Angela Flournoy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A novel centered on the journey of the Turner family and its thirteen siblings, particularly the eldest and youngest, as they face the ghosts of their pasts both an actual haint and the specter of addiction the imminent loss of their mother, and the necessary abandonment of their family home in struggling Detroit"

The Turner House

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Jeffrey Brown

Robots who can change form wage war on humans, but some team up with the humans to outsmart the Changebots.

Far away in space, there is a planet full of robots able to change from robot form to vehicle form — the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues — but at what cost?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, Jeffrey Brown re-invents the shape changing robot genre into an occasionally stopping action comedy half-full of romance, drama and epic battles!

Incredible Change-Bots

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Roger Morris

Ella Morris

Beautifully photographed scenes of the region with notes about and recipes for each season. 

The Brandywine Book of the Seasons

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Laura Gayle

Signed copy, with a little shelfwear but otherwise super clean. First in series of 5 set in the San Juan islands, on Orcas Island (WA state, the Pacific NW)

Book 1 of the Chameleon Chronicles

Camille Tate has always run away...but vanishing whenever life gets too frightening has never solved anything. When a broken heart sends Cam to remote Orcas Island to try her hand at caretaking and writing a screenplay, she finds quiet beaches and cozy bookstores, plus a host of intriguing folks, including a rugged boat-builder, a glamorous neighbor, and a reassuring sheriff's deputy. But an escalating nest of mysteries and the haunting sense of being watched soon leave Cam wondering if she can believe her own perceptions. As intrigue turns to danger, she must decide whether there is anyone she can trust, or if it's time for her to vanish yet again.

Orcas Intrigue

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Oyinkan Braithwaite

Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.

My Sister, the Serial Killer

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M. B. Austin

Signed copy. Minimal shelf wear. 
Maji tries to vacation on Long Island but tangles w Russian mob and Italian mafia, instead. Mission #1: protect Rose

A Maji Rios Novel 

Covert operator Maji Rios will do whatever she must to complete her mission, but saving a gorgeous stranger from Russian mobsters was not in her plans.

Strictly Need to Know

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Covert operator tries to win back the woman of her dreams while on leave in Sitka, AK. Work intrudes...again. 

Covert operator Maji Rios's best friend was right: she was an idiot to break up with Professor Rose diStephano, even for the best reasons. When Rose offers her a week of R&R in Sitka, Alaska, she's ready to let Rose decide if a relationship is worth the danger. But her plans to win Rose back are interrupted when work intrudes, and duty calls Maji to help a SEAL team stop a Russian mobster from harvesting gold from the bottom of Sitka Sound. Rose knows Maji pushed her away to protect her. And she may forgive her, depending on how their week in Sitka goes. But when Maji is called into action on vacation, Rose realizes their love puts Maji in danger, too. Is that a choice she can live with?

Running off Radar

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Mb Austin

Covert agent doubles for rock star Spanish pop star

A Maji Rios Novel

When an unlikely friendship with Spanish pop star Erlea turns deeper, Celeste, in-house physician for the hotel hosting Erlea's show, has a choice to make-run or double down on love.

Double Down

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Laura Dave

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--

The Last Thing He Told Me

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Peter Tremayne

Historical thriller set in AD 671 Ireland w "a woman of wit and courage " as sleuth, by an authority on the ancient Celts.

A Sister Fidelma Mystery 

Sister Fidelma must call on all her deductive powers when religious gathering spills over into murder . . . Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in the twenty-fifth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of ATONEMENT OF BLOOD, THE SEVENTH TRUMPET and many more. PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Rich helpings of evil and tension with lively and varied characters' Historical Novels Review, 'The most detailed and vivid recreations of ancient Ireland' Irish Examiner Ireland, AD 671. When a curious deputation of religieux arrive in Cashel, death follows close behind. Sister Fidelma and her companion, Eadulf, seem unable to stem the bloodshed. Is one of the deputation responsible? What was the Venerable Verax, the scholar from Rome, hiding? Was there an evil secret behind the austere Bishop Arwald? Indeed, what was the real reason behind Eadulf's brother Egric's unexpected appearance at Cashel - could he be the culprit? Victims and suspects combine to make a tangled skein of mystery more complex and bloody than Fidelma and Eadulf have ever faced. What readers are saying about THE DEVIL'S SEAL: 'Outstanding. Once started, this compelling story cannot be put down' 'Excitement from start to finish. Well researched, contrived and written' 'A fascinating and exciting plot. A devilish great mystery!'

The Devil's Seal

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Charlotte Armstrong

Patricia Highsmith

Margaret Millar

Dolores Hitchens

Four suspense novels from the 1950s, nearly 700 pages total.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Mischief / the Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold

The Real Lolita author Sarah Wienman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction—women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today’s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. This volume, the second of a two-volume collector’s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today’s leading crime writers. From the 1950s here are Charlotte Armstrong’s Mischief, the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter, Patricia Highsmith’s The Blunderer, brilliantly tracking the perverse parallel lives of two men driven toward murder, Margaret Millar’s Beast in View, a relentless study in madness, and Dolores Hitchens’s Fools' Gold, a hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of The 1950s (LOA #269)

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Seymour Resnick

Short but helpful, focuses on key concepts 

A concise survey of the major points of Spanish grammar needed for speech and comprehension

Essential Spanish Grammar

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Practical instruction for civilians, w lots of illustrations. Helpful for writing fight scenes, some techniques more useful than others. Not a substitute for in person training, but ok supplement.

SAS and Elite Forces Guide

Self-Defense

David Borgenicht

Joe Borgenicht

Very fun, good for writing research or just a cute gift for the action hero in your life.

How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Jedi Mind Trick, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills

Compiles information from movies and television programs including "Star Trek", "Top Gun", and "Body Heat" to teach readers such skills as how to tell if someone is really dead, how to evade a MiG, and how to pick up someone in a bar.

The Action Hero's Handbook

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Leroy Thompson

From 2009, so not up to date on digital tech. But great historical info on Special Ops, from recruitment and training to missions and tactics. Good for writers' research or military buffs.

A Practical Guide to Elite International Units

The third series of this spin on Superman lore is marked by Clark Kent's inability to overpower destiny and its pressing call for his return home. Clark, who has left Smallville for Metropolis, returns to Smallville to help his parents, who are desperately trying to save their cash-strapped farm and is happily surprised to find that Lex Luthor has survived a deadly jet crash. Lex and Clark's ill-fated camaraderie is strengthened by this miracle but causes tension in the close-knit Kent family, as Jonathan fears that Lex will emulate Lionel and his unscrupulous ways, even while Lex has tried to establish his own identity. The episodes are: 'Exile (1)'; 'Phoenix (2)'; 'Extinction'; 'Slumber'; 'Perry'; 'Relic'; 'Magnetic'; 'Shattered'; 'Asylum'; 'Whisper'; 'Delete'; 'Hereafter'; 'Velocity'; 'Obsession'; 'Resurrection'; 'Crisis'; 'Legacy'; 'Truth'; 'Memoria'; 'Talisman'; 'Forsaken (1)'; and 'Covenant (2)'.

The Counter Terrorist Manual

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Fay Goodman

An overview of 10 popular martial arts, full of color photos plus notes on history and philosophy, clothes and gear, exercises, and selected techniques. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

This book examines the underlying philosophy behind each martial art and the physical benefits to be gained, and presents the most popular techniques, and some of the more advanced moves.

A Handbook of Martial Arts

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Kakuzo Okakura

Short anthology text explaining the cultural significance of tea, including the tea ceremony and connection to Taoism and Zen buddhism. 

Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler. "Provocative and entertaining, this edition is particularly pleasing in format." — Guide to Asia Paperbacks.

The Book of Tea

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Tom Cuthbertson

Kind of a classic, the 1984 edition. Still relevant for older bikes

Bicycle repair manual 

An easy-to-follow, illustrated guide to the basic bicycle components and repair tools and procedures.

Anybody's Bike Book

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Sherman Alexie

New and Selected Stories

The author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and the PEN/Faulkner award-winning War Dances combines his beloved classic short stories with new ones in this anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines and marriage.

Blasphemy

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Tracy Weber

Signed by author, first in series. Set in Seattle with amateur sleuth yoga teacher and her German shepherd. 

When George and Bella—a homeless alcoholic and his intimidating German shepherd—disturb the peace outside her studio, yoga instructor Kate Davidson’s Zen-like calm is stretched to the breaking point. Kate tries to get rid of them before Bella scares the yoga pants off her students. Instead, the three form an unlikely friendship. One night Kate finds George’s body behind her studio. The police dismiss his murder as a drug-related street crime, but she knows George wasn’t a dealer. So Kate starts digging into George’s past while also looking for someone to adopt Bella before she’s sent to the big dog park in the sky. With the murderer nipping at her heels, Kate has to work fast or her next Corpse Pose may be for real. Praise: “The delightful start of a promising new series. I couldn’t put it down!”—Waverly Fitzgerald, author of Dial C for Chihuahua “Murder Strikes a Pose is a delightful debut novel . . . Namaste to Weber and her fresh, new heroine!”—Penny Warner, author of How to Dine on Killer Wine

Murder Strikes a Pose

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When Kate Davidson gets an offer to teach yoga classes to wedding guests at the Elysian Springs resort, she jumps at the opportunity, even though it means being forced to endure the wedding ceremony of the center's two caretakers. Avoiding the M-word turns out to be the least of Kate's problems when a wedding guest is found floating face-down in the resort's hot tub, shortly after a loud, public (and somewhat embarrassing) fight with Kate. The police pick Kate as their number-one suspect, so she's forced to team up with boyfriend Michael, best friend Rene, and German shepherd sidekick Bella to find the real killer. But they'll have to solve the murder before the police arrest Kate, or her next gig may last a lifetime--behind bars.

A Killer Retreat

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Nicole Kimberling

First 3 novella length mysteries in the Bellingham Mystery series. 

Peter Fontaine just wants to break a juicy story and maybe win an award for his intrepid journalism. But all too soon his instinct for prying and his fantastical turn of mind conspire to draw him deep into murder and mystery. The Bellingham Mystery Series collects the first three novellas: Primal Red, Evergreen and Black Cat Ink.

The Bellingham Mystery Series Volume 1

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Moon Unit Zappa

America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love -- with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men. America's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's "aha" moment culminates with, "While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better." In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. Hailed as "brilliant" (Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice.

America the Beautiful

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Lindy West

Notes from a Loud Woman

Hailed by Lena Dunham as an "essential (and hilarious) voice for women," Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice and body image. Her empowering work has garnered a coast-to-coast audience that eagerly awaits SHRILL, her highly-anticipated literary debut. West has rocked readers in work published everywhere from The Guardian to GQ to This American Life. She is a catalyst for a national conversation in a world where not all stories are created equal and not every body is treated with equal respect. SHRILL is comprised of a series of essays that bravely shares her life, including her transition from quiet to feminist-out-loud, coming of age in a popular culture that is hostile to women (especially fat, funny women) and how keeping quiet is not an option for any of us.

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Angela Flournoy

The Turner House

Jeffrey Brown

Incredible Change-Bots

Roger Morris; Ella Morris

The Brandywine Book of the Seasons

Laura Gayle

Orcas Intrigue

Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Sister, the Serial Killer

M. B. Austin

Strictly Need to Know

MB Austin

Running off Radar

Mb Austin

Double Down

Laura Dave

The Last Thing He Told Me

Peter Tremayne

The Devil's Seal

Charlotte Armstrong; Patricia Highsmith; Margaret Millar; Dolores Hitchens

Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of The 1950s (LOA #269)

Seymour Resnick

Essential Spanish Grammar

Martin Dougherty

Self-Defense

David Borgenicht; Joe Borgenicht

The Action Hero's Handbook

Leroy Thompson

The Counter Terrorist Manual

Fay Goodman

A Handbook of Martial Arts

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea

Tom Cuthbertson

Anybody's Bike Book

Sherman Alexie

Blasphemy

Tracy Weber

Murder Strikes a Pose

Tracy Weber

A Killer Retreat

Nicole Kimberling

The Bellingham Mystery Series Volume 1

Moon Unit Zappa

America the Beautiful

Lindy West

Shrill

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