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Ablow, Keith Murder Suicide
St Martins Pr 2004 0312323891 / 9780312323899 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 305 pages - NO tears. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's last-name signature in book front - on blank page. - John Snow is a brilliant inventor who has made millions from his genius in aeronautics. He has everything a man could desire: wealth, family, even a beautiful mistress. But he also has a brain disease, a rare form of epilepsy, that threatens his most valuable possession--his mind. Only one doctor may be able to cure it surgically, but at a terrible cost, one that Snow reveals to no one: Snow will have no memory whatsoever of his past--of its emotional entanglements or its secrets. The night before he is to enter the hospital, he is murdered. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger delves into Snow's complex past and tortured relationships to unlock the identity of Snow's killer: Was it the wife who can never forgive what he's done to their child, the son who loathes him, the beautiful mistress who takes pleasure in inflicting emotional cruelty, or the business partner who helped him build his fortune?
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Adams, Douglas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Simon & Schuster 1987 0671625829 / 9780671625825 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Price inside dustcover: $14.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Strange photo of the author on back dustcover. 247 pages. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book Nice bookplate "Golden Wings" by Boris Vallejo" in book front on blank page. Two-toned black boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright)
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Adams, Douglas Mostly Harmless
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 1992 0517577402 / 9780517577400 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $20.00. 277 pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, clean pages. Full-page photo of author on back dustcover. 277 pages. Synopsis It's not just a trilogy any more. In the fifth book of this popular series, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, and immediately all hell breaks loose. In short, it's up to him to save the world from total multi-dimensional obliteration, the Guide from a hostile alien takeover, and the daughter he never knew he had, from herself. A tall order, to say the least. And one he's really not up to, thank you very much. "Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist....He is anything but harmless." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Annotation The legions of Adams addicts waiting to thumb a new ride down the galactic highway were thrilled with Mostly Harmless, a New York Times hardcover bestseller for three months. Now the trade paperback version carries on the outrageous space odyssey that brilliantly explores new dimensions in cosmic oddity.
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Adams, Douglas So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 1984 0517554399 / 9780517554395 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Near-new copy of this First Edition (so-stated) hardcover. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. Price inside dustcover: $12.95. Dustcover shows only slight wear (NO tears). Book is in Fine condition. Black boards with green lettering and artwork. 204 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - From the Publisher Arthur Dent is out of his bathrobe, in love, and wondering why the dolphins said...So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Was the earth really demolished? Why did all the dolphins disappear? What is God's final message to His creatures? Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the new voivoid gang are off (by commercial airline) on a wacked-out quest to answer these truly unimportant questions. Synopsis The quest continues... Against all odds, at the eleventh hour, and in the unlikeliest of places of all, Arthur Dent finds the girl of his dreams. After eight years and about 100,000 lightyears of intergalactic travel, he is looking a little down-at-the-heels himself, and she is heavily sedated because she thinks she is a hedgehog. She is also in the company of a brother that Arthur wouldn't wish on a Vogon. But they are both in search of God's Final Message to His Creation, and hey, this time, they might actually find it. This is Volume Four in the Hitchhiker's Trilogy - Why stop now? About the Author New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams enjoyed amazing success on both sides of the Atlantic in radio, television, theater and spoken-word audio. He authored the bestselling The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which sold over 4 million copies worldwide as well as the other four titles in the trilogy (yes, there are five books in this one). Life, The Universe and Everything; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. He also wrote the bestselling titles Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. In May, 2001, Douglas Adams passed away unexpectedly leaving millions of fans worldwide. The Salmon of a Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is the treasure he left behind on the hard drive of his beloved Macintosh.
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Adler, Warren The War of the Roses: A Novel (Advance Reading Copy)
Warner Books Inc 1981 0446512206 / 9780446512206 Trade Paperback Very Good + Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
ADVANCE READING COPY (ARC) / UNCORRECTED PROOFS - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 263 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - This is the book that became one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Oliver and Barbara Rose thought they had a perfect marriage, only to discover that their relationship was barely skin deep. Beginning with destroying each other’s most prized possessions, the relentless war they wage against each other eventually descends into brutality and then spirals uncontrollably into madness and chaos. The global impact of both the book and the movie, now considered classics, has brought the phrase "The War of the Roses" into the accepted jargon describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in divorce proceedings.
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Adler, Warren The Witch of Watergate
Donald I Fine 1992 1556112963 / 9781556112966 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition - NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Tight spine - Bright pages - 256 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book -
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Aiken, Joy Smith Solo's Journey
Putnam Pub Group 1987 0399133216 / 9780399133213 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. Dustcover is clean - shows 3 small, closed tears. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. 255 pages. From Publishers Weekly The territory held by old feline warrior Dom Bryndle, called a Quorum, is home to a well-disciplined tribe of feral stray catsand one wet-bottomed kitten named Solo. On the other side of the Great Fence live the Owners, a carelessly cruel breed useful mainly for the "grail" they discard, for the ferals have forgotten the ways of wild cats and come to depend on the Owners for survival. Solo feels the tug of the old ways, and heeding the voice that speaks within him, he reluctantly accepts the mantle of leadership. After saving his fellow Quorum members from the final depredations of the Owners, he leads them on a perilous journey to a promised land where all can live free and wild. Although it clearly follows in the footsteps of Watership Down, this slim first novel is so syrupy-sweet as to be almost indigestible. Aiken develops an imaginative language for her characters to speak, but stops short before creating an equally clever animal society, relying instead on a model that comes uncomfortably close to America in the 1950s. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Barely out of kittenhood, Solo emerges to lead his pack of feral cats on a trek from their home near the Great Fence to a place of safety far from the dangers and temptations of the beings known as Owners. Less buoyant than Tad Williams's Tailchaser's Song (LJ 11/15/85), this cat fantasyAiken's first novelnevertheless captures the same range of emotions and charm as Richard Adams's now-classic Watership Down and should appeal to fans of both books. JC Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Akins, Ellen Public Life
New York, New York, U.S.A. Perennial 1993 0060921803 / 9780060921804 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings. 281 pages. For Ann Matter - once a daringly original film-maker, now an improbably successful director of commercials - the invitation was extraordinary. Governor Henry Anderson needed a media adviser in his campaign for the presidency; would she accept the job? Though she has had little experience, or interest, in politics, the challenge proves irresistible - to take an unpolished but charismatic politician and remake him, marketing him to the American people as the incarnation of their most cherished ideals. Ellen Akins's third novel, Public Life, is a stunning exploration of how images have come to rule our lives, from the highest levels of government to the edgy accommodations of erotic politics. Akins's world is one saturated with print and pictures, where power is a function of how skillfully one manipulates the media. It is a world in which Ann Matter moves all too confidently, only dimly aware of its many seductions. Under her guidance, Anderson is victorious in his presidential bid, and Ann is rewarded with a position on his personal staff, responsible now for preserving the popular image she so brilliantly created. That image proves so compelling that Ann herself is won over by it, unwittingly setting illusion and reality on a collision course. As Ann's own precarious equilibrium is undermined by the persistent incursions of her past, Anderson's presidency is propelled into a series of scandals that expose the hollowness at its core and culminate in an inevitable, violent climax.
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Akst, Daniel St. Burl's Obituary
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Macmurray & Beck Communication 1996 1878448684 / 9781878448682 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First Printing (May 1996) - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 370 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - In this "outrageous, superb novel"(Philadelphia Inquirer), an obese, food-obsessed obituary writer witnesses a gangland slaying, which forces him to embark on a rollicking cross-country odyssey that will alter his eating habits, his weight, and, ultimately, his identity.
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Al-Shaykh, Hanna Women of Sand and Myrrh
New York, New York, U.S.A. Anchor Books 1992 0385423586 / 9780385423588 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 281 pages. Synopsis A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. Annotation Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom.
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Alan, Theresa Who You Know
Kensington Pub Corp / Strapless 2003 0758204787 / 9780758204783 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. NO remainder mark or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 306 pages.
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Albanese, Laurie Lico Lynelle by the Sea
Dutton 2000 0525945369 / 9780525945369 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Lynelle Page Carter knows how it feels to have a baby growing inside you, knows the way it makes you lazy and yearning and peaceful all at the same time. But she has no words for the grief she feels at the sudden death of her infant daughter, Grace, after only three days of life. Wracked by a sorrow that reawakens feelings of an earlier loss, a sorrow so deep she has to leave her husband and their working-class life in New Jersey, Lynelle returns home to Florida. As she aimlessly wanders the beaches of Singing Island, she sees an infant in a stroller, alone under tree. Surely the child - who looks more like her than her own lost little girl - is waiting for her, waiting to fill her empty arms and heart." "In Florida with her husband and three children to visit her parents, Annie Thompson is torn between the demands of her family and her own unfulfilled need for individuality. Then, in the blink of an eye, it happens: One moment three-month-old Dylan is there, left with his older brother for an instant; the next he is gone. All Annie's logic and courage desert her. Without her son, she simply cannot imagine how she will go on. Falling deeper into a marital crisis, terrified that she is coming unanchored, Annie must confront her feelings of grief and guilt over the child who may be lost to her forever." "Alternating between the voices of Lynelle and Annie, Lynelle by the Sea probes the depths of primal love in a poignant, sparely told novel of family, faith, and two women whose lives are transformed by tragedy and redemption.
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Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Hyperion Books 2003 0786868716 / 9780786868711 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - Near-new condition - NO writing, mark sor tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
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Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Hyperion Books 2003 0786868716 / 9780786868711 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 - Near-new condition - NO writing, mark sor tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
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Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Hyperion Books 2003 0786868716 / 9780786868711 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Stated First Edition - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
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Allen, Charlotte Vale Illusions
Ivy Books 1988 0804101906 / 9780804101905 Mass Market Paperback Near-Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Very-nice, clean copy - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - NO remainder marks or price clippings - 373 pages - In an intense, suspenseful tale reminiscent of John Fowles's The Collector, Allen (Time/Steps portrays a coincidental encounter that culminates in a woman's abduction, rape and terrorization. After her young stepson dies, renowned children's book illustrator Stanleigh Dunn is prostrated by grief. She decides to visit England, where she plans to see her father, from whom she has been estranged. On the flight from New York, Leigh strikes up a conversation with Daniel Godard, a dapper businessman who is as attracted to her as she is to him. Although miffed when Daniel arrives at her hotel, Leigh nevertheless succumbs to his sexual advances, hoping to temporarily obliterate her sorrow. Back in New York, she tentatively emerges from bereavement, but Daniel, still haunted by his wife's gruesome suicide and gripped by an encompassing, unhealthy desire for Leigh, begins to stalk her. Daniel's self-control wanes; he kidnaps Leigh, imprisons her in his apartment and repeatedly molests her until remorse brings him to his senses. Allen builds the tension to an almost unbearable pitch in her riveting novel, which penetratingly explores the fragile boundaries between sanity and madness, lust and obsession.
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Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
HarperCollins 1999 006019491x / 9780060194918 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new copy - Appears unread - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $26.00 - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - From acclaimed international bestselling author Isabel Allende comes this dazzling historical novel, a sweeping portrait of an unconventional woman carving her own destiny in an era defined by violence, passion, and adventure. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 -- a danger-filled quest that will become a momentous journey of transformation. In this rough-and-tumble world of panhandlers and prostitutes, immigrants and aristocrats, Eliza will discover a new life of freedom, independence, and a love greater than any ever dreamed.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller
New York, New York, U.S.A. E P Dutton 1998 0525941673 / 9780525941675 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 435 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll business; her passion for singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made big promises he couldn't keep. Delia Byrd is headed back to Cayro, Georgia, and for the first time in years, she knows what she wants - the two daughters she left behind a lifetime ago. Cayro, Georgia, is a world of truck farms and convenience stores, biscuit franchises and deep rooted Baptism. And, beneath this surface, caves: lost caves, known caves; caves called "Little Mouth" and "Paula's Lost"; caves where color explodes in the dark and where people have died and been buried; caves waiting to be mapped and explored. Cayro, with its red earth and kudzu, is the only terrain Clint Windsor, the man Delia ran from, and the two girls, Amanda and Dede, have ever known. And when Delia and Cissy reach Cayro, the past unfurls into the present, and Cayro, Georgia, becomes a more complicated place than any of them could have imagined.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller
New York, New York, U.S.A. E P Dutton 1998 0525941673 / 9780525941675 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Stated First Printing (March 1998) - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 435 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll business; her passion for singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made big promises he couldn't keep. Delia Byrd is headed back to Cayro, Georgia, and for the first time in years, she knows what she wants - the two daughters she left behind a lifetime ago. Cayro, Georgia, is a world of truck farms and convenience stores, biscuit franchises and deep rooted Baptism. And, beneath this surface, caves: lost caves, known caves; caves called "Little Mouth" and "Paula's Lost"; caves where color explodes in the dark and where people have died and been buried; caves waiting to be mapped and explored. Cayro, with its red earth and kudzu, is the only terrain Clint Windsor, the man Delia ran from, and the two girls, Amanda and Dede, have ever known. And when Delia and Cissy reach Cayro, the past unfurls into the present, and Cayro, Georgia, becomes a more complicated place than any of them could have imagined.
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Amory, Cleveland The Best Cat Ever
Little Brown & Company 1993 0316037443 / 9780316037440 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition - 262 pages - With the same sly humor and deep affection that have enchanted readers of Cleveland Amory's earlier, bestselling accounts of his adventures with his curmudgeonly cat, Polar Bear, the author here reflects on his life and on the many ways in which it was enriched by fifteen years of his feline friend's companionship. The Best Cat Ever is Amory's best book ever -- the witty and wise conclusion to a wonderful love story.
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