Victor LaValle

This ranges on excellent, but there are minor creases on the back cover and a touch of wear around the edges. Second photo should display flaws. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

A Novel

Blue skies, empty land--and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.

"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle."--Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.

The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land for those who can tame it--except that Adelaide isn't alone. And the secret she's tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.

Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you've never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past--or redeem it.

Lone Women

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Andrea Hairston

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

“This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a lovesong, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons NEW MATERIAL FOR A NEW EDITION! This trade paperback includes an extensive, conversational interview between the author and Daniel José Older! The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.

Master of Poisons

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The Art and Craft of Feature Writing

Pages are intact, but spine is loose. You can see what that looks like in the photos. Some wear and tear on the cover.  

Foundation's Edge

Mark on bottom of book pages, as indicated in photo. 

Second Foundation

There's a stain on the cover and in the inside. Also, the spine had a bend, and the pages show age. The back cover has a tear. Top has black mark. 

Foundation And Earth

Living Language

Condition is between excellent and good. The top edges of the cover are a little rough, and there is a bit of a crease on the back cover. CD is in brand new condition. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

World Languages

Learn the Forms, Master the Tenses, and Speak Fluently! (WITH CD)

A reference designed to develop proficiency in Spanish verb tenses and usage offers conjugation charts, a quick-find two-way glossary, practice questions, and sample dialogues.

2000+ Essential Spanish Verbs

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This is a Junior Deluxe edition of the hardcover book. Great illustrations. Torn between choosing good and fair for the condition. The top pages have a mark, which you can see in the second photo. There is a slight tear on the top of the spine. 

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Condition is poor. Pencil markings inside, yellows pages, and rough edges. 

The Fall of the Towers

This book is like new. There was one single page that was bent upwards at the bottom of the page, but everything else is in like new condition. 

Social Studies

Freedom's Bittersweet Song

The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher programs keep civil rights on the front burner in the political arena. In light of this, there are very few resources for teaching the civil rights at the university level. This timely and invaluable book fills this gap. This book offers perspectives on presenting the movement in different classroom contexts; strategies to make the movement come alive for students; and issues highlighting topics that students will find appealing. Including sample syllabi and detailed descriptions from courses that prove effective, this work will be useful for all instructors, both college and upper level high school, for courses in history, education, race, sociology, literature and political science.

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

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Essays and Memoirs

This collection of essays and memoirs from C. S. Lewis' friends, pupils, biographer, and various correspondents illustrates the breadth of influence upon today's leading evangelical writers and leaders by a man some have called the twentieth century's greatest Christian apologist.

We Remember C. S. Lewis

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Solid condition, but it does have pages yellowed with age. There are minor issues around the cover edges that you can see in the photos.  

To commemorate Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Knopf here republishes her full canon of novels. This edition of The Bluest Eye (1970) contains a new afterword by the author.

The Bluest Eye

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Divine Intervention

#paperback #ya #novelization #movienovelization #nostalgia #90s 

Disturbing Behavior

Stained pages. Cover has some creases. #paperback #youngadult #juvenilefiction #fiction #ya 

The Daffodils 

Book gotten at library sale so there's a library stamp at the top, as seen in picture three. #paperback #fiction #womenauthors 

Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood

Lots of wear on this book. Cover curls at the bottom and some damage to the top as seen in pictures. Still perfectly readable. #paperback 

A Novel of Myth and Magic - on the Streets and on the Net

At a popular Newford online research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girlfriend Saskia disappears right before his eyes, along with countless others.

To rescue their missing friends, Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...

Spirits in the Wires

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Has just a little wear at the very bottom of the front cover. Really great shape otherwise. #paperback #horrorfiction #africanamerican #diversereads #womenauthors #vampires 

A Vampire Huntress Legend

There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Here is an account of her legend....

All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons--predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy.

But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body; these bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before.

Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world.

Minion

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Book has significant wear on covers, but the pages are good. #paperback #nostalgia #millennialreaders #bsc #dawnschafer 

Dawn and the Impossible Three 

The Babysitters Club

There are two minor stains on the front cover and a mark on the bottom set of pages. #paperback #diversereads #womenauthors 

Occasional Essays

"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." --Los Angeles Times

Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.

Changing My Mind

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#paperback #Espanol #enespanol #thesecretlifeofbees 

Una Novela

Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la bravía madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Ellas escapan a Tiburón, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre. Alojadas por un excéntrico trío de hermanas negras apicultoras, Lily es introducida al fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel, y a la Virgen Negra. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.

La Vida Secreta de Las Abejas

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A Memoir

In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi -- punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back. In doing so, Mai single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan, one of the world's most adverse climates for women.

By July 2002, the Pakistani government awarded her the equivalent of 8,500 U.S. dollars in compensation money and sentenced her attackers to death -- and Mukhtar Mai went on to open a school for girls so that future generations would not suffer, as she had, from illiteracy.

In this rousing account, Mai describes her experience and how she has since become an agent for change and a beacon of hope for oppressed women around the world. Timely and topical, In the Name of Honor is the remarkable and inspirational memoir of a woman who fought and triumphed against exceptional odds.

In the Name of Honor

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Chesterton's Orthodoxy is not an explanation "of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." He begins with a description of how he sets out to find a new anchor for his thought in an age of uncertainty and discovers at every step along the way that what he thought was new is exactly what the Church confesses in the Apostles' Creed. While the motto of the modern world is "believe in yourself," the movement of the Creed directs one's belief outside oneself to a maker, a redeemer, and a sanctifier of heaven and earth--and to a community of believers. Chesterton notes that those "who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums," and this leads him to a remarkable exploration of madness, which he says is the absence, not of reason, but of imagination. Seeking freedom, he finds the Church--but he defines the Church, via the cross, as throwing its arms open rather than drawing a circle around itself.

Orthodoxy (Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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This is a book fair book and has a red mark at the bottom, pictured in the second photo. There is also some slight denting on the back cover, but is difficult to photograph. Otherwise, in decent condition. #paperback 

Sliding into the Rabbit Hole... Would She Ever Return?

On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice's near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her "little idiosyncrasies." But during a stress-filled senior year at college, a new world of voices, visions, and unexplainable "knowledge" causes Alice to begin to lose her grip on reality.

As Alice's schizophrenia progresses, she experiences a disturbing religious "awakening," believing that God and angels and demons are speaking to her. When others attempt to intervene, Alice is subjected to a wide range of "treatments" even more frightening and painful than her illness.

Powerfully raw and brutally honest, Finding Alice is a story of individual suffering and hope, a family's shared ordeal, and a search for true mental and spiritual healing.

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In the Name of Honor

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