Courtney G. Donnell

Susan Weininger

Robert Cozzolino

There is only wear on the front cover, as pictured. Such tremendous art! 

From Booklist: 
It's a commonplace to say that artists are unique, but Ivan Albright (1897^-1983) is truly in a class by himself. An influential and successful Chicago artist, he possessed a "singular vision," according to Courtney Graham Donnell, a contributor to this well produced volume. A master technician, Albright created meticulously detailed paintings, sculpted, carved his own frames, and devised a number of innovative techniques to explore his fascination with perception. A positive, energetic, and fun-loving man, he nonetheless painted dark and troubling portraits that focus, unnervingly, on decay, aging, and death. Albright wrote, "The body is our tomb," and admitted that he liked to make viewers uncomfortable by challenging their notions of art, beauty, and life. An artist with the unusual distinction of having one of his paintings star in a film, his Portrait of Dorian Gray (1943), Albright should be better known, and, with this outstanding monograph accompanying the striking exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he will be. Donna Seaman

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Washington

This is the first paperback edition of the centennial monograph about a unique American artist who depicted the vulnerability of human life and the inevitable decay in all things in such masterworks as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the horrifying portrait created for Hollywood's Picture of Dorian Gray. Illustrated

Ivan Albright

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This book would be a fun bit of history to add to your shelf! It’s a first edition by Hank (Henry Hunt) Searls in the first book authored under his name (he used the pen name Lee Costigan for his first book, also published in 1959). Searls was an American author and screenwriter. For familiarity, Searls wrote the novelizations for the movies Jaws 2 (1978) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987). 

The author signed the book dated the same year it was published for actor John Qualen (“To a fine actor”). Qualen was an American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles both in film and television. The only writing in the book is pictured, and is book character notes. We have samples of John Qualen’s handwriting on Google. What do you think - are the notes his? 

The vintage book is in good condition as pictured in great detail. Note there is one page tear that was taped (which was later removed).  The page is readable and you can choose to leave it or repair it to your liking. All pages are intact and the binding is strong. 

Please let me know if you have any questions! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Novel of a Test Pilot

The Big X

Louise Penny

Condition is as pictured, with no marks or writing on the inside. I purchased this on PangoBooks and am excited to be recirculating it back. I have more Inspector Gamache series books for sale!! This book looks barely read! 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone in the hamlet of Three Pines, right up to the moment she died. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache begins his investigation, it seems like an impossible murder: CC was electrocuted on a frozen lake, in front of the entire town, during the annual curling tournament. With compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find long buried secrets, while his own enemies threaten to bring something even more chilling than the bitter winter winds to Three Pines.

A Fatal Grace

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Condition is as pictured, with no marks or writing on the inside. I purchased this on PangoBooks and am excited to be recirculating it back. I have more Inspector Gamache series books for sale!! 

A Rule Against Murder

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I accidentally ordered this book from two different locations, so it’s in like new condition and doesn’t show any signs of being read, just light wear on the edges of the cover as pictured from mailing. I have more Inspector Gamache series books for sale!! 

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. As Gamache follows the trail of clues, he opens a door into the past. And he learns the true reason why the man came to Three Pines. This is a quick and easy read for people on the go.

The Hangman

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The Brutal Telling

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I bought this book on PangoBooks and am excited to be recirculating it back! The pictures accurately show the book’s condition. There is no writing or marks inside the book. I have additional books from the Inspector Gamache series available!! 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

(a Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 6)

Louise Penny is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, including Still Life, which won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2006. Recipient of virtually every existing award for crime fiction, Louise was also granted the Order of Canada in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of literature from Carleton University and the Ordre Nationale du Québec in 2017. She lives in a small village south of Montreal.

Bury Your Dead

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Kat Tang

An August 2024 release book! I read with the jacket cover off, so include pictures so you can see the exact condition of the book. The hardcover is in good condition and everything else (jacket, pages) is in excellent condition. Priced accordingly. Happy reading! 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guises—walks the line between personal and professional in surprising new ways. Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband? In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients. But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life. Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about the commodification of relationships in a gig economy, isolation in a hyperconnected world, and the risk of asking for what we want from those who cannot give. This is the story of a man who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.

Five-Star Stranger

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Amy Tintera

Such an easy, twisty, fast and good read! It’s perfect for a road trip, girl’s weekend or poolside. I read with the jacket/cover off, so include pictures of the hardcover so you can see exactly the condition you’ll be receiving the book in. Enjoy!! 

"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--

Listen for the Lie

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Barbara Kingsolver

I’ve read 51 books in 2024 so far, and this is one of my top 5! I love the hand cut pages too if this Barnes&Noble Exclusive Edition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York Times bestseller An NPR pick for Best Books of 2018 An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Book of 2018 A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018 One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018 One of Newsweek's Best Books of the year The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family’s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town’s powerful men. Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.

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