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Who can resist Everyday Pasta, Everyday Italian, and Giada’s Family Dinners? Like new condition!

Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, with Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen. Like-new condition!

Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, with the award winning Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Like-new condition!

Home inspiration this season…More Space + New American Additions and Renovations. Like-new condition!

Middlesex, Ship Fever, and The Sense of an Ending, all in like-new condition. Proceeds benefit the library!

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine + The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize winner!) – In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English, The Bugaboo Review, topped of with the hilarious Delusions of Grammar: The Worst of the Worse. In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane’s Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them. Paperback, like new condition.

If your cat is kneading you, that’s not a sign of affection. Your cat is actually checking your internal organs for weakness. If your cat brings you a dead animal, this isn’t a gift. It’s a warning. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You is a hilarious, brilliant offering of comics, facts, and instructional guides about crazy cat behaviors from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com. How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You presents fan favorites, such as “Cat vs. Internet,” “How to Pet a Kitty,” and “The Bobcats,” plus 17 brand-new, never-before-seen cat-themed comic strips. This Oatmeal collection is a must-have for cat-lovers from Mr. Oats! A bonus pullout poster is included at the back of the book. Paperback, like new condition.

Just a few days after her birthday, Amanda Collado found an abandoned cat sitting next to her Manhattan apartment building. He had beautiful white fur, a black tail, kind amber eyes, and strange markings on the forehead. She fostered him, and then decided to keep him because he had become such a large part of her family. She posted a few photos of him on Instagram, and since then Sam has racked up more than 250,000 followers there as well as nearly 500,000 likes on Facebook. He has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, and has put a lot of smiles on people’s faces. This captivating book features more than 85 photograophs and presents them with a letter from Amanda to Sam, which shows the emotional bond between the abandoned cat and the human who found and sheltered him. Paperback, like new condition.

Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a family―and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world―from beloved New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl. Hardcover, like new condition.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all. Hardcover, like new condition.

David Sheff’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff’s son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction. Paperback, like new condition.

A gorgeous, full-color illustrated cookbook and personal cultural history, filled with 100 mouthwatering recipes from around the world, that celebrates the culinary traditions of strong, empowering immigrant women and the remarkable diversity that is American food. Hardcover, like new condition.

From the authors of the beloved and best-selling Knit Your Own Dog and Knit Your Own Cat comes 25 more easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for dogs of distinction. It’s an irresistible guide to knitting the dog you’ve always wanted. Paperback, like new condition.

When Lotta Jansdotter steps out in one of her signature outfits, fans always ask, “Did you make that yourself?” Often the answer is, “Yes, and so can you!” With that in mind, the style icon created Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style, a pattern book/inspiration guide anchored by five easy, versatile sewing patterns—skirt, dress, blouse, pants/shorts, and jacket/coat—and highlighted with quick DIY accessories, including hats, bags, scarves, and jewelry. Hardcover, like new condition. All patterns included.

The recent trend of building a guesthouse or guest cottage on one’s property offers the perfect solution to the houseguest dichotomy. After all, everyone enjoys entertaining visitors yet sharing one’s own space with houseguests can be rather trying. The erection of a new self-contained building – designed just for company – accommodates everyone while maintaining privacy. Many of these innovative contemporary guesthouses are architectural gems. The small scale, limited program, and intimate nature of the guesthouse offers a rich testing ground for the architect and client. Hardcover, like new condition.

Live/ Work is filled with innovative and inspired ideas for incorporating work into the home. The author profiles thirty live/work environments and their owners, who share solutions for everything from design problems to meeting the conflicting emotional demands of work and leisure. The profiles include houses designed from the ground up to shelter businesses; renovated lofts and recycled spaces; offices and studios cleverly tucked away in backyards or above cafés and galleries; and residences designed to be earth-friendly. Their styles range from traditional to modern, but the balance struck between life and work is completely natural throughout. This is a book about design that answers everyday needs vital to a rewarding life at home as well as at work.

Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics, both sexual and international, Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale. Paperback.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. Hardcover.

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature’s most enduring novel. This expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem begins when a mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. It’s the perfect read for literature lovers, zombie fans, and anyone who loves a reanimated Austen. Paperback, like new condition.

Sturdy canvas tote shows off your support of the library while carrying your literary treasures. Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Sturdy canvas tote shows off your support of the library while carrying your literary treasures. Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Each card displays a unique photo of our beautiful community. HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Purchase four decks and we’ll add a free fifth deck to your delivery! Price includes local Barrington delivery.

Each card displays a unique photo of our beautiful community. HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Purchase four decks and we’ll add a free fifth deck to your delivery! Price includes local Barrington delivery.

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