Catriona Ward

This is a signed, numbered special edition by Broken Binding with stenciled edges. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Broken Binding special edition 

The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial

Looking Glass Sound

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J. Elle

Goldsboro signed, numbered special edition. Only flaw is some marking on front that you can only see at certain angles and it came to me like that. See picture of it. 

Goldsboro signed special edition

'Full of magic and intrigue . . . the perfect escape for fans of fantasies that straddle the edge of our world and transport readers to dazzling, deceptive, and unexpected places' STEPHANIE GARBER ARE YOU READY TO ENROL INTO THE HOUSE OF MARIONNE? Quell Marionne has lived her entire life on the run, all in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through her veins. She was born cursed with Toushana - a perilous dark magic. And the sentence for having it? Death . . . When her secret is discovered by a merciless assassin, Quell fears time is running out. There is only one place that can save her: The House of Marionne. Run by her estranged grandmother, the school trains their students to enter The Order, a society of magical elites. Quell knows this may be the key to burying her forbidden magic forever. But if her Toushana is discovered, she will be killed. Soon Quell realises that hiding who you are is even harder, especially when she meets the handsome, brooding Jordon. And it isn't long before she's forced to choose between her true nature and everyone she's grown to love. Brimming with ballgowns and betrayal, magic and mystery, decadence and darkness, House of Marionne is perfect for readers who crave morally grey characters, irresistible romance and dark academia.

House of Marionne

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Some edge bumping. Advanced reader’s copy (ARC) with publisher letter inside. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The House is on Fire - ARC

Diane Setterfield

Ex library book with associated markings 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed. Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens. The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless. Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. A farming family reeling from the discovery of their son’s secret liaison stand ready to welcome their granddaughter. The parson’s housekeeper, humble and isolated, sees in the child the image of her younger sister. But the return of a lost child is not without complications and no matter how heartbreaking the past losses, no matter how precious the child herself, this girl cannot be everyone’s. Each family has mysteries of its own, and many secrets must be revealed before the girl’s identity can be known. Once Upon a River is a glorious tapestry of a book that combines folklore and science, magic and myth. Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, this is “a beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing” (M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).

Once upon a River

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Shubnum Khan

Small tear and edge bumping on top of dust jacket (see picture) but other than that it’s in excellent condition. 

“A dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansion’s dark corridors. Except for Sana. Unlike the others, she is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion: To the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects—and to the door at its end, locked for decades. Behind the door is a bedroom frozen in time and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman named Meena, who died there tragically a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the room’s shadows is a besotted, grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meena’s story, and unaware of the creature that follows her, Sana digs into the past like fingers into a wound, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl’s search for belonging.

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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Wally Lamb

The cover has some sticker residue and edge bumping and some little cuts. There is a resale sticker on the spine. Inside looks clean. 

In this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lamb—author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Water—weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it. I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There’s his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses. Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face.

I'll Take You There

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Elin Hilderbrand

Read, so cover doesn’t lay flat by itself, and a thriftbooks sticker on its side, but still in great condition overall. 

The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean--but so can their secrets. For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets--and their connections to each other--that were never revealed on the beach. What has made their friendship strong now has the power to destroy--their marriages, families, even themselves.

Nantucket Nights

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Misha McKenzie

Signed by author

Aria Burke hadn't wanted to believe the stories from her childhood. But when her visions suddenly turn dark and ominous, detailing the deaths of everyone she loves, she knows she can't deny the truth any longer. Evil is coming for them...earlier than predicted. According to the prophecy, she has one year left to prepare for the upcoming battle. But if she has any hope of being ready, she'll need to reunite with her sister and brothers. As the four marked by fate and gifted the powers of the elements, they will have to wage war-no matter the cost. But when a rough and sexy biker rides into her life, she'll have to decide if the sacrifice she's destined to make means losing herself... Or losing the man she loves.

Aria's Law

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Jennifer Ryan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Wyoming Wilde Novel

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan begins a brand-new series with a western set romance between a former soldier and the mother of his child. Perfect for fans of Diana Palmer, Linda Lael Miller, and BJ Daniels. They're tough, tender, and sometimes tormented; they're the Wildes of Wyoming, three brothers whose family ties are as strong as their wills. Chase Wilde never expected to fall in love, especially with Shelby Payne. Years before, one passionate night had drawn these two lost souls together. Then Chase left on deployment with the Army, while Shelby raised their baby alone. Now he's back, a wounded warrior determined to turn his life around. Shelby knows what it's like to lose everything, including her own family. So she offers him a bargain: if he can prove himself to be the man he says he is, she will let him into their daughter's life...and maybe even into hers. Chase knows it will take a lot to prove to Shelby that there's more between them than the single night they spent together. She's everything he's ever wanted, including the voice of reason he needs to reconcile his past and be the man he wants to be for them both. But just as their lives come together, she's torn away from him by a dangerous person from her past, and saving her means saving himself . . . because he can't live without her.

Chase Wilde Comes Home

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P. Jameson

Would say brand new except for some page folding that happened during shipping. 

Heart of Gold

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Thea Harrison

Thriftbooks sticker and small amount of edge bumping. 

When she is blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia Giovanni, half human and half wyr, goes up against Dragos Cuelebre, who, after catching her in the act, spares her life, but claims her as his own. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Dragon Bound

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Cheri Champagne

Very slight edge bumping, other than that looks new. 

The Seductive Spies Series: Book 2

Regency Romance readers rejoice! Best selling author Cheri Champagne has created another great series starting with The Thespian Spy... the first book in her new Seductive Spies Series. Sprung from the modest roots of a crofter's life, Miss Mary Wright dreamt of being an actress on stage at the Theatre Royale in London. When a mysterious man in black offers her the life she's always wanted, how could she possibly refuse? But there is one stipulation: she must become a spy. Gabriel Ashley, half Scotsman, half Englishman, and Mary's former best friend, is no longer accepted by his family after the death of his parents. In the darkness of night, a man offers Gabe the opportunity for a very unique and utterly enticing education. Now, living the life of Crown spies, Mary and Gabe struggle with past differences and old desires. When their superior sends them on an assignment together, will their quarrels tear them apart, or will their magnetic attraction bring them together at long last?

The Thespian Spy

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Asa Maria Bradley

Signed copy! Some slight yellowing of edges due to age. 

Some rules of attraction were made to be broken...but for these immortal Viking warriors, once they've found their fated mates, nothing can stop them from claiming the other half of their heart.

Astrid Irisdotter is a Valkyrie--a fierce warrior fighting to protect humanity from the evil god Loki. She's on an urgent mission for her queen when everything goes hideously sideways. Undercover agent Luke Holden arrives on the scene just in time to save her life--and put his own on the line. But the moment their eyes meet, both know everything has forever changed.

Luke may have saved her, but that doesn't mean Astrid can trust him. Tempers flare and passionate fury is unleashed as they hide secret upon secret from each other, but Astrid's inner Viking warrior knows what it wants...and it will not rest until Luke is hers.

"Action-packed, sexy, and fun! Reminiscent of J.R. Ward--but with Vikings!" --ILONA ANDREWS, New York Times bestselling author

"Bradley is a new force to be reckoned with in the paranormal genre!"--REBECCA ZANETTI, New York Times bestselling author

Viking Warrior Rebel

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Karin Slaughter

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn’t belong to the corpse. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished…and who will die soon if she isn’t found. Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away. But when evidence links Will’s troubled past to the case, the consequences will tear through his life, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues. “I’d follow her anywhere.” —GILLIAN FLYNN

The Kept Woman

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Gillian Bradshaw

Ex-library copy with associated markings. 

The moving, human account of the life of Archimedes, a brilliant young man who is blessed by all the Muses and who experiences fame and loss, love and war, wealth and betrayal--none of which affects him nearly as much as the divine beauty of mathematics.

The Sand-Reckoner

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Jill Paton Walsh

Small slight of edge bumping and some page yellowing from age. 

"A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.

So begins Mall Percival's account of how her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George Vicars dies on September 6, 1665, and by the end of October, twenty-five more townsfolk have been buried. As the deaths continue, the villagers, including Mall, begin to panic--helpless to fight off the disease. Uncertain as to how it is contracted and passed from one person to another, Mall forces herself to make a sacrifice that radically changes her life--she decides to stops seeing Thomas Torre, a man from another village, the man she hopes to marry. In June of 1966, at their minister's urging, the entire village makes a pact to protect those who live in the surrounding countryside by staying within the boundaries of Eyam.

Although Mall longs to see Thomas, she remains steadfast in her resolution, until one day Thomas runs into the center of Eyam, knowing that he will not be allowed to leave, yet fearing that Mall has died. Mall and Thomas marry, but their happiness is short-lived. Finally, in October of 1666, the pestilence subsides. Mall, overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, decides to write a chronicle of all she has witnessed in Eyam, hoping that it will set her free.

A Parcel of Patterns

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Darynda Jones

Small amount of edge bumping. Doesn’t look like it was ever read. 

My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: “Well, that didn’t go as planned.” —T-Shirt A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, errant wives, missing people, philandering business owners, and, oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people—lots of them. As a part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper, Charley has to balance the good, the bad, and the undead. And those who wantherdead, of course. But Charley’s learning to make peace with her fate: Sure, the forces of hell are determined to see Charley banished forever to the darkest corners of another dimension—with the son of Satan himself as her husband and world-rocking lover. But she can still find a way to have her happily-ever-after after all…right? Praise for the Grave! “An all-around good time.”—Fresh Fiction “Sexy, mysterious…fun!”—RT Book Reviews “Wickedly witty.”—Booklist

Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

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Edge bumping and pages have a bit of yellowing. 

Wizard at Large

Margaret Atwood

Edge bumping and cover fraying. Some pencil marks on front inside pages from last store it was sold from used. 

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer threatening to reveal her secrets. Joan’s response is to fake her own death and flee to a hill town in Italy. Studded with hair-raising comic escapades and piercing psychological insights, Lady Oracle is both hilarious and profound.

Lady Oracle

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Illumicrate signed paperback edition with sprayed edges. Some edge bumping and shelf marks on the sprayed edges rhat the book came with. 

Illumicrate signed edition

The Ivory Key

Ian Green

Hunt the mage. Save the child. Defy the storm. Across the ruins of Ferron, the rotstorm ever rages. From its nightmarish depths, demons and goblins and rust-folk have struck forth and claimed the Northern Marches as their sanctuary. Through the Undal Protectorate, the land is gripped in a Claw Winter, a frozen mirror of the punishment laid down to the west. Abandoned on the island of Riven, Flor and her comrades must find their way back to the Protectorate. Flor 's daughter Marta is hidden somewhere in the north, dying from the skein-magic she cannot yet control. And now, a centuries-old problem threatens to cause new problems for Flor - and it threatens to be the most challenging yet... For, after centuries of bondage, the immortal mage Tullen One-Eye - the man they call 'Deathless' - has been unchained, and the great god-wolf Lothal hunts again. To make matters worse, deep in Orubor's Wood, the god-bear Anshuka stirs from her slumber. The awakening of three unknown forces spells bad news for Flor and the Ferron. For, the last time the Judges warred, an empire fell. If she is to save her daughter and free her people, Flor will have to defeat the great wolf Lothal and kill the 'Deathless' Tullen. But how can she kill the unkillable man? And will steel alone be enough to take down the gods themselves?

The Gauntlet and the Broken Chain

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For 312 years the rotstorm has blighted the ruins of the Ferron Empire. Born of an unholy war between gods themselves, it scours the land with acid mists and deadly lightning, spawning twisted monstrosities from its nightmarish depths.On the Stormwall, the men and women of the Stormguard maintain their vigil -- eyes sharp, blades sharper -- defending the Undal Protectorate from the worst of the rotstorm's corruption.But behind the stormfront, something is stirring, kindling the embers of an ancient conflict and a plan to kill a god.Will Stormguard steel be enough to meet the coming tempest?***As the children of the storm carve a bloody swathe across the Northern Marches, the whitestaffs -- the Protectorate's healers and sages -- have fled, retreating to their island citadel of Riven. Their withdrawal has weakened the realm, and worse, their absence is a death sentence for Floré's daughter Marta. Skein-sick, Marta wastes away from the terrible magic she has inherited from her father and only the whitestaffs have the knowledge that might save her. When Flore is dispatched to reason with the whitestaffs, to bring them back into the fold, she seizes the chance. Her mission could save both the protectorate and her child. But on the island of Iskander, caged and chained, she will only discover the worst betrayal.

The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade

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Signed numbered Goldsboro edition. Slight edge bumping on top. 

Goldsboro numbered signed edition 

A fantasy adventure set in a world of brutal juntas and ancient animism, where gruesome medieval warfare and strange magic are the tactics used in the name of freedom. From a debut Scottish author.

The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath

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Michael Crichton

I’m the second owner, in the least, and I think it’s an ex library book, but overall it’s in good condition. Has deckled edges. 

Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoid of London′s luxuries; life here can end swiftly with dysentery or a dagger in your back. But for Captain Edward Hunter it is a life that can also lead to riches, if he abides by the island′s code. In the name of His Majesty King Charles II of England, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking. And law in the New World is made by those who take it into their hands. Word in port is that the Spanish treasure galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is stalled in nearby Matanceros harbor awaiting repairs. Heavily fortified, the impregnable Spanish outpost is guarded by the blood-swiller Cazalla, a favorite commander of King Philip IV himself. With the governor′s backing, Hunter assembles a roughneck crew to infiltrate the enemy island and commandeer the galleon, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloody legends of Matanceros suggest, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he finds himself on the island′s shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry are all that stand between him and the treasure. With the help of his cunning crew, Hunter hijacks El Trinidad and escapes the deadly clutches of Cazalla, leaving plenty of carnage in his wake. But his troubles have just begun. . . .

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