Ling Ma

a very nice paperback, showing only very slight wear around the corners. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

A Novel

Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.

Severance

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a very nice german paperback. it appears unread. no writing etc 

der meister des jüngsren tages

das schnee mädchen

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Robert Seethaler

a very nice oaper back. appears unread. still has original 12,00 euro price sticker

Österreich 1937: Der 17-jährige Franz Huchel verlässt sein Heimatdorf, um in Wien als Lehrling in einer Trafik - einem Tabak-und Zeitungsgeschäft - sein Glück zu suchen. Dort begegnet er eines Tages dem Stammkunden Sigmund Freud und ist sofort fasziniert von ihm. Im Laufe der Zeit entwickelt sich eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft zwischen den beiden unterschiedlichen Männern. Als sich Franz kurz darauf Hals über Kopf in die Varietétänzerin Anezka verliebt und in eine tiefe Verunsicherung stürzt, sucht er bei dem alten Professor Rat. Dabei stellt sich jedoch schnell heraus, dass dem weltbekannten Psychoanalytiker das weibliche Geschlecht ein mindestens ebenso großes Rätsel ist wie Franz. Ohnmächtig fühlen sich beide auch angesichts der sich dramatisch zuspitzenden politisch-gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Und schon bald werden sie - und Anezka - jäh vom Strudel der Ereignisse auseinandergerissen.

Der Trafikant

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an excellent hardciver with dust jacket. pages all appear clean and unblemished.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

fräulein smillas gespür für schnee

a lovely paperback looks in great condition. no writing or damage to the pages. this is in german obviously.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

die entscheidung

an excellent paperback. feels brand new. ni writing or apparent damage

hab und gier

Ingrid Noll

a nice paperback with no writing tears etc

Der Hahn ist tot

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

strange deaths and mysterious disappearances

unsolved deaths

Ananda Lima

Stories I Wrote for the Devil

Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry - Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima. At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true. Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they'll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences-of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging - and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as singular and wise and fresh" (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil includes: "Rapture," "Ghost Story," "Tropicalia," "Antropogaga," "Idle Hands," "Rent," "Porcelain," "Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory," and "Hasselblad." A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue . "Sophisticated and totally engrossing, Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is easily one of the most innovative works I've read in quite some time." - Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke "

Craft

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Ryan North

I read it but you cant tell. a very nice paperback

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If? The only book you need if you're going back in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted--from first principles. This illustrated manual contains all the science, engineering, art, philosophy, facts, and figures required for even the most clueless time traveler to build a civilization from the ground up. Deeply researched, irreverent, and significantly more fun than being eaten by a saber-toothed tiger, How to Invent Everything will make you smarter, more competent, and completely prepared to become the most important and influential person ever. You're about to make history. . . better.

How to Invent Everything

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Kelly Link

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. “A dizzying dream ride you will never forget.”—Leigh Bardugo “An incredible achievement.”—Cassandra Clare “Kelly Link is our greatest living fabulist.”—Carmen Maria Machado The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from friendship to romance to abiding family ties—with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot. Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are. With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers. But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left behind, and Laura’s sister, Susannah, attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing their community in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming disaster. Welcome to Kelly Link’s incomparable Lovesend, where you’ll encounter love and loss, laughter and dread, magic and karaoke, and some really good pizza.

The Book of Love

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Paul Auster

an excellent autographed hardcover. there are three or four places where the original author underlined. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and "one of the great American prose stylists of our time" (New York Times) Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.

Baumgartner

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Adrian Goldsworthy

AD 98: The army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. Defences are weak, as tribes rebel against Roman rule, and local druids preach the fiery destruction of the invaders.

Vindolanda

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Harry Steinhauer

The cover shows a little bit of sign of wear but otherwise it's in good condition. no writing no highlighting. a nice German English text.

A Bilingual Anthology

This book is designed primarily to alleviate the agony that language learning in its early stages entails, when the foreign words in the sentence simply will not combine to make sense. Legions of beginners give up when they could have made it with the aid of a book like this. But for centuries schoolmasters have frowned on this device, calling it dirty names like crib, crutch, pony. But the truth is that highly educated and motivated people have learned to read a foreign language this way. The great German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who knew many ancient and modern languages, acquired them by using Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie as a pony. There are many bilingual series, such as the Loeb Classics or the Bollingen series, which have gained high prestige.

Deutsche Erzählungen/German Short Stories

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Harold Coyle

A beautiful hardcover with a nice dust jacket. no torn or missing pages. no highlighting no writing at all. it doesn't appear to ever have been read

The United States has gotten involved in a bloody and difficult guerrilla war in Colombia, where Captain Nancy Kozak, a commander of combat troops and a woman full of conflicts, faces a court-martial in spite of her heroism. 125,000 first printing.

Code of Honor

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Peter E. Randall

a very nice hardcover with pristine dust jacket, no writing no highlighting seems to be completely unread.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Century of Town and Beach, 1888-1988

Hampton

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Susan Choi

A very nice hardcover with the excellent condition. just jacket pages are a bit yellow around the outside edges due to age but otherwise no writing. no highlighting excellent condition.

A love affair in 1950s Tennessee between a Southern heiress and a Korean student. He is Chang, a translator living down the trauma of the Korean War, she is Katherine, recuperating from a romance with a much older professor. A first novel.

The Foreign Student

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Robert Sabbag

an excellent hardcover with an inscription on the inside front page. otherwise clean with no writing or highlighting no damage

Down and Dangerous with the U. S. Marshals

A history of the oldest federal law enforcement agency and a look at some of its famous cases of the past century.

Too Tough to Die

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John Stockwell

A nice hardcover cool vintage just jacket an inscription on the cover page. otherwise clean with no writing or highlighting.

A CIA Story

In Search of Enemies

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Colin Forbes

A great hardcover with no writing, no highlighting and no obvious signs of damage

Tweed - star detective turned spymaster - reluctantly agrees to make inquiries into a man called Michael Volkanian at the urging of his old friend, Superintendent Buchanan. Buchanan had found Michael on the steps in Whitehall, where he heard him utter only three words: 'I witnessed murder.' With Paula Grey, Tweed embarks on his investigation and gradually locates four skeletons. Two of them are found on Dartmoor, near the mansion of Drago Volkanian, the Armenian founder of a giant supermarket chain - and an armaments plant. Tweed interrogates Volkanian's stepdaughter, the steely and moody Lucinda, her elder brother Larry, the company managing director, and meets Michael again, the youngest sibling, who is still unable to speak. He is suffering from amnesia - or so say two psychiatrists. Unlike Buchanan, Tweed insists that the horrific murders are not random. A link must exist between the four victims. He also suspects that a foreign power is involved. With Paula, Bob Newman and his team, Tweed travels south to Marseilles, where murder is a way of life. Escaping the city alive by a hairsbreadth, they race back to Britain, to desolate Dartmoor. One eerie climax follows another. But who is the ruthless killer? And could Michael be the key to the conundrum?

No Mercy

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R. Clark

looks great except an inscription on the title page. 

A Marc Larose Mystery

Marc LaRose is a one man private detective agency in Northern New York's Adirondack region. Accepting an insurance company's assignment to investigate the death of a hotel patron leads Marc along the shores of Lake Champlain, across the border to Montreal then to the Olympic Village of Lake Placid in a whirlwind tale of international conspiracy, death, and terrorism.

Borderline Terror

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Alistair Cooke

a nice hardcover. the only writing is on the front cover page, see photo. otherwise all good.

Over the course of his distinguished career as a foreign correspondent, which spans more than sixty years, Alistair Cooke has known, interviewed, or reported on literally hundreds of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century. Here he has collected his memories of more than a score of them: they include actors and generals, statesmen and eccentrics, a poet, a jazzman, an intensely scholarly woman and a casually funny one, an architect, a publisher, and several politicians--all of whom, in Cooke's view, have left the world a better or more interesting place. Book jacket.

Memories of the Great and the Good

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Ross Thomas

a nice hardcover with noneriting highlights or visible damage

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