Name written on inside page - jacket has some wear and tear 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes

Small tear in spine of dust jacket - underlining in a couple places 

On the Nature of the World and Man, Life’s Values are  it’s Destiny 

Reflections 

Henry Marsh

Loved this. Good balance of hope and sorrow. Great if you like Sam Kean 

Illinois

Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

The Instant New York Times best seller!

Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening understanding of his vocation. -The New York Times

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize
Shortlisted for both theGuardianFirst Book Prize and the Costa Book Award
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
A Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
AnEconomistBest Book of the Year
AWashington PostNotable Book of the Year
ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?

In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty.

If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life.

Do No Harmprovides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.

Do No Harm

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Mike Murdock

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

No Student of Success Should Be Without This Book. If you are seriously interested in succeeding, you need this book! The Holy Spirit / The Assignment / The Seed / 17 Facts About The Holy Spirit / 7 Secrets of Survivors / The Power of Expectation / Singing To The Holy Spirit. Proven Results That Will Last You A Lifetime. 31 Chapters! Also Available in Spanish and Portuguese

The 3 Most Important Things in Your Life

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Alaska

Discover Your Purpose and Experience the Power of Being on God's Winning Team

Best-selling author, speaker, and activist Christine Caine reminds readers that as Christians they are born to win. Their purpose is to run in the divine race of life until the day they cross the finish line and hear the words of their father, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Based on her bestselling book Unstoppable, Christine Caine encourages readers with the truth that they are assured of victory. Each person has a race to run in life. It's a race with eternal implications. But life is sometimes difficult. The task seems to tough, the path too perilous, the race too rigorous. In Run the Race!, Christine Caine reminds Christians that they know the outcome of the race before it begins, and that knowledge should revolutionize the way they run their race, the way they live their lives. She enthralls readers with stories and timeless principles that inspire people of faith to run the race of their life, receiving the baton of faith in sync with their winning team--the body of Christ. God has chosen them, prepared them and placed them on His team. They are unstoppable.

Run the Race!

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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Like new save for the black dot on top seen in pics 

Maryland

Fiction

A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.” United by these characters’ relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable book that bears witness to this country’s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.

My Monticello *like new

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Richard Roper

California

Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, How Not to Die Alone is the bighearted debut novel we all need, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it's a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.

"Off-beat and winning...Gives resiliency and the triumph of the human spirit a good name." --The Wall Street Journal

All Andrew wants is to be normal. That's why his coworkers believe he has the perfect wife and two children waiting at home for him after a long day. But the truth is, his life isn't exactly as people think . . . and his little white lie is about to catch up with him. Because in all of Andrew's efforts to fit in, he's forgotten one important thing: how to really live. And maybe, it's finally time for him to start.

"Roper illuminates Andrew's interior life to reveal not what an odd duck he is, but what odd ducks we all are." --The New York Times Book Review

How Not to Die Alone

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Anne Rivers Siddons

Will be wiped down. Some stains that are shown in pictures

West Virginia

Rebuilding her life on a plantation after the disappearance of her mother and the death of a sibling, Lilly Parmenter forges a near-mystical relationship with her beloved spaniel and finds her world changing after the arrival of a rebellious debutante, who harbors a dark secret. By the author of Up Island. 250,000 first printing.

Sweetwater Creek

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#hardcover #inspiration #christian #life #restoration

What Happens When We Catch a Vision for the New World Jesus Is Creating

If ever there was a work in progress, it is us. As prime characters in God's magnum opus, we should be living as if we know the glorious ending ... because we do-it's already been written by His firstborn Son. It is a story in which every Christian has been given an important role. Yet we've so forgotten who we are that we've lost sight of our amazing destiny and wandered into all kinds of self-defeating problems. We're Cinderella with amnesia, Frodo with cataracts, Robinson Crusoe with ADD-not realizing that sometimes in life, the difficulties we encounter are God's way of calling attention to the areas where we're broken and don't know it. Fortunately, our loving God cares enough to refuse to leave us that way, as music artist Steven. Curtis Chapman has been singing in his chart-topping song, "All Things New," and as he and Pastor Scotty Smith have been discovering for themselves. In this book, Smith and Chapman reveal both the awe-inspiring grandeur and the practical implications of Jesus' commitment to redeem all things and the part we are to play with Him in that process. Though we humans have a long history of hypocrisy and inconsistency, the Bible chronicles God's non-spin story of selfish, broken people being made new by Jesus. So new that someday we will never have to forgive, or be forgiven again ... never be bored with anyone, or bore anyone ... never be disappointed with a relationship, or cause disappointment ... never be hurt by anyone, or cause hurt. Book jacket.

Restoring Broken Things

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#hardcover #drphil #life #self #selfhelp #bestseller #philosophy #psychology 

Tennessee

Creating your life from the inside out

Self Matters

Ethan Joella

A Novel

"How do you hold onto hope in a difficult time? In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A woman loses the love of her life. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. A husband betrays his wife. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie and Greg Tyler. Greg has just been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a brutal form of cancer. He has never been dependent or weak, and wants to overcome this the way he has succeeded at everything else: through grit and determination. But can Greg fight his illness? How will Freddie and their daughter cope if he doesn't? How do the other residents of Wharton learn to live with loss and to find happiness again? A debut that pulls at the heartstrings and immerses readers in a community, A Little Hope broadcasts the joy and hope to be found in the everyday acts of loving, forgiving, and surviving"--

A Little Hope

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Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment

The award-winning musician son of Warren Buffett shares an uplifting primer on how to achieve life satisfaction by maintaining strong values, describing how his father worked to separate Peter and his siblings from fame and wealth by encouraging them to define their own paths.

Life Is What You Make It

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Patrick Swayze

Lisa Niemi Swayze

New York

Veteran actor Swayze recounts much more than his struggle with stage IV pancreatic cancer. In vivid detail, he describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his commercial success, and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.

The Time of My Life

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Richard Russo

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.

Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan (presided over by the last scion’s widow) now mostly amount to decrepit real estate. The working classes, meanwhile, continue to eke out whatever meager promise isn’t already boarded up.

Miles Roby gazes over this ruined kingdom from the Empire Grill, an opportunity of his youth that has become the albatross of his daily and future life. Called back from college and set to work by family obligations—his mother ailing, his father a loose cannon—Miles never left home again. Even so, his own obligations are manifold: a pending divorce; a troubled younger brother; and, not least, a peculiar partnership in the failing grill with none other than Mrs. Whiting. All of these, though, are offset by his daughter, Tick, whom he guides gently and proudly through the tribulations of adolescence.

A decent man encircled by history and dreams, by echoing churches and abandoned mills, by the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors, Miles is also a patient, knowing guide to the rich, hardscrabble nature of Empire Falls: fathers and sons and daughters, living and dead, rich and poor alike. Shot through with the mysteries of generations and the shattering visitations of the nation at large, it is a social novel of panoramic ambition, yet at the same time achingly personal. In the end, Empire Falls reveals our worst and best instincts, both our most appalling nightmares and our simplest hopes, with all the vision, grace and humanity of truly epic storytelling.

Empire Falls

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

Girl stop apologizing 

Girl wash your face 

#hardcover #science #nature #evolution #life

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

The Macroevolution of Life

At the Water's Edge delves into evolution's most dramatic transitions -- the journey of animal life from water to land, and the return of some land creatures to the sea. In a story that encompasses four billion years, Carl Zimmer describes the changes -- in bodies, minds, and living habits -- that occurred as descendants of fish evolved to become a dynasty of animals ranging from dinosaurs and snakes to elephants and human beings. He then tells the mirror tale of how wolf-like mammals took to the sea and became today's whales and dolphins.

With first-person accounts by scientists in the forefront of these macroevolutionary studies, and detailed drawings of fossils, this entertaining, accessible book demonstrates how newly discovered ecological, developmental, and behavioral evidence is shedding new light on the patterns and processes of nature. Like The Song of the Dodo and The Beak of the Finch, At the Water's Edge presents fascinating and authoritative answers to age-old questions.

At the Water's Edge

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John Ortberg

Louisiana

The Life You’ve Always Wanted

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Henry Cloud

Book in great condition, but there is some high lighting, notes and underlining (see pics)

Virginia

A Psychologist Probes the Mystery of Why Some Lives Really Work and Others Don't

In order for people to live life with strength, purpose, and joy, they must follow some universal principles that are always at work.

9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life

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None - A Life of Challenge 

Nicole Walters

Beautiful brand new book in pristine condition and from a smoke free home.

Michigan

A Memoir of Living Boldly

A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths—and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy all along of the life of her dreams. Nothing Is Missing is a riveting, unputdownable story of what it takes to show up for yourself—and the joy that can come once you do. Raised in a home where food was unstable and anger was the norm, Nicole learned early that she needed to take charge of her own safety and security. So she did: She got into an elite private school by talking to a stranger in her dad’s cab, she strategized her way onto Wheel of Fortune to pay for college, she adopted three girls after meeting their mother panhandling, she quit her job to launch her own business, and she struggled. Hustling endlessly to try to achieve society’s definition of success left her exhausted, compromising her own sense of worth in order to accommodate others. Nicole worked herself straight into a health crisis that threatened her life and the family she had worked so hard to build. It was not until she was forced into a major reckoning in both her business and her marriage that Nicole realized that she was already enough, that she had and was everything that she needed. In Nothing Is Missing, Nicole contemplates how she was able to create the life she wanted using the strength she had within herself all along.

Nothing Is Missing

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Arthur Miller

Small tear in dust jacket, but book is in excellent condition otherwise. 

Oregon

A Life

Timebends

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Ohio

Stella Andromeda

SHARP AQUARIUS,
NEW MYSTIC, REBEL, HEALER.
FLY YOUR FREAK FLAG HIGH.

Who are you going to fall in love with next? What job should you really be in? When are you finally going to come into that big money? Why does everyone freak out when Mercury is in retrograde?

In our increasingly turbulent world, many of us are looking to the sky to find guidance in the ancient art of astrology. In Aquarius, Stella Andromeda will tell you all you need to know about your astrological life as the water carrier. Learn how to harness the ancient power of the zodiac and open your mind to what the universe can offer in ways you never would have imagined. With advice that covers everything from self-care to sex, this little book is your key to a very starry future.

Contents include: Get to Know Aquarius: Lucky color; Aquarius careers; How Aquarius communicates / The Aquarius Deep Dive: Self-care; The Aquarius home; Food and cooking; How Aquarius wants to be loved / Give Me More: Your birth chart, The Moon effect; Saturn return

Harness the Power of the Zodiac (astrology, Star Sign)

SHARP ACQUARIUS, 

NEW MYSTIC, REBEL, HEALER. 

FLY YOUR FREAK FLAG HIGH.

 

Who are you going to fall in love with next? What job should you really be in? When are you finally going to come into that big money? Why does everyone freak out when Mercury is in retrograde?

 

In our increasingly turbulent world, many of us are looking to the sky to find guidance in the ancient art of astrology. In Aquarius, Stella Andromeda will tell you all you need to know about your astrological life as the water carrier, teaching you how to harness the ancient power of the zodiac and open your mind to what the universe can bring you in ways you never would have imagined. With advice that covers everything from your self-care practice, to your Saturn return and your sex life, this little book is your key to a very starry future.

 

Contents include: Get to Know Aquarius: Lucky Colour; Aquarius Careers; How Aquarius Communicates / The Aquarius Deep Dive: Self-Care; The Aquarius Home; Food and Cooking; How Aquarius Wants to Be Loved / Give Me More: Your Birth Chart, The Phases of the Moon; Saturn Return

Aquarius

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#hardcover #journey #life #fiction #historical #plants #humanconnection #nature 

"Wise, funny, touching, wide-ranging, deep-delving; whip-smart dialogue and graceful, paced sentences, thousands upon thousands of them. Written by a novelist with the eye of a poet, and a poet with the narrative powers of a novelist, this is a book that needed to be written, that tells true things, and is entirely its own being."--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words and Underland

One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries.

As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Everything the Light Touches is Janice Pariat's magnificent epic of travelers, of discovery, of time, of science, of human connection, and of the impermanent nature of the universe and life itself--a bold and brilliant saga that unfolds through the adventures and experiences of four intriguing characters.

Shai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country's Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her.

Evelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe's botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas.

Linnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared "God creates; Linnaeus organizes," sets off on an expedition to an unfamiliar world, the far reaches of Lapland in 1732. 

Goethe is a philosopher, writer, and one of the greatest minds of his age. While traveling through Italy in the 1780s, he formulates his ideas for "The Metamorphosis of Plants," a little-known, revelatory text that challenges humankind's propensity to reduce plants--and the world--into immutable parts.

Drawn richly from scientific and botanical ideas, Everything the Light Touches is a swirl of ever-expanding themes: the contrasts between modern India and its colonial past, urban and rural life, capitalism and centuries-old traditions of generosity and gratitude, script and "song and stone." Pulsating at its center is the dichotomy between different ways of seeing, those that fix and categorize and those that free and unify. Pariat questions the imposition of fixity--of our obsession to place permanence on plants, people, stories, knowledge, land--where there is only movement, fluidity, and constant transformation. "To be still," says a character in the book, "is to be without life."

Everything the Light Touches brings together, with startling and playful novelty, people and places that seem, at first, removed from each other in time and place. Yet as it artfully reveals, all is resonance; all is connection.

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I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes

Harold E. Kohn

Reflections

Henry Marsh

Do No Harm

Mike Murdock

The 3 Most Important Things in Your Life

Christine Caine

Run the Race!

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

My Monticello *like new

Richard Roper

How Not to Die Alone

Anne Rivers Siddons

Sweetwater Creek

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Restoring Broken Things

Phillip C McGraw, Ph.D.

Self Matters

Ethan Joella

A Little Hope

Peter Buffett

Life Is What You Make It

Patrick Swayze; Lisa Niemi Swayze

The Time of My Life

Richard Russo

Empire Falls

Rachel Hollis

Girl wash your face

Carl Zimmer

At the Water's Edge

John Ortberg

The Life You’ve Always Wanted

Henry Cloud

9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life

Sue Shaw

None - A Life of Challenge

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Nothing Is Missing

Arthur Miller

Timebends

Richard Roper

How Not to Die Alone

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Everything the Light Touches