Erik Larson

A compelling true life drama about the Lusitania, a luxury liner destine to become a victim WWI changing rules of war…  

Beautiful written and filled with gripping details.  A moving page-turner.

This book is in great shape. Last photo shows some page ‘dents’.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.

Dead Wake

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Amy Tan

 This novel spans the lives of three generations of women and a mysterious painting known as “The Valley of Amazement”…

Amy Tan never disappoints.  This is a beautiful written novel. It captures the poignant heart ache each woman faces in each generation as they struggle to define who they are.  

This book is in good shape. A bit of shelf wear. Last few photo will show these issues.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is an evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Spanning more than forty years and two continents, Amy Tan's newest novel maps the lives of three generations of women—and the mystery of an evocative painting known as "The Valley of Amazement." Moving from the collapse of China's last imperial dynasty to the growth of anti-foreign sentiment and the inner workings of courtesan houses, The Valley of Amazement interweaves the story of Violet, a celebrated Shanghai courtesan on a quest for both love and identity, and her mother, Lucia, an American woman whose search for penance leads them to an unexpected reunion. The Valley of Amazement is a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, legacies, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, reminiscent of the compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of inherited trauma, desire, deception, and the power and stubbornness of love.

The Valley of Amazement

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Reed Darmon

A small book packed with vintage illustrations and designs from Chinese advertisement from pre revolution to modern culture. 

This book is great for reference or for those who love Asian culture.

Published in 2004, this book is in great shape but does have a ‘remainder mark’ on the bottom. Very little shelf wear. Please note size: 6” x 4.5”

For Asia-philes, designers, and pop culture junkies, designer Reed Darmon has collected the most colorful (and in some cases, the kookiest) Chinese ephemera in this chunky paperback.

Made in China

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Leslie SINGER

This book is filled with images of ray guns.  From the early 1930s Buck Rogers to the 1980s Korean made ray guns.

This is a great book for reference.  Or for those who love vintage or retro style toys. There is a price list in the back of the book for all the ray gun featured but its pretty much outdated…

Published in 1991, this book is in great shape.  Both front and back cover show wear and a scuffed line down the center.  Last few photos show these issues.

Ray Gun Classics

Zap!

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Ellen Lupton

This book is filled with images of vintage ads of products that were designed for women. It’s an illustrated history of women in gender defined roles to use in the home and at work.  

Great for reference and great for those who love the bygone era.

This book was printed in 1993 and is in great shape for its age. Very little shelf wear.



Women and Machines from Home to Office

"Ablaze with humor" (New York Magazine), Lupton traces the practice of marketing towards women

Mechanical Brides

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This book is filled with vintage ads from the 1950s. Giving a glimpse to what an ideal life was like in the 50s…

A great book to have for reference or for those who love the styles of the 1950’s.

This book, published in 2003 is in great shape and is rare. Please note the size is about 8”x5.75”.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

All-American Ads 50s

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Colors

This book is filled with images of (mostly traffic) signs from around the world. Some are mundane while others are quite creative…

Great book to have for reference or for curiosity.

This book is in great shape. Some minor shelf wear.

Présentation de panneaux de signalisation routière venant du monde entier, révélant une certaine proximité entre les différentes cultures.

Signs

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Steve Roden

Dan Goodsell

A collection of vintage icons and advertisement focusing on foods geared towards kids.

A fun book to have.  Full of vintage images.

This book is in great shape printed in 2003. 

Vintage Food Graphics

This work looks at amusing, eye-grabbing, and sometimes disturbing junk food packaging aimed at catching kids' attention.

Krazy Kids' Food!

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Chris Ayers drew a picture a day, during his fight with cancer.  The result? He survived cancer and created an amazing book filled with some amazing artwork. 

This book is inspiration with its beautiful artwork and humor.

This book is in great shape. Very little shelf wear.

Keeping the doctors at bay with a drawing a day

The Daily Zoo

Three roommates (two earthlings and one alien) live together in a small apartment.  What could go wrong.

Short quips filled with eccentric characters. Nicely drawn in an eclectic style.

This comic book is in great shape. Very little shelf wear.

Food Fight

Floppy Ears

A collection of comics about three roommates (two earthlings and one alien) sharing an apartment…

A quirky set of characters done in a very cool, eclectic style.

This comic book is in great shape m. Very little shelf wear. The bottom lower right corner of back cover is slightly bent.  Last photo shows this. 

Food rescue

Floppy ears

A collection of comics done by Kiki Sujatmiko.

Short quips with a cast of eccentric characters.

This comic book is in great shape. Very little shelf wear.

What do you mean

Three roommates (two earthlings and an alien) sharing a small apartment.  What could go wrong?
 
Cute quips with a set of eccentric character nicely drawn in a very eclectic style.

This comic book is in great shape. Very little shelf wear with a small dent on the right side lower bottom of back cover. Last photo will show this.

The Great Space Scape

Mariko Tamaki

A beautifully and at times harsh coming-of-age tale of a young girl trying to navigate in an increasing difficult world of growing up…

Well written and sensitively drawn characters. Please note: there is a mention of suicide and depression.

This graphic novel is in great shape. Very little shelf wear. 

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself -- possibly because he's (maybe) gay -- the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "real" life by setting up a hilarious double-date for the school's semi formal. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality, crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers -- the whole gamut of teen life is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.

Skim

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Kyungha Yi

Jiwoon working for a local mafia is banished to a remote area to live with Soohan, a mute who carries a dark secret and just wants to be left alone.  Will they both find solace?

A well written and beautifully drawn Korean yaoi manga. (written in English)

This manga is a signed copy and is in great shape. Very little shelf wear. 



Night on the Red Road

"I've never met a man who speaks even less than I do."

The mafia banishes Jiwoon Kang to live in a secluded red light district among struggling prostitutes, dirty street thugs, and shady drug dealers. He's a quiet man with deadly talents with a knife. The local thugs quickly learn to hate him. To maintain peace, a brothel manager sends Jiwoon to live with a strange local man Soohan. Soohan is a mute. He only wishes to be left alone and help prostitutes in need. The street thugs hate him, too. Both men carry deadly, dark, and traumatic secrets in their past. They may find that their only solace and protection...lies in each other.


Intense Volume 1

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Natsuki Kizu

In volume 3, Ritsuka is struggling with his feelings towards Mafuyu.  He’s not sure how Mafuyu feels about him… But there is one thing that brings them together is their love of music and the band…

Nicely written and beautifully drawn.

This manga is in great shape. Very little shelf wear.

Sometimes a song can save your life.

Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to one another--always brings them back together again.

Uenoyama realizes he's in love with Mafuyu and steals a kiss from him backstage at their first live performance. But now he's even more confused--he hasn't shared his feelings with Mafuyu and has no idea how Mafuyu feels about him. In contrast to their naive romance, Haruki has been harboring a secret desire for bandmate Akihiko, who's already entangled in an intense, conflicted relationship with someone else.

Given, Vol. 3

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Volume 2 continues the story if Mafuyu and Ritsuka as their band gets ready for their first live concert.  Mafuyu must finally face his past as he struggles to write a song for the concert..

Well written and nicely drawn.

This manga is in great shape. Very little shelf wear.

Sometimes a song can save your life.

Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to one another--always brings them back together again.

As the band races toward their first live concert, Mafuyu struggles to write lyrics for their new song but can't find the words to express the emotions burning within him. Meanwhile, Uenoyama hears rumors about Mafuyu's past and is bewildered by his own feelings. The tension builds until the night of the show, when the band explodes into a raging, life-changing performance.

Given, Vol. 2

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A bored high school rocker stumbles across a strange young high schooler cradling a broken guitar and in tears in a hidden stairwell at school.  Who is this young man? And why does the bored Ritsuka want to help (at first reluctantly)…

Nicely written, beautifully drawn.

 This manga is in great shape with very little shelf wear.

Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music—and to each other—always brings them back together again. Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.

Given, Vol. 1

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Jun Mayuzuki

A high school girl develops a crush towards her boss, a kind hearted timid man…

A premise that could be off-putting is written in a realistic and  relatable way.  Beautiful artwork.

This manga is in great shape. Very little shelf wear. A crease in the spine.  Last page shows this.

Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life...

After the Rain, 1

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Matsuri

An unusual inn that is only open at night, beckoning troubled souls with an offer of comfort but at a price…

A great concept with a collection of short vignettes with various  characters.  Nice artwork too.

The manga is in great shape, very little shelf wear. A slight crease upper left of back cover.  Last photo shows this.

"Your secret now belongs to me." Welcome to Murakumo Inn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, human or otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takes payment only in the form of one's deepest secrets...Who will come calling today?

Phantom Tales of the Night, Vol. 1

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Tsugumi Ohba

In volume 8, Light has created his ideal world…a world without crime.  But this world has cracks in it and Light must face two new adversaries.  Will he be able to out wit the new challenge or loose a member of his family…

Well written with twists and turns and constantly questioning what is good and what is evil.  Masterfully illustrated by Hikaru no Go.

This manga is in good shape with very little shelf wear. The pages are yellow and that is to be expected for a 2003 published edition.


Target: Light--working as Kira, the newest member of the NPA intelligence bureau, and L--has nearly succeeded in creating his ideal world. But the years of uncontested victory have made him complacent, and he is unprepared for a new attack close to home. With his younger sister Sayu kidnapped and the NPA's Death Note demanded as ransom, Light must travel across the world and confront two new adversaries, each with a very different agenda. Will Light's quick wits be a match for this new challenge, or will he be forced to choose between Kira's ambitions and his own family's lives?

Death Note, Vol. 8

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In volume 3, Light is aware he is under surveillance that has been ordered by ‘L’.  Even when Light is not using his Death Note, people are still dying.  Is there a new ‘Kira’ in town?

This a classic manga with great writing and amazing illustrations.  Full of twist and turns.

This manga is in good shape for it’s age (this edition was published in 2003).  Some shelf wear, but not much. Some yellowing  pages.  The last few photos shows this.

The third in the bestselling and award-winning manga series Death Note.

Death Note, Vol. 3

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A young high school girl transfers to a new school in Hokkaido.  She has a hard time adjusting till she meets the school’s heart-throb, Yu Ogami who has a secret of his own…

A nice light-hearted story with great artwork.

This manga is in great shape, very little shelf wear.

Volume 1

The Wolf-Boy is Mine!

Hitoshi Iwaaki

Parasyte is about alien creatures who must survive by invading and taking control of a human host.  No one knows their secret except an ordinary high school student…

A great manga, well paced, nicely drawn.

This manga is in good shape. Little shelf wear with some crease wear on front cover. Last photos will show this.

Alien parasites are invading human hosts and assuming any form they choose, with most choosing to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces, but one high school student, Shin, knows their secret since he is battling for control of his own body.

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