F. Scott Fitzgerald

Susan Orlean

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later. "This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit," wrote Edmund Wilson. "But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life."

This Side of Paradise

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ISBN: 978-0-593-47222-4

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t pop up on the ISBN scanner. 

Really good book! I read it so fast and even passed along to other people. 

A Novel 

Find Her

Heidi Murkoff

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Third Edition

With over 11 million copies in print, What to Expect: The First Year, now in a completely revised third edition, is the world’s best-selling, best-loved guide to the instructions that babies don’t come with, but should. And now, it’s better than ever. Every parent’s must-have/go-to is completely updated. Keeping the trademark month-by-month format that allows parents to take the potentially overwhelming first year one step at a time, First Year is easier-to-read, faster-to-flip-through, and new-family-friendlier than ever—packed with even more practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information than before. Illustrations are new, too. Among the changes: Baby care fundamentals—crib and sleep safety, feeding, vitamin supplements—are revised to reflect the most recent guidelines. Breastfeeding gets more coverage, too, from getting started to keeping it going. Hot-button topics and trends are tackled: attachment parenting, sleep training, early potty learning (elimination communication), baby-led weaning, and green parenting (from cloth diapers to non-toxic furniture). An all-new chapter on buying for baby helps parents navigate through today’s dizzying gamut of baby products, nursery items, and gear. Also new: tips on preparing homemade baby food, the latest recommendations on starting solids, research on the impact of screen time (TVs, tablets, apps, computers), and “For Parents” boxes that focus on mom’s and dad’s needs. Throughout, topics are organized more intuitively than ever, for the best user experience possible.

What to Expect the First Year

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Amelia Hepworth

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Show a child just how strong your love is every minute of the day! Features a "To" and "From" personalization page, making this sweet offering an ideal gift for baby showers, birthdays, and new parents. The sun rises, and a bear and cub begin their day together. They splash in the water, climb mountains, watch the colorful lights in the shimmering sky, and play with friends. They show their love for each other by touching noses, chasing each other, and, of course, hugging and snuggling before bed. A sweet, gentle rhyme, perfect for sharing with a special little one that also includes a “To” and "From” personalization page in the front of the book, making this heartwarming book an ideal gift.

I Love You to the Moon and Back

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Brand new book! Hardcover. 140 pages. 
ISBN didn’t bring the book up. It’s the last picture. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Reading & Language Arts

Words to learn and lots to spot

My First 1000 Words

Has writing on inside page. I will take the page out if bought! 
See pictures. 
It’s an older book, not really used, just aged. 

Electives

Growing with Jesus

Old book- has yellowing on pages. 

9780671543136

Art, music, drama/theater

Fifteen American One Act Plays 9780671543136

J. K. Rowling

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Thomas Rockwell

It’s an old library book. Pages are fine- just yellowing throughout the book due to age. 

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

How to Eat Fried Worms

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Tad Hills

See pictures for condition. 

Will take off back sticker if bought. 

Celebrate love and friendship with the New York Times-bestselling feathered friends Duck & Goose in this sturdy board book, perfect for preschoolers! Now an animated series, available to stream on Apple TV+!

Goose is feeling sad. What does he need to cheer him up? He doesn't need a game of tag. Or to stand on his head. Or a happy song. What he really, really needs... is a hug from a good friend.

Praise for the Duck & Goose series:
 
"Duck and Goose have taken their places alongside Frog and Toad and George and Martha as fine examples of friendship, curiosity and problem-solving." --Kirkus Reviews
 
"Charming, funny, simple, and surprising. . . Hills is master of the light comic touch." --The Boston Globe

Duck and Goose, Goose Needs a Hug

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Herman. Melville

The inside is perfect. The outside has two stickers. I will attempt to take off it bought. 

"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by Moby-Dick--Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: What if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"?

The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine--to, sadly, critical disdain.

The Art of The Novella Series

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art of the Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Bartleby the Scrivener

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William Blake

Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

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Taye Diggs

Brand new book! Someone got for us but I don’t think they understood what the book is about. 

Band new! 

My child. I am not always with youas much as I'd like. But you are always in my mind and my heart. Some families look different than others. A father who doesn't live full-time with his son tells him all the ways he misses and loves him. Perfect for families who are separated, whatever the circumstances, this message of love underscores the bond between parent and child in ways that little ones will understand.

I Love You More Than ...

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National Audubon Society

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North America

The most comprehensive field guide available to the insects and spiders of North America--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.

Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification photographs organized visually by color and shape, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders is the perfect companion for any outdoor excursion. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic details, and information on habitat, range, feeding habits, sounds or songs, flight period, web construction, life cycle, behaviors, folklore, and environmental impact. An illustrated key to the insect orders and detailed drawings of the parts of insects, spiders, and butterflies supplement this extensive coverage.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders

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The most comprehensive field guide available to the reptiles and amphibians of North America--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.
 
Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 600 full-color identification photographs organized for quick access, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians is the perfect companion in the field. This compact volume contains:

--Background information on evolution, anatomy, physiology, habitats, and life cycles of a range of reptile and amphibian families.
--A detailed look at how reptiles and amphibians survive-how they eat, move around, defend themselves, and combat temperature extremes.
--Examinations of metamorphosis, growth and longevity, and vocalization techniques.
--Practical advice on how to responsibly study reptiles and amphibians in the wild or care for them as pets.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

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Amy Engel

A Novel

Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier.

The Roanoke Girls

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Sharon G. Carson

Jonathan Kozol

Yellowing pages. Some stickers on front. 

Children in America's Schools

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.

Savage Inequalities

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Nancy F. Cott

A History of Marriage and the Nation

We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution.

From the founding of the United States to the present day, imperatives about the necessity of marriage and its proper form have been deeply embedded in national policy, law, and political rhetoric. Legislators and judges have envisioned and enforced their preferred model of consensual, lifelong monogamy--a model derived from Christian tenets and the English common law that posits the husband as provider and the wife as dependent.In early confrontations with Native Americans, emancipated slaves, Mormon polygamists, and immigrant spouses, through the invention of the New Deal, federal income tax, and welfare programs, the federal government consistently influenced the shape of marriages. And even the immense social and legal changes of the last third of the twentieth century have not unraveled official reliance on marriage as a "pillar of the state."

By excluding some kinds of marriages and encouraging others, marital policies have helped to sculpt the nation's citizenry, as well as its moral and social standards, and have directly affected national understandings of gender roles and racial difference. Public Vows is a panoramic view of marriage's political history, revealing the national government's profound role in our most private of choices. No one who reads this book will think of marriage in the same way again.

Public Vows

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Stephen. Crane

It’s an older copy of the book. Age shows. See pictures. 

A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction

Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie- A Girl of the Streets, finally printing it himself in 1893.
Condemned and misunderstood during Crane's lifetime, this starkly realistic story of a pretty child of the Bowery has since been recognized as a landmark work in American fiction.

Now Crane's great short novel of life in turn-of-the-century New York is published in its original form, along with four of Crane's best short stories-The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The Monster, and The Open Boat-stories of such remarkable power and clarity that they stand among the finest short stories ever written by an American.

Maggie

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First published in 1895, America's greatest novelnbsp;nbsp;of the Civil War was written before 21-year-oldnbsp;nbsp;Stephen Crane had "smelled even the powder of anbsp;nbsp;sham battle." But this powerful psychologicalnbsp;nbsp;study of a young soldier's struggle with thenbsp;nbsp;horrors, both within and without, that war strikes thenbsp;nbsp;reader with its undeniable realism and with itsnbsp;nbsp;masterful descriptions of the moment-by-moment riotnbsp;nbsp;of emotions felt by me under fire. Ernestnbsp;nbsp;Hemingway called the novel an American classic, andnbsp;nbsp;Crane's genius is as much apparent in his sharp,nbsp;nbsp;colorful prose as in his ironic portrayal of an episodenbsp;nbsp;of war so intense, so immediate, so real that thenbsp;nbsp;terror of battle becomes our own ... in anbsp;nbsp;masterpiece so unique that many believe modern Americannbsp;nbsp;fiction began with Stephen Crane.

The Red Badge of Courage

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Kate Chopin

Good condition. Pages are just yellowing. 

Will take off back sticker if bought  

When a Louisiana woman meets a young resort owner while on vacation, she begins to fall in love with him despite her own marriage, in a sensuous short novel, first published in 1899, that is accompanied by a selection of short fiction by Chopin. Reissue.

The Awakening

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A few pages have pen marks for quotes. Slight tear on binding. See pictures. 

A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability

Tender Is the Night

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Tim O'Brien

The pages are a little bent (see pictures). 

One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried  is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald; Susan Orlean

This Side of Paradise

Lisa Gardner

Find Her

Heidi Murkoff

What to Expect the First Year

Amelia Hepworth

I Love You to the Moon and Back

Miles Kelly

My First 1000 Words

Andy Holmes

Growing with Jesus

Paul Kozella

Fifteen American One Act Plays 9780671543136

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Thomas Rockwell

How to Eat Fried Worms

Tad Hills

Duck and Goose, Goose Needs a Hug

Herman. Melville

Bartleby the Scrivener

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Taye Diggs

I Love You More Than ...

National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders

National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

Amy Engel

The Roanoke Girls

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Sharon G. Carson

This Side of Paradise

Jonathan Kozol

Savage Inequalities

Nancy F. Cott

Public Vows

Stephen. Crane

Maggie

Stephen. Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender Is the Night

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

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