Neil Gaiman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love.

"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."

"Hullo," I said to myself. "That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."

Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.

Fortunately, the Milk

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Karen Cushman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"Corpus Bones I utterly loathe my life."

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to arich man--any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.

Unfortunately, he is also the richest.

Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?

Deus Not if Catherine has anything to say about it

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no mater how awful.But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.Unfortunately, he is also the richest.Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actualy lose the battle against an ill-mannared, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?Deus Not if Catherine has anything to say about it

Catherine, Called Birdy

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Patricia Smith

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Poems

In this poetry collection, an award-winning author presents a portrait of nineteenth-century Black America. This masterful and haunting mosaic is a search for lost histories, both personal and inherited.

Unshuttered

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Oliver Sacks

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tales of Music and the Brain

The author draws on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and ordinary people to explore the complex human response to music and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments.

Musicophilia

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William Shakespeare

Old library copy, so has library attachments, as pictured. No markings inside. 

The Taming of the Shrew; a Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night; the Tempest

Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest.

Four Great Comedies

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

A Blandings Story

Uncle Fred in the Spring Time

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C. S. Lewis

The full text of The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis in large hardcover format, with the beautiful classic illustrations by Pauline Baynes. 

The Magician's Nephew

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Allie Brosh

Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

Hyperbole and a Half

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Madeleine L'Engle

The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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E. L. Konigsburg

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

The View from Saturday

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Study workbook (published 2011) for Bar Exam. Subjects covered: constitutional law, contracts and sales, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, real property, torts. 

Very minor underlining and marking, on just a few pages. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Barbri Multistate 2011

Study workbook (published 2011) for Bar Exam. Includes two parts - multistate performance test skills and practice test and answers. 

No markings, underlining, or highlighting.

Barbri Multistate Performance Test Workbook 2011

#hardcover #drseuss #childrens #classic #bedtimestory 

Note: book is in excellent condition, but there is an inscription on the inside cover (a birthday message). 

Catch a case of the yawns with Dr. Seuss in this classic rhyming picture book. Bedtime has never been more fun!

A yawn is quite catching, you see. Like a cough.
It just takes one yawn to start other yawns off.

Dr. Seuss spins a sleep-tastic tale about a very small bug and a very big yawn that spreads and spreads. Meanwhile, the Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Count adds up every sleeping creature from the country of Keck to the Castle of Krupp. First one, then seven, all the way to the billions and zillions, the Who's-Asleep-Count just keeps growing and growing! This book is a perfect bedtime story that will have the most reluctant readers laughing, and the most reluctant sleepers snoring!

Ninety-nine zillion, nine trillion and two
Creatures are sleeping!
So...How about you?



Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book

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#hardcover #childrens #historicalfiction #ww1 #historical #family #fiction #england 

The next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne's Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching look at the effects war has on a family.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight--but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.

Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realizes his father is in a hospital close by--a hospital treating soldiers with shell shock. Alfie isn't sure what shell shock is, but he is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place.

This title has Common Core connections.

Stay Where You Are and Then Leave

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Fun kit of book with a deck of cards. Book demonstrates 12 simple tricks. Note: some tricks need almost no practice, others will require some sleight-of-hand skills. Deck is complete, with two jokers. Cards are plastic-coated. 

 #magic #magictricks #hobbies #tricks #cards #kits #hardcover

"Fantastic tricks to impress your friends"

Magic Cards Kit

#bipoc #adultfiction #contemporary #hardcover #hardcoverfiction #prague #fiction 

In the tradition of Native Speaker and The Family Fang, Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood. This beautiful and dreamlike debut follows twenty-two-year-old Tee as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle's suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. His life intertwines with Pavel Picasso, a painter famous for revolution; Katka, his equally alluring wife; and Picasso's partner--a giant of a man with an American name. In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee contemplates his own place in life as both mixed and adopted and as an American in a strange land full of heroes, myths, and ghosts.

The Hundred-Year Flood

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#paperback #childrens #roalddahl #fantasy #classic #childrensclassic #england 

When James Henry Trotter accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Then James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit, and when he crawls inside, he meets a bunch of marvelous oversized friends -- Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Miss Spider, and more. After years of feeling like an outsider in the house of his despicable Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, James has finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the exciting adventure begins!

James and the Giant Peach

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#paperback #adventure #fantasy #middlegrade #childrensclassic #family #creatures

Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying, wonderful journey into galactic space--where they must battle the force of evil to save Charles Wallace, and themselves.

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Uncle Fred in the Spring Time

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Stay Where You Are and Then Leave

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