Terry Brooks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Ben Holiday purchases the magical kingdom of Landover for a million dollars only to learn that Iron Mark, lord of the demons, expects him to fight a duel to the death

Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! *First Edition*Vintage*

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Good (G)
Average used book with all pages present. May have any of the defects above to a greater degree, including highlighting, library markings, or loose bindings.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Gems I Stole From Facebook 

Eddie Robson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Uncorrected Advance Copy

Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy.

Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet.

She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in any other field.

So when tragedy strikes, and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire--that is, if she can keep herself out of jail!

But Lydia soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source...

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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#paperback #contemporary #fiction #janeausten #romance #witty 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming “tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit” (The Boston Globe). In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.

The Jane Austen Book Club

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#ceceliaahern #psiloveyou #paperback #witty #fiction 

Ohio

A Novel

Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern's One Hundred Names is the story of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our lives--a universal tale that will grip you with its emotional power and mesmerize you with its magic.

Scandal has derailed Journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her--what is the one story she always wanted to write?

The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office--a list of 100 names--with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late.

Determined to unlock the mystery and rebuild her own shaky confidence, Kitty throws herself into the investigation, using her skills and savvy to track down each of the names on the list and uncover their connection. Meeting these ordinary people and learning their stories, Kitty begins to piece together an unexpected portrait of Constance's life. . . and starts to understand her own.

One Hundred Names

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David Sedaris

Oklahoma

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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Anisha Lakhani

Decent condition but there are coffee stains as shown in the picture if the pages. 

Washington

"You're making how much an hour"
"Two hundred dollars."
"Do you ride in on a pony"

All she wants to do is teach. For Anna Taggert, an earnest Ivy League graduate, pursuing her passion as a teacher means engaging young hearts and minds. She longs to be in a place where she can be her best self, and give that best to her students. Turns out it isn't that easy.

Landing a job at an elite private school in Manhattan, Anna finds her dreams of chalk boards and lesson plans replaced with board families, learning specialists, and benefit-planning mothers. Not to mention the grim realities of her small paycheck.

And then comes the realization that the papers she grades are not the work of her students, but of their high-priced, college-educated tutors. After uncovering this underground economy where a teacher can make the same hourly rate as a Manhattan attorney, Anna herself is seduced by lucrative offers -- one after another. Teacher by day, tutor by night, she starts to sample the good life her students enjoy: binges at Barneys, dinners at the Waverly Inn, and a new address on Madison Avenue. Until, that is, the truth sets in.

Schooled

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Sarah Beth Durst

Vampire romance takes a snarky turn in this humorous novel, coming soon to TV screens as a Lifetime Original Movie!

Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire...fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil...until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.
     Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don't exist), and they're shocked she survived. They're even more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The Vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl's family to host his feast. If Pearl enrolls in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the King's feast--as the entrées.
     The only problem? Pearl's starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friends--especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache--to be slaughtered? Then again, she's definitely dead if she lets down her family. What's a sunlight-loving vamp to do?

Drink, Slay, Love

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#paperback #fiction #bythebook #romance #contemporary #witty #juliasonneborn

New Jersey

A Book Club Recommendation!

An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiancé has just become the president of her college—and her new boss—in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Persuasion. Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she’s determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All she’s got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! She’s in. But then Adam Martinez—her first love and ex-fiancé—shows up as the college’s new president. Anne should be able to keep herself distracted. After all, she’s got a book to write, an aging father to take care of, and a new romance developing with the college’s insanely hot writer-in-residence. But no matter where she turns, there’s Adam, as smart and sexy as ever. As the school year advances and her long-buried feelings begin to resurface, Anne begins to wonder whether she just might get a second chance at love. Funny, smart, and full of heart, this modern ode to Jane Austen’s classic explores what happens when we run into the demons of our past...and when they turn out not to be so bad, after all.

By the Book

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Anne Taintor

Brand new in plastic. 
Pictorial, humor, witty. 

Hot on the heels of her first-ever collection of artwork (I Can't Be Good All the Time) comes this sharp-tongued selection of new and favourite images on the follies of family life, home and hearth. This hilarious follow-up to Anne Taintor's first-ever collection of artwork (I Can't Be Good All the Time) brings together her best-loved (and some all new) images on the theme of domestic bliss, or lack thereof. Taintor's sassy, saucy creations - pairing vintage illustrations with witty new slogans - always say exactly what they mean, her well-mannered housewives enjoying deliciously less-than-well-mannered thoughts ("Gosh, he went well with her drapes.")

Texas

An Anne Taintor Collection

"Hot on the heels of Anne Taintor's wildly popular first collection, I Can't Be Good All the Time, this hilarious volume brings together Taintor's best-loved images, plus brand new material sure to prompt a knowing snicker, all celebrating the follies of family, home, and hearth. As always, Taintor's sassy creations -- vintage illustrations paired with witty new and impertinent observations -- inspire deliciously less-than-well-mannered thoughts ("Gosh, he went well with her drapes."). These sharp-tongued favorites are sure to please her devoted fans and newcomers alike."--Publisher description.

I'm Becoming My Mother

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Joan Didion

David Thomson

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.

Play It As It Lays

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Madeleine Wickham

Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks.

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

Cocktails for Three

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Jenn McKinlay

When her introverted mathematician father announces he's getting remarried, Chelsea is forced to acknowledge that her life stopped after her mother died, and that the last time she can remember being happy, in love, or enjoying her life was on her gap year. Inspired to retrace her steps - to find Colin in Ireland, Jean Claude in France, and Marcelino in Italy - Chelsea hopes that one of these three men who stole her heart so many years ago, can help her find it again.

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

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#paperback #fiction #romance #beachread #emilyhenry #booktok #love #witty

California

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION!

"Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling."--Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They're polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Beach Read

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This witty tale about beauty school and romance tells a tale stronger than your appearance and settles on the inmost being and what truly matters. #witty #romance #beauty #school #self #work #friends #youngadult

New York

Zora Adams leaves home and enrolls at a beauty school on the coast where she becomes fast friends with another stylist and falls in love with a young widower with a drinking problem.

The Wisdom of Hair

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#1 New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories. It is a brilliant and tender tale of the far-reaching ties of love and responsibility that bind us together.

Commonwealth

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#paperback #fiction #witty #nonfiction #carriefisher #funny #humor 

This bestselling Hollywood novel by the witty author of Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting.” Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.” Just as Fisher’s first film role—the precocious teenager in Shampoo—echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world. Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers—and delights—of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.

Postcards from the Edge

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#hardcover #oscarwilde #classic #classics #fiction #play #novel #witty #fiction #adaptation #earnest #wit #gothic #satire #satirical #noveladaptation #english #mustread #1800s

Arkansas

Presents the classic Oscar Wilde play in a novelized format and follows the story of Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthington, the women who pursued them, the proper Lady Brackness, and Charing Cross Station.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Karen Joy Fowler

Illinois

Georgia

Adèle Lang

Some markings on back and front dust jacket.

The Katya Livingston Chronicles

Keeping a financial diary after her work-related tax claims are questioned, Katya also documents the parsimonious ways of her cruel boss, her suffering at the hands of enemies and bad restaurants, and the challenges of her love life, just in case any of it is tax deductible. 10,000 first printing.

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

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Never read, has some wear on corners due to the way it was on my shelves.

Minnesota

#paperback #autobiography #food #witty #bestseller #funny #love

Maryland

Autobiography bundle: Food / Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 

#Spy #post911 #politicaltheater #fiction #adventure #witty #Fesperman #Thriller #Guantanamo #theamateurspy #goodreads #mystery #politics 

The Amateur Spy—Dan Fesperman’s most galvanizing thriller yet—takes us to a flashpoint of global intrigue, recasting the spy novel for the post–9/11 world: Anyone might be watching; everyone is suspect. Burned out by years of humanitarian-aid work, Freeman and Mila Lockhart have retreated to an idyllic Greek island. But on the first night of their new life they are surprised by three intruders who seem to know everything about Freeman—including a haunting secret he has long kept from Mila. They use it to blackmail him into spying on an old Palestinian friend in Jordan. Overnight, Freeman is plunged into the maelstrom of the Middle East and is quickly in over his head. In suburban Washington, D.C., meanwhile, a prosperous Palestinian-American couple, Abbas and Aliyah Rahim, are still grieving for their daughter, accidentally killed while vacationing abroad. Abbas, a surgeon whose patients number among the nation’s elite, blames her death on the bureaucratic machinations of overly suspicious officials. Aliyah fears he may be reeling toward fanaticism, and her efforts to avert this take her to Jordan. Like Freeman, she is soon overwhelmed by the region’s dangerous passions and complexities. As their paths converge, Freeman and Aliyah—both desperately worried about the loved ones they left behind—must swiftly separate fact from illusion, enemy from friend. The consequences of failure could be catastrophic. . . .

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Terry Brooks

Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! *First Edition*Vintage*

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Gems I Stole From Facebook

Eddie Robson

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

Karen Joy Fowler

The Jane Austen Book Club

Cecelia Ahern

One Hundred Names

David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Anisha Lakhani

Schooled

Sarah Beth Durst

Drink, Slay, Love

Julia Sonneborn

By the Book

Anne Taintor

I'm Becoming My Mother

Joan Didion; David Thomson

Play It As It Lays

Madeleine Wickham

Cocktails for Three

Jenn McKinlay

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Emily Henry

Beach Read

Kim Boykin

The Wisdom of Hair

Ann Patchett

Commonwealth

Carrie Fisher

Postcards from the Edge

Charles Osborne; Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Karen Joy Fowler

The Jane Austen Book Club

Jenn McKinlay

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Adèle Lang

Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

Jenn McKinlay

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Jim Gaffigan / Mindy Kaling

Autobiography bundle: Food / Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Dan Fesperman

The Amateur Spy

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