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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Seinlanguage

by Jerry Seinfeld

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Secondhand copy.   
*Some discoloration on pages.
*Sticker marks on front and back cover. 

Product Description (via an Amazon reviewer)

Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.

"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"

Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake

RM 5

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Born To Shop: Friends are the Family We Choose For Ourselves

From the Born To Shop gift book series  

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge. 
*Secondhand copy.
*Small hard cover (13.5cm x13.5cm)
*A gift book with cartoon illustrations. It reads like a card, kinda corny, but you know that's what your friends want to hear and what you'd probably say for lack of a better way.
* Note: This book is actually one of the chapters included in Born To Shop: In Praise of the Modern Woman. You can get this one if you want the Friends portion on its own but if you want 7 other chapters, then the latter is a value buy.

Product Description (via Google)

Intended for female consumers with disposable income at their fingertips, this work includes fun cartoons with humorous sentiments.

RM 5

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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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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 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.  

RM8  now RM5

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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  NOW 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  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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