Terry Deary

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A humorous look at life in Britain during the Roman occupation.

The Rotten Romans *1994 UK edition

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Goblins in the Castle *1992 first edition

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub *1989 edition

The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the “Children’s Ship”

Torpedoed

Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Like new save for the red line on bottom, seen in pic

Sometimes a yacht, a bold bucket list, and a kiss with a handsome stranger are all a person needs to dive into the deep end of life. For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has been attempting to complete a bucket list of thirty things she wants to accomplish by her thirtieth birthday. Jo has almost everything she's ever wanted, including a condo on the beach (though she's the youngest resident by several decades) and an exciting job (albeit below deck) that lets her travel the world. Jo is on track until the death of her nephew turns her life upside down, and the list falls by the wayside. But when her two nieces show up unannounced with plans to stay the summer, they discover her list and insist on helping Jo finish it. Though the remaining eight items (which include running a marathon, visiting ten countries, and sleeping in a castle) seem impossible to complete in twelve weeks, Jo takes on the challenge. When she summons the courage to complete item number five--kiss a stranger--and meets Alex Hayes, all bets are off. As her feelings for Alex intensify and Jo's inability to confront difficult emotions about her family complicates her relationships, she must learn to quit playing it safe with her heart before she loses what matters most.

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships *great for Below Deck fans

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Michelle Obama

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Overcoming in Uncertain Times

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.
 
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
 
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles--the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become." She details her most valuable practices, like "starting kind," "going high," and assembling a "kitchen table" of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.
 
"When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it," writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.

The Light We Carry *like new first edition

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Maria Amparo Escandon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “There’s a 100% chance you’ll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down!” — Reese Witherspoon “This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory.”— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "A capacious book, chock-full of human drama...Escandón’s narrative voice is often witty and warm, and her meditations on Los Angeles are lush and lyrical...A lively and ambitious family novel." — New York Times Book Review Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza’s Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way. With quick wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.

L. A. Weather *like new first edition 

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Lingo Mastery

Over 1500 Common Phrases for Everyday Use and Travel

What is the hardest challenge you've faced as a student of the Portuguese language? You can work hard on your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, but being able to communicate naturally isn't easy. In fact, the toughest part of learning Portuguese is knowing how to speak like a native. Most textbooks are made to teach you the traditional rules and structures of a language and are great for getting around the grammar and spelling questions you may have. However, how many of them provide you the tools necessary to have a common conversation with a best friend or someone you've just met? Not many at all. Language learners often complain about this - a lack of material that can help you familiarize yourself with the most common phrases used in everyday conversation and in native surroundings. For this reason, we at Lingo Mastery have developed Easy Portuguese Phrase Book: Over 1500 Common Phrases for Everyday Use and Travel for you, our favorite language-learner, so that you may find the best expressions for common usage in Portuguese and communicate with your Portuguese friends, colleagues and client without any issue! In this book: - An introduction with a detailed guide on how to pronounce vowels and consonants (as well as their combinations) in the Brazilian Portuguese tongue. - A list of over 1,500 common phrases in Portuguese, with an accurate translation in English for your understanding. - A phonetics pronunciation guide of each and every word in the phrases, included after every translation. - Finally, a conclusion to make sure you've learned and supply you with a final list of tips. Your days struggling with natural communication with natives is finally over. Our Easy Portuguese Phrase Book is here. It's time for you to take your Portuguese to the next level.

Easy Portuguese Phrase Book *like new

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Richard Powers

3 spots of highlighting inside, seen in pic 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Overstory

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Virginia Woolf

Jeanette Winterson

Like new save for one annotation seen in pic 

Set against the vivid backdrop of the sea, six characters grapple with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. The characters are subtly revealed through the accumulation of their reflections on themselves and each other. Regarded by many as Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, The Waves was partially written in order to exorcise her private ghosts, as the character of Percival represents her brother who died in 1906.

The Waves *2004 UK Penguin Random House edition

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Laurie S. Sutton

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When Gotham City is ravaged by a squad of supervillains with wild instincts, it's up to Batman to stop them, and he discovers that it's all part of a master plan by the evil Penguin.

Batman bundle: Batman Battles the Penguin, Batman Summer Freeze!, Monster Mayhem

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Steve Korte

Name on inside seen in pic and slight sticker residue on cover, otherwise great condition

"It’s Halloween night in Gotham City, and the streets are full of monsters--real ones! Batman is battling a crime spree being carried out by the spookiest villains in town--Scarecrow, Clayface, Solomon Grundy, and Silver Banshee--who are all secretly working for the Joker. The evil mastermind wants to unleash a computer virus that will make all technology cackle and obey his every command! The Joker thinks he’s in for a Halloween treat, but Batman has a trick up his sleeve: his pals Green Arrow, Cyborg, Nightwing, and Red Robin are joining him to fight back! Can they save Gotham City before it’s too late? Find out in this novelization that includes eight pages of full-color stills from the Monster Mayhem Batman animated film..."--

Monster Mayhem *out of print

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Name on inside seen in pic, otherwise great condition

Batman Battles the Penguin *out of print chapter book

John Sazaklis

Brandon Terrell

Name on inside, seen in pic. Otherwise like new 

Choose Your Own ending

Mr Freeze blankets Gotham City in a blizzard in the middle of summer! Does Batman use his brain or his brawn to stop the icy villain? You choose!

Summer Freeze

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Name on inside cover, seen in picture. Otherwise wonderful condition. ￼

The Princess and the Peabodys *out of print 

Joyride *1983 first edition, rare

Jennifer Saint

A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved little sister she leaves behind? Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Ariadne forges a new epic, outside the traditional narratives of heroism and glory that leave no room for women.

Ariadne *like new

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Shannon Chakraborty

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised-Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend.

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.

But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will.

Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power...and the price might be your very soul.

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi *like new

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Alix E. Harrow

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage--the lost ways are calling. Praise for The Once and Future Witches: "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. I adore them, and long for witchcraft to awaken in all of us. Harrow makes it feel possible, and even likely."―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author "A glorious escape into a world where witchcraft has dwindled to a memory of women's magic, and three wild, sundered sisters hold the key to bring it back...A tale that will sweep you away."―Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author "This book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen."―P. Djèlí Clark, author The Black God's Drum For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books - Barnes and Noble - BookPage

The Once and Future Witches *first edition

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Agnes Gomillion

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"The Record Keeper is empathy through fiction." - Actor, Comedian and Film Producer Wayne Brady on The Record Keeper which he plans to bring to the Silver Screen. The Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations. After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law--in every way--or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Arika Cobane is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege as a member of the Kongo elite after ten grueling years of training. But everything changes when a new student arrives speaking dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter if innocent lives are lost to maintain it? As Arika is exposed to new beliefs, she realizes that the laws she has dedicated herself to uphold are the root of her people's misery. If Arika is to liberate her people, she must unearth her fierce heart and discover the true meaning of freedom: finding the courage to live--or die--without fear.

The Record Keeper

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18 Afghan 18 Afghan Women

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Fiction by Afghan Women

A landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)



"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."



Eighteen Afghan women living in, speaking about, and writing from the country itself tell stories that are powerful and illuminating, unique and universal - stories of family, work, childhood, friendship, war, gender identity, and cultural traditions. 



A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A  teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet.  A  tormented girl tries to find love through a horrific act. A headmaster makes his way to work, treading the fine line between life and death.



These and more original, vital, and unexpected stories hail from extraordinary voices rooted in Afghanistan's two main linguistic groups (Pashto and Dari), and were developed over two years through the writer development program Untold's Write Aghanistan Project.  My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird comes at a pivotal moment in Afghanistan's history, when these voices must be heard.



With an Introduction by Lyse Doucet, BBC chief international correspondant, and afterword by Lucy Hannah, Founder and Director of Untold





 

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird *like new, 1st edition

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Terry Deary

The Rotten Romans *1994 UK edition

Bruce Coville

Goblins in the Castle *1992 first edition

Jamie Gilson

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub *1989 edition

Deborah Heiligman

Torpedoed

Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships *great for Below Deck fans

Michelle Obama

The Light We Carry *like new first edition

Maria Amparo Escandon

L. A. Weather *like new first edition

Lingo Mastery

Easy Portuguese Phrase Book *like new

Richard Powers

The Overstory

Virginia Woolf; Jeanette Winterson

The Waves *2004 UK Penguin Random House edition

Laurie S. Sutton

Batman bundle: Batman Battles the Penguin, Batman Summer Freeze!, Monster Mayhem

Steve Korte

Monster Mayhem *out of print

Laurie S. Sutton

Batman Battles the Penguin *out of print chapter book

John Sazaklis; Laurie S. Sutton; Brandon Terrell

Summer Freeze

Betty G. Birney

The Princess and the Peabodys *out of print

Stephen Crye

Joyride *1983 first edition, rare

Jennifer Saint

Ariadne *like new

Shannon Chakraborty

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi *like new

Alix E. Harrow

The Once and Future Witches *first edition

Agnes Gomillion

The Record Keeper

18 Afghan 18 Afghan Women

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird *like new, 1st edition

Ann M. Martin

The Babysitters Club mystery bundle *1990s first editions

Ann M. Martin

Baby-sitters’ Fright Night *1996 first edition

Ann M. Martin

Kristy and the Middle School Vandal *1996 first edition

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