Dave Eggers

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. Mae is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

The Circle

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Nele Neuhaus

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who was he, really? Two more, similar murders happen--oneof a wheelchair-bound old lady in a nursing home, and one of a man with a cellar filled with Nazi paraphernalia--and slowly the connections between the victims becomes evident: All of them were lifelong friends with Vera von Kaltensee, baroness, well-respected philanthropist, and head of an old, rich family that she rules with an iron fist. Pia and Oliver follow the trail, which leads them all the way back to the end of World War II and the area of Poland that then belonged to East Prussia. Noone is who they claim to be, and things only begin to make sense when the two investigators realize what the bloody number stands for, and uncover an old diary and an eyewitness who is finally willing to come forward.

Nele Neuhaus'sThe Ice Queen is a character- and plot-driven mystery about revenge, power, and long-forgotten and covered up secrets from a time in German history that still affects the present.

The Ice Queen

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Ties that tether

Stephen King

Some sticker residue on top edge of front cover

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. By the best-selling author of Full Dark, No Stars.

11/22/63

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The Turn of the Key

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A New Look at Living Things We Love to Hate

Nature’s Outcasts

Edmund de Waal

Title: The Hare with Amber Eyes
Author: Edmund de Waal
Condition: Good

This captivating family memoir is in good condition. There is some wear on the spine and remnants from a sticker on the cover (please see pictures for details). Despite these minor flaws, the pages are clean and the book is perfect for readers interested in art, history, and family legacies.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Hidden Inheritance

Traces the parallel stories of 19th-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Hare with Amber Eyes

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Tom Standage

Title: A Brief History of Motion
Author: Tom Standage
Condition: Excellent

This captivating exploration of the history of transportation is in good condition with no wear on the cover. There is a small black dot on the top of the pages, but otherwise, the book is like new. Discover the fascinating journey of how we move, from the invention of the wheel to the future of autonomous vehicles. A perfect addition for history enthusiasts and technology lovers!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology-personal transportation-and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia. Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel--a device that didn't catch on until a couple thousand years after its invention--Standage zips through the eras of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how each successive mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in, from the geography of our cities to our experience of time to our notions of gender. Then, delving into the history of the automobile's development, Standage explores the social resistance to cars and the upheaval that their widespread adoption required. Cars changed how the world was administered, laid out, and policed, how it looked, sounded, and smelled--and not always in the ways we might have preferred. Today--after the explosive growth of ride-sharing and years of breathless predictions about autonomous vehicles--the social transformations spurred by coronavirus and overshadowed by climate change create a unique opportunity to critically reexamine our relationship to the car. With A Brief History of Motion, Standage overturns myths, considers roads not taken, and invites us to look at our past with fresh eyes so we can create the future we want to see.

A Brief History of Motion

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Title: The Paris Key
Author: Juliet Blackwell
Condition: Good

This captivating novel is in good condition, with minor writing on the cover and the first page (please refer to the picture for details). The pages are clean and the spine is intact, making it a great addition to any bookshelf. Immerse yourself in a heartwarming story set in the enchanting streets of Paris, perfect for fans of romance and self-discovery.

The Paris Key

Ruth Emmie Lang

📚 The Wilderwomen by Ruth Emmie Lang 📚

Embark on an enchanting journey with "The Wilderwomen" by Ruth Emmie Lang. This like-new condition copy invites you into a world of wonder and whimsy, promising an untouched reading experience.

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Like New Condition

Immerse yourself in Lang's captivating storytelling with a book that looks and feels as if it just left the bookstore. No signs of wear, no creases – just the pristine allure of a like-new edition ready to transport you to the realm of "The Wilderwomen." Secure this copy and let the magic unfold.

Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with extraordinary abilities in The Wilderwomen.

Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared. The older of her two daughters, Zadie, should have seen it coming, because she can literally see things coming. But not even her psychic abilities were able to prevent their mother from vanishing one morning.

Zadie's estranged younger sister, Finn, can't see into the future, but she has an uncannily good memory, so good that she remembers not only her own memories, but the echoes of memories other people have left behind. On the afternoon of her graduation party, Finn is seized by an "echo" more powerful than anything she's experienced before: a woman singing a song she recognizes, a song about a bird...

When Finn wakes up alone in an aviary with no idea of how she got there, she realizes who the memory belongs to: Nora.

Now, it's up to Finn to convince her sister that not only is their mom still out there, but that she wants to be found. Against Zadie's better judgement, she and Finn hit the highway, using Finn's echoes to retrace Nora's footsteps and uncover the answer to the question that has been haunting them for years: Why did she leave?

But the more time Finn spends in their mother's past, the harder it is for her to return to the present, to return to herself. As Zadie feels her sister start to slip away, she will have to decide what lengths she is willing to go to find their mother, knowing that if she chooses wrong, she could lose them both for good.

The Wilderwomen

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Ben H. Winters

📚 Golden State by Ben Winters 📚

Embark on a dystopian journey through "Golden State" by Ben Winters. While the pages within tell a gripping tale of truth and deception, please note that this copy is in fair condition with some wear and tear to the dust jacket.

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Fair Condition
Wear and tear to the dust jacket.
Despite the visible signs of its journey, the narrative within remains intact and ready to transport you into a world of suspense. Secure this fair-condition edition and delve into the intriguing mysteries of "Golden State."

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder. In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime--and stopping those crimes is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to "speculate" on what might have happened. But the Golden State is less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the truth requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance and recording. And when those in control of the facts twist them for nefarious means, the Speculators are the only ones with the power to fight back.

Girl Reads Worlds