I love art, art history, music oof it goes on and on..

Beautiful, oversized retrospective of the life and works of van Gogh. Solid copy with bright pages, no writing, no dog ears. Excellent b/w/c reproductions. No owner name. Rated “good” because the cover (but not the spine) is faded around the edges with a small nick on the front board. No DJ. Please see photos. I have taken into consideration the cost of shipping when pricing this book. Book measures 10” x 13.25”, 385 pages. #art #artists #painters #painting #postimpressionist #hardcover #nonfiction #classics #starrynight #biography (5F)

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

New Jersey

A Retrospective

Another classic is added to our Puffin Storytime? book-and-CD audio package! Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapes? audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs! This season, we're adding another title to our list of Puffin Storytime? packages: Don Freeman's classic A Pocket for Corduroy. This Puffin picture book will be accompanied by a compact disc that features a professional reading of the unabridged story. Perfect for road trips or quiet bedtime reading, as well as story time, preschool, and home school, Puffin Storytime: A Pocket for Corduroy is sure to please children and parents alike.

Van Gogh

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Appears UNREAD. First edition, first printing, complete number line. Clean pages, no writing, no owner name. Minimal edge wear to DJ. Retail price $24.95. #fantasy #art #historicalfiction #romance #mystery #hardcover #firstedition #novel #fiction (Shelf 10B)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Lush, thrilling, and erotically charged, a triumph of suspense and dazzling imagination, Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love is an extraordinary work that spans more than a century, uniting genius past and present with strange, tensile strands of inspiration, obsession, and lust.

A tragedy that occurs in a hospital for the insane in Frankfurt, Germany, will have repercussions across decades and eras. Several weeks after the death of a female patient in a terrible fire, the poet Algernon Swinburne follows a mysterious woman through the shadows toward a remarkable event at once enthralling, stimulating, and terrifying beneath the streets of London. Years later, at the start of a new century, a struggling young artist, Radborne Comstock, is introduced to a ravishing beauty who immediately becomes his muse, his desire, and his greatest torment. It is a legacy of pleasure and madness that will be passed down to his grandson, the dilettante actor Valentine Comstock, who is plagued by disturbing and increasingly erotic visions. And in the present day a journalist named Daniel Rowlands is seduced by the bewitching and mercurial Larkin Meade, who holds the key to lost artistic masterpieces, and to secrets too devastating to imagine.

What connects these men -- and others whose grand destinies are to imagine and create -- is one woman. Eternal, unknowable, the very ideal of beauty and desirability, she exists somewhere beyond the boundaries of time, a sensuous dream of flesh and fantasy to inspire or destroy, an immortal lover ... or an angel of death.

Mortal Love

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A lovely and unusual gift for any Mozart fans out there. “The shortest route to the real Mozart is through his letters, of which a great many survive. This edition presents a selection of letters from every period of his life: the earliest were written to his mother when he was thirteen and the last, to Constanze, his wife, a few weeks before his death. The book is illustrated with a magnificent collection of engravings, prints, portraits and landscapes evoking late-eighteenth-century Europe. For lovers of Mozart’s musicthere could be no richer or more enthralling memorial to his work or introduction to his personality than this illustrated collection of his letters.” Solid, clean, tight copy.  First US edition. Faint erasure mark on title page. Dust jacket crisp with some rubbing and minimal edge wear. Please see photos. #mozart #music #classicalmusic #nonfiction #letters #biography #hardcover (Shelf 4B)

An Illustrated Selection

This illustrated edition presents a selection of Mozart's letters from every period of his life. The earliest were written to his mother when he was 13 and the last, to Constanze, his wife, a few weeks before his death.

Mozart's Letters

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Books i want to read soley because the cover caught my attention (lmao ive found great reads this way I promise)

Ernest Cline

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

A Novel

"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--

Ready Player Two

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Bryn Greenwood

Colorado

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

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Scott O'Dell

Former library book. Yellowing of the pages

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A young Indian girl learns the art of survival when she is stranded on an isolated Pacific island.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Judging a book by its cover

I love poetry and want to delve deeper so here is where im hoping to start!

#poetry #paperback #amandalovelace #love #witches #adult 

New York

the witch doesn't burn in this one

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Michael Tavon

Songs for Each Mood Vol.1 is a collection of poems broken into five playlists that represents a different mood: happiness, lust, sentimental, introspective, and love

Songs for Each Mood

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The author describes her family's internment in a Japanese concentration camp on Java during World War II and her mother's unflagging determination in the face of hardship and deprivation to save her family.

Sing with the Wind

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Poetry Wishes

B. R. Myers

Kansas

A wickedly whimsical and delectable brew of mystery, spine-tingling chills and intoxicating romance that makes for an irresistibly fun and page-turning read

The bride: The dearly departed. Who could have killed her?

The groom: Is there no love lost for his would-be wife?

The medium: She speaks to the dead. She's a fake--isn't she?

The doctor: He swore to do no harm. Did he?

The ward: He lives in the house, but will he ever be family?

The lawyer: He's served the family for decades. If there were secrets, wouldn't he know them?

The housekeeper: She runs the house. What has she seen?

The maid: She knows all the gossip. What does she have to hide?

London, 1852. Genevieve Timmons has made her living posing as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy believers, until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger, Mr. Lockhart, arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been grieving the mysterious death of his beautiful bride-to-be for six months. Although no foul play was ever uncovered, the young lord is convinced that she was murdered. If Genevieve can hold a séance to persuade him that his betrothed's spirit is at peace, Mr. Lockhart promises to have the charges against her dismissed and reward her with enough money to start a new life.

But when Genevieve arrives at Somerset Park estate, she discovers that the handsome and aloof Mr. Pemberton is anything but the heartbroken lover she expected. Mr. Pemberton then approaches Genevieve with an offer of his own: together, they will stage a séance so convincing it will coax the killer out of the shadows.

Attempting to play both sides until she can determine which plan holds the key to her freedom, Genevieve prepares to stage a haunting. But when ghoulish incidents begin to plague the manor, the dogged heroine realizes her tricks may not be required after all. Somerset and its residents are hiding many deadly secrets, and its ghosts could be all too real.

A Dreadful Splendour

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Kate Khavari

Washington

The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure.

Debut author Kate Khavari deftly entwines a pulse-pounding mystery with the struggles of a woman in a male-dominated field in 1923 London.

Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues' beliefs about women's academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father's reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn.
 
When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn't expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors' wives, to drop to the floor, poisoned by an unknown toxin. 

Dr. Maxwell, Saffron's mentor, is the main suspect and evidence quickly mounts. Joined by fellow researcher--and potential romantic interest--Alexander Ashton, Saffron uses her knowledge of botany as she explores steamy greenhouses, dark gardens, and deadly poisons to clear Maxwell's name.
 
Will she be able to uncover the truth or will her investigation land her on the murderer's list, in this entertaining examination of society's expectations.

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

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Rowenna Miller

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

"A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale."?H. G. Parry

There is no magic on Prospect Hill-or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier-a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk for better layers in the chicken coop.

Much of that old wisdom was lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at mills and factories. Alaine Fairborn's family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find a lost shoe and to ensure dry weather on her sister's wedding day.

When Delphine confides her new husband is not the man she thought he was, Alaine will stop at nothing to help her sister escape him. Small bargains buy them time, but a major one is needed. Yet, the price for true freedom may be more than they're willing to pay.

Praise for The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill:

"Brimming with folk magic and delightfully sinister hidden worlds. Truly enchanting."?Leslye Penelope

"A beautifully written tale of feminine power, sisterly devotion, and magic as old as the hills themselves."?Louisa Morgan

For more from Rowenna Miller, check out:

The Unraveled Kingdom
Torn
Fray
Rule

The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

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TBR 2024

Ariel Slamet Ries

Ohio

The eagerly awaited second collected volume of Ariel Slamet Ries' hit online comic Witchy. In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. Low on magic and on the run after committing the ultimate heresy of cutting one's hair, Nyneve and her raven companion, Banana, head into an ancient forest in search of safe transport. However, when Nynever butts heads with the gruff and overbearing broom-maker Kaveh, she starts to wonder if she wouldn't be better off in the hands of the Witch Guard.

Witchy Vol. 2

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Emilia Hart

Maryland

"A spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft."
--Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha's mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom.

1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives--and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

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