Peter Carey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love--all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. 

London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. The one other person who knows Catherine's secret--her boss--arranges for her to be given a special project away from prying eyes in the museum's Annexe. Usually controlled and rational, but now mad with grief, Catherine reluctantly unpacks an extraordinary, eerie automaton that she has been charged with bringing back to life.
As she begins to piece together the clockwork puzzle, she also uncovers a series of notebooks written by the mechanical creature's original owner: a nineteenth-century Englishman, Henry Brandling, who traveled to Germany to commission it as a magical amusement for his consumptive son. But it is Catherine, nearly two hundred years later, who will find comfort and wonder in Henry's story. And it is the automaton, in its beautiful, uncanny imitation of life, that will link two strangers confronted with the mysteries of creation, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention, and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

The Chemistry of Tears

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Michael Sears

A Novel

Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects.

Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He's unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed.

But it's not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid," from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him. The things Stafford discovers about himself in the process are every bit as gripping as his investigation, and when the two threads of his life come together - the results are unforgettable.

Black Fridays marks the arrival of a remarkable new writer.

Black Fridays

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Alexander Söderberg

Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate, a situation that pits her against an itinerant arms dealer, a disturbed detective, a vicious hit man and a wily police chief. 100,000 first printing.

The Andalucian Friend

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Age of Miracles

P. J. Tracy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Monkeewrench Novel

On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two young men are found in their home a few blocks away, killed execution-style. The next morning, the dead bodies of three more men turn up, savagely murdered in the same neighborhood. 

As Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes, they learn that there have been similar murders in other cities around the United States. Piece by piece, evidence accumulates, pointing to a suspect that shocks them to the core, uncovering a motive that puts the entire Midwest on high alert and Monkeewrench in the direct line of fire. Before it's all over, Grace and her partners, Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, find themselves in the middle of a shocking collision of violence on a remote northern Minnesota reservation, fighting for their lives.

Off the Grid

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Jon Ronson

From the best selling author of The Psychpath Test 

The Jon Ronson Mysteries

Profiles the eccentricities of contemporary culture and the strange things in which people believe, in an investigation of such topics as indigo children, the Insane Clown Posse's juggalo fans, and assisted suicide practitioners.

Lost at Sea

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Book of Five Virga: Ashes of Candesce 

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Walter Dean Myers

1989 Best Books for Young Adults
Children’s Choices for 1991
1991 Books for the Tern Age 
Used library book 


The Mouse Rap

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Mickey Mantle

Plastic Dust cover is scratched and worn but paper cover and interior books are in excellent condition 

My Memories of 12 World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball

The author recounts his twelve World Series games from 1951 to 1964, when the New York Yankees proved themselves the greatest team in baseball history

All My Octobers

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Used library book in excellent condition 

Dark Life 

Choose Your Own Adventure 100

The Worst Day of Your Life 

Ryder Windham

Star Wars Missions  #4

The Imperial Star Destroyer Liquidator is quickly approaching the Rebel base on Yavin Four. It is part of an Imperial plan to control hyperspace - and crush the Rebellion. To prevent the Empire from carrying out this evil deed, the Rebels must locate the Imperial forces without being discovered. Your mission" to stop the Liquidator ... and get out of Yavin Four alive!

Destroy the Liquidator

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Reformed

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Choose to lie … or Choose to Die

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

The False Prince

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Mary Downing Hahn

Ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another resident, who means to do her and James harm.

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

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While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."

All the Lovely Bad Ones

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The Doll Graveyard

Karl Fulves

Instructions and diagrams take aspiring magicians through thirty card tricks, arranged in increasing order of difficulty.

Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children

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Cynthia C. DeFelice

Previous library book with some stickers for media tracking 

While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.

Under the Same Sky

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A mouse and his trials as the smallest "person" in Manhattan.

Stuart Little

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Gary L. Blackwood

Used library book with some media tracking attachments 

In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.

Shakespeare's Scribe

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Carl Hiaasen

The #1 New York Times Bestseller 

Spending his days in a zoo beside his volatile animal wrangler father, Wahoo Cray struggles to control his father's temper when the latter takes a job with an egocentric reality nature show host.

Chomp

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Dan Gutman

Sequel to ‘The Kid Who Ran For President’

In the sequel to The Kid Who Ran for President, Judson Moon--at age 12--is dodging assassination attempts and facing off with a crazed South American dictator after he wins the 2000 presidential election. Original.

The Kid Who Became President

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Raina Telgemeier

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

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