Graphic novels and comics for adult readers.

Scott Lobdell

Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is intact. Outside has heavy wear and chipped corners. Proceeds support our public library.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Frank and Joe go undercover at a national spelling bee where a mysterious madman known as the Hangman is determined to erase the competition! Teens from across the globe have been invited to attend, and A.T.A.C. and the Hardy Boys have to do everything they can to keep the Hangman from spelling disaster!

Hardy Boys #18: D. A. N. G. E. R. Spells the Hangman!

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Jeremy Bastian

Clean, unmarked pages and intact binding. Top corners are lightly bumped. Light wear at top of spine where sticker was peeled off . Proceeds support our public library.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Collected Edition

Cursed Pirate Girl

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Jean-Claude Mezieres

Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Pages are clean and binding is intact. Cover is worn and scuffed with bumped corners. First few pages are lightly water damaged - this does not affect readability. Proceeds support our public library.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Collection

This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series The City of Shifting Watersand The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first adventures of our two heroes, published after City and retroactively numbered. Finally, linking the volumes of this collection together is a long, exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson. Illustrated with new art as well as numerous sketches, studies and photographs from the latter's upcoming big-screen adaptation.

Valerian

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Comics & Graphic Novels

Crafts, cooking, decorating, renovating, and more.

Alexandra Raij

Eder Montero

Rebecca Flint Marx

Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Pages are clean and unmarked with bright photos. Binding is intact but slightly askew. Cover corners are bumped. Regular wear from circulation. Proceeds support our public library.

A Love Letter in Recipes from the Kitchen of Txikito [a Cookbook]

Chefs Alexandra Raij and Eder Montero share more than one hundred recipes from Txikito—all inspired by the home cooking traditions of the Basque Country—that will change the way you cook in this much-anticipated and deeply personal debut. Whether it’s a perfectly ripe summer tomato served with just a few slivers of onion and a drizzle of olive oil, salt cod slowly poached in oil and topped with an emulsion of its own juices, or a handful of braised leeks scattered with chopped egg, Basque cooking is about celebrating humble ingredients by cooking them to exquisite perfection. Chefs Alexandra Raij and Eder Montero are masters of this art form, and their New York City restaurant Txikito is renowned for its revelatory preparations of simple ingredients. Dishes like Salt Cod in Pil Pil sauce have fewer than five ingredients yet will astonish you with their deeply layered textures and elegant flavors. By following Raij’s careful but encouraging instructions, you can even master Squid in Its Own Ink—a rite of passage for Basque home cooks, and another dish that will amaze you with its richness and complexity. The Basque Book is a love letter: to the Basque Country, which inspired these recipes and continues to inspire top culinary minds from around the world; to ingredients high and low; and to the craft of cooking well. Read this book, make Basque food, learn to respect ingredients—and, quite simply, you will become a better cook. - Food & Wine Magazine, Editor’s picks for Best of 2016

The Basque Book

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Beatrice Ojakangas

Gently used book with clean pages and intact binding. Light general wear, especially along edges of book and dust jacket. Proceeds support our public library.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food

Beatrice Ojakangas, the oldest of ten children, came by it naturally--the cooking but also the pluck and perseverance that she's served up with her renowned Scandinavian dishes over the years. In the wake of the Moose Lake fires and famine of 1918, Ojakangas tells us in this delightful memoir-cum-cookbook, her grandfather sent for a Finnish mail-order bride--and got one who'd trained as a chef. Ojakangas's stories, are, unsurprisingly, steeped in food lore: tales of cardamom and rye, baking salt cake at the age of five on a wood-burning stove, growing up on venison, making egg rolls for Chun King, and sending off a Pillsbury Bake Off-winning recipe without ever making it. And from here, how those early roots flourished through hard work and dedication to a successful (but never easy) career in food writing and a much wider world, from working for pizza roll king Jeno Paulucci to researching food traditions in Finland and appearing with Julia Child and Martha Stewart--all without ever leaving behind the lessons learned on the farm. As she says, "first you have to start with good ingredients and a good idea." Chock-full of recipes, anecdotes, and a kind humor that bring to vivid life the Finnish culture of northern Minnesota as well as the wider culinary world, Homemade delivers the savory and the sweet in equal measures and casts a warm light on a rich slice of the country's cooking heritage.

Homemade

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Dan Buettner

Gently used book with clean pages and intact binding. Light general wear. Proceeds support our public library.

100 Recipes to Live To 100

Best-selling author Dan Buettner debuts his first cookbook, filled with 100 longevity recipes inspired by the Blue Zones locations around the world, where people live the longest. Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the Blue Zones, home to the healthiest and happiest communities in the world. Each dish--for example, Sardinian Herbed Lentil Minestrone; Costa Rican Hearts of Palm Ceviche; Cornmeal Waffles from Loma Linda, California; and Okinawan Sweet Potatoes--uses ingredients and cooking methods proven to increase longevity, wellness, and mental health. Complemented by mouthwatering photography, the recipes also include lifestyle tips (including the best times to eat dinner and proper portion sizes), all gleaned from countries as far away as Japan and as near as Blue Zones project cities in Texas. Innovative, easy to follow, and delicious, these healthy living recipes make the Blue Zones lifestyle even more attainable, thereby improving your health, extending your life, and filling your kitchen with happiness.

The Blue Zones Kitchen

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Cooking & Crafts

Burton Isaac

Set includes paper book for violin soloist and paperback book for piano accompanist. Pages for both are largely unmarked, with the exception of bowings and other markings in pencil on the Christmas Medley in violin book. Bottom pages are creased on Christmas Medley in piano book. Both books have regular wear from playing and transporting. Proceeds support our public library.

Intermediate

Eleven beautiful solos on favorite hymns and traditional sacred melodies. The selections are appropriate for worship celebrations throughout the church year. The keyboard accompaniment complements the violin part, and sometimes takes the melody while the violin plays a descant. Intermediate in difficulty, some pieces include double stops, use flat keys, and require mutes. These solos will enrich any worship setting.

Sacred Violin Solos

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Robert Sabuda

Pop ups and envelopes are unmarked and bright with readable text. Pop ups all work, though some are worn from frequent use. Covers have wear including scuffing and bumping. Proceeds support our public library.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of THE CHRISTMAS ALPHABET, Sabuda has created a brand new pop-up to include in this special edition, which also has a brand new cover and is covered in green foil.

Celebrate Christmas with this beautiful pop-up alphabet book by award-winning author Robert Sabuda.

"The Christmas book of the year. Twenty-six dazzling, magical pop-ups commemorate holiday sights and symbols in unforgettable ways....Most of the pop-ups themselves are white, which gives them an elegant look, and Sabuda...has designed them all to move gracefully when the flaps are opened....Besides being an imaginative paper designer, Sabuda uses form, color, and space expertly....Just terrific. "
-- Pointer, KIRKUS REVIEW







The Christmas Alphabet

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Lorie Line

Clean, unmarked pages. Music is bright and readable. Binding is intact but no longer square from being opened on music stand. Regular wear to outside cover, especially along edges. Proceeds support our public library.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Holiday Book

(Piano Solo Personality). Lorie Line is legendary for her spectacular Christmas shows. This terrific matching folio features 14 songs from her 2006 CD and holiday tour. The solo arrangements range in difficulty, so beginning through advanced piano players can enjoy this book. Includes such favorites as: Carol of the Bells * The First Noel * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Holy Night * Winter * and more, as well as fantastic full-color photos of Lorie throughout.

Lorie Line - the Traditions of Christmas

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Holiday

Kleiner C

En espanol. Gently used book with clean pages and intact binding. Looks to have been read once. Proceeds support our public library.

Mindfulness en la Naturaleza es un libro hermosamente ilustrado de prácticas de mindfulness, creadas para enseñarle a los niños(as), y a toda la familia, técnicas para reducir el ritmo y conectarse con sus emociones, cuerpos, y pensamientos. Las divertidas actividades se pueden integrar fácilmente en las rutinas diarias en casa o en el aula; haciéndolas perfectas para crear momentos de curiosidad, conexión y alegría. Entonces, abre el libro, sumérgete en el mundo de 20 animales ecuatorianos y ¡que comience la aventura! Una herramienta valiosa para padres, madres, educadores y terapeutas.

Mindfulness en la Naturaleza

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Gary Boelhower

Signed by author. Book is new but has been opened for photographing etc. Proceeds support our public library.

A Common Thirst

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Belinda Jensen

Signed by author as part of inscription to prior owner. Pages are clean and binding is intact. Light general wear, especially along edges. Proceeds support our public library.

Blizzards

"Bel and her cousin, Dylan, explore blizzards, learning how they form and where they happen"--

A Snowstorm Shows Off

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Kids Books

Rated OT for older teen ages 16+. Gently used set of 6 volumes with clean pages and intact binding. Proceeds support our public library.

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Volumes 1-6

Confidential Confessions 

Japanese language manga. Gently used book with clean pages and intact binding. Comes with dust jacket. Light general wear. Proceeds support our public library.

For You in Full Blossoms vol. 1

Hana-Kimi 

Manga book in Japanese. Still wrapped but top of wrapping has ripped.

Penguin Revolution  vol. 1

Penguin Kakumei 

Manga

Books that are signed or signed and inscribed.

Terry Foster

Willie Horton

Signed by author as part of inscription to prior owner. Clean, unmarked pages and intact binding. Light wear to outside of book. Proceeds support our public library.

One of the most storied and fascinating histories in all of Major League Baseball, the Detroit Tigers--an American League charter franchise in 1901--have survived some of the most intense highs and lows of any team in professional sports, and this lively and detailed book explores it all. This guide to all things Tigers covers the 1984 World Series championship and the riots it sparked; controversial "Georgia Peach" Ty Cobb; and crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls. This fully updated edition, which includes details on the Tigers' exciting 2011 playoff run and Miguel Cabrera's historic season as well as the Tigers' acquisition of Prince Fielder, guides fans on numerous of activities to help them celebrate their team in new and deeper ways.

100 Things Tigers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die

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Gary Sosniecki

Signed by author. Clean pages and intact binding. Light wear to edges. Former price sticker affixed to back cover. Proceeds support our public library.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband

Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia quarreled that night and again the next day. Prosecutors later claimed that the final quarrel ended when Albin knocked Cecilia unconscious with a wooden potato masher, doused her with a flammable liquid, lit her on fire, and left her to burn to death. Albin claimed self-defense, but he was convicted of second-degree murder. Newspaper coverage of the dramatic crime and trial was jarringly explicit and detailed, shocking readers in Indiana, where the crime occurred. Peter Young of the South Bend Times wrote that the murder's "horrors and its shocking features . . . have never before been witnessed in Mishawaka." The story was front-page news throughout northern Indiana for much of a year. For several generations, the families of both Cecilia and Albin would be silent about the crime--until Cecilia's great-grandson, award-winning journalist Gary Sosniecki, uncovered the family's dark secret. As he discovered, wife beating was commonplace in the early 20th century (before the gender-neutral term of "domestic violence" was adopted), and "wife murder" was so common that newspapers described virtually every case by that term. At long last, The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband unearths the full story of two immigrant families united by love and torn apart by domestic violence.

The Potato Masher Murder

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Signed by Author

Advance readers, special printings, and more.

Michael Christie

Advance uncorrecorrected proof. Clean pages and intact binding. General wear to back cover and heavier wear to front.., including creased along bottom edge and corner and crease along spine. Proceeds support our public library.

This remarkable novel, structured like the rings of a tree, travels from a futuristic world in which barely any forests remain to the start of the twentieth century, where two young boys survive a train crash, setting them on a path that will change their lives. Moving from the future to the present to the past, and back again, this magnificent generational saga tells the story of one family and their enduring connection to the place that brought them together. 'This book is why we read books. Why we need books. Wildly inventive, structurally elegant, deeply felt, and so very wise. Greenwood is Michael Christie's best work ever, and that's saying something.' -Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting 'Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading.' -Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal 'Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie's Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots, from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future, to the intricately tangled trees of family - all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood's characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favourite reads in recent memory.' -Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom

Greenwood

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Jessica Zucker

Advance reading paperback copy. Clean pages and intact binding. General wear from reading and donation process. Proceeds support our public library.

Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women's Lives

It's time to start speaking up about the all-too-common, but under-acknowledged, taboos women navigate throughout their lives. In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking book I Had a Miscarriage, Jessica Zucker boldly exposed the silence, stigma, and shame that surround pregnancy loss and demonstrated the need to normalize conversations around painful reproductive events that too often go unspoken. In Normalize It Zucker expands her lens to address a multitude of challenges women face - from girlhood, body image, motherhood, reproductive choice, sexual trauma, menopause, and more - that so often incite shame and overwhelming cultural pressure to stay silent. Based on patient stories, coupled with cutting-edge psychological research, Zucker fearlessly shares her insights into the shame and stigma that shroud so many women's experiences and explores the liberation that can follow when we get vulnerable and talk about the hard stuff. Normalize It is a nuanced look at what it means to be a woman that will make readers feel seen, heard, and empowered to tell their stories. By normalizing talking about difficult things, Zucker opens the door to creating cultural change that acknowledges and supports women's truths. Normalize It is the mirror, the motivator, and the manifesto you've been waiting for.

Normalize It

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Thomas Paine

Book itself is in excellent condition with clean, bright pages and tight, square binding. Looks to have been read rarely, if at all. Slipcase shows wear, and brown stains on top edge. Proceeds support our public library.

Collected Writings (LOA #76)

Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I know not whether any man in the world,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine.” The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and “common sense.” This Library of America volume is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England. Within fourteen months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet for the American Revolution, and began a career that would see him prosecuted in England, imprisoned and nearly executed in France, and hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create. In Common Sense, Paine set forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during “the times that try men’s souls” in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. Among the many other items included in the volume are the combative “Forester” letters, written in a reply to a Tory critic of Common Sense, and several pieces concerning the French Revolution, including an incisive argument against executing Louis XVI. Rights of Man (1791–1792), written in response to Edmund Burke’s attacks on the French Revolution, is a bold vision of an egalitarian society founded on natural rights and unbound by tradition. Paine’s detailed proposal for government assistance to the poor inspired generations of subsequent radicals and reformers. The Age of Reason (1794–1795), Paine’s most controversial work, is an unrestrained assault on the authority of the Bible and a fervent defense of the benevolent God of deism. Included in this volume are a detailed chronology of Paine’s life, informative notes, an essay on the complex printing history of Paine’s work, and an index. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Special Editions

Rare edition with red cover. Ex-library book with the usual markings. Unmarked pages and intact binding. One page has been ripped and taped. Heavier wear and soiling, especially to cover. Proceeds support our public library.

Horton Hatches the Egg

Signed by author. Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Spine and cover edges protected by clear tape. Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is intact. Pages have tanned with age but this does not affect readability. Outside of book has wear from many years of circulation. Proceeds support our public library.

Special edition published in 1940. Book is in good condition for its age. Pages are clean and binding is intact. Ex-library book from an elementary school. No dust jacket. Proceeds support our public library.

Paco Goes to the Fair

Vintage Books

Books written about Eau Claire, Wisconsin and the surrounding area.

Susan Maione

Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Cover protected by a clear laminate. Clean pages and intact binding. Crease on back cover. Regular wear from circulation. Proceeds support our public library.

Profilesofover 30 musicians with a Wisconsin connection such as Liberace, Hildegarde, Jeff Pilson, Ben Sidran, Richard Davis and Steve Miller. Foreword by electric guitar inventor and guitarist Les Paul.

Famous Wisconsin Musicians

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Alan Tulppo

Kyle McMahon

Three Lakes Historical Society

Ex-library book with the usual stickers and markings. Cover protected by a clear laminate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is intact. Regular wear from circulation. Proceeds support our public library.

Three Lakes has developed into a premier resort and vacation destination while maintaining its small-town character. Three Lakes was founded as a supply station for the massive logging operations of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The community reinvented itself as an agricultural center and as a vacation destination.

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