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Sheean, Vincent Dorothy & Red
Hardcover: 1963 Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1st printing 1112342087
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. Some chipping and yellowing of DJ especially along spine. Shipping weight 700 (grams).
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Shepherd, Stella Embers of Death
Hardcover: 1997 St. Martin's Press, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 0312150970
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. 1 creased inside page. Shipping weight 370 (grams).
A series of unexplained fires in abandoned buildings baffles Inspector Montgomery and Sergeant Bird of the Nottingham police department. The forensic evidence clearly points to arson, but the motive of the pyromaniac is unclear. Is it vandalism? Kids looking for kicks? Or is it someone with a darker, more lethal motive - someone who will strike again? Old Annie, a vagrant living in an empty house, narrowly escapes a hideous death when inspector Montgomery rescues her from the burning building. The subsequent torching of a pharmacy brings a new dimension to the string of outrages - the grim discovery of a blackened corpse in the wreckage of the shop. When both the pharmacist and a shady businessman trying to peddle illegal drugs turn out to be missing the detectives must find out just who was killed in the fire. The hunt is on for a 'pyro' who has become a murderer.
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Sherry, Norman LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, vol.1: 1904-1939
Hardcover: 1989 Viking USA First US edition 0670813761
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Remaindered. Shipping weight: 1,465 grams.
Relates Greene's early years, his rise in the world of literature, his love affair with an American woman, the end of his marriage, and his experiences as a spy.
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Shetterly, Susan Hand The New Year's Owl: Encounters With Animals, People and the Land They Share
etchings by Robert Shetterley, Jr.
Hardcover: 1987 Yankee Publishing Second printing 0899091156
Book: Fine. DJ: Good. Some chipping and creasing and small tears along bottom edge of DJ. Shipping weight 420 (grams).
These stories distill 16 years of living on the coast of Maine, building a home, raising a family, and caring for a variety of wounded or orphaned animals. In language that is rich with invention and emotion, Susan Hand Shetterley opens our eyes and hearts to 'the wildness left in this diminished land.'
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Shreve, Susan Richards A Student of Living Things
Hardcover: 2006 Viking Adult First printing 0670037583
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along DJ edges. Creasing to front inside flap of DJ. Remainder slash across bottom page edges. Shipping weight 480 (grams).
As haunting and enigmatic as a thriller, Shreve’s tale of a near future evolves into a glorious meditation on love, fear, and forgiveness In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn family has carved out its own comfortable, if eccentric, existence. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig into her book bag for her umbrella, her brother Steven is shot down next to her on the library steps. His murder hits the family like a hurricane. Set adrift, Claire easily falls under the influence of Victor Duarte, an enigmatic stranger who claims to know her brother’s killer. But as she corresponds with the supposed criminal mastermind, a composer at a conservatory in Michigan, she finds herself increasingly apprehensive about Victor and his plans for revenge, while she is ever more drawn to the musician. Plotted like a thriller with a startling love story at its center, this is a pitch-perfect and painful rendering of the way a family grieves and of the way public violence seeps into every part of our lives. 'A Student of Living Things' takes on the moral, political, and philosophical questions of our time with a very intimate story about the futility of revenge and the sheer miracle of forgiveness.
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Siddons, Anne Rivers Up Island
Hardcover: 1997 HarperCollins, NYC 1st ed. 0060176156
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 630 (grams).
Anne Rivers Siddons's 12th novel, 'Up Island,' can be taken on many levels. It is about the role of the woman in today's society. It is about the shedding of the antiquated conservative ideal of the family unit. It is about searching, self-discovery, and the triumph of the human spirit. Siddons introduces us to her complacent heroine, Molly Redwine, a loyal wife and mother. Can a person be too loyal? Perhaps, for when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman, Molly's whole life is completely and irrevocably shattered. Her situation is unfortunately and intensely exacerbated by the sudden death of her mother, and she naturally begins to feel bitter and vindictive. Her only satisfaction is not granting her husband a quick divorce, but this only does more harm to Molly's fragile psyche. She decides she must get away. Molly's close friend Livvy invites her for a time to Martha's Vineyard. Molly decides to stay in these lush surroundings and not return to the unhappiness awaiting her at home in Atlanta. Is she running away from her problems? No...she is running away from her former self, a person who was not really her. She manages to secure a job as caretaker of the Ponder household: Bella; her female companion, Luz; Dennis, Bella's seriously ill son; and a pair of swans who live on the nearby pond. Molly's father, still grieving the loss of his wife, eventually joins them, and an interesting surrogate family begins to form. As Siddons says, 'A family is any group that comes together in love and commitment.'
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Siegel, James Derailed
Hardcover: 2003 Warner Books First printing stated 0446531588
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 605 (grams).
For Charles Schine, it began as a quiet, ordinary day with a simple commute to work...until he meets the seductive, mysterious Lucinda Harris--an encounter that will irrevocably wreck his life. From multitalented writer James Siegel comes a highly charged, suspenseful tale of murder, betrayal, and revenge.
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Silva, Daniel A Death in Vienna
Hardcover: 2004 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399151435
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Star symbol inscribed on front flyleaf may be previous owner’s mark. Shipping weight 785 (grams).
Gabriel Allon series - 4. Gabriel searches for the man who brutalized his mother during World War II.
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Silva, Daniel Prince of Fire
Hardcover: 2005 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399152431
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. 2nd copy may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 675 (grams).
Gabriel Allon series - 5. Gabriel is pitted against a Palestinian mastermind, as hunter and hunted pursue each other across a landscape drenched with generations of blood.
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Silva, Daniel The Confessor
Hardcover: 2003 Putnam Publishing Group First printing 0399149724
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Book slightly frayed at top edge of spine. Slight stretching and creasing along outside edges of DJ. Shipping weight 750 (grams).
Gabriel Allon series - 3. Munich: writer Benjamin Stern entered his flat to see a man standing there, leafing through his research, and said, 'Who the hell are you?' In response, the man shot him. As Stern lay dying, the gunman murmured a few words in Latin, then he gathered the writer's papers and left. Venice: The art restorer Gabriel Allon applied a dab of paint carefully to the Bellini, then read the message thrust into his hands. Stern was dead; could he leave right away? With a sigh, the Mossad agent began to put his brushes away. The Vatican: The priest named Pietro paced in the garden, thinking about the things he had discovered, the enemies he would make, the journey before him. Men would surely die, and he wished another could take it for him. But he knew that was not possible. In the weeks to come, the journeys of all three men will come together, following a trail of long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds, leaving each one forever changed. And with them, the lives of millions . . .
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Silverstein, Shel WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
the poems and drawings of Shel Silverstein
Hardcover: 2001 Harpercollins Publisher First edition 060256672X
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Gift inscription on flyleaf. Shipping weight: 705 grams.
A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.
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Simonds, Merilyn The Holding
Hardcover: 2004 McClelland & Stewart First printing 0771080654
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 530 (grams).
Alyson, a young woman in crisis and wandering in the bush one day, uncovers in the ruins of a log cabin on her land the hidden writings of Margaret, another young woman who lived there one hundred years ago. Margaret's story comes to parallel Alyson's own in disturbing and unpredictable ways. The narrative moves between past and present, illuminating the lives of two women who occupy the same place, a century apart. It is an intimate journey of discovery into the things we keep most guarded, whose truths often lie in unexpected places---speaking straight to the heart of what matters most.
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Skwiot, Rick Flesh
Hardcover: 1998 Eaton Street Press, Key West, FL 1st ed. 1884953107
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 545 (grams).
'Flesh' exposes the simmering passions-fired by jealousy, vengeance, love, lust, and greed-when Anglo and Hispanic cultures clash.
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Slade, Michael (aka John Banks, Jay & Lee Clarke) Ghoul
Hardcover: 1988 William Morrow & Co 1st US edition 0688075509
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. AUTHOR INSCRIBED: 'Best wishes, Michael Slade' on the half-title page. Shipping weight 790 (grams).
The Ghoul crawls from the London sewers to kill. In Vancouver, the horror-rock group Ghoul cavort onstage, their act a bizarre and violent front. But for what? The answer could lie in the dark obsessions and trwisted fantasies of an old New England family whose tainted past will not lie quiet in its grave.
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Slater, Harrison Gradwell Nightmusic
Hardcover: 2002 Harcourt, NYC 1st ed. 015100580x
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Shipping weight 990 (grams).
Harrison Slater, internationally known Mozart scholar and performer, makes a terrific debut into the world of literary mysteries: Stranded in Milan by a train strike, a down-on-his-luck music scholar finds a mysterious document. Could it be the diary Mozart kept when he was an adolescent, traveling through Europe with his father? If authentic, the diary could catapult Matthew Pierce into wealth and fame. His search for the truth leads him into a dazzling world of Europe's wealthiest and most gifted musicians and aristocrats. But the brilliance of his surroundings is clouded by intrigue, threats, and murder. Matthew becomes both searcher and prey, and the peril mounts. Traveling across Europe with an entourage of divas and gentry, Matthew unravels the fiendish plots that threaten him and his friends, while giving us the Mozart diary, a new and delightful insight into the world of one of the greatest musicians ever to have lived.
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Smiley, Jane Horse Heaven
Trade Paper: 2000 Faber & Faber, London, UK First paperback edition 0571205550
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. Shipping weight 825 (grams).
it appears that this versatile author has finally found a home in which to unpack her impressive gifts: that is, the sprawling, intricately plotted satirical novel. Her target in this case is not academia but horse racing--less commonly satirized but, here at least, just as fruitfully so. Wickedly knowing, dryly comic, the result is as much fun to read as it must have been to write. It takes a great deal of faith to gear a novel this horse-besotted to the general public. Horse love is one of those things either you get or you don't, and for the vast majority of the populace, horse stories tend to read like porn written for 13-year-old girls. The good news, then, is that while a love of all things equine is not a prerequisite for enjoying Jane Smiley's 'Horse Heaven', a love of human perversity is. Racing, after all, is at worst a dangerous, asset-devouring folly and at best an anachronism. For starters, one practically needs a racing form to keep track of its characters, particularly when their stories begin to overlap and converge in increasingly unlikely and pleasing ways. Perhaps it says something about the novel that the easiest figures to follow are the horses themselves: loutish Epic Steam, the 'monster' colt; the winsome filly Residual; supernaturally focused Limitless; and trembling little Froney's Sis. And that's not to forget the novel's single most prepossessing character, Justa Bob--a little swaybacked, a little ewe-necked, but possessed of a fine sense of humor and an abiding disdain for winning races by anything but a nose. Then there are the humans, including but not limited to socialite Rosalind Maybrick, her husband Al (who manufactures 'giant heavy metal objects' in 'distant impoverished nationlike locations'), a Zen trainer, a crooked trainer, a rapper named Ho Ho Ice Chill, an animal psychic, and a futurist scholar, as well as attendant jockeys, grooms, and hangers-on. (Not to mention poor, ironically named Joy, a few years out of Moo U and still having problems relating.) Improbably, it all works. 'Horse Heaven' is a great, joyous, big-hearted entertainment, a stakes winner by any measure, and for both horse lovers and fans of Smiley's dry, character-based wit, a cause for celebration on par with winning the Triple Crown.
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Smith, Brad One-Eyed Jacks
Hardcover: 2000 Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada 1st printing 0385259204
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. 2nd copy may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 610 (grams).
At 35, Tommy Cochrane is a washed-up boxer who missed out on a shot at the heavyweight title and has to hang up his gloves for good when he's diagnosed with an aneurysm. His best friend and former sparring partner, T-Bone Pike, isn't in great shape either as the two of them head to Toronto on a quest for the $5,000 Tommy desperately needs to buy back his grandfather's farm. In the big city, Tommy and T-Bone encounter an intriguing cast of characters operating on the questionable side of the tracks. Fat Ollie runs the weekly poker game on Queen Street; Buzz Murdoch gives Tommy a job as a doorman at the Bamboo club; Herm Bell is a sharp kid on a run of luck; and Tony Broad is a small-time hood with big-time ambitions and a seedy sidekick named Billy Callahan. There's also Lee Charles, a sharp, cynical, smart-mouthed torch singer, who happens to be Tommy's ex-girlfriend. In the tradition of James Ellroy, Brad Smith has readers instantly embroiled in a quick-paced plot that involves guns and money, good guys and bad guys, double and triple crosses, and an exciting, suspenseful payoff. An unerring tradition of '50s Ontario, rich in local colour and with the kind of crackling dialogue that drives an Elmore Leonard novel, 'One-Eyed Jacks' is a great read that opens up the underbelly of Toronto the Good.
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Smith, Bradford Bradford of Plymouth
Hardcover: 1952 J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA 2nd printing
Book: Very Good. No Jacket. Addendum to prologue dated January 9, 1952 suggests correct edition dating. Blue cloth cover with some wear, gilt lettering on spine. Custom bookplate inside front cover identifies previous owner. 338 pages. Shipping weight 515 (grams).
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Smith, Dominic The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
Hardcover: 2006 Atria First edition (stated) 0743271149
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Remainder mark along bottom page edges. Shipping weight 550 (grams).
In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre's invention took Paris and the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury--the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process.
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Smith, Ian The Blackbird Papers
Hardcover: 2004 Doubleday, NYC 1st ed. 0385511361
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 670 (grams).
Marking the debut of Ian Smith as well as that of sexy, smart sleuth Sterling Bledsoe, 'The Blackbird Papers' tells a sizzling story of an elusive scheme that reaches from the Dartmouth campus to big-money interests in the Midwest to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.
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Smith, James K. Wilderness of Fortune: The story of western Canada
Hardcover: 1983 Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver First thus 0888943652
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching and creasing along DJ edges. Size 10¼' x 8¾' (4to). Shipping Weight 1,320 (grams).
The history of the Canadian west is one of grand adventure, battles for survival in a hostile environment and impassioned political struggles. The story of the four western provinces and the northern territories is inextricably bound up with their abundant natural resources and the pursuit of wealth. 'Wilderness of Fortune' captures the colour and vitality of the area and its people -- combining a fast-moving, readable yet factually rich text with a handsome collection of over 150 historical paintings and photographs.
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Smith, Julie P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof
Hardcover: 2005 Forge Books First edition (Stated) 0765312557
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Remainder dot on top page edges. Shipping weight 595 (grams).
Talba Wallis series - 4. When PI Talba Wallis gets a frantic phone call from Orleans Parish Prison, the last person she expects to hear from is her boss's lawyer daughter, Angie. Popped for drug possession, Angie insists the drugs were planted. She's a target for representing a neighborhood group protesting the illegal commercial use of a marina by its owner, Judge Buddy Champagne. According to Angie, the judge is dirty---and he's the one who had her set up.Talba and her boss, Eddie, are outraged---knowing Angie as they do, they pull out all the stops for her. And when Talba goes undercover as a housekeeper for Judge Champagne, she finds a household straight out of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Talba dredges up lots of interesting material; such as that someone was accidentally electrocuted at the marina and that the judge is in bed with certain bail bondsmen. She finds evidence of bribes and kickbacks. He's dirty all right. When the story breaks and the scandal deepens, Judge Champagne winds up dead. And, to her surprise, Talba is asked to investigate. Did politics kill the judge? Or was it his own family?
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Smith, Julie Louisiana Bigshot
Hardcover: 2002 Forge Books, NYC 1st ed. 0765300591
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 630 (grams).
Talba Wallis series - 2. By night the glamorous poet Baroness de Pontalba, by day New Orleans's hippest PI, Talba Wallis is dumbfounded when an old friend, Babalu Maya, just doesn't exist on paper. Four days later, she doesn't exist at all, and the man who should be Talba's new worst enemy becomes her new best client.
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Smith, Julie Louisiana Hotshot
Hardcover: 2001 Forge Books, NYC 1st ed. 0765300583
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 655 (grams).
Talba Wallis series - 1. New Orleans P.I. Talba Wallis doubles by night as the Baroness Pontalba, matron of cafe society. While on the trail of a man who is seducing black teenage girls, Talba is haunted by disturbing memories of her past which emerge when violence enters her life.
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Smith, Martin Cruz Red Square
Hardcover: 1992 Random House First edition (Stated) 0679416889
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Reviewer's copy with publisher's instructions pasted inside front cover. Shipping weight 830 (grams).
Arkady Renko series - 3. Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas....
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Smith, Martin Cruz Havana Bay
Hardcover: 1999 Random House First edition (Stated) 0679426620
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 655 (grams).
Arkady Renko series - 4. The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before, he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly, and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised, much more so than Americans. Havana is overrun with color, music, and suspicion. The Revolution's heroes have outlived idealism. The Communist world has shrunk to Cuba. Paradise has become a stop on sex tours. It is a city of empty stores and talking drums, Karl Marx and sharp machetes, where an American radical rides around in Hemingway's car to tout island investments and a Wall Street developer on the run from the FBI flies a pirate flag. The dead Russian is followed by the murders of a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated, Arkady cannot be stopped. He speaks no Spanish, knows nothing about Cuba, and, as a Russian, is a pariah. However, there is something about this faded, lovely, dangerous city--the rhythms of waves against the seawall, the insinuation of music always in the air, and, finally, Ofelia Osorio, a detective in the Policía Nacional de la Revolución---that plunges Arkady back into life.
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Smith, Martin Cruz Stallion Gate
Hardcover: 1986 Random House, NYC 1st ed. 0394530063
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shelving dent on top edge. Shipping weight 735 (grams).
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four men -- and a cast of soldiers, roughnecks and scientists -- will change history forever.
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Smith, Martin Cruz Rose
Hardcover: 1996 Random House, NYC 1st trade ed: 2nd printing 0679426612
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 785 (grams).
The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural, scandalous, erotic. As Rose and Blair circle one another, first warily, then with the heat of mutual desire, Blair loses his balance. And the lull induced by Rose's sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre, soul-scorching truth.
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Smith, Murray (Bill Grose, ed.) Stone Dancer
Hardcover: 1994 Simon & Schuster, NYC 1st printing 0671784854
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Black felt remainder dot on bottom. Shipping weight 725 (grams).
Pomegranate. For British spymaster David Jardine, the mention of his beautiful Lebanese double agent's code name conjures up a wealth of memories: days spent teaching her the essentials of tradecraft...nights spent entwined in her supple limbs...the priceless information about Arab terrorist groups that she has funneled to him over the years. Now, from the Middle East, Pomegranate has sent a distress signal. Jardine willingly abandons a dreary Washington, D.C., conference, part of his new liaison work since a 'promotion' by his envious Secret Intelligence Service boss, to race to Beirut - straight into an ambush by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, who reveal that Pomegranate, aka Alisha Abdul-Fetteh, is their agent. Jardine learns from the Mossad that their ex-agent Danny Davidov, expelled in disgrace for embezzlement, has retaliated with dazzling computer frauds and counterfeit schemes all over the world. Working with a partner rumored to be an ex-KGB agent, Davidov has pulled off eight flawless capers, finally cleaning out the Mafia's own bank in Palermo - providing untold millions to finance his next move. Now Davidov and his elusive cohort are going after the jackpot: the U.S. Treasury. Although being kidnapped does not normally charm Jardine, he is tantalized by the Mossad's brazen, desperate plea for help in catching Davidov. As a wave of violence spreads from Palermo to Washington and beyond, Jardine pays a disorienting visit to the new, democratic Moscow. There, in an afternoon tryst with the sultry ex-wife of ousted KGB colonel Nikolai Kolosov, he begins to unravel a shocking plot.
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Sontag, Sherry; Drew, Christopher; Drew, Annette Lawrence BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
the untold story of American submarine espionage
Hardcover: 1998 PublicAffairs Fifth printing 1891620088
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along edges of DJ. Shipping weight: 775 grams.
This real-life 'Hunt for Red October' is a story Naval Intelligence doesn't want you to know: the dramatic history of America's highly clandestine, dangerous, and sometimes deadly submarine espionage missions, from the Cold War thorough the Clinton administration.
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Speidel, William DOC MAYNARD: THE MAN WHO INVENTED SEATTLE
Trade paperback: 2003 Nettle Creek Pub. Co. First edition 0914890077
Book: Very good. No DJ. AUTHOR INITIALED on title page. Some slight creasing to covers. Shipping weight: 440 grams.
Bill Speidel is the chief chronicler of Seattle's sinful past. What he learned while researching this book changed his view of the city's beginnings. Doc Maynard, has altered our understanding of how the Queen city of the Northwest got off the ground.
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Speidel, William SONS OF THE PROFITS
Trade paperback: 2003 Nettle Creek Publishing Co Twenty-sixth printing 0914890069
Book: Fine. No DJ. Shipping weight: 565 grams.
Bill Speidel is a native son of Seattle who loves his city as much for her lusty, checkered past as for her dynamic present. Here he compiles an irreverent account of Seattle's first 50 years: “I'm sure there must have been somebody who participated in the construction of Seattle without first determining whether there was a buck in it for himself, but this book isn't about him. This is the story of how the fellows who built Seattle made their money. That they built the city in the process was purely coincidental. If they could have made more money by not building a city, then that is what they would have done.”
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Spence, Gerry Half-Moon and Empty Stars
Hardcover: 2001 Scribner, NYC 1st printing 0743202767
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Black felt pen mark on top edge of pages indicate remaindered book. Shipping weight 745 (grams).
From the author of bestselling 'How to Argue and Win Every Time' comes a new classic about two Native American brothers torn apart--a legal thriller, a love story, and a visionary work that examines deeply the values of life and death.
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Spencer, Scott A Ship Made of Paper
Hardcover: 2003 Ecco First edition stated 0060185341
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Previous owner name inside front cover under flap. Shipping weight 520 (grams).
After a shattering incidence of violence in New York City, Daniel Emerson has returned to the Hudson River town where he grew up. There, along with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, he settles into the kind of secure and comfortable family life he longed for during his emotionally barren childhood. But then he falls in love with Iris Davenport, the black woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house, and they spend the night together -- the beginning of a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race-blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. And the emotional stakes are raised even higher when Iris's husband, Hampton, suffers a devastating accidental injury at Daniel's hands.
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Spiegelman, Peter Black Maps
Hardcover: 2003 Alfred A. Knopf, NYC 1st ed. 1400040752
Book: Fine. DJ: Very Good. Shipping weight 690 (grams).
John March, a former cop now working as a PI in Manhattan, takes the case of Rick Pierro, a self-made man who has almost everything until he falls victim to a serial extortionist adept at psychological and physical intimidation.
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Spoto, Donald Lenya: A Life
Hardcover: 1989 Little Brown, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0316807257
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Light black felt slash across top pages may indicate remaindered book. Shipping weight 885 (grams).
Includes index.
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St. Pierre, Paul Old Enough to Know Better
Hardcover: 2002 Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC, Canada 155017276X
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Xmas inscription top of title page. Shipping weight 580 (grams).
The author finds grievous fault with democracy and favours most of the seven deadly sins. He approves of arranged marriages but expresses absolute faith in the power of love. He laments the fading of family. He has come to believe that the soul exists independent of mind, personality and genes and, like St. Paul, he sees love and charity as the greatest power in our world. 'Old Enough to Know Better' is written in part as a message to descendants he will never meet, in part to people of the western world today who, he insists, are descending rapidly into a fascist tyranny. His observations and pronouncements are threaded on accounts of personal experiences as a newspaper editor and columnist, politician, diplomat, police commissioner, husband, father, wet-fly fisherman and wing shot. This is a book like no other St. Pierre has written. Nobody will agree with all of it. His tail would kink if some did.
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St. Pierre, Paul In the Navel of the Moon (A Tale from Mexico)
Hardcover: 1993 Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable First printing 1550540548
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. 2nd copy may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 430 (grams).
The several storylines of this esoteric mystery unfold in a community of characters you will never forget. With his trademark sharp tongue, a keen eye for the absurd and an unfailing nose for detecting pretension, St. Pierre has created a story of death and flowers, love, good fun, pride and poverty--all of it set to music in a country that, as one character observes, is more a grand opera than a nation.
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Stabenow, Dana Midnight Come Again
Hardcover: 2000 St. Martin's Minotaur, NYC 1st ed. 0312205961
Book: Fine. DJ: Very Good. Shipping weight 645 (grams).
Kate Shugak series -- 10. A former investigator for the Anchorage D.A., living undercover while she mourns the murder of her lover, finds herself knee-deep in a dangerous new case involving Russian smugglers.
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Steber, Rick Wild Horse Rider
Trade Paper: 1984 Bonanza Publishing, Prineville, OR First thus 0945134967
Book: Good-Fine. No Jacket. Signed by Author on flyleaf. Well-read copy. Small crease at bottom of front cover. Orange felt slash on bottom of pages. Shipping weight 335 (grams).
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Steffler, John The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Hardcover: 1993 Henry Holt, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 080502462X
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 590 (grams).
In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this time Cartwright’s greatest legacy has been the place in Labrador named after him and the journal he wrote during his years there, when he lived amongst Native people and ran a successful trading post. Now his legacy becomes our own: a telling portrait of our past; a warning.
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Steinke, Darcey Up Through the Water
Hardcover: 1989 Doubleday, NYC 1st ed. 0385246870
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 360 (grams).
Darcey Steinke's first novel is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the story of Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, of the man who wants to clip her wings, of her son and the summer that he will become a man. George Garrett called it 'clean-cut, lean-lined, quickly moving, and audacious. . . . [Steinke is] compassionate without sentimentality, romantic without false feelings, and clearly and extravagantly gifted.' 'Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction.' -- Robert Olmstead, The New York Times Book Review; 'Dazzling and charged . . . Darcey Steinke has the sensuous and precise visions of female and male, and of the light and dark at the edge of the sea.' -- John Casey.
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Sterne, Laurence The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman
Quarter Leather: 1981 The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA Reissue
Book: Fine. No Jacket. 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 Book: scuffing of gilt along top page edges. Shipping weight 1,035 (grams).
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Stewart, Leah The Myth of You and Me
Hardcover: 2005 Shaye Areheart Books First edition (Stated) 1400098068
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 505 (grams).
When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend--no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half. 'The Myth of You and Me' is the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship--as intense as any love affair--and its dramatic demise captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship. Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, it is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.
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Stewart, Mary The Prince and the Pilgrim
Hardcover: 1996 William Morrow & Co First US edition 0688145388
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along edges of DJ. Shipping weight 605 (grams).
The bestselling author of the acclaimed Merlin Trilogy returns to the magical world of King Arthur and Camelot--to tell a story of daring adventure, unexpected love, and unsurpassed enchantment. Eager, burning, and young, Alexander the Fatherless has come of age to take vengeance on the treacherous King of Cornwall who murdered his father. He sets off toward Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur, only to be diverted by the beautiful and sensual Morgan le Fay, Arthur's sister. Using her wiles and her enchantments, Morgan persuades the young prince to attempt a theft of the Holy Grail. He is unaware her motives are of the darkest nature. . . Motherless daughter of a royal duke, Alice the Pretty Pilgrim has lived a life of lively adventure, accompanying her father on his yearly pilgrimages. Now, on her father's final visit to Jerusalem, she comes under the protection of a young prince whose brothers were murdered, a prince who is in possession of an enchanted silver cup believed to be the mysterious Holy Grail itself. Thus the stage is set for two young seekers to meet -- and find not what they are searching for but, instead, the greatest treasure of all . . . love.
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Stolarz, Laurie Faria Blue Is For Nightmares
Trade Paperback: 2003 Llewellyn Publications First edition (stated) 0738703915
Book: Fine. No DJ. Previous owner inscription of front fly-leaf. Shipping weight 335 (grams).
Magic Colors series - 1. 'I Know Your Secret . . .' Boarding school junior Stacey Brown has nightmares too real to ignore. Her nightmares come true. This time they're about Drea, her best friend who's become the target of one seriously psycho stalker. To try and protect her, Stacey's working with what she knows--candles, cards, incantations, and spells...
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Stolarz, Laurie Faria White Is for Magic
Trade Paperback: 2004 Llewellyn Publications First edition (stated) 0738704431
Book: Very good+. No DJ. Previous owner inscription of front fly-leaf. Shipping weight 360 (grams).
Magic Colors series - 2. 'I'm watching you . . .' A year has passed since Stacey Brown saved her best friend from a horrible death. Now she's having nightmares again, haunted by ghosts of the brutally murdered . . . and by a crazed stalker. As she desperately casts healing spells, a new student named Jacob enters her world. Beautiful and mysterious, he reveals that he is also having dreams. To stop a killer, they must join together. But can Jacob be trusted? Or will this new love cause her darkest dreams to come true?
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Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates
Hardcover: 1988 Little Brown & Co (T) First edition (stated) 0316817589
Book: Very good. DJ: Good. Chipping and creasing along DJ edges. Top corner of front cover bent and very slight separation of binding visible between 2nd and 3rd signatures, but a good clean copy nonetheless. Shipping weight 635 (grams).
Unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an 'intellectual thriller.'
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Stroud, Carsten Black Water Transit
Hardcover: 2001 Delacorte Press, NYC 1st printing 0385335784
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 725 (grams).
Jack Vermillion is a businessman with a problem: a son with a criminal record who is in trouble again. This time, Jack's kid is looking at twenty-five to life in maximum security. And there's nothing Jack can do . . .or is there? Black Water Transit is Jack's container ship company, and when Jack is approached by a man wanting to ship his gun collection to Mexico - very simple, very illegal - he sees an opportunity. So Jack cuts a deal with the ATF to trade one illegal gun dealer for one slightly imperfect kid. The deal is set, the weapons on board, the cops and feds in place. Everything should come off without a hitch. . .until the shooting starts and people start dying. As the body count rises, Jack must go on the lam, in a race for his life, and there isn't a law enforcement agency in the world that can help him now.
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Stump, Al COBB
a biography
Hardcover: 1994 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1st edition 0945575645
Book: Very good--half-dozen pages in photo insert have bent corners at bottom. DJ: Very good. Price clipped. Shipping weight: 875 grams.
A biography of the baseball legend explores the complexities of a man described as the meanest man in baseball, discussing Cobb's racism, violence toward family and other baseball players, win-at-any-cost philosophy, philandering, and more.
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Styron, William A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth
Hardcover: 1993 Random House, NYC 1st ed. 0679427422
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 325 (grams).
In these stories - never before published in book form - William Styron focuses his unmatched talents on matters that have preoccupied him during much of his adult writing career. Although their immediate subjects are different - a young Marine about to invade Japan in World War II remembers the role his father played in building one of the ships; a child recalls what happened when a former slave came home to die in the place where he was born; a boy describes the hot summer day on which his mother died, changing his life forever - the stories are told in the voice of the same narrator, who remembers vividly his youth in a tidewater town in Virginia. A Tidewater Morning is written with the power and distinction of a writer who occupies a preeminent place in modern American literature.
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960 |
Sullivan, Mairéid Celtic Women in Music: A Celebration of Beauty and Sovereignty
Trade Paperback: 1999 Quarry Music Books First thus 1550822462
Book: Fine. No DJ. A few creased page corners, now straightened. Shipping Weight 490 (grams).
'Traditionally, the women were the ones who carried the songs and passed them down from generation to generation.'--Mary Black in 'Celtic Tides.' Based on exclusive interviews, 'Celtic Women in Music' profiles the careers of 30 artists, including Máire Brennan (Clannad), Dolores Keane, Eileen Ivers (Riverdance), Mary Jane Lamond, Karen Matheson (Capercaillie), Loreena McKennitt, Maddy Pryor, June Tabor and Jean Ritchie. These musicians reveal the devotion to traditional Celtic culture that inspires their art and the sense of personal sovereignty that informs their lives as women.
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Svendsen, Linda Marine Life
Hardcover: 1992 Farrar Straus & Giroux, NYC 1st ed. 0374100888
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. DJ inside front & flyleaf clipped. Shipping weight 385 (grams).
In this collection of eight linked stories, Svendsen tenderly explores the painful ways we repeat our parents' struggles and mistakes and the difficulty of maintaining love and achieving trust.
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Swift, Graham Ever After
Hardcover: 1992 Alfred A. Knopf Canada 1st Canadian edition 039422261X
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching along top edge of DJ. Shipping weight 425 (grams).
Bill Unwin has two remarkable tales to tell. One--ranging from postwar Paris and 1950s London to contemporary entanglements sexual and scholarly--is the vivid accout of his own life. The other--pieced together from the private notebooks of a Victorian ancestor--is the story of a good and simple man whose happiness is destroyed by his compulsive search for truth. Together they combine to form a luminous meditation on the condition of mortality.
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963 |
Tademy, Lalita Cane River
Hardcover: 2001 Warner Books Second printing 0446530522
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Next-to-last signature printed on different stock. Shipping weight 695 (grams).
Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an unmistakable 'bleaching of the line' as first her daughter Suzette, then her granddaughter Philomene, and finally her great-granddaughter Emily choose (or are forcibly persuaded) to bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. In many cases these children are loved by their fathers, and their paternity is widely acknowledged. However, neither state law nor local custom allows them to inherit wealth or property, a fact that gives Cane River much of its narrative drive.The author makes it clear exactly where these prohibitions came from. Plantation society was rigidly hierarchical, after all, particularly on the heels of the Civil War and the economic hardships that came with Reconstruction. The only permissible path upward for hard-working, ambitious African Americans was indirect. A meteoric rise, or too obvious an appearance of prosperity, would be swiftly punished. To enable the slow but steady advance of their clan, the black women of Cane River plot, plead, deceive, and manipulate their way through history, extracting crucial gifts of money and property along the way. In the wake of a visit from the 1880 census taker, the aged Elisabeth reflects on how far they had come. Oprah's Book Club recommendation.
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Tan, Amy Saving Fish from Drowning
Hardcover: 2005 GP Putnam's Sons & Random House Publishing Group Second printing 0399153012
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Slight shelving creasing along DJ edges. Shipping weight 775 (grams).
A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour--and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime. 'Saving Fish from Drowning' seduces the reader with a facade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions-both good and bad-and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others. A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes.'
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Tan, Amy The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
Hardcover: 2003 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399150749
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Black marker slash along bottom page edges indicates remaindered book. Shipping weight 710 (grams).
With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties listeners face today, contemplating how things happen in her own life and beyond.
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966 |
Tan, Amy The Bonesetter's Daughter
Hardcover: 2001 Putnam, NYC Second printing 0399146431
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching and chipping along edges of DJ. Shipping weight 745 (grams).
In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say. Ruth starts suspecting that something is terribly wrong with her mother. As a child, Ruth had been constantly subjected to her mother's disturbing notions about curses and ghosts, and to her repeated threats to kill herself, and was even forced by her mother to try to communicate with ghosts. But now LuLing seems less argumentative, even happy, far from her usual disagreeable and dissatisfied self. While tending to her ailing mother, Ruth discovers the pages LuLing wrote in Chinese, the story of her tumultuous and star-crossed life, and is transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart. There she learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined, some of which may prove to be the teeth of Peking Man; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's scattered bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page reveals secrets of a larger mystery: What became of Peking Man? What was the name of the Bonesetter's Daughter? And who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Within LuLing's calligraphed pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, what she cannot tell her daughter yet hopes she will never forget. Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.
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Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
Hardcover: 1995 Putnam Adult First printing 0399141146
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good+. Shipping weight 730 (grams).
The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaning--and to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished. Olivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end. Turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping and arguing in modern San Francisco; turn it that way and the Chinese of Changmian village in 1864 are fleeing into the hills to hide from the rampaging Manchus. . . . 'THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES' doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations.
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Tapply, William G. Dead Winter
Hardcover: 1989 Delacorte Pr First printing 0385297114
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good+. Some creasing along DJ edges. Shipping weight 465 (grams).
Brady Coyne series – 8. Brady Coyne, the Boston-based lawyer whose clients often need him for more than legal advice, is usually deep in the world of wills and contracts. But when a client calls in the middle of the night it's about murder. As he tries to untangle an intricate web of crime and family secrets he finds that more than murders are happening -- and more murder than he realized. Ultimately these revelations bring Brady to a confrontation with madness and tragedy.
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Terrence Gordon, W. MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Escape Into Understanding
Trade Paper: 1997 Musson Publishing 1st thus 0773760342
Book: Fine--small chip at lead edge of back cover. No DJ. Like new. Shipping weight: 705 grams.
This is a fine and careful book that presents a fully realized portrait of one of the truly prescient thinkers of our time. It is a biography of one of the most fascinating Canadians, a thorough and insightful account of an extraordinary mind. It presents the complex family background and a sense of how McLuhan became McLuhan, and is also a brilliantly critical evaluation of McLuhan's work.
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Thay, Edrick Haunted Cemeteries
Trade Paperback: 2004 Ghost House Books Assumed first edition 1894877608
Book: Fine. No DJ. Shipping weight 240 (grams).
Some spirits refused to rest in peace. Edrick Thay explores some of the world's most notoriously haunted graveyards, both past and present, and interviews ghost hunters to discover how these eerie sites become charged with paranormal energy.
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Thayer, Steve Wolf Pass
Hardcover: 2003 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399149910
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 615 (grams).
Thayer revisits the dark and murderous hills of seemingly bucolic Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin. The shadows in the woods hide many secrets, including the ghosts of World War II.
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Thayer, Steve The Wheat Field
Hardcover: 2002 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399148418
Book: Fine. DJ: Very Good. Shipping weight 660 (grams).
Maggie and Michael Butler are found naked and very dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts. But no one gets murdered in Kickapoo Falls, bucolic vacation retreat in the Wisconsin Dells, and home of the politically powerful Kickapoo Gun Club. It is up to Deputy Pennington, the trusted number-two man in the Sheriff's Department, to find the killer. A top-notch marksman, Pennington had his sights set on Maggie Butler ever since high school, admiring her from afar for years. He has a hard time holding on to his fantasy when he discovers what the real Maggie was mixed up in. The town's ruling elite closes ranks as the outsider Pennington zeros in on the truth. Almost as if following a shadowy master plan, his mentor, the sheriff - a top marksman himself - begins to turn against him. Pennington is convinced the answer lies back in the wheat field, and in a missing reel of movie film that will shut the door on the murder investigation, but open another into a deadly conspiracy set for election night.
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Thomas, Craig The Last Raven
Hardcover: 1990 HarperCollins, NYC 2nd printing 0060163895
Book: Very Good. DJ: Very Good. Owner inscription on front flyleaf. 2nd copy may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 920 (grams).
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Thomas, D.M. Swallow
Trade Paper: 1985 Abacus/Sphere, London, UK 0349133867
Book: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾' - 7¾' tall. Shipping weight 290 (grams).
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Thomas, D.M. Sphinx
Hardcover: 1987 Viking/Penguin, NYC 2nd printing 0670814156
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Black remainder slash across bottom. Shipping weight 525 (grams).
Sequel to: Swallow.
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Thomas, Michael M. Black Money
Hardcover: 1994 Crown Publishers, NYC 2nd printing 0517595230
Book: As New. DJ: As New. Shipping weight 670 (grams).
A low-level government investigator looking at the books of a failed Northern California bank stumbles upon an account that has no explanation. It is a tiny thread that will ultimately unravel a criminal tapestry of unbelievable audacity, complexity, and scope, a conspiracy ranging from the cocaine fields of the Andes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Few other novelists today know as much about the intersection of big money and global crime as Michael M. Thomas. Charged with action, surprise, and inside knowledge, 'Black Money' gathers an unlikely team of heroes, led by Lee Boynton, a wealthy heiress turned journalist, and Thurlow Coole, a Wall Street wizard turned computer-fraud expert. They find themselves challenging a criminal alliance that, in a diabolically clever scheme, is laundering billions of drug dollars through a skein of businesses ranging from Wall Street firms to fast-food stores. At a relentless pace, 'Black Money' leads us into the inner coils of the vast global web, along whose filaments trillions of dollars move every day, and into the brain of JEDI, the top-secret government computer network the penetration of which lies at the heart of the plot. This is a whole new kind of techno-thriller - one in which the weapon is more awesome than any missile.
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Thompson, Neville Earl Bathurst and the British Empire 1762-1834
Hardcover: 1999 Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books First thus 0850526450
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping Weight 675 (grams).
Scholars and general readers alike will be fascinated by this behind-the-scenes story of British agents and diplomats operating around the world in the decades after Waterloo. The 3rd Earl Bathurst is arguably the man who had the most influence over the early establishment of the British Empire. His relationships with the Prince Regent and the Duke of Wellington are particularly revealing. A look into a world of intrigue, destabilization and covert operations of a type normally associated with more modern times.
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Thomson, David Silver Light
Hardcover: 1990 Knopf First edition (stated) 0394556224
Book: Very good. DJ: Good+. DJ has some light creasing along outside edges, and inside has slight discoloration at bottom of spine that suggests color bleeding from book cloth cover. Shipping weight 790 (grams).
A dazzling work of imagination, “Silver Light” redraws the American West with an extraordinary mix of history, fiction and the fabricated realities of cinema. At the center of the novel, which opens in 1950, are two relics of the old West: a reclusive octogenarian photographer and her longtime friend, an equally reclusive 75-year-old writer of Western comic books. Their life stories tell an intertwining tale that ranges back through eighty years and across a West that was a place of silver, space, the epitome of liberty; a constantly surprising tale in which their own lives are the meeting points for dozens of others -- some factual, some filmic, some a startling hybrid of the two.
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Toews, Miriam A Complicated Kindness
Hardcover: 2004 Knopf Canada First edition stated 0676976123
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Friendship inscription on front flyleaf. Shipping weight 440 (grams).
The highly anticipated third novel from one of Canada’s most daring and original writers, 'A Complicated Kindness' is a portrayal of a stifling Mennonite town -- a novel that is at once brilliant, hilarious, and revelatory. “Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing,” Nomi tells us. Left alone with her father, Nomi spends her time piecing together the reasons her sister Natasha and mother Trudie have gone missing and trying to figure out what she can do to avoid a career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken abattoir on the outskirts of East Village -- not the neighbourhood in Manhattan where Nomi most wants to live but a small Mennonite town in southern Manitoba. East Village is ministered by Nomi’s Uncle Hans, or as Nomi calls him, The Mouth. A fiercely pious and religious man, The Mouth has found both Trudie and Natasha wanting and has orchestrated their shunning by the community. This is the world according to a devastatingly funny and heartbreakingly bewildered young woman trapped in a small town that seeks to set her on the path to righteousness and smother her at the same time. 'We’re Mennonites. After Dukhobors who show up naked in court we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager. Five hundred years ago in Europe a man named Menno Simons set off to do his own peculiar religious thing and he and his followers were beaten up and killed or forced to conform all over Holland, Poland, and Russia until they, at least some of them, finally landed right here where I sit. Imagine the least well-adjusted kid in your school starting a breakaway clique of people whose manifesto includes a ban on the media, dancing, smoking , temperate climates, movies, drinking, rock’n’roll, having sex for fun, swimming, makeup, jewellery, playing pool, going to cities, or staying up past nine o’clock. That was Menno all over. Thanks a lot, Menno.'
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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion
Hardcover: 1977 George Allen & Unwin, London, UK Assumed first edition 0048231398
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Nice clean tight copy. Shipping weight 710 (grams).
THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT. Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth. Attached map of Beleriand and the Lands of the North.
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Tolley, Kemp Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War
Hardcover: 1973 Naval Institute Press First thus 0870211323
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Previous owner inscription on front flyleaf does not obscure the endpaper map. Shipping weight 860 (grams).
In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's 'The Hurricane.' Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish-American War, the Lanikai was under top-secret presidential orders to sail south into waters where the Japanese fleet was thought to be. Ostensibly the crew was to spy on Japanese naval movements, but to Tolley it was clear that their mission was to create an incident that would provoke war. Events overtook the plan, however, when Pearl Harbor was bombed before the Lanikai could get underway. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, she was ordered to set sail for Australia and became one of the few U.S. naval vessels to escape the Philippines. In this book Tolley tells the saga of her great adventure during these grim, early days of the war and makes history come alive as he regales the reader with details of the operation and an explanation of President Roosevelt's order. Tolley's description of their escape in Japanese warship-infested waters ranks with the best of sea tales, and few will be able to forget the Lanikai's 4,000-mile, three-month odyssey.
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Tosches, Nick In the Hand of Dante
Hardcover: 2002 Little Brown, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0316895245
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 680 (grams).
When the original handwritten manuscript of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' is found in Italy, it somehow makes its way to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches steals the manuscript. 'In the Hand of Dante' is a work of audacity and beauty, featuring Manhattan's meanest murdering scum and... Dante Alleghieri.
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Trent, Bill NORTHWOODS DOCTOR.
Hardcover: 1962 Lippincott First edition
Book: Very good. DJ: Acceptable. Chipping and tearing along edges of DJ--now in protective sleeve. Price clipped. Shipping weight: 555 grams.
This is the biography of Dr. Paul Leon Rivard whose practice covered thousands of miles in the trackless wilderness of northern Québec and whose patients were lumbermen, Indians, trappers and, on occasion, horses. But most important, it is the story of a human being, a man who suffered a great loss and tried to run away from the world.
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Trevor, William The Silence in the Garden
Hardcover: 1988 Viking Press, NYC 1st U.S. ed: 2nd printing 0670824046
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Light felt pen mark across page edges indicates remaindered book. Shipping weight 465 (grams).
Sarah Pollexfen first comes to Carriglas, an island estate off Ireland's County Cork, as governess to her wealthy Anglo-Irish cousins. As idyllic and magical as her world seems, Sarah soon discovers the private punishments and past sins buried at Carriglas.
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Trillin, Calvin American Stories
Hardcover: 1991 Ticknor & Fields, NYC First printing 0395593670
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight shelf wear to DJ. Shipping weight 545 (grams).
'American Stories' brings together twelve extended narratives--'the sort of stories you might tell in front of a fire'--that appeared during the late 1980s in The New Yorker magazine. They range from the tempests surrounding the nation's premier drive-in movie critic, Joe Bob Briggs, to the rumors a murder unleashes among church-going citizens in Emporia, Kansas. What emerges is an exceptionally intimate and convincing portrait of how Americans live their lives.
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Trower, Peter The Judas Hills
a novel of the B.C. woods
Trade Paper: 2001 Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC, Canada 1st ed. 155017228x
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. Shipping weight 325 (grams).
Terry Belshaw series - 3. It's the 1950s, and just when Terry — the unlikely hero of Peter Trower's two previous novels, 'Grogan's Cafe' and 'Dead Man's Ticket' — vows never to log again, his circumstances change and he needs to return to BC's backwoods to get a stake, and fast. His newest adventures — gripping and ominous — are detailed in 'The Judas Hills', in which Terry is hired out to a remote logging camp in the brooding shadow of Mesachie Mountain. Trower takes the most memorable loggers he ever met during his own career in the woods and casts them all in this fast-paced thriller: from Garfield 'Timber Wolf' Hobson, the tenacious camp boss who wants to harvest all the trees from the Mesachie hills at any cost, to Albert 'Ox' Tully, a hulking and menacing logger who reads philosophy and poetry in his spare time, to Gordy 'Grandaddy Tough' Dower, Hobson's formidable foreman. As the story unfolds, it soon becomes clear that what these loggers face is more than the usual dose of danger they find on the job. Mesachie Mountain and the whole valley seem to be under a curse with supernatural forces at work. A half-mad camp watchman, a series of unlucky logging accidents, an abandoned Aboriginal village and a ghost camp all point toward a sinister mystery that must be solved. The story moves from one inevitable crisis to another and concludes with a nerve-shattering climax.
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Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
Trade Paperback: 1989 Ballantine Books First trade paper edition 0345336674
Book: Very good. No DJ. Previous owner inscription on front fly-leaf. Shipping weight 505 (grams).
Bestselling author and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnificent portrait of General George Washington and recounts in riveting detail the events responsible for the birth of the nation.
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Tuchman, Barbara W. STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-45
Hardcover: 1971 The Macmillan Company Second printing
Book: Very good. DJ: Good+. Some stretching along DJ edges. Repaired tear at base of spine. Previous owner inscription on flyleaf. Shipping weight: 1,190 grams.
Stillwell was a man who loved China deeply, spoke its language, knew its people as few Americans have ever done, and who saw the country without the obscuring haze of myth of his countrymen at home. This narrative follows him from the time he first entered China during the revolution of 1911, the year when “the most ancient of independent nations stumbled into the 20th century,” through his tours of duty in Peking and Tientsen in the 1920s and 30s, to his return as theatre commander during World War II. The attributes which set him far apart from other military commanders were his sense and sensibility, his scorn for the pretentious and guileful, his acid wit--as demonstrated by the many quotations from his letters and diaries sprinkled throughout this volume--and his genuine humanity. With 32 pages of photographs, many from Stillwell's personal albums, and four full-page maps.
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Turow, Scott Personal Injuries
Hardcover: 1999 Farrar Straus & Giroux, NYC 1st trade ed. 0374281947
Book: Very Good. DJ: Very Good. Shipping weight 765 (grams).
Kindle County series - 5. Robbie Feaver (pronounced 'favor') is a charismatic personal injury lawyer with a high profile practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves), who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds that make their way into the pockets of the judges who decide Robbie's cases. Robbie is caught by the Feds, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to 'wear a wire' as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie's charms. And she carries secrets of her own. As the law tightens its net, Robbie's and Evon's stories converge thrillingly. Scott Turow takes us into the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in 'Presumed Innocent', 'The Burden of Proof', 'Pleading Guilty', and 'The Laws of Our Fathers.' Map of Kindle County, USA on endpapers.
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Turow, Scott Pleading Guilty
Hardcover: 1993 HarperCollins Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada 1st Canadian ed. 0002240149
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Previous owner inscription on flyleaf. 2nd copy may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 780 (grams).
Kindle County series - 3. The star litigator from a top-notch law firm has gone missing, along with 5.6 million dollars from a class-action settlement, and 'Mack' Malloy, a foul-mouthed ex-cop and partner-on-the-wane must find both. Immediately. Turow’s third novel takes us back to Kindle County, where skies are generally gray and the truth is seldom simple, in an edge-of-the-chair story rife with indelible characters and riveting suspense.
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Tyler, Anne Ladder of Years
Hardcover: 1995 Viking/Penguin, NYC 1st printing 067086112X
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Evidence of owner label inside front cover beneath DJ. Shipping weight 800 (grams).
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Tynan, Kathleen Agatha
Hardcover: 1978 Ballantine Books First edition (stated) 034527718X
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good+. Slight stretching and creasing along DJ edges. Price clipped. Holiday inscription on front fly-leaf. Shipping weight 500 (grams).
On December 4, 1926, the famous English mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared from her home. A nationwide search was immediately launched. There was no warning before her 11 day absence. There has been no convincing explanation since...until now. “Agatha” is a portrait of a loving though blinkered woman who, after being abruptly brought to the brink of despair by the man she loves, makes a journey toward self-discovery.
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