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Bantam, New York, 1972, 33rd paperback printing. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, front cover has been taped, previous bookstore's stamp on inside front cover. A well read book.The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain… Read More

Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2013. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, tiny crease at top right corner.GFFs Rochelle, Robecca, and Venus begin to settle in at Monster High and are having a fangtastic time getting involved in the student body. Rochelle is tutoring the trolls, Robecca is blasting onto the Skulltimate Roller Maze team, and Venus is starting a compost pile with Lagoona Blue! The ghoulfriends are even recruited to help Toralei and Cleo plan the Hex Factor Talent Show.But during Mr. Mummy's Catacombing class, the ghouls find hints of a new threat to the school. And when white cats start showing up around the Creepateria-a bad omen for monsters!-the GFFs begin to wonder if their fun is over. Is Toralei playing pranks? Or is something more sinister haunting the halls of Monster High?

Condition: Book is very good, light corner bumps and edge wear, previous owner's name on inside front cover and initials on last page but no underlining or other writing; dust jacket has tears, chips, and creasing.Scribner A-1.69 (UV)

Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creases, spine has creasing and slight nicks, a well read books but no highlighting or underlining. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.Stories About Us presents 46 engaging short stories, many of which are translations. Prefaces place each story in its cultural, historical, and literary context, with a brief biography of its author.Select stories illustrate literary elements such as plot, character, narration and point of view, setting, literary devices, and theme and interpretation. Comprehension, analyses, and discussion questions follow.

Condition: Near fine, very light spine crease.

A woman searching for the truth about her husband's disappearance…at any cost.
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen's boss; as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah… Read More

Harper, New York, 1989. 18th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, fading to cover, light price sticker residue, slight corner creasing, spine crease, well read.Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings—as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

Penguin, Toronto, 1992. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light spine crease, light scuff mark on front cover.Anthony Burgess listed Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels among the 99 best novels of our time and declared that Davies himself is "without doubt Nobel Prize material". With Murther & Walking Spirits Davies reconfirms his stature as an irresistibly erudite practitioner of the art of fiction. A man who is killed in the first sentence of the novel leads the reader on a tour of his afterlife.

MacMillan, Toronto, 1972. First edition, first state dust jacket. Condition: Very good book in good dust jacket. Book has light toning and the spine has rubbing at end.s The dust jacket has edge and spine wear, light dust shadow on rear cover, small tear on front.Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father.

Macmillan, Toronto, 1988. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket, light edge wear and corner bumps else fine.Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus.There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish -- connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric -- whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E. T .A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.Complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria's blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various… Read More

Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, corners have nicks and bumps, back cover has light indentations.NO writing or markings.

Mariner, Boston, 2008. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, very light scuffing on silver reflective cover.A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament, to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion, and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence.The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong, but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not… Read More

Condition: Very good, edge and corner wear, small nicks and crease at corner.For children ages 5 to 8.

Tor, New York, 1994. First edition. Condition: Very good in very good dust Jacket. Dj edges have some bumps and creasing.From the publisher: Charles de Lint's skillful blending of contemporary urban characters and settings with traditional folk magic has made him one of the most popular fantasy authors of his generation...

Tor, New York, 1993. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good minus, light edge and corner nicks, slight creasing at spine, back cover has small tear at top left corner.The harp was a gift from Jacky Lanter's fey kin, as was the music Angharad pulled from its strings. She used it in her journeys through the kingdoms of Green Isles, to wake the magic of the Summerblood where it lay sleeping in folk who had never known they had it.Harping, she knew, was on third of a bard's spells. Harping, and poetry, and the road that led . . .Into the GreenCharles de Lint takes us once again into lands infused and transformed by magic. Magic that grows in the roots of old oaks and dances by moonlight among standing stones. Magic that sleeps in an old soldier's eyes and glows in the gaze of a phantom stag. Magic that pumps through the heart and the veins of those born to the Summerblood-to be stolen at knife point, burned, destroyed, in danger of fading back into the green and disappearing forever from the world.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2014. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition: number 1314 of 2000 copies.From the publisher: Maria Martinez is a young maid, cleaning houses to get by, living in a neighborhood of Santo del Vado Viejo plagued by gang violence and drug cartels. When Maria witnesses her best friend from her teenage years breaking into a house in a gated community where she's working, she has no problem pretending to the police she didn't see a thing. But as Luz Chaidez comes back into Maria's life, Maria can't help remembering the magic Luz left to look for all those years ago. Magic she may have found. Maria is curiously drawn to one of Luz's green-hooded gang of robbers, a handsome red-headed boy who calls himself Jack Green. Soon enough, she's venturing into the dangerous territory of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. In this deft, 22,000 word novella, acclaimed fantasist Charles de Lint brings one of the world s most beloved… Read More

Tor, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket. Book has light wrinkling and water mark on back few pages. Dust jacket has light edge wear and small water mark at one corner.From the publisher: A collection of de Lint's stories set in and around Newford. Includes several pieces originally published under de Lint's own Triskell Press imprint - previously very difficult to find.

Tor Books, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge war on dust jacket else fine.At a popular Newford online research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girlfriend Saskia disappears right before his eyes, along with countless others.To rescue their missing friends, Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...

Penguin Classics, New York, 1985. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, faint crease along front cover, underlining, highlighting, and notes in ink on several pages."Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It… Read More

Penguin, London. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

Vintage, New York, 2018. Second printing. Condition: Near fine softcover, very slight edge nicks. 2nd printing.From the publisher: The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years draws on a very wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatic artist.