Mary Lynn Rajskub

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

My Life at the Edge of Stardom

Becoming fame-ish ain't easy. Judd Apatow must love you, but never put you in one of his movies. Remember to go drunk to your Legally Blonde 2 audition and make sure Paul Thomas Anderson has your cell phone number. Don't forget to accidentally kiss Rush Limbaugh in front of paparazzi. It's all part of the gig. Self-deprecating and sharp, Mary Lynn's debut collection of essays will have you laughing, cringing, and reevaluating your idea of fame.

Smart, satirical, and relatable, this book gives new meaning to the word "icon" as Mary Lynn navigates showbiz against the backdrop of her own idiosyncrasies. She gives the people what they want: a raucous look at what it's like to kind of somehow sometimes have a name in Hollywood. Like when she made out with Tom Cruise for forty-five minutes on a couch (with and without tongues!), only to have the scene left on the cutting room floor. Mary Lynn's Fame-ish is an honest intimate look at sex, relationships, and career. You won't want to put it down.

Fame-Ish

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J. Patrick Black

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An epic science fiction debut for fans of Starship Troopers, Ender's Game, and Red Rising, now in trade paperback.

Five centuries ago, the earth was attacked by aliens wielding a mysterious force. Civilization was nearly destroyed . . . but then it turned out we could wield the power too.

Jax is a young cadet at the Legion's academy and one of the rare few who can draw on this universe-altering force. He has trained his whole life to defend his people, and when a renewed attack begins, he must stand as the Ninth City's last hope, whether he's ready or not.

Naomi knows nothing of the war that rages far away in the settlements. Raised in a nomadic tribes that struggles to survive in the wilds of a ruined earth, she longs to be a scout like her older sister, Rae, but her undiscovered gifts and inner strength will take her down a different path, far away from the life she was born to.

Together, with a gifted but reckless young military cadet, a factory worker drafted as cannon fodder, and a brilliant scientist with nothing to lose, these unlikely heroes will face an enemy threatens the end of everything they know-and they will fight back.

Ninth City Burning

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Emma Chastain

Freshman Year

In the tradition of Bridget Jones’s Diary, a lovably flawed high school student chronicles her life as she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in a diary that sparkles with humor and warmth. I’m Chloe Snow, and my life is kiiiiind of a disaster. 1. I’m a kissing virgin (so so so embarrassing). 2. My best friend, Hannah, is driving me insane. 3. I think I’m in love with Mac Brody, senior football star, whose girlfriend is so beautiful she doesn’t even need eyeliner. 4. My dad won’t stop asking me if I’m okay. 5. Oh, and my mom moved to Mexico to work on her novel. But it’s fine—she’ll be back soon. She said so. Mom says the only thing sadder than remembering is forgetting, so I’m going to write down everything that happens to me in this diary. That way, even when I’m ninety, I’ll remember how awkward and horrible and exciting it is to be in high school.

Confessions of a High School Disaster

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Henrik Ibsen

Has a minor tear from a crease along the spine, see photos of the issue above!

Here, in a single volume, are four major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen.

Ghosts--The startling portrayal of a family destroyed by disease and infidelity.
The Wild Duck--A poignant drama of lost illusions.
An Enemy Of The People--Ibsen's vigorous attack on public opinion.  
And A Doll's House--The play that scandalized the Victorian world with its unsparing views of love and marriage, featuring one of the most controversial heroines--and one of the most famous exists--in the literature of the stage.

Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen

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Ruth Ozeki

A Novel

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.

My Year of Meats

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Anzia Yezierska

Alice Kessler-Harris

Has lots of annotations and some highlights from use as a class textbook.

A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence.

Bread Givers

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Julia Alvarez

Bill Eichner

Belkis Ramirez

Daisy Cocco de Filippis

Has some minor underlining and annotations from use as a course text.

English / Spanish bilingual edition

A man on holiday in the Dominican Republic learns about how coffee is grown and traded, which inspires him to live more attuned to the land.

A Cafecito Story / el Cuento Del Cafecito

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Robert Haller

Suzie Althens

Michael Crouch

Andrew Eiden

Eileen Stevens

Signed and personalized to Katie and Dorothy. See photo!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church's vacation Bible school, discontent with another summer planning crafts and regurgitating verses. Ben: a boy stuck at VBS, still adjusting to the presence of his foster brother, DeShawn, a quiet, brooding kid from Brooklyn.

Over the course of one summer, these characters' paths will collide in surprising, often hilarious ways. Encompassing questions of identity, religion, race, and family, Another Life is an absorbing and thought-provoking debut about the line we all walk between desire and responsibility.

Another Life

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David Kirk

Worshiping his absent warrior father and urged by the Buddhist monk uncle who raised him to embrace a peaceful life in turbulent late-16th-century Japan, Bennosuke confronts painful family truths before pursuing the life of a samurai and eventually participating in the epochal battle of Sekigahara. 40,000 first printing.

Child of Vengeance

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Stephenie Meyer

Uncreased spine and just some mild sticker residue that is easily removed!

The Host

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Usher Morgan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A DIY Guide to Your First Feature Film, from Script to Theaters

Lessons from the Set is a comprehensive filmmaking guide that takes a cinephile's "Do It Yourself" approach to low-budget indie film production and distribution. The book is peppered with filmmaking tips and tricks, as well as valuable, practical insight into the process of writing, directing, producing, and distributing commercial feature films on a low budget - whether you're working with $1,000 or $1m. You'll learn how to write, direct, produce, and release your film to theaters, tackle festivals and handle press, create a marketing plan, get reviews, and approach the filmmaking process with both an artistic soul and an entrepreneurial mindset.

After releasing his debut feature film to wide acclaim, filmmaker Usher Morgan (Prego, Windblown, Pickings) decided to write a filmmaking book which detailed his approach to writing, directing, and producing his own work, as well as the steps he took to distribute and market his film, Pickings, and release it to theaters across the nation.

Lessons from the Set: A DIY Guide to Your First Feature Film, from Script to Theaters is the perfect gift to any aspiring filmmaker, it's an essential guide for anyone who wants to tell stories and make movies for a living.

Lessons from the Set

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Lisa Genova

Had minor notes from a neurology class in pencil.

Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.

Still Alice

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L. E. Hall

Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar

Never get stuck inside an escape room again, with this strategy guidebook to beating your favorite immersive interactive game—from a well-known game designer and puzzle enthusiast Chances are you have visited an escape room, whether for a birthday party, a corporate team-building exercise, or as a weekend excursion with your friends. But what does it take to maximize your chances of solving the puzzles, while ensuring everyone has a good time along the way? Planning Your Escape is the perfect guide to making sure you never get stuck in another escape room again. Game designer extraordinaire Laura Hall has all the best strategies for every room you might encounter, so your team can function like a well-oiled machine. This guide offers: -A history of puzzles and experiential entertainment, from the 4,000-year-old dexterity puzzles of Mohenjo-daro to the spectacle of immersive theater installations like Secret Cinema, Meow Wolf, and Sleep No More; -Different types of escape rooms, and solvable examples of the common puzzles they employ; -Common escape room player personality types, and how best to work with them; and -Advice for constructing your own escape rooms and puzzle hunts Bringing in a cast of experts, Planning Your Escape is the must-have strategy book for any escape room enthusiast, puzzle fan, and aspiring experience designer. Get ready to wow your friends and impress your co-workers with your new skills, and never enter a room you can’t get out of again!

Planning Your Escape

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Robert V. Hoffman

Has minor dents on the cover from a packaging issue when received! Otherwise, excellent condition!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

An Intermediate Text

Organic Chemistry

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Erika Swyler

One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015 **Includes a bonus short story by Erika Swyler, "The Mermaid Girl"** "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading."—Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's family have drowned--always on July 24, which is only weeks away. As his friend Alice looks on with alarm, Simon becomes increasingly worried about his sister. Could there be a curse on Simon's family? What does it have to do with the book, and can he get to the heart of the mystery in time to save Enola? In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.

The Book of Speculation

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Ashley Blooms

A Novel 

In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. Strange things start to happen in the holler. When her friend William takes their friendship too far,Misty's need to connect is greater than ever, but it's hard to talk about what you don't understand. This is the story of one tough-as-nails girl whose choices are few but whose imagination is boundless, as her coping becomes a battle cry for everyone around her -- a beautifully honest exploration of healing and hope.

Every Bone a Prayer

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Alyson Noël

Has some minor flaws on the edges (as pictured)

Shadowland

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Jodi Picoult

A popular novel about a girl suing her parents because they want her to donate a kidney to her sister was named by the American Library Association as one of the top 10 books banned in 2009, with the novel being pulled from the shelves for a host of reasons, including homosexuality, sexually explicit material, religious viewpoint, drugs and suicide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

My Sister's Keeper

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Joyce Carol Oates

Has some very slight condensation damage in the front few pages (see last photo). Perfecly readable copy!

Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace—on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly “American” triumph.

The Gravedigger's Daughter

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Claudia Gray

An Evernight Novel

Hourglass

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Educational Phycology

Amy G. Dell

Deborah A. Newton

Jerry G. Petroff

Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities

The second edition clearly understands and addresses two of the most important aspects of assistive technology: that classroom technology changes rapidly, and that individual students with disabilities require personalized solutions when it comes to successfully completing daily, school-related tasks. With the first aspect in mind, the authors of this contemporary and engaging text have included web site information that will keep students and instructors up to date with the most current advancements in assistive technology, research, web site links, and other resources. With the second aspect in mind, the authors have approached assistive technology with a focus on finding assistive technology tools that speak to individual students, not disability categories. - Back cover

Assistive Technology in the Classroom

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Gently used edition!
Second edition
ISBN 978-93-325-3501-5

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