The Laments

by  George Hagen

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Some spine creases. 
*Some browning pages and age spots on the sides. 
*Large paperback. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.

Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband’s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the “waif with a paper-thin heart” who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong.

Undeniably eccentric, the Laments are also universal. Every family moves on in life. Children grow up, things are left behind; there is always something to lament. Through the Lament’s restlessness, responses to adversity, and especially their unwieldy love for one another, George Hagen gives us a portrait of every family that is funny, tragic, and improbably true.

RM 8

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Almost Moon

by Alice Sebold

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy, NEVER READ. 
*Cover slightly scratched.
*Otherwise excellent condition. Practically new as I've not even read it.

Product Description (via amazon.com)

A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. 

For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.

Book Quote:

“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions” - Alice Sebold, Almost Moon

RM 8

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Open House

by Elizabeth Berg 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Some printing defects on the last part of the page. Nothing that'll interfere with your reading though. Just some minor rollar lines. 
*Page 236 has a minor paper defect in which the paper is so thin, a small hole has formed kind of like a small moth hole in clothing but this is not near any text. This is a production defect and was not caused by my human hands. Ask me for pictures if you are concerned. 
*Other than the bits mentioned above the book is overall in excellent shape, no signs of 'old age'. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.

Book Quote:

“I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.”  ― Elizabeth Berg, Open House

RM 5

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The Tiger's Wife

by Tea Obreht 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011
*National Book Awards finalist 
*New York Times Bestseller 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.

Book Quote:

“Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?”

“In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.” ― Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

RM 8

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The Pigeon

by Patrick Suskind

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Scraped off price mark on front and back. Front has a bit of a tear. Refer to third pic.
*Fold mark on front cover.    
*From the author of "Perfume: The Story of a Killer" 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder...

Book Quote:

“...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.”  

“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.” ―Patrick Suskind, The Pigeon 

RM 5

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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  NOW RM8

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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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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   NOW RM 8

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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   Now RM 3

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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   Now RM 3

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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   Now RM 3

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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  NOW RM 5

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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  NOW RM 5

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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   Now RM 3

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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   Now RM 3

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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   Now RM 3

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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  NOW RM 5

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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  NOW RM 5 

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Taking Pictures

by Anne Enright

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

*Firsthand copy. Read once almost to the end.
*Large print.
*Some smoothed-out dog-ears. Some age spots on the sides of the book otherwise still good and sturdy.

Product Description (via amazon.co.uk)

The stories in "Taking Pictures" are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by a swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

RM 5   Now RM 3

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The Last Safe Place on Earth

by Richard Peck

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

*Firsthand ownership but bought at clearance sale so not spanking brand new copy when I bought it last year in 2010.

*Read once.

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Todd, 15, thinks life in the quality community of Walden Woods is perfect, until Laurel, his dream girl, comes to babysit for his sister and reveals the forces of fundamentalism and censorship at work in the town. A provocative new novel by a highly honored author that speaks to today's issues of censorship and fundamentalism.

RM 5   Now RM 3

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