Nick Hornby

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

From the beloved New York Times– bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Now a major motion picture starring Ethan Hawke. Nick Hornby returns to his roots—music and messy relationships—in this funny and touching novel that thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England’s bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan that mirrors the place; Tucker, once a brilliant songwriter and performer, has gone into seclusion in rural America—or at least that’s what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker’s work to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three. Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition, and indeed life, evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions about the struggle to live up to one’s promise.

Juliet, Naked

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Puerto Rico

Eliza and Her Monsters

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Aisha Harris

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

In nine lively, incisive essays, NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour co-host Aisha Harris reflects on the cultural touchstones that raised her-- contrasting these with past and present sensations to analyze the tropes that have shaped her heart and mind. Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for an engaging and incisive take on whatever new show or movie everyone is talking about, or should be taking about - first at Slate, then at the Times, and recently as a co-host of NPR's popular Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. Here, she turns her analytical talents inward, reflecting on the culture that raised her into the person and thinker she is today. In essays that span the personal and political, the high-brow and low, she contrasts the formative touchstones of her 90s childhood with both iconic precursors and more recent sensations to analyze the various tropes that have shaped her heart and mind. Aisha's observations invite us into her family, her adolescence, her relationships, her work. In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name that becomes an ode to Stevie Wonder, Roots, and her parents. In another, we return to the golden era of the Spice Girls as Aisha is urged by her friends to dress up as Scary Spice though she prefers Ginger, and how perfectly that feeling is later captured by an episode of Pen15. Elsewhere, she traces the evolution of the "Black Friend" trope from its Twainian origins through Clueless and She's All That to New Girl and the Sex and The City reboot. Later she zooms way out into the overlap of taste and identity in this era, arguing for us to let go of the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like, so we can all be free to just like what we like. Whatever the subject, Aisha's mind makes a terrific companion, as her many fans can attest. Sitting down with her book is like getting a chance to hang out with your smart, hilarious, pop-culture obsessed friend for longer than you've ever been able to before--and it's a real pleasure.

Wannabe

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West Virginia

Fame, Faith, and the Heart of Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber's rise from "regular kid" to one of the most famous people on the planet has captivated a nation of devoted fans called "Beliebers." With hit records, 8 million followers on Twitter and the third-largest grossing documentary film of all time, the 17-year-old Canadian pop star dubbed "Super Boy" on Rolling Stone's recent cover has countless fans who hang on his every word. But is there more to this pop idol's startling success than his legendary haircut and unusual talent? "The success I've achieved comes ... from God," Bieber says "I feel I have an obligation to plant little seeds with my fans. I'm not going to tell them, 'You need Jesus,' but I will say at the end of my show, 'God loves you.'" The bold yet humble faith that grounds Bieber's worldview may just be the key to his extraordinary appeal. Recognizing that music and film are the language of this new generation, author and religion journalist Cathleen Falsani's hope is that this book will encourage faith leaders as well as parents to engage with popular culture in a different way so they can better talk to their kids about what matters most.


Belieber!

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Hiro Mashima

Slight wear in bottom left corner (see images above) 

Michigan

Fire-eating wizard Natsu and his friends try to stop the evil members of Dark Guild Eisenwald from using the public address system of a midtown train station to murder people with a cursed flute.

Fairy Tail 3

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Pennsylvania

Can two IRL enemies find their happily ever after online?

Stella Greene and Wesley Clarke are Gene Connolly Memorial High School's biggest rivals. While the two have been battling it out for top student, it's a race to the bottom when it comes to snide comments and pulling the dirtiest prank. For years, Stella and Wes have been the villain in each other's story, and now it's all-out war.

And there is no bigger battle than the one for valedictorian, and more specifically, the coveted valedictorian scholarship.

But Stella and Wes have more in common than they think. Both are huge fans of Warship Seven, a popular sci-fi TV drama with a dedicated online following, and the two start chatting under aliases--without a clue that their rival is just beyond the screen. They realize that they're both attending SciCon this year, so they plan to dress in their best cosplay and finally meet IRL.

While tensions at school are rising and SciCon inches closer and closer, the enemy lines between Stella and Wes blur when a class project shows them they might understand one another better than anyone else--and not just in cosplay.

From the author of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly comes a heartfelt story about rivalry, friendships, and defying preconceived notions--even the ones about yourself.

Shipped

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A cute handbook for young teenage girls getting into fandom. A little bit dated, but tackles subjects that are still relevant
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New Jersey

A Handbook for Girl Geeks

A book with tips, playthroughs, and cheat codes, including how to make nerdy friends, rock awesome cosplay, write fanfic with feels, defeat Internet trolls, and attend your first con

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy

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Jenna Miller

New York





Dumplin' meets Geekerella in debut author Jenna Miller's queer, body-positive love story that explores online and offline relationships in all of their messiness.

If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she'd happily tell you she's fat, a lesbian, and obsessed with the Tide Wars books. What she won't tell you--or anyone in her life--is that she's part of an online Tide Wars roleplay community. Sure, it's nerdy as hell, but when she's behind the screen writing scenes as Captain Aresha, she doesn't have to think about her mother who walked out or how unexpectedly stressful it is dating resident cool girl Taylor Cooper.

But secretly retreating to her online life is starting to catch up with Cass. For one, no one in her real life knows her secret roleplay addiction is the reason her grades have taken a big hit. Also Cass has started catching feelings for Rowan Davies, her internet bestie . . . and Taylor might be catching on.

As Cass's lies continue to build, so does her anxiety. Roleplaying used to be the one place she could escape to, but this double life and offline-online love triangle have only made things worse. Cass must decide what to do--be honest and risk losing her safe space or keep it a secret and put everything else on the line. 

Out of Character

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Maya Phillips

North Carolina

Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

In the vein of You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.

From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, her life changed forever. Her formative years were spent loving not just the Star Wars saga, but superhero cartoons, anime, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Tolkien, and Doctor Who--to name just a few.

As a critic at large at The New York Times, Phillips has written extensively on theater, poetry, and the latest blockbusters--with her love of some of the most popular and nerdy fandoms informing her career. Now, she analyzes the mark these beloved intellectual properties leave on young and adult minds, and what they teach us about race, gender expression, religion, and more.

Spanning from the 90s through to today, Nerd is a collection of cultural criticism essays through the lens of fandom for everyone from the casual Marvel movie watcher to the hardcore Star Wars expanded universe connoisseur. "In the same way that the fandoms Phillips addresses often provide community and a sense of connection, the experience of reading Nerd feels like making a new friend" (Karen Han, cultural critic and screenwriter).

Nerd

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The Pokemon Company Intl.

This Book is in excellent condition see pictures. Great gift or add to your collection.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Official Pokemon Strategy Guide

Welcome to the Unova region, Pokémon Trainer--prepare to be amazed by the Pokémon you'll discover here!

Over 150 brand-new Pokémon await you in the latest incredible Pokémon adventure! And this strategy guide will introduce to you:

* A complete walkthrough that includes all the new Pokémon you'll meet, every Trainer you'll face, and each challenge you'll need to overcome!
* A must-have primer for Pokémon training that will get you ready to battle in the Unova region!
* Detailed maps of all the towns, cities, and places you'll go on your adventure, including a full map of the Unova region.
* All the places where you can change your Pokémon into powerful forms!
* Bonus poster inside!

Whether you're a seasoned Trainer or on  your first adventure in the world of Pokémon, you'll find excitement like you've never encountered before when you explore the Unova region and its new wonders! 

Pokemon Black and Pokemon

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Massachusetts

The final word on the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who - revised and updated with over 300 pages of new material.

For this revised and updated edition of The Writer's Tale, Head Writer and Executive Producer Russell T Davies and journalist Benjamin Cook continue their in-depth discussion of the creative life of Doctor Who to cover the last of Russell's specials, as well as the increasingly successfulTorchwood andThe Sarah Jane Adventures spin-offs. Candid and witty insights continue throughout a second year's worth of correspondence, covering David Tennant's final episodes as the Doctor, Russell's own departure from the show, and the legacy that both leave behind as a new era of Doctor Who begins.With over 300 pages of new material, and taking in events from the entire five years since the show's return in 2005, The Writer's Tale- The Final Chapter is the most comprehensive - and personal - account of Doctor Who ever published.

The Final Chapter

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Washington

Have you stopped believing in happily ever after?

Women today are settling for less than we want when it comes to men, relationships, sex, and marriage. But we don't have to, argues Elizabeth Kantor. Jane Austen can show us how to find the love we really want.

InThe Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Kantor reveals how the examples of Jane Austen heroines such as Elizabeth Bennett, Elinor Dashwood, and Anne Elliot can help us navigate the modern-day minefields of dating, love, relationships, and sex. By following in their footsteps--and steering clear of the sad endings suffered by characters such as Maria Bertram and Charlotte Lucas--modern women can discover the path to lifelong love and true happiness.

Charged with honesty and humor, Kantor's book includes testimonies from modern women, pop culture parallels, the author's personal experiences and, of course, a thorough examination of Austen's beloved novels.

Featuring characters and situations from all of Jane Austen's books (including unfinished novels, and stories not published in her lifetime),The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After tackles the dating and relationship dilemmas that we face today, and equips modern women to approach our love lives with fresh insights distilled from the novels:

 * Don't be a tragic heroine
   
 * Pursue Elizabeth Bennet's "rational happiness" --learn what it is, and how you can find it
   
 * Don't let cynicism steal your happy ending
   
 * Why it's a mistake to look for your "soul mate"
   
 * Jane Austen's skeleton keys to a man's potential
   
 * How you should deal with men who are "afraid of commitment" (from Jane Austen's eight case studies)
   
 * Learn how to arrange your own marriage--by falling in love the Jane Austen way
   

The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After

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Florida

CLAIRE is a sixteen-year-old fangirl obsessed with the show Demon Heart. FOREST is an actor on Demon Heart who dreams of bigger roles. When the two meet at a local Comic-Con panel, it's a dream come true for Claire. Until the Q&A, that is, when Forest laughs off Claire's assertion that his character is gay. Claire is devastated. After all, every last word of her super-popular fanfic revolves around the romance between Forest's character and his male frenemy. She can't believe her hero turned out to be a closed-minded jerk. Forest is mostly confused that anyone would think his character is gay. Because he's not. Definitely not. Unfortunately for Demon Heart, when the video of the disastrous Q&A goes viral, the producers have a PR nightmare on their hands. In order to help bolster their image within the LGBTQ+ community-as well as with their fans-they hire Claire to join the cast for the rest of their publicity tour. What ensues is a series of colorful Comic-Con clashes between the fans and the show that lead Forest to question his assumptions about sexuality and help Claire come out of her shell. But how far will Claire go to make her ship canon? To what lengths will Forest go to stop her and protect his career? And will Claire ever get the guts to make a move on Tess, the very cute, extremely cool fanartist she keeps running into? Ship It is a funny, tender, and honest look at all the feels that come with being a fan.

Ship It

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Melissa Anelli

J. K. Rowling

Wisconsin

The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon

Harry, a History

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Erin Mayer

A Novel

"Mayer lays bare the terrible destiny of a society obsessed with social media stalking and celebrity relationships." --Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark

In this raucous psychological thriller, a disillusioned millennial joins a cliquey fan club, only to discover that the group is bound together by something darker than devotion

Day after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website--entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by international pop star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's every move.

When a colleague notices her obsession, she's invited to join an enigmatic group of adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy candlelit listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group, she gets closer to uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together--while simultaneously losing her grip on reality.

With caustic wit and hypnotic writing, this unsparingly critical thrill ride through millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age, and how easy it is to lose yourself in it.

Fan Club

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Britta Lundin

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Virginia

Alex Irvine

Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and how to kill it. Fans of the blockbuster television phenomenon can rejoice! A one-of-a-kind compilation of all of Sam and Dean's demon-busting knowledge, The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls contains illustrations and detailed descriptions that catalogue the more than two dozen otherworldly enemies that most people believe exist only in folklore, superstition, and nightmares:vampires, ghosts, revenants, reapers, and even bloody clowns. You'll find within these pages Sam and Dean's notes, observations, and memories interwoven with sections of John Winchester's invaluable journal, making this book the perfect companion to every thrilling episode—and an essential weapon in the secret war against the hidden creatures of the darkness!

The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls

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Marc Sumerak

Julie Tremaine

Anne Murlowski

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Authentic Parties, Recipes, and Pranks from the Dundies to Kevin's Famous Chili

"Authentic parties, recipes, and pranks from the Dundies to Kevin's famous chili"--Title page.

The Office: the Official Party Planning Guide to Planning Parties

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Nevada

Maze Runner Series 

The Fever Code 

#paperback #nonfiction #fandom #fangirls #geekgirls #popculture

How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Are Taking over the World



For every girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, Leslie Simon has your manifesto: a smart, expansive, and winningly entertaining celebration of comedy queens, film geeks, bookworms, craft mavens, indie chicks, and other all-star women. Following the breakaway hit book Everybody Hurts, Simon's energizing look at today's pop-culture and counterculture heroines--like Amy Sedaris, Tina Fey, Sofia Coppola, Regina Spektor, and Jenny Hart--is an empowering, eye-opening, and, above all, fun journey. Readers of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking and The Modern Girl's Guide to Life will love joining forces as Geek Girls Unite!



Geek Girls Unite

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If you’ve paused here to read this, take note: this is a solid, really fun book for sci-fi fans! B/w/c pictures on every page plus everything you didn’t even know that you wanted to know. It’s the kind of book you leave on the table, open up to any page, and get entertained. Condition “good” because spine creased (see photos). No writing and no owner name. Some rubbing and minimal edge wear to covers. #scifi #sciencefiction #encyclopedia #dictionary #fantasy #science #movies #vintage #fandom #comics (Shelf 8B)

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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From the bestselling creator of HEARTSTOPPER and LOVELESS, a deeply funny and deeply moving exploration of identity, friendship, and fame.

For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark -- a boy band that's taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves -- her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Her Muslim family doesn't understand the band's allure -- but Angel feels there are things about her they'll never understand.

Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to The Ark. He's their frontman -- and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing, even it only amplifies his anxiety. The fans are very accepting that he's trans -- but they also keep shipping with him with his longtime friend and bandmate, Rowan. But Jimmy and Rowan are just friends -- and Rowan has a secret girlfriend the fans can never know about. Dreams don't always turn out the way you think and when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together, they find out how strange and surprising facing up to reality can be.

A funny, wise, and heartbreakingly true coming of age novel. I Was Born for This is a stunning reflection of modern teenage life, and the power of believing in something -- especially yourself.

I Was Born for This

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Nick Hornby

Juliet, Naked

Francesca Zappia

Eliza and Her Monsters

Aisha Harris

Wannabe

Cathleen Falsani

Belieber!

Hiro Mashima

Fairy Tail 3

Meredith Tate

Shipped

Sam Maggs

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy

Jenna Miller

Out of Character

Maya Phillips

Nerd

The Pokemon Company Intl.

Pokemon Black and Pokemon

Russell T. Davies; Benjamin Cook

The Final Chapter

Elizabeth Kantor

The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After

Britta Lundin

Ship It

Melissa Anelli; J. K. Rowling

Harry, a History

Erin Mayer

Fan Club

Melissa Anelli; J. K. Rowling (Introduction by)

Harry, a History

Britta Lundin

Ship It

Alex Irvine

The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls

Marc Sumerak; Julie Tremaine; Anne Murlowski

The Office: the Official Party Planning Guide to Planning Parties

James Dashner

The Fever Code

Leslie Simon

Geek Girls Unite

Brian Ash

The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This

Francesca Zappia

Eliza and Her Monsters