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Every Tool's a Hammer
by Adam Savage
Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality. Every Tool’s a Hammer is a chronicle of my life as a maker. It’s an exploration of making and of my own productive obsessions, but it’s also a permission slip of sorts from me to you. Permission to grab hold of the things you’re interested in, that...
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin, a child prodigy is recruited by the military to attend Battle School in order to prepare for a potential alien invasion. As Ender rises through the ranks and becomes a leader among his peers, he must navigate the complex politics and brutal training that await him, all while struggling with his own identity and sense of morality. Along the way, Ender forges relationships with other students, including his closest allies, Petra and Bean, and his tormentors, Bonzo and Stilson. As the story...
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The Name Of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written...
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Kitchen Confidential
by Bourdain Anthony
A New York City chef who is also a novelist recounts his experiences in the restaurant business, and exposes abuses of power, sexual promiscuity, drug use, and other secrets of life behind kitchen doors. Published in 2000 by Bloomsbury, Kitchen Confidential was Bourdain’s memoir and behind-the-scenes look at restaurant kitchens, a follow-up to his popular and shocking article published the April 19th 1999 edition of The New Yorker titled "Don't Eat Before Reading This." The book is both...
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Interview With the Vampire
by Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. The novel, the first to feature the enigmatic vampire Lestat, was followed by several sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. A film version, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, was released in 1994 starring Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Tom Cruise. In 2022, an AMC+ series retelling the tale rekindled the popularity of the book series....
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Practical Demonkeeping
by Christopher Moore
The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "road" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, Neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when...
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. Morrison was inspired to write the story after finding a newspaper article about the legal case of Margaret Garner. Garner escaped slavery in Kentucky to the free State of Ohio when U.S. Marshals captured her. To spare her children from being returned to slavery, she killed her two-year-old daughter and attempted to kill her other children. Morrison's novel is set after the Civil War in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe was born a slave...
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Midnight In the Garden Of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a work by John Berendt. The book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut. The book was subsequently made into a 1997 movie directed by Clint Eastwood based loosely on Berendt's story.
The Fault In Our Stars
by John Green
TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012! “The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus...
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood — where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they... Read more about this item
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood — where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they... Read more about this item
Island Of the Sequined Love Nun
by Christopher Moore
Island of the Sequined Love Nun is the fourth novel by absurdist author Christopher Moore, published in 1997. It is based partly on the author's personal experiences in Micronesia.
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era. Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the...
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Eragon
by Christopher Paolini
Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Paolini began writing the book at the age of fifteen. After writing the first draft for a year, he spent a second year rewriting it and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript and decided to self-publish Eragon. Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. By chance, the book was discovered by Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality.
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
"The Things They Carried" is a powerful and moving collection of interconnected short stories about the experiences of American soldiers during the Vietnam War. Written by Tim O'Brien, a Vietnam veteran himself, the book explores the physical and emotional weight that soldiers carry with them into battle, and the lasting effects that war can have on individuals and society as a whole.Through a series of gripping and often heart-wrenching vignettes, O'Brien delves into themes of memory, trauma, loss, and...
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Shakespeare For Squirrels
by Christopher Moore
Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff (from publishers website).
The Prince Of Tides
by Pat Conroy
In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Pat Conroy reveals the lives of his characters with surpassing depth and power, capturing the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry and a lost way of life. His lyric gifts, abundant good humor, and compelling storytelling are well known to readers of The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline. The Prince of...
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Beach Music
by Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy is the bestselling author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, and Beach Music. He lives in Fripp Island, South Carolina.From the Paperback edition.
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch enjoyed a meteoric rise since its debut in October 2013. The Goldfinch is Tartt's third novel after the very successful The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002) and enjoyed an initial printing of 75,000 copies by publisher Little, Brown, and Company.Frustratingly for fans of the author, it took Tartt almost 11 years to complete The Goldfinch, but it became one...
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Signed Books Books & Ephemera
CINCINNATI IN COLOR
by Walter Consuelo Langsam; Julianne Warren, photography
New York: Hastings House, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. 95p. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & PHOTOGRAPHER. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a like dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed and owner's stamps inside; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is mildly rubbed, but fully intact. Signed by both the author and the photographer on the front free endpaper. From the PROFILES OF AMERICA series.
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NZ$25.53
Horsemeat, Pferdefleisch
by Bukowski Charles
Munchen: Albrecht Knaus, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Michael Montfort. First German edition, signed by Bukowski with a small drawing on the title page. Slight creasing to jacket. Size: Folio. Illustrator: Michael Montfort. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045655.
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NZ$765.99
Servant of the Most High God: The Life of John Francis Herget
by Walker, Franklin Trenaby; Walker, anna Lansdell
William Jewell College Press, 1942. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Signed by person(s) connected with book. 136 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, faint wear; pages toned; name inside; a good sound binding. Frontispiece portrait of the Herget has his ink signature on it. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theology & Religion; Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 144988. .
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NZ$17.02
An Eye Witness Account: The First Battle of Bull Run
by (Weygand, Phil)
Phil Weygand, [Dundee], 1967. Near fine. Limited edition: One of "about 125" copies, printed by Phil Weygand 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches, 36 pages, yellow pictorial boards, Signed by the printer, Not included in pagination are the colophon, folding frontispiece and folding facsimile letter. Bookplate of Raymond A. Smith.
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NZ$170.22
The Roman Imperial Coinage - FULL LEATHER BINDING
by Harold Mattingly and Edward Sydenham
Spink & Son, 1936 This unique and utterly classic library binding was commissioned from The Government Printing Office, in Mauritius, for the bibliophile Sir Robert Scott. Sir Robert was the Governor of Mauritius from Mar 1954 until Jul 1959. He had many books especially bound for him, and they are unique and exemplary. Such elegant and beautifully crafted works are expensive, and to commission this standard today would be several times the price of this one. Fine bindings are highly sought after...
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NZ$638.85
MOST WANTED; A Rosato & Dinunzio Novel
by Scottoline, Lisa
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED boldly by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, black boards with red lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 438 pages. New York Times Bestselling Author! Lisa Scottoline (born 1955) is an American author of legal thrillers. CORRUPTED is third in the series of six Rosato & Dinunzio legal thrillers. "Scottoline is a...
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NZ$51.07
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[Broadside]: Visiting Father & Friends
by GINSBERG, Allen
Louisville, Kentucky: White Fields Press, 1996. Unbound. Fine. Pictorial broadside. Measuring 11" x 22". Fine. Copy A of 26 Signed lettered copies (also dated and with his "AH" mantra). Published in Heaven Poster Series #28. A sweet poem reminiscing about family and old friends. *OCLC* locates seven copies of this broadside.
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NZ$2,978.85
A FEAST UNKNOWN..
by Farmer, Philip Jose
North Hollywood, Calif.: An Essex House Original, [1969]. Mild rubbing to covers, a very good to nearly fine copy. (19398). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Essex House 0121. Paperback original. Signed by Farmer. A Tarzan pastiche with adult content. Postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-389. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-99. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 44.
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NZ$255.33
Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel (SIGNED)
by Rebecca Wells
Harper Collins. Used; Very Good. Harpercollins 2005 Hardcover stated First Edition. SIGNED by author on blank page after front free end page. Jacket has very light wear and is in a Brodart protective cover. Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good . 2005. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
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NZ$22.04
ONAWAGO OR THE BETRAYER OF PONTIAC
by LUDLOW, Will Cumback
Benton Harbor, Michigan: Antiquarian Publishing Company, 1911. First Edition. First Edition. Signed presentation from the author's mother on the front blank page: "To Dr. J.C. McCombe & wife, from Mother of Author, Mrs. H.A. Ludlow." The author [1885-1907] died only two weeks after he finished this novel so his mother, H.A. Ludlow, had it copyrighted and published in 1911. The author sets the early struggles of white settlers in Michigan. Hard to imagine a better copy of this uncommon title!. Small...
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NZ$255.33
INSURRECTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA
by LOFTON, John
1964. LOFTON, John. INSURRECTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Turbulent World Of Denmark Vesey. Yellow Springs, Ohio: The Antioch Press, 1964. 8vo., decorative grey cloth in dust jacket. Signed presentation from Lofton on the half-title page: "To Harold Stone, with appreciation of his unique role in the teaching of history. John Lofton." The history of the Charleston slave rebellion of 1822. Near fine (little soil); bit of edgewear (some browning & soil) d/j. $150.00.
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NZ$255.33
THE BOY WHO LOOKED LIKE LINCOLN; By Mike Reiss / Illustrated by David Catrow
by Reiss, Mike
New York: Price Stern Sloan, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. David Catrow. INSCRIBED by the illustrator David Catrow with an Original cartoon on title page, oblong 8vo (8 1/4" x 11 3/8"), profusley illustrated in full color by Catrow, pictorial dust jacket, (unclipped) by Catrow depicting Benji on a five dollar bill, green end papers, [32] pages. David Catrow (born 1952) is a NYT best selling author and illustrator of children's books. Catrow...
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NZ$127.66
Heavy Water and Other Stories
by AMIS, Martin
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author.
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NZ$144.69
The Wolf: A Novel
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ballantine Books, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: . Signed by Author. Tight very good book. Signed by Carcaterra on the title page in black marker. The jacket has light wear; sticker and sticker residue on the cover. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 161716. .
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NZ$12.77
Chocolate Lizards
by Thompson, Cole
New York, NY: St. Martin 's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket;. 1999. First Edtion. Hardcover. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 250 pages; SIGNED BY AUTHOR Clean, tight and bright. Little wear to note book or DJ. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author at title page. West Texas oil field fiction. .
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NZ$132.35
The Letters of Heaven
by Lopez, Barry; etchings by Robin Eschner
Eugene, OR: Knight Library Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine. A separate printing of a short story about a boy who discovers 17th century love letters between two saints in his father's desk. He becomes fascinated with them and to keep his father from learning his discovery, he copies them out by hand. This edition was published by the University of Oregon's fine press. Printed letterpress on Heine paper using Bembo types. The five illustrations (5-1/4 by 3-1/2 inches) are tipped-in engravings,...
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NZ$1,021.32
The Farewell Symphony (Inscribed)
by White, Edmund
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stated first American edition. A 413 pp novel by the author of The Beautiful Room Is Empty. A handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Nicely INSCRIBED by White to a fellow writer.
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NZ$42.56
Turkey Hash
by NOVA, Craig
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight age-toning. Inscribed by Nova to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco with an intriguing sentiment: "For Nick & family - with relief that we finally made friends. Fondly, Craig." Author's first book.
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NZ$255.33
Poems from Joe's Garage
by OWENS, Rochelle
Providence, Rhode Island: Burning Deck, 1973. Softcover. Fine. Folio. Stapled maroon wrappers with printed maroon dustwrappers. Fine but for bumping at the spine ends. One of 150 copies Signed by the author.
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NZ$85.11
HEART HERMITAGE and Other Poems
by Patrick J. Carroll
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Leather. Very Good. 104p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 black leather with green paper boards. Very good condition. Edges rubbed and a bit faded, and patchy tanning on pages 74-75. Otherwise clean and tight. A very scarce collection of poetry by a vice-president of the University of Notre Dame. Carroll inscribed this copy on a blank front endpaper to Mrs. William L. Benitz, whose husband taught mathematics...
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NZ$212.78
THE HANDICAPPER; A Novel
by Kalich, Robert
New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Good. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over tan boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: $12.95) depicting a basketball & bag of money, 311 pages. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark. Robert Kalich is an American novelist, journalist, and...
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NZ$161.71
Typed Letter SIGNED, 4to, Hyattsville, Maryland, April 27, 1974
by CAIN, JAMES M
Cain refers to author John O'Hara (1905-70) as well as to Judge John Sirica, remembered as the Watergate judge who ordered President Nixon to turn in his White House tapes over to the Senate committee. Cain writes, "In re THE CHRISTMAS SPEERT[sic], the piece I suspect of being O'Hara's first in New York: I reprinted it on the Christmas Page, December 25, of the New York World, 1929, as I pin down by the following recollection: I was in touch with the big money at the time, so I could have produced a...
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NZ$936.21
Walking After Midnight
by Nusser, Richard
New York: Villard Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 353pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of the author's first book. Square, tight and clean throughout. Top front tip gently bumped. Some spotting on top page edges. Beautiful unclipped dust-jacket, ($17.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears, Inscribed by the author on the ffep. 'To Mel, Hard-boiled rules! All best, Richard Nusser". A very pretty collectable copy.
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NZ$45.96
REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY TO THE GALLOWS; Rebel Women in Prewar Japan / Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Mikiso Hane
by Hane, Mikiso, trans
Berkeley: University of California Press & Pantheon Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by the editor-translator on the front free endpaper, tqall 8vo, black cloth with irridescent blue lettering on spine, Introduction by Miso Hane, archival mylar-protected photographic boards, 275 pages. FINE solid INSCRIBED copy containing voices of brave women imprisoned (and often abused) by the Japanese from the 1889s up to the outbreak of World War II.<br />...
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NZ$69.79
