Charles J. McGaw

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A Basic Method Seventh Edition

Appropriate for any course in which students learn the basic principles of stage performance and acting, the seventh edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of the previous editions. Drawing on a wide range of dramatic materials, the author uses the Stanislavski method of acting as unifying concept in the book.

Acting Is Believing

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Michael Powell

For drama students and aspiring actors, this book is an essential guide to acting techniques.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for developing stage presence. Chapters that follow instruct in--


 * Reading the play with understanding and learning to build the character that the actor will be portraying
 * Developing the actor's voice, imitating regional accents, and more
 * Expressing the character's thoughts and ideas through body posture and movement
 * Adapting acting techniques to different media: stage, film, TV, and radio
 * Learning the business side of acting by selling one's talents effectively
   
   The author strips away preconceptions and clichés often associated with acting, and pinpoints common mistakes that inexperienced actors need to overcome and avoid. More than 300 instructive illustrations.

The Acting Bible

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Conrad W. Baars

Anna A. Terruwe

Suzanne Baars

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder

"A revised and shortened version of the authors' Loving and Curing the Neurotic, (New Rochelle, NY : Arlington House, 1972)"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index.

Healing the Unaffirmed

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Nicholas Sparks

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....

A Walk to Remember

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Front and back covers are slightly bent. Pages good but aged

A Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Mystery

Justice

Sue Monk Kidd

A Novel

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

The Invention of Wings

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George R. R. Martin

Front and rear covers are bent from reading.  See photos.  Otherwise pages are in good condition.  

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

A Game of Thrones 

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Melody Beattie

Pages in excellent condition. Cover slight bend in corner and back cover slight tear. Photos show

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Discusses codependency and contains real-life examples, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests designed to help people overcome their codependency.

Codependent No More

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Jordan S. Rubin

A Remarkable Health Program Combining Ancient Wisdom with Groundbreaking Clinical Research

A remarkable health program combining ancient wisdom with groundbreaking clinical research.

Patient Heal Thyself

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Pat Kilbane

J. D. McGhoul

Sound Advice for the Newly Reanimated Zombie

The Brain Eater's Bible by J.D. Ghoul with Pat Kilbane is a field manual and manifesto—in the vein of Max Brooks's bestselling The Zombie Survival Guide—for the reanimated dead. "What is wrong with me?!" That's what you're thinking, isn't it? You woke up in a drainage ditch covered with skin ulcerations and nasty flesh wounds. Your body is numb and your memory is foggy. Someone tried to give you medical attention, but you repaid their kindness by savagely killing them and eating their brains. You are a zombie my friend, just like me. Though most zombies are slow and stupid, the fact that you are reading this tells me that you are different. Some of us are. Welcome to the PACE virus apocalypse.

The Brain Eater's Bible

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John Green

David Levithan

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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An excellent collection of essays covering New Jersey’s history.  

Second Edition

A New Jersey Anthology

Leslie Meier

The First Lucy Stone Mystery

As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband's gift, and making her daughter's angel costume for the church pageant weren't enough things for Lucy Stone's busy Christmas schedule, she's also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn't smell right. Taking time out from her hectic holiday life to find out what really happened, her investigation leads to a backlog of secrets as long as Santa's Christmas Eve route. Lucy is convinced that someone murdered Sam Miller. But who and why? With each harrowing twist she uncovers in this bizarre case, another shocking revelation is exposed. Now, as Christmas draws near and Lucy gets dangerously closer to the truth, she's about to receive a present from Santa she didn't ask for--a killer who won't be satisfied until everyone on his shopping list is dead, including Lucy herself . . . "Meier continues to exploit the charm factor in her small-town setting, while keeping the murder plots as realistic as possible in such a cozy world." --Booklist

Mistletoe Murder

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Lori Foster

Looking for sexy edgy romance?  Then this book is for you !

A Body Armor Novel

The casual relationship between Miles, an MMA fighter, and Maxi, a personal shopper, turns serious when an inheritance leads to threats on Maxi's life.

Close Contact

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Kristin Harmel

An exquisite and gut wrenching tale of resilience, motherhood and love 

From the bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.

Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.

When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette's Librairie des Rêves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette's world is destroyed along with it.

More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble--and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise's desperate search leads her to New York--and to Juliette--one final, fateful time.

An "exquisite and gut-wrenching novel" (Lisa Barr, New York Times bestselling author) you won't soon forget, The Paris Daughter is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhood, and love.

The Paris Daughter

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Alex Bledsoe

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

When centuries-old vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski was staked in Wales in 1915, the last thing he expected was to reawaken in Memphis, Tennessee, sixty years later. Reborn into a new world of simmering racial tensions, the cunning nosferatu realizes he must adapt quickly if he is to survive.Finding willing victims is easy, as Zginski possesses all the powers of the undead, including the ability to sexually enslave anyone he chooses. Hoping to learn how his kind copes with this bizarre new era, Zginski tracks down a nest of teenage vampires. But these young vampires have little knowledge of their true nature, having learned most of what they know from movies like Blacula.Forming an uneasy alliance with the young vampires, Zginski begins to teach them the truth about their powers. They must learn quickly, for there's a new drug on the street-a drug created to specifically target and destroy vampires. As Zginski and his allies track the drug to its source, they may unwittingly be stepping into a fifty-year-old trap that can destroy them all . . .

Blood Groove

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Wendy Trimboli

Alicia Zaloga

Gothic fantasy in the extreme.  A striking portrayal of society from the gutters to the royal palace.


With a murderer on the loose, it’s up to an enlightened bodysnatcher and a rebellious princess to save the city, in this wonderfully inventive Victorian-tinged fantasy noir. “Man of Science” Roger Weathersby scrapes out a risky living digging up corpses for medical schools. When he’s framed for the murder of one of his cadavers, he’s forced to trust in the superstitions he’s always rejected: his former friend, princess Sibylla, offers to commute Roger’s execution in a blood magic ritual which will bind him to her forever. With little choice, he finds himself indentured to Sibylla and propelled into an investigation. There’s a murderer loose in the city of Caligo, and the duo must navigate science and sorcery, palace intrigue and dank boneyards to catch the butcher before the killings tear their whole country apart. File Under: Fantasy [ Straybound | Royal Magic | A Good Hanging | Secret Sister ]

The Resurrectionist of Caligo

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This book is a framework for finding meaningful connection.  

Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience 

Atlas of the Heart

David Buchholz

Stephen G. Reich

Three step transforming program to heal your headache

Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine--because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches of all kinds, along with neck stiffness, sinus congestion, dizziness, and other problems--Dr. Buchholz's Heal Your Headache puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives with a simple, transforming program: Step 1: Avoid the "Quick Fix." Too often painkillers only make matters worse because of the crippling complication known as rebound. Step 2: Reduce Your Triggers. The crux of the program: a migraine diet that eliminates the foods that push headache sufferers over the top. Step 3: Raise Your Threshold. When diet and other lifestyle changes aren't enough, preventive medication can help stay the course. That's it: in three steps turn your headache problems around.

Heal Your Headache

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WeightWatchers PointsPlus

Power Foods Cookbook

Sarah Young

Enjoying Peace in His Presence

Jesus Calling

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Emma Hill

Inspiration for 2024.  Daily tips and brave actions for boosting your self courage as well as positive affirmations from inspiring people.  

365 Ways to a Fearless Life

"Everyday Courage is ready to use. There are 365 small daily actions to develop a courageous and positive spirit. It is the perfect boost for anyone feeling challenged by the head-spinning speed of modern life or by a personal hardship that will require strength to overcome."--Amazon.com.

Everyday Courage

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Indulge your passion for reading with this beautiful journal to fill out with your literary impressions, likes and dislikes, viewpoints, reflections and more

A Reading Diary for Bibliophiles

My Book Journal

Jessica Ortner

Christiane Northrup

Tapping is a powerful tool that allows people to make positive changes in their lives.  Book is in very good condition.  There are minor highlights and pen markings. 

A Woman's Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More

Many women live their lives believing that they can't ask for what they want until they change something they're unhappy with. No promotion until they get new skills. No relationship until they establish their career. No fulfillment until they find love. One of the most common conditions women place on themselves is weight loss--no love until they lose weight, no sex until they lose weight, no happiness until they lose weight. But Jessica Ortner, co-producer of the highly successful documentary on meridian tapping, The Tapping Solution, offers women a better choice. Why not lose the weight and create the life you've always dreamt of?



As a culture obsessed with weight loss, we all know the latest fads that claim to help us drop pounds instantly. What often isn't discussed is the science behind the issue and how learning to deal with stress can promote and accelerate weight loss. Not only does stress create an overabundance of cortisol that is directly related to abdominal obesity, it also impacts behavior, supporting bad habits, including using food to deal with difficult emotions and painful situations.



In this groundbreaking book, Jessica uses tapping to help tackle the stress that leads to weight gain--including the personal stresses of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence. Using her own struggles with weight loss, along with success stories of some of the thousands of women she's worked with, Jessica walks readers through the process of discovering their personal power and self-worth.



Her program is based on extensive research into the benefits and success of tapping and the hormones involved in stress and weight gain. In this book she guides readers through a proven process of overcoming their dependency on food. She covers everything from the emotional aspects of overeating and cravings, to how to find joy in exercise, the power of pleasure, and how our families and friends may inadvertently add to the problem.



With hope, heart, humor, and science, Jessica weaves a path to a happy, healthy life full of confidence and joy.

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