Dewey

by Vicki Myron

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Good condition.
*A little bent on the right bottom corner. Some creases here and there.  

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

When Spencer, Iowa librarian Vicki Myron arrived at work that cold winter morning in 1988, she had no inkling that a small thing she would find in the overnight book drop would forever change her life and that of her whole community. That something was a tiny kitten, bedraggled and half frozen. Almost immediately, this unannounced critter won the hearts of the staff; by quick affirmation, he was adopted, declawed, neutered, and given a library-friendly name (Dewey Readmore Books). For the next eighteen years, until he died in 2006, Dewey provided his gentle, independent feline presence to a small library and the surrounding rural community. Dewey the book shows how even one small-town bookish cat can make a big difference.

Book Quote:

“For years, I thought I had done that for Dewey. I thought that was my story to tell. And I had done that. When Dewey was hurt, cold, and crying, I was there. I held him. I made sure everything was all right. But that's only a sliver of the truth. The real truth is that for all those years, on the hard days, the good days, and all the unremembered days that make up the pages of the real book of our lives, Dewey was holding me.” ― Vicki Myron, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

RM 8 

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Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Excellent condition/not very different from a new one except for the small stain on the back cover (upper left hand corner) 
*Hardcover.

*RECOMMENDED READ*

Product Description (via amazon.com)

 Amazon Best of the Month Spotlight Title, April 2007: It's 2001. The dot-com bubble has burst and rolling layoffs have hit an unnamed Chicago advertising firm sending employees into an escalating siege mentality as their numbers dwindle. As a parade of employees depart, bankers boxes filled with their personal effects, those left behind raid their fallen comrades' offices, sifting through the detritus for the errant desk lamp or Aeron chair. Written with confidence in the tricky-to-pull-off first-person plural, the collective fishbowl perspective of the "we" voice nails the dynamics of cubicle culture--the deadlines, the gossip, the elaborate pranks to break the boredom, the joy of discovering free food in the breakroom. Arch, achingly funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, it's a view of how your work becomes a symbiotic part of your life. A dysfunctional family of misfits forced together and fondly remembered as it falls apart. Praised as "the Catch-22 of the business world" and "The Office meets Kafka," I'm happy to report that Joshua Ferris's brilliant debut lives up to every ounce of pre-publication hype and instantly became one of my favorite books of the year. --Brad Thomas Parsons

RM 8

Super cheap! More than worth your money :)

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Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy

Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

A collection of short stories by renown fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Eoin Colfer and others. 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 

*Good Condition.

*This is a collection of short fantasy stories (a total of 18).  

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

In Wizards, today's master fantasists turn their hands to tales of these magical beings, living in both ancient and modern times, as well as in fantasy realms that never were.

Featuring stories by New York Times bestselling authors Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer and Garth Nix as well as tales from Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, Orson Scott Card, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Mary Rosenblum, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and Jane Yolen.

RM10

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Mister Roberts

by Alexei Sayle

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Very good condition.
*There's a small printing defect on the cover as per picture 2.  
*Interesting read. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

Above a small village in Spain,an English costume designer sees a bright shining star lurch abruptly across the sky.

On Christmas Day a strong, silent man with blank eyes enters Bar Noche Azul.

Only a thirteen year old boy could have guessed that there was any connection between the two.

Wonderfully inventive, darkly funny, thoughtful and full of glorious one-liners, Mister Roberts is both an original coming-of-age story and an unusual take on the corrupting influence of power.

'MISTER ROBERTS has the best qualities the man himself exudes in his comedy work: brains, wit and welcome absurdity. But there is also a surprising amount of warmth... it is a fine short novel, the perfect present for all your warm-hearted, secular humanist friends this Christmas' (Guardian )

RM 8

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Le Grand Meaulnes

by Henri Alain-Fournier

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Some stains and spots on the side of the book as per picture. Discolored edges. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a mysterious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. This evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial France-a kid who refuses to grow up-and a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain- Fournier's narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. 

Book Quote:

“Weeks went by, then months. I am speaking of a far-away time - a vanished happiness. It fell to me to befriend, to console with whatever words I could find, one who had been the fairy, the princess, the mysterious love-dream of our adolescence - and it fell to me because my companion had fled. Of that period ... what can I say? I've kept a single image of that time, and it is already fading: the image of a lovely face grown thin and of two eyes whose lids slowly droop as they glance at me, as if her gaze was unable to dwell on anything but an inner world. 
” 
― Henri Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes

RM5

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Room

by Emma Donoghue 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once for less than a week. 
*Perfect, like-new condition! Just recently opened from plastic after purchase. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. 

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Book Quote:

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.” ― Emma Donoghue (Room)

RM 26 

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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

by Douglas Adams 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once for less than a week. 
*Perfect, like-new condition! Just recently opened from plastic after purchase. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. 

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!

Book Quote:

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” ― Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

RM 20

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*Purchase with purchase offer: RM 5 off*

( with purchase of books at a value of RM 5 and above )

The Book of Bunny Suicides

by Andy Riley 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Age spots.  A little scratch on the cover (second pic). 


Note: He's also the creator of the now defunct show, Slacker Cats. Hilarious adult cartoon about two house cats roaming around in their neighbourhood! Do watch it on Youtube to witness his kind of humour :)

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Rabbits. We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world- and that's when they start getting inventive. The Book of Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around underneath a loose stalactite, these bunnies are serious about suicide. 

Illustrated in a stark and simple style, The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.

RM 10

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Garfield : I Am What I Am

by Jim Davis 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Used. 

*Age spots. 

RM 5

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Women Are from Venus, Men Are from Hell

by Amanda Newman

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy.
*Age spots and discolored pages. 
*Book of quotes. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

 Here's the final word on the subject of men! Any women who's ever been disappointed in the opposite sex will savor Women Are From Venus, Man Are From Hell-a collection of witty, keen, and satirical observations about men's faults, flaws, and foibles. And the poor fool makes it so easy.

RM 5

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Male-order Love

by Annie Lawson

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy.
*Age spots and discolored pages. 
* Book of comics/cartoons. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

 A compilation of cartoons which lay bare the trials and tribulations of relationship turmoil and the rigours of modern life. Included are chapters on friendship, love, the single life, the social life, flirting at work, and failing at parties.

RM 5

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Doctor Whom

by Adam Roberts 
(also goes by A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts & Don Brine)

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Red once. 
*Excellent condition

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

Dr. Who better watch out—Doctor WHOM is here! He’s the grammatically correct TimeLord (or should that be Time Lord? Or Timelord?) who has come to save Earth from the terror’s of sloppy syntax and bad grammar. With his intrepid assistant by his side, Whom’s on a mission to correct greengrocers sign’s, the errors of popular fiction, and government memos (memoes?). If he fails, the results are dire: inaccurate and lazy communication will rip apart the very fabric of the space time continuum. And one thing’s for sure: he’s not ready to eat, shoot, and leave before the job is done

RM 8

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Saving Souls

by Lucy Taylor 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Age spots. Discolored pages. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

Cass Lumetto's new boyfriend is behind bars. He was convicted of one murder. Now Cass wants to prove that he got away with another-killing her college roommate. And though Cass thinks she's tough enough to handle it, she's dead wrong.

RM 8

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The House Gun

by Nadine Gordimer 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. NEVER READ. 
*Age spots. Discolored pages.  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

A house gun--kept like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life at the end of this century where violence is in the air. With that gun the architect son of Harald and Claudia has committed what is to them the unimaginable act--shot dead the intimate friend he discovered making love to his woman. And the relationship between the three is revealed to have unimaginable meaning....

How has Duncan come to abandon the sanctity of human life they taught him? What kind of loyalty do parents owe a self-confessed murderer? In post-apartheid South Africa the defense of their son's life is in the hands of a black man: Hamilton Motsamai, a flamboyant, distinguished advocate returned from political exile. The balance of everything in the parents' world is turned upside down.

The House Gun is a passionate narrative of that final text of complex human relations we call love, moving from the intimate to the general condition. If it is a parable of present violence it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.

Book Quote:

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.” ― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun

RM 5

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The Innocent Man

by John Grisham 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Age spots. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the big leagues, Ron stumbled, his dream broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death--in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man's already broken life...and let a true killer go free.  

RM 8

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Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. NEVER READ. Just opened from plastic wrapping after years on the shelf but didn't read it. Excellent condition except for some minor discoloration. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Through a series of shipwrecks and misguided voyages, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war because of a religious disagreement over how to crack eggs; is sexually assaulted by giants; visits a floating island; and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Tough, filthy, and incisive, this playful satire addresses—among other topics—politics, religion, and society is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety. Also included is Alexander Pope’s Verses on Gulliver’s Travels, which he wrote for his friend Swift and which were included in very early editions of the book.

Book Quote: 

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old” ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

RM 8 

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The Discomfort Zone

by Jonathan Franzen

   

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.

*Firsthand copy. Read once. 

*Minor scrapes on the top back cover and on the lower corner (refer to the pictures).  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America turned away from its midcentury idealism and became a more polarized society. 

The explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s...the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity...the web of connections between bird watching, a collapsing marriage and the problem of global warming; in his comic memoir of self-consciousness, the author of The Corrections tells the story of his life and of the strange country in which he lived in. 

RM 8

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Fear

by Jeff Abbot

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Age spots.  Sticker mark on front cover.  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shootout that left his best friend dead and Miles a hunted and haunted man. While helping his psychiatrist with a mysterious favor, Miles stumbles upon an illegal research program that could free him-and millions of others with post-traumatic stress disorder-from crippling memories. But when his doctor ends up dead, Miles must run for his life from a murderous conspiracy that gives new meaning to the word "fear."

RM 5

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Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better clarity.

*First hand copy, never read.
*Minor age spots on first 2 pages and last 2 pages of the book. A hint of brown around the edges of the pages. Sticker in front and price mark at the back. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Orphaned and penniless, young David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative. But in doing so he will become caught up the greatest and most frightening adventure of his life, involving kidnap, shipwreck, murder and a dramatic flight across the Scottish highlands with the fiery, sword fighting fugitive Alan Breck.

Book Quote:

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people." 

 — Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)

RM 5

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Stepford Husbands

by Jane Gordon

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better clarity.

*First hand copy, read once.
*A few age spots on the top side of book. Pages have a slight hint of brown around the edges. Blue heart sticker on front cover to cover you-know-what for public decency =p  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

This is the story of how four very different women married to four different men meet up to discuss their husbands with their best friend, Nicola. A scientist, she has returned from the USA with a new drug that claims to revolutionize male behavior towards women.

RM 8

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The Horse Whisperer

by Nicholas Evans

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better clarity.

*First hand copy, read once.
*2 pages have smoothed out dog-ears but not really noticeable. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.  It is an odyssey that will bring her to...The Horse Whisperer.
He is the stuff of legend.  His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits.  For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers.  Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge. Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana.  Annie has risked everything -- her career, her marriage, her comfortable life--in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them.  The accident has turned Pilgrim savage.  He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed.  But Annie won't give up on him, for she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of her daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence.  Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too. The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption--a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed.  It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.

Book Quote:

"I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now."
— Nicholas Evans (The Horse Whisperer)

RM 8

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Waves

by Sharon Doger

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better clarity.

*I actually bought this book by mistake and didn't realize that it's for young adults. Although I like young adult fiction but this one is just not my cup of tea.

*It looks just as I bought it and I've never read it.

Product Description (via amazon.com)

When Hal's family makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave Charley, their comatose daughter, behind in a hospital ward while they spend the summer on the west coast of England, Hal finds it harder than ever to shake his sister's presence. What power is letting him share her memories? And will they reveal the deep, dark truth behind her tragic "accident"? Set at a beach where growing up goes wrong, WAVES is a coming-of-age story about first love and first loss; about a family drowning in sorrow, and the remarkable son who is struggling against the tide to save them.

Book Quotes:

"Sometimes, i think the sea nearly killed her, loved her so much that it didn't want to give her back. Other times i just hate Charley for ever existing in the first place."

"And she's alive, so alive that even the sun wants a piece of her, and that's what hurts most of all. That someone so alive could possibly be dying. And worse, that as she dies, we all seem to be dying too, somehow, especially Mum."
— Sharon Dogar (Waves)

RM 8 

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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for better clarity.

*Second hand copy, read once.
*Some dog-eared pages, discoloration, and a tear on page 1 (but still readable). 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.

"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."

A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.

Book Quotes:

"Life, with it's rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"

"Believing takes practice."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

RM 5

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