Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .

Secondhand Souls - SIGNED 1st Ed

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Raina Telgemeier

1st edition February 2010

Printed in Malaysia

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence.

Smile

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alaska

and other Unforeseen Results of New York Magazine Competitions

Thank You for the Giant Sea Tortoise 

The Chicken Chronicles

Sarah Adler

A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love.

Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it's (really) too late--and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting power in the process.

She just didn't expect to have a living travel companion.

After a computer glitch grounds flights, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis Hollenbeck, an also-stranded acquaintance from her ex's MFA program. Hollis certainly does not believe in happily-ever-afters--symbolic or otherwise--and makes it quite clear that he can't fathom Millie's plan ending well for anyone.

But as they contend with peculiar bed-and-breakfasts, unusual small-town festivals, and deer with a death wish, Millie begins to suspect that her reluctant travel partner might enjoy her company more than he lets on. Because for someone who supposedly doesn't share her views on romance, Hollis sure is becoming invested in the success of their journey. And the closer they get to their destination, the more Millie has to admit that maybe this trip isn't just about Mrs. Nash's love story after all--maybe it's also about her own.

Mrs. Nash's Ashes

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The Bang Bang Birds

Christopher Moore

California

Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and the royal family, only to discover the truth about his own heritage.

Fool - Signed First Edition

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#paperback #nationalbestseller #fiction #smalltown #russo #humor #family #literaryfiction #pulitzerprize

District of Columbia

Miles Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls while dealing with the imperious Mrs. Whiting, the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy, in this evocative novel by the author of Nobody's Fool. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Empire Falls

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Heather Poole

Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet



Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider's account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Cruising Attitude is a Coffee, Tea, or Me for the 21st century, as the author parlays her fifteen years of flight experience into a delightful account of crazy airline passengers and crew drama, of overcrowded crashpads in "Crew Gardens" Queens and finding love at 35,000 feet. The popular author of "Galley Gossip," a weekly column for AOL's award-winning travel website Gadling.com, Poole not only shares great stories, but also explains the ins and outs of flying, as seen from the flight attendant's jump seat.



Cruising Attitude

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Melonie Johnson

#romance #paperback #fiction #love #humor #romcom #chicklit #meloniejohnson #toogoodtobereal #corgi

Too Good to Be Real

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Abbi Waxman

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin

A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn't need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the haunting memories of a terrible accident, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's pretty sure she didn't start that fire -- right?) She also doesn't expect to find herself adopted by a rogue bookseller, installed in a lovely but completely illegal boardinghouse, or challenged to save a losing trivia team from ignominy...but that's what happens. Add a regretful landlady, a gorgeous housemate and an ex-boyfriend determined to put himself back in the running and you'll see why Laura isn't really sure she's cut out for this adulting thing. Luckily for her, her new friends Nina, Polly and Impossibly Handsome Bob aren't sure either, but maybe if they put their heads (and hearts) together they'll be able to make it work.

Adult Assembly Required

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Sloane Crosley

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

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#paperback #pregnancy #humor #jennymccarthy #motherhood 

The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gassiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion, the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared the discomforts and humiliations of pregnancy, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy! In the New York Times best-selling Belly Laughs, actress and new mother Jenny McCarthy reveals the naked truth about the tremendous joys, the excruciating pains, and the unseemly disfigurement that go along with pregnancy. Never shy, frequently crude, and always laugh-out-loud funny, McCarthy covers it all in the grittiest of girlfriend detail. From morning sickness and hormonal rage, to hemorrhoids, pregnant sex, and the torture and sweet relief that is delivery, Belly Laughs is must-read comic relief for anyone who is pregnant, who has ever been pregnant, is trying to get pregnant, or, indeed, has ever been born!

Belly Laughs

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Maria Semple

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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Stephanie Fowers

The cover of this book shows some slight shelf wear, but inside the pages and binding are like new.

Maryland

Rules of Engagement

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John Grogan

New Jersey

Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for the Philadelphia Inquirer

Collects more than seventy-five "Philadelphia Inquirer" columns by John Grogan that cover such topics as families, animals, and life in modern America.

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

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Robb Pearlman

Watch Kirk and Spock Go Boldly Where No Parody Has Gone Before!

See the Enterprise. See the Enterprise go boldly. Go Go Go, Enterprise! Go Boldly! Join Kirk and Spock as they go boldly where no parody has gone before! This Prime Directive primer steps through The Guardian of Forever to a simpler time of reading, writing, and red shirts. Fun with Kirk and Spock will help cadets of all ages master the art of reading as their favorite Starfleet officers, Klingons, Romulans, Andorians, and Gorn beam down into exciting adventures.

Fun with Kirk and Spock

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#hardcover #fiction #newbook #contemporaryfiction #literature #humor 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

"Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"--

The Bad Muslim Discount

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Juvenile fiction, book lot, books have heavy cosmetic damage (see pictures above for some of the damage,) all books are still very readable, and in one piece, thanks for looking.

Missouri

Catherine, Called Birdy Lot of 6 Books

#paperback #fiction #romance #love #chicklit #humor #contemporary 

Pennsylvania

With witty characters and heartrending romance, Jayci Lee, author of A Sweet Mess, returns with The Dating Dare—where two people might just find out how hard it is to resist falling in love with the right person. No serious relationships. This is the one rule Tara Park made for herself and it has been working swimmingly, thank you very much. The occasional fling is fine, especially since she’s busy with Weldon Brewery. But when Seth Kim, temptation personified and her best friend’s new brother-in-law walks into her life, Tara might be willing to bend her golden rule...but only for four dates—the four dates she agreed to after a few good rounds of beer and a game of truth or dare. It’ll be fun. No biggie. Seth Kim can’t believe Tara agreed to his dating dare. He’s leaving for a new job in Paris in a month and a no-strings attached fling seemed like a nice little distraction for both... But their secret dates, while sweet and sexy, always hit roadblocks straight out of a romantic comedy. Thankfully, their non-dates and chance meetings are smoother, frequent, and heated. However, the more Seth sees of Tara, the less willing he is to let her go—and what was supposed to be a little fun game turns into something that neither of them are ready for. But sometimes, the best things in life are the ones we never see coming.

The Dating Dare

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#paperback #humor #newyorktimesbestseller

Alabama

The New York Times bestselling debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author, whose new movie Kajillionaire is in theatres now.

Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She works at a women's self-defense nonprofit and lives alone. When her bosses ask if their twenty-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee--the selfish, cruel blond bombshell--who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, leads her to the love of a lifetime.

Tender, gripping, slyly hilarious, infused with raging sexual fantasies and fierce maternal love, Miranda July's first novel confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time.

The First Bad Man

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#paperback #nonfiction #alliebrosh #fiction #graphicnovel #humor #autobiography #comedy 

Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

Hyperbole and a Half

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The Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Based on the reminiscences of his three friends following Casey's spectacular death, a fictional oral biography of Buster "Rant" Casey" chronicles the violent world of a small-town rebel who heads for the big city to become the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, as well as rumors that his saliva infected hundreds with a plague of rabies. 125,000 first printing.

Rant - (1st edition) 

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A quirky murder mystery #paperback #justinandcuddy #murdermystery #detective #southern #suspense #humor


Illinois

With striking humor and a rich range of characters, Malone creates a landscape struggling the New South's high-tech lifestyles and the Old South's inherited codes.

The Polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is too temperate to require homicide experts. So begins the plot of Uncivil Seasons an unforgettable novel from Michael Malone.

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Secondhand Souls - SIGNED 1st Ed

Raina Telgemeier

Smile

Mary Ann Madden

Thank You for the Giant Sea Tortoise

Paul Diamond

The Chicken Chronicles

Sarah Adler

Mrs. Nash's Ashes

Adam Diment

The Bang Bang Birds

Christopher Moore

Fool - Signed First Edition

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

Heather Poole

Cruising Attitude

Melonie Johnson

Too Good to Be Real

Abbi Waxman

Adult Assembly Required

Sloane Crosley

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Jenny McCarthy

Belly Laughs

Maria Semple

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Stephanie Fowers

Rules of Engagement

John Grogan

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

Robb Pearlman

Fun with Kirk and Spock

Syed M. Masood

The Bad Muslim Discount

Karen Cushman, Frances Temple, Lynn Hall, Joan lowery Nixon

Catherine, Called Birdy Lot of 6 Books

Jayci Lee

The Dating Dare

Miranda July

The First Bad Man

Allie Brosh

Hyperbole and a Half

Chuck Palahniuk

Rant - (1st edition)

Michael Malone

Uncivil Seasons