Leonard S. Marcus

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.

Minders of Make-Believe

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Gayle Forman

Great condition just an orange sticker on the front 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

"Joyful, occasionally heartbreaking, deeply moving." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder

In the debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman comes a poignant and powerful coming-of-age story that follows a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family, friendship, allyship, and finding your way in a complicated world.

It's the summer of 1987, and all ten-year-old Bug wants to do is go to the beach with her older brother and hang out with the locals on the boardwalk. But Danny wants to be with his own friends, and Bug's mom is too busy, so Bug is stuck with their neighbor Philip's nephew, Frankie.

Bug's not too excited about hanging out with a kid she's never met, but they soon find some common ground. And as the summer unfolds, they find themselves learning some important lessons about each other, and the world.

Like what it means to be your true self and how to be a good ally for others. That family can be the people you're related to, but also the people you choose to have around you. And that even though life isn't always fair, we can all do our part to make it more just.

Frankie and Bug

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Chris Grabenstein

Some where on the spine. Pages are a little faded 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

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Margaret Sullivan

Janet Mullany

Adriana Trigiani

Jo Beverley

Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

An anthology of 22 short stories inspired by Jane Austen includes contributions from Andriana Trigiani, Lauren Willig, Jo Beverly, Karen Joy Fowler and more. Original.

Jane Austen Made Me Do It

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Liz Pichon

If you enjoyed Diary of a Wimpy kid you’d like this book. 

The top-selling U.K. series for middle-grade readers now crosses the pond! Meet Tom Gates. When his teachers don’t have their beady eyes on him, he likes to draw pictures and write about stuff, like last summer’s worst camping vacation ever (five merits!), or how much he hates sitting next to nosy Marcus Meldrew, the most annoying boy at school. All Tom really wants is to score tickets to see the best band ever, Dude3, when they come to town, and to impress Amy Porter, who is very nice and smart (but is currently ignoring him). Tom’s teachers think he is easily distracted and “lacks focus,” but that’s a bit harsh — can he help it if his grumpy big sister, Delia, made him late for school (again), or that last night’s homework had to be sacrificed to stave off a vicious dog attack? Master of excuses, creative storyteller, and middle-school comedian extraordinaire, Tom Gates is guaranteed to get kids turning the pages — and keep them laughing.

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

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Destiny Soria

Signed Fairyloot edition. Does have embossed library logo on title page (see picture) 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Signed Fairyloot 

Two sisters. Divided they burn.

Two sisters raised to be fierce dragon slayers end up on opposing sides of an impending war when one forms an unlikely, magical bond with a dragon, in this exciting, fresh contemporary young adult fantasy.

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn't be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it's kill or be killed where dragons are concerned.

Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. And, with Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers to help save her sister. Now on opposite sides of the conflict, the sisters will do whatever it takes to save the other.

But the two are playing with magic that is more dangerous than they know, and there is another, more powerful enemy waiting for them both in the shadows.

Fire with Fire

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Ehigbor Okosun

Fairyloot signed edition with reversible cover. 

SIGNED

Forged by Blood

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Amanda Peters

A Novel

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.

The Berry Pickers

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Claudia Gray

A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham-one of literature's most notorious villains-meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen's leading literary characters.

The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it's clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they're all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered-except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.

Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party's two youngest guests to solve the mystery- Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys' eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. In this tantalizing fusion of Austen and Christie, from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray, the unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressions and uncover the guilty party-before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

The Murder of Mr. Wickham

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Alyssa Maxwell

In the first in a new evocative historical mystery series, debut author Alyssa Maxwell captures the glittering world of Newport, Rhode Island in its heyday.

Murder at the Breakers

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Alan Cowsill

Had this for a long time. Enjoyed it a lot. Great condition. Nice for marvel fans. 

The Ultimate Character Guide

A colorful, alphabetical guide to the Avengers universe provides a plethora of facts--including their powers, weaknesses, enemies and origins--about the Marvel characters known as the Avengers, including Wolverine, Iron Man, Thor and Captain America.

Marvel Avengers

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Nina de Gramont

Lots of sticker residue on the front cover. See photos for reference. Back cover looks great. Black dot on top of pages. 

Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge?

"Sizzles from its first sentence." - The Wall Street Journal
A Reese's Book Club Pick

In 1925, Miss Nan O'Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life--first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. Nan's plot didn't begin the day she met Archie and Agatha.

It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be together--until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart. Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated.

What drives someone to murder? What will someone do in the name of love? What kind of crime can someone never forgive? Nina de Gramont's brilliant, unforgettable novel explores these questions and more.

The Christie Affair

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Ally Carter

Never read. Start to a middle grade mystery series. 

"A fast-paced thrill ride of a book . . . it's Batman meets Annie." --Stuart Gibbs, New York Times best-selling author of the Spy School series "An adventure-filled read with a twisty mystery and spunky friendships. I loved it!" -Melissa de la Cruz, New York times best-selling author of The Descendants series April didn't mean to start the fire. She wasn't the one who broke the vase. April didn't ask to go live in a big, creepy mansion with a bunch of orphans who just don't understand that April isn't like them. After all, April's mother is coming back for her someday very soon. All April has to do is find the clues her mother left inside the massive mansion. But Winterborne House is hiding more than one secret, so April and her friends are going to have to work together to unravel the riddle of a missing heir, a creepy legend, and a mysterious key before the only home they've ever known is lost to them forever.

Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor

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Melissa de la Cruz

Never read. Has photos from Descendants 2 inside 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Descendants Novel

Evil tree. Bad Apple? Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon to the Isle of the Lost-a dark and dreary place protected by a force field that makes it impossible for them to leave. Stripped of their magical powers, the villains now live in total isolation, forgotten by the world. Mal learns from her mother, Maleficent, that the key to true darkness, the Dragon's Eye, is located inside her scepter in the forbidden fortress on the far side of the island. The eye is cursed, and whoever retrieves it will be knocked into a deep sleep for a thousand years. But Mal has a plan to capture it. She'll just need a little help from her "friends." In their quest for the Dragon's Eye, these four kids begin to realize that just because you come from an evil family tree, being good ain't so bad. Praise for The Isle of the Lost"Disney lovers and fairy-tale fans alike will need to get their hands on this book." -School Library Journal

The Isle of the Lost (a Descendants Novel, Book 1)

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Jen Calonita

The Fairy Tale Reform School #2

When Sleeping Beauty's nemesis breaks the Evil Queen out of the dungeon, Gilly and her friends at Fairy Tale Reform School must figure out how to stop Alva from terrorizing the village of Enchantasia--before she comes after the ones Gilly loves the most.

Charmed

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Read once. Fun start to a middle grade series. 

Fairy Tale Reform School #1

Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly...but when you have five siblings and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet. Gilly's a pretty good thief-until she gets caught and sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School. There Gilly has to deal with teachers who are former villains like the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.Harsh. But when she meets fellow students Jax and Kayla and they discover there's a battle brewing, Gilly has to wonder just how good these bad guys really are.

Flunked

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Cari Thomas

Never read. Pages are a little worn on top (see picture for coloring) 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The International Bestseller



Within the boroughs of London, nestled among its streets, hides another city, filled with magic.

'Magic and love. Love and magic. They destroy everything in the end ...'



Anna's Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences.



Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever.



Until she meets Effie and Attis.



They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revellers lose themselves in a haze of spells.



But as she is swept deeper into this world, Anna begins to wonder if her Aunt was right all along.



Is her magic a gift ... or a curse?

Threadneedle (Threadneedle)

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Rick Riordan

All 3 books (hardcover) of the Magnus Chase trilogy. The box is a little warped (see photo) but still stands great. Note: black dot on top of each book. 

3 Book Box Set 

All three books in the best-selling Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy, presented together in a gift-worthy hardcover boxed set.


"Rick's new series is simply brilliant--maybe his best yet! I thought I knew Norse mythology, but I'll never see Thor the same way again! Get ready to stay up all night reading!"--New York Times #1 bestselling author Harlan Coben
 * A handsome collection of #1 New York Times best-sellers
 * Rick Riordan is a #1 New York Times best-selling author many times over
 * Rick has been intrigued by Norse mythology since childhood
 * Ties in to Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
 * The diverse cast includes a hearing-impaired elf, a Muslim Valkyrie, and a Black dwarf
 * Ideal entertainment for middle schoolers but can be enjoyed by older readers, too

Marking the culmination of this exciting trilogy, the hardcover editions of the #1 New York Times best-selling Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard books, THE SWORD OF SUMMER, THE HAMMER OF THOR, and THE SHIP OF THE DEAD, are now available together in a stunning slipcase.

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Hardcover Boxed Set (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

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Harper Lee

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.

Go Set a Watchman

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Cassandra Clare

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Includes excerpts from Clock prince, City of bones, Lady Midnight, and a sneak peek at Vampires, scones, and Edmund Herondale.

Clockwork Angel

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Mary E. Pearson

Read once. Great condition! First in a YA trilogy. 

The Remnant Chronicles, Book One

The first book of the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles. “Fantastical.” —USA Today She flees on her wedding day. She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor’s secret collection. She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father. She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan. The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can’t abide. Like having to marry someone she’s never met to secure a political alliance. Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia escapes to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love. The Kiss of Deception is the first book in Mary E. Pearson's New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series Remnant Chronicles. The adventure continues in the New York Times bestseller, The Heart of Betrayal, and comes to an epic conclusion in The Beauty of Darkness. Praise for The Kiss of Deception: “A deeply satisfying, intricately plotted fantasy where no one—no one—is quite what they seem. . . . A thoroughly engrossing read—I couldn't put it down!” —Robin LaFevers, New York Times–bestselling author of Grave Mercy and Dark Triumph “A sumptuous fantasy.” —Chicago Tribune “This is the kind of story I love—a heart-pounding tale of magic and murder, betrayal and romance set in a richly imagined fantasy landscape.” —Cindy Williams Chima, New York Times–bestselling author of the Seven Realms and the Heir Chronicles “Extraordinary . . . masterfully crafted.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The Kiss of Deception has it all--beautiful writing, heart-pounding suspense, a fiery princess, and an epic romance that'll make you swoon. This is definitely one of my favorite reads of the year!” —Alyson Noël, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Immortals “In The Kiss of Deception, a new realm is masterfully created, featuring court intrigue, feuding nations, breathtaking landscapes, and the gift of sight. Fans of the Game of Thrones series will enjoy the magic and fantasy in this timeless dystopian world.” —VOYA "Gripping, urgent, and highly appealing." —School Library Journal "Pearson (the Jenna Fox Chronicles) is off to an extraordinary start with her fantasy series, the Remnant Chronicles, creating an alluring world and romance that's ideal for fans of Kristin Cashore and Megan Whalen Turner." —Publishers Weekly "Pearson offers readers a wonderfully full-bodied story: harrowing, romantic, and full of myth and memory, fate and hope. . . . This has the sweep of an epic tale, told with some twists." —Booklist, starred review "A marvelous new fantasy series that is sure to find an audience with devotees of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games and John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice books (Philomel). Romance, adventure, mysticism--this book has it all and it just may be the next YA blockbuster." —School Library Journal, starred review

The Kiss of Deception

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s classic Emma. In the new Norton Classics series. Very lightweight. Great for traveling. 

Famously described by the author as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," Emma Woodhouse is wealthy, charming, and delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within her community--though she herself has no desire to marry. As her meddling begins to bear consequences, however, Emma must come to terms with her responsibility and decide on her place in the world. With inimitable wit and incisive social commentary, Austen evokes a complex prism of relational connection and a richness of ordinary life that unfolds from the small world of her most extraordinary heroine.

Emma (First Edition) (the Norton Library)

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Never read. The Norton Library classic edition. Light weight. Great if you’re reading for school 

Pride & Prejudice 

Sophie Escabasse

Read once. Very fun graphic novel. Perfect for middle grade readers and above. Love the art. 

(a Graphic Novel)

Effie just wants to have fun being a witch, but her life in Brooklyn is complicated with friend problems and the hard work of learning magic.

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Leonard S. Marcus

Minders of Make-Believe

Gayle Forman

Frankie and Bug

Chris Grabenstein

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Margaret Sullivan; Janet Mullany; Adriana Trigiani; Jo Beverley

Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Liz Pichon

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Destiny Soria

Fire with Fire

Ehigbor Okosun

Forged by Blood

Amanda Peters

The Berry Pickers

Claudia Gray

The Murder of Mr. Wickham

Alyssa Maxwell

Murder at the Breakers

Alan Cowsill

Marvel Avengers

Nina de Gramont

The Christie Affair

Ally Carter

Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor

Melissa de la Cruz

The Isle of the Lost (a Descendants Novel, Book 1)

Jen Calonita

Charmed

Jen Calonita

Flunked

Cari Thomas

Threadneedle (Threadneedle)

Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Hardcover Boxed Set (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman

Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel

Mary E. Pearson

The Kiss of Deception

Jane Austen

Emma (First Edition) (the Norton Library)

Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice

Sophie Escabasse

Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!

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