A true queen of urban fantasy—the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter witch-turned-daywalking demon Rachel Morgan—the phenomenal Kim Harrison explores the Hollows more deeply than ever before in Into the Woods, her first collection of short stories.

Rachel is here, as are Jenks the pixie, elven tycoon Trent Kalamack, and an unholy host of vampires, demons, shapeshifters, ghosts, and other assorted supernatural beings, friends and foes.

Into the Woods combines original work, including a new Hollows novella, as well as all of Kim Harrison’s previously published short fiction gathered together in one volume for the very first time. No true Hollows aficionado will want to pass this up—and readers of Laurell K. Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, and Jim Butcher; fans of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight novels and of paranormal romance superstars Christine Feehan and Sherrilyn Kenyon, will be likewise enchanted.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Tales from the Hollows and Beyond

A true queen of urban fantasy--the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter witch-turned-daywalking demon Rachel Morgan--the phenomenal Kim Harrison explores the Hollows more deeply than ever before in Into the Woods, her first collection of short stories.

Rachel is here, as are Jenks the pixie, elven tycoon Trent Kalamack, and an unholy host of vampires, demons, shapeshifters, ghosts, and other assorted supernatural beings, friends and foes.

Into the Woods combines original work, including a new Hollows novella, as well as all of Kim Harrison's previously published short fiction gathered together in one volume for the very first time. No true Hollows aficionado will want to pass this up--and readers of Laurell K. Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, and Jim Butcher; fans of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight novels and of paranormal romance superstars Christine Feehan and Sherrilyn Kenyon, will be likewise enchanted.

Into the Woods

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#hardcover #picturebook #girls #girl #diverse #children #childrensbook #kids #urban #citylife 

Oregon

A young girl loves her favorite dress, but when it gets worn, goes out of fashion, or she grows too big to fit, her mother fixes up her old favorite into something new.

I Had a Favorite Dress

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Wake Up, City! 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Paige Donahue has always lived in her sister Camille's shadow. As children, Camille had the grades, the friends, and their parents' love, while Paige was left with hand-me-downs and criticism. Now as adults, Camille lives an idyllic life with her husband, Pierce, and her two perfect children in a beautiful home, while Paige is stuck in a small condo with bills she can't afford to pay.

But no more. With seeds of doubt planted in both Camille's and Pierce's minds, Paige's plan to steal her brother-in law starts to work. But when he reveals his decision to make his marriage work, a desperate Paige moves from envy to madness. What results from her dangerous scheme is something no one could have imagined.

Secret Obsession

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C. G. Esperanza

New York

Author-illustrator C. G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfect for fans of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut and Keith Haring. The city is alive with vibrant art in every corner of the parks, the shops, the trains. But most people are too busy to see it--or worse, choose to ignore it! When three children stop to marvel at the art around their community, they realize it's up to them to show everyone else how truly special it is when art and reality dance together so seamlessly. Boogie boogie, y'all. The city boogied all day. Busy, busy, busy, Till one kid stopped to say, Woah, woah, woah! Look at the art on the wall!

Boogie Boogie, Y'all

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Ian McEwan

The book is in like new condition EXCEPT for the flyleaf.  See photos.  It has deckle edges.  Some people like them some do not.

Minnesota

A Novel

New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever--a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.

Machines Like Me

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Linda Howard

Linda Jones

Ohio

Vampire

Vampire Luca Ambrus's mission to stop rogue vampires bent on subjugating the mortal world leads him to Chloe Fallon, a conduit who is able to channel spirit warriors into the physical world and the target of a vampire assassin.

Blood Born

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Rachel Tremblay

used paperback book with some wear to the covers, including a front cover corner crease; indie novella with short graphic novel at the end

Utah

A magical 90's punk & spiritual romance Set in the 90's when people didn't have cell phones, smoked in bars, and punk rock was thriving. Carlie, a wild, twenty-five year old drifter moves back to her parents' after surviving a traumatic accident. Back home, she starts seeing things she doesn't understand, and the feelings that come with them are overwhelmingly blissful. When chasing the source of her new joy starts to pull her closer to death, she must find a way to harness this power that makes her feel so alive. Includes short graphic novel Octob*tch and the WrenchKing

The Nirvana Threads

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Has sticker gunk #paperback #paranormal #fiction #charleydavidson #urban #fantasy 

Illinois

Second in the Darynda Jones' award-winning paranormal series that's "hilarious and heartfelt, sexy and surprising." (J.R. Ward) When Charley Davidson and Cookie (her best friend/receptionist) have to track down a missing woman, the case is not quite as open and shut as they anticipate. A friend of Cookie's named Mimi disappeared five days earlier. This friend then sends Cookie a cryptic message telling them to meet her at a nearby coffee shop. The coffee is brewing, but Mimi's still missing. There is, however, a clue left on the bathroom wall: a woman's name, scribbled by Mimi. Mimi's husband explains that his wife had been acting strange since she found out an old friend of hers from high school had been murdered a couple weeks prior. The same woman Mimi had named in her message. Meanwhile, Reyes Alexander Farrow (otherwise known as the Son of Satan. Yes. Literally) has left his corporeal body and is haunting Charley. He's left his body because he's being tortured by demons who want to lure Charley closer. But Reyes can't let that happen. Because if the demons get to Charley, they'll have a portal to heaven. And if they have a portal to heaven...well, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty. Can Charley handle hot nights with Reyes and even hotter days tracking down a missing woman? Can she keep those she loves out of harm's way? And is there enough coffee and chocolate in the world to fuel her as she does? Here is your signpost for the most hilarious read of the summer: Second Grave On The Left.

Second Grave on the Left

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Joe Ide

Nevada

Isaiah Quintabe--an unlicensed detective for all seasons--and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the "aggressively entertaining" IQ series (New York Times). This time, their lives may never be the same.



Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he's a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state's most prolific serial killer.

 

His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil's bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual, but where the aging company's fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson--"the hustler's hustler"--just may be the right man for the job.

 

Ide is the crime writer's crime writer, and he's filled his best novel yet with desperate souls, courageous outcasts, an ex-stripper who'll do anything to protect her son, and wild half-brothers who may be the very incarnation of evil.

 

With deft plotting, lacerating humor, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another, Smoke is Joe Ide's crowning achievement.

 

Smoke ( IQ Series)

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Maryland

Presents three short novels in which Fire and Marcy plot revenge on the person who almost killed their mother, strippers Latisha and Lexi get involved in a money-making scheme that goes horribly wrong, and R&B diva Star tries to protect her secret life.

Girls from Da Hood 3

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#paperback #urban #africanamerican #markanthony #queenbee

Destiny and Brazil are good friends as well as ambitious proteges of Essence, the 28-year-old controlling and ghetto fabulous owner of the Queen Bee strip club - but Essence views the ambition of her proteges as a threat to her power and her status and feels she must ruin them both. Knowing that she needs to eliminate any threat to her empire, she decides to divide and conquer Destiny and Brazil - starting a war in the process. In the end, the question will not be who won the most, but who lost the least.

Queen Bee

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#paperback #fiction #africanamerican #urban #reign #shytlist #black

Be Careful Who You Cross

Based in Southeast D.C., Shyt List, is an explicit street tale about what occurs the moment Revelation and Revenge meet. When Yvonna s ghetto fabulous world is rocked after the brutal murder of her high school sweetheart Bilal Santana, at the hands of her father, she learns a lot about the people around her. Behind her back they conceal a sultry secret involving her best friend and deceased boyfriend. Unable to move past her anger, which eventually causes her to get into a major car accident; she leaves D.C., fleeing only to Baltimore. There she remains nourishing the hate she feels inside. Four years later, angrier and crazier than ever, she decides to return home to one by one exact revenge on those who made what she affectionately refers to as her Shyt List . From defecating on a gravesite, to murder, she reigns supreme at completing her mission of destroying their lives. That is until she reaches the last name on the list. With him her plans are difficult to carry out. Will the love she feels for him prevent her from following through with her plan? Or will old memories push her to go even further? In the end all will be revealed, and you ll be blown away

Shyt List

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Irene Smalls

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.

Jonathan and His Mommy

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#paperback #eastside #calebalexander #urban #africanamerican 

Eastside is a coming-of-age tale set among the backdrop of inner-city gang violence in the early '90s.

Eastside is about mothers struggling and supporting one another as they match in a seemingly endless procession to the cemetery to bury their children. After his brother's death, Travon "Tre" Robinson tries keep his brother's dying wish to stay straight and narrow as he struggles to distance his life from deeper entanglement with the Wheatley Courts Gangstas.

Unrepentantly crooked police officers, violent gangland shoot-outs, blazing car chases, petty drug dealing, ruthless armed robberies, a psychotic seventeen-year-old albino gang member, and the haunting legacy of a long dead brother, complete the complex panoply that is Eastside.

Eastside

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Texas

The explosive truth behind 30 of the most perplexing urban legends of all time

Mythbusters

Francesca Berardi

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Between February 2013 and November 2014 I visited Detroit six times, for a total of 77 days. After three years living in Brooklyn, I found in Detroit what I had been looking for when I left Italy and crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Space, both physical and for the imagination. That is why it only took me two days to decide to write my first book. An emotional and practical book about the city, mapped through a series of encounters with its people. I raised the money needed to start the project, managed to drive an automatic car and learned how to fix a bike tire. Over the course of two years I have collected stories, ideas and feelings, set within what seems to be a real movement of urban resistance. I trained my eye to observe silent urban landscapes, on which huge blocks of sky and abandoned buildings impose themselves, and I realized that fear and fascination for decay quickly take second place. It has been like developing a way of seeing that is more like a way of listening, toward a world which can be complex and harsh at times, but also full of an energy that only appears when determination and potential meet. I invited an artist, Antonio Rovaldi, to join me and illustrate this journey. This is the result of our work. (F.B.)

Detour in Detroit

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#paperback #urban #africanamerican #rochellealers #gentleyearning #black #fiction

Daniel Clinton's affair with his best friend's beautiful widow, Rebecca, yields more than love. Nearly torn apart by guilt and deceit, both give in to their overwhelming desires and love for each other, forever. There is history to this relationship, a story about the two of them and the circumstances of her husband's death. Is her husband dead because of the man who seeks her favours now? Will their troubled history repeat itself?

Gentle Yearning

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#paperback #urban #africanamerican #dondiva #joeblack #squeeze 

Squeeze

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The Story of Treacherous and Teflon

Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance in life from the day he was born. Never having the opportunity to know his biological mother, he was raised by his father, who happened to be a notorious gangster. Deprived of a normal childhood, his father educated him on what awaited him on the streets of Virginia. When the time comes for Treacherous to make some sudden decisions, he has no idea they will land him in the very place that he is trying to avoid. Teflon Jackson is a beautiful woman who is the end result of a horrible union. Having a loving mother who was a prostitute and a pimp for a father, Teflon's childhood was far from a fairytale. Bearing witness to the abusive relationship between her parents, Teflon was determined not to follow her mothers footsteps. Tragedy strikes and Teflon finds herself having to utilize all of the tricks that her mother taught her after she is forced into the streets to fend for herself. Years later, Treacherous and Teflon's paths cross.

Ride Or Die Chick

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#paperback #dejaking #bitch #urban #africanamerican

Precious Cummings came from nothing but was determined to have it all. Using her most deadly weapons - undeniable beauty, body and street savvy brains, Precious sets out to change the cards that she'd been dealt. After meeting Nico Carter, a man who can help her achieve her goals, virtually overnight she is on her way. Precious quickly transforms from Project Chick to Hood Queen and is determined to hold on to her position even if it means crossing the man who made it possible. Set on revenge, Precious gambles it all in her quest to gain everything. Just when she believes the dice have rolled in her favor, Precious has to answer for the web of deceit that she has set in motion.

Bitch

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Jon Steele

This is book 1 in the Angelus Trilogy.  I also have book 2 if you want to bundle.

A detective investigates a series of murders that may be the handiwork of a gang of international killers—or fallen angels. A first novel.

The Watchers

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[confessions of a groupie]

Royce is a beautiful woman determined to make it in the music industry, but after many issues, she realizes her dream isn't working, until she meets G, a sweet-talking producer who guarantees her fame.

V.I.P.

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When Carmello was growing up he wanted to be just like his father, the biggest crack supplier in Queens. But after his father and mother are executed gangland style, his younger brother Caine and sister China want to know what Carmello is going to do about it. And on the streets, where nothing is ever sacred and loyalty is only a word, Carmello is about to learn all about greed, trust and friendship.

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Kim Harrison

Into the Woods

Boni Ashburn; Julia Denos (Illustrator)

I Had a Favorite Dress

Alvin Tresselt

Wake Up, City!

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Secret Obsession

C. G. Esperanza

Boogie Boogie, Y'all

Ian McEwan

Machines Like Me

Linda Howard; Linda Jones

Blood Born

Rachel Tremblay

The Nirvana Threads

Darynda Jones

Second Grave on the Left

Joe Ide

Smoke ( IQ Series)

KaShamba Williams, Mark Anthony, MadameK

Girls from Da Hood 3

Mark Anthony

Queen Bee

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Jonathan and His Mommy

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Eastside

Keith and Kent Zimmerman

Mythbusters

Francesca Berardi

Detour in Detroit

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