Patricia Briggs

I am slowly replacing my paperbacks with hardcover copies of my favorite series.  I can’t recommend the Mercy Thompson paranormal books enough.  Great for those who like the heroes smart as well as tough.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

When her mate's ex-wife shows up on the run from her new boyfriend, who turns out to be less than human, shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must stop the bodies from piling up.

Night Broken

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C. M. Carney

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Realms Book One - (an Epic LitRPG Adventure

A BETRAYED SPY TURNED NEWB HERO.

From the #1 Bestselling Author of The Quintessence: Crucible.

Betrayed by those closest to him, Finn Caldwell thought he'd escaped his life of violence and deception. 

But when a frantic message from his estranged sister draws him into The Realms, the world's most advanced holographic reality game, Finn is forced to embrace his deadly skills once more. 

Armed with a mysterious artifact known as a Godhead, Finn becomes the warrior-mage Gryph. But, what starts as a rescue mission becomes something far more when Finn learns that The Realms is not just a game, but a real universe, one threatened by the machinations of a mad god. 

Banished to a horrific sentient dungeon, Finn must learn the rules of this strange new world and defeat an ancient revenant who survives by consuming souls. Only then will he have any hope of saving his sister, and the new world they both call home. 

Barrow King is the first volume in the #1 Bestselling Epic LitRPG Saga The Realms, a book that is "mind blowing and flawless in its execution."  -- Ray Johnson of the LitRPG Audiobook Podcast.

WARNING: Welcome to your new favorite genre.

LitRPG/GameLit books usually feature adventures in a fantasy setting or sci-fi world and feature the progression and gaming elements from tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons 5e and Pathfinder with epic RPG video games like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and MMO's like World of Warcraft. It features leveling up, crunchy stat, an rpg character sheet and skill progression. If this is your first LitRPG or GameLit, then welcome to the dark side of awesome. The Realms will take you back to the days when D&D books were new and The Elder Scrolls were a glint in the programmers eye. 

Embrace the adventure, portal to a new world and prepare to lose sleep! You have been warned!


The Realms is a non harem LitRPG series that contains action violence some swears, but no sex and is appropriate for teens and adults.

Barrow King is also available in print and as an audiobook narrated by Armen Taylor.

Perfect for fans of The Land: Chaos Seeds, Viridian Gate Online and The Good Guys.

The Realms - An Epic LitRPG/GameLit Fantasy Series. Suggested Reading Order.

 * Barrow King
 * The Lost City
 * Killing Time 
 * Dead Must Die (A Side Quest)
 * Scourge of Souls
 * The Forsaken God
 * Chaos Rising
 * Ravaged Land 

Barrow King

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Lynda Mullaly Hunt

"Fans of R.J. Palacio's Wonder will appreciate this feel-good story of friendship and unconventional smarts." --Kirkus Reviews Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there's a lot more to her--and to everyone--than a label, and that great minds don't always think alike. The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who's ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn't fit in. This paperback edition includes The Sketchbook of Impossible Things and discussion questions. A New York Times Bestseller! * "Unforgettable and uplifting."--School Library Connection, starred review * "Offering hope to those who struggle academically and demonstrating that a disability does not equal stupidity, this is as unique as its heroine."--Booklist, starred review * "Mullaly Hunt again paints a nuanced portrayal of a sensitive, smart girl struggling with circumstances beyond her control." --School Library Journal, starred review

Fish in a Tree

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Shannon Hale

A lovely story by the author of the Princess Academy.  Suitable for the younger end of YA and upper middle grade.

When Lady Saren refuses to marry a man she fears, she and her maid, Dashti, are locked in a tower with just a tiny flap open to the outside world. As food runs low and the weather changes from broiling hot to unbearably cold, it is all Dashti can do to make them comfortable in their dark prison.

Not long after their confinement begins, Saren's suitors arrive-one welcome, the other less so-and she orders Dashti to speak to them. Impersonating Lady Saren is a crime punishable by death, but Dashti will have to play the role many times if she is to save them both from the tower and the dangers outside. As she takes control of their desperate situation, Dashti begins to understand her own astonishing talents and believe that even a low-born maid can find true love.

The Book of a Thousand Days

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Joanna Kavenna

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

'Fun and erudite' Sunday Times 'Snort-inducingly funny' Daily Mail 'One of the cleverest books you'll read this year' Telegraph A darkly ironic novel of ideas, a dystopia, and an absurdist thriller, from the award-winning novelist Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, CEO of Beetle, has become one of the world's most powerful and influential figures. Untaxed and ungoverned, his trans-Atlantic company essentially operates beyond the control of Governments or the law. But trouble is never far away, and for Guy a perfect storm is brewing: his wife wants to leave him, fed up with his serial infidelities; malfunctioning Beetle software has led to some unfortunate deaths which are proving hard to cover up; his longed for deal with China is proving troublingly elusive and, among other things, the mystery hacker, Gogol, is on his trail. With the clock ticking- Guy, his aide Douglas Varley, Britain's flailing female PM, conflicted national security agent Eloise Jayne, depressed journalist David Strachey, and Gogol, whoever that may be - the question is becoming ever more pressing, how do you live in reality when nobody knows anything, and all knowledge, all certainty, is partly, or entirely fake?

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Anthony Doerr

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

"If you're looking for a superb novel, look no further." --The Washington Post

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a "wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that's infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences" (The New York Times Book Review).

Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.

In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna's will cross.

In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege.

And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father.

Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Julianne Lee

A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Death of Henry Darnley

Just after the execution of Mary Stuart, the Scottish-born Lady Janet de Ros, wife of a wealthy English merchant, becomes convinced that the doomed Queen of Scots had been innocent of charges of treason and of involvement in the murder of her husband, Lord Darley, and launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth, a probe that could cost her everything. Original.

A Question of Guilt

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Deborah Willis

This is a rich collection of short stories from one of Canada’s rising stars.

"The emotional range and depth of these stories, their clarity and deftness, is astonishing."

--Alice Munro

 

A finalist for the Governor General's Awards, Vanishing and Other Stories is the stunning debut short story collection from Deborah Willis. Evocative and passionately written, Vanishing brilliantly explores emotional and physical absences; the ways in which people leave and are left; and whether it's ever possible to move on.

Vanishing and Other Stories

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Hayden Gabriel

This is a first edition of the Touchstone imprint— US copyright is one year after UK copyright.  See photos.  Stunning book set in Cornwall. 

Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies of marriage. In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a striking woman, Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting, Claira basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand, the still air holding the notes she has just played. In 1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with the rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire makes two discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter. The lives that fill this elegant novel are a testament to the powerful ways that sensual discovery, creativity, and the experience of marriage connect women across time.

Where the Light Remains

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Emily St. John Mandel

This is a first edition under the Vintage imprint.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." --The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core. 

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. 

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

Sea of Tranquility

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John Mortimer

The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love. This is a must-read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers.

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

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Scott Lynch

Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

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The Borgias were a fascinating family in an incredible part of history.  Read the novels, watch the series on TV, and tie it all together with nonfiction books like this one.

Lucretia Borgia

Jeanne Kalogridis

Vivacious Sancha of Aragon arrives in Rome newly wed to a member of the notorious Borgia dynasty. Surrounded by the city's opulence and political corruption, she befriends her glamorous and deceitful sister-in-law, Lucrezia, whose jealousy is as legendary as her beauty. Some say Lucrezia has poisoned her rivals, particularly those to whom her handsome brother, Cesare, has given his heart. So when Sancha falls under Cesare's irresistible spell, she must hide her secret or lose her life. Caught in the Borgias' sinister web, she summons her courage and uses her cunning to outwit them at their own game. Vividly interweaving historical detail with fiction, The Borgia Bride is a richly compelling tale of conspiracy, sexual intrigue, loyalty, and drama.

The Borgia Bride

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Phil Foglio

Kaja Foglio

This is the hardcover version of the amazing WebComic “Girl Genius”.  Book3 in the series.  Hilarious, gaslight fantasy in a crazy world.  Winner of the Hugo Award. Dust jacket has some damage (see photos).  Interior is solid.

Girl Genius, Book Three

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family’s castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears. The Empire is convinced that Agatha is the person responsible for the Long War (and to be fair, they are not entirely incorrect). And, worst of all, the Castle itself is insane. From the Hugo Award–winning Girl Genius online comics comes this third book in the Agatha H. trilogy; and just like the first two, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle will grab you from the first page and not let go! Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle

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Thomas Maltman

A beautiful heartfelt story about a difficult and shameful period in Minnesota history.  Award winning fiction around the Dakota war when the rest of the country was focused on the Civil War.

"We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail." --The Boston Globe

The intertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwest--their clashes with slaveholders, the Dakota uprising and its aftermath--is seen through the eyes of young Asa Senger, named for an uncle killed by an Indian friend. It is the unexpected appearance of Asa's aunt Hazel, institutionalized since shortly after the mass hangings of thirty-eight Dakota warriors in Mankato in 1862, that reveals to him that the past is as close as his own heartbeat.

The Night Birds

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Laurie Shepherd

We all have our dreams of getting away from it all.  Laurie Shepherd built her log cabin in northern Minnesota in the early 80s.  For fans of Walden, adventure stories, rustic and survival series.  Other books that would be comps are Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone, biography of Justine Kerfoot, and others.

A Woman's Walden

A Dreamer's Log Cabin

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Anita Brookner

A definitive collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society, in a volume that also includes an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac. Reprint.

The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

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Emily Bronte

Book is in excellent condition except for page 364 and page 365. Someone used some weird stuff as a bookmark and it stuck to the pages.  See photos.  Still this is one of the few annotated versions that won’t cost you a fortune.

Wuthering Heights

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D. L. Bogdan

Married by proxy to James IV, Margaret Tudor, the daughter of Henry VII, becomes the Queen of Scotland and, after a tragic loss, falls victim to the attentions of the ambitious Earl of Angus—a move that brings Scotland to the brink of anarchy and plunges her into a world of betrayal, secret alliances and dangerous passion. Original.

The Forgotten Queen

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Evan Daugherty

John Lee Hancock

Hossein Amini

Lily Blake

The book is in great condition, however the fold out movie poster has worn thin along one of the creases..  all characters are intact.

The wicked queen seeks to destroy Snow White in order to retain her magic and beauty, but unbeknownst to the queen, Snow White has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

Snow White and the Huntsman

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Fran Wilde

When their parents fight, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide, whispering stories and hoping house magic will protect them, until the night a river carries them to a place of dreams and nightmares.

Riverland

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Jacqueline Carey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Following the triumphant success of her Kushiel series ( Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar ), Jacqueline Carey now turns her hand to another startling fable, an epic tale of gods waging war in their bid to control an entire universe and the mortals they use as chess pieces in a most deadly game.Once, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord. First-born among them was Haomane, Lord-of-Thought and with his brother and sister gods, the Seven drew upon of the power of the Souma, claimed a race of beings for their own and began Shaping the world to their will.But Haomane saw the ways of this new world and was displeased. For in his younger brother Satoris, once called the Sower, Haomane thought too prideful and in his gift, the quickening of the flesh too freely to the races... and to that of Man in particular. Haomane asked Satoris to withdraw his Gift from Men but he refused. And so began the Shapers' War.Eons have passed. The war that ensued Sundered the very world. Haomane and his siblings lay to one end of a vast ocean unable to touch their creations, Satoris and the races of the world on the other. Satoris has been broken and left adrift among the peoples of the world and is reviled, with most of the races believing that it was he alone who caused the rift and depriving them of the balm of the Seven. He sits in Darkhaven, controlling his own dominion - seeking not victory but neither vengeance.But still Haomane is not content. Through Haomane's whispers in the minds and hearts of the races of the world come a prophecy that if Satoris were defeated, the world could be made whole and all would bask in the light of the Souma again. And the few who stay by Satoris are viewed as the ultimate evil. And so the races come together to defeat Satoris, a being who helped engender them all but who is caught in his elder brother's warp.Strong storytelling with evocative, compelling, and unforgettable characters, Banewrecker ultimately asks the question:If all that is considered good considers you evil, are you?

Banewrecker

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David Grann

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

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