Barbara Hodgson

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Pennsylvania

An Illustrated Novel

Helen Martin journeys through the capitals of Europe and within her own body as she searches for her wayward husband and the source of her disappearing senses, in a mystery that weaves the history of anatomical art with a gruesome murder. By the author of The Tattooed Map. Reprint.

The Sensualist

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The War of the Worlds

Warren Leight

A Play

Lauded by Peter Marks of The New York Times as "powerfully unsettling...an enormously moving play," Side Man is the comic and tender story of Clifford, a young man who looks back on his family life; prior to leaving home, Clifford reconciles the role that he has long played as parent to his parents. Smoothly gliding between present and past, the play tells the story of a time before the Beatles and Elvis, when jazzmen were heroic like ballplayers and there was no shortage of Saturday-night gigs. Side Man is both a tribute to the men whose lives were their music and a sober look at a family drama left in the wake of that passion.

Side Man

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Roald Hoffmann

Soliton: Poems by Roald Hoffmann Paperback Book Poetry Truman State University 2002
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Poems

In Roald Hoffmann's fourth collection of poetry, 'Soliton', we face the full scope and power of his outlook -- he writes of nature and bittersweet love, Jewish themes and his Holocaust survival. His poems build on phrases and words under stress, with great respect for the power of the language. Sometimes they are funny, and always carefully observed and reflective. His work is intriguing, mysterious, ambitious, and accomplished.

Soliton

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1961 Nancy Drew Mystery
The Mystery at the Lilac Inn
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Nancy Drew The Mystery at the Lilac Inn

1959 Nancy Drew Mystery
The Hidden Staircase
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Nancy Drew The Hidden Staircase

Hillary Frank

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A freshman art student from Manhattan spends her first year away from home in New England.

Better Than Running at Night

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Suzanne Weyn

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The first book in the exciting Bar Code series.Individuality vs. conformity. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control. The bar code tattoo.The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things start happening to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Individuality vs. conformity.Identity vs. access.Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.

The Bar Code Tattoo & The Bar Code Rebellion

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Platte F. Clark

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Book 2 Bad Unicorn Trilogy

Discovering that the Codex of Infinite Knowability has stopped working and cannot return them home, Max and his friends risk their lives to reboot the book by carrying it into the heart of the Rezormoor Dreadbringer's Wizard's Tower.

Fluff Dragon

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Hajime Komoto

Two Manga Graphic Novels
Black Cat Vol 1 by Kentaro Yabuki
Mashle Magic & Muscles vol 1 by Hajime Komoto

Can muscles crush magic?! In the magic realm, magic is everything—everyone can use it, and one’s social status is determined by their skill level. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he’s become a fitness god, but he harbors a secret that could turn his life upside down—he can’t use magic! When he’s found out, rather than his life being over, he’s unexpectedly enrolled in magic school, where he must beat the competition! Mash just wants to live in peace with his father in the forest. But the only way he'll ever be accepted in the magic realm is by attending magic school and becoming a Divine Visionary—an exceptional student revered as one of God’s chosen. But without an ounce of magic to his name, Mash will have to punch his way to the top spot.

Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 1 & Black Cat Vol 1

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I Capture The Castle

Janet Fitch

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.

White Oleander

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Paullina Simons

Some foxing on page edges but inside is clean

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"Paullina Simons's Tully is the powerful story of a young woman from the flat plains of Kansas. Tully's story is as embracing as the wheat fields and as sweeping as the prairies from which the drama unfolds." "Five young Kansans, struggling to find a place in the world, are touched by a tragedy which alters and shapes their lives for more than a decade." "Three women - best friends - desire each other's lives more than their own. Jennifer, shy and withdrawn, can do no wrong in her parents' eyes, but Jennifer's heart is not in Kansas. Julie, who comes from a large, loving family, feels she belongs nowhere. And fierce and tender Tully is at war with the world, yearning for dreamless sleep. Two young men, Robin and Jack, forever change the lives of the three women as they all come into the world of the seventies and eighties." "This is not a novel of coming of age, for Tully was always of age - grown before her time. Her story is an odyssey in which she must explore her own troubled past as she forges into an uncertain future. Tully will find and lose friends, lovers, and family and uncover shocking truths about herself before she confronts the hard choices from which she can no longer hide." "In Jennifer, Jack, Robin, Julie, and, especially, Tully, the pain of loss and betrayal as well as the gifts of friendship and love are revealed by an astonishing new writer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Tully

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Marc Seifer

Wizard- the life and times of Nikola Tesla, biography of a genius by Mark J Seifer
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The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

“The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century . . . fascinating.”—Scientific American Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla’s creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls. This essential biography is illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including the July 20, 1931, Time magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor’s career. “Wizard is a truly remarkable biography of a remarkable man. The expression ‘ahead of his time’ is used too loosely and too often today but in the case of Nikola Tesla ‘ahead of his time’ barely describes the genius of this man. Marc Seifer makes us understand not only the man but the times in which he lived.”—Nelson DeMille “A deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science—likely to become the definitive biography. Highly recommended.”—American Association for the Advancement of Science “Vivid, revelatory . . . the fullest account yet of Tesla as an entrepreneur, experimental physicist and inventor.”—Publishers Weekly

Wizard

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Meg Mateo Ilasco

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

27 DIY Projects to Tell Stories, Hold Memories, and Celebrate Family Heritage

Offers instructions for projects to personalize the home, including easy-to-follow directions for assembling a button garland, sewing a teepee from a vintage quilt top, and creating a family silhouetee for a festive banner.

Crafting a Meaningful Home

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Two Jonathan Safran Foer books as pictured 


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Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers

Steve Higgs lot of two

Randy Henderson

First Edition hardcover
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A fantasy debut by an award-winning writer follows the experiences of Finn Gramaraye, who after enduring a long, wrongful exile for dark magic struggles to identify a powerful adversary who would prevent his return to the mortal world.

Finn Fancy Necromancy

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Three novels in one book.
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A Heinlein Trio

Günter Grass

Michael Henry Heim

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One hundred stories, each named after a year of the 20th century. In one, Erich Maria Remarque gives his views on World War I, in another former Nazis reflect on the good old days, while a third is on the fall of the Berlin Wall from a dead woman's point of view.

My Century

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Nigel Slater

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The Story of a Boy's Hunger

"Toast" is Slater's extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. A bestseller and award-winner in the United Kingdom, "Toast" is sure to delight both foodies and memoir readers on this side of the pond.

Toast

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Melanie Benjamin

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In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration--and whose most daunting limitation became her greatest strength.
 
"Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead, I would define it."
 
She was only two-foot eight-inches tall, but her legend reaches out to us more than a century later. As a child, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century, and transformed into the world's most unexpected celebrity.

Here, in Vinnie's singular and spirited voice, is her amazing adventure--from a showboat "freak" revue where she endured jeering mobs to her fateful meeting with the two men who would change her life: P. T. Barnum and Charles Stratton, AKA Tom Thumb. Their wedding would captivate the nation, preempt coverage of the Civil War, and usher them into the White House and the company of presidents and queens. But Vinnie's fame would also endanger the person she prized most: her similarly-sized sister, Minnie, a gentle soul unable to escape the glare of Vinnie's spotlight.

A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, and of a woman's public triumphs and personal tragedies, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams--and whose story will surely win over yours.

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

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Catherine Banner

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A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy--combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende. Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world's troubles. At the center of the island's life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where over generations the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his beautiful wife, Pina, whose fierce intelligence, grace, and unwavering love guide her every move. An indiscretion tests their marriage, and their children--three sons and an inquisitive daughter--grow up and struggle with both humanity's cruelty and its capacity for love and mercy. Spanning nearly a century, through secrets and mysteries, trials and sacrifice, this beautiful and haunting novel follows the lives of the Esposito family and the other islanders who live and love on Castellamare: a cruel count and his bewitching wife, a priest who loves scandal, a prisoner of war turned poet, an outcast girl who becomes a pillar of strength, a wounded English soldier who emerges from the sea. The people of Castellamare are transformed by two world wars and a great recession, by the threat of fascism and their deep bonds of passion and friendship, and by bitter rivalries and the power of forgiveness, in this richly written and powerful novel. Catherine Banner has written an enthralling, character-rich novel, epic in scope but intimate in feeling. At times, the island itself seems alive, a mythical place where the earth heaves with stories--and this magical novel takes you there. Advance praise for The House at the Edge of Night "My admiration for The House at the Edge of Night is boundless. Catherine Banner's writing is preternaturally mature, distinct, clear, and strikingly beautiful. As I read on, I felt the resonance of classic legend and myth, the stuff of Homer, building around this world that is timeless, yet utterly its own. A gorgeous, deeply moving novel of life across a sweep of time and generations."--Peter Nichols, author of The Rocks "To the long, eclectic tradition of the island novel, Catherine Banner has made a sparkling addition. She has created a vast world unto itself of the fictional island of Castellamare, intricately compressed and marvelously textured. Her storytelling evokes the rural tales of the great Sicilian author Giovanni Verga, the Abruzzian Ignazio Silone, and the multifarious Italian Folktales compiled by Italo Calvino. But this is very much a modern story by a young Englishwoman, beautifully written, spanning over a century, framing and interweaving the fates of countless characters while conjuring a fictional chronicle that merges with, and enhances, history as we know it--a feat reserved for the most ingenious and intuitive of writers. That this is Catherine Banner's first adult novel makes it all the more remarkable."--Nicholas Christopher From the Hardcover edition.

The House at the Edge of Night

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Paula Brackston

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Witnessing the death of her witch mother in the spring of 1628, Bess turns to secluded Warlock Gideon for protection and learns formidable powers including immortality, skills she begins teaching to a new apprentice centuries later while her former master insists on payment for saving her life. Reprint.

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