Megan Miranda

This book is beautifully written and SUCH a page turner! It shows just how creepy sleepwalking can really be 👀

This copy is in really excellent condition overall; the only issue is some peeling where the dust jacket folds around the book (see photos for details)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest—a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick—comes a riveting new novel of psychological suspense about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet. Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.” Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and held vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She’s managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home. Until late one night she jolts awake in her yard. At her feet is the corpse of a man she knows—from her previous life, as Arden Maynor. And now, the girl from Widow Hills is about to become the center of the story, once again, in this propulsive page-turner from suspense master Megan Miranda.

The Girl from Widow Hills

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Alex London

This book is in really excellent condition! It’s marked as “Good” because it is an old library copy, but the only marking is the stamp on the top edge (no other markings, stickers, etc—see photos).

This is the first book in a YA series about the cutthroat art of falconry, the powerful bond of siblings, and the fight for survival. I loved it and highly recommend! 

Black Wings Beating

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Makiia Lucier

This book is in really excellent condition! It is marked only as “Good” because it is an old library copy. However, the only library marking are on the top edge and the inside page (no other stickers or markings, see photos).

I absolutely loved this YA fantasy-adventure, and highly recommend it. Great writing that reveals new information at the perfect time, an endearing cast of characters, and lots of cool intrigue and mystery surrounding the riddles, maps, and fates of the princes. 

Isle of Blood and Stone

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Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover copy in excellent condition. There are some signs of wear and tear in the corners (see photos), but otherwise perfect! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Essays

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects, ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too. In the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on—sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive—Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

Small Wonder

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David Downing

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Inklings Novel

Tom and Laura team up for a quest to find the spear that pierced the side of Christ. They are aided by the Inklings of Oxford University, scholars C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Looking for the King

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Gorgeous photography, perfect as a unique coffee table book. Text is in French. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Enfants Nomades

Sara Gay Forden

Brand new book, doesn’t have the movie cover 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamorous ex was preparing to marry his mistress, Paola Franchi? Or is there a possibility she didn't do it at all? In this gripping account of the ascent, eventual collapse, and resurrection of the Gucci dynasty, Sara Gay Forden takes us behind the scenes of the trial and exposes the passions, the power, and the vulnerabilities of the greatest fashion family of our times.

House of Gucci

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Rod R. Butterworth

Mickey Flodin

Excellent visual resource for ASL learners! Some scratches on the back cover—see photos

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Revised and Expanded Third Edition

The most comprehensive alphabetized guide to American Sign Language (ASL) available today.

Unlike other signing books, which organize by "categories," the Visual Dictionary is arranged in a straightforward, easy-to-use dictionary format.

Inside you'll find special features offering a fast, simple approach to the art of signing, including-
.More than 1,350 signs -- arranged alphabetically with directions on how to use each sign
.Detailed illustrations -- showing precise hand positions and exact movements
.Memory aids -- to assist in recalling how to make each sign
.Sample sentences -- to clarify grammatical usage
.Numbers -- from one to one million, including monetary signs
.Fingerspelling -- a vital tool for communicating words for which there are no signs, or for when the sign has not yet been learned
.Helpful hints -- suggestions and tips for easier signing
.A comprehensive index -- with all entries and their synonyms for easy cross-referencing

Authors Rod R. Butterworth and Mickey Flodin have written many widely used signing books, including Signing Made Easy and The Pocket Dictionary of Signing.

The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing

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Melissa Bank

Slight wrinkles/discoloration on the dust jacket, like-new condition otherwise 

Follows the life lessons of Jane, from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, as she makes her way through love, sex, relationships, and workplace perils, prompted by dubious advice from a pop-psych guide to life

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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Bill Kovach

Tom Rosenstiel

The first chapter has some neat pencil underlinings, see photos :)

What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

Revised and updated with a new preface and material on the rise of social media, the challenges facing printed news, and how journalism can fulfill its purpose in the digital age.
 
Seventeen years ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America's most influential newspeople to ask the question, "What is journalism for?" Through exhaustive research, surveys, interviews, and public forums, they identified the essential elements that define journalism and its role in our society. The result is this, one of the most important books on the media ever written, and winner of the Goldsmith Book Award from Harvard, the Society of Professional Journalists award, and the Bart Richards Award from Penn State University.
 
Updated with new material covering the rise of social media, sponsored content, a new, collaborative web-based journalism in which anyone--professional or citizen--can produce news, and much more, this third edition of The Elements of Journalism is an essential read for journalists, students, and anyone hoping to stay informed in the digital age.

The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

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Gaile Parkin

Professional cake baker Angel Tungaraza's treats are really needed in post-civil war Rwanda. Literature from Africa is on the rise, and this debut by a consultant in education, gender, and AIDS is a BookExpo featured title.

Baking Cakes in Kigali

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Jennifer Trafton

A fun, imaginative fantasy that I’d recommend for ages 9-15, and it had a great female protagonist. There was one quote that was so good I couldn’t resist underlining it! Fantastic like-new condition otherwise, see photos :)

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge leads (much to her chagrin) a very dull life on the Island at the Center of Everything . . . until the night she overhears a life-changing secret. It seems that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the center of the island, is not a mountain at all-it's the belly of a sleeping giant, moving as the giant breathes. Now Persimmony and her new friend Worvil the Worrier have to convince all the island's other quarreling inhabitants-including the silly Rumblebumps, the impeccably mannered Leafeaters, and the stubborn young king-that a giant is sleeping in their midst, and must not be woken.

Enhanced with Brett Helquist's dazzling illustrations, Jennifer Trafton's rollicking debut tells the story of one brave girl's efforts to make an entire island believe the impossible.



The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic

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Karan Mahajan

Very slight wear and tear on some edges, but overall fantastic condition 

National Book Award Finalist Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize One of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year One of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for Fiction Simpson Family Literary Prize Finalist Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Longlisted for the FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award Named a Best Book of the Year by: Buzzfeed, Esquire, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The AV Club, The Fader, Redbook, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Bustle, Good magazine, PureWow, and PopSugar “Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable. . . . I suggest you go out and buy this one. Post haste.” —Fiona Maazel, The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “[Mahajan’s] eagerness to go at the bomb from every angle suggests a voracious approach to fiction-making.” —The New Yorker One of the most celebrated novels of recent years, The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb—one of the many “small” bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys, to the devastation of their parents. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. After a brief stint at university in America, Mansoor returns to Delhi, where his life becomes entangled with the mysterious and charismatic Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine. Woven among the story of the Khuranas and the Ahmeds is the gripping tale of Shockie, a Kashmiri bomb maker who has forsaken his own life for the independence of his homeland. Karan Mahajan writes brilliantly about the effects of terrorism on victims and perpetrators, proving himself to be one of the most provocative and dynamic novelists of his generation.

The Association of Small Bombs

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Catherine Fisher

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Incarceron

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First edition copy of Peter, one of the top bestsellers of 1908. It is “the story of a bank worker and his interfering sister who visits him in New York.” This book is charming, humorous, and uplifting—and it has amazing illustrations throughout! If you love classics, humor, and/or the aesthetic of old books, this one is for you!

A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero

Peter (first edition — 1908)

Robert Beatty

Well-loved paperback copy of a delightful, adventurous middle grade fantasy. Still in overall good condition, but it has some slight wear and tear (see photos for details).

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate.There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate's maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember. But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is:a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore's corridors at night. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore's owners. Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak's true identity before all of the children vanish one by one. Serafina's hunt leads her into the very forest that she has been taught to fear. There she discovers a forgotten legacy of magic, one that is bound to her own identity. In order to save the children of Biltmore, Serafina must seek the answers that will unlock the puzzle of her past.

Sarah D

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The Girl from Widow Hills

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David Downing

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House of Gucci

Rod R. Butterworth; Mickey Flodin

The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing

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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Bill Kovach; Tom Rosenstiel

The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

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