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Hambly,Barbara Die Upon A Kiss
Bantam Books 2002 0553581651 / 9780553581652 Mass Market Paperback Near-fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. 463 pages. Covers are bright and clean, show slight wear (NO tears). NO tears inside book. Tight spine,clean pages. The first page has a number 5, circled, at top of page. NO other writing or marks inside book. From Library Journal: Hambly's sure touch enlivens New Orleans in 1835, where carnival celebrations mask assault and murder revolving around the production of the city's first Italian opera. In a place obsessively conscious of such categories as Creole, slave, American, free black, "foreigner," and the various mixtures thereof, the debut of the opera Othello with its racially explosive subject matter apparently arouses enough resentment to cause danger for the opera company and Benjamin January, the free black surgeon and sometime sleuth (A Free Man of Color) who plays piano there. Marvelous description, historical details, memorable characters, priceless dialog, and intricate plotting make this an indispensable purchase for all collections. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Hambly,Barbara Fever Season (Benjamin January, Book 2)
Bantam Books 1999 0553575279 / 9780553575279 Mass Market Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine,clean pages. NO writing,marks or tears inside book. 397 pages. In New Orleans in 1833, appearance is everything for people of color. "His own coat and waistcoat ... were one badge of his freedom," Barbara Hambly writes about Ben January, a surgeon and teacher of music. "Even more than the papers the law demanded he carry--and as much as the well-bred French his tutors and his mother had hammered into him as a child--they said, This is a free man of color, not somebody's property to be bought and sold." When the veteran science fiction writer Hambly first introduced January, in the stunning and heartbreaking A Free Man of Color, the only problem seemed to be that the book told us so much about a vanished world that it couldn't possibly support a sequel. Fortunately, Hambly has found a way to make it work by putting January into a real crime, the case of a woman named Delphine Lalaurie whose savagery toward her slaves managed to shock even her contemporaries. "She was a tall woman, imperially straight; and though nearly every Creole woman of her age had surrendered to rich food and embonpoint, she retained the slim figure of a girl," Hambly writes of the majestic Delphine on her first meeting with January. She has come to the reeking, corpse-clogged hospital where January is working during a cholera epidemic to warn him about helping a runaway slave girl accused of murder. Ignoring that warning puts January into a situation so full of danger to himself and others that in lesser hands it could easily have become overwrought. Hambly, however, knows better than anyone that readers connect to characters rooted in honesty, regardless of how alien their environment may seem to us. --Dick Adler
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Hambly,Barbara Sold Down The River
Bantam Books 2001 0553575295 / 9780553575293 Mass Market Paperback Near-fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean and bright (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 410 pages. Synopsis: Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city.... When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors for the savage man who owned him until he was seven. But he knows too well that plantation justice means that if the true culprit is not found, every slave on Mon Triomphe will suffer. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, cutting cane until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer ... or find himself sold down the river.
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Hambly, Barbara The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
Bantam Dell Pub Group 2005 0553803018 / 9780553803013 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing or marks inside book. Dustcover is clean and bright, shows slight wear (NO tears). 609 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. From Publishers Weekly: Hambly (A Free Man of Color, etc.) has a knack for bringing historical figures to life in all their flawed humanity. This touching portrait of Mary Todd, a brilliant but troubled belle in Kentucky when she meets Abraham Lincoln in 1839, recounts Mary's personal struggles and triumphs and describes the general state of women in the 19th century, as well as supplies an evenhanded overview of the political and practical issues surrounding the emancipation of the slaves. With her sharp intelligence, social skill and standing, and political astuteness, Mary seems the perfect partner for Lincoln. But her emotional problems hobble her from the start and worsen over the years under the tremendous strain of political life and with the terrible loss of three of her four sons as well as her husband. Ten years after Lincoln's assassination, Mary's sole remaining son is fighting a court battle to have his mother declared insane. Told from her own perspective and that of some fictionalized historical figures like Frederick Douglass, Mary's story, including her hard-won insight into her own difficulties and her addiction to her laudanum-laced medicine, is moving. Despite a jarring abruptness to some of the changes in point of view and the slow pace of the narration, the novel paints a full, nuanced picture of a talented, tormented woman. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist: Hambly has painted a compelling fictional portrait of one of the most maligned and misunderstood First Ladies in American history. Born into a prominent Lexington family, pretty and passionate Mary Todd always had difficulty controlling her legendary temper. Plagued by headaches and spells even as a child, she suffered--according to the inadequate medical lexicon of the day--from female problems and a nervous disposition. Defying both her family and convention, the independent-minded Mary married a debt-ridden bumpkin with dubious long-term prospects. Even marriage to the undisputed love of her life did not bring her enduring happiness or contentment. Although she and Lincoln enjoyed an egalitarian partnership, she continued to be haunted by voices and visions that often led to fits of hysteria. Her delicate mental health was made even more precarious by the tragic and untimely deaths of three of her four sons and by her husband's assassination. Brought up on charges of lunacy by her son Robert in 1875, she fights for her own emancipation as she revisits pivotal episodes in her storied past. As the action stretches back and forth through time, an intelligent woman struggles to come to terms with depression and addiction in a society ill-equipped to cope with mental illness of any sort. Margaret Flanagan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Hambly, Barbara The Walls of Air
Ballantine Books / Del Rey 1983 0345296702 / 9780345296702 Mass Market Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. Stated Second Printing (July 1983). NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. Covers are clean (NO tears). NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 298 pages. Sequel to "The Time of the Dark". Synopsis Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed to find refuge in the ancient fortress Keep of Renweth. There, even the magic of the wizard Ingold Inglorion could offer them little hope against the Dark. To defeat the savage horror, they must gain help from the Hidden City of Quo, to which all other wizards had been summoned. But Ingold could not pierce the walls of illusion that separated Quo from the world. With his student, Rudy Solis, the old wizard set out to cross two thousand miles of dangerous desert to the City of Wizards. What he might find there he could not know and dared not guess!
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Hambly,Barbara Wet Grave (Benjamin January, Book 6)
Bantam Books 2003 0553581597 / 9780553581591 Mass Market Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine,clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 368 pages. NO writing,marks or tears inside book. From Publishers Weekly After an excruciatingly slow start, Hambly's sixth novel featuring Benjamin January (after 2001's Die Upon a Kiss) builds to hurricane force as the former slave and Creole surgeon looks into the murder of a drunken whore whom no one seems to care about. Despite his education and musical and medical accomplishments, January is only a short, catastrophic step up from bottom in the oddly stratified society of 1830s New Orleans. January proceeds as carefully with his investigation as he does with his wooing of Rose Vitrac, whose traumatic past he only partially knows and understands. Only when another murder strikes much closer to January's home and heart does the pace quicken. To a desire for vengeance is added a thirst for justice. Still cautious, but steeled by anger, January goes on a search that will lead beyond the fetid city into the surrounding bayous, swamps and islands. When the author hits her stride, the tension ratchets up to an almost unbearable level until the violence of man and the violence of nature are both unleashed. Hambly is terrifically effective in her portrayal of the squalid lives of the poor and enslaved and the contrasting opulence of the wealthy. The beautiful New Orleans of the future can only be glimpsed in the scrofulous, swampy, sewer-like summer heat that pervades everything. Hambly's strong and unusual series tracking a largely unexplored period of American history should continue to please fans and attract new readers. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Hambly, Barbara Wet Grave: A Novel of Suspense
Bantam Books 2002 0553109359 / 9780553109351 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Appears unread. Price inside dustcover: $23.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 289 pages. "It's 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill." "When Hesione LeGros - once a corsair's jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag - is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago." "Who would want to kill this woman now - Hessy, they said, would turn a trick for a bottle of rum - had some quarrelsome "customer" decided to do away with her? Or could it be one of the sexual predators who roamed the dark and seedy streets? Or - as Benjamin comes to suspect - was her killer someone she knew, someone whose careful search of her shack suggests a cold-blooded crime? Someone whose boot left a chillingly distinctive print." "His inquiries at taverns, markets, and slave dances reveal little about "Hellfire Hessy" since her glory days in Barataria Bay, once the lair of gentlemen pirates. Then the murder is swept from his mind by the delivery of a crate filled with contraband rifles - and yet another telltale boot print left by its claimant. When a murder swiftly follows, Ben and Rose Vitrac, the woman he loves, fear the workings of a serpentine mind and a treacherous plot: one only they can hope to thwart in time." All too soon they are fugitives of color in the stormy bayous and marshes of slave-stealer country, headed for smugglers' haunts and sinister plantations, where one false step could be their last toward a... Wet Grave.
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