Jostein Gaarder

Paulette Moller

A clever fictional book also detailing the history of philosophy.  International best seller!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

A Novel about the History of Philosophy

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Sophie's World

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Kristan Higgins

New York Times Bestselling Author!  Like new edition.  Includes a readers guide for book clubs

"Twelve letters. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again"--

Pack up the Moon

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Herta Müller

Philip Boehm

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar, and battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony: one shovel load of coal is worth one gram of bread. In The Hunger Angel, Nobel laureate Herta Müller calls upon her unique combination of poetic intensity and dispassionate precision to conjure the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. She has given Leo the language to express the inexpressible, as hunger sharpens his senses into an acuity that is both hallucinatory and profound. In scene after disorienting scene, the most ordinary objects accrue tender poignancy as they acquire new purpose—a gramophone box serves as a suitcase, a handkerchief becomes a talisman, an enormous piece of casing pipe functions as a lovers' trysting place. The heart is reduced to a pump, the breath mechanized to the rhythm of a swinging shovel, and coal, sand, and snow have a will of their own. Hunger becomes an insatiable angel who haunts the camp, but also a bare-knuckled sparring partner, delivering blows that keep Leo feeling the rawest connection to life. Müller has distilled Leo's struggle into words of breathtaking intensity that take us on a journey far beyond the Gulag and into the depths of one man's soul.

The Hunger Angel

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Kathi Appelt

A charming children’s tale set in the Louisiana swamps.  It’s a counter story told by both a boy trying to save his family’s restaurant and two young raccoons setting off on their own.  There is also a side story of searching for an ivory billed woodpecker spanning from the boy’s grandfather’s time.  My family loved it!  Hardback with dust jacket…in excellent shape.

Meet Bingo and J'miah, raccoon brothers on a mission to save Sugar Man Swamp in this National Book Award finalist from Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt.

Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the Sugar Man--the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp--is an honor, and also a big responsibility, since the rest of the swamp critters rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts.

Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn is not a member of any such organization. But he loves the swamp something fierce, and he'll do anything to help protect it.

And help is surely needed, because world-class alligator wrestler Jaeger Stitch wants to turn Sugar Man swamp into an Alligator World Wrestling Arena and Theme Park, and the troubles don't end there. There is also a gang of wild feral hogs on the march, headed straight toward them all.

The Scouts are ready. All they have to do is wake up the Sugar Man. Problem is, no one's been able to wake that fellow up in a decade or four...

Newbery Honoree and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt's story of care and conservation has received five starred reviews, was selected as a National Book Award finalist, and is funny as all get out and ripe for reading aloud.

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Large Print Edition!  Hardcover, library binding.  Great condition!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Creative Living Beyond Fear

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorReaders have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now the beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share wisdom and a unique perspective on creativity. Gilbert shows us how to tackle what we most love and face down what we most fear, bringing to light whatever "strange jewels" are hidden within us. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

Big Magic

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David Sedaris

Nearly new paperback with some slight aging on the outside rim of the pages (see the pics); it does not travel into the book pages.  

Holidays on Ice

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Richard Howard

This is a really well put together edition of the classic of The Little Prince.  In great shape with glossy pages and full color illustrations.  The book offers a great readers guide in the back, details of the author’s life and an intro by author Gregory Maguire.

Available for the first time in an edition for young adults, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic story,The Little Prince, beloved by readers of all ages, comes to life in a format perfect for teen readers.

"I'm glad I was asked to be the ambassador for this book. I suspect you may find that something of the starry magic of this story stays with you, as it has with me." -- Gregory Maguire

"A lovely story...which covers a poetic, yearning philosophy--not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence." --New York Times Book Review

At first glance, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 classicThe Little Prince--with its winsome illustrations of a boy prince and his tiny planet--appears to be a children's fairy tale. It doesn't take long, however, to discover that it speaks to readers of all ages. This pocket-sized edition, perfect for teens, features Saint-Exupéry's original full-color illustrations and the unabridged text, a reader's guide, and a introduction by Gregory Maguire. Rediscover--or share--the magic!

This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Stories).

The Little Prince

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Dorling Kindersley Travel Staff

Nice Eyewitness series guidebook on Sydney, Australia.  Publication date is 2015.  Good homeschool resource.  Full color, glossy pages.

Detachable color map affixed to flap of page 3 of cover.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sydney

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Leslie Garrett

Annie Tremmel Wilcox

Nearly new DK bio series of Helen Keller.  Full color, glossy pages…very nice!

A Photographic Story of a Life

DK Biography: Helen Keller

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Richard Scarry

A classic Richard Scarry golden book; reprint of 1960s edition.  Very good condition, minor cover ware.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Deb Solomon is a new mom suffering a spate of postpartum depression, a listless marriage and a career in free-fall. So she jumps at the chance to go to work in another world: a university laboratory housing language-competent apes and the humans who study and care for them, led by a brilliant primatologist Soraya Baldwin-Ruhl. But Soraya’s star is already falling, and the people at the lab act more apelike even as the apes start to seem more human. Deb’s own life becomes more and more a science-y soap opera as she follows Soraya into near-madness, then comes close to losing her life inside an ape cage.

Christmas Mice

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Roger Hargreaves

A classic!  In good shape; minor ware on cover and one page has a tiny tear.

Join a boy named Jack as he goes on a wild adventure with Mr. Daydream?-without even leaving his desk!

Mr. Daydream

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Bodil Bredsdorff

Kathryn Mahaffy

Library binding; very good to excellent condition.  Second book in series.

The Children of Crow Cove Series

Some years have passed since the Crow-Girl set off on a journey, met Eidi and her mother, Foula, along with a few others, and persuaded them to come live near the little cove where a brook runs out to the sea. But when Foula has another baby, Eidi feels there's no longer room for her in the settlement. So she leaves Crow Cove to make her own way in the world, hoping to help her old friend Rossan with his wool out on the heath. Fate, however, brings her to a harbor town where she must find work, and she takes a position as a weaver in the household of a wealthy merchant. In town, Eidi faces disturbing reminders of her past. She also meets a neglected boy named Tink and soon makes a decision that changes the course of both of their futures. The second book in the Children of Crow Cove series is beautifully written in Bodil Bredsdorff's spare style and will deeply satisfy fans of The Crow-Girl and new readers alike.

Eidi

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1982 print of a group of birders that find one of themselves murdered at the Rio Grande Valley.  Still very readable despite age of story (also funny to see life without cellphones!). Recommend to birders and murder mystery aficionados.

A Murder Mystery 

The Case of The Hook-Billed Kites

Betty Christiansen

Kiriko Shirobayashi

Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time

"Knitting for Peace" is an exceptional book that celebrates the long heritage of knitting for others. It tells the stories of 28 contemporary knitting-for-peace endeavors, and features patterns for easy-to-knit charity projects.

Knitting for Peace

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Barbara Bannister

Slight yellowing on inside cover; project sheets throughout book in excellent condition 

Fifty Patchwork Patterns from "Hearth and Home Magazine" 1912-1916

State Capitals Quilt Blocks

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Carolyn Vosburg Hall

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Sew Colorful, Interactive Fun!

These snuggly quilts designed for napping or play will delight children of all ages! Over twenty easy projects for quilters of all levels include easy-to-follow directions and step-by-step photographs and illustrations. Quilters will enjoy watching these playful designs com to life, and children will love the diversity of their new treasures. &break;&break;Small quilts for babies and young children emphasize color, texture and sound. The Pockets design hides toys such as rattles and chewing rings inside. For older children, quilt designs include puppet scenes from the Three Little Pigs story, a fantastic dragon quilt that children can wear over their heads as a costume, and sleeping-bag patterns they can crawl into, in shapes such as Christmas stockings or rocket ships. Game quilts include tic-tac-toe and maze patterns, and active quilts include a bumper car design for bumping down stairs. A Decorate it design incorporates the child's own artistry into the quilts creation, and holiday quilts that light up are sure to make the special day more enchanting.

Owlicious Books

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