Robyn Schneider

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Varsity tennis captain, Ezra Faulkner, was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe. As Kirkus Reviews said in a starred review, "Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels." Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel—a heart-wrenching story about how difficult it is to play the part that people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings.

The Beginning of Everything

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Louisiana

I bought this used but it’s in excellent condition 

California

#paperback #fiction #kinglear #shakespeare #tragedy #youngadult 

New York

A Novel

On a prosperous Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A Thousand Acres

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William Faulkner

Oregon

Design manuscript, setting copy, four galley proofs, page proof, blue line and two reproduction proofs for the corrected edition of the novel edited by Noel Polk.

The Sound and the Fury

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Jodi Picoult

Alabama

Her life shattered by a devastating act of violence, June Nealson is forced to make a pivotal choice that involves her twelve-year-old daughter and a salvation-seeking criminal. By the author of Nineteen Minutes. Reprint. 1,000,000 first printing.

Change of Heart

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Amy Harmon

Such a beautiful story of American history traveling in a covered wagon. Recounts true events and historical people. Love Amy Harmon!

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John's heritage gains them safe passage through hostile territory only to come between them as they seek to build a life together. When a horrific tragedy strikes, decimating Naomi's family and separating her from John, the promises they made are all they have left. Ripped apart, they can't turn back, they can't go on, and they can't let go. Both will have to make terrible sacrifices to find each other, save each other, and eventually...make peace with who they are.

Where the Lost Wander

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Some wear on the spine and slight discoloration on the top of the back cover. Pages are very good.

Massachusetts

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Pennsylvania

This edition of Romeo and Juliet is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and a selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language.

Romeo and Juliet

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Annalena McAfee

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A lean, taut novel about an artist--a painter--at the height of her career, about the art world, about love, fidelity, fame, betrayal, and the large choices and prices paid in the quest for art for art's sake. By the much-admired author of The Spoiler ("cutting wit and razor-sharp writing"--NYTBR; "a dark, sparkly gem of a book"--Christopher Buckley) and Hame ("I couldn't put it down"--Patrick McGrath).

Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary painter and "monstre sacré" Florian Kis, is a photorealist painter of flowers at the peak of her career, with her work in international galleries and museums.

Now Eve is embarking on her most ambitious work to date--seven enormous, elaborate panels of the world's deadliest plants. In psychic preparation, she has taken a wrecking ball to her opulent high-wire life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover, a drifter half her age, who seems to share her single-minded artistic vision. As the novel opens out, Eve is on a late-night walk through London, setting out from her former family home in the well-heeled west of the city, back to her studio, a converted factory in the grittier east, where her recently completed masterpiece hangs and where a fatal reckoning may await. . . . Eve makes her way through the city and reflects on her life today and as it was years ago, and considers the large choices she has made and their repercussions. As she walks, she summons up her wild art college days in London; her New York years as a tyro artist; her vicious rivalry with her college roommate, now a celebrated figure on the international conceptual art scene whose full-blown success and recognition still infuriates and rankles Eve's sense of rightness with the world. And as she weighs what's been gained and what's been lost in pursuit of her art, a sense of dread settles over her, one she cannot shake, and as Nightshade moves to its dark, shocking end, it explores large questions--about ambition . . . artistic truth . . . betrayal . . . about bad people making good art . . . about the consequences of fame . . . and the devastating price of love.

Nightshade

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Connecticut

In a dazzling, delightful new novel that's quintessential Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of thirty-something sisters who find themselves asking: If love, marriage, and children don't arrive in the usual order, which comes first?

First Comes Love

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Candace Calvert

Got this off of thriftbooks. Readable. The other two in trilogy on sale as well.

Illinois

Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital's permanent ER director and make Texas her home. But an unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos--and a hero who meddles in her life.

Rescue Team

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Ann Rule

Ohio

This New York Times bestseller and shocking "tour de force from America's best true crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews)--which formed the basis for the Lifetime movie event A House on Fire--follows a woman whose seemingly perfect life hides a destructive madness.

In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora Green, a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland. A small-town girl with a genius IQ, she achieved an enviable life: her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, three perfect children, and an opulent home in an exclusive Kansas City suburb. But when a raging fire destroyed that home and took two lives, the trail of clues led investigators to a stunning conclusion. Piece by piece, Ann Rule digs beneath this placid Midwestern facade to unveil a disturbing portrait of strangely troubled marriages, infidelity, desperation, suicide, and escalating acts of revenge that forever changed dozens of lives.

Bitter Harvest

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Ken Kesey

Florida

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.

In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.

"BRILLIANT!"--Time

"A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!"--Mark Schorer

"Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book."--Saturday Review

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Virginia

Richard North Patterson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Years after being wrongfully accused of the murder of his first love, Alison, successful San Francisco attorney Tony Lord returns to Lake City, Ohio, to defend old friend Sam Robb, charged with killing one of his students, and must confront the buried secrets of the past. 400,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main. Tour.

Silent Witness

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Alison O'Reilly

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mothers and Baby Home

The discovery of the remains of 796 children at a Mother and Baby home in Ireland in 2014 was prompted in part by the actions of those in this biography; as Anna Corrigan recounts her mission to discover the fate of her missing brothers.

My Name Is Bridget

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West Virginia

Gone Too Soon

Lauren Tarshis

Texas

Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, 10-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink. By the author of Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree. Simultaneous.

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic 1912

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LaRhonda Felton

Jaliyah's world is rocked when she finds out her boyfriend is cheating. She takes a break from her harsh reality and is swept up in a whirlwind romance. However, when tragedy strikes, it causes her to reevaluate life and what happiness really means. A story of sacrifice, survival, and love, The Cabin tugs on heartstrings from beginning to end.

The Cabin

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#paperback #relationships #beachread #fiction #southcarolina #tragedy 

Wisconsin

Two years after the plane crash that had killed her husband, Annabelle Murphy has come to terms with her grief and has found solace in her two children, until the discovery of the wreckage reveals that her husband had died with another woman at his side, and she comes to dolphin researcher Sophie Parker, a friend of the female victim, to find answers. Original.

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