Cristina Henriquez

Inscribed and signed by the author. Uncorrected proofs.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Novel

"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--

The Great Divide * signed Advanced Reader's Edition from Uncorrected Proo

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Sophie Gonzales

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls--one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance--get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales.

"Wickedly funny [and] searingly sexy."--Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy

It's been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can't escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya's heart.

Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling.

When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they're whisked away to a beautiful mansion--along with four more of Jordy's exes--to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Skye wonders if she and Jordy can recapture the spark she knows they had, but Maya has other plans: exposing Jordy and getting revenge. As they navigate the competition, Skye and Maya discover that their real happily ever after is nothing they could have scripted.

Never Ever Getting Back Together

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Thea Guanzon

Brand new. Barnes and Noble Exclusive Eddition with an extra chapter.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

"The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the Shadowforged prince himself, Alaric Ossinast. In a clash of light and dark, their magic combines to create a new force the likes of which has never been seen. This rare power could be the key to saving many lives-if Talasyn and Alaric don't destroy each other first. Pushed together into a fraught political engagement, the two adversaries find themselves pawns in a much bigger game between conflicting nations. Neither is pleased by the arrangement, but when a new threat emerges, necessity forces the pair to confront the secrets at the heart of the war and find, in each other, a searing passion-one that could save their world, or end it. An exquisite fantasy brimming with unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and richly drawn worlds, The Hurricane Wars marks the breathtaking debut of an extraordinary new writer"--

The Hurricane Wars

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Bundle of *published* advanced reader copies, all from black authors. These are books that have not been given a final proofing,  so they will contain grammatical errors, etc. 

All books are in good condition for ARCs but please know that they are printed on cheaper material than published books.

"Rules of Engagement" by Stacy Abrams (Pen name Selena Montgomery)

"The Sun Sets in Singapore" by Kehinde Fadipe

"The List" by Yomi Adegoke

Weighs 2lb 10oz, will ship USPS Media Mail!

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Bundle of ARCs

John Darnton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

The Experiment

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What A Fool Believes by Michael McDonald with Paul Reiser
Brand New Arc Copy 
Paperback 
Genre: rock music biography 

Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan. Chart topping soloist. Across a half-century of American music, Michael McDonald’s unmistakably smooth baritone voice defined an era of rock and R&B with hit records like “What A Fool Believes,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “I Keep Forgettin’,” “Peg,” “It Keeps You Running,” “You Belong to Me,” and “Yah Mo B There.”

In his candid, freewheeling memoir, written with his friend, the Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian Paul Reiser, Michael tells the story of his life and music. A high school dropout from Ferguson, Missouri, Michael chased his dreams in 1970’s California, a heady moment of rock opportunity and excess. As a rising session musician and backing vocalist, a series of encounters would send him on a wild ride around the world and to the heights of rock stardom—from joining Steely Dan and becoming a defining member of The Doobie Brothers to forging a path as a breakout solo R&B artist.

Interwoven with the unforgettable tales of the music, Michael tells a deeply affecting story of losing and finding himself as a man. He reckons with the unshakeable insecurities that drove him, the drug and alcohol addictions that plagued him, and the highs and lows of popularity. Along the way he relays the lessons he’s learned, and that if he’s learned anything at all it’s that there’s often little correlation between what you get and what you deserve.

Filled with unbelievable stories and a matchless cast of music greats including James Taylor, Ray Charles, Carly Simon, and Quincy Jones, What a Fool Believes is a moving and entertaining memoir that is sure to be a classic. 

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What A Fool Believes 

Shark Wars (advanced readers copy)

Rita Chang-Eppig

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. Named a Most Anticipated Novel by: Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * NetGalley's We Are Bookish * Debutiful * Our Culture * The Chicago Review of Books * The Rumpus * Tor.com When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans-tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance-have new plans for the area. Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life. A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes.

Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea ARC COPY 

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Advance Reader Copy /Uncorrected Proof of A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles. ARC features French (folding) Flaps. In Like New never read condition (see pics). RARE HARD TO FIND THIS IS A Paramount TV SERIES*

*NOTE: A Gentleman in Moscow is a television series for Paramount+ with Showtime based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Amor Towles. Ben Vanstone is writer, executive producer, and showrunner. The series is set to star Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Will be bubble wrapped and carefully packed from a smoke free pet friendly home

Massachusetts

A Gentleman In Moscow US ARC 

Elizabeth Jancewicz

Eric Stevenson

Pennsylvania

From the indie band Pocket Vinyl and the artists behind the documentary Drive. Play. Sleep. and the popular webcomic The Touring Test, this hilarious artists' graphic novel memoir chronicles a couple's road trip across the USA as they break a world record.

How to Completely Lose Your Mind

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Uncorrected proof copy. Very minimal wear to cover corners, otherwise looks brand new. 

Missouri

ARC Starling House 

ARC, a little bit of damage to the edges of the book

Kingdom of Bones ARC

Victoria Shorr

Victoria Shorr’s remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations or family, ambition, class, and status. In “Great Uncle Edward,” a family gathers for dinner. At 93, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attends both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of stories past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy. “Cleveland Auto Wrecking” introduces Sam White, an immigrant from somewhere in Eastern Europe. He cannot read, but he has a gift for math and an instinct for the value of junk. We follow his clan through the Depression to the postwar boom in the West, where their fortunes soar, crating new tests of loyalty.

New Jersey

Two Novellas

Fate is explored in the fall and rise of two twentieth-century American families.


Victoria Shorr's remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status.

In "Great Uncle Edward," a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy. "Cleveland Auto Wrecking" introduces Sam White, an immigrant from eastern Europe. He cannot read but has a gift for math and an instinct for the value of junk. We follow his clan through the Depression to the postwar boom in the West, where their fortunes soar, creating new tests of loyalty.

Taken together, these two novellas might be the reverse images of the American dream in the twentieth century. They ask to what degree, in the face of such powerful forces as love, death, and social constraints, do any of us have control over our own lives.

Mid-Air

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UK Advance Reader Copy/ Uncorrected Proof of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. Has a crease on the top right corner otherwise in really Excellent, Like New, Never Read condition (please refer to pics for any flaws to best assess for yourself). RARE VERY SCARCE HARD TO FIND!

Will be bubble wrapped and carefully packed from a smoke free pet friendly home.

The Starless Sea - UK ARC - Advance Readers Copy/Uncorrected Proof RARE

#fiction #fantasy #ya #maggiestiefvater #youngadult #magicalrealism #paranormal #arc #advancereadercopy 

From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family! Saints. Miracles. Family. Romance. Death. Redemption.

All the Crooked Saints

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Lightlark ARC 

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Advance Reader's Copy 

ARC Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards book 1)

Jonathan Maberry

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

California

A Kagen the Damned Novel

Son of the Poison Rose marks the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen the Damned series.

The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones.

Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head and a reward for him--dead or alive--that would tempt a saint.

The Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon--a cursed disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart.

In order to build an army of resistance fighters and unearth magical weapons of his own, Kagen and his friends have to survive attacks and storms at sea, brave the haunted wastelands of the snowy north, fight their way across the deadly Cathedral Mountains, and rediscover a lost city filled with cannibal warriors, old ghosts, and monsters from other worlds. Along with his reckless adventurer brothers, Kagen races against time to save more than the old empire... if he fails the world will be drenched in a tsunami of bloodshed and horror.

Son of the Poison Rose weaves politics and espionage, sorcery and swordplay, treachery and heroism as the damned outcast Kagen fights against the forces of ultimate darkness.

SIGNED Son of the Poison Rose Kagen the Damned

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Jonny Garza Villa

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story from Jonny Garza Villa, Ander and Santi Were Here, about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family's taqueria.

Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Lopez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family's taquería. It's the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?

To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family "fires" them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago Garcia, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi's eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi's first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home.

Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.

Ander and Santi Were Here(Rainbowcrate Edition)

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Kentucky

ARC A Crown of Ivy and Glass

Tanaz Bhathena

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Tanaz Bhathena's Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India. Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women called the Sisters of the Golden Lotus rescue her, take her in, and train her in warrior magic, Gul wants only one thing: revenge. Cavas lives in the tenements, and he’s just about ready to sign his life over to the king’s army. His father is terminally ill, and Cavas will do anything to save him. But sparks fly when he meets a mysterious girl—Gul—in the capital’s bazaar, and as the chemistry between them undeniably grows, he becomes entangled in a mission of vengeance—and discovers a magic he never expected to find. Dangerous circumstances have brought Gul and Cavas together at the king’s domain in Ambar Fort...a world with secrets deadlier than their own.

Hunted by the Sky

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Kristin Hannah

Virginia

"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America."--

The Women

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James Patterson

Bill Clinton

All Presidents have nightmares. This one is about to come true.

Every detail is accurate—because one of the authors is President Bill Clinton. 

The drama and action never stop—because the other author is James Patterson.

Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL—and a past president—has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack.

A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie—turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

NOTE: I received this ARC secondhand, not from the publisher.

A Thriller

A new thriller coming from #1 bestselling author James Patterson in Summer 2021.

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Cristina Henriquez

The Great Divide * signed Advanced Reader's Edition from Uncorrected Proo

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Never Ever Getting Back Together

Thea Guanzon

The Hurricane Wars

Stacey Abrams

Bundle of ARCs

John Darnton

The Experiment

Michael McDonald

What A Fool Believes

E.J. Altbacker

Shark Wars (advanced readers copy)

Rita Chang-Eppig

Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea ARC COPY

Amor Towles

A Gentleman In Moscow US ARC

Elizabeth Jancewicz; Eric Stevenson

How to Completely Lose Your Mind

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Victoria Shorr

Mid-Air

Erin Morgenstern

The Starless Sea - UK ARC - Advance Readers Copy/Uncorrected Proof RARE

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All the Crooked Saints

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