The Half-Price Books stores in Pittsburgh are setting up shop in the Monroeville Convention Center this weekend! Everything is $2 and under and I can't wait to go. I have my list all written up, my HPB tote bag ready, and my budget fixed in my head.
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
If you want, I can post all 250 books on my TBR list that I don't already own. It's mostly historical fiction, mystery, and crime/psychology nonfiction.
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
Abbot, Karen Sin in the Second City
Adams, Annie The Final Arrangement (#1)
Adams, Ellery Carbs & Cadavers (#1)
Adams, Ellery Chili Con Corpses (#3)
Adams, Ellery Fit To Die (#2)
Adams, Ellery The Battered Body (#5)
Adams, Ellery Stiffs and Swine (#4)
Adams, Ellery Black Beans and Vice (#6)
Adams, T. Lynn Tombs of Terror
Agrell, Siri Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums--Tales from the Front Lines
Alcott, Louisa May The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott
Alexandrov, Vladimir The Black Russian
Allen, Tamara Whistling in the Dark
Amirezvani, Anita The Blood of Flowers
Anderson, William Laura Ingalls Wilder
Antalek, Robin The Summer We Fell Apart
Appanah, Nathacha The Last Brother
Avery, Claire Hidden Wives
Ayala, Rachelle Michal's Window
Bagley, Edith Scott Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Baker, Robin Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Barber, Ros The Marlow Papers
Barbieri, Heather Snow in July
Barbieri, Heather The Cottage at Glass Beach
Barnard, Robert A Cry from the Dark
Barry, Tom When the Siren Calls
Becker, Gavin de The Gift of Fear
Bee, Samantha I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Bergstein, Rachelle Women From the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
Berry, Daleen Sister of Silence
Berry, Steve The Romanov Prophecy
Binkert, Dorthe She Only Wore White
Blaine, Gerald The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
Borchert, Don Free for All
Bowen, Rhys Murphy's Law
Brackston, Paula The Witch's Daughter
Bradby, Tom The White Russian
Breen, Susan The Fiction Class
Brennan, Christine Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating
Brennert, Alan Moloka'i
Brennert, Alan Honolulu
Brewster, Hugh Anastasia's Album
Brown, Kody Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
Bryan, Helen Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty
Bryson, Bill The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Buck, Pearl S. Peony
Burau, Caroline Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
Camden, Elizabeth Into The Whirlwind
Campbell, Druscilla The Good Sister
Canadeo, Anne While My Pretty One Knits
Cassella, Carol Oxygen
Cataldie, Louis Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
Chandra, Bhagya Love After Marriage
Chessman, Harriet Scott Mary Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Coffin, Patrick Sex au Natural: What It Is and Why It's Good for Your Marriage
Cohen, Tish The Truth About Delilah Blue
Collins, Max Allen Supreme Justice
Coopey, Judith Redline Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad
Cottam, F.G. The House of Lost Souls
Craig, Emily Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Famous Crime Scenes
Dallas, Sandra Prayers for Sale
Danielewski, Mark House of Leaves
Delors, Catherine Mistress of the Revolution
Dickens, Charles Bleak House
Dixon, Simon Catherine the Great
Docx, Edward Pravda
Dray, Stephanie Lily of the Nile
Edwards, Kim The Lake of Dreams
Emmons, Sherri Wood Prayers and Lies
English, Christy The Queen's Pawn
Epstein, Lawrence J. The Land of Eighteen Dreams
Erickson, Carolly The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
Erickson, Carolly The Tsarina's Daughter
Evanovich, Janet One For the Money
Evans, Colin The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
Fadiman, Anne The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Fai, Pai Kit The Concubine's Daughter
Fallon, Siobhan You Know When the Men Are Gone
Flexner, Stuart A Pessimist's Guide to History
Ford, Jamie The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Fraser, Antonia Warrior Queens
Fredrick, M.J. Beneath the Surface
Gabaldon, Diana Lord John and the Private Matter (#1)
Gabaldon, Diana Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (#2)
Gabaldon, Diana Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Gaston, D.K. Lost Hours
Gawthrop, Daniel The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican's Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity
Glass, Julia The Widower's Tale
Gligor, Patricia Mixed Messages
Goldstone, Lawrence The Astronomer
Goodman, Carol Blythewood
Goodman, Carol Ravencliffe
Gortner, G.W. The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castille
Gortner, G.W. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Graeme-Evans, Posie The Dressmaker
Grann, David The Devil & Sherlock Holmes
Grennan, Connor Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Gunning, Sally Cabot The Widow's War
Haley, Alex Roots
Halliday, Ayun No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons I Learned Too Late
Hannah, Kristin Firefly Lane
Harabuda, Scott S. Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth
Harman, Patricia The Midwife of Hope River
Hart, Erin Haunted Ground
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses
Hatton, Stacey I Just Want to Pee Alone
Hays, Sharon Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
Heavey, Tara Winter Bloom
Herbert, James The Magic Cottage
Hickman, Katie The Aviary Gate
Hitch****, Susan Tyler Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hoffman, Alice The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Holland, Julie Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed
Hyche, Tonya Sharp Glass Shadow
Hyde, Phoebe Baker The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World….
Irion, Charles G. Autograph Hell
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go
Jensen, Karen Why God Why?: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense
Jepson, Duncan All the Flowers in Shanghai
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn The Boy Who Could See Demons: A Novel
John, David Flight from Berlin
Jones, Merry The River Killings (#2)
Jones, Merry The Deadly Neighbors (#3)
Jones, Merry The Borrowed and Blue Neighbors (#4)
Kacirk, Jeffrey The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten
Kasrils, Ronnie The Unlikely Secret Agent
Kaysen, Susannah Girl, Interrupted
Kean, Sam The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the Periodic Table of the Elements
Kerman, Piper Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Kiernan, Denise Signing Their Lives Away
King, Greg The Fate of the Romanovs
King, Stephen 11/22/1963
King, Stephen Carrie
Klein, Gerda Weissman All But My Life
Knight, Kathryn Gull Harbor
Kowal, Mary Robinette Shades of Milk and Honey
Kurth, Peter Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Lane, Soraya The War Bride Club
Lawson, Jenny Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Leroi, Armand Marie Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Leroy, Margaret The Soldier's Wife
Lindley, Maureen The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Lindqvist, John Alvide Let the Right One In
Lineberry, Cate The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
Lisle, Leanda de The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Lowry, Lois Messenger (#3)
Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue (#2)
Lowry, Lois Son (#4)
Lunday, Elizabeth Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painters and Sculptors
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
MacNeal, Susan Elia Mr. Churchill's Secretary
Mallon, Thomas Henry and Clara
March, Mia The Meryl Streep Movie Club
March, William The Bad Seed
Martin, Warren Forgotten Soldiers
Massie, Robert K. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Max, D.T. The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
May, Antoinette Pilate's Wife
Maylunas: Andrei A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
McAvoy, Kerry Kerr Jesus, The Ultimate Therapist: Healing Without Limits
McCarthy, Cormac The Road
McClanahan, Rue My First Five Husbands…And the Ones Who Got Away
McCullough, Colleen The Thornbirds
McHugh, Jessica Rabbits in the Garden
McLain, Paula The Paris Wife
McMahon, Jennifer The Winter People
McNease, Mark Murder at Pride Lodge
McNees, Kelly O'Connor The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
Meyers, Randy Susan The Murderer's Daughters
Miles, T.A. Raventide
Moran, Mark Weird US: Your Travel Guide to Local Legends and America's Best-Kept Secrets
Moriarty, Lianne The Husband's Secret
Morley, Isla Come Sunday
Morton, Kate The Forgotten Garden
Nabakov, Vladimir Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Norton, Mary Beth In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
O'Brien, Anne Virgin Widow: England's Forgotten Queen
Pakard, Jerrold M. Victoria's Daughters
Pemberton, Glenn Hurting With God
Perper, Joshua A. When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How
Perry, Douglas The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Plotz, David The Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read….
Punti, Jordi Lost Luggage: A Novel
Quindlen, Anna Black and Blue
Quinn, Kate The Serpent and the Pearl
Rakha, Naseem The Crying Tree
Ramsland, Kathleen The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers
Rappaport, Helen The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Reichs, Kathy Bare Bones (#6)
Reichs, Kathy Devil Bones (#11)
Reichs, Kathy Flash and Bones (#14)
Reichs, Kathy Bones of the Lost (#16)
Reichs, Kathy Inside the Forensic Files of Dr. Kathy Reichs
Rice, Luanne Little Night
Roach, Mary Stuff
Roach, Mary Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Roach, Mary Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Roach, Mary Bonk: The Curious Couplings of Science and Sex
Roby, Kimberla Lawson The Reverend's Wife
Roper, Denise Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and Themes in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
Roundling, Virginia Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
Ruby, Ilie The Language of Trees
Rushie, Salman Midnight's Children
Ryan, Christopher Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Moden Sexuality
Ryan, William The Holy Thief
Sachs, Jessica Snyder Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
Sacks, Oliver The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Schechter, Harold Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Femal Serial Killer
Schnee, Alexa Shakespeare's Lady
Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day
See, Lisa Flower Net
See, Lisa China Dolls
Segnit, Niki The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
Serani, Deborah Living With Depression
Shuker, Karl The Beasts That Hide From Man
Simons, Paullina The Bronze Horseman
Simons, Paullina Tatiana and Alexander
Simons, Paullina The Summer Garden
Smith, Andrew Edith's War
South, Sheri Cobb Babes in Tinseltown: A Mystery of Hollywood's Golden Age
Staincliffe, Cath The Kindest Thing
Standiford, Natalie The Boy on the Bridge
Straub, Peter Ghost Story
Strohmeyer, Sarah Sweet Love
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
Suskind, Patrick Perfume: Story of a Murderer
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Taylor, Laini Daughter of Smoke and Bone
The Chew The Chew Cookbook
Trent, Christine The Queen's Dollmaker
Trigiani, Adriana The Shoemaker's Wife
Tsukiyama, Gail The Street of A Thousand Blossoms
Tucker, Holly Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Tucker, Lisa The Promised World
Udall, Brady The Lonely Polygamist
Ullerich, Jackie The Bride Stands Alone
Valentine, Kathleen Each Angel Burns
Vandagriff, G. G. Last Waltz
Vanderhoof, Anne An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation….
Waters, Sarah The Little Stranger
Webb, Wendy The Tale of Halcyon Crane
White, Betty If You Ask Me
Whitehouse, Lucie The House at Midnight
Wilkerson, Isabel The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Wilkes, Roger The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime: The Biggest and Best Collection of Unsolved Murder and Mystery Cases
Williams, Katie The Space Between Trees
Wills, Gabrielle Summer Before the Storm
Wilson, Kim Tea With Jane Austen
Wood, Benjamin The Bellwether Revivals
Woulff, Iolanthe She's My Dad
Yablonsky, Linda The Story of Junk
Zeepvat, Charlotte The Camera and the Tsars: The Romanov Family in Pictures
Zimmerman, Jean The Orphanmaster
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"I never understood why blessings wore disguises. If I were a blessing, I'd run around naked." - Sophia Petrillo
I'm still trying to process the idea of having a budget at a book clearance sale....
Of course, having no self-control when it comes to book clearance sales is why I don't go to any every often. The last time was seven or eight years ago and I left with five BOXES of books. It was the last day and every book was fifty each but still....five BOXES. I still haven't read all of them because I had to put them in a closet and I forget they are there....
