Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

The Greatest American Hero #2 (of 3)

#fiction #mystery #paperback #thriller #crime #contemporary #catherineoflynn #literaryfiction #1980s #adult 

Pennsylvania

a novel

What Was Lost

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Tom Clancy

Iowa

Early in his career, Jack Ryan accepts his first assignment as a freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Reprint.

Red Rabbit

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Retired school classroom book. Previous owner’s name is marked out on the inside of the front cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Book was printed in 1988.

North Carolina

Ernest Cline

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Novel

"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--

Ready Player Two

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Vendela Vida

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San Francisco Teenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and beaches, Sea Cliff's hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the swanky all-girls' school they attend. Their lives move along uneventfully, with afternoon walks by the ocean and weekend sleepovers. Then everything changes. Eulabee and Maria Fabiola have a disagreement about what they did or didn't witness on the way to school one morning, and this creates a schism in their friendship. The rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance--a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterpiece depiction of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion. --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes

We Run the Tides

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©️ 1983 great condition for its age. See pics!

Missouri

Happy Day Book 

God Made Me Special 

Rebecca Makkai

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler “A page turner . . . An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” —The New York Times Book Review A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Seattle Times, Bustle, Newsday, AM New York, BookPage, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library

The Great Believers

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A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister, it's her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart, has died in a car bomb explosion. It's the chief of police calling, Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do, but it's a real surprise to the reader.

New York

*VINTAGE 1984, EX-LIBRARY* Briarpatch by Ross Thomas

Virginia

The Phantom Stranger

Secret Origins (1986) No. 10

Secret Origins (1986) No. 27

Laura Van Wormer

Alexandra Chronicles #1

Riverside Drive, New York's most sought-after address, is lined with majestic mansions and impressive apartments and is a place in which passions and secrets collide, and where love is destroyed to be found again in the most unlikely ways.

Riverside Drive

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#vintagebooks #sexuality #intimacy #relationships #1980s

How to Make Love to Each Other

Illinois

Love Play

Ayana Mathis

Minnesota

From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there. Ava has been estranged from her own mother, Dutchess, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and the thousand miles between them, mother and daughter are deeply entwined, but Ava can't forgive her sharp-tounged, larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son differently, better. But when Toussaint’s father, Cass, reappears, she is swept off course by his charisma, and the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way of communal living. Meanwhile, in Alabama, Dutchess struggles to keep Bonaparte, once a beacon of Black freedom and self-determination, in the hands of its last five Black residents—families whose lives have been rooted in this stretch of land for generations—and away from rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against the erasure of Bonaparte's venerable history and the loss of the land itself, which she has so arduously preserved as Ava's inheritance. As Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around him—his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense, volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte, his home and birthright, if only he can find his way there. Brilliant, explosive, vitally important new work from one of America’s most fiercely talented storytellers.

The Unsettled

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Stains (seen in photo) but perfectly readable with cover in good condition for age.

Maryland

Party Line *1989 first edition

Secret Origins (1986) No. 40

Oregon

Shirt Tales: A Song Saves the Park

Jerry Joyner

Alaska

Bialosky's Christmas 🐻 🎄 

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Secret Origins (1986) No. 12

Steve Perry

Small tear in bottom left cover otherwise amazing condition. No creasing or wear 

The Man Who Never Missed

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Stephen J. Cannell

The Greatest American Hero #2 (of 3)

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What Was Lost

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Red Rabbit

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We Run the Tides

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God Made Me Special

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Ross Thomas

*VINTAGE 1984, EX-LIBRARY* Briarpatch by Ross Thomas

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Ready Player Two

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Secret Origins (1986) No. 10

Various

Secret Origins (1986) No. 27

Laura Van Wormer

Riverside Drive

Ernest Cline

Ready Player Two

Alexandra Penney

How to Make Love to Each Other

Rosemary Rogers

Love Play

Ayana Mathis

The Unsettled

A. Bates

Party Line *1989 first edition

Various

Secret Origins (1986) No. 40

Blue Gorilla Productions

Shirt Tales: A Song Saves the Park

Jerry Joyner

Bialosky's Christmas 🐻 🎄

Various

Secret Origins (1986) No. 12

Steve Perry

The Man Who Never Missed

VINTAGE 1984, EX-LIBRARY Briarpatch by Ross Thomas