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It’s not a holiday bundle, but it is a holiday classic!

Jackie Robinson: A Biography + Red Smith on Baseball. Like new!

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!

Three hardcovers by the bestselling Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. The Christmas Thief, He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, and Deck the Halls. All in excellent condition.

Paulsen, Avi, Carbone….some of the best in the genre! Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, The Good Dog, and Blood on the River. 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!

The Fifth Risk + Conscience of a Conservative, in like-new condition.

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

For the science fiction lover on your list, Dune + The Martian. In excellent, like-new condition, and all proceeds benefit the library.

This is timely! Live/Work + The Guesthouse. Hardcover, like-new condition!

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.

“He believed the dog was immortal.” So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from abandoned puppy to movie star and international icon. Spanning almost one hundred years of history, from the dog’s improbable discovery on a battlefield in 1918 to his tumultuous rise through Hollywood and beyond.

Balance your serious reading with some humor. Stephen Colbert + Fareed Zakaria, hardcover.

In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder bursts into being, a force of nature as luminous as the flower she is named for. Under the loving light of the Moon Lady, the feminine force that will guide and protect her throughout her life, Calla enjoys a blissful childhood until it is tragically cut short. From her mother, Calla learns compassion and healing through the humble womanly art of “fixing hair.” On the banks of the La Luna River, she discovers a sweet, succulent first love that is as enticing as the music, food, and dancing of her Louisiana home. When heartbreak hits, Calla leaves the familiarity of her hometown and heads downriver to the untamed city of New Orleans, where her destiny further unfolds.

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life…. Comic book artist Daniel Stone would do anything to protect his daughter. But when a single act of violence shatters her innocence, seemingly mild-mannered Daniel’s convictions are put to the test—while his own shockingly tumultuous past, hidden even from his family, comes to light. Now, everything Trixie’s ever believed about her hero, her father, seems to be a lie as Daniel ventures to hell and back, seeking revenge. Will the price be the bond they share?

Man Booker Prize–winning novelist Penelope Lively’s latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked “DON’T OPEN—DESTROY.” But Kath’s husband does not heed the warning, embarking on a journey of discovery that reveals a tight web of secrets—within marriages, between sisters, and at the heart of an affair.

The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life…with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall.

The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller and book club favorite from Chris Cleave.

From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations. Hardcover.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man. Hardcover.

Blessings begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box. In this instant, the world of the estate called Blessings is changed forever. The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. Hardcover.

From David Guterson comes this emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old girl becomes an instrument of divine grace. Ann Holmes is a fragile, pill-popping teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of North Fork, Washington. In the ensuing days the miracle recurs, and the declining logging town becomes the site of a pilgrimage of the faithful and desperate. As these people flock to Ann—and as Ann herself is drawn more deeply into what is either holiness or madness—Our Lady of the Forest—seamlessly splices the miraculous and the mundane. Hardcover.

Two best sellers by Jonathan Franzen: Freedom and The Corrections. Hardcovers.

Mr. Ives’ Christmas and Skipping Christmas. Great condition hardcovers.

At First Sight, The Wedding, and The Rescue. Excellent condition hardcovers.

The full set of EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series. Paperback.

Chelsea Handler, Jennifer Weiner, and Leah Remini! Excellent condition hardcovers.

Three fantastic memoirs/autobiographies – Coco Chanel, Diane Keaton, and Down the Nile.

Did you ever wonder about Sue Grafton’s mystery series? Start here, with A, B, C, and D!

“Speak up for yourself–we want to know what you have to say.” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.

Ben Mander’s junior year is derailed when his mentally ill mother erupts in the school office. Visiting her in the psych hospital, Ben meets Marco, who also has a mentally ill mother. Marco tells a story that turns Ben’s idea of reality upside down. Soon, the story begins to uncomfortably mirror Ben’s own life. Lizard People races along the edge of madness as Ben wrestles with his greatest fear–that deep within him lie the seeds of his own insanity.

In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; Sura’s beauty turns heads. Julia is free; Sura is her slave. Then Julia learns that her parents are planning to put her in the service of the Temple of Damia, the center of a cultish new religion, and Sura will be sold to an awful man who plans to make her his concubine. But when Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Julia’s and Sura’s fates are forever altered, forcing them both to face the true meaning of freedom.

Four titles from the beloved Avi. Midnight Magic, The Seer of Shadows, and Poppy and Rye (paperbacks), plus Poppy’s Return (hardcover).

From the best-selling series, creative ideas and recipes for the holidays. Hardcover.

Decorating with candles for the holiday season. Beautiful hardcover.

Lovely Susan Branch hardcover!

Three lovely little hardcovers. The Garden Wall, The Garden Gate, and The Garden Trellis.

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.

Show your support of the library with this 3-ply cotton mask. Price includes shipping or local delivery.