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Aaron, David Crossing by Night
Hardcover: 1993 William Morrow, NYC 1st ed. 0688092969
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Some creasing at top of spine on both book and DJ. Some varnish lifted from DJ where price label removed. Shipping weight 750 (grams).
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Abbott, Karen Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Hardcover: 2007 Random House First edition (stated) 1400065305
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. AUTHOR SIGNED on title page with inscription. 3rd party gift dedication on front flyleaf. Slight stretching and chipping alopng edges of DJ. Shipping Weight 715 (grams).
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earnings and kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac. Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate the industry. Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs, including an attempt to frame them for the death of department store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters’ most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire country into a frenzy with lurid tales of “white slavery”——the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America’s sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 'Sin in the Second City' is Karen Abbott’s colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club, and the perennial clash between our nation’s hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, it offers a vivid snapshot of America’s journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity.
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Abrams, Douglas Carlton The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love
Hardcover: 2007 Atria First edition (stated) 1416532501
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight chipping of DJ at spine edges. Shipping weight 560 (grams).
It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous times, Juan Tenorio is born and then abandoned in the barn of a convent. Raised secretly by the nuns, he learns to love and worship all women and wants nothing more than to be a priest, until he falls in love with one of the sisters. When their affair is discovered, Juan leaves the Church forever. He is soon recruited to be a spy by the powerful Marquis de la Mota, who teaches him to become the world's greatest libertine and seducer of women. But when he crosses swords with the most powerful man in the Empire, Don Juan must escape the murderous fury of the Inquisitor who battles all forms of debauchery, deviance, and heresy. It is after knowing countless women that he is convinced by the Marquis to keep a diary, and it is here within its pages that Don Juan reveals his greatest adventures and the Arts of Passion he mastered. But what finally compels him to confess everything and risk losing his life, livelihood, and honor is the most perilous adventure of all -- the irresistible fall into the madness of love with the only woman who could ever make him forget all others.
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Affleck, George Allan Paper trails : a history of British Columbia and Yukon community newspapers
Trade Paperback: 1999 Arch Communications First thus 0968432204
Book: Fine. No DJ. One page with creased bottom corner. Shipping weight 390 (grams).
'Newspapers, as the myth goes, are a licence to print money. But few publishers would agree--with the exception perhaps of Joseph Coyle. Coyle was the founder of the 'Smithers Interior News' and also the owner of the only paper cutter in that town in the early 1900s--which he used to earn extra revenue by cutting sheets of freshly-printed currency for use in the local bank.' For more than 100 years, history-making events in Canada's West have played themselves out on the pages of local community newspapers. 'Paper Trails' introduces the many characters who helped build and now maintain the thriving British Columbia and Yukon community newspaper industry. The book is a survey of all existing publications organized into geographical regions, and contains an index and hundreds of photos and illustrations.
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Akst, Daniel St. Burl's Obituary
Hardcover: 1996 MacMurray & Beck, Denver, CO 1st printing 1878448684
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In this 'outrageous, superb novel' (Philadelphia Inquirer), an obese, food-obsessed obituary writer witnesses a gangland slaying, which forces him to embark on a rollicking cross-country odyssey that will alter his eating habits, his weight, and, ultimately, his identity.
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Akunin, Boris The Winter Queen
(translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield)
Hardcover: 2003 Random House First edition stated 1400060494
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Slight stretching along top DJ edges. Shipping weight 525 (grams).
Erast Fandorin series - 1. Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of irresistible charm, to the Alexander Gardens precinct for more information. Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this is an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary detective work the precinct has done—and for good reason: The bizarre and tragic suicide is soon connected to a clear case of murder, witnessed firsthand by Fandorin. There are many unresolved questions. Why, for instance, have both victims left their fortunes to an orphanage run by the English Lady Astair? And who is the beautiful “A.B.,” whose signed photograph is found in the apparent suicide’s apartment? Relying on his keen intuition, the eager sleuth plunges into an investigation that leads him across Europe, landing him at the deadly center of a terrorist conspiracy of worldwide proportions.
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Akunin, Boris Leviathan
Hardcover: 2004 Weidenfeld & Nicolson Assumed first English-language edition 0297645528
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Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield. On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 First Class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really seated around the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and Leviathan heads towards Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth. Boris Akunin's latest page-turner again transports the reader back to the late nineteenth century. In 'LEVIATHAN' he pays homage to Agatha Christie with a cast of characters and a plot which grips you from the first page.
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Alexie, Sherman Indian Killer
Hardcover: 1996 Atlantic Monthly Press First edition (Stated) 087113652X
Book: Fine. DJ: Good+. Shelving creases along DJ edges. Small tear at bottom of front DJ repaired from behind with tape. Shipping weight 760 (grams).
While a serial killer stalks and scalps white men in Seattle, John Smith, an Indian adopted into a white family, becomes dissatisfied with his life, and, as the killer searches for his next victim, John descends into the madness of Seattle's homeless.
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Alison, Jane The Love-Artist
Hardcover: 2001 Farrar Straus & Giroux, NYC 1st ed. 0374231796
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A darkly brilliant first novel that imagines a missing chapter in the life of Ovid. Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edges of the Roman Empire? Why do only two lines survive of his play MEDEA, reputedly his most passionate work and perhaps his most Accomplished? Between the known details of the poet's life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has Interpolated a haunting drama of passion and psychological manipulation. On holiday at the Black Sea, on the fringes of the Empire, Ovid encounters an almost otherworldly woman who seems to embody the fictitious creations of his soon-to-be-published Metamorphoses. Part healer, part witch, she seems myth come to life. Enchanted and obsessed -- and, for the first time in a long while, flush with inspiration -- Ovid takes her back with him to Rome. But the inexorable pull of ambition leads him to make a Faustian bargain with fate that will betray his newfound muse. As the two of them become entangled in its snares, the reader is drawn deep into an ingeniously enacted meditation on love, art, and the desire for immortality.
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Allende, Isabel Portrait in Sepia
(translated from the Spanish by Magaret Sayers Peden)
Hardcover: 2001 HarperCollins First edition stated 0066211611
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine: Slight stretching along bottom edge of DJ. Shipping weight 580 (grams).
Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed 'Daughter of Fortune'. Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, 'Portrait in Sepia' is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past. 'Portrait in Sepia' is an extraordinary achievement: richly detailed, epic in scope, intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.
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Allende, Isabel The Infinite Plan
(translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Hardcover: 1993 Harper/Collins First thus 0060170166
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This is Allende's first novel set in the United States and portraying American characters. It tells the engrossing story of one man's quest for love and for his soul. Gregory Reeves is the son of an artist and self-styled preacher who wanders through the American West in a caravan during the 1940s, preaching a divine vision he has received of the meaning of life and the nature of the universe: The Infinite Plan. When the father falls ill, the family settles in a Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles. Gregory's search for love and for his soul brings him full circle back to his roots and ahead to a new life with the nameless storyteller who is passing his tale along to us.
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Altman, Robert - director Mash
The Movie
VHS: 1970 20th Century Fox 1996 0793910382
IMDb #66026. Running time 116 min. Rated PG. Screen ratio 4:3. Stereo audio. English language with Closed Captioning. Cassette in excellent condition. Slipcase shows minor wear. Shipping weight 240 (grams).
The Korean War was at its best incredibly ugly. The staff of the M. A.S. H. 4077 unit are all looking for a way to survive the war and return home to their lives all in one piece. One way of doing that is through humor. Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) has a fierce wit and a great sense of humor to go along with his amazing abilities as a surgeon. He and his best friend, Trapper John (Elliott Gould) are always finding ways of keeping themselves and others amused while the war constantly finds its way into the cocoon of protection they are attempting to weave. Caring about their patients also leads them down a dreary path as they realize no matter how many times they patch them up, they will just be returned to the front for another chance to die. Can their humor see them through this tough situation?
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Andersen, Kurt Turn of the Century
Hardcover: 1999 Random House, NYC 1st ed. 0375500081
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A big, fresh, energetic, hyperrealistic, up-to-the-second comedy of manners set in Manhattan in 2000, the novel depicts marriage, family, friendship, and business as they are conducted at the giddy, anxious end of the millennium.
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Anderson-Dargatz, Gail The Cure For Death By Lightning
Hardcover: 1996 Knopf Canada First Canadian edition 0394281578
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The story takes place against the backdrop of daily life on a farm in remote Turtle Valley, British Columbia, during World War Two. Beth Weeks is 15 years old and lives with her parents and rebellious older brother. Strange things are happening: a classmate is mauled to death; children go missing on the nearby reserve; and Beth herself is being hunted by an unseen predator. The Valley is home to a host of eccentric characters including Beth’s haunted mother, whose recipes are laced throughout the novel, providing luscious descriptions of food, gardening, fruit picking and preserving, and remedies, both practical and bizarre.
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Armstrong, Campbell Jigsaw
Hardcover: 1995 Little, Brown, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0316048216
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Frank Pagan series - 2. Shunted aside by political infighting at Special Branch, Frank Pagan returns from bureaucratic exile to meet an old nemesis and tackle the most dangerous investigation of his career. Carlotta is a chameleon, a seductive assassin whose twisted identity shifts like a mirage, and she has long held a special fascination for Pagan. But Carlotta is just a pawn in a greater game played by the Undertakers, a shadowy brotherhood of powerful men dedicated to sowing the seeds of war around the world and taking their profits from political chaos. At their center is Tobias Barron, an exquisitely elegant philanthropist who moves easily in the most elite international circles and who knows how to respond to Carlotta's dangerous fantasies, turning them to his own use. Pagan has never played by the book, and he isn't about to start now. From London to Venice, from Russia to New York and South Africa, Pagan must feel his way through a tangled maze of global violence and personal vendetta.
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Armstrong, Kelley Bitten
Hardcover: 2001 Random House Canada First edition 0679310614
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Elena Michaels is fighting for her identity in a more visceral way than most women: thanks to a bite from an old lover, she is a werewolf, one of the few women bitten who survived. And the man who changed her nature is calling her back to the Pack she loves and hates. Soon she's drawn into a life and death fight that tests just who Elena is---the wild woman or the wistful would-be nice girl.
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Atwood, Margaret Cat's Eye
Hardcover: 1988 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada 0771008171
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'Cat's Eye' is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman -- but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, 'Cat's Eye' is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.
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Atwood, Margaret Alias Grace
Hardcover: 1996 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada 2nd printing 077100835x
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In 'Alia Grace' bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since 'The Handmaid's Tale'. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?
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Atwood, Margaret Lady Oracle
Hardcover: 1976 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada Assumed 1st ed. 0771008155
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Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.
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Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover: 1986 Houghton Mifflin Second printing 0395404258
Book: Good+. DJ: Good+. Book cover has shelving dent at top front edge. DJ has small tear at top of spine repaired from behind with tape, and creasing to rear inside flap. Shipping weight 630 (grams).
In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate 'Handmaids' under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the 'time before' and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, 'The Handmaid’s Tale' is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
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Bailey, Temple Silver Slippers
Hardcover: 1943 Grosset & Dunlap, NYC First thus
Book: Very Good. DJ: Good-Fine. A 'Madison Square' book. Published by arrangement with the Penn Publishing Co., NY and copyright 1928. A wartime reprint of a popular romance novel. 360 pages with last page beginning to separate at spine. Pages uniformly yellowed. Plain white backcover, 4-color front cover and spine with watercolor illustration of couple dancing among very big trees. Chipping of DJ especially at top of spine and along edges of flap folds. Now protected in Brodart plastic. Blue cloth cover embossed with turquoise lettering. Original owner inscription in pencil on flyleaf dates December 1943. Shipping weight 455 (grams).
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Baker, Deborah In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
Hardcover: 1993 Grove Press, NYC 1st ed. 0802113648
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine Shipping weight 890 (grams).
In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream. In her personal relationships she was often at the center of a circle of friends and artists whose activities she inspired and sometimes controlled. Her extraordinary range of associates included writers as diverse as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. During a long and 'scandalous' affair with Robert Graves, she watched over his most productive period and guided much of his best work. Together they launched the New Criticism. Laura Riding, who died in 1991 at the age of ninety, was a deeply divided woman whose ability to create a personal mythology and continually reimagine herself could be both astonishing and maddening. The frequent subject of outrageous rumor and intense controversy, she has been portrayed as a megalomaniac, a sexual libertine, a femme fatale, even a witch. In this biography, Deborah Baker considers Laura Riding in the context of her background, her times, and, most importantly, her work. She removes the layers of conjecture, bias, and sometimes sheer nonsense that have distorted Riding's life, reputation, and scale of achievement.
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Baldacci, David Hour Game
Hardcover: 2004 Warner Books, NYC 1st printing 0446531081
Book: Good-Fine. DJ: Good-Fine Shipping weight 710 (grams).
As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family, but when they're deputized to help in the serial killer hunt they realize the two cases may be connected. Adding to the tension is the appearance of a second killer, this one imitating the murders of the first. Soon, the two killers are playing a game of cat and mouse, with King and Maxwell racing to solve the intricate puzzle of their identities — before the body count escalates.
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Ballard, J. G. The Kindness of Women
Hardcover: 1991 Farrar Straus & Giroux, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 0374181101
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Notation whited-out inside front cover along spine. Shipping weight 660 (grams).
In this sequel to his award-winning 'Empire of the Sun,' young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard's biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical novel a small classic.
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Banks, Carolyn Mr. Right
Hardcover: 1979 Viking Press, NYC 1st ed. 067049318x
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Old price marks blacked out on front endpapers. Shipping weight 505 (grams).
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Barclay, Linwood No Time for Goodbye
Hardcover: 2007 Bantam First edition 055380555X
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 595 (grams).
The house was deathly quiet. That was the first sign that something was terribly wrong. Fourteen year old Cynthia Bigge woke that morning to find herself alone. Her family - mother, father, and brother - had vanished without a word, without a note, without a trace. What if you woke one day to find your entire life had changed? If everyone you loved had disappeared overnight without so much as a chance to ask why? Twenty-five years later, Cynthia is still looking for answers. Now she is about to learn the devastating truth. Cynthia and Terry Archer still live in Milford, Connecticut, not far from the old Bigge house on Hickory Street. With a solid marriage and a young daughter, the Archers seem on track for a successful future. But the questions raised by Cynthia's past still haunt her, and her obsession to find the answers threatens to destroy everything they've worked for. For Cynthia, there can be no closure until she finds out why her family disappeared - and how they could have left her behind.
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Baring-Gould, William Stuart Lure of the Limerick
an uninhibited history
Hardcover: 1979 Clarkson N. Potter, NYC 15th printing 051708323X
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. 24mo - over 5' - 5¾' tall. Former owner embossed seal on flyleaf. DJ is somewhat faded and has small nicks and tears along edges. Price clipped. Shipping weight 505 (grams).
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Barker, Pat Another World
Hardcover: 1998 Viking/Penguin, London, UK 1st printing 0670870587
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 499 (grams).
Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever-rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth during World War I. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days before his own.
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Barr, Nevada Firestorm
Hardcover: 1996 Putnam, NYC 039914126X
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 625 (grams).
Anna Pigeon series - 4. An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best -- and worst -- in those sworn to defeat it. Ranger Anna Pigeon is among the exhausted firefighters, serving as medic and spike camp security, when an abrupt weather shift sends Jackknife racing relentlessly in their direction. And when the monstrous blaze has passed, Anna emerges from her protective shelter to discover two men are dead: one a victim of the hungry flames, the other stabbed through the heart. Now, trapped in a nightmarish landscape of snow and ash, cut off from rescue by a rampaging winter storm, Anna must investigate an inexplicable homicide -- as she and nine others struggle to survive the terrible rage if nature. . . and the murderer in their midst.
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Barr, Nevada Ill Wind
Hardcover: 1995 Putnam, NYC 0399140158
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 545 (grams).
Anna Pigeon series - 3. The third Anna Pigeon mystery is a charm. Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a strange, deadly disease. And once it strikes, park ranger Anna Pigeon must find the very human source of the evil wind.
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Barr, Nevada Hard Truth
Hardcover: 2005 Putnam Second printing 0399152415
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 635 (grams).
Anna Pigeon series - 14.Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three young girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children emerge a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are traumatized but forge a bond with the pair of campers who discovered them -- a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terror: small animals are mercilessly slaughtered and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect determined to keep their secrets and the girls sequestered from law enforcement and psychiatric help. Following the trails of the many suspects, especially that of the cult's intense youth group leader, Anna discovers the force which has destroyed the children's minds. Here in the park, evil has the eyes of a visionary and the soul of the devil. Anna will discover the truth--even if it kills her.
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Barr, Nevada Winter Study
Hardcover: 2008 Putnam, NYC Second printing 0399154582
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Anna Pigeon series - 15. It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to Isle Royale in Lake Superior (scene of AP - 3: 'A Superior Death') to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She’s housed in the island’s bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park each winter—effectively bringing an end to the fifty-year study—so that it can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada. Soon after Anna’s arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the team to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves, but for also her own survival.
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Batchelor, John Calvin Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing
Hardcover: 1993 Henry Holt, NYC 1st ed. 0805021418
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John Calvin Batchelor's Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing is a triumphant return to the epic grandeur of his earlier novels The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica and American Falls. Eight years in the making and based on long-rumored accounts of a Soviet manned mission to the moon launched prior to Apollo II, it takes on nothing less than the titanic contest of the Cold War, the never-to-be-repeated heroics of the sixties' space race, and the hopelessly tragic history of the Soviet Union. Peter is an orphan, the only son of Apollon Nevsky, the greatest air ace of the Second World War. As he begins his story, it is 1968, the eve of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It is also the homestretch of the moon race, and Peter is freshly arrived at Starry Town (Russia's Houston Manned Space Center), a cosmonaut candidate who dreams of claiming the glowing white orb of the moon for Mother Russia. Exuberant, patriotic, loyal, he is nonetheless haunted by his patrimony. His father is one of the vanished, a hero of heroes slaughtered for his heroism by Stalin's henchmen. And now he is being watched - by the Chekhist thugs who dominate every aspect of Russian life and by a mysterious and powerful woman whose role in his life is darker and more deadly than he can yet know. At Starry Town, Peter falls under the influence of his three 'uncles,' known as the Martian Troika - his father's three bravest wingmen during the war. They are the heart, soul, and passion of the Russian space program. Peter's idols, they are ruthless men, though certainly no less ruthless than the forces pitched on all sides against them. Like Ishmael aboard mad Ahab's Pequod, Peter is both witness to and willing participant in the tragic and momentous events of the next year - culminating in his uncles' indomitable, doomed quest for the moon. Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing is a story of Russia in our time.
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Batten, Jack Riviera Blues
Hardcover: 1990 Macmillan 1st printing 0771591071
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Inside front DJ has slight crease. Shipping weight 510 (grams).
PI Jack Crang series- 3.
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Bayer, William Switch
Hardcover: 1984 Simon & Schuster, NYC Book club edition 0671494244
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NYC detective Frank Janek series - 1 . Passion and rage explode in a bizarre double murder. Two homicides a night were not unusual for New York City, but these weren't ordinary killings. Someone had decapitated the victims and switched their heads. Detective Frank Janek's job is to get inside the mind of the lethal genius who committed the heinous act.
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Bayer, William The Dream of the Broken Horses
Hardcover: 2002 Pocket Books, NYC 1st ed. 0743403363
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New York Times bestselling author Bayer returns with this breathtaking, multilayered new tale of a 25-year-old society murder and the many long shadows it still casts.
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Bayer, William Blind Side
Hardcover: 1989 Villard First edition (Stated) 0394572572
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Photographer Geoffrey Barnett finds himself unable to photograph people. Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his world and nurtures him back to life and becomes his model. Then she disappears. Geoffrey's search for her becomes an obsession that turns into a nightmare of greed, deceipt and blackmail. It is a road littered with sexual perversion and struggles for power and, ultimately, with the terror of death.
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Beaven, Derek If the Invader Comes
Trade Paper: 2002 Fourth Estate, London, UK First paperback edition 1841155918
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Becker, Harold - director City Hall
DVD: 1996 Warner Brothers 1999 IMDb 115907
IMDb 115907. Running time: 111 min. Rated R (Restricted). Region 1 + 2. Fullscreen (4:3) + Widescreen (1.85:1). Single Side, Dual Layer. Dolby Digital Stereo/Surround audio English + French. English + French subtitles. Snap case packaging. Shipping weight 110 (grams).
One morning, a child is accidentally shot and killed in a gun fight between a drug dealer and a narcotics officer in a predominantly black New York City neighbourhood, leaving New York City Mayor John Pappas (Al Pacino) to deal with a potential political crisis. Corruption is suspected when the drug dealer, a former felon who was previously released on probation, turns out to have been both the nephew of a local Mafia boss. The mayor's young and ambitious senior aide Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) embarks on a moral crusade to discover the truth with the assistance of the Lawyer of the slain policeman's widow (Bridget Fonda).
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Beineix, Jean-Jacques - director Diva
VHS: 1981 Fox Lorber Video 1996 1572520418
IMDb #82269. Running time 123 min. Rated R [Restricted]. Screen ratio 4:3. French language with English subtitles. Cassette in excellent condition. Slipcase shows very little wear. Shipping weight 260 (grams).
Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller.
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Bellow, Saul More Die of Heartbreak
Hardcover: 1987 William Morrow, NYC 1st ed. 0688069355
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Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from 'bliss to breakdown.' Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves “knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life. Author Biography: Saul Bellow, the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards, is the author of numerous novels, novellas, and short stories, including 'The Adventures of Augie March' and 'Humboldt's Gift'.
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Berg, Elizabeth Open House
Hardcover: 2000 Random House, NYC 4th printing 0375506039
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In this superb novel by the beloved author of 'Talk Before Sleep', 'The Pull of the Moon', and 'Until the Real Thing Comes Along', a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. 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. About the Author: Elizabeth Berg's novel 'Durable Goods' and 'Joy School' were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. 'Talk Before Sleep' was an ABBY finalist and a national bestseller, as were 'The Pull of the Moon', 'Range of Motion', and 'What We Keep'. In 1997, Berg won the NEBA Award in fiction. Sive lives in Massachusetts.
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Berton, Pierre Prisoners of the North
Hardcover: 2004 Doubleday Canada, Limited First printing 0385660464
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The frozen wilderness of Canada's North has long tested the most extreme and reckless adventurers. In “Prisoners of the North,” Pierre Berton depicts five remarkable characters captivated by this landscape: a mining tycoon; an Arctic explorer; a titled lady; a backwoods eccentric; and a best-selling poet. Through them we are giving a compelling picture of the North as it was in the days before it was tamed by the bush plane, the snowmobile, and the paved highway. They were loners, thriving in a lonely land, lured by the call of the wild or the spell of the Yukon--all major players in the emerging drama of Canada's last frontier. Here is a north that no longer exists--a mythical land populated by legendary figures.
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Bianco, Anthony The Reichmanns: family, faith, fortune, and the empire of Olympia & York
Hardcover: 1996 Random House Canada First edition (stated) 0679308121
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For years the Reichmanns of Toronto (by way of Hungary, Vienna, Paris and Tangier) were as reclusive as they were rich. They were one of the ten wealthiest families in the world (in the 1980s they ranked just below the British royal family), and their property holdings, through their company Olympia & York, constituted the greatest real estate empire the modern world has ever seen. Anthony Bianco chronicles the rise of the most secretive, religious, and fascinating of the great Jewish families. It is an epic tale of a dynasty that went from nothing to staggering wealth---only to lose it all in a gamble of astonishing proportions.
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Birkett, Dea Serpent in Paradise: Among the People of the Bounty
Hardcover: 1997 Doubleday/Anchor Books First printing 038548870X
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Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the South Pacific 3000 miles from the nearest landmass, has had an enduring hold over the imaginations of countless people. The final refuge of the infamous Bounty mutineers, the island holds out the promise of paradise: three square miles of tropical beauty, inhabited by only 37 people. Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed both by the island's enduring image as a secluded Eden, and by the Bounty legend, traveled across the Pacific in a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn. Longing to fit in with the islanders, Birkett lived with a Pitcairner family for five months. Initially welcoming, the islanders gradually began to whisper rumors about Birkett, to mount indirect attacks on her character. As she came to realize that being a Pitcairner means more than climbing cliffs and weaving baskets, Birkett saw the darker face of paradise: Pitcairners sacrifice their individuality to the good of the group; with no way to evade their neighbors' watchful eyes, the islanders have no privacy. The island paradise became at last a kind of prison. An engrossing narrative, Serpent in Paradise is an accomplished piece of travel writing about life in one of the world's most unusual places. It is also a deeper examination of the place Pitcairn Island in particular occupies in many imaginations, of the lure of the mythical island paradise, and finally at the dark side of this myth.
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Block, Lawrence Everybody Dies
Hardcover: 1998 William Morrow, NYC 1st ed. 068814182x
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NYC PI Matt Scudder series - 14. The mystery series is a tricky beast. Writers must strike a balance between familiar elements and characters that draw readers in repeatedly, and they must create the edge-of-your-seat jeopardy necessary for truly dangerous reading. Go too far in the first direction, and you get formulaic pap. Hew too closely to the edge, and you risk being cut off from readers who aren't able to maintain their attachments. Lawrence Block's newest novel, 'Everybody Dies' could be read as a blueprint for succeeding at this high-wire act.
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Blum, Deborah Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
Hardcover: 2006 Penguin Press, NYC First printing 1594200904
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What if a world-renowned professor of psychology at Harvard University, a doctor and scientist acclaimed as one of the leading intellects of the time, suddenly announced that he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, to great public and professional astonishment, William James -- the great philosopher, a founder of the American Psychological Association and brother of Henry James -- did just that and embarked on a determined, lifelong pursuit of scientific evidence to prove it. James came together with two other brilliant and charismatic thinkers of the day -- Richard Hodgson, a converted skeptic, and James Hyslop, a natural grandstander who would often visit mediums unannounced, a hooded mask covering his face -- to form the core of the American Society for Psychical Research. They eventually merged with the British Society for Psychical Research, adding to the group the Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick and his tiny, ferociously smart wife Eleanor, as well as the mythically handsome Edmund Gurney and others. While studies of ESP and ghostly visitations have occurred since the days of the society, at no other time have scientists of the caliber of James and his colleagues devoted themselves in such an ambitious and driven way for evidence of a life beyond. James and his band of brothers staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity, on one of the most extraordinary (and entertaining) psychological quests ever undertaken, a quest that brought its followers right up against the limits of science. This riveting book is about the investigation of the ghost stories -- the instances of supernatural phenomena that could not be explained away -- and it is about the courage and conviction of William James and his colleagues to study science with an open mind. At the heart of the story is the ongoing tension between empiricism and spiritualism -- between a way of explaining the world that is grounded in the purely tangible and a way that is grounded in a mixture of the evident and the hidden. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Deborah Blum uses her extraordinary storytelling skills and scientific insight to explore nothing less than the nexus of science and religion. It is a territory as fascinating to us now as it was to William James and his colleagues then.
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Boccaccio, Giovanni The Decameron
Quarter Leather: 1981 The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA Reissue
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. The illustrations originally appeared in a deluxe 1966 edition from Barcelona of Ediciones Nauta, S.A. Gilt decoration and trim. Raised bands on leather spine. Gilt page edges all around. Marbled end papers. Fabric ribbon bookmark. Pages clean and tight. Appears unread. Minor shelf scuffing to bottom. Shipping weight 1,410 (grams).
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Bochco, Steven Death by Hollywood
Hardcover: 2003 Random House, NYC 1st ed: 2nd printing 1400061563
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The creator of 'Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law,' and 'NYPD Blue' pens a suspenseful, shocking, and darkly comic crime novel about a Hollywood writer who witnesses a murder, and, instead of reporting it to the police, insinuates himself into the investigation in order to write a screenplay about it.
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Bogart, Stephen Humphrey The Remake: As Time Goes by
Hardcover: 1997 Forge First edition (Stated) 0312856660
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 495 (grams).
R.J. Brooks series - 2. Sequel to 'Play It Again.' Tough-guy PI Brooks is back in NYC and just wants to lose himself in the hard-edged weirdness of the city. His famous parents starred in one of the best-loved movies of all time, and while it is unthinkable that anyone would attempt a sequel Hollywood is trying just that. When film studio employees start showing up dead on both coasts, he has to stay one jump ahead of the law to find the madman responsible.
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Boorstin, Daniel J. (ed.) We Americans
Hardcover: 1976 National Geographic Society, Washington, DC 2nd printing 0870441345
Book: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio - over 12' - 15' tall. Some shelf wear, but lovely condition overall. Shipping weight 2,750 (grams)
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Boudreau, Jack Grizzly Bear Mountain
Trade Paper: 2000 Caitlin Press, Prince George, BC 1st ed. 0920576818
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. Shipping weight 475 (grams).
Hot on the heels of his best seller, 'Crazy Man's Creek,' Jack Boudreau writes his sequel. We go back to the small community of Penny, learn what rural kids did to amuse themselves - mother wouldn't approve - and then look over Jack's shoulder as he develops his fascination with the grizzly bear, first as a hunter, then as a photographer. The grizzly bear, according to Jack, is not a threatened species, at least not in the McGregor Mountain Range. Through Jack's eyes, we begin to understand and appreciate this marvellous beast. For example, did you know that grizzlies ski? As well as giving us a greater understanding of this magnificient bear, Jack speaks of his love of the rugged mountain country of Northern British Columbia where he feels lucky to have lived most of his life.
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Bourdain, Anthony The Bobby Gold Stories
Hardcover: 2003 Bloomsbury Plc. USA, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 1582342334
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Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's back to work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant business. It's not that he enjoys the job-Bobby has real heart-but he's good at it, and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away. Bobby Gold has known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death. A fast, furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crime, and mayhem, 'The Bobby Gold Stories' is Bourdain at his best. Originally published as: Bobby Gold. London : Cannongate Crime, 2002.
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Bourrie, Mark True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes
Trade Paperback: 2004 Prospero Books First thus 1552673812
Book: Fine (like new). No DJ. Shipping weight 435 (grams).
A remarkable collection of Canadian maritime history, chronicling the real-life adventures of shipwreck survivors. It provides a fascinating look a central Canada's nautical history and shows how the Great Lakes have not only shaped development of this continent, but have moulded the individuals who braved these waters. This is a reworking of Bourrie's 1995 work 'Ninety Fathoms Down' (Hounslow Press) with additional material. Contains a bibliography of sources specific to each tale.
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Bowen, Gail Verdict in Blood
Hardcover: 1998 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada 0771014872
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Journalist Joanne Kilbourn series - 6. 'Verdict in Blood' is Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into and out of trouble. Joanne’s good friend Hilda McCourt is visiting her in Regina, Saskatchewan, when Judge Justine Blackwell’s corpse is found sprawled across one of the limestone slabs of the Boy Scout memorial in Wascana Park. Blackwell, known for the harsh sentences she’s handed down over the years, had lately been seeking out people she’d once incarcerated and trying to help them. Had she had a genuine change of heart, or had she been getting senile? Even the fearsome judge herself had wondered. Just the night before her death, she’d asked Hilda to make an assessment of her mental condition. Now she’s dead, the matter is urgent: Which of her two wills should prevail the one leaving everything to her daughters, including the famous sixties singer Lucy Blackwell, or the one leaving it all to Culhane House, a halfway house for ex-cons? Whoever stood to lose could be her murderer, and Hilda has to decide. Before too long, Joanne (who has problems enough of her own with her lover, Alex, and his troubled nephew, Eli) finds herself once again embroiled in intrigue.
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Bradley, Marion Zimmer Star of Danger
Hardcover: 1993 Severn House, UK/USA 1st ed. 0727845136
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Front flap has dual UK/USA pricing. Top rear DJ has faint water staining. Shipping weight 360 (grams).
Darkover prequel. First published in 1965, Star of Danger is a work that stands as a foundation for the bestselling Darkover series, introducing many loyal fans to this wonderful, mysterious world. Two natives of Darkover are forced to combine Darkover matrix magic with Terran technology to stand against a shared enemy.
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Bradley, Michael Mantouche Factor
a taut thriller of nuclear power politics
Hardcover: 1979 Dorset Press, Toronto, ON, Canada 1st ed. 088893016X
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Small taped repairs inside DJ. Shipping weight 670 (grams).
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Brewer, Steve Dirty Pool
Hardcover: 1999 St. Martin's Press, NYC 1st ed. 0312202032
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 480 (grams).
Usually, Albuquerque P.I. Bubba Mabry has trouble finding enough cases to keep his agency afloat. Hell, Bubba has trouble with just about everything. Then he's hired for a case that seems tailor-made for him: quick and easy. The teenage son of a Texas millionaire is missing. The millionaire's had no luck with the high-tech, out-of-towner, loudmouth P.I. he already hired, and wants Bubba to help out. Of course, the loudmouth is one William J. Pool, who just happens to be Bubba's nemesis in the P.I. business. He's made a fool of Bubba more than once. Not an ideal situation, but perhaps a chance for Bubba to regain some face, and earn some much-needed cash as well. So, it sounds like easy money. But then, just at the worst possible time, Bubba's long-missing father turns up, clearly suffering from Alzheimer's. The last thing Bubba needs is a distraction from such an important case, especially a distraction that is so troubling. Trying to sort out their relationship and confront his conflicted feelings for a man who deserted him as a child promises to be practically as difficult for Bubba as locating the troubled teenager.
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Briggs, Wallace Neal Riverside Remembered
Hardcover: 1992 University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1st ed. 0813118077
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. illustrator: Barbara Minton Shipping weight 635 (grams).
A moving personal memoir of Mississippi in the 1920s and the bitter harvest of racial repression. As the story opens, six-year-old Buster Briggs boards a Pullman car headed south over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and we embark with him on what will become his journey from childhood into adolescence. Bus Briggs is a white boy from Indiana who spends his summers and Christmases at his grandparents' Mississippi homeplace - Riverside. Travel with him on this journey of discovery. Join Bus and his cousins as they string popcorn and chinaberries for the yule tree, savor ice cream made from rare Mississippi snow, eat corn bread crumbled in buttermilk, enjoy all-day suckers and dill pickles at the general store. Meet the extended family that lives at Riverside - Buster's grandparents Mammy and Pappy, his aunt Allie and uncle Cally, and his cousins - as well as their black neighbor Mattie Riley and her son Leroy. At the heart of this story lies Buster's strong and sustaining friendship with Leroy. From his Pullman window, Buster first sees Leroy sitting on a stile near Riverside waving at the passing train. Leroy soon becomes Buster's fellow explorer, fishing instructor, and best friend. Before Leroy waves goodbye to Buster's departing train for the last time, an unbreakable bond is formed with the gift of a pocketknife - and what happens because of that gift. Even so, the racial prejudices of the time dictate that the paths of their lives diverge. Wallace Briggs set out to write a memoir of his family and of his own youth, but he has shaped a story that is far more than a personal recollection. Its themes are among the most powerful in literature - love and death, family dynamics, theinnocence - and selfishness of childhood, the struggle with cultural mores. What Briggs has produced is a work of great power and many pleasures, as finely constructed as a novel or stage play. His prose is crisp, cool and sweet, like a slice of the watermelon chilling in the artesian well-water at Riverside.
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Brookmyre, Christopher Boiling a Frog
Trade Paperback: 2000 Little, Brown First trade paper edition 0316851914
Book: Very good+. No DJ. Shipping weight 475 (grams).
Jack Parlabane series - 3. In Christopher Brookmyre's first two thrillers 'Quite Ugly One Morning' and 'Country of the Blind,' his investigative reporter hero Jack Parlabane was a partisan crusader against the sleaze and cronyism of the latter days of Conservative government. Now, Jack finds himself far more confused in an era of spin, so confused, indeed, that he finds himself in jail for burgling the offices of the Catholic Church in Scotland. For once, we know far more than he does -- that the outbreak of public morality that has followed a child-porn scandal is as spurious as the photographs which turned up on the hard discs of various senior Labour figures. The excitement here is in watching Parlabane follow his nose through a web of deceit and murder to the truth. By turns passionately analytical and uproariously bawdy, 'Boiling a Frog' works equally well as thriller and satire, a scathingly truthful caricature of the New Scotland.
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Brooks, Mel - director Blazing Saddles
VHS: 1974 Warner Brothers 1991 0790704838
IMDb #71230. Running time 89 min. Rated R [Restricted]. Screen ratio 4:3. Digitally reprocessed print. Stereo sound. English language. Cassette in excellent condition. Slipcase shows minor wear. Shipping weight 245 (grams).
In this zany send up of every Western in Hollywood history, a black sheriff named Bart (Cleavon Little) dares to wear the badge in Rock Ridge, a small town with big prejudices. With the help of a legendary gunslinger going by the name ‘The Waco Kid’ (Gene Wilder), Bart plans to clean up the West. But it turns out the sheriff’s been appointed by a corrupt Attorney General (Harvey Korman), who’s using the whole enterprise to help him turn a dirty profit on a railroad deal. The resulting showdown is so big, so epic, that one movie studio can’t contain it!
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Brooks, Van Wyck New England: Indian Summer 1865 – 1915
Hardcover: 1940 E. P. Dutton, NYC 1st ed. 1199689963
Book: Very Good. No Jacket. Smudging on cloth covers and page edges. Custom bookplate inside front cover identifies previous owner. Pencil inscription on flyleaf by original readers dated 1941. Occasional pencil markups alongside text. Shipping weight 875 (grams).
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Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code
Hardcover: 2003 DoubleDay Sixty-fourth printing 0385504209
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.
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Brown, Dee Alexander The American West
Hardcover: 1994 Scribner, NYC 1st printing 0025174215
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'The American West' centers on three subjects: Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers. Dee Brown re-creates these groups struggles for their place in this new landscape and illuminates the history of the old West in a single volume, filled with maps and vintage photographs. In his spirited telling of this national saga, Brown demonstrates once again his abilities as a master storyteller and as an entertaining popular historian.
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Brown, Sandra Exclusive
Hardcover: 1996 Warner Books, NYC 1st printing 0446519782
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A second-stringer with first-class talent, Barrie Travis is stuck at a low-budget independent television station struggling to survive among the giant networks. Then, suddenly, she receives an invitation from First Lady Vanessa Merritt for an off-the-record conversation. Barrie's reporter's instincts are instantly aroused. During a furtive, emotionally charged meeting, Barrie sees that the President's beautiful wife is stunned by grief after the crib death of her infant son. Vanessa's motive for meeting Barrie seems to be to share her heartache with another woman. What Barrie overlooks in her excitement at hearing the confidences of the First Lady are the questions she should be asking: Why would Vanessa Merritt call her? And why would the President's wife hint to an unknown reporter that her child may have been murdered? Blind to everything but getting her exclusive, Barrie is determined to investigate the death of the President's child. But she soon realizes that getting her story will test her ethics and her patriotism. Would she expose information that could topple the presidency? She confronts this problem when she tracks down Gray Bondurant, a former presidential aide and war hero who shunned the politics of Washington in favor of life on a remote Wyoming ranch. And when they both begin to follow a trail of lies and intrigue right to the White House door, Barrie's exclusive puts at least three people on the firing line: the First Lady, Gray, and herself - as crimes and ambitions combine to endanger their lives and the future of the nation.
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Brown, Sandra Standoff
Hardcover: 2000 Warner Books, NYC 1st printing 0446527017
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An intrepid reporter becomes personally involved in a deadly hostage drama in a new novel from the bestselling author of 'The Alibi.' A Texas millionaire's daughter is the willing victim of a kidnap, but the stakes are raised when her captors take hostages and the FBI surrounds the building. The reporter must keep everyone alive and deliver the truth behind the headlines to the public before the volatile standoff turns to tragedy.
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Brunt, Stephen Second to None: The Roberto Alomar Story
Hardcover: 1993 Viking/Penguin, Toronto, ON, Canada 1st printing 067084795X
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Inside front flap of DJ creased. There appear to be no endpapers on this volume - could be a printing error or perhaps they were removed. Otherwise in excellent condition. Shipping weight 495 (grams).
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Brunt, Stephen ed. The Way It Looks from Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports
Hardcover: 2004 Knopf Canada First edition (stated) 0676973531
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In the first-ever anthology of its kind, Stephen Brunt — Canada’s premier sportswriter, Globe & Mail columnist, and author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller 'Facing Ali' — brings together the best writing on sport with a strong contemporary flavour. Stephen Brunt gives an entire section to writers who, unlike those covering other beats, must work tightly by the clock, submitting their stories just as soon as the action for the day is over. But he has also chosen our best writers’ more thoughtful pieces on our national obsessions — such as Ed Willes on the WHA’s seven tumultuous years and Wayne Johnston on the Original Six — and a good sampling of the great sportswriters such as Trent Frayne, Peter Gzowski and Milt Dunnell. The net effect is an examination of the deep role sport plays in our lives and imaginations, in our sense of self and nationhood. Stephen Brunt has cast his net widely. He includes superb stories of lower profile Canadian sports such as wrestling and horse racing, even Monster Truck battles, and allows space for his own unequalled and unforgettable profiles of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson, as well as his post-mortem on Ben Johnson’s fall from grace. Full of triumph and heartbreak, great writing and great passions — and a few wonderful surprises — this book will be essential reading for every serious sports fan.Including: • Ian Brown on the stud-horse business • Christie Blatchford on the 2003 Women’s Olympic Hockey Gold • Rosie DiManno on the Men’s • James Christie on Ben Johnson’s 1988 Olympic triumph in Seoul • Michael Faber on Pat Burns • Red Fisher on Lemieux and Gretzky at the 1987 Canada Cup • Trent Frayne on Canadian Open golf champ Ken Green deciding to play Sun City during apartheid • Bruce Grierson on Canada’s best squash player • Peter Gzowski on the Oilers with Gretzky • Tom Hawthorn on John Brophy’s last brawl • Brian Hutchinson on Owen Hart’s widow’s revenge • Wayne Johnston on the Montreal Canadiens • Guy Lawson on curling • Allan Maki on the 1989 Hamilton–Saskatchewan Grey Cup • Dave Perkins on the biggest home run in World Series history • Mordecai Richler on snooker’s Cliff Thorburn • Steve Simmons on Donovan Bailey • Mike Ulmer on Cujo’s charm...and more…
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Bryden, John Deadly Allies: Canada's Secret War, 1937-1947
Hardcover: 1989 McClelland & Stewart First edition 0771017243
Book: Very good. DJ:Good. Some stretching and chipping and small tears (tape repaired from behind) along outside edges of DJ. Shipping weight 665 (grams).
“Deadly Allies” probes secrets that were never meant to be disclosed. Backed up by documents believed to have been destroyed, the book traces Canada's pioneering role in the development of chemical and biological weapons before, during, and immediately after the Second World War. It also examines parallel research being done in the United States and Britain. 8 pages of B&W photos.
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Bryers, Paul The Prayer of the Bone
Hardcover: 1998 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., NYC 1st U.S. ed. 1582340226
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When a young woman arrives in Maine to collect the remains of her sister, who was supposedly mauled to death by a bear, she encounters a police investigation that is not only tracking bears and picking over 300-year-old settlers' bones, but finding its way through tribal traditions and shape-shifting humans.
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Buckley, William F. Marco Polo, If You Can
Hardcover: 1981 Doubleday, NYC Assumed 1st ed. 0385152329
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Tear on back cover tape patched from inside. Some wrinkling at seam on inside front cover. Shipping weight 390 (grams).
USA spy Blackford Oakes series. When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the Free World’s defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower’s National Security Council, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask the imposter. Then Oakes turns the tables on the communists by piloting a U-2 spy plane on a Gary Powers-style one-way mission behind the Iron Curtain. Sentenced to death and trapped in the depths of Lubyanka prison, Oakes may have played his last trick. Or has he? One of the foremost political thinkers and word spinners of our time, William F. Buckley Jr. delivers an intriguing reexamination of the early days of the cold war in this best-selling spy thriller. It’s fiction, but Buckley convinces us that it really could have happened this way.
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Buford, Bill Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Hardcover: 2006 Doubleday Canada First printing 0385662564
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along edges of DJ. Shipping Weight 725 (grams)..
From one of our most interesting literary figures -– former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of 'Among the Thugs' -– a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as “slave” to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali’s three-star New York restaurant, Babbo. In a fast-paced, candid narrative, Buford describes three frenetic years of trials and errors, disappointments and triumphs, as he worked his way up the Babbo ladder from “kitchen bitch” to line cook . . . his relationship with the larger-than-life Batali, whose story he learns as their friendship grows through (and sometimes despite) kitchen encounters and after-work all-nighters . . . and his immersion in the arts of butchery in Northern Italy, of preparing game in London, and making handmade pasta at an Italian hillside trattoria. 'Heat' is a marvelous hybrid: a memoir of Buford’s kitchen adventure, the story of Batali’s amazing rise to culinary (and extra-culinary) fame, a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at a famous restaurant, and an illuminating exploration of why food matters. It is a book to delight in, and to savour.
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Burke, James Lee Bitterroot
Hardcover: 2001 Simon & Schuster, NYC 1st printing 0743204832
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Billy Bob Holland series - 3. In Burke's first novel since the bestselling 'Purple Cane Road', Billy Bob Holland returns to Bitterroot Valley, Montana to help a friend battle a mining company that threatens the area's economy. What Billy Bob cannot know is that one member of the pro-mining faction is his nemesis, Wyatt Dixon, a recent prison parolee intent on exacting revenge.
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Burke, James Lee Black Cherry Blues
Hardcover: 1989 Little Brown, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0316116998
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Slight tear at seam on front of DJ repaired. Black marker slash across page tops indicates remaindered book. Shipping weight 730 (grams).
Dave Robicheaux series - 3. Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.
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Burke, James Lee Jolie Blon's Bounce
Hardcover: 2002 Simon & Schuster First printing 0743204840
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Dave Robicheaux series - 12. When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile for this kind of brutal crime. But when another murder occurs -- this victim a drugged-out prostitute who happens to be the daughter of one of the local mafia bigwigs -- all clues once again point to Tee Bobby Hulin, and the cries for arrest become too loud to ignore. The dead girl's father, however, prefers to take matters in his own hands and sets out to find -- and punish -- the killer himself. But before Robicheaux can solve these crimes and bring the killer or killers to justice, he is forced to battle his own inner demons, including a painkiller addiction, a habit that begins as the result of a brutal and humiliating beating he suffers at the hands of the mysterious and diabolical character known as Legion. A fixture in the area for years, Legion was once the overseer on a local sugarcane plantation and now gets by doing odd jobs. In temperament, however, he's still the malicious and malevolent bully he always was, a man defined by evil and seemingly possessed with supernatural skills of survival. Added to the mix, and on the good guy side of the balance sheet, is Clete Purcel, a longtime buddy of Robicheaux's and a confirmed boozer and womanizer. Clete comes to New Iberia for a visit and is quickly drawn into the struggle between the various forces of evil in the town, including Jimmy Dean Styles, a black man intent on maintaining his empire of corruption; Joe Zeroski, a trailer park mafioso with palatial aspirations -- and of course, Legion Guidry, the devil incarnate, in whom Robicheaux finds himself facing a challenge and an enemy unlike any he has ever known. And soon, what began as a duel of wits has turned into a dance of death.
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Burke, James Lee In the Moon of Red Ponies
Hardcover: 2004 Simon & Schuster First printing 0743245431
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Billy Bob Holland series - 4. In James Lee Burke's last novel featuring Billy Bob Holland, 'Bitterroot', the former Texas Ranger left his home state to help a friend threatened by the most dangerous sociopath Billy Bob had ever faced. After vanquishing a truly iniquitous collection of violent individuals, Billy moved his family to west Montana and hung out a shingle for his law practice. But in 'In the Moon of Red Ponies', he discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy. His first client in Missoula is Johnny American Horse, a young activist for land preservation and the rights of Native Americans. Johnny is charged with the murder of two mysterious men -- who seem to have recently tried to kill Johnny themselves, or at least scare him off his political causes. As Billy Bob investigates, he discovers a web of intrigue surrounding the case and its players: Johnny's girlfriend, Amber Finley, as reckless as she is defiant -- and the daughter of one of Montana's U.S. senators; Darrel McComb, a Missoula police detective who is obsessed with Amber; and Seth Masterson, an enigmatic government agent whose presence in town makes Billy Bob wonder why Washington has become so concerned with an obscure murder case on the fringes of the Bitterroot Mountains. As complications mount and the dead bodies multiply, Billy Bob is drawn closer to the truth behind Johnny American Horse's arrest -- and discovers a greater danger to himself and to his whole family. How Billy Bob strikes back at evil and protects his kin is the masterful triumph of 'In the Moon of Red Ponies'.
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Burke, James Lee In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Hardcover: 1993 Hyperion Books First edition (stated) 1562828827
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along DJ edges. Shipping weight 780 (grams).
Dave Robicheaux series - 6. Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux -- as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on the less-then-innocent young. For these spirits are the guardians of Robicheaux's darkest torments -- and they hold the key to his ultimate salvation...or a final, fatal downfall.
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Bush, Catherine The Rules of Engagement
Hardcover: 2000 HarperCollins Canada First Canadian edition 0002255138
Book: Very good. DJ: Fine. Previous owner inscription on flyleaf has been blacked-out with felt pen. Shipping weight 525 (grams).
Arcadia Hearne studies contemporary war and specializes in issues of military intervention. While she pursues the study of violence, she refuses to put herself either physically or emotionally at risk. Beginning with an unexpected visit from her sister, her 'safe zone' is increasingly invaded. Thrust into a world full of people who, like her, hide secrets and are in flight from difficult pasts, she is compelled both to contemplate new possibilities for intervention and to confront her own personal history.
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Butterfield, L.H. & Marc Friedlaender Diary of Charles Francis Adams: Vol. 5: January 1833 - October 1834
Hardcover: ex-library: 1974 Belknap Press, Harvard University, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0674204026
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. 4to - over 9¾' - 12' tall. Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard. Title page lightly embossed with library seal as 'withdrawn from holdings'. Turquoise cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Ivory/beige dust jacket with slight stain on spine. 413 pages with 10 illustrations. Shipping weight 1,150 (grams).
Charles Francis Adams -- 1. A man's twenty-seventh year is 'critical,' according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and his father, John Quincy Adams, regarded as betrayal of the elder Adams by Daniel Webster and his Whigs. Once in, however, he showed himself politically adept. This diary, kept from January 1833 to June 1836 and hitherto unpublished, has elements of hidden personal drama. Through private meetings and caucuses and newspaper articles signed with pseudonyms, the younger Adams found effective means to carry on political activities in the face of dilemmas posed by his father's public prominence, his father-in-law's contrary persuasions, and his own preferences. He emerged with growing self-respect and solid accomplishment as political journalist - his initial vocation. The diary has fresh disclosures also about the personality of John Quincy Adams, shrewdly assessed by an observer uniquely placed to interpret domestic scenes as well as the greatly waged struggles in Washington against the Southern 'slaveocracy' and 'gag rules.' Colorful figures in Boston's political and social life are finely etched in outspoken appraisals characteristic of the Adamses. The diarist shows acuteness too in comments on books, sermons, paintings, the theater, and opera.
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Butterfield, L.H. & Marc Friedlaender Diary of Charles Francis Adams: Vol. 6: November 1834 - June 1836 + Index
Hardcover: ex-library: 1974 Belknap Press, Harvard University, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0674204026
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. 4to - over 9¾' - 12' tall Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard. Title page lightly embossed with library seal as 'withdrawn from holdings'. Turquoise cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Ivory/beige dust jacket with slight stain on spine. 470 pages with 12 illustrations. Shipping weight 1,200 (grams).
Charles Francis Adams - 2. A man's twenty-seventh year is 'critical,' according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and his father, John Quincy Adams, regarded as betrayal of the elder Adams by Daniel Webster and his Whigs. Once in, however, he showed himself politically adept. This diary, kept from January 1833 to June 1836 and hitherto unpublished, has elements of hidden personal drama. Through private meetings and caucuses and newspaper articles signed with pseudonyms, the younger Adams found effective means to carry on political activities in the face of dilemmas posed by his father's public prominence, his father-in-law's contrary persuasions, and his own preferences. He emerged with growing self-respect and solid accomplishment as political journalist - his initial vocation. The diary has fresh disclosures also about the personality of John Quincy Adams, shrewdly assessed by an observer uniquely placed to interpret domestic scenes as well as the greatly waged struggles in Washington against the Southern 'slaveocracy' and 'gag rules.' Colorful figures in Boston's political and social life are finely etched in outspoken appraisals characteristic of the Adamses. The diarist shows acuteness too in comments on books, sermons, paintings, the theater, and opera.
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Byatt, A S. The Biographer's Tale
Hardcover: 2000 Chatto & Windus, London, UK 1st printing 0701169451
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From the award-winning author of 'Possession' comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas G.
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