Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

A Newbery Honor Book * Booklist Editors' Choice * BookPage Best Books * Chicago Public Library Best Fiction * Horn Book Fanfare * Kirkus Reviews Best Books * Publishers Weekly Best Books * Wall Street Journal Best of the Year * An ALA Notable Book

A young outcast is swept up into a thrilling and perilous medieval treasure hunt in this award-winning literary page-turner by acclaimed bestselling author Catherine Gilbert Murdock. The Book of Boy was awarded a Newbery Honor. "A treat from start to finish."--Wall Street Journal

Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked by others in his town--until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy's climbing and jumping abilities, Secondus engages Boy as his servant, pulling him into an action-packed and suspenseful expedition across Europe to gather seven precious relics of Saint Peter.

Boy quickly realizes this journey is not an innocent one. They are stealing the relics and accumulating dangerous enemies in the process. But Boy is determined to see this pilgrimage through until the end--for what if St. Peter has the power to make him the same as the other boys?

This epic and engrossing quest story by Newbery Honor author Catherine Gilbert Murdock is for fans of Adam Gidwitz's The Inquisitor's Tale and Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, and for readers of all ages. Features a map and black-and-white art by Ian Schoenherr throughout.

The Book of Boy

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Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Some fading on the edges of the pages due to age, but still in very good condition with no markings or damage

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How to Start and Keep the Planner, to-Do List, and Diary That'll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

Organize your life, record what matters, and get stuff done! What the heck is a dot journal? It’s a planner, to-do list, and diary for every aspect of your life: work, home, relationships, hobbies, everything. Early adopter Rachel Wilkerson Miller explains how to make a dot journal work for you—whether you find the picture-perfect examples on Pinterest inspiring or, well, intimidating. You decide how simple or elaborate your journal will be, and what goes in there: Lists of your to-dos, to-don’ts, and more Symbols that will make those lists efficient and effective Spreads to plan your day, week, month, or year Trackers for your habits and goals (think health, money, travel) Accouterments such as washi tape, book darts, and more!

Dot Journaling--A Practical Guide

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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

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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Diana Gabaldon

Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier. Reissue.

Outlander

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Marianne Wiggins

A Novel

This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light. Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory -- Site X in the government's race to build the bomb. And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns. Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief.

Evidence of Things Unseen

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

A Blandings Story

Uncle Fred in the Spring Time

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Terry Pratchett

Includes illustrations by the author, in black & white and color. 

The Munrungs cross the Carpet to find a new home after their village is destroyed by the powerful and mysterious natural force Fray.

The Carpet People

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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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A good reference book for kids covering topics such as the planets, geologic features of Earth, and the moon. Also includes various fun facts about scientists throughout the book.

The Great Big Book of Space

Theodore Taylor

Blinded when his ship is torpedoed, Philip is marooned on an island with an elderly West Indian who shows him how to survive and helps him to acquire a new kind of vision. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.

The Cay

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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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Published in 1946, this collection of short stories selected "because of their skillful handling of the element of terror" includes an introduction by Alfred Hitchcock. 

Because of its age, the book shows signs of considerable wear, but it is still readable. 

Terror Stories

Bar the Doors

From the inside flap: "The Book of Great Books" is the key to unlocking secrets to 100 of the world's most enduring novels, plays, and epic poems. Encompassing great works from Homer to Hemingway and from Machiavelli to Maya Angelou, this book guides you through plot twists, major themes, and key details that make these classics so enduringly classic. 

Each title covered includes sections on plot summary, background, key characters, main themes and ideas, and style and structure. Some titles also include a critical overview and analysis of main symbols. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to 100 World Classics

The Book of Great Books

E. L. Konigsburg

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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 #biblestories #legend #folktale #jewish 

Book summary: Recounts some of the stories of the wisdom and folly in the life of the legendary King Solomon. Stories are accompanied by full-color mixed media paintings done by Mark Podwal.

So begins Elie Wiesel's harmonious retelling of twenty mysterious and wonderfully compelling stories about King Solomon--rarely heard tales that span the revered ruler's life, from the time he took the throne at age twelve, to the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, to the disintegration of the kingdom upon his death. Rich, rewarding, gracefully told, this keepsake book is illustrated by Mark Podwal, whose fluid and symbolic paintings grace every spread.

King Solomon and His Magic Ring

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#hardcover #childrens #science #experiments #homeexperiments #billnye #stem #germs #funscience 

Germs, germs, everywhere! Did you know that: - Some germs are good for you, or even delicious? - There are more germs on Earth than all other living things combined? - Your body is constantly fighting germs, even when you aren't sick? Now you know! Find out how more about germs and how to stay healthy, with eleven cool experiments.

Bill Nye the Science Guy's Great Big Book of Tiny Germs

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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

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