Benjamin Harper

This fourth volume in the popular, addictive Obsessed With series again includes an innovative scoring module right in the book, so a player can select questions by number or at random and keep score. With 2,500 original questions covering little known facts, entertaining quotes, and tough trivia from all six episodes, Obsessed With Star Wars will have readers dominating the galaxy in no time.

Details
ISBN: 	‎978-0811864008
2.16 lbs
8.25 x 1.75 x 8.13 inches
320 pages
Chronicle Books; INA edition (October 1, 2008)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Provides trivia questions about the six Star Wars films, with answers provided by an electronic scoring module attached to the book.

Obsessed with Star Wars

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Jeff VanderMeer

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

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ISBN: 978-0374104092
5.6 oz
5 x 0.55 x 7.45 inches
208 pages
FSG Originals; First Edition (February 4, 2014)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Describes the 12th expedition to “Area X,” a region cut off from the continent for decades, by a group of intrepid women scientists who try to ignore the high mortality rates of those on the previous 11 missions. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Annihilation

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Ken Follett

John Lee

On the day after Halloween, in the year of 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.

Penguin Audio CD version
(Books on Tape)
ISBN: 9780143142355
Read by John Lee
Total playing time: 45 1/2 hours
36 Discs 
Made in USA

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

World Without End (penguin audio - 36 discs)

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Christopher Stuart

Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. All the projects can be easily assembled using the step-by-step guides from common materials which can be found at the local hardware store. Along with designs for seating and storage, the book also features projects for making your own bed, wardrobe, lighting and garden furniture. Each project features hand-drawn diagrams with short, easy-to-follow instructions on how to build the piece. 

Details
ISBN: 978-1856697422
1.4 lbs
8.5 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
144 pages
Laurence King Publishing; 9/24/11 edition (October 19, 2011)

A Step-By-Step Guide

Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. All the projects can be easily assembled using the step-by-step guides from common materials which can be found at the local hardware store. Along with designs for seating and storage, the book also features projects for making your own bed, wardrobe, lighting and garden furniture. Each project features hand-drawn diagrams with short, easy-to-follow instructions on how to build the piece. Whether building from scratch or customising existing designs, DIY Furniture allows you to create unique designer pieces at a fraction of the normal cost. Brief biographies of all the featured designers are included at the end of the book.

DIY Furniture

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Jenny Jackson

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. 

Details 
ISBN: 978-0593490693
2.31 lbs
6.22 x 1.08 x 9.29 inches
320 pages
Pamela Dorman Books (March 7, 2023)

A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan

"A vibrant and hilarious debut...Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can't have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. 

Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York's one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable--if fallible--characters, it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love--all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.

Pineapple Street

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Robert Frost

Brings together the full contents of all eleven of Frost's individual books of verse, from 'A Boy's Will' through 'In the Clearing'.

Details 
ISBN: 0805073655
1.92 lbs
607 pages
HenryHolt&Company (November 30, 1969)

All Eleven of His Books-Complete

The Poetry of Robert Frost

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Marie. Winn

Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and other denizens of the park's trees and swamps and thickets. Alongside a cadre of amateur and expert naturalists, Marie Winn reveals a world that lies hidden in the dark between the bright lights and traffic of Fifth Avenue and Central Park West.

Details
ISBN: 978-0312428839
10.5 oz
5.5 x 0.86 x 8.24 inches
320 pages
Picador; Reprint edition (June 23, 2009)

More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Central Park in the Dark

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Karen Russell

a 2011 novel by Karen Russell that tells the story of the Bigtree family, who live in an alligator-wrestling theme park in the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida. The novel has been described as a North American take on magical realism.

Details
ISBN: 978 0307276681
2.31 lbs
900L
8.2 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
400 pages
Vintage; first edition (July 26, 2011)

The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.

Swamplandia!

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Daniel Grant

In this updated and revised edition, Grant provides new chapters on such topics as:

Publicity and social media
Public art loan programs
Meeting prospective buyers at museums
“Handmade” and “Made in America”
Artists’ estates and private foundations
The benefits of donating artwork
In addition, Grant includes tips on disaster preparedness, workspaces, housing and residencies, emergency funds, and legal assistance. For any artist looking to explore success outside of a gallery, Selling Art without Galleries is a comprehensive and invaluable guide.

Details
ISBN: 978-1621536116
12 oz
6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Allworth; 2nd edition (November 21, 2017)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Toward Making a Living from Your Art

“Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market.” —Sculpture Magazine The days in which artists must get their work into galleries in order to gain success and recognition are long over. With that in mind, Daniel Grant gives readers advice on the multitude of options artists now have for marketing their work as well as how to sell work in a host of nontraditional venues, such as online, through open studio events, and in hospitals, restaurants, and art fairs. In this updated and revised edition, Grant provides new chapters on such topics as: Publicity and social media Public art loan programs Meeting prospective buyers at museums “Handmade” and “Made in America” Artists’ estates and private foundations The benefits of donating artwork In addition, Grant includes tips on disaster preparedness, workspaces, housing and residencies, emergency funds, and legal assistance. For any artist looking to explore success outside of a gallery, Selling Art without Galleries is a comprehensive and invaluable guide.

Selling Art Without Galleries

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Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers.

Condition: vintage, gently used books with few notes on the inside cover (see pictures)

Details
ISBN: 978-0374505400
13.2 oz
306 pages
Farrar Straus Giroux (January 1, 1964) -9th printing 
Printed in USA
Designed by Marshall Lee

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Dana D. Nelson

Dana Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. 

Condition: like new, only marks on it are hand written numbers on the first page in pencil 

Rare book!
Details
ISBN: 978-0195089271
11.2 oz
6.12 x 0.51 x 9.25 inches
208 pages
Oxford University Press (February 3, 1994)

Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867

Dana Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such as The Last of the Mohicans sought to reify the Anglo historical past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed farther west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Nelson shows how that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to question their own involvement with racism.

The Word in Black and White (rare book)

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Paula Burnett

Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.

Details
ISBN: 978-0140424607
14.4 ounces
5.25 x 1.25 x 7.75 inches
512 pages
Penguin Global; 51786th edition (August 30, 2006)

Even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Many established writers and exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. These traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.

The Penguin Book of Carribean Verse in English

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Cormac Mccarthy

First novel of the Border Trilogy

All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Condition
gently used 

Details 
ISBN: 9781447202783
9.8 ounces
4.84 x 0.87 x 7.76 inches
309 pages
Design & art by Picador
Picador 

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins.

All the Pretty Horses

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Jedediah Berry

There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing
When the words went away, the world changed.
All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named―Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names―could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown.

Condition
New, uncorrected advanced reading copy

Details
ISBN: 9781250907981
2.31 lbs
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
384 pages
Cover art / design by Will Staehle
Tor Books (September 24, 2024)



"The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page.” —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing When the words went away, the world changed. All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the named—Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names—could the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown. For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary future—for the words she carries will reshape the world. The Naming Song is a book of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.

The Naming Song

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Philip Pullman

Pullman’s second novel:
The in"Everything is what it seems: says the title page of Galatea. This paradox sets the key for a haunting fantasy that will remain in the reader's mind long after he has turned the final page. The novel's narrator is Martin Browning, a young musician. His wife, who is somehow involved in the arcane world of multi-national corporations, has mysteriously disappeared."

Condition 
Hardcover, rare first edition Philip Pullman, dust jacket has a fracture of a tear, and the pages have yellowed due to natural age, fantastic condition otherwise 

Details
ISBN: 0525111255
1.05 lbs
287 pages 
E.P. Dutton; First Edition (January 1, 1979)


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Galatea

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Jonathan Cobb

Richard Sennett

Sennett & Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society gives a special premium.

Condition: vintage, gently used book. Pages have a yellow hue due to natural aging 

Details
ISBN: 039471940
8 oz
272 pages 
‎Vintage Books; Vintage Books edition (January 1, 1973

Social Studies

Hidden Injuries of Class

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Jorge Luis Borges

Andrew Hurley

Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. 

Details
ISBN: 0140286802
1.35 lbs
8.3 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
566 pages
Penguin (November 1, 2000)


For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called "the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century" collected in a single volume

From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.

Collected Fictions

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Will Jones

How to Read Houses is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the buildings we live in and who desires a detailed field guide to the houses around us. The book first equips the reader with the visual vocabulary to recognize house types, materials, and parts, then it demonstrates these features in a range of architectural styles. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings and full-color photographs.

Condition: very good condition with small stain (see pictures) normal wear and tear from age and usage but no folded pages, no markings / notes / highlights. 

Details
ISBN: 9780789327260
13.8 oz
‎5.36 x 0.72 x 6.5 inches
256 pages
Rizzoli; Illustrated edition (March 25, 2014)

A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this charmingly illustrated book is the ultimate field guide to domestic architecture. This sixth entry in the hugely popular How to Read series is a one-stop guide to understanding house styles. The book explains the aesthetics of house forms ranging from elaborately decorated Arts & Crafts architecture to the purity of modernist homes. How to Read Houses is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the buildings we live in and who desires a detailed field guide to the houses around us. How to Read Houses first equips the reader with the visual vocabulary to recognize house types, materials, and parts, then it demonstrates these features in a range of architectural styles. Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings and full-color photographs, this handy guide will illuminate the reader's experience when visiting new cities, touring landmark houses such as Jefferson's Monticello or Edith Wharton's The Mount, and lay the foundations for a revealing architectural exploration of local neighborhoods.

How to Read Houses

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Carolyn Keene

While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy Drew, girl detective, also helps capture a swindler.

Details
ISBN: 0448095483
9.6 oz
700 L
5.08 x 0.8 x 7.65 inches
192 pages
Reading age: 8 - 12
Grade level: 3 - 7
Grosset & Dunlap; Reprint edition (January 1, 1971)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nancy and her friends Bess and George spend an exciting week exploring a mysterious zigzag house with its fantastically crooked staircase, its bizarre serpent picture, and an unpredictable robot that nearly causes the young detective to lose her life. But despite the threat of danger from the robot, Nancy is determined to solve the mystery of the weird house and to locate the missing owner who is wanted by the police. It takes keen logic and quick thinking for the young detective to plow through the tangled thicket of clues and find the key to this complex puzzle. With the help of her friends, Nancy captures an elusive swindler and uncovers the secret of the crooked banister, but not before they have several hair-raising adventures - one on a broken bridge over flaming water, another in a hidden room with poisoned portraits!

Nancy Drew 48: the Crooked Banister

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Lorna Barrett

Balancing a bake-off that’s heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman’s romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it’s an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce’s garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder—could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town?

Details
ISBN: 978-1984802736
2.31 lbs
4.19 x 0.81 x 6.81 inches
304 pages
Berkley; Reprint edition (June 30, 2020)

Murder's in the mix for mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series, now in paperback.

Murder's in the mix for mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Tricia Miles, in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series.

With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped.

Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it's an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce's garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder-could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town?

One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned....

A Killer Edition

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Jeffrey Archer

The best-selling author presents a collection of twelve stories filled with the wit and the surprises for which he is known

Details
ISBN: 978-0671671488
1.02 lbs
1 x 6.4 x 9.5 inches
240 pages
Simon & Schuster; 1st ptg. edition (January 1, 1989)


A collection of twelve spellbinding stories that will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor

A Twist in the Tale

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Peter Danielson

The Children of the Lion series is about a group of people who rise above shame and treachery to create a new generation, the Children of the Lion. The series is loosely based on events from the Old Testament Bible and was written under the pen name "Peter Danielson" by multiple authors.

Books included in this Bundle: 
The Deliverer: 485 pages / 8.8 oz 
The Invaders: 422 pages / 8 oz
The Sea Peoples: 402 pages / 1.01 lbs
The Trumpet and the Sword: 372 pages / 6.7 oz
The Exodus: 455 pages / 8.2 oz



Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Deliverer, The Invaders, The  Sea Peoples,  The Trumpet and the Sword & The Exodus 

Five Books of The Children of the Lion Series 

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Fred Metcalf

A treasury of wit salted with wisdom by the funniest writers of our time. From Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humor. Just about any topic under the sun can inspire witty remarks. Fred Metcalf's clearly cross-referenced anthology provides countless gems--ideal for after-dinner speakers, would-be wags, and anyone in search of hours of amusement.

Details:
ISBN: 0140075682
1.05 pounds
‎5.92 x 0.99 x 9.14 inches
320 pages
Penguin Books (March 1, 1988)

From Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, the last hundred years offer a rich banquet of humor. Just about any topic under the sun can inspire witty remarks. Fred Metcalf's clearly cross-referenced anthology provides countless gems--ideal for after-dinner speakers, would-be wags, and anyone in search of hours of amusement.

The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations

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Mario Vargas Llosa

John King

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life.

Condition: very gently used, basically new!

Details: 
ISBN: 978-0374123048
12.8 ounces
5.72 x 0.89 x 8.5 inches
240 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (August 11, 2015)

Essays on Spectacle and Society

"New essays attacking the precipitous decline of contemporary culture by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa"--

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