Very good condition ~ never read. Rare book.
Rochester New York Mob stories.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

The Hammer Conspiracies 

Giorgia Lupi

Stefanie Posavec

Maria Popova

Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly--small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives--including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.

Dear Data

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Sloane Crosley

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's first memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Grief Is for People is an unusual kind of grief book--the story of several compounding, unexpected losses, and the struggle to hold on to the past without being consumed by it, but told with the verve and voice we have come to expect from Sloane Crosley. Focusing her trademark humor and wit on the deep pain and confusion of losing her closest friend and mentor to suicide, Crosley looks for answers in friends, philosophy, and art, searching for a framework more useful than the unavoidable stages of grief to understand her new reality. Sloane and Russell worked together and played together, navigating the corridors of office life, the literary world, weekends in the country, and the dramatic ups and downs of making it in New York City. In a city where friends become family, they were best friends. When Russell dies, Sloane is already reeling from a break-in and the theft of her jewelry, her most prized and meaningful possessions. While Russell's death puts that loss in perspective, it also propels her on a quest to right the losses she is feeling, as the city itself faces the staggering toll brought on by the pandemic. Crosley's search for answers is frank, funny, and gilded with a deeply resounding empathy. Upending the "grief memoir" in utterly unexpected and entirely welcome ways, Grief Is for People rises precisely to console and challenge our notions of loss during these grief-stricken times.

Grief Is for People

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Compiled by Compiled by Barbour Staff

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This engaging prayer journal is a practical and creative way for you to more fully experience the power of prayer in your busy life.

The Prayer Map: When You Don't Know What to Pray

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Duane Scott Cerny

Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails and Objects of Objectionable Estates

SELLING DEAD PEOPLE'S THINGS is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners--while still alive and after their passing. An amusing observer of the human condition, author Duane Scott Cerny entertains in illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays. Whether processing the estate of a hoarding beekeeper, disassembling the retro remains of an infamous haunted hospital, or conducting an impromptu appraisal during a shiva gone disturbingly wrong, every day is a twisted treasure hunt for this twenty-first-century antiques dealer. While digging deep into the basements, attics, and souls of the most interesting collectors imaginable, traveling from one odd house call to the curious next, resale predicaments will confound your every turn. Be careful where you step, watch what you touch, and gird your heart--Antiques Roadshow, this ain't!

Selling Dead People's Things

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Henry R. Martin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A collection of gravestone inscriptions, some genuine, some suspect, and a few contrived.

Comic Epitaphs

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The true story of a cop who spends his career keeping other cops honest

Coo Hunter 

Steve Case

An Honest Guide to Getting Through Grief Without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS

"When you lose a loved one, you're going to feel that loss, hard. And healing through your grief can be the start of a long journey, especially when every other book on loss is quietly patting you on the head, telling you everything will be okay. But, guess what: We know everything is not okay. And we're here to both be sorry for your loss AND actually help.This is a straight to the point, honest-as-hell grief recovery handbook. Paring away the cloying sympathy and the pitying hugs, Hardcore Grief Recovery: F**k Death stands at your side through the five stages of grief, giving you a shoulder to lean on and a friend to yell "f**k this" with.

Hardcore Grief Recovery

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Garrison Security Innovations 

Shadows Renewed

Louis Ferrante

What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman

“It pours out spicy tales of Mob lore to make its management points, an approach most execs couldn’t refuse.” —New York Post Former mobster Louis Ferrante reveals the surprisingly effective management techniques of organized crime and explains how to apply them in any legitimate business. As an associate of the Gambino Family, he was part of some of the biggest heists in mob history. His talent for management led bosses like John Gotti to rely on him. Now he offers time-tested Mafia wisdom based on true stories, such as: • Three can keep a secret (if two are dead): Build trust with your colleagues. • You don’t always need a gun to hit a target: Lead people without force. • It’s never personal: When circumstances demand it, never hesitate to pull the trigger.

Mob Rules

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This is a fantastic book. Jim packed with pictures and information for any genealogist, historian, or person interested in Gates, New York.
Monroe County near Rochester 

Bicentennial 1813 - 2013

Town of Gates (New York) County Cornerstone

Pete Hautman

Shayne Blank is the new kid in town--but that doesn't stop him from getting into a lot of trouble very quickly. The other kids don't understand him. He's not afraid of anything. He seems too smart. And his background doesn't add up. But when he walks into the police department to confess to a murder, it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. There's more to Shayne--and his story--than meets the eye. As the details begin to fill in, the only thing that becomes clear is that nothing about Shayne's story is clear at all.

Blank Confession is a compelling mystery that will keep readers turning pages, from National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman.

Blank Confession

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Robert Armstrong

It is the next library book, but it is an excellent condition. Beautiful photographs, and very informative.

Revised edition

Guide to Birds of Alaska

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Darynda Jones

A Novel

A Bad Day for Sunshine

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Karen Derrico

Susan C. McElroy

Pure of Heart Not of Breed

Celebrates the value of mutts as cherished animal companions with stories of their valor, bravery, common sense, and whimsical view of life.

Unforgettable Mutts

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Michele is a dedicated Doberman pincher. He is a dog trainer. This is a collection of their most dramatic and stirring missions along with exclusive dog training tips.

The incredible true stories of a canine search and rescue team

Michelle and Me

Patricia M. Sherwood

A collection of dog quotes from many famous people. This book is a perfect gift!

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. So wrote Franz Kafka, and those who cherish man' s best friend will find plenty to enjoy in this appealing, delightfully illustrated compilation. The quotations extend from Shakespeare and Sartre to Groucho Marx and Woodrow Wilson, and range from adoring to amusing.

The Quotable Dog Lover

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John Fisher

An Owner's Guide to Canine Psychology

Think Dog!

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Good nutrition, healthy happy animals

Reigning Cats & Dogs

Jeremy Brown

Good Clean Fun for the Whole Family, Pilgrim

Some Good, Some Bad, Some Awful, but All Funny...

From giving as good as he got at the Harvard Lampoon to his comedic work in such films and TV shows as Donovan's Reef, North to Alaska, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, I Love Lucy, Dean Martin Celebrity Roast and The Red Skelton Hour, John Wayne was never shy about exhibiting his wry, knowing sense of humor.

It's this facet of Duke that The Official John Wayne Big Book of Dad Jokes captures. A father of six children himself, Duke was no stranger to making kids crack up (or at least trying to).

This book presents those stories of Duke as practical joker as well as willing victim, embedded within more than 400 clever, yet dreadful jokes, stories, riddles and puns. Perfect for family members of every age! Some of the jokes are Duke- and Western-themed, but most are simply good, original Dad jokes: some good, some bad, some awful, but all funny.

Readers will also find inside nearly three dozen fun photos of Duke exhibiting his good humor for all to see, laughing with his kids or fellow actors on set and behind the scenes, making this book a treasure for fans and fathers alike.

The Official John Wayne Big Book of Dad Jokes

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Corey Pegues

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man

A "former cop sets the record straight in this ... memoir about his youth selling crack in the '80s with one of NYC's toughest gangs and later rise through the ranks of the NYPD to become a community leader"--

Once a Cop

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Claudia Rowe

A Writer, a Murderer, and a Story of Obsession

“Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us. "Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you’re honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn’t it?"—Kendall Francois In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women—and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims’ rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil. Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own past—and why she was drawn to danger.

The Spider and the Fly

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Disney’s gardening with Mickey

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Using the 21 day checklist, you will discover where you want to go, and how to get there. ￼

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