Richard Peck

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

Here Lies the Librarian

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Aaron Reynolds

Florida

Rex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for crying out loud. It's a dog's name. Any pooch is preferable, but a chocolate Labrador is the pinnacle. The best of the best. The dream of all dreams. When Rex's B-Day for Me-Day finally arrives, his parents surprise him with a box. A box with holes. A box with holes and adorable scratchy noises coming from inside. Could it be? Yes! It has to be! A . . . a . . . Chicken? Pet poultry? How clucky. One hour and fourteen minutes later, the chicken is dead (by a steamroller), Rex is cursed (by the Grim Reaper), and wild animals are haunting Rex's room (hounding him for answers). Even his best friend Darvish is not going to believe this, and that kid believes everything. Rex's uninvited ghostly guests are a chatty, messy bunch. And they need Rex to solve their mysterious deadly departures from the Middling Falls Zoo before it happens again. But how? New York Times best-selling author Aaron Reynolds delivers a wickedly funny debut title in The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter series.

The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter

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Lilian Jackson Braun

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alaska

Tales Out of Oregon 

#paperback #modernromance #offbeat #indie #romance

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

At the end of the 20th century, two 20somethings start a visionary, yet doomed, art movement. By the author of The Great Perhaps.

Office Girl

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Lorna Landvik

Themes of love, friendship, loyalty, betrayal and quest for meaning.

Wisconsin

An Enchanting Bestseller

Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted "Least Changed" at their twentieth high school reunion--a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera desires a break from her humdrum marital routine; BiDi longs to reconnect with her distant fourteen-year-old daughter (the only girl on the high school hockey team), not to mention jump-start a sex drive stuck in neutral. So when Devera's husband decides to fulfill his longtime dream of opening a nightclub in his basement, Your Oasis on Flame Lake arrives not a moment too soon. Nothing fancy, it's just a BYOB joint where you can hang out, sing, dance, tell jokes, and be yourself. But then an unexpected crisis throws both families into chaos, forcing them all to take stock of their lives--and learn the power of forgiveness.

Your Oasis on Flame Lake

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There's a sticker on the front and no inside paperwork. The disc is great!

Kentucky

2006

Kettle of Fish 

Sarah Gerard

New Hampshire

A Novel

A Glamour Best Book of 2020 * A Bustle Best Books of 2020 * Winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award * An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Book of the Summer * A Refinery29 25 Book You'll Want To Read This Summer Selection * A Chicago Review of Books 10 Must-Read Books of the Month * A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year * A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year * A Shondaland 15 Hot Books for Summer One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she wants love. She deserves it. From the burned-out suburbs of Florida to the anonymous squalor of New York City, she eats through an incestuous cast of characters in search of it: her mother, a narcissistic lesbian living in a nudist polycule; Odessa, a single mom with even worse taste in men than Nina; Seth, an artist whose latest show is comprised of three Tupperware containers full of trash; Brian, whose roller-coaster affair with Nina is the most stable "relationship" in his life; and Aaron, an aspiring filmmaker living at home with his parents, with whom Nina begins to write her magnum opus. Nina's quest for fulfillment is at once darkly comedic, acerbically acute, and painfully human--a scathing critique of contemporary society, and a tender examination of our anguished yearning for connection in an era defined by detachment.

True Love

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There are a few creases on the front cover, otherwise, in very good condition

New York

A novel of suspense

I told you this would happen

Jenny Offill

Near-perfect condition. Great book! A personal favorite.

Vermont

An unflinching portrait of marriage features a heroine simply referred to as "the Wife," who transitions from an idealistic woman who once exchanged love letters with her husband and who confronts an array of universal difficulties.

Dept. of Speculation

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#paperback #sexy #witty #love #romance #exboyfriend #touching #offbeat

Tennessee

Minerva Dobbs knows all about risk management, which is why it's such a shock when David, her extremely logical choice for a boyfriend, dumps her three weeks before her perfect sister's wedding: David was not supposed to be a wild card. So when Min overhears David make a bet with his old nemesis--the gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey--that Cal can't get Min into bed in a month, she decides that fate has just handed her a stacked deck: she can make Cal sweat his sex appeal and get a date to the wedding, if she plays along and doesn't fold. What follows is a novel of destiny, chaos theory, Krispy Kreme donuts, the spirit of Elvis, Chicken Marsala, and a gamble for the highest stake of all: true love.

Bet Me is the winner of a 2005 RITA Award.

Bet Me

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Connecticut

Gathers anecdotes about vampirism, mummies, embalming, death customs, grave stones, cremation, suicide, royal deaths, and attitudes towards death

The Bedside Book of Death

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Kate Atkinson

Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny introduces him to a world he never knew existed.

Not the End of the World

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Tom Robbins

Phenomenal copy. Very minor wear & stain spots to cover (see photos). Pages clean & crisp.

This philosophical epic, with a large cast of characters, addresses the fervent desire of the human race to overcome the tyranny of aging and physical death

Jitterbug Perfume

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Colorado

Mark Z. Danielewski

Very good copy with minor shelf wear to cover & small mark on page edge (see photos). Pages crisp & clean.

Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.

Only Revolutions

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Angela Carter

Good copy, edges show wear (and have been touched up - see photos). Pages clean & tight.

The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.

Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains - or structures - of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio's battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire.

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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Adam Johnson

Cover has minor shelf wear. Remainder mark on bottom pages (see photo), otherwise tight & clean.

Stories

The "remarkable" (The New Yorker) debut story collection by the author of The Orphan Master's Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman—each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes made uncertain by the voids that parents and lovers should fill. With imaginative grace and verbal acuity, Johnson is satirical without being cold, clever without being cloying, and heartbreaking without being sentimental. He shreds the veneer of our media-saturated, self-help society, revealing the lonely isolation that binds us all together.

Emporium

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Tom Miller

First printing November 2000. New Demco cover.

Arizona

Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest

Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink FIRST PRINTING

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Your guide to the wildest, wackiest,most outrageous people, places, and things the garden state has to offer. 

Some wear on cover and edges. Inner pages are in great condition. See photos. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Delaware

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

New Jersey Curiosities

J. C. Hannigan

It's been nine years since Calum Jacobs, the frontman of The Forgotten Flounders, has returned to his sleepy east coast hometown. His decision to bail on his post-graduation plans to tour the world with his punk-rock band infuriated his father. He's also been too afraid to face Harper Morrison; the girl he left behind. They had plans to go to college together, but the moment he boarded that plane, choosing a different life for himself, Harper had to make her own path...and it didn't include chasing down a man who'd left her. When Cal is called back to attend his grandfather's funeral, he has no idea the shocking secrets that await him...

Off Beat

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Amy Bizzarri

Some bumped corners to cover (pictured). Otherwise a nice, clean copy. 

100 Essential Stops on the Mother Road

Inspiring, practical and entertaining, this is the premier guide to all the off-the-radar stops along America's Mother Road that you simply must not miss. Author Amy Bizzarri, a Route 66 expert and enthusiast, provides a comprehensive checklist of 100 unique stops that you'll want to take a moment to explore as you journey along the highway's 2,500 miles. Specialized itineraries with themes such as the Gearhead's Guide to Route 66, Natural Wonders of Route 66, Supernatural 66 and more make it easier than ever to plan a road trip to remember.

The Best Hits on Route Us 66

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Nice old book, in very good condition. Some light writing and minor ephemera. I like that kind of thing, so I’m leaving it in for someone who may like it too. 6th edition pub. 1967, Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex. Only other copy I found was on eBay for $25.

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I told you this would happen

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Only Revolutions

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