. It is the story of a town, a people, and a culture on the verge of a great change that begins with small things, like unexpected friendship.

Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League

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Flo Phillips

Signed 

Goodnight Pawleys Island

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Jonathan Etra

Stephanie Spinner

Older book, published in 1991. It has that cool old paperback smell! In good condition other then some very slight wear around the edges. 


When their bag of microwave popcorn explodes and a space alien emerges, Richard and Henry join him on a top secret interstellar mission to save the desserts of the universe.

Aliens for Lunch

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Melissa Muller

Former library book, with retainer line, stamp and clear cover. 

Updated and Expanded with New Material

Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek)

Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become "the human face of the Holocaust." For this nuanced portrait of her famous subject, biographer Melissa Müller drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends as well as on previously unavailable correspondence, even, in the process, discovering five missing diary pages. Full of revelations, Müller's richly textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting.

Now, fifteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate.

Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.

Anne Frank: the Biography

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Nicole Seitz

Edges are slightly worn, front cover corners are slightly bent, the front cover is a little loose at the spine from being read. And there is some slight sticky residue from a sticker being removed in the bottom of the spine. 

Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful "love baskets," praying fervently over them to affect the lives of those who visit her roadside stand. When she's faced with losing her home and her stand and being put in a nursing home, Daddy Jim talks her into coming on up to Heaven to meet sweet Jesus-something she's always wanted to do. Once there, she reunites with Gullahs and African ancestors; but soon, her heavenly peace is disrupted, for she still has work to do. Now Essie Mae, who once felt powerless and invisible, must find the strength within her to keep her South Carolina family from falling apart.

The Spirit of Sweetgrass

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Jennifer Worick

Some slight age and what looks like scuff marks on the book cover, probably from shelf life. 

How to Sew a Sampler Quilt and 49 Other Pioneer Projects for the Modern Girl

Frontier fun meets a home-spun touch in this heart-warming mixture of pioneer projects and wistful nostalgia. Jennifer Worick teaches readers how to sew a quilt, master the art of bread-and-butter pickles, speak old-time slang, and much much more. This is for the legions of Laura Ingalls Wilder fans who have dreamed of what a pioneer life out on the prairie would be like.

Combining step-by-step how-to on crafts, with tongue-in-cheek instructions on prairie slang, winning a spelling bee, and singing a lullaby, The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life allows fans to finally act out their childhood dreams or to simply enjoy the vicarious thrill of reading about it one more time. This is a book that will pull at the heart strings of every childhood Laura and also teach us a few prairie-time crafts along the way.

The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life

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Valerie Tripp

Book bundle: The first three books
 Book 1 - Meet Molly
Book 2- Molly learns a lesson
Book 3- Molly’s Surprise 
Note….. Books are in perfect condition except for ( pictured) book 3 has a few small splotches/ stains on front cover 

An American Girl

Meet Molly 3 book bundle 

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Katherine Rundell

Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of Rooftoppers, which Booklist called "a glorious adventure."

Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey, and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. Lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of vicious schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? And will she have the courage to survive?

From the author of the "witty, inventively poetic" Rooftoppers comes an utterly beautiful story that's sure to be treasured.

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

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Caroline Graham

A Midsomer Murders Mystery 3

'Simply the best detective writer since Agatha Christie' The Sunday Times Discover the novels that inspired the hit ITV series Midsomer Murders, seen and loved by millions. Featuring Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and created by Caroline Graham, Death in Disguise is the third Midsomer Murders mystery, now featuring an exclusive foreword by John Nettles, ITV's DCI Tom Barnaby. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, James Runcie's The Grantchester Mysteries and Ann Granger. To the distaste of the Compton Dando villagers, the big house has been taken over by a group of New Age eccentrics. And when the first death is reported, no one is surprised . . . or disappointed. The Coroner rules it an accident. But only weeks later, there's another death. And this time, it is murder. Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is called to the scene immediately, and there'll be no escape until he has sifted through the world of psychics, cult leaders and horrifying deaths to get to the cause of it all. Praise for Caroline Graham's novels: 'Swift, tense and highly alarming' TLS 'Tension builds, bitchery flares, resentment seethes . . . lots of atmosphere, colourful characters and fair clues' Mail on Sunday 'A mystery of which Agatha Christie would have been proud. . . A beautifully written crime novel' The Times 'Wickedly acidic, yet sympathetic' Publishers Weekly 'Everyone gets what they deserve in this high-class mystery' Sunday Telegraph 'Read her and you'll be astonished . . . very sexy, very hip and very funny' Scotsman

Death in Disguise

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Patrick O'Brian

Stunning new editions of Patrick O'Brian's beloved Aubrey/Maturin series - "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times) - make a triumphant return.

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Lorie Langdon

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2 book bundle- Brand new adventures in Oz

Rupert Holmes

Murder Your Employer

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The Politics of pain

Kim Newman

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Peter Mayle

The Marseille Caper

Peter Mayle

Hotel Pastis

Betty MacDonald

Mrs Piggle-Wiggle

Jonathan Odell

Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League

Flo Phillips

Goodnight Pawleys Island

Jonathan Etra; Stephanie Spinner

Aliens for Lunch

Melissa Muller

Anne Frank: the Biography

Nicole Seitz

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Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

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