Tom McNeal

Debut novel reviewed as “remarkable, vivid, alive”

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is Goodnight, a place so ingrown and provincial that Randall calls it "Sludgeville"-until he starts thinking of it as home.

In this pitch-perfect novel, Tom McNeal explores the currents of hope, passion, and cruelty beneath the surface of the American heartland. Innbsp;nbsp;Randall, McNeal creates an outcast whose redemption lies in Goodnight, a strange, small, but ultimately embracing community where Randall will inspire fear and adulation, win the love of a beautiful girl and nearly throw it all away.

Goodnight, Nebraska

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Adriana Trigiani

Delaware

A Novel

Revisits the marriage of Ave Maria and Jack MacChesney, eight years after their wedding, amid the eccentric inhabitants in the small Virginia mountain town of Big Stone Gap.

Big Cherry Holler

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William Shakespeare

Illinois

Amid a backdrop of war, conspiracy, and murder, this historical play depicts the unpopular 13th-century monarch's struggles with the English nobility as well as foreign rivals for his throne.

King John

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Zachary Lazar

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

"It starts with my family, of course. Childhood, adolescence, the American way of sorting out what is real from what is not. My family was credulous, idealistic, odd, old-fashioned. I trained myself to be otherwise. The result has been a kind of tetherball existence, an orbiting around the parental pole with more speed than grace, more movement than progress. " Aaron, Approximately, first-time novelist Zachary Lazar's uniquely poignant coming-of-age novel, tells with heart-wrenching clarity the story of Aaron Bright, a fiercely intelligent and resilient young man struggling toward self-acceptance, identity, and human connection in the aftermath of his father's death. When 26-year-old Aaron's relationship with his girlfriend, Clarisse, threatens to crumble, he revisits the trials of his past in an attempt to unearth the root of his lifelong alienation. Aaron, Approximately powerfully details the narrator's moving and often darkly humorous journey out of isolation and self-doubt and into adulthood. "The Horace and Waldo Show" is the most popular children's television hour in Colorado, but being the only son of Horace Bright, the show's top-hat-and-purple-tuxedo-wearing clown, is a dubious honor for eight-year-old Aaron. When the local radio station's resident shock jock comically spoofs Horace's show as a front for sexual misconduct, Aaron is ruthlessly ostracized by his peers. In a last-ditch attempt at positive publicity, Horace challenges the deejay to a parachute jump. But when the stunt ends in tragedy, Aaron is thrust prematurely into the adolescent sphere of dislocation, insecurity, and rebellion, struggling to find his way without his father. Intelligent, sensitive, and profoundly concerned with issues of identity, Aaron turns himself into a would-be clown, wearing strange vintage clothing and cracking jokes to hide his uneasiness, as he first rejects but ultimately comes to understand his inextricable link to his dead father.When Aaron's mother later remarries, proving she has escaped the torment of loneliness caused by Horace's death, Aaron is confronted by his core dilemma: Should he conform to his mother's wishes, sacrifice the comfort of his insular life, and move beyond his rage and self-pity, or should he continue to live in his self-styled world of purposeful isolation and boundless cynicism? Only by facing up to the reality of his situation can Aaron break free of his lifelong pattern of alienation and confusion. And only then will he be able to salvage his relationship with Clarisse. Portrayed with both humor and compassion, Zachary Lazar's Aaron Bright searches for answers to the questions that plague us all. An outsider from the very start, the hilariously endearing yet overwhelmingly conflicted Aaron shows us what it is like to need attention so desperately that one would sabotage both family and love to satisfy its call. Aaron, Approximately rings with the truth of what it means to have grown up at the tail end of the 20th century and marks Zachary Lazar's debut as a refreshing and profoundly intelligent new voice in American fiction.

Aaron, Approximately

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Kelly Yang

Good condition; slight crease in upper left corner (see pic)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.

Parachutes

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Inside front cover flap has a crease down the middle. There is one dogeared page. When looking at the pages from the side the upper part is yellowed, but doesn’t show inside the book. Please see photos. 

A sequel to the best-selling Nanny Diaries finds Nan returning to New York after 10 years abroad and getting approached by a drunken 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents' brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.

Nanny Returns

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I wouldn't call the condition excellent, but it is very good.

Wisconsin

As Senator Kerry Kilcannon campaigns in the California presidential primary, he struggles to cope with memories of his older brother's assassination during his own run for the nomination twelve years before and becomes the target of a deranged anti-abortion activist on the ultimate mission. 400,000 first printing. Tour.

No Safe Place

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John Lescroart

Nevada

The 13th Juror

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#hardcover #fiction #detective #suspensethrillers #drama #exciting #harlancoben #mystery 

Indiana

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger on Netflix.

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Betsy Byars

Front cover has cracked plastic and some wear. Back cover has marker. Old library card inside.

Texas

Lennie is addicted to television. Even reruns are more exciting than real life, and Lennie likes to pretend he's the one experiencing the drama. But Lennie's daydreams lead him into a real situation that could cost him his life'and suddenly he's in trouble more terrifying and dangerous than anything he's ever seen on TV.'Byars infuses the story with her special magic. Lennie is a likable, funny, moving, and always entertaining character.' ?Publishers Weekly

The TV Kid

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#fiction #action #adventure #paperback #romance #drama 

Florida

The Bachelor King

John Grisham

Louisiana

Twenty-two years after the bombing of a Mississippi law office in which Marvin Kramer's two sons died, Klan member Sam Cayhill, the accused killer, has nearly exhausted his death row appeals, until young lawyer Adam Hall takes the case

The Chamber (69)

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Erica Jong

A Novel of Mothers and Daughters

Salome's daughter, Sally, destined to become one of the 1960's most famous folksingers, is struck like lightning by fame, and with it the ravages of a counterculture that wreaked havoc upon the lives of so many young artists.

Inventing Memory

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Kathryn Erskine

Arizona

Mockingbird

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Carl Hiassen

New York

Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall. 300,000 first printing.

Skinny Dip

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Missing paper cover. Topic in book
that may trigger someone. sexual abuse. 

Little Chicago

#hardcover #fiction #thesummons #johngrisham #suspensethrillers #drama #grisham #law 

Pennsylvania

For the first time since A Time to Kill, the author returns to Ford County, Mississippi, a place rich in colorful characters and dark family secrets, for his latest legal thriller.

The Summons

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Nora Roberts

The top PR executive for the family winery, Sophia Giambelli finds her life turned upside down by the merger with the MacMillan family's winery, her powerful attraction to professional rival Tyler MacMillan, and acts of sabotage that threaten the family business and members of the family itself. 750,000 first printing.

The Villa

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Danielle Steel

Having met her soulmate in Joe Allbright, New York City debutante Kate Jamison reencounters him multiple times in the years that follow and suffers heartbreak when he remains unwilling to compromise on his dreams.

Lone Eagle

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While Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas, successful career people, struggle with the pain of infertility, Charlie Winwood tries to persuade his actress wife Barbie Mason to have a baby, and a forty-something attorney contemplates late motherhood. 1,000,000 first printing. $750,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main.

Mixed Blessings

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Coronet

Amy Tan

Michigan

Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.

The Bonesetter's Daughter

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Front cover page has been removed, see photos

Alabama

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Olivia Goldsmith

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A feisty and fun-filled tale of celebrity and beauty and its consequences that dissolves the glamorous veneer of Hollywood. Goldsmith gives readers a witty expose praised by Entertainment Weekly as "far sharper, far wittier, and far hipper than Judith Krantz. . . . A Satisfying, industry-tweaking, sticky-fingered hoot".

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Tom McNeal

Goodnight, Nebraska

Adriana Trigiani

Big Cherry Holler

William Shakespeare

King John

Zachary Lazar

Aaron, Approximately

Kelly Yang

Parachutes

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Nanny Returns

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No Safe Place

John Lescroart

The 13th Juror

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The TV Kid

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The Bachelor King

John Grisham

The Chamber (69)

Erica Jong

Inventing Memory

Kathryn Erskine

Mockingbird

Carl Hiassen

Skinny Dip

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Little Chicago

John Grisham

The Summons

Nora Roberts

The Villa

Danielle Steel

Lone Eagle

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Mixed Blessings

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Coronet

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The Bonesetter's Daughter

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