Sarina Bowen

Elle Kennedy

Three trade paperbacks in excellent condition.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Gay Male/Male MM Hockey Romance Novels 

They don't play for the same team. Or do they?

Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.

Ryan Wesley's biggest regret is coaxing his very straight friend into a bet that pushed the boundaries of their relationship. Now, with their college teams set to face off at the national championship, he'll finally get a chance to apologize. But all it takes is one look at his longtime crush, and the ache is stronger than ever.

Jamie has waited a long time for answers, but walks away with only more questions-

can one night of sex ruin a friendship? If not, how about six more weeks of it? When Wesley turns up to coach alongside Jamie for one more hot summer at camp, Jamie has a few things to discover about his old friend...and a big one to learn about himself.

Warning: contains sexual situations, hotties on hockey skates, skinnydipping, shenanigans in an SUV and proof that coming out to your family on social media is a dicey proposition.

Him & Us & Epic (Complete Trilogy 3 book set)

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Sally Malcolm

Joanna Chambers

Two gently read trade paperbacks in very good condition, pages clean and tight, minor wear from reading and handling.

Are you for real? From the outside, it looks like model and influencer Mason Nash has it all-beauty, fame, and fortune. With his star rapidly rising, and a big contract up for grabs, Mason's on the verge of hitting the big time. When an opportunity arises to co-host a gardening slot on daytime TV with his ex's brother, Owen Hunter, Mason is definitely on-board. And he intends to use every trick in the book to make the show a hit-including agreeing to his ruthless producer's demand to fake a 'will-they/won't-they' romance with his co-host... Owen Hunter is a gardener with a huge heart and both feet planted firmly on the well-tilled ground. He's proud of the life he's built and has absolutely no desire to be on TV-yet somehow he finds himself agreeing to do the show. It's definitely not because he's interested in Mason Nash. The guy might be beautiful-and yeah, his spoiled brat routine presses all Owen's buttons in the bedroom-but Owen has no interest in a short-term fling with a fame-hungry model. As the two men get closer, though, Owen starts to believe there's more to Mason than his beautiful appearance and carefully-curated online persona-that beneath the glitz and glamour is a sweet, sensitive man longing to be loved. A man Owen might be falling for. A man who might even feel the same. But in a world of media spin and half-truths, Owen is dangerously out of his depth. And when a ridiculous scandal explodes online, with Owen at its heart, it starts to look as though everything he thought was real is built on lies-including his budding romance with Mason...

Home Grown Talent & Total Creative Control 

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Alexis Hall

Two trade paperbacks in good or better condition, pages clean and tight, minor overall wear from reading and handling.

From the acclaimed author of Boyfriend Material comes a delightfully witty romance featuring a reserved duke who's betrothed to one twin and hopelessly enamoured of the other. Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. It was always his father's hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up...romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine's proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again. Arabella's twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure "Bonny" Tarleton, has also grown up...romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he's not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be. Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and...beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. About himself. About love. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.

Something Fabulous & Something Spectacular 

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Steven G. Szilagyi

Trade paperback in good or better condition, minor reading/handling wear, pages are clean and tight but browning a little due to age/paper quality. Inscription on first page, see photo.

Photographing Fairies

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Annabeth Albert

Withdrawn library book, mass-market paperback, pages are clean and tight but browning due to age/paper quality, there is a scar on the spine from the removal of a sticker which also took away the upper layer of paper, see photo. Overall, a good copy for someone who wants to read the book and doesn't mind that it was once a library book, probably has several reads left, it's just not collector's quality condition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Gay Male/Male MM Christmas Novel 

"Teddy MacNally loves Christmas and everything that goes along with it. When he plays an elf for his charity's events, he never expects to be paired with a Scrooge masquerading as Santa Claus... Sergeant Major Nicholas Nowicki doesn't do Santa, but he's army to his blood. When his CO asks an unusual favor, Nick of course obliges. The elf to his Kris Kringle? Too tempting- Nick's only in town for another month, and Teddy's too young, too cheerful and too nice for a one-night stand... As a stress-free holiday fling turns into Christmas all year round, Teddy can't imagine his life without Nick. And Nick's days on the base may be coming to a close, but he doesn't plan on leaving anything, or anyone, behind"--from back cover.

Better Not Pout

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Trade paperback, bought new, read once, excellent condition.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An MM Male/Male Holiday Christmas Romance

Tis the season for a hopeless crush on my older brother's best friend... This year will be different. I'm all grown up, my gaming channel is a huge success, and I finally have the confidence to make my move on Atlas Orion, the hottest chief in the navy. However, I don't intend for my smooth move to be covering Atlas in cranberry sauce. Not at all how I want to reintroduce myself to my new roomie and coworker. Atlas is in town to help save Seasons, my family's historic holiday gift shop and event space. Seasons is booked solid with catered parties, so we need to avoid any more disasters. Like my malfunctioning air mattress. We're down to one bed, two dudes, and a whole lot of holiday-fling temptation. Atlas has never been with a guy, but I don't have to do much persuading. And what better way to explore than a secret romp? No strings, and no one has to know. The problem? With every passing week, I fall harder for Atlas, who's far more than his drool-worthy muscles and heroic job. He's kind, funny, makes me breakfast in bed, and each midnight snowball fight brings us that much closer to heartbreak. Atlas can't stay in Kringle's Crossing forever, and I can't imagine leaving the only place I've called home. Our feelings run deep, but is it a holiday illusion? Can we find our way to a lasting future? CATERED ALL THE WAY is a brand-new, full-length holiday romance from the beloved author of THE GEEK WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS. Lovers of stand-alone swoon-worthy Christmas stories will fall for this geek + military pairing. Full of spicy first times, bisexual awakening, quirky small-town residents, and guest appearances from some fan-favorite characters, this only one bed, brother's best friend romance is sure to find a place under many trees! Dual POV and the happiest of endings guaranteed.

Catered All the Way

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Mark Roeder

Trade paperback in good or better condition, minor wear from reading and handling, pages are clean except a previous owner has made some notes on the list of the author's other books at the front.

Gay Male/Male MM Romance Twins Brothers 

The Nudo Twins

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Mark Kendrick

Two trade paperbacks in good condition, they just don't have that crisp new book feel, average good condition used books, the pages are clean and tight, minor general wear from reading and handling, remains of price stickers on spines and/or backs.

Scott Faraday is 16, gregarious, talented, never been in a relationship, and is out to only a select few. Ryan St. Charles is 17, hot-tempered, has already has been in a long relationship, yet is barely out to himself. Behind Ryan's carefully fashioned façade is emotional scarring from a past he's never been able to reconcile. When he comes to live with his uncle in Yucca Valley, CA, he meets Scott. An unlikely pair, the boys form a tentative friendship. When Scott starts to suspect that Ryan might be gay, he plans his coming out to him. The result is that he transforms their friendship into his first real relationship. Then, Ryan's hidden past comes into view. Scott is not at all prepared for what he discovers - suicide attempts, past abuse, and loads of denial. Tightly focused on their new relationship, 'Desert Sons' follows these two teenagers as they plunge headlong through a summer that will forever change them both.

Desert Sons & Into This World We're Thrown 

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Maria McCann

Gently read trade paperback, minor wear from reading and handling, pages clean and tight. Remains of a price sticker on spine.

In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events of war will overtake them.

A darkly erotic tale of passion and obsession, As Meat Loves Salt is a gripping portrait of England beset by war. It is also a moving portrait of a man on the brink of madness. Hailed as a masterpiece, this is a novel by a most original new voice in fiction.



A Harvest Original

As Meat Loves Salt

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Cheryl Crane

Cliff Jahr

First edition hardcover with dust jacket in good condition for its age, there's nothing wrong with it it just doesn't have that fresh, crisp new book look or feel.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Hollywood Story by Cheryl Crane daughter of Lana Turner 

The author tells the true story of the night she, at age fourteen, murdered her celebrity mother's mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, and reveals the shocking sexual abuse that led up to the fatal stabbing

Detour

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Matthew Sturgis

Hardcover with dustjacket, some edgewear, otherwise in good condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Biography

Aubrey Beardsley

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John Anthony Gilvey

Withdrawn library book with usual markings. Interior is clean and tight but cover has some wear.

Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical

During the Golden Age of the Broadway musical, few director-choreographers could infuse a new musical with dance and movement in quite the way Gower Champion could. From his earliest Broadway success with Bye Bye Birdie to his triumphant and bittersweet valedictory, 42nd Street, musicals directed by Champion filled the proscenium with life. At their best, they touched the heart and stirred the soul with a skillful blend of elegance and American showmanship. He began his career as one-half of "America's Youngest Dance Team" with Jeanne Tyler and later teamed with his wife, dance partner, and longtime collaborator, Marge Champion. This romantic ballroom duo danced across America in the smartest clubs and onto the television screen, performing story dances that captivated the country. They ultimately took their talent to Hollywood, where they starred in the 1951 remake of Show Boat, Lovely to Look At, and other films. But Broadway always called to Champion, and in 1959 he was tapped to direct Bye Bye Birdie. The rest is history. In shows like Birdie, Carnival, Hello, Dolly!, I Do! I Do!, Sugar, and 42nd Street, luminaries such as Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Channing, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Tony Roberts, Robert Morse, Tammy Grimes, and Jerry Orbach brought Champion's creative vision to life. Working with composers and writers like Jerry Herman, Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Bob Merrill, he streamlined the musical making it flow effortlessly with song and dance from start to finish. John Gilvey has spoken with many of the people who worked with Champion, and in Before the Parade Passes By he tells the life story of this most American of Broadway musical director-choreographers from his early days dancing with Marge to his final days spent meticulously honing the visual magic of 42nd Street. Before the Parade Passes By is the life story of one man who personified the glory of the Broadway musical right up until the moment of his untimely death. When the curtain fell to thunderous applause on the opening night of 42nd Street, August 25, 1980, legendary impresario David Merrick came forward, silenced the audience, and announced that Champion had died that morning. As eminent theatre critic Ethan Mordden has firmly put it, "the Golden Age was over." Though the Golden Age of the Broadway musical is over, John Gilvey brings it to life again by telling the story of Gower Champion, one of its most passionate and creative legends.

Before the Parade Passes By

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John Harding

Gently read trade paperback, minor wear from reading and handling.

Inside the 1925 Hollywood Games [a Novel]

The Ben-Hur Murders

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Christina Crawford

Trade paperback, pages clean and tight, reading creases on cover and spine. Minor overall wear from reading and handling.

40th Anniversary Edition 

When Christina Crawfords harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the fȧade of Christinas relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford. Christina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos.

Mommie Dearest

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Rebecca Skloot

Trade paperback, good reading condition, minor overall wear from reading and handling.

Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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1906 edition, no dustjacket, cloth faded and frayed on spine, former owner's bookplate pasted inside, sandpaper torn out in back but no text missing. Binding appears sound. Overall good condition  for its age, it's  over 100 years old, and fine for someone who just wants to read the book, but not collector's quality.

1906 edition 

India's Love Lyrics 

1952 Garden City Books hardcover, no dustjacket, binding sound, pages clean, in good condition for its age.

Edward Fitzgerald, translator; Edmund Dulac, illustrator; 1952 Garden City Books edition 

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Michael Bouchard

Gently read trade paperback in excellent condition.

Masquerade

The Disappearance of Joan Carolyn Risch Case: #6162

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Casey Sherman

Hardcover with dustjacket in excellent condition. Bought new, read once.

The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime Lana Turner  & Johnny Stompanato 

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all--a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventually, the physical and emotional abuse became too much to bear, and Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny--with disastrous consequences. The details of what happened that fateful night remain foggy, but it ended in a series of frantic phone calls and Stompanato dead on Lana's bedroom floor, with Cheryl claiming to have plunged a knife into his abdomen in an attempt to protect her mother. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie. New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal the dark underbelly of celebrity, rife with toxic masculinity and casual violence against women, and tells the story of Lana Turner and her daughter, who finally stood up to the abuse that plagued their family for years. A Murder in Hollywood transports us back to the golden age of film and illuminates one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime tales.

A Murder in Hollywood

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Michelle Morgan

Hardcover with dustjacket, would be in very good condition except there is yellow highlighting throughout the book, see second photo for an example. Also has previous owner's name stamped inside the front cover but this is mostly hidden by the front dustjacket flap.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd's life from a vivacious little girl who tried to assuage her parents' grief over her brother's death, to an aspiring teacher turned reluctant beauty queen, to an outspoken movie starlet and restaurateur. Increasingly disenchanted with Hollywood, in 1934 Todd opened Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Café, a hot spot that attracted fans, tourists, and celebrities. Despite success in film and business, privately the beautiful actress was having a difficult year--receiving disturbing threats from a stranger known as the Ace and having her home ransacked--when she was found dead in a garage near her café. An inquest concluded that her death, at age just twenty-nine, was accidental, but in a thorough new investigation that draws on interviews, photographs, documents, and extortion notes--much of these not previously available to the public--Michelle Morgan offers a compelling new theory, suggesting the sequence of events on the night of her death and arguing what many people have long suspected: that Thelma was murdered. But by whom? The suspects include Thelma's movie-director lover, her would-be-gangster ex-husband, and the thugs who were pressuring her to install gaming tables in her popular café--including a new, never-before-named mobster. This fresh examination on the eightieth anniversary of the star's death is sure to interest any fan of Thelma Todd, of Hollywood's Golden Age, or of gripping real-life murder mysteries.

The Ice Cream Blonde

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Kate Summerscale

Hardcover with dustjacket in very good condition, pages clean and tight, sticker residue / small sticky spot from removal of a price sticker.

A True Ghost Story

Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * The Sunday Times * The New Statesman * The Times * The Spectator * The Telegraph

"Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget."--The Times (London)

London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the papers instead.

After the sensational story headlines the news, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems.

By unravelling Alma's peculiar history, Fodor finds a different and darker type of haunting, a tale of trauma, alienation, loss and revenge. He comes to believe that Alma's past has bled into her present, her mind into her body. There are no words for processing her experience, so it comes to possess her. As the threat of a world war looms, and as Fodor's obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.

With characteristic rigor and insight, Kate Summerscale brilliantly captures the rich atmosphere of a haunting that transforms into a very modern battle between the supernatural and the subconscious.

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

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Jane McIntosh

Large coffee table style hardcover with dustjacket, minor edge and handling wear. Top Edge has a little dust soil but interior is not affected, pages are clean and tight. Very interesting well illustrated book

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The World's Great Riches Rediscovered

Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. "Lost Treasures" recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean. Written by an experienced archaeologist and filled with more than 250 remarkable images of precious finds, "Lost Treasures" takes readers on a journey through time and around the globe in search of rumored riches and uncovered wealth.

Lost Treasures

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1957 hardcover with dust jacket, good reading condition however binding is cracked exposing the inner mesh, see photo. Jacket has wear and tear around the edges.

Prison Stories Leopold and Loeb etc.

Warden Ragen of Joliet 

Jens Andersen

Large paperback, in good condition except there is some soiling and spotting on outer edges, see photo.

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Sarina Bowen; Elle Kennedy

Him & Us & Epic (Complete Trilogy 3 book set)

Sally Malcolm; Joanna Chambers

Home Grown Talent & Total Creative Control

Alexis Hall

Something Fabulous & Something Spectacular

Steven G. Szilagyi

Photographing Fairies

Annabeth Albert

Better Not Pout

Annabeth Albert

Catered All the Way

Mark Roeder

The Nudo Twins

Mark Kendrick

Desert Sons & Into This World We're Thrown

Maria McCann

As Meat Loves Salt

Cheryl Crane; Cliff Jahr

Detour

Matthew Sturgis

Aubrey Beardsley

John Anthony Gilvey

Before the Parade Passes By

John W. Harding

The Ben-Hur Murders

Christina Crawford

Mommie Dearest

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Laurence Hope

India's Love Lyrics

Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Michael Bouchard

The Disappearance of Joan Carolyn Risch Case: #6162

Casey Sherman

A Murder in Hollywood

Michelle Morgan

The Ice Cream Blonde

Kate Summerscale

The Haunting of Alma Fielding

Jane McIntosh

Lost Treasures

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