T. I. Lowe

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is as tough as it gets. When a few random acts of kindness help to ease the Fosters' hardships, Austin finds herself relying upon some of Magnolia's most colorful citizens for friendship and more. But it's next to impossible to hide the truth about the goings-on at Nolia Farms, and Austin's desperate attempts to save face all but break her. Just when it seems she might have something more waiting for her--with the son of a wealthy local family who she's crushed on for years--her father makes a choice that will crack wide-open the family's secrets and lead to a public reckoning. There are consequences for loving a boy like Vance Cumberland, but there is also freedom in the truth. T. I. Lowe's gritty yet tender and uplifting tale reminds us that a great story can break your heart . . . then heal it in the best possible way.

Under the Magnolias

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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

The Alchemist

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Author’s 19th novel. This one is a story of marriage written with realism and satire. Book is in good condition, dust jacket in poor condition. See photos for condition. First edition published in 1945 by Random House of New York. 390 numbered pages. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

A Novel of Husbands and Wives

Cass Timberlane

Salman Rushdie

First Edition Novel Book The Enchantress of Florence by Banned Author Salman Rushdie. Very Good Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket and pages have very little wear as shown. Perfect for the Diverse Reads section of your Home Library. Large Book. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital.

The Enchantress of Florence

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Peter McCabe

Signed Suspense Book Wasteland by Miami Vice writer Peter McCabe. Very Good Condition for age. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has light wear as shown, and Pages are Very Good for 1994. Perfect for a California home library. Medium Size Book. 

A Novel

"Wasteland is a gripping, tightly written mystery set in the corrupt high-finance world of California real estate development. Both Will Dunbar and his wife, Caroline, work for tycoon John Clem, who is creating a waste disposal site that could make him millions. Will, a decent man whose ambition has blinded him, has become essentially a bag man for Clem's operation, overseeing the payoffs to county officials to facilitate the development. But he's beginning to feel distaste for this occupation." "Will learns that an investigative reporter may be getting wind of the shady side of his job at the same time he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair with the disposal site's geologist. Will goes to the geologist's house to have it out with him - only to find his recently murdered corpse and a shadowy figure fleeing over a fence. Will is tried for the murder based on circumstantial evidence and is acquitted only through the surprising perjury of one of the star witnesses, the first of several stunning twists in this carefully constructed story. Haunted by the fact that he was acquitted for the wrong reasons, Will is determined to find out who set him up - and more importantly, why." "Wasteland is full of surprises, as evidenced in McCabe's first novel, City of Lies, which Nicholas Von Hoffman called "compelling, vivid, and rewarding . . . a crime story with real characters." McCabe combines the best of the thriller genre - gritty realism and dizzying plot twists - with the kind of expertly drawn characters and fascinating relationships that one would expect to find only in a literary novel."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Wasteland

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Katie Ganshert

No One Ever Asked

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1st edition. Light wear to DJ and pages. Binding is in fair condition. #war #military #history #novel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Across Five Aprils 

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.

Everything Is Illuminated

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The completely Slammed series set by Colleen Hoover. All books for $15! 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Slammed Series 

Suzanne Collins

I got a whole new set of the hunger games book set but i already had the set so i just received a brand new set so I’m selling each book separate, this book is brand new I had never even read this book yet.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

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I got a whole new set of the hunger games book set but i already had the set so i just received a brand new set so now I’m selling each book separate, this book is brand new and I’m looking to sell it for a reasonable price considering it’s brand new and I haven’t read it yet 

Oliver La Farge

Unforgettable novel- a MUST!! Real stories… real events… real people… real history. (‘29-‘57)
  Barely yellowing of pages, spinal separation in two places but still super sturdy, library stickers and stamps. 

Virginia

Navajo Indians-First Authentic Novel

Laughing Boy

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James A. Michener

Illinois

A Novel 

A novel about the birth, the rise, and the history of Texas. Follows the turbulent lives of Texans from the first daring settlers of the rugged Mexican territory to the oil riggers, tycoons, and power players of today.

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Chad Harbach

New Jersey

At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, "The Art of Fielding is mere baseball fiction the way Moby Dick is just a fish story" (Nicholas Dawidoff). It is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.

The Art of Fielding

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Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. 

The side of the book has some damage (not really clean).

The Swan Thieves

J. D. Mason

"He stared at himself in the mirror, wondering how he'd managed to lose track of time. Complacency had managed to set in again. . . A decent job, warm home, food on the table, and a body to curl up next to at night; he'd made the mistake of getting comfortable. Comfort fooled him into thinking it was all good when it wasn't. Damn nightmares had a way of reminding him of that."
Ever since he was fifteen, John King has been on the run from the ghosts of his past, always drifting, never settling down in one place or with one woman, though more than one has certainly made the offer of forever-after. But every time his memories of life back in Texas start to haunt him too deeply into the night, John realizes that it's time to move on. That is, until he rolls into Denver, Colorado, grooving to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It on," and meets Connie Rodgers, a woman who grew up on the mean streets and has the pain and the battle scars to prove it. And yet, she inspires him to think "If indeed there were a home for the perfect kiss, it would be on her lips." John is reluctant to admit that here is a woman who just may understand his very soul, even if she does have some baggage of her own. But both must face their pasts if they ever hope to be free to live and love.
Filled with completely unforgettable characters, "One Day I Saw a Black King "is a stunningly powerful story that explores the power of the past over the present, the search for love and belonging and the healing gift of an extraordinary love.


One Day I Saw a Black King

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Yasunari Kawabata

Edward G. Seidensticker

Read once, no wear or writing inside. Excellent condition!

Pennsylvania

Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Snow Country

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Torre DeRoche

Love with a Chance of Drowning, A Memoir Novel by Torre DeRoche. Romance, non-fiction book. (5.25”x8”). Based on a true story of the author’s life events. A love story novel about life and love sailing the ocean, between an Australian woman and an Argentinian man. This book has 23 chapters and 333 pages. Like new with minor shelf wear on edges, minor page bind discoloration and minor marks on cover and bind. See all photos. Retails for $14.99.

Rhode Island

A Memoir

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. Somewhere mid-Pacific, she finds herself battling to keep the old boat, the new relationship, and her floundering sanity afloat. . . . This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.

Love with a Chance of Drowning

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The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown CD Audiobook (14 Discs, Running Time: 17.5 hrs) – Sequel to The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.  An unabridged recording read by Paul Michael.  Random House Audiobook, published 2009.  14 CDs, 17.5 hrs running time. Library discard in a clamshell case.  Clamshell case is damaged (see photos), but all CDs are present and play without issue. 
Used dvds/ cds/ video games/ audio books may have minor shelf wear, such as minor scuffs/scratches on the disk, but they are all tested and work the way they should before being listed.  Any scratches, IF ANY, will not affect how the disc plays. All cases close the way they should unless noted in item description.  This library discard is sold as-is, please ask questions and review photos prior to purchasing. CDs play. Clamshell case.  Smoke and pet free home.  #audiobook #suspense #fiction #politicalthriller #historicalfiction #mystery #novel #thriller #adultfiction #action #suspensethrillers #danbrown #paulmichael
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In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object --artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon--a prominent Mason and philanthropist --is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations--all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.
As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.

The Lost Symbol

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#paperback #romance #novel #love #elenaarmas #fiction 

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A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work.Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister's wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year.That would certainly be tomorrow's headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.Four weeks wasn't a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic-from NYC and all the way to Spain-for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. But that didn't mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6'4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me.Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. See? Outrageous. Aggravating. Blood boiling. And much to my total despair, also right. Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister's wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie?Like my abuela would say, que dios nos pille confesados.The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, SLOW-BURN romance. Perfect for those looking for a steamy slow-burn with the sweetest Happily Ever After.

The Spanish Love Deception

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#hardcover #firstedition #africanamerican #novel 

From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most
 
Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. She has everything she wants; all she has to do is keep it that way. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family, and when her oldest daughter, Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her flawless home into a darker sort of prison.

Resentful of her sister's newfound freedom, Violet turns to eastern philosophy, hallucinogenic drugs, and extreme fasting, eventually landing herself in the psych ward. Meanwhile, her brother Will shrinks further into a world of self-doubt. Recently diagnosed with Aspergers and epilepsy, he's separated from the other kids around town and is homeschooled to ensure his safety. Their father, Douglas, finds resolve in the bottom of the bottle--an addict craving his own chance to escape. Josephine struggles to maintain the family's impeccable façade, but when a violent incident leads to a visit from child protective services, the truth about the Hursts might finally be revealed.
 
Written with the style, dark wit and shrewd psychological insight that made SMASHED a bestseller, Zailckas's first novel is unforgettable. In the spirit of classic suspense novels by Shirley Jackson and Daphne DuMaurier, MOTHER, MOTHER is the terrifying and page-turning story of a mother's love gone too far, and the introduction of a commanding new voice in fiction.

The Wedding 

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The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Ohio

The wings of the dove 

Paul Attaway

Author Support

California

Step back in time a bit. The year is 1973, and by all appearances, Monty Atkins has a wonderful life. Along with his wife, Rose, the girl of his dreams he met in college, they are raising two boys, Eli and Walker. Humble but competitive, Monty is slowly but steadily building a profitable and well-respected law practice in beautiful Charleston, SC. His hard work, steeped in a deeply engrained Protestant work ethic, is paying dividends in the form of a second home on Kiawah Island and membership in the exclusive Wappoo Country Club.




Rose, an aspiring socialite, chairs committees and works tirelessly for her church and the school their boys attend.



So, yes, Monty Atkins has a wonderful life, until he doesn't. In a flash, everything changes when a brutal murder and a shocking betrayal turn their world upside down. Brewing beneath the surface lurks a conspiracy of lies about who they are and what they believe. The wellspring of deception and ensuing dysfunction that threaten to destroy all they have built is Rose's past, a past she can't outrun.

In the hunt for the killer, Monty draws the ire of one of Charleston's most prominent businessmen, who sets out to destroy him. Monty now faces a multi-front battle, one to save his family, one to save his business and one to save his life.




Step back in time and immerse yourself in a taut, tension-filled thriller where the genteel veneer of life in the South lived by those for whom Sunday Bruch at the Club is as holy as that morning's church service is stripped away.

Blood in the Low Country

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Kat, a young pianist suffering from composer's block, finds inspiration in the jazz of the 1940s and in the life of Kitty, a woman whose problems parallel her own but who infuses Kat's life with spontaneity, stimulus, and revelation

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T. I. Lowe

Under the Magnolias

Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke (Translator)

The Alchemist

Sinclair Lewis

Cass Timberlane

Salman Rushdie

The Enchantress of Florence

Peter McCabe

Wasteland

Katie Ganshert

No One Ever Asked

Irene Hunt

Across Five Aprils

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything Is Illuminated

Colleen Hoover

Slammed Series

Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

Oliver La Farge

Laughing Boy

James A. Michener

Texas

Chad Harbach

The Art of Fielding

Elizabeth Kostova

The Swan Thieves

J. D. Mason

One Day I Saw a Black King

Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker

Snow Country

Torre DeRoche

Love with a Chance of Drowning

Dan Brown; Paul Michael (Read by)

The Lost Symbol

Elena Armas

The Spanish Love Deception

Dorothy west

The Wedding

Henry James

The wings of the dove

Paul Attaway; Author Support

Blood in the Low Country

Xam Wilson Cartier

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