Marjorie Liu

Sana Takeda

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

"Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind ... and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Monstress

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Monstress Vol. 2 The Blood

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Maika has spent most of her life learning howto fight, but how will she fare when the only way to save her life...is to makefriends? Collects issues 13-18 ofthe Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award series.

Monstress Volume 3

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Jean Zimmerman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

In 17th-century New Amsterdam, today Manhattan, 22-year-old trader Blandine von Couvering and British spy Edward Drummond investigate the mysterious disappearance of orphan children. A first novel.

The Orphanmaster

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Karen Russell

Minor marks and blemishes to dust jacket. 

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.

The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.

Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

Swamplandia!

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Jules Watson

Significant tear and water damage to dust jacket. Some minor damage to covers (photographed). Discarded mark on front endpaper. Spine and textblock in excellent condition. No musty smell or lingering damp damage detected.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Dalraida Trilogy, Book One

Seeking to help her people hold out against enslaving Roman conquerors in 79 AD, Scottish priestess and princess Rhiann is forced into a political marriage, while exiled Irish prince Eremon is compelled to prove his military prowess and reclaim his throne by uniting the feuding tribes of his adopted country. A first novel. 12,500 first printing.

The White Mare

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S. T. Gibson

Some scuffs and scratches to book jacket from shelf wear and tear. Corners of jacket and cover are crinkled. 

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla. But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge. For more from S.T. Gibson, check out A Dowry of Blood.

An Education in Malice

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Carl-Johan Vallgren

Yellowing pages. Some shelf wear and tear to edges of covers. A black marker stroke on the bottom edge of text block (pictured). No other markings.

His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred

Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the picaresque fable of the love that grows between the mute, telepathic human monstrosity Hercules and the beautiful Henriette—a love that will entwine their fates forever. Author Carl-Johan Vallgren creates an unforgettable cast of grotesqueries in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe—from the bordello, where Hercules is born, to the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain, to the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries in which he finds both shelter and peril, to the phantasmagoria of the freak show with which he travels. A moving, uplifting, at times dark and macabre tale of social oppression, official corruption, religious persecution, and unwavering devotion, it is a story that enchants and surprises . . . and leaves one wide-eyed with wonder, like a small child at his first carnival.

Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot

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Paul Davids

Hollace Davids

Some shelf wear and tear. Yellowed pages. No major creases. Spine in excellent condition.

Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the  Rebel Alliance have fought valiantly against the  evil Galactic Empire. Together they have kept  alive the hopes for freedom, and helped restore the  ways of the Old Republic with its wise Senate and  noble line of Jedi Knights. But now a new threat  awaits the Alliance. Within the evil  Empire, the surviving Imperial warlords have been  fighting among themselves for power. No one knows  who will seize control, but the Prophets of the  Dark Side have foretold that soon a new Emperor  will arise, and on his right hand he shall wear an  indestructible symbol of evil.

The Glove of Darth Vader

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Faded cover. Spine creased. Some tape and stickers on cover along with shelf wear and tear. Pages yellowing. Stamp from previous reseller on first page.

The New Rebellion

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Neal Stephenson

Some shelf wear and tear to covers. Glue is coming a little loose on front cover. Spine is beginning to curve concave. No creases to spine or cover. Pages yellowing, but no markings or obvious creases.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Volume One of the Baroque Cycle

Quicksilver

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Benjamin Parzybok

Minor shelf wear and tear. Only read once. No inner markings.

Three guys try to carry a couch across the country.

Couch

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S. M. Peters

Some wear and tear on cover, including a crease on the corner of back cover. Spine and textblock still in excellent condition, except for some yellowing at the page edges.

A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author

TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND

In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years have passed since the Great Uprising, when humans rose up to fight against the machines, but a few brave veterans of the Uprising have formed their own Resistance-and are gathering for another attack. For now they have a secret weapon that may finally free them-or kill them all...

Whitechapel Gods

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Ameen Merchant

Very mild shelf wear and tear. Only partially read once. Spine and textblock uncreased and sturdy. No internal marks. 

In the literary tradition of Rohinton Mistry and Arundhati Roy, this ambitious debut novel is a moving tale of family, tradition, loss and reconciliation. Meet Janaki and Mallika, two sisters from a middle-class Brahmin family in Madras, India. Janaki is a musical prodigy, sublimely gifted on the veena, but will soon be eighteen and dreads her aunt's schemes for an arranged marriage. Eschewing tradition, she runs off with a Muslim Bollywood star. Years later, Mallika receives a letter from Janaki, who is returning to Madras. In confident prose that resembles the rhythms and progression of an Indian raga, Ameen Merchant captures in rich detail the world of these Brahmin women, a world restricted by caste and cultural rules but also teeming with colour, music and food. It is a story about the traditions that bind us and the sacrifices we must make along the road to our own individual destinies.

The Silent Raga

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Ian McDonald

Partially read once. Some shelf wear and tear from over the years. One personal library stamp mark on title page (shown in photo)

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden.

In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.

River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.

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