Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Utah

It’s Mine

Cornelius

Adrienne Young

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

A Novel

Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first book in this new captivating duology. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men. As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father. But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive. Fable takes you on a spectacular journey filled with romance, intrigue and adventure.

Fable

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Has my library stamp on it. Otherwise brand new and never read.  There is some sticker residue on the front dust jacket. 

North Carolina

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Roger Housden

A Fable about Finding the Heart's True Desire

Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the great Sufi mystic, a restless young man heads out on a epic voyage of the heart that takes him from the hills of Florence to the mosques of Konya, Turkey, and into the heart of religious mysticism.

Chasing Rumi

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Carol L. Pearson

A Christmas Fable

Christmas fable about true sacrifice and the real gift of giving.

The Modern Magi

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Paulo Coelho

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A parable set against the backdrop of the French Pyrenees follows an independent but restless young woman whose life is changed forever by an encounter with a childhood friend, now a mesmerizing seminarian and rumored miracle worker. Reprint. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

By the River Piedra I Sat down and Wept

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Marcia Brown retells an Indian fable from the Hitopadesa in this Caldecott Medal–winning tale of a mouse who becomes a tiger.

When a small mouse’s life is threatened by large jungle predators, a kindly hermit uses magic to change him into a cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger. But the proud tiger must suffer the consequences when he becomes ungrateful and forgets his humble origins. Marcia Brown’s magical woodcuts bring this Indian fable to life with the mastery that won her a second Caldecott Medal.

Sharpie on inside cover. 

Virginia

Once A Mouse…

Peter David

The Balverine Order

Longing for adventure, Thomas and his loyal servant John set out for the East in search of the balverine, a legendary beast, but when their quarry finds them first, they are no longer the hunters, but the prey. Original.

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Joann Davis

Michigan

The Story of One Simple Prayer, and How It Changed the World

The Book of the Shepherd by Joann Davis, author of The Best Things in Life Aren’t Things, tells the story of three travelers on an uncertain journey toward “the new way.” Set in a mythical time in an unnamed land, The Book of the Shepherd follows the shepherd, a small boy, and a former slave as they discover that sometimes the greatest treasures are inside us all along. In the words of Paulo Coelho, this book is an “inspiring and moving fable.”

The Book of the Shepherd

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Peter Mendelsund

Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratings—and, perhaps, freedom—in novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund’s The Delivery. Countries go wrong, sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another country—a country that might itself be in the process of going wrong. In the bustling indifference of an unnamed city, one such citizen finds himself trapped working for a company that makes its money dispatching an army of undocumented refugees to bring the well-off men and women of this confounding metropolis their dinners. Whatever he might have been at home, this citizen is now a Delivery Boy: member of a new and invisible working class, pedaling his power-assist bike through traffic hoping for a decent tip and a five star rating. He is decidedly a Delivery Boy; sometimes he even feels like a Delivery Baby; certainly he's not yet a Delivery Man, though he'll have to "man-up" if he wants to impress N.—the aloof dispatcher who sends him his orders and helps him with his English. Can our hero avoid the wrath of his Supervisor, get the girl, and escape his indentured servitude? Can someone in his predicament ever get a happy ending? Who gets to decide? And who's telling this story, anyway? Harrowing and hilarious, The Delivery is a fable for and about our times: an exploration of the ways language and commerce unites and isolates every one of us, native and immigrant both.

The Delivery

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Elizabeth Lim

Indiana

"Map art Ã2021 by Virginia Allyn"--Copyright page.

Six Crimson Cranes

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Freya Littledale

A greedy fisherman's wife is granted every wish but can't find happiness.

The Magic Fish

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Texas

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Missouri

The Chocolate Touch 

Carol Lynn Pearson

South Carolina

A Fable for Our Times

Whether for a couple just staring life together or a couple who has faced many of the day-to-day challenges of family life hand in hand, this fable offers a glimpse into the unfathomable depth of love.

The Lesson

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Neil Gaiman

Louisiana

A talking tiger is the only one who may be able to get a princess to speak in this beautiful picture book set in a mythic India by Newbery Medal-winning and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, illustrated in bold colors by Divya Srinivasan. Previously available only as an audio book, Cinnamon has never been published in print before, and Divya Srinivasan’s lush artwork brings Neil Gaiman’s text to life. This stunning picture book will transport readers to another time and place and will delight parents and children alike.

Cinnamon

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Amy Ehrlich

Former library copy with expected markings and such. 

Oregon

Princess Elise lives a very happy life alongside her eleven brothers-until her father, the king, marries again. Consumed with jealousy, the wicked stepmother banishes young Elise form the kingdom and dooms her beloved brothers to wander the earth as wild swans. Only Elise's courage and steadfast love can break the spell, but she will be forced to suffer greatly if she is to save her brothers.

The Wild Swans

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When You Need A Friend

Bridget Collins

Washington

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Proclaimed as "truly spellbinding," a "great fable" that "functions as transporting romance" by the Guardian, the runaway #1 international bestseller "A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Spellbinding." -- TRACY CHEVALIER Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder--a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old woman's watchful eye, Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, a binder can help. If there's something you need to erase, they can assist. Within the pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. In a vault under his mentor's workshop rows upon rows of books are meticulously stored. But while Seredith is an artisan, there are others of their kind, avaricious and amoral tradesman who use their talents for dark ends--and just as Emmett begins to settle into his new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: one of the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten. An unforgettable novel of enchantment, mystery, memory, and forbidden love, The Binding is a beautiful homage to the allure and life-changing power of books--and a reminder to us all that knowledge can be its own kind of magic.

The Binding

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Kristin Hannah

Pennsylvania

A Fable

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books ... in 2005." -- Verso.

Comfort and Joy

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