Stephen King

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight, and must face some of her most depraved adversaries yet. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are smart, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outhink and outmaneuver this brilliant and twisted pair in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King"--

Holly

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Jill Ciment

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Memoir

From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. “Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it.” — The New York Times In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband’s death at ninety-three. This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story’s ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, Consent is an author’s brave recasting of her life’s settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.

Consent

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Meg Howrey

A Novel

A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2022 * A "soul-stirring novel about love, loyalty and one's lifelong relationship to art" (Seattle Times) set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles.

"They're Going to Love You is my idea of a perfect book. It is about art, life, death, love, and family and it is beautifully and sharply written. I cried several times while reading it, and was sorry to let it go when I was done. I cannot recommend it enough." --Jami Attenberg

Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life--literature, music, and, most of all, dance.

Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother--a former Balanchine ballerina--Carlisle's aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed. But above all else, she longed to be asked to stay at the house on Bank Street, to be a part of Robert and James's sophisticated world, even as the AIDS crisis brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair created a rift between the family, with shattering consequences that reverberated for decades to come. Nineteen years later, when Carlisle receives a phone call that unravels the events of that fateful summer, she sees with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she's become. 

They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.

They're Going to Love You

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Dorothy Allison

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Four women whose lives converge unexpectedly are forced to come to terms not only with their past, but also their future

Cavedweller - SIGNED

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Abigail Thomas

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way. As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age, Abigail Thomas accepts her new life, quieter than before, no driving, no dancing, mostly sitting in her chair in a sunny corner with three dogs for company--three dogs, vivid memories, bugs and birds and critters that she watches out her window. No one but this beloved, best-selling memoirist, could make so much over what might seem so little. Memories fall like confetti, as time contracts, shoots forward, dawdles, and there she is, back in her twenties in Washington Square Park, drinking, having sex with strangers, falling in and out of love, believing in a better world. Whole decades evaporate as she sits in her chair, and a spider takes up residence beside her, who will become her boon companion for the next week. Sometimes dread arrives, inhabits her body like a shadow and all she can do is write it away, pay attention to what catches her eye, sticks in her brain. Whatever keeps her in the moment. Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea and enter Abigail Thomas's funny, mesmerizing, generous world.

Still Life at Eighty: the Next Interesting Thing

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Amy Tan

Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.

The Bonesetter's Daughter - SIGNED first edition

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David Benioff

Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.

City of Thieves - SIGNED

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Pete Dexter

Signed first edition. Damaged dust jacket as pictured. Book in excellent condition. 

A new novel from the author of the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout. In the City of Brotherly Love, 8-year-old Peter Flood is left orphaned when his powerful father, a Philadelphia union boss with mob connections, dies in a car crash. Peter and his cousin Michael grow up in violent circumstances, and we look on in horror and fascination as both young men are sucked into a circle of betrayal and retribution.

Brotherly Love - SIGNED first edition 

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Caroline Harvey

Signed bookplate as pictured. Unread first edition

The death of Caro Meredith, an English farmer's wife, has a profound effect on her family.

Next of Kin - SIGNED bookplate

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Robert Hellenga

In this intriguing, provocative novel, a young American woman in Florence encounters sensual adventure, spiritual challenge, and a unique erotic manuscript.

The Sixteen Pleasures - SIGNED

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Barbara Ehrenreich

A satirist and social commentator looks into the soul of the 1990s in a collection of essays that takes a sharp look at both conservative and liberal viewpoints

The Snarling Citizen - SIGNED

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Al Franken

A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Al Franken, "one of our savviest satirists" (People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year. For the first time since his own classic Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiotand Other Observations, Al Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene. Now, the "master of political humor" (Washington Times) destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media, and exposes how the Right shamelessly tries to deceive the rest of us. No one is spared as Al uses the Right's own words against them. Not the Bush administration and their rhetorical hypocrisy. Not Ann Coulter and her specious screeds. Not the new generation of talk-radio hosts, and not Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, and the entire Fox network. This is the book Al Franken fans have been waiting for (and his foes have been dreading). Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Liesis sure to become the most talked about book of political humor in 2003 and beyond.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - SIGNED

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Susan Vreeland

The smashingingly successful novel about a supposed Vermeer painting that is traced back through the centuries to the moment of its inspiration.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue - SIGNED

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Lorrie Moore

Stories

A collection of eight short stories includes "Debarking," in which a recently divorced man struggles to hold himself together as the United States prepares to invade Iraq; and "Foes," in which a political argument at a Georgetown fundraiser goes awry.

Bark - SIGNED

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Ethan Canin

This brilliant new work from the acclaimed author of Emperor of the Air presents four novellas--each a stunning fictional portrait--that tell of peo ple trying to understand why their lives have taken such surprising turns.

The Palace Thief

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Unread. Signed, inscribed, and dated as pictured.

As he explores the lives of two very different men over the course of many years, who first meet at Columbia University, the author of "Emperor of the Air" creates the conflicts of character that mark the heart of every life.

For Kings and Planets - SIGNED

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Signed and dated as pictured.
Unread edition; yellowed with age

EMPEROR OF THE AIR "explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporary short fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether his characters are struggling to save trees in their yards, their marriages, or themselves, Cannin renders their moments of revelation with rich observation, energy, humor, and grace. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Emperor of the Air - SIGNED

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Philip B. Kunhardt

Peter W. Kunhardt

Dust jacket damages as pictured otherwise excellent.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Illustrated Biography

Examines the life of the Civil War president

Lincoln

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Vernon Biever

James Dickey

A look at the "molder of men and maker of champions," the coach whose team had five National Football League championships, through his own words, the words of others, and photographs.

Lombardi

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Richard G. Smith

Richard Mead

Ah Wisconsin

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Michael Gershman

The Evolution of the Ballpark

More than mere buildings, America's ballparks are repositories of family memory that link generations. Based on four years of research, Diamonds celebrates baseball and the great parks with a rich blend of history, anecdotes, and rare photos.

Diamonds

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Philip J. Lowry

An Anecdotal, Pictorial, and Statistical Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks

History of 271 past and present Major League and Negro League ballparks.

Green Cathedrals

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Rana Foroohar

How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

From an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst comes a penetrating indictment of how today's biggest tech companies are hijacking data, livelihoods, and people's minds.

Don't Be Evil

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Anthony Trollope

A. O. J. Cockshut

Introduction by A. O. J. Cockshut

The Small House At Allington (1864) is Anthony Trollope's fifth novel in the sequence that has become known as the Barsetshire series. Set against the vividly imagined backdrop of the cathedral town of Barchester, it is the story of the embittered old bachelor Squire Dale and his impoverished nieces, Lily and Bell. In it, Trollope displays all the humor, drama, and subtle grasp of character and motive that have, for more than a century, made his novels a total pleasure to read. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

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Lorrie Moore

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