Candace Rose Rardon

A nifty hand sized hardcover for your home cafe 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

This pocket-sized handbook is the perfect gift for coffee connoisseurs, those looking to grind and brew their own beans, and anyone who appreciates a cup of coffee with or without caffeine. If you’re like most people, you start every day with a hot cup of joe. But beyond your steaming morning mug, there’s a whole world waiting to be discovered—from roast varieties to brewing methods to the traditions, ceremonies, and customs of cultures around the globe. Within the pages of this guide, coffee lovers of all levels will find useful information, helpful how-tos, and fascinating trivia about their beloved beverage, including · Highlights from Coffee History · Anatomy of the Coffee Cherry · Freshness in Coffee · Caffeine Content 101 · Popular Espresso Drinks · Coffee Cocktails So get ready to read about the world’s best coffee-growing regions, learn how to host a coffee cupping like a pro, get tips for buying ethically sourced beans, and much, much more!

Stuff Every Coffee Lover Should Know

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Charles Burns

A clever experimental approach: a tale told through imaginary comic book covers with all the narrative implied. Read once. Kept in great shape… a nice HC edition, acquired direct from Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

From the imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were.

Kommix

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Jarek Kupsc

A fun and artful summary of film history! One part history book, one part graphic novel, this is a unique way to learn about the cinematic masters, masterpieces and movements.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Introductory text on the history of narrative film and a reference guide for those who seek basic information on interesting movies. The book spans over one hundred years of film history.

The History of Cinema

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Nisi Shawl

Some dinged corners to the cover but otherwise a nice ARC for collector’s of this transgressive and intriguing author. 

Advanced Review Copy

Kinning, the sequel to Nisi Shawl’s acclaimed debut novel Everfair, continues the stunning alternate history where barkcloth airships soar through the sky, diverse peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants. The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes’ stories are far from over. Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality—the very ideals that led to Everfair’s founding. Meanwhile, Everfair’s Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga return home from a sojourn in Egypt to vie for their country’s rule following the abdication of their father King Mwenda. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe’s influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies. Will Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope, freedom, and equality to anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces inside and out?

Kinning ARC

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Jason Adam Katzenstein

Dana Schwartz

Hilariously scathing take-down of the patriarchy! English majors would love this.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How do you use 'taraddidle' in a sentence? Is it possible to make a Gin Ricky that's also a metaphor for the American Dream?  How can you tell your Faulkner from your Franzen if you haven't actually read either?

Allow me, the @GuyInYourMFA, to expound on the most important (aka white male) writers of western literature. You've probably seen me around, observing the masses, or defying the wind by hand-rolling a cigarette outside a local, fair-trade coffeeshop. I've actually read Infinite Jest 9 1/2 times. Care to discuss?

From Shakespeare's greatest mystery (how could a working-class man without access to an MFA program be so prolific?) to the true meaning of Kafkaesque (you know you've made it when you have an adjective named for you), the pages herewith are at once profound and practical. Use my ingenious Venn diagram to test your knowledge of which Jonathan--Franzen, Lethem, or Safran Foer--hates Twitter and lives in Brooklyn. (Trick question: all 3!) Sneer at chick-lit and drink Mojitos like Hemingway (not like middle-aged divorcées!).

So instead of politely nodding along next time you make an acquaintance at a housewarming party in Brooklyn, you can roll up your sleeves and get to work schooling them in character arcs and the experimental form of your next great American novel. Dazzle your friends with how well you understand post-modernism. You'll be at a literary event asking a question "that's really more of a comment" in no time.

The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

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Jeanette Winterson

First Grove Hardcover edition in fine shape!  

A Love Story

From internationally bestselling icon Jeanette Winterson comes her most highly anticipated new book since Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?, about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

Frankissstein

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C. K. Turner

Grab this hard to find horror novel cheap!

Pastor Phillips is about to burn his own church to the ground. And the small town of January, Vermont will never be the same. Because unbeknownst to anyone, even himself, Pastor Phillips is about to kick-start The Rapture, at least in this corner of the county. And soon, Heaven's little train will roll into town to pick up the good and leave the bad behind. But Heaven, same as any bureaucracy, is subject to the occasional clerical error, and two boys will get left behind-with the bad, growing badder by the hour. Those who didn't make the cut to God's little after-party. Because it turns out a church isn't just a joint for psalmody and prayer but a holding facility for sin. A junkyard of people's worst parts. Dropped off Sunday mornings for the better part of 200 years, it has now become a celestial biohazard. A busted landfill. Cracked and leaking into town. Making men sick.

Sparrow in a Tin Can

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This book collects choice pithy quotes from over 20 of Aylett’s books. A bounty of deep thoughts and a testament to his literary genius. 

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Vernon Lee

Aaron Worth

And Other Stories

I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siècle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past -- through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato -- dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'. This new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

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Asa Nonami

Pristine interiors and unbroken spine - some tactile grooves on cover but otherwise a fairly nice copy.

Self-esteem, the cost of vanity and being-careful-what-you-wish-for are the thematic connective tissue of Body's collection of psychological horror stories. In the vein of The Twilight Zone, each story ends with a shock leaving the reader unsettled: a girl is reduced to skin and bone when she develops bulimia as a result of bullying; a woman's desperate attempts to regain her husband's attention through cosmetic surgery have unexpected results; an unruly man's fascination with boxing consumes his life; and more.

Body

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Chuck Tingle

Barely read trade paperback early ARC (advanced readers copy) of this new classic of LBGTIA+ horror. Book was bent in storage but seems flattened now and all seems otherwise in great shape. For collectors! 

ADVANCED REVIEW COPY

"A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love." ―T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead

From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.

Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.

Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.

And they'll scare you straight to hell.

Camp Damascus ARC

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Stephen Chbosky

Like new - barely read. Only flaws a foldline on the inside cover flap of this otherwise excellent horror hardback. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An event two decades in the making, Stephen Chbosky's IMAGINARY FRIEND redefines the horror genre. Read it with the lights on. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven-year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six awful days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a tree house in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again. Soon Kate and Christopher find themselves in the fight of their lives, caught in the middle of a war playing out between good and evil, with their small town as the battleground.

Imaginary Friend

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Brand new, unread hardcover from Dark Horse’s Neil Gaiman Library

The legendary Commedia dell'arte has been beautifully redesigned for a new hardbound edition! In this timeless tale of a buffoonish Harlequin's hopeless love for the sensible Columbine, the clown impulsively gives his heart to his ladylove, only to see it dragged obliviously about town . . . but a charming surprise awaits the pair before the end of their journey. Spending a cold Valentine's Day alone can be tough, but Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and John Bolton (The Evil Dead) want you to know that all it takes to make it through is the love of a good clown! From New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline), one of the world's best-loved comics writers! Beautiful surrealism from master painter John Bolton (God Save the Queen)! Gorgeously re-designed new edition! Back in print for the first time in years!

Harlequin Valentine (Second Edition)

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Untangling the Legal, Financial and Emotional Ties Before You Sign on the Dotted Line

The legal, emotional, and practical things you need to know about keeping or selling your house before you divorce.

The House Matters in Divorce

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An unread SIGNED hardcover by genre genius Gretchen McNeil! Note that it is personalized to “Mike” but that only adds to the clever signature line. Collectible and rare!

From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romance—perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger’s The Duff and Morgan Matson’s Since You've Been Gone. Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class, she’s a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and she’s got a new boyfriend she’s crazy about. The only problem: All through high school Bea and her best friends Spencer and Gabe have been the targets of horrific bullying. So Bea uses her math skills to come up with The Formula, a 100% mathematically guaranteed path to social happiness in high school. Now Gabe is on his way to becoming Student Body President, and Spencer is finally getting his art noticed. But when her boyfriend Jesse dumps her for Toile, the quirky new girl at school, Bea realizes it's time to use The Formula for herself. She'll be reinvented as the eccentric and lovable Trixie—a quintessential manic pixie dream girl—in order to win Jesse back and beat new-girl Toile at her own game. Unfortunately, being a manic pixie dream girl isn't all it's cracked up to be, and “Trixie” is causing unexpected consequences for her friends. As The Formula begins to break down, can Bea find a way to reclaim her true identity and fix everything she's messed up? Or will the casualties of her manic pixie experiment go far deeper than she could possibly imagine?

SIGNED I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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A classic hardboiled noir in unread condition — #paperback is starting to yellow from age but is pristine otherwise

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Gutter and the Grave

A great #paperback #thriller in never read condition; the white cover and pages are still in good shale though just  slightly dingy from age sitting in the shelf and that’s normal. 

A Novel

"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King “Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember. Now they're after him and he doesn't know why. There's a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .

Lexicon

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SIGNED first edition of this performance artist’s guide to approaching life and art. Unread copy (i read the paperback lol). White wrap is showing a little aging but the binding is still fresh as new. See photos. A good deal! #signed #autographed #gaiman #palmer #art

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter.

Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art of Asking.

Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.

The Art of Asking (Signed Edition)

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SIGNED! First edition paperback. Unread copy of a fascinating entry in animal studies. Tiny little ding to lower right front cover as pictured. Otherwise pristine. #animalstudies #philosophy #milkweed #nature #signed

On Animals and the Human Spirit

Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world--both as physical beings and spiritual symbols--and not returning.

In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming asks, and seeks to answer: what does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination and existence? Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that leads us to destroy, and what that leads us toward peace? As human animals, how does art both define us as a species and how does it emerge primarily from our relationship with other species?

The reader emerges with a transformed sense of how the living world around us has defined and continues to define us in a powerful way.

Zoologies (SIGNED)

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Unread copy of a wide ranging look at this author’s life and work. #gulfcoast #womenspoetry #modernism

On the Life and Work of an American Master

Poetry. Women's Studies. "Crapsey's selected poetry reads as the lost ligament between the essaying narratives of the nineteenth century and the spare, imagist experiments of the twentieth. Like Rilke, she belonged to neither world, though she mapped her poetic lineage back to the Romantics, specifically the doomed, dark February of John Keats in Rome. As the likes of Carl Sandburg praised her, she innovated forms based on Japanese haiku and tanka while Pound conjured up his metro apparitions. She is no voice of the old world nor the new."--David Keplinger




"Adelaide Crapsey was a visionary poet whose innovative approaches to form laid the groundwork for modernist poetics. Her 5-line cinquains bristle, breathlessly compressed, wriggling and alive. Though her spare, evocative, poems paved the way for the imagists, her work is also undeniably fresh and strange and contemporary, as when she addresses her failing lung, calling it a "freak I cannot pardon." In this Unsung Masters anthology, Crapsey--a vital, game-changing poet--finally takes her place in literary history."--Hadara Bar-Nadav




"It is high time contemporary literary scholars attended to the poetic voice of Adelaide Crapsey, a neglected New York literary treasure, whose verse at once illuminates and complicates the spirit of the fin de siècle and modernist literary movements in America. Molberg and Bancroft have compiled a collection of Crapsey's work poised to advance our understanding of the female experience of pain, loss, and courage in America. What an appropriate moment to reintroduce Crapsey, given our overdue contemporary evolution, wherein the world is--we hope--finally learning what it means to listen to, hear, and even value the unique female experience."--Ashley E. Reis

Adelaide Crapsey

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A solid #hardcover edition in original wrap. The bottom of the spine was dinged as in photo but you’d never notice while reading and the rest of book is in good shape. #fiction #mystery #tanafrench 

Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe, LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature “Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet.” —The New York Times An “extraordinary” (Stephen King) and “mesmerizing” (LA Times) new standalone novel from the master of crime and suspense and author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher. From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People) comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life—he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden—and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are.

The Witch Elm

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An amazing collection of tales in the vein of Kafka! Collects classics as well as contemporaries. #kafka #surrealism #shortstories 

Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka

The tourist shops of Prague sell dozens of items commemorating Franz Kafka. You can drink a latte in the Café Kafka, add sugar to it from a packet with Kafka's face on it, and then light your cigarette from a box of Kafka matches.

Franz Kafka died in obscurity in 1924, publishing only a handful of bizarre stories in little-known literary magazines. Yet today he persists in our collective imaginations. Even those who have never read any of Kafka's fiction describe their tribulations with the Department of Motor Vehicles as being Kafkaesque.

Kafkaesque explores the fiction of generations of authors inspired by Kafka's work. These dystopic, comedic, and ironic tales include T. C. Boyle's roadside garage that is a never-ending trial, Philip Roth's alternate history in which Kafka immigrates to America to date his aunt, Jorge Luis Borges's labyrinthine public lottery that redefines reality, Carol Emshwiller's testimony by the first female to earn the right to call herself a ?man," and Paul Di Filippo's unfamiliar Kafka?journalist by day, costumed crime-fighter by night.

Also included is Kafka's classic story ?The Hunger Artist," appearing both in a brand-new translation and in an illustrated version by legendary cartoonist R. Crumb (Fritz the Cat). Additionally, each author discusses Kafka's writing, its relevance, its personal influence, and Kafka's enduring legacy.

Kafkaesque

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A guidebook for divorcing via mediation and collaboration. Very thorough amd legally savvy. Includes links to downloadable add ons and worksheets! 5th edition. Minor note handwritten inside front cover and minor fold on cover too. #divorce #court #law

A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce

Avoid the expense and stress of divorce court

Ending a marriage is always difficult, but you don't have to be financially or emotionally overwhelmed. Through mediation or a collaborative divorce, you can avoid huge legal bills and debilitating conflict with your ex.This book guides you through all the steps of negotiating a divorce settlement, using mediation or collaborative law.

Encouraging, straightforward, and inspiring, Divorce Without Court explains mediation and collaborative divorce and shows you how to:

 * choose the right method for your family
 * maximize opportunities for settlement
 * get an agreement in writing
 * find mediators, attorneys, and advisers, and
 * protect your children first, last, and always.

Divorce Without Court provides state court websites, contact information for mediation organizations, and clear examples of what you can expect in mediation or collaborative divorce.

Divorce Without Court

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I haven’t read this gift; it has some aging but seems to be in quite good almost excellent shape. A hilarious mash up concept! #humor #horror #history

For all the rabid fans who devoured Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, comes A.E. Moorat’s Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter! This outrageously entertaining and deeply irreverent tale of palace intrigue and bloody supernatural mayhem features the most unlikely monster-slayer ever to go toe-to-toe with the living dead. It’s George A. Romero meets the Bronte sisters—it’s Max Brooks’s World War Z in Victorian garb! Watch out flesh-eating zombie scum, it’s Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter!

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Candace Rose Rardon

Stuff Every Coffee Lover Should Know

Charles Burns

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The History of Cinema

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The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

Jeanette Winterson

Frankissstein

C. K. Turner

Sparrow in a Tin Can

Steve Aylett

Tao Te Jinx

Vernon Lee; Aaron Worth

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

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Body

Chuck Tingle

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Stephen Chbosky

Imaginary Friend

Neil Gaiman

Harlequin Valentine (Second Edition)

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The House Matters in Divorce

Gretchen McNeil

SIGNED I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Ed McBain

The Gutter and the Grave

Max Barry

Lexicon

Amanda Palmer; Brené Brown (Foreword by)

The Art of Asking (Signed Edition)

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Zoologies (SIGNED)

Jenny Molberg (Editor); Christian Bancroft (Editor)

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Tana French

The Witch Elm

John Kessel (Editor); James Patrick Kelly (Editor)

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Divorce Without Court

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