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Powers, Tim Expiration Date
Hardcover: 1996 Tor Books First edition (stated) 0312860862
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 735 (grams).
Here is a strange and wonderful Los Angeles: a city full of ghosts -- and full, too, of unpleasant characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead. Young Koot Parganas is growing up frustrated in LA; he has disobeyed his parents and stolen a small glass vial with the preserved ghost of Thomas Alvin Edison. There is no telling what power the possession of that ghost could confer. He thereby sets in motion events that will change his own life, and everyone else's.
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Pratt, James Michael The Last Valentine
Hardcover: 1998 St. Martin's Press, NYC 0312181213
Book: Fine. No Jacket. Pictorial boards. Shipping weight 490 (grams).
Television reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, yet she doubts where such a thing really exists, Neil Thomas, Jr. wants to share his parents' bittersweet love story with the world. On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good-bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty year, she waited for him--until a miracle happened, and she received his last valentine. In the present day, when Susan and Neil meet, can the story of Neil's parents bring them together in a love as powerful as she dreams of and he remembers?
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Price, Anthony For The Good of the State
Hardcover: 1986 Mysterious Press, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 0892962240
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Price clipped from inside front dust jacket. Tape mark inside front cover. Shipping weight 690 (grams).
David Audley series - 16.
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Pronzini, Bill Illusions
Hardcover: 1997 Avalon Publishing, NYC 2nd printing 0786704039
Book: Very Good. DJ: Very Fine. Small red felt remainder mark across bottom. Shipping weight 565 (grams).
Nameless Detective series - 24. The 'Nameless Detective' finds himself involved in two intricate and emotional investigations. The first is intensely personal: the unexpected death of his estranged friend and former partner, Eberhardt. Although there seems to be no question that Eberhardt committed suicide, 'Nameless' becomes obsessed with the reasons behind the act. Meanwhile, he is hired by a Santa Fe businessman to find his ex-wife, who disappeared three years earlier. Locating the woman turns out to be fairly simple; she is living and working in the northern California wine country. But just when the case seems finished, it takes on bizarre dimensions - a fatal shooting that may or may not be accidental, hidden motives, and a web of lies and deception. 'Nameless' is compelled to continue his investigation when it becomes clear he is partly, if inadvertently, responsible for the victim's death. The keys to both cases lie in illusions - those people create about themselves and those they perceive in others. Additional similarities also emerge, leading 'Nameless' to a series of startling revelations and ultimately to the two most difficult decisions of his career.
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Provincial Museum of Alberta A NATURE GUIDE TO ALBERTA
Hardcover: 1980 Hurtig Publishers First edition 0888301790
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Some abrasion and creasing to DJ. Shipping weight: 745 grams.
Magnificently illustrated and including more than 50 maps, this is the first detailed nature guide ever produced that encompasses the entire province of Alberta. It describes 171 different locations, telling you how to get there, what camping facilities are available, and especially what can be seen in each area. The individual locality descriptions form the core of the book, but the guide also provides practical advice on safety in the outdoors as well as an excellent introductory section on natural history, and suggestions for further reading and personal participation in nature activities.
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Pullman, Philip The Amber Spyglass
Hardcover: 2000 Knopf Books for Young Readers Second printing (1st ed.) 0679879269
Book: Very good+. DJ: Very good+. Page cutting error on one signature displays black guidelines at tops of a few pages. DJ has some creasing at edges and near center die-cut. Shipping weight 800 (grams).
His Dark Materials series - 3. 'The Amber Spyglass' brings the intrigue of 'The Golden Compass' and 'The Subtle Knife' to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of the series as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spymaster to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. So, too, come startling revelations: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live--and who will die--for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that--in its shocking outcome--will uncover the secret of Dust. Philip Pullman deftly brings the cliff-hangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earthshattering conclusion--and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.
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Purdy, Verity Sweeny The Luckiest Girl in the World: A Memoir
Trade Paper: 1998 Heritage House Pub., Surrey, BC, Canada 1st ed. 1895811570
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Shipping weight 325 (grams).
Following the career of dance professional Verity Purdy, this is an engaging and moving memoir that covers a wide spectrum of love, loneliness, loss, and triumph over a six-year span. It takes the reader from a remote coastal community in British Columbia to the sophisticated art world of London and fine country homes and castles in Scotland and Wales.
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Puzo, Mario The Sicilian
Hardcover: 1984 Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, NYC 1st printing 0671435647
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Sequel to 'The Godfather.' Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader left him in 'The Godfather.' But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who is the unofficial ruler of northwestern Sicily. In his fight 'to make Sicilians free people,' the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giuliano of the 1940s, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, chief of the Sicilian Mafia, and the policemen who has been tracking Guiliano each offer to help Corleone find the elusive Robin Hood, betrayal seems inevitable. Mario Puzo has created a sequel to 'The Godfather' that is every bit as compelling and dramatic. But 'The Sicilian' is a distinct literary achievement in its historical inspiration and its vivid portrait of Sicilian peasant life. Lifelong New Yorker Mario Puzo drew upon figures in his Italian-American family to create the characters in his smash hit 'The Godfather' in 1969; but he claimed never to have met a real-life mobster, and his detailed portrait of the Mafia world came entirely from diligent research
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Puzo, Mario The Family
(completed by Carol Gino)
Hardcover: 2001 William Morrow First edition stated 0060394455
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 750 (grams).
What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question, unforgettably, in his landmark bestseller 'The Godfather'; with the creation of the Corleones he forever redefined the concept of blood loyalty. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject, in a masterpiece that crowns his remarkable career: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias. In 'The Family', this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome and reveals the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites for power, luxury, and women were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: the simple, unloved Jofre; the irascible, heartless Juan; the beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and the passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their intermingled stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage. And their time, place, and characters are recaptured in all their earthy, human grandeur, with the unerring insight and compassion that were Mario Puzo's great gifts.
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Puzo, Mario The Last Don
Hardcover: 1996 Random House Second printing (1st ed.) 0679401431
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Light bumping at corners of board covers. Slight stretching and creasing along edges of DJ. DJ shows sign of fluid staining at top near spine and back--obvious inside, negligible outside, no sign on book itself. Shipping weight 910 (grams).
The author of The Godfather returns with a violent and darkly humorous saga of the last great American crime family and its reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. With keen insights into the authentic life of the mafia, Puzo tells the story of Domenico Clericuzio, a ferocious old man who is determined to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion-picture investments, and the threat of government informers.
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Ralph, Wayne WILLIAM BARKER, VC
the life, death & legend of Canada's most decorated war hero
Hardcover: 2007 Wiley 1st edition 0470839678
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Birthday inscription on front flyleaf. Oversize -- W 210mm (8.25) x H 235mm (9.25) Shipping weight: 775 grams.
William Barker is Canada's most-decorated Great War hero. Born in Dauphin, Manitoba on Nov. 3, 1894, he wracked up a total of 50 victories on the Italian and Western fronts during WWI. He fought a spectacular dogfight, single-handedly, against 10-plus German fighters (Barker estimated to Captain Johnston in 1919 approximately 15) on October 27, 1918, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross (which is traditionally awarded posthumously). His life was tragically cut short in a flying accident in Ottawa in 1930. Despite his decorations for bravery, his remains were buried in a crypt marked Smith (his wife's family) in Toronto. The author felt the need to address Barker's obscurity. In true Wayne Ralph style, he brings to life the country that was Canada in the early 20th century through this compelling story.
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Ramus, David On Ice
Hardcover: 2000 Pocket Books, NYC 1st printing 0671041843
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 635 (grams).
Readers ride into the world of super-rich Southern horse breeders with this story of a much sought-after stable builder who is wrongly convicted of a heinous crime and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. 'David Ramus knows how to tell a story and keep you glued to your chair', says James Patterson.
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Randall, J.G. Lincoln the President
Midstream to the Last Full Measure, Vol. 2
Hardcover: 1953 Dodd Mead, NYC 2nd printing
Book: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 467 pages with 16 pages of B&W photos bound into center of book. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and red bars on spine. Some spotting on front cover, fading along spine and top of back cover, and smudges to bottom page edges. Custom bookplate inside front cover identifies previous owner. Shipping weight 735 (grams).
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Redfern, Elizabeth The Music of the Spheres
Hardcover: 2001 Putnam First printing 0399147632
Book: Good+. DJ: Very good. Bottom page edges show signs of past water damage. Shipping weight 755 (grams).
England vs. France, 1795. A spycatcher in the Home Office finds his quest merging with that of a secret society of astronomers looking to rediscover a 'lost' star in the heavens. He finds himself discovering more than he ever imagined about spies and murderers; about celestial numbers and the making of codes, about passions as unnatural as they are obsessive, and about the bonds of family...and the lengths to which he will go to protect them.
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817 |
Reich, Christopher The First Billion
Hardcover: 2002 Delacorte Press, NYC 1st printing 0385333676
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 790 (grams).
Christopher Reich electrified readers with 'Numbered Account' and 'The Runner', his first two international thrillers.
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818 |
Reichs, Kathy Deja Dead
Hardcover: 1997 Scribner, NYC 1st printing 0684841177
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Signed by Author. 2nd copy not signed and may not be of equal condition. Shipping weight 785 (grams).
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Reid, Arthur The Storyteller
Hardcover: 2003 DoubleDay First edition (stated) 038550621X
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 540 (grams).
He’s the most famous novelist in the country, the author of a raft of international bestsellers, the darling of New York’s publishing circles. But the more successful he becomes, the more terrifying is the predicament he finds himself in.In the beginning, Steven (with a v) King is an aspiring writer tending bar in a small town in Maine. He works diligently on his novel, dreams of the life he and his fiancée, Tina, will share, and puts his faith in the successful power-agent (his first cousin Stuart) who represents him. Then Steve’s life takes an unexpected turn. In a stroke of unimaginable good fortune, he gets his big break—though not the kind he’d always wished for. With a momentous decision, he opens a Pandora’s box that transforms him from a failed novelist into one of the hottest authors in the world. To avoid confusion with another famous writer from Maine, Steve uses his ancestral name, and the phenomenon known as Steven Konigsberg is born. Within weeks of his first book’s publication he is perched firmly on top of the bestseller lists. His subsequent novels only outdo each other. His face graces TV talk shows and magazine covers . But Steven Konigsberg has a very dark secret—a hidden skeleton that not only threatens his meteoric career, but may very well jeopardize the safety of his family and his own life. As a range of sinister people come out of the woodwork of the past, Steve must make an agonizing choice: confront his deepest secret . . . or lose far more than just his place on the bestseller list. An irresistible blend of gripping suspense and black humor, THE STORYTELLER is a colorful, inside look at the vanities, glamour, and power plays of the exotic world of publishing and fame . . . with a twist.
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Reynolds, Larry A Gamut of Stones
Hardcover: 1975 Simon & Pierre Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada 1st printing 0889240396
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Book like new - looks unread. Cover has wear consistent with its age. Bookstore rubber stamp on inside flyleaf. Shipping weight 595 (grams).
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Ricci, Nino Where She Has Gone
Hardcover: 1997 McClelland & Stewart Second printing 0771074549
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 560 (grams).
Beginning in Toronto, Canada, and moving to Italy, it is a beautifully crafted story of self-discovery that explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for an unrecoverable past.
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Rice, Anne Taltos
lives of the Mayfair witches
Hardcover: 1994 Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada 3rd printing 0394280644
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 970 (grams).
Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash ruled his clan. At once he is propelled into the world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family - the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species - a family intimately involved with the heritage of the Taltos, a family of unique, brilliant, and troubled souls struggling as they have for centuries to use both science and magic in their battle for greatness, even survival. At the heart of the novel is the Talamasca, a secular order of psychic scholars, the only organization in existence which may understand Ash, his Taltos past, and the dilemma of the Mayfair witches. The story of the Mayfair family continues, moving from London to Donnelaith, Scotland, to New Orleans, back and forth through time - from the origins of the Taltos and their mythic Lost Land to the moral crises of the present day.
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Rice, Anne Servant of the Bones
Hardcover: 1996 Knopf First edition stated 0679433015
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Slight stretching along top edge of DJ. Shipping weight 795 (grams).
In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.
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RICH, DORIS L. AMELIA EARHART: A BIOGRAPHY
Hardcover: 1989 Smithsonian Books Second printing 0874748364
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: 755 grams.
A biography of the famous aviatrix who disappeared in the South Pacific on an around-the-world flight attempt in 1937.
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Richards, David Adams Mercy Among the Children
Hardcover: 2000 Doubleday Canada Second printing 0385259174
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Some minor shelving wear at edges of DJ. Shipping weight 720 (grams).
Set in eastern New Brunswick, Canada, and spanning five decades this is a powerful tale of one man's childhood pact with God and its profound impact on his family's destiny. It is a novel about the the potential for joy and glory in the most desperate circumstances.
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Richardson, Bill BACHELOR BROTHERS' BED AND BREAKFAST
Trade paperback: 1997 Douglas & McIntyre,Canada Seventh printing 1550541129
Book: Fine. No DJ. Shipping weight: 235 grams.
Welcome to the Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast, a rustic retreat on a beautiful island. Your hosts are the endearingly eccentric Hector and Virgil, twins by birth but not by nature. Their B&B attracts a particular and sometimes peculiar clientele. This is the first volume in what has become an extensive comic franchise. The author originally wrote some of these goings-on for broadcast by the CBC. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.
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Richardson, Doug Northrop B-2 Bomber
Hardcover: 1991 Gallery Books Assumed first edition 0831714042
Book: Very good. No DJ. Illustrated boards have light scuffing. Title page has seam sewed/glued at slight angle. Shipping weight 370 (grams).
Legend has it that when an elderly Jack Northrop was shown a model of a new, super-secret bomber project being developed during the 1980s, he wept. At last, his belief in the flying wing had been vindicated, some four decades after his original testing of the concept had been all but dismissed out of hand. Now his dream would take to the skies once again. Cloaked in the secrecy of a “black” project, and shadowed by controversy at every turn, the new bomber was finally revealed to the world in late 1988--a massive wing all but invisible to an enemy; an aircraft so complex it is literally worth more than its weight in gold.. This detailed account charts the history and development to date of the Northrop B-2 stealth bomber, complete with over 55 photographs, full color artwork, performance tables and technical diagrams.
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Richie, Donald The Inland Sea
Trade Paper: 2002 Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA First thus 1880656698
Book: Fine. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾' - 7¾' tall. Shipping weight 310 (grams).
Sheltered between Japan's major islands lies the Inland Sea, a place modernity passed by. In this classic travel memoir, Donald Richie embarks on a quest to find Japan's timeless heart among the Inland Sea's mysterious waters and forgotten islands. This edition features a wealth of new material, including an introduction by Pico Iyer, photographs from the award-winning Inland Sea PBS documentary, and a new afterword by Richie. First published in 1971, The Inland Sea is a lucid, tender voyage of discovery and self-revelation.
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Richler, Mordecai Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports & Opinions
Hardcover: 1998 Knopf Canada First edition (stated) 0676971520
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Slight stretching along edges of DJ. Shipping Weight 615 (grams).
Mordecai Richler has divided 'Belling the Cat' into categories that speak to most of his interests: books, sports, travel and politics. Here we have his take on many unforgettable Canadians--heroes and sinners. From a riff on Woody Allen he takes us back to the glory days of filmmaking that instructed him in gangland etiquette and the colourful world of Jewish hoodlums like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegal, Little Hymie Holtz and Dopey Benny, who themselves 'turned to Hollywood for helpful hints on deportment.' For Saul Bellow he has warm admiration, and his tribute to Gordie Howe is as fond as it is thoughtful. He brings to life London in the fifties, and the Eastern Townships today, takes us on a safari in Kenya, to the Sphinx in Egypt, and to the fleshpots of Sun City outside Johannesburg. He is a storyteller at all times, and his vivid character sketches are as distinctive and enjoyable as is his unblinkered view of events.
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Richler, Mordecai On Snooker: the Game and the Characters who Play It
Hardcover: 2001 Knopf Canada First edition (stated) 0676973728
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. DJ has slight disruption to the gloss laminate where a label may have been peeled off--not noticeable viewed straight on. Price clipped. Shipping weight 500 (grams).
From his first days as a pool room hustler, playing truant from Baron Byng High School, Mordecai Richler has remained a snooker devotee. Here, in his inimitable style, he delves into the fascinating world of snooker with pith and perception. “On Snooker” is a brilliant, witty and compact look at the game of snooker--past and present--from a master storyteller. It is not just a lifelong fan's memoir: it takes us on an entertaining journey through the story and world of snooker, from the odd origins of the game--borne the illegitimate child of billiards on a British Indian Army base in the 19th century--to the now wildly popular world championship at the Crucible in Sheffield, England.
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Riley, Dick THE NEW BEDSIDE, BATHTUB AND ARMCHAIR COMPANION TO AGATHA CHRISTIE
Trade paperback: 1997 Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Revised edition 0804467250
Book: Fine. No DJ. Looks unread. Shipping weight: 570 grams.
This is an Agatha Christie treasury to dip into time and again. This new Companion is even juicier than the best-selling first edition. More than 30 pages of articles, photos and movie posters have been added to this popular celebration of her work. Back by popular demand are witty synopses of all the novels, plays, and short story collections (without revealing the whodunit's), Christie's own comments on the stories, features articles on themes in her work—and that's just a sampling, there's so much more!
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Ripley, Alexandra Scarlett
the sequel to 'Gone With The Wind'
Hardcover: 1991 Warner Books 1st ed. 0446515078
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Sequel to 'Gone with the Wind.' This novel seamlessly picks up the narrative, bringing us back to Tara and the characters we remember so well. We meet fascinating new people who enrich and enlarge the story. And we get to know many more who stayed in the background of Margaret Mitchell's opus, as they step forward in this long-awaited sequel by the writer chosen by the Mitchell estate to continue her work.
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Ristad, Eloise A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances
(Foreword, by Lorin Hollander, concert pianist)
Trade Paperback: 1982 Real People Press Fourth printing 1990 0911226214
Book: Very good. No DJ. Gift inscription (in French) inside front cover. Shipping weight 365 (grams).
Eloise Ristad deals here with complex problems which torment and cripple so many of our most creative and talented people, and she does so with compassion, wisdom, and wit. The problem of stage fright, for instance, is a suffering of epidemic proportions in our society, and involves modalities of thought and projections that rob spontaneity and enthusiasm in artistic performance. Those interested in creative education have long felt that an entirely new, holistic and nurturing process of allowing individuals to discover and express themselves is needed if our educational system is to avoid the neuroses and creative blocks of the past generation. This book illuminates through its conversational style the destructive inhibitions, fears, and guilt experienced by all of us as we fail to break through to creativity. What is most important, 'A Soprano on Her Head' supplies answers and methods for overcoming these universal psychological blocks--methods that have not only been proven in her own studio, but which trace back through history to the oldest and wisest systems of understanding the integration of mind and body. [A note on the credit page states: 'The principles underlying the methods in this book have been further refined and specified by the field of Neuro-Linguistic programming.']
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Robb, Peter Midnight in Sicily
Trade Paperback: 2007 Picador First trade paper edition 0312426844
Book: Very good+. No DJ. Shipping weight 440 (grams).
South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily -- with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology -- home to an ancient culture that has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.
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Roberson, Jennifer Lady Of Sherwood
Hardcover: 1999 Kensington Second printing (1st ed.) 1575664755
Book: Very good. DJ: Good+. One creased page corner. Remainder slash across bottom page edges. Some creasing and chipping along DJ edges. One serious tear bottom of back cover near UPC block (tape repaired. Shipping weight 705 (grams).
Maid Marian series – 2. Lady Marian of Ravenskeep, her honor proving stronger than her desire, flees into the depths of Sherwood Forest, where, amid wild tangled woods, she will be transformed from lady to warrior, as Robin Hood's partner in stealing King John's gold, and as the woman who has captured his heart. It is a spellbinding tale that carries the reader into the deep forest, where vanished days live on in glittering splendor...and a shared passion for adventure joins two souls forever.
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Roberts, Monty The Horses in My Life
Hardcover: 2005 Random House Canada First Canadian edition 0679313648
Book: Very good. DJ: Fine. Front cover very slightly sprung. Shipping Weight 880 (grams).
Monty Roberts is famous the world over as 'the man who listens to horses.' This book is a celebration of his best-loved horses, chosen from the tens of thousands he has worked with over the past sixty years. These are the stories of the horses he has learned from the most, or that have impressed themselves most indelibly on his memory and his heart.
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Roberts, Monty The Man Who Listens To Horses
Hardcover: 1997 Knopf Canada First Canadian edition 0676970559
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight tear at top of DJ at front fold (tape repaired). Rough patch inside back cover where security device was removed. Shipping Weight 630 (grams).
This book chronicles Monty Roberts' life with horses. Monty listens to horses and they listen to him. He has been called the real-life 'horse whisperer' -- but his amazing horse-sense is based on a lifetime of studying horses, training them, learning what he calls 'the language of Equus.' A distinguished American veterinarian called his work 'the greatest communication between man and animal that I have ever seen.'
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Roberts, Monty Horse Sense for People: Using the Gentle Wisdom of Join-Up to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Work
Hardcover: 2001 Viking Adult First US edition 0670899755
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Monty Roberts's 'The Man Who Listens to Horses' spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list, sold more than three million copies worldwide, and was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as 'the kind of life-altering book you never want to finish.' In 'Horse Sense for People,' the man who overcame his father's brutality to become the horse gentler to Queen Elizabeth II asks us to rethink the way we use power over others and shows how with humans--as with horses--the gentle way is the better way. By turns practical, philosophical, and provocative, 'Horse Sense for People' demonstrates how trust, respect, and communication--not coercion--are the key to fruitful relationships. Rich in anecdotes about both horses and people, it applies the lifetime of lessons Roberts learned from horses, and developed in his revolutionary 'join-up' method, to the way we relate to one another in the workplace and at home. This is the book, from a celebrated and charismatic author, that professionals, parents, and horse lovers have been asking for.
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Robinson, Larry ROBINSON FOR THE DEFENCE
Hardcover: 1988 McGraw-Hill Ryerson First edition 0075495023
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'Robinson for the Defence' is an insiders view of the NHL and the Montréal Canadiens, its most storied franchise. From his beginnings on the frozen creeks of the eastern Ontario countryside to his being named a member of the Canadien's all time All-Star team, we meet Larry Robinson, a six-time Stanley Cup winner and one of the freshest personalities in sports. We also meet the superstars of the other teams past and present—many of whom joined Robinson as his teammates on various Canada Cup and NHL All-Star teams.
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Robinson, Lynda S. Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing
Hardcover: 1996 Walker & Co., NYC 2nd printing 0802732747
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Lord Meren, The Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh series - 1. From the royal court to a country home, 'Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing' opens a window onto an ancient culture, bringing to life one of the most refined protagonists in mystery fiction. Whether dealing with the considerable charms of the Lady Bentanta, protecting the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, or facing the discovery of a corpse in the sanctity of his own home, Lord Meren, The Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh, provides timeless excitement for all readers. Meren, under the pharaoh's orders, is taking some time for himself; unfortunately, his family has decided that rest and recreation mean throwing a Feast of Rejoicing. It couldn't happen at a worse time: Hidden along the Nile are the remains and treasures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, being moved to protect them from disgruntled priests. Meren and his son, Kysen, are responsible for their safety. That is why the discovery of the body of the sharp-tongued shrew, Anhai, wife of his cousin, in one of his granaries so disturbs him. Now, while obeying the commands of his king and protecting the royal remains, Meren must investigate a murder that strikes close to home, a murder for which it seems one of his relatives or guests is responsible.
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Robinson, Peter The Summer That Never Was
Hardcover: 2003 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada 1st printing 0771076029
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Previously published as: 'Close to Home'. While recuperating from the events of 'Aftermath' on a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from the road where he disappeared more than thirty-five years earlier. Intrigued by the discovery, and still consumed with guilt because of a related incident he failed to report at the time, Banks returns to his hometown in Cambridgeshire and becomes peripherally involved in the investigation, headed by newcomer Detective Inspector Michelle Hart. At the same time, a few counties away, the case of another missing teenager--the son of a famous model and step-son of an ex-footballer, is handed to DI Annie Cabbot. Banks shuttles between the two cases far apart in time but perhaps not so far apart in character. When the lives of both detectives are threatened, Banks searches his own memories for clues, until he is finally forced to confront truths he would rather avoid, and finds that, in these investigations, the boundary between victim and perpetrator, guardian of the law and law-breaker is becoming ever more blurred. A gripping crime novel, set in the present day, 'The Summer That Never Was' is also a gritty and evocative portrait of northern England in the sixties, and an exploration of the nature of memory, the destruction of families, and adolescence.
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Robinson, Peter Piece of My Heart
Hardcover: 2006 McClelland & Stewart, Canada Second printing 0771076096
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Inspector Alan Banks series - 16. Richly textured with the music and conflicting mores of 1960s Britain, the story weaves between two eras as it explores just how dangerously things can go awry when one generation becomes estranged from the next. More than thirty-five years on, Inspector Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist when he discovers this is not the first time a certain famous UK rock band has been brushed by tragedy. He must delve into the past to find out what hornet's nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up.
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Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr. Spidertown
Hardcover: 1993 Hyperion Books, NYC 1st ed. 1562828452
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Miguel is riding high on the streets of the Bronx, satisfied with his job as a drug runner for Spider--mentor, friend, and small-time crack kingpin. Along with his roommate, an arsonist named Firebug, Miguel tries to fit a lifetime of partying, casual sex, and high times into a few short years. But when he meets the beautiful and practical-minded Cristalena, the shallowness and imminent danger of his world come crashing home. Tense, gritty, and moving, written in the fast, rhythmic language of the streets, 'Spidertown' captures a world where children own guns, where death is a part of everyday life, and where, miraculously, hope manages to survive.
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Roe, Caroline (aka: Medora Sale) Consolation for an Exile
Hardcover: 2004 Berkley First edition (Stated) 0425198375
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Chronicles of Isaac of Girona series - 8. The spring of 1355 brings unexpected changes in Girona. For Isaac the physician, it is time to bid farewell to his student Yusuf, who has become a well-loved member of the family. Yusuf heads to Grenada to meet his real family after they thought him dead for years. Leaving Girona and its problems behind, Yusuf faces challenges of his own as he tries to acquit himself appropriately at the court of his cousin in Grenada. Though he is overjoyed to see his family, two narrow escapes from danger lead him to believe that someone within the castle walls is less than happy about his return. Fleeing for his life, the boy heads for the only truly safe haven he knows. As political, religious, and familial intrigue once again converge on Girona, Isaac copes with the sudden passing of a patient. Now, Isaac must use all his skills and every clue at his disposal to untangle an elaborate web of lies, secrets, and ambition-before another victim is claimed.
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Roland, Paul CRIME SCENES
revealing the science behind the evidence
Hardcover: 2006 Capella UK First Canadian edition 1841937169
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'Crime Scenes' takes you step-by-step through forensic methods: from securing scenes of crime, through the analysis of blood stains and the insights provided by toxicology, to the benefits of scientific analysis in determining causes of death. It also vividly demonstrates how these procedures have helped solve notorious criminal cases from early days up to the present.
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Rooney, Andrew A. WORD FOR WORD
Hardcover: 1986 Putnam Adult First edition 0399132007
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The humorist and commentator offers a collection of essays on such topics as psychiatrists, diets, sweepstakes, spies, the fifty-first state, politics, repairmen, grandfatherhood, and gardening.
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Roper, Robert Cuervo Tales
Hardcover: 1993 Ticknor & Fields, NYC 0899199887
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These ten interlinked stories, set in California and seen through the lens of memory, chronicle the life of Abel Richards, a man who came of age in the late 1960s and witnessed much of the turmoil of the next decade: drugs, the 'back to the earth' movement, experimentation with love and its permutations, a marriage not properly tended and allowed to founder. Set in the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains and portrayed with Robert Roper's keen eye and disciplined prose, the tales play powerfully on the themes of memory, desire, and regret and explore the relationship between the sexes with compassion and insight. Whether recalling a friend lost to drugs, a marriage slipping into disarray, or the communal life of the 1960s, with its sexual freedom and economic and emotional dependence on drugs, Roper tells these stories with an honesty and richness that vividly bring back to life one of our pivotal eras while subtly holding it up to the judgment of time. The collection concludes with a remarkable pair of stories about a son who first comes to Richards' attention eighteen years after his birth. Cuervo Tales is a marvelous achievement by a writer in full command of his material: unflinching, evocative, deeply moving. It will be enjoyed as much for its forceful storytelling as for its powerful portrayal of a period now as distant as the mountains of Atlantis.
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Rorem, Ned KNOWING WHEN TO STOP :
a memoir
Hardcover: 1994 Simon & Schuster First edition 0671728725
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Ned Rorem is among America's greatest modern composers. He astutely analyzes his astonishing career in this revealing memoir covering his first 28 years, ending in 1951 when his published diaries begin. Starting in Chicago, moving to New York, Paris, Morocco, and other points both exotic and familiar, this memoir is a masterpiece of distances pulled together, lives resurrected, opportunities ignored, chances recaptured. This new book's unflinching candor goes well beyond the narcissistic boundaries of the diaries. Here is the life of a man who knew himself perhaps too well.
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Roscoe, Patrick The Lost Oasis
Trade Paper: 1995 McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada 1st printing 0771075790
Book: Very Fine. No Jacket. Shipping weight 670 (grams).
A telephone call from a small B.C. town awakens Richard in Sevilla with the news that his father has disappeared. His passport has been discovered in the desert, and Richard feels compelled to look for him. This will not be the first time that his father - a charismatic yet detached presence - has occasioned a difficult journey. Greetings from the end of the world. Seven words on the back of a postcard. His father's last, from the Moroccan town where Richard begins his search. A search both backwards and forwards through time. A search that leads towards where a passport was discovered somewhere on the sand. Pulled gradually deeper into the charged atmosphere of this landscape, Richard is caught between his desire to return to his lover in Spain and the need to find out what happened to his father. What happened to them all.
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Rose, Norman CHURCHILL: AN UNRULY LIFE
Hardcover: 1994 Simon & Schuster Second printing 0671711040
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It was said by his contemporaries that when Winston Churchill was born he was blessed by the faeries with all the gifts: imagination, eloquence, industry and ability; but denied judgment and wisdom. For much of his long political career he was the most detested and mistrusted man in British political life, yet he retired acclaimed as ‘the savior of his country,’ ‘the greatest Englishmen of all time.’ Churchill's place in the pantheon of history is assured, yet through his story runs a tragic thread--how the scion of a great aristocratic house, in many ways the quintessential English aristocrat, came to preside over his country's decline.
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Rosenberg, Robert An Accidental Murder
Hardcover: 1999 Scribner, NYC 1st printing 068485032x
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Avram Cohen series - 4. 'OF ALL HIS MANY REGRETS, IT WAS HIS DECISION TO WRITE HIS MEMORIES THAT AVRAM COHEN NOW REGRETTED THE MOST' Thus begins 'An Accidental Murder', the latest book in Robert Rosenberg's acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany's Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark netherworld of the new Russian mafia in Israel, Avram Cohen is revealed as never before--a man with a complex past that makes his future most uncertain. Someone wants to kill Cohen (or so it seems ) possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat. Is this a revenge killing somehow aimed at Cohen, or as Nissim's former assistant believes, could the Russian mafioso be involved? From private nightclubs where mafia kingpins entertain with vodka-drenched feasts to massage parlors where the women work with cold-blooded professionalism, Cohen's search for Levy's killer becomes a twisted journey into a new side of Israel hardly known to the outsider. On the way, Cohen must look back at his own guilt before he can unveil a killer with a misguided but nonetheless profound motive for murder. This finely drawn novel is, like all the Cohen novels, a portrait of a deeply complicated man trying hard to be moral in a world where greed rules. Building an atmosphere of personal pain and paranoia up until the very last pages of the book, Rosenberg gives us a tour de force.
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Rosenfelt, David Bury the Lead
Hardcover: 2004 Mysterious Press Second printing 089296782X
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Andy Carpenter series - 3. The hero of David Rosenfelt's previous novels 'Open and Shut' and 'First Degree', Andy returns to prove the innocence of a reporter accused of being a serial killer. Defense attorney Andy Carpenter has been successfully avoiding taking on new cases until his sometime friend and newspaper owner, Vince Sanders, calls and asks him for a favor. Daniel Cummings, Vince's star reporter, is being used as the mouthpiece for a brutal serial killer. He has been cooperating with the police but Vince wants to make sure both the newspaper and Daniel are protected. Andy thinks the case will be a piece of cake....until Daniel is found unconscious in the park next to the killer's latest victim. Daniel claims he intended to stop the murder but the police arrest him. Now, with the help of his girlfriend Laurie and his partner Kevin, Andy reluctantly plunges into the case. And as he learns more about Daniel's shady background he begins to wonder how deadly the truth might be.
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Roszak, Theodore Dreamwatcher
Hardcover: 1985 Doubleday, NYC 1st ed. 0385188943
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Like new - looks unread. Shipping weight 445 (grams).
Imagine having the power to observe the dreams of others -- to have intimate knowledge of the most secret desires, the most dreaded terrors, the childish delights, the sexual fantasies of anyone you might choose. Then imagine having the power to enter those dreams and reshape them. Deirdre Vale is a dreamwatcher, one of a select group whose extraordinary talent could be a boon to medical science. But as she discovers to her horror, her powers have become the focus of malicious intrigue whose purpose is not to heal the soul, but to torment it with lethal nightmares. Theodore Roszak's 'Dreamwatcher' is a haunting psychological thriller, a story that finds both terror and heroism in the depths of the dreaming mind.
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Roy, Gabrielle Enchantment and sorrow: The autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
(translated from the French by Patricia Claxton)
Hardcover: 1987 Lester & Orpen Denys First edition (stated) 0886191017
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching and chipping along DJ edges. Shipping weight 1,070 (grams).
Shortly before her death in 1983, one of Canada's greatest writers finally set aside fictional characters to tell her own story. This candid portrait of Roy's first 30 years is an honest, deeply moving accout of a young woman's search for purpose...and a voice. It is a brilliant portrait of a vanished era--from her poverty-filled childhood as one of 8 children in St. Boniface, Manitoba, through her travels in Europe on the brink of war, to her return home just before writing 'The Tin Flute'--this is a superbly crafted, intensely personal story, and a major literary autobiography.
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Rozan, S.J. Absent Friends
Hardcover: 2004 Delacorte Press, NYC 1st printing 0385338031
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Jimmy. Markie. Vickie. Marian. Sally. Tom. Jack. Childhood friends, each will live in the shadow of a past that still echoes with hopes and regrets. Markie will die in prison. Jim will die a hero when the Towers fall. But it is a reporter's suicide and a colleague's desperate search for answers in the dark aftermath of a horrifying tragedy that will finally penetrate their silence. Both a daring mystery and a tribute to an event that changed our lives irrevocably, it is 'Absent Friends' rich characters and indelible portrait of New York City that readers will find unforgettable -- and that mark this extraordinary novel as the signature work of an author poised to take her place in the front ranks.
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Rubenfeld, Jed The Interpretation of Murder
Hardcover: 2006 Henry Holt and Co. First edition (Stated) 0805080988
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Some creasing and chipping around edges of die-cut on front of DJ. Shipping weight 735 (grams).
In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses. Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s only visit to America, 'The Interpretation of Murder' is an intricate tale of murder and the mind’s most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and protégé. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier--whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty--a rebellious heiress who scorns both high society and her less adventurous parents--barely escapes the killer. Yet Nora Acton, suffering from hysteria, can recall nothing of her attack. Asked to help her, Dr. Stratham Younger, America’s most committed Freudian analyst, calls in his idol, the Master himself, to guide him through the challenges of analyzing this high-spirited young woman whose family past has been as complicated as his own. As Freud fends off a mysterious conspiracy to destroy him, Younger is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into the subterfuges of the human mind.
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Rucka, Greg Critical Space
Hardcover: 2001 Bantam Books, NYC 1st printing 0553801325
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The acclaimed author of 'Shooting at Midnight' has penned a thriller like no other ... the no-holds-barred story of a bodyguard with the ultimate assignment: protecting a woman who also happens to be the most hunted killer in the world...
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Russell, Andy The Canadian Cowboy: Stories of Cows, Cowboys and Cayuses
Hardcover: 1993 McClelland & Stewart First printing 0771078803
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. AUTHOR SIGNED on half-title page. Third-party gift inscription on flyleaf. Some spotting on book cover. Shipping weight 620 (grams).
Andy Russell's colorful narrative takes us from the earliest days of the Spanish vaqueros, the ranches of Old Mexico and the great cattle drives across Texas. Along the way meet historical and legendary characters, including Howard Eaton, Charlie Russell, Pat Burns and John Ware -- men who helped shape the West and our perceptions of it.
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Russell, Andy Memoirs of a Mountain Man
Hardcover: 1984 Macmillan of Canada First thus 0771598114
Book: Very good. DJ: Very good. Some chips and stretching along DJ edges. Slight fading along spine. Shipping weight 645 (grams).
Andy Russell has been a trapper, cowboy, bronco-buster, trail guide, grizzly hunter, nature photographer and filmmaker, lecturer, and fighter for the environment.This is the story of his adventures as a trail guide in the 'standing-on-end country' of southern Alberta and British Columbia, and into the Yukon and Alaska. He recounts his experiences shepherding rich 'sports' through the primeval wilderness in search of fish and game, often finding more than they bargained for. Above all, the book is about the immense changes that have transformed life in the Canadian Rockies over the past century. Memoirs of a Mountain Man' is a lively, sensitively-observed account of outdoors life in some of the most awesome landscapes on the planet.
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Russell, Mary THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT
women travellers and their world
Trade paperback: 1988 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Fourth printing 0002179814
Book: Very good. No DJ. Shipping weight: 455 grams.
Some of the most remarkable journeys ever made have been made by women, but what is it that makes them abandon the comfort and safety of home for the risks and dangers of the unknown? Mary Russell re-creates a gallery of many striking, often eccentric individuals with a fresh and vivid pen, and brings a real insight into the attitudes they brought to their traveling as well as into just what makes them set off across the world, and demonstrates that woman's name is certainly not frailty.
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Ryan, Chris The Hit List
Hardcover: 2000 Century Books, London, UK 1st printing 0712684115
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 610 (grams).
When Robert Maxwell is assassinated by an unknown agency, conflicting interests in the arms trade threaten all-out war. Ex-SAS Corporal Pete Slater is trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, but when he is accidentally caught up in an attempt by terrorists to kidnap one of his pupils, he finds himself sucked back into the world of undercover operations. A mission to kill an arms dealer in Paris leads to a high-speed chase across Europe and into Eastern Europe. There Slater discovers the connection between Robert Maxwell, the arms industry and the origins in Nazism of the government agency who employs him.
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Sabbag, Robert Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail
Hardcover: 2002 Little, Brown First edition (stated) 0316765112
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping Weight 620 (grams).
'Loaded' is the true story of a career in the marijuana trade of the 70s, with all the wild ups and downs of the time. Lured equally by adventure and profit, young Allen Long was the first North American smuggler to bring a plane load of Colombian pot back to this country, and the first to capitalize on the growing demand for a steady supply of high quality bud. Long's business quickly grew, bringing him unimaginable riches and the wildest of high times. In a spectacular narrative, Sabbag captures the thrills of a smuggler's career, the adrenaline and idealism, as well as the perplexities of doing business while perpetually stoned.
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Sallis, James Death Will Have Your Eyes
Hardcover: 1997 St. Martin's Press, NYC 1st ed. 0312155131
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David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board.
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Salt, W. Ray & Jim R. THE BIRDS OF ALBERTA
with their ranges in Saskatchewan & Manitoba
Hardcover: 1976 Hurtig Third printing 0888301081
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: 905 grams.
'The Birds of Alberta' is back by popular demand—with an entirely new, updated and expanded text, 303 color illustrations, 13 black-and-white drawings and 288 maps. Every new species of birds cited in the province has been included; descriptions of established species have been refined with a rigorous care; 251 new photographs have been added for easier and more accurate identification. These authors do not maintain a cold distance from their subject, and their enthusiasm makes the reader take a second look at even the common sparrow.
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Sanders, Dennis & Len Lovallo Agatha Christie Companion
Hardcover: 1985 Random House Value Publishing Second edition 0517479257
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight creasing and chipping along DJ edges. Tear at top rear corner of DJ has been tape repaired. DJ in protective plastic sleeve. Shipping weight 775 (grams).
The “Agatha Christie Companion” is an indispensable reference book covering everything that Christie ever wrote and every movie, play, and TV film based on her work. Plot summaries are complemented by Christie's own comments, reviews, dedications, casts of plays and films, and much, much more. Also included is material on what Christie was doing and what was happening to her at the time she was writing each work, and how she incorporated this into her novels, stories, and plays.
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Sanders, Lawrence Timothy's Game
Hardcover: 1988 Putnam, NYC 1st printing 0399133682
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The unforgettable detective introduced in 'The Timothy Files' returns in a game of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres.
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Sanders, Lawrence The Tenth Commandment
Hardcover: 1980 Putnam, NYC 0399125000
Book: Very Good. DJ: Good-Fine. DJ somewhat scuffed and battered. Book in good condition for its age. Shipping weight 820 (grams).
Another powerhouse thrill-ride from the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Sanders's 'The Tenth Commandment' is a masterpiece of murder and intrigue, featuring a detective's hunt for a team of killers who've turned religion into a racket for revenge.
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Sanders, Lawrence The Case of Lucy Bending
Hardcover: 1982 Putnam Adult Assumed first edition 0399127240
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. White DJ with some fading along spine. Slight stretching and chipping along DJ edges. Shipping weight 790 (grams).
Evil disguises itself as a precocious eight-year-old with unnatural desires -- and murderous intentions. Studded with a multitude of provocative subplots, “The Case of Lucy Bending” grows from the fascinating story of one particular child to encompass the wealth of sins, misalliances and hidden excesses that exist, but rarely surface, in any town. Steeped in the lush sun- and rum-drenched aura of southern Florida, peopled by a cast of characters too desperate to forget, this novel probes the morals and mores of a whole society, and the lifestyles -- visible and hidden -- that make it what it is.
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Sandlin, Tim Social Blunders
Hardcover: 1995 Henry Holt, NYC 1st ed. 0805016287
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Shipping weight 600 (grams).
Sam Callahan was old enough to know better. Old enough to have sidestepped the trap that was Wanda, his now-wandering wife: Wanda of the black braids and ferocious tongue who's run off with his Datsun 240Z, his baseball card collection, and the pool boy - the kid with 'Born to Loose' (sic) tattooed across his left shoulder blade. Sam's all-knowing daughter, Shannon, has his problem pegged: 'Heartbreak to you is like garlic to a cook,' she tells him, not without some sympathy. And it's a fact: Sam does tend to wallow in romantic angst. But Wanda is one wallow too many. Hoping to jolt Sam from his vapors and knowing well how her father broods on his legendary misconception (a night of drunken debauch, an anonymous inseminator), Shannon digs up the names and addresses of all his possible dads. Then, handing over the list, she tells Sam to get on with his life. Soon Sam is banging on doors and interrupting lives in hot pursuit of his missing daddy. It isn't long before he has five families in an uproar of mistaken identity and sexual shenanigans. And it isn't a whole lot longer still before Sam finds himself running for his life.
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Sarton, May & Susan Sherman May Sarton: among the usual days (a portrait: unpublished poems, letters, journals, and photographs)
Hardcover: 1993 W.W. Norton, NYC 1st printing 0393034518
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 940 (grams).
Still writing and growing in her early eighties, May Sarton long ago established a unique niche for herself in twentieth-century American literature: in numerous volumes of poetry, fiction, and personal journals she has created a body of work that is both artistically beautiful and comforting, while always testifying to the importance of courage and love in the survival of the perceptive individual. 'May Sarton: Among the Usual Days' is a treasure trove of her unpublished writing, carefully selected by longtime friend Susan Sherman from almost seventy years of correspondence and journals stored in the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, in May Sarton's own files, and in other archives. Thematically arranged, these passages reflect the seasons of her flowering as writer, teacher, daughter, lover, friend, and fiercely independent thinker. Lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished photos of Sarton and her closest companions from her infancy to the present, in 'May Sarton: Among the Usual Days' all of the great abiding themes of her craft recur and expand: her respect for poetic form, hunger for love, appreciation for the centrality of solitude, commitment to enduring friendship, unabashed relish for the natural world in all its aspects, and zeal in pursuit of honesty above all, no matter what the cost. Her canny eye and ear bring alive her encounters with such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, Eva Le Gallienne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bowen, Andre Malraux, Rebecca West, and Julian and Juliette Huxley. 'May Sarton: Among the Usual Days' is finally a celebration, a cornucopia of earned wisdom and ardent candor that reveals over and again, in Sherman's words, the distinguished writer May Sarton's own 'sacramentalization of the ordinary.'
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Saul, John Black Lightning
Hardcover: 1995 Fawcett Columbine, NYC 1st ed. 044990864x
Book: Good-Fine. DJ: Fine. Flyleaf shows signs of separating at title page, but binding intact and tight. Shipping weight 790 (grams).
For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal--crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. . . Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man's last words to her: 'Today won't end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I'm dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?'
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Savitch, Jessica ANCHORWOMAN
Hardcover: 1982 Putnam First edition 0399127356
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Some fading and minor repairs to DJ. Shipping weight: 480 grams.
A frank and straightforward account of the award-winning television newswoman's childhood in rural Pennsylvania and New Jersey, her rise in television news broadcasting--as gofer, reporter, and anchorwoman--and her success in the predominantly male bastion of broadcasting.
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Schevill, Ferdinand A History of Europe
Hardcover: 1949 Harcourt Brace, NYC Reissue
Book: Good. No Jacket. Original edition published 1925, with many revisions and reprints. This is a reprint of the 1946 revision. Front endpapers: color physical map of western Europe; back endpapers: color political map of Europe 1914. Numerous maps and illustrations inside. 937 pages, uniformly browning. Used as a college textbook. Text officially annotated with marginalia. Also, there is underlining and annotation throughout with blue ink. Previous owner identified on inside flyleaf. Shipping weight 1,300 (grams).
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Schiff, Stacy Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
Trade Paper: 2000 Random House Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada 0679310428
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 460 (grams).
At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, 'Véra' explores a remarkable literary partnership - that of a woman who devoted her life to her husband's art and a man who dedicated his works to his wife. Open a volume of Nabokov's and there is Véra on the dedication page. But search for her elsewhere, and his wife of fifty-two years, the woman who literally plucked 'Lolita' from the flames, fades from view. Véra's story, never told, never really known at all before - is based on new material, including Vladimir's diaries and letters, and family correspondence.
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Schonberg, Harold C. HOROWITZ: HIS LIFE AND MUSIC
Hardcover: 1992 Simon & Schuster First edition 0671725688
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: 780 grams.
This full portrait of Horowitz's life and music benefits particularly from hitherto unpublished anecdotes and information that derived from a series of taped interviews the author conducted with Horowitz toward the end of his life. Here is the man, the musician, the icon, the raconteur. Through Schonberg's assessment of the special kind of genius that Horowitz brought to the piano and of his position among the other keyboard giants of his time, this biography is a panorama that takes in a good part of the 20th century's piano world.
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Schreiner, John The refiners: A century of BC Sugar
Hardcover: 1989 Douglas & McIntyre, Canada First printing 0888946554
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 770 (grams).
It took a brash young American entrepreneur with excellent business connections and unusual foresight to build a sugar refinery in the Pacific outpost city of Vancouver in 1891. Even more remarkable, the company has been guided continuously since its founding (except for one ten-year period) by members of the founder's family. From Fiji and the Dominican Republic to the Canadian Prairies, the history of BC Sugar has been a roller-coaster ride to maintain a viable and highly profitable business enterprise for more than a century.
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Schulman, Audrey The Cage
Hardcover: 1999 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NYC 1st printing 1565120353
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. 12mo - over 6¾' - 7¾' tall. Shipping weight 375 (grams).
In Churchill, Manitoba, polar bears gather each fall waiting for the ice to freeze on the Hudson Bay so they can stalk out to their winter habitat where they hunt their prey. Until then, the bears prowl through the town, scavenge through the dump, and often begin to starve. Beryl is a nature photographer on an expedition to photograph these hungry bears from a small iron cage. She has never photographed animals larger than deer and has usually worked in zoos, not in the wild. Now she is challenging herself to face the world's largest land carnivore in the bone-aching cold of an unforgiving terrain that offers no protection should the cage fail. Beryl's companions include three men: David, a video cameraman who would prefer a tropical assignment; Butler, a naturalist and writer; and Jean-Claude, their enigmatic guide. Even before they leave Churchill their group runs into trouble, for despite their state-of-the-art survival gear and high-tech gadgetry, Beryl and her companions are not prepared for the numbing, killing reality that awaits them in the cage. Miles from Churchill, the expedition goes disastrously wrong and they must try to make their way past starving bears, across frozen tundra and treacherous ice floes, to the warmth and safety of town. 'The Cage' is a gripping adventure of a woman who goes to a dangerous place in search of herself and finds she must draw on her every strength in order to survive.
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Schulman, Helen P.S.
Hardcover: 2001 Bloomsbury Plc. USA, NYC 1st ed. 1582341575
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Very Fine. Plasticized cover. Shipping weight 580 (grams).
From the acclaimed author of 'Out Of Time' and 'The Revisionist' comes an exuberant, sexy novel about first love and second chances, and a wholly unexpected romantic adventure.
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Schwarz, Friedhelm Nestlé: The Secrets of Food, Trust and Globalization
translated from German by Maya Anyas
Hardcover: 2002 Key Porter Books First English-language edition 1552634183
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Previous owner's name on bottom of inside front cover, behind DJ flap. Shipping Weight 560 (grams).
Independently commissioned history, researched and written with consent and cooperation of the corporation. Among the world's major multinational corporations, Nestlé is in a unique situation. While its presence is felt in just about every country around the world and its products sell successfully, the company's name has been tainted by a major scandal. Nestlé's business practices were called into question after a number of infant deaths in developing countries - where mothers had given up breastfeeding in favor of the company's manufactured formula. Had Nestlé overlooked health concerns in favor of profit? Had the company neglected to inform consumers about the proper ways to use their products? In 'Nestlé: The Secrets of Food, Trust and Globalization', author Friedhelm Schwarz examines these issues and then looks beyond the baby formula scandal, offering an insightful, informative history of one of the world's largest multinationals - from the company's formation in 1866 to the post-scandal era, from founding fathers to current CEO Helmut Maucher. Readers will learn about the company's organizational structure and business practices, its successful globalization, and its efforts to diversify. Discussions of genetically altered food, world hunger, and doing business in the third world are also included. With its objective, comprehensive approach, 'Nestlé' stands as an important contribution to the business history genre.
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Schwegel, Theresa Probable Cause
Hardcover: 2006 St. Martin's Minotaur First edition stated 0312343167
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 460 (grams).
Officer Ray Weiss is a cop’s son, a cop’s grandson. All he’s ever wanted is to follow in their footsteps. But when he finds out what the senior officers in Chicago’s District 20 have in store for him and the other rookies as “initiation” into their brotherhood, he has to make a choice. Ray’s senior partner, Jack Fiore, asks him to break into a jewelry store and steal a few pieces. It’s just a little fun---especially because they’re set up to be the first cops on-scene to “discover” the crime. No one gets hurt, and everybody’s happy: Fiore gets the jewelry, Ray gets to be one of the boys, and the store owner gets his insurance money. Ray doesn’t want to do it, but Fiore leaves him no alternative. It all goes wrong when Ray breaks into the store and finds a corpse instead of his promised reward. Coincidence, or was that part of the setup, payback for being a reluctant rookie? And it doesn’t end there, because Detective Sloane Pearson is on the case, and if Ray doesn’t help her look for the killer, she might discover him. 'Probable Cause' is another gripping read from Theresa Schwegel, the Edgar Award--winning author of 'Officer Down', whose portrayal of cop culture is as authentic as it comes.
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Schwegel, Theresa Officer Down
Hardcover: 2005 St. Martin's Minotaur First edition stated 0312343140
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. AUTHOR SIGNED on title page. Remainder dot on page tops. Shipping weight 475 (grams).
Chicago police officer Samantha Mack's gun killed her partner. But who pulled the trigger?
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Schwegel, Theresa Person of Interest
Hardcover: 2007 St. Martin's Minotaur Fourth printing 0312364261
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Slight stretching of rear top edge of DJ. Light remainder mark on top page edges. Shipping weight 680 (grams).
Leslie McHugh is married to an undercover cop. She thinks she knows what it’s like to share her life with a man who spends his days living a lie, who keeps secrets for a living, who trusts no one, not even her. She can see the pressure, the fear, the pent-up rage, and, worst of all, the distance growing between them that Craig promised he’d never allow. But what does she really know? Lonely, tired, and starting to drink too much, she knows that their marriage is on the rocks because her husband lives a second life she knows almost nothing about. When a thousand dollars disappears from their bank account, she wants answers, but before she can even ask the questions, their seventeen-year-old daughter, a real cop’s kid already on a collision course with trouble, turns up at the center of Craig’s investigation into a snitch’s violent death. Leslie’s had enough; she’s determined to get to the truth and protect her family---no matter what the cost. Again and again, Edgar Award winner Theresa Schwegel shows a remarkable ability to get inside a cop’s world---both at the precinct house and at home---making 'Person of Interest' some of the most compelling crime fiction in bookstores today.
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Scoppettone, Sandra Everything You Have Is Mine
Hardcover: 1991 Little Brown, Boston, MA 1st ed. 0316776467
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 595 (grams).
Lauren Laurano series - 1. Lauren Laurano is surely not the first gay P.I. in New York City, but she is in a class by herself. When she's on a case she becomes obsessed by it. Lovely, shy Lake Huron has been raped but refuses to talk. Before Lauren can learn more, Lake is killed, and as Lauren moves closer to the truth, her own life is enangered and she discovers a family's past can't always stay buried.
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Scott, Ronald McNair ROBERT THE BRUCE: KING OF SCOTS
Hardcover: 1989 Peter Bedrick Books, NYC First US edition
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: 570 grams.
When, after years of struggle, Scotland was reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England it was Robert the Bruce who led the Scots in a heroic fight for Scotland's independence. This book brilliantly recounts the story of one of the most remarkable and admirable medieval kings. The gripping narrative tells how Robert the Bruce, supported only by the Scottish church and his band of devoted highland guerillas, went from scrambling in the heather as a hunted fugitive to leading the glorious victory at Bannockburn. During the succeeding years of comparative peace, Bruce welded his people into a united nation and in 1328 obtained England's acknowledgment of the independence of Scotland.
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Seagrave, Sterling Lords of the Rim
The invisible empire of the overseas Chinese.
Hardcover: 1995 G.P. Putnam, NYC First printing 0399140115
Book: Very good. DJ: Good. Creasing and stretching along DJ edges. Evidence of slight water damage to back cover (color transfer to inside of DJ). Shipping Weight 740 (grams).
The 'Overseas Chinese' is a vast, highly interconnected net of 55 million expatriate Chinese who together control trillions of dollars in assets. This engrossing, superbly researched, and spectacularly told account describes who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years, it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption, of triads and syndicates, kingmakers, emperors, generals, spies, and pirates. An examination of the complex web of Chinese operations dominating the Far East's booming economies is part economic analysis, part history, and part cautionary tale -- for the strategies that have proven so successful for the Chinese in the past are just as effective today.
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Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
Hardcover: 2002 Little, Brown and Company First edition stated 0316666343
Book: Very good. DJ: very good. Slight stretching along DJ edges. Remainder slash on bottom page edges. Shipping weight 490 (grams).
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ('like the fish') is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel unfolds from heaven, where 'life is a perpetual yesterday' and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her 'simplest dreams,' where 'there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.' The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of 'My So-Called Afterlife'. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as 'like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow.' Though sentimental at times, 'The Lovely Bones' is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters.
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See, Lisa Flower Net
Hardcover: 1997 HarperCollins, NYC 1st ed. 0060175273
Book: Very Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 620 (grams).
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping's reign, the U.S. ambassador's son is found dead - his body entombed in a frozen lake. Almost simultaneously, American officials find a ship adrift in the storm-churned waters off Southern California. No one is surprised to find the fetid hold crammed with hundreds of undocumented Chinese immigrants - the latest cargo in the Chinese mafia's burgeoning smuggling trade. What does surprise Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark is his discovery that among the hapless refugees lies the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China's political elite. The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected, and in an unprecedented move they join forces to solve this cross-cultural crime. Stark heads for Beijing to team up with police detective Liu Hulan, whose unorthodox methods are tolerated only because of her spectacular investigative abilities. Their investigation carries them (and the reader) into virtually every corner of today's China - from its glitzy karaoke bars, where the nation's new elite cuts deals, to the labyrinthine hutongs, where ordinary Beijingers have lived and died for centuries. Stark and Liu's search leads them from the Chinese capital to Los Angeles's thriving Asian community and turns up a bloodthirsty murderer at the very apex of China's power structure. Their work together also ignites their passion for each other - a passion forbidden by their respective governments and one that plays right into the hands of a serial killer.
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Severgnini, Beppe AN ITALIAN IN ITALY
Trade paperback: 2007 Bibliotecca Universale Rizzoli, Italy First English-language edition 8817017345
Book: Good. No DJ. Clean, but well-read copy. Shipping weight: 305 grams.
Beppe Severgnini is a columnist for Italy's leading newspaper, and was Italy's correspondent for The Economist from 1996 to 2003. This ironic, methodical, and sentimental examination will help you understand why Italy can have you fuming and then purring in the space of 100 meters or 10 minutes. 10 days, 30 places. From north to south, from food to politics, from saintliness to sexuality. Enjoy!
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Seymour, Gerald Harry's Game
Hardcover: ex-library: 1975 Random House, NYC 1st U.S. ed. 0394499026
Book: Fair. DJ: Fair. Front flyleaf torn off, some library markings. Shipping weight 555 (grams).
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Shakespeare, Nicholas Bruce Chatwin
Hardcover: 1999 The Harvill Press Second printing 1860465447
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 1,120 (grams).
Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of the contemporary English novel; by the time he died of an AIDS-related illness aged 49 in January 1989 he had produced the startlingly original masterpieces that made his name. Chatwin came late to being a published writer; In Patagonia, his instant classic of what can loosely be termed 'travel literature', came out in 1977. In the preceding years this precocious, intense figure had been an art specialist at Sotheby's, a journalist with the Sunday Times, an archaeologist and a restless, questing traveller. By the time his novel of studying the Aboriginal dreamtime in Australia, 'The Songlines', was published he had gained a worldwide audience. An obsessive art collector, Chatwin also acquired people as he did fabulous objects. He took both male and female lovers while continuing to remain married to his wife Elizabeth, seemingly the most enduring relationship of his life. It is her cooperation and tenacity which enabled this biography to come about, as well as Nicholas Shakespeare's exhaustive research (the book was eight years in the making), and his countless interviews with friends and acquaintances from all corners of the globe. It is the international span of Chatwin's experiences that make the reader appreciate his desire to know all cultures and disciplines. There is some excellent, evocative writing here, particularly in Shakespeare's account of Chatwin's last weeks, his disappointment at not winning the Booker Prize for 'Utz' lifting when a friend told him of acclaimed Italian novelist Alberto Moravia's glowing review of the book in a newspaper. In particular, the detailed passage describing Chatwin's awful, miserable death surrounded by friends and family is harrowing yet moving to read. There are a plethora of adjectives used to describe Chatwin; the list generally includes words such as 'elusive', 'mercurial', and 'charismatic'. Yet what Nicholas Shakespeare brings across in this immense, excellent life of Chatwin is the complete aloneness of the man, an at times almost impenetrable solitude. He was a flamboyant fabulist, an unparalleled conversationalist, yet, as the Australian poet Les Murray is quoted as saying: 'He was lonely and he wanted to be. He had those blue, implacable eyes that said: 'I will reject you, I will forget you, because neither you nor any other human being can give me what I want'.
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Shales, Tom; Miller, James Andrew Live From New York
AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Hardcover: 2002 Little, Brown Eigth printing 0316781460
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight 980 grams.
When Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect--not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced brash new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray; trashed taboos that had inhibited TV for decades; and had such an impact on American life, laughter, and politics that even presidents of the United States had to take notice. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Shales and bestselling author James Andrew Miller bring together stars, writers, guest hosts, contributors, and craftsmen for the first-ever oral history of Saturday Night Live, from 1974 (when it was just an idea) through 2002, when it has long since become an institution. In their own words, dozens of personalities recall the backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities, including personal details never before revealed. Shales and Miller have interviewed a galaxy of stars and writers and others who got their big breaks as part of the SNL team. Live from New York does what no other book about the show has ever done: It lets the people who were there tell the story in their own words, blunt and loving and uncensored.
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Shanken, Marvin R. SHANKEN'S CIGAR HANDBOOK
a connoisseur's guide to smoking pleasure
Hardcover: 1997 Running Press Book Publishers First edition 0762400595
Book: Fine. DJ: Fine. Shipping weight: 520 grams.
Here is a complete guide to the cigar-smoking experience. Drawing on the expertise compiled in dozens of issues of his magazine, Cigar Aficionado, Shanken shows you how to navigate a market in which premium cigars are more and more in demand—and less and less available. With his guidance, you'll learn how to find a knowledgeable tobacconist, how to identify, develop, and expand your tastes, and how to select cigars you'll enjoy. You'll also learn the proper way to cut, light, hold, and smoke a cigar, and how best to store your cigars for long-term enjoyment.
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Shannon, John City of Strangers
Hardcover: 2003 Carroll & Graf, NYC 1st ed. 0786711639
Book: Fine. DJ: Good-Fine. Front flyleaf clipped. DJ price intact. Small scratches on DJ. Shipping weight 590 (grams).
Jack Liffey series - 6. Liffey probes the complex ethnic mix — Muslim, Jewish, Baha'i, Christian, and secular — of the Persian communities in Los Angeles. A gripping tale that confronts youthful idealism with perfervid fundamentalism, it lands bright, earnest Fariborz Bayat, who has gone missing from an elite L.A. high school with three other Persian-American boys, in a cell of Arab terrorists. Hired to find the boys, Liffey finds himself in a nightmare, unless he and Fariborz can thwart the cell's plot to set off a dirty bomb full of radioactive waste high over L.A.
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Shapiro, James A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
Hardcover: 2005 HarperCollins First US edition 0060088737
Book: Fine. DJ: Very good. Slight stretching and chipping along top edge of DJ. 1' disruption along far riverbank in cover illustration where a label must have been removed. Shipping weight 795 (grams).
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year -- 1599 -- that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the new Globe Theatre and creates four of his most famous plays -- Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599: sending off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathering an Armada threat from Spain, gambling on the fledgling East India Company, and waiting to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. This book brings the news and intrigue of the times together with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
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