Junior League of Pasadena Staff

Other than dust jacket, book in good condition with only one page that is spotted. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maine

California Heritage Cookbook

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Irvine Welsh

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

While lying in a coma in an Edinburgh hospital, Roy Strang experiences strange hallucinatory adventures that recount how he came to be in his current state, from his struggles with his disturbed family to a bizarre quest in Africa.

Marabou Stork Nightmares

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Nicholson Baker

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.

Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.

The Everlasting Story of Nory

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A True Story

Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike.

U and I

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A classic from the 90s. In very good condition except discoloration on edges (see photos) 

Explores the life of a group of rude boys, junkies, and nutters in Edinburgh

Trainspotting

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I’m very good condition with some slight discoloration on edges. 

He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals--God turn a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results--always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer who always creates a sensation.

The Acid House

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From cult classic author Irvine Welsh.. I’m very good condition except for some discoloration on the edges, primarily the top (see photo) 

With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance .



In "Lorraine Goes to Livingston," a bestselling authoress of Regency romances, paralyzed and bedridden, plans her revenge on gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse Lorraine. In "Fortune's Always Hiding," flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth--in order to give his a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale "The Undefeated," we experience the transfiguring passion of the miserably married young yuppie Heather and the raver Lloyd from Leith--a grand affair played out to a house music beat.



As these fools for love pursue it in all the wrong places, Ecstasy is guaranteed to set pulses racing and hearts aflutter.



Ecstasy

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Amor Towles

A few minor marks on the cover, otherwise like new. 

A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

The Lincoln Highway

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Dorothy L. Sayers

The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of amour -- staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. "Here the modern detective story begins to come to its own; and all the historical importance aside, it remains an absorbing and charming story today."

Unnatural Death

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Lord Peter Wimsey is called to a London advertising agency after an employee takes a fatal tumble down the stairs, and soon he finds himself investigating a bizarre series of murders involving cocaine, sex, and blackmail.

Murder Must Advertise

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Lord Peter Wimsey is called back from a much needed vacation when his brother is accused of killing his sister's fiancee at the family's country lodge.

Clouds of Witness

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Other than the scratch on the cover and slight wear on the spine this is in great condition. 

A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman at its center and a dead man who's been discovered in a most intriguing condition: with not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a penny less than six hundred pounds in his pocket.

Busman's Honeymoon

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A little stain on the spine and a slight crease in the cover, otherwise in great condition.

Twelve cases of murder, and each a mystery for Lord Peter. As he gathers his clues, he reveals a gruesome but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown to readers in his full-length adventures. Originally published in 1928.

Lord Peter Views the Body

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The Nine Tailors

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Second Avon printing paperback in good condition - just light fading on spine and page edges.

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack had been an expert on fungi. His body contained enough muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would he feast on such a large quantity of this poisonous species? A clue was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about--except the dead man's son.

The Documents in the Case

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John McDonald

A wonderful mix of classic Maine storytelling and wry observations. Essays and stories. 

A Moose and a Lobster Walk Into a Bar is a wonderful mix of classic Maine storytelling, stretched truths, and wry observations made by John McDonald during his many travels through the Pine Tree State. In this collection of essays and stories, John extols the important economic power of Maine's yard sale industry, bemoans the fact that Massachusetts, still upset because it allowed Maine to become a state in 1820, is buying it back one house at a time, and relates how the state's infamous black fly was really just an attempt at controlling tourists gone haywire. You will also meet Maine characters like Uncle Abner, Merrill Minzey, and Hollis Eaton, and find yourself pondering just where the truth ends and the story begins.

A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar...

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Bantam Classic edition 1961. In pretty good condition. 

Sweet Thursday

A captivating depiction of a turning point in one man’s life and how it affects him and and an entire small city. 

Ruined City

Gregory MacDonald

Fletch's Moxie

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John D. MacDonald

Paperback in good conditions. A Travis McGee book form one of the best in the genre. 

"Travis McGee is back in action and he is in fine, fine form....What a treat. It is John D. MacDonald's 21st Travies McGee book and, without reservaton, his best." THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door. This is vintage McGee in a novel that confirms John D. MacDonald's reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

The Lonely Silver Rain

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A Penguin paperback edition in very good condition. 

Women in Love

Volumes 1-3 of Anne Rice writing as A.N. Rowuelaure - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Release, and Beauty’s Punishment. In good condition.  #romance #erotica #bdsm #annerice #softcore 

Vol. 1-3

The third novel in Anne Rice's erotic Sleeping Beauty Trilogy.

Erotic Stories of Sleeping Beauty

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#fantasy #sciencefiction #terrygoodkind #magicalworlds #adventure #torfantasy


An unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, and only a single man can stop him.

Wizard's First Rule

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#collectible #kotzwinkle #hardcover #novella #outofofprint #ohenryprize  

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The story of a couple's struggle to come to terms with the death of their newborn child.

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