Chris Wooding

The crew of the Ketty Jay are all running from something, so when an opportunity to make quick and easy bank comes up, Darian Frey, the ship’s captain can’t pass it up. He’ll finally be rich, which means he’ll finally be able to outrun his demons, but of course, it’s a trap. This is one of the most fun books I’ve read in a while. Pirates in airships with shotguns. There’s even a sort of magic system and something resembling undeath. If you’re a fan of Firefly and Serenity, you will burn right through this and love it. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey's league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay--or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem and burdened by guilt. Jez is the new navigator, desperate to keep her secret from the rest of the crew. Malvery is a disgraced doctor, drinking himself to death. So when an opportunity arises to steal a chest of gems from a vulnerable airship, Frey can't pass it up. It's an easy take--and the payoff will finally make him a rich man.

But when the attack goes horribly wrong, Frey suddenly finds himself the most wanted man in Vardia, trailed by bounty hunters, the elite Century Knights, and the dread queen of the skies, Trinica Dracken. Frey realizes that they've been set up to take a fall but doesn't know the endgame. And the ultimate answer for captain and crew may lie in the legendary hidden pirate town of Retribution Falls. That's if they can get there without getting blown out of the sky.

Retribution Falls

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Aldous Huxley

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"Huxley's final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books--from Plato to now--that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be."  -- New York Times Book Review

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.

In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and--to his amazement--give him hope.

Island

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Phaidon Press Editors

Depicts five hundred paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the present, each by a different artist, in alphabetical order by artist, with a brief description of the work and its place in art history and in the artist's career

The Art Book

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Risa Mickenberg

Joanne Dugan

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A collection of wit, pearls of wisdom, pithy quotes, and observations on life from New York's premier philosophers is accompanied by black-and-white portrait photographs of the contributors, New York cab drivers. IP.

Taxi Driver Wisdom

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Dictionary of Fantastic Art

Adrian Barnes

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they've all shared the same golden dream. 

After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. 

Paul, a writer, continues to sleep while his partner Tanya disintegrates before his eyes, and the new world swallows the old one whole.

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Long In The Tooth is a rules lite tabletop roleplaying game where your character levels down instead of up. It is a slim,   6 pages in zine format, uses 6 sided dice, and presents ideas to make other games work in a similar manner. Download the pdf here: hypersigilgames.itch.io

Long In The Tooth 

Hypnagogic Jerks is a pencil and paper roleplaying game set in the dreams of anyone you like, real or imaginary, alive or dead. It uses coins as the main resolution mechanic instead of dice. You can read more and/or download the pdf here: hypersigilgames.itch.io

Hypnagogic Jerks

A collection of black & white photographs with no text. 8.5x5.5” zine format. The title translates to “Images without name” in Irish Gaelige.

Íomhánna Gan Ainm

A short story of cosmic retribution in zine form. Fishermen have been turning up dead in the state game lands but now a survivor claims a beautiful ghostly woman is to blame. Who would believe his story?

The Sirens Wail

Daniel Quinn

A sequel of sorts to Ishmael. The investigation into the cult of B leads to a spiritual awakening for Father Jared Osborne, and the reader as well.

Jared Osborne, a Laurentians priest, investigates an itinerant preacher of unusual power and penetrates his inner circle, where he becomes an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own beliefs

The Story of B

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Michael Pogach

The first in the Rafael Ward series. As good as anything I’ve read from Dan Brown. Similar in vein though, an alternative history, mystery thriller.

The Spider in the Laurel combines elements of Indiana Jones adventures and Jason Bourne thrillers with a V for Vendetta dystopia, and an American Gods fantasy.

The Spider in the Laurel

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Bill Martin

Robert Fripp

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork

Is avant-garde rock music a contradiction in terms? Avant-garde trends emerged through the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960's, and acquired a new focus in the later Beatles, drawing upon many sourcees outside of rock, from John Cage to Cecil Taylor. In this fresh and challenging look at avant rock, Bill Martin outlines the entire phenomenon, from Yoko Ono, King Crimson, and Velvet Underground through the dynamic of progressive rock and punk in the 1970's and the watershed work of Brian Eno, to contemporary figures who continue to push the boundaries of rock: Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Merzbow, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke and many others.

Avant Rock

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Justin Racz

Unless you do one of the fifty things outlined here. Sorry if that’s the case.

A hysterical tour through some of the world's worst jobs, guaranteed to make you grateful for the job you have and thankful for the one you don't

50 Jobs Worse Than Yours

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Stephen King

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

The Tommyknockers

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John Connolly

A boy and his wiener-dog get pulled through a portal to hell where a butthurt demon wants to get revenge on him for ruining a demonic invasion of Earth.

A Samuel Johnson Tale

From New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, a wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy and his dog and their journey to escape the fires of hell.

"Roald Dahl meets Harry Potter"* in this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons.

Young Samuel Johnson is in trouble. Not only is his eyesight so poor that he mistakenly asks out a letter box on a date but an angry demon wants revenge for Samuel's part in foiling the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil. When Samuel and his faithful dachshund, Boswell, are pulled through a portal into the dark realm, home of the Infernals, it gets its chance.

Catching Samuel won't be easy, for the Infernals have not reckoned on the bravery and cleverness of a boy and his dog; a hapless demon's loyalty to the duo; or the presence of two clueless policemen and an unlucky, if cheerfully optimistic, ice-cream man.

Most of all, no one has planned on the intervention of an unexpected band of little men who also have recently found themselves in the underworld. If you thought demons were frightening, just wait until you meet Mr. Merryweather's Elves. . . .

*My Shelf Confessions

The Infernals

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James Joyce

Brenda Maddox

A snapshot of the Black Rose, aka Dirty Dublin. A collection of lyrical portraits from a very specific time and place. Pretty tame for the author of Finnegans Wake but a good starting place to get into Joyce.

A classic collection of the great literary pioneer's early work, these fifteen short stories evoke the character and atmosphere of the Irish city of Dublin at the turn of the century. Reissue.

Dubliners

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Advertised as “The Knowledge That Brings One Nearer to The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna”. A sacred text introducing Vedic thought and traditions.

Śrī Īśopanisad

The Dreamer’s Dictionary 

Philip Toshio Sudo

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance.

Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song--a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music.

Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western Mind. Through fifty-eight lessons that provide focus and a guide, the reader is led through to Zen awareness. This harmony is further illuminated through quotes from sources ranging from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. From those who have never strummed a guitar to the more experienced, Zen Guitar shows how the path of music offers fulfillment in all aspects of life--a winning idea and an instant classic.

Zen Guitar

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An interstellar spy all but actually becomes the people or aliens he is tasked with impersonating, but all that chicanery takes its toll.

All My Sins Remembered 

Robert A. Wilson

Playboy called it, “the most reasonable, intelligent, sophisticated and subtle analysis of the world’s madness ever seen in print”.

The Universe Next Door , the Trick Top Hat , and the Homing Pigeons

The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.

Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy

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George R. R. Martin

A Novel

Long before A Game of Thrones became an international phenomenon, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin had taken his loyal readers across the cosmos. Now back in print after almost ten years, Tuf Voyaging is the story of quirky and endearing Haviland Tuf, an unlikely hero just trying to do right by the galaxy, one planet at a time.
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Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of a seedship, the last remnant of Earth's legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind; just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands--hands which now have the godlike ability to control the genetic material of thousands of outlandish creatures.
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Armed with this unique equipment, Tuf is set to tackle the problems that human settlers have created in colonizing far-flung worlds: hosts of hostile monsters, a population hooked on procreation, a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way . . . and in every case, the only thing that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity--and his reputation as a man of integrity in a universe of rogues.
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"A rich blend of adventure, humor, compassion and all the other things that make being human worthwhile."--Analog
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"A new facet of Martin's manysided talent."--Asimov's

Tuf Voyaging

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Robert Shea

The preeminent saga of gorilla ontology. The longest shaggy dog in these parts and beyond. Fnord!

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