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Hardcover 1973 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with dust jacket
Synopsis: There are those among us who are endowed with the gift - not yet understood - of contact in some degree with powers beyond the physical world. Stylish Lorna Teasdale's awareness of possessing this gift pervaded her life, yet she consciously suppressed and resisted it in her anxiety to be an ordinary, normal person. But just how feeble her resistances are, Lorna soon finds out when she and her niece, Christabel, rent a flat in the London suburb of Clapham.
For even as she steps across the threshold she feels the first stirrings of her otherness coming to life, slowly gathering the force to overwhelm her...
Hardcover 1980 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with the dust jacket having minimum damage
Synopsis: At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.
Hardcover 2020 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear
Synopsis: Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America. He offers an impressionistic, analytical, and intuitive review of his experience in the country over the last half-century, and shows how foreigners can provide perspective on the United States' true nature. Castañeda brings a different viewpoint to issues ranging from purported American exceptionalism, uniformity, race and religion, culture, immigration, and the death penalty.
Hardcover 1975 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Dust jacket has a bit of damage on the bottom edge of the cover and spine.
Synopsis: Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial the mighty steam locomotive.
Hardcover 1989 edition
In very fine Condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The dust jacket is a bit damaged and book just has minimal wear and tear
Synopsis: He made too many enemies. He lost his party membership. Once Moscow’s top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day’s catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder. Up against the celebrated Soviet bureaucracy once more, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he was and solve a chilling mystery fraught with international complications.
Hardcover 1969 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a couple of small tears on dust jacket
Synopsis: The first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it... An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica * A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.
Hardcover 1983 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Dust jacket has a bit of light damage and two small tears on the top of the cover
Synopsis: Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor in the MI6, likely one of his closest colleagues.
Hardcover 1971 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The spine is a broken/separated but the cover isn’t detached from book. Some regular wear and tear on spine corners. The book doesn’t have dust jacket.
Synopsis: Theirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people.
The 1880s in England were a laissez-faire decade of national optimism and prosperity, of rampant colonialism, typhoid epidemics, and a Diamond Jubilee. This follow-up novel to God Is an Englishman continues the saga of the Victorian giant of commerce Adam Swann, his tough-minded wife Henrietta, and their five children. This prolific tale records the triumphs and tragedies of a memorable family and a nation at the height of its imperial power.
A beloved novel by a beloved author, Theirs Was the Kingdom is a luminous historical novel of a family's fortune and a nation's destiny.
Hardcover 1978 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear. Bottom edge of spine’s dust jacket has a tear
Synopsis: Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.
Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.
Hardcover 1995 edition
Just like new condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Minimal wear and tear
Synopsis: The Cold War is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the quarter century since Landry stepped off his front porch into the world, but two important people from his past are still there. The first is Annie Prentis, his school sweetheart and college lover. The second is Cliff Baxter, the high school bully, Landry's rival, and now the police chief of Spencerville and the jealous and possessive husband of Annie Prentis. They're all about to come together again -- and rip Spencerville apart with violence, vengeance, and renewed passion.
Hardcover 1974 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The dust jacket has a couple small rips on the cover and son the edge of the spine.
Synopsis: In a remote corner of the impoverished African republic of Zangaro lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day, the mountain itself seems to glow with a strange light. Only the ruthless and untouchable tycoon Sir James Manson knows why: the mountain contains billions of dollars worth of the world’s most valuable mineral—platinum. And he wants it all.
To do so, he must first remove the unfriendly government currently in power and replace it with a puppet regime. Towards this end, Manson hires the deadly Cat Shannon and his team of mercenaries to do the dirty work. But he didn’t realize how bloody things were going to get. And when he betrays the mercenaries to a brutal fate, he doesn’t realize how far Shannon is willing to go for revenge…
Hardcover 1972 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: a bit of damage on the corner. Doesn’t have a dust jacket
Synopsis: When an elderly German Jew commits suicide, he leaves behind a diary that eventually falls into the hands of eager young journalist Peter Miller. In its pages, Miller reads descriptions of inhuman cruelty, torture, and remorseless mass murder committed during World War II by SS captain Eduard Roschmann—now known as the “Butcher of Riga” and a wanted fugitive.
Horrified, Miller vows to hunt down Roschmann and bring him to justice. But Roschmann is not alone. He is part of something much more ominous: Odessa, an organization of former SS fanatics formed to protect and support its fugitive members around the globe. And they are about to give birth to a new Reich—beginning with a nightmarish plot to regain their former power and carry out Hitler’s “Final Solution.”
Hardcover 1974 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The book has some minimal wear and tear on the edges of the spine and is missing a dust cover
Synopsis: A collection of five stories, with the title novella being the most prominent. The novella follows a young art critic, David Williams, as he visits the reclusive, aging artist Henry Breasley in Brittany, France. David is there to interview Breasley but finds himself entangled in the artist's unconventional life with two young women, Diana (nicknamed "Mouse") and Anne, who live with him.The story explores themes of art, creativity, passion, and the complexities of human relationships, challenging David's conventional views and prompting him to confront his own artistic limitations and the nature of freedom.
Hardcover 1994 edition
Just like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: This book has extremely minimal wear and tear and looks just like new!
Synopsis: Thomas Lyon has finally been given the chance to direct a potential blockbuster, based on the true story of an unsolved crime that rocked the horseracing world twenty-six years ago. But a cryptic deathbed confession, an assault on an elderly woman, and a frightening threat lead Lyon to pick up the thread of this unfinished tale—and follow it through to its perilous end...
Hardcover 1979 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: It has regular to bit of damage to the dust jacket but besides the dust jacket everything else is in fine condition.
Synopsis: a “human comedy” about Emma, an average woman navigating life after her husband leaves, finding her equilibrium amidst chaotic surroundings in California, with witty dialogue and commentary on love, youth, and Hollywood.
Hardcover 1978 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a couple tears on dust jacket
Synopsis: Follows the lives of the family of Dr. John Steele and his wife, Edna, detailing their loves and their confrontations with small-town tyranny, nature's ravages, and disease
Hardcover 1977 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Top part of the spine is a bit broken/separated and book doesn’t have dust jacket.
Synopsis: Welcome to Florida’s Golden Sands, the dream condominium complex built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets. The real estate was a steal—literally. The maintenance charges run high as the locals are run out. It’s the home of shortcuts, crackdowns, breakups, oversights, and payoffs.
Add it all up, and the new coastline community doesn’t stand a chance against the ever-present specter of disaster: the dreaded hurricane. The big one is coming. Golden Sands is right in its path. And only a few brave souls have the power to stop this towering eyesore from going underwater for good.
Hardcover 1972 edition
In almost fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear, it just has a few scratches on the dust jacket
Synopsis: “The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome” details the journey of a criminal in and out of jail, through surgery to fix the deformities that have plagued him since childhood, and deep into the violence that Johnny surrounds himself with.
Hardcover 1971 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Small dents on edge of spine. Doesn’t have dust jacket
Synopsis: the autobiography of Martin Gray, detailing his survival of the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto, his subsequent fight with the Soviet Red Army, and his successful new life in America and France before his second family was tragically killed in a forest fire.
Hardcover 2006 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: the only damage to this book is mainly on the dustcover, which includes regular wear and tear and a Target discount sticker.
Synopsis: In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.
In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row.
If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
Hardcover 1971 edition
in good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The spine has a bit of a tear on the top of the book but besides that there is minimal wear and tear. The book doesn’t have dust jacket.
Synopsis: The Peaceable Kingdom is the story of the passionate, flesh-and-blood men and women who began the Quaker movement in England in the 17th century and of those who settled in Philadelphia 100 years later.
Hardcover 1970 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The dust jacket is a little damaged but otherwise the book is in almost perfect condition with some very minimal wear and tear due to age.
Synopsis: Five beautiful women find romance and are forced to confront murder, intrigue, and subterfuge in Susan Howatch's collection of Gothic suspense
Hardcover 1979 edition
Almost like new condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Minimal wear and tear
Synopsis: Wanting to earn a ten speed bicycle, twelve-year old Ellen reluctantly agrees to spend a summer as a companion to seventy-seven-year-old Lilith Adams. A powerful friendship grows between these two intriguing characters, and both gain a deeper understanding of old age, loneliness, insecurity, and death.
Hardcover 1980 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a couple scrapes on cover
Synopsis: Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. "As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred
Hardcover 1983 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear
Synopsis: A diverse group of people--Allan Prieston, eminent author Reeves Lockhart, and a family of exiled Russian aristocrats--are bound together in a drama shaped by the tensions of the present and the ambiguities of the past
Hardcover 1986 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a couple scrapes on dust jacket
Synopsis: The novel begins in 1715 England, when teenage protagonist Barbara Alderley becomes married to the handsome, older Earl Devane. Though in love with him, Barbara soon discovers a secret from his past that threatens to tear their relationship apart.
Hardcover 1990 special edition for book-of-the-month
Just like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: This book has extremely minimal wear and tear and looks just like new!
Synopsis: For 24 years she was the wife of Henry VIII. England loved her; Henry loved, respected, and finally feared her. Wolsey hated her. Twice she saved England, once from invasion, once from Civil War. Here is one of those rare books, brilliantly readable and buttressed by scholarship and research, which make you see history through new eyes.
Hardcover 1972 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The spine has a bit of damage on the corners and the dust jacket has a bit of damage as well. Besides tose small nicks on the spine the book is excellent condition
Synopsis: Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Hardcover 1975 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Dust jacket has minimal damage on the spine edges
Synopsis: a historical account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, where Allied leaders Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met to divide the spoils of war and create a new global balance of power, rather than to establish a lasting peace.
Hardcover 1982 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear
Synopsis: A historical fiction novel that chronicles the American space program through the lives of fictional characters, blending real history with dramatic storytelling. The epic follows engineers, astronauts, and their families from the post-WWII era through the Space Race, the Apollo missions, and beyond, exploring themes of ambition, science, and the human drive for exploration
Hardcover 1966 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear. The dust jacket has two small tears
Synopsis: Best-selling author Leonard Mosley offers a fascinating account of Lindbergh's childhood, days as a barnstormer and mail pilot, the flight to Paris and its aftermath, the Hauptmann trial, his later life, and much more.
Hardcover 1983 edition
Very fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The dust jacket has a rip on the cover and other smaller ones on its top edge.
Synopsis: There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founding father, John, through the mordant writer, Brooks.
Hardcover 1975 edition
Very fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: dust jacket has a bit of damage on the edges of the spine, a small bent on the top of the front cover and a small rip on the back cover
Synopsis: David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends.
Hardcover 1972 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and te with a couple of tears on the dust jacket
Synopsis: A science fiction thriller that looks into the intricacies of the world of DNA manipulation, gene mechanics, biological warfare, espionage and more.
Hardcover 1973 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with corners of spine having the wear and tare.
Synopsis: Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked “D”—for dead.
Paperback 1967 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear
Synopsis: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....
Hardcover 1972 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear. The dust jacket is where the damage is with a couple of small tears on edges.
Synopsis: Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day, and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.
Hardcover 1997 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: The Dust Jacket has has a little bent mark on the spine and book has minimal wear and tear
Synopsis: Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead.
Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. What she knows is that the two deaths are connected. What she fears is that they are only the beginning. . . .
Hardcover 1983 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear and small tears on dust jacket.
Synopsis: Brothers Ted and Nory Solomon had always relied on each other, but while attending summer camp they take a new look at their relationship in light of their parents' upcoming divorce
Hardcover 1985 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with dust jacket
Synopsis: A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.
Hardcover 1975 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with small tears in dust jackets
Synopsis: This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies--the India of Kipling's legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castes--the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy men--the India that was the heart and soul of an empire--underwent a violent transformation into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World. At the center of this drama are Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten and, of course, Gandhi, the gentle prophet of revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Hardcover 2013 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Dust jacket has minimal wear and tear
Synopsis: One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?
Told from a riveting dual perspective, this third installment in the series follows Tris and Tobias as they battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and their selves—while facing impossible choices of courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.
Hardcover 1973 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Minimal use wear and tear on dust jacket
Synopsis: Lt. Luis Mendoza and the men of the LAPD are deluged by a series of bizarre and unusual cases. — There is a senseless killing of a pharmacist and his family... the death of a young man that leads to the reopening of an old case... the disappearance of a woman who, it turns out, has a lot more money than people realize.
Hardcover 1972 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with small tear on edge of dust jacket
Synopsis: This book chronicles a single, typical day in a 1950s Soviet Siberian labor camp for Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Despite being wrongfully imprisoned, Shukhov survives by focusing on small, daily victories, managing meager food rations, and taking pride in his construction work, highlighting the triumph of human dignity over dehumanizing brutality.
Hardcover 1989 edition
Almost like new condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Missing dust jacket.
Synopsis: Oliver Watson's world suddenly dissolves around him when Sarah his wife of eighteen years, returns to Harvard to get her master's degree. Oliver is left on his own, with three children and a freedom he never wanted and doesn't completely understand. His family's needs and demands suddenly consume his life.
Hardcover 1970 edition
Very fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Spine is broken/separated. Small dent on bottom of spine. Doesn’t have dust jacket
Synopsis: Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great natural gift - the Sight. Against a background of invasion and imprisonment, wars and conquest, Merlin emerges into manhood, and accepts his dramatic role in the New Beginning - the coming of King Arthur.
Hardcover 1981 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with small tears on dust jacket
Synopsis: Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. From the book's inception, readers will be seized by the dangers and nightmare suspense of life lived on the rim of a political volcano.
Hardcover 1971 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a couple tears on dusk jacket
Synopsis: Here is the story of the rise and fall of the notorious Bonanno crime family of New York as only best-selling author Gay Talese could tell it.
Hardcover 1994 edition
As new condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Minimal signs of age
Synopsis: Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both his and Felicia's delusions in a story that will magnetize fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Ruth Rendell even as it resonates with William Trevor's own "impeccable strength and piercing profundity"
Hardcover 1971 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Has minimal wear and tear. The book doesn’t have dust jacket.
Synopsis: Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland’s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother’s actions.
Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.
Hardcover 1984 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear with a small tear on dusk jacket
Synopsis: Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display.
Hardcover 1999 edition
In almost like new condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Dents on dust jacket
Synopsis: An ambitious personal injury lawyer, Robbie Feaver finds his less-than-ethical practices coming back to haunt him when, in exchange for leniency from prosecution, he is forced into an uneasy alliance with an enigmatic female FBI agent, in a story of greed, human weakness, love, and unexpected heroism.
Hardcover 1990 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: minimal wear and tear on dust jacket edge
Synopsis: Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southeastern Pennsylvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.
Hardcover 1988 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear. Has dust jacket
Synopsis: S. is Sarah Worth--doctor's wife, loving mother, and now an ardent follower of a Hindu religion. She abandons everything to dentist expound on the horror, hilarity and hope of her experience.
Hardcover 1976 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear
Synopsis: Gore Vidal's 1876 follows Charles Schuyler, narrator of Burr, as he returns to America from exile to restore his fortune during the nation's centennial, navigating corrupt Gilded Age politics and society, particularly during the scandalous 1876 presidential election where the presidency was stolen from Samuel Tilden for Rutherford B. Hayes, all while arranging a marriage for his widowed daughter, Emma, amidst financial ruin and social climbing.
Hardcover 1973 edition
In fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Minimum use wear and tear
Synopsis: The aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
Hardcover 1952 edition
Poor Condition
Damage/Wear and Tear: Front Cover and spine aren’t attached to pages and there is small writing in first page. Cover has some stains and looks to have a bit of sun damage.
Synopsis: A Tale of the Christ tells the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a wealthy Jewish prince in 1st-century Jerusalem, whose life is shattered when his childhood friend, the Roman officer Messala, betrays him, leading to his enslavement as a galley rower and imprisonment for his mother and sister.
Hardcover 1992 edition
Almost like new!
Damage/Wear and Tear: minimal bent on top edge of spine of the dust jacket
Synopsis: The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
Hardcover 1972 edition
In very fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: has a little dent at the bottom of the cover and some damage on edges of spine. Doesn’t have a dust jacket
Synopsis: The classic thriller of an ancient manuscript, a secret society committed to hiding an explosive truth, and the man who must uncover that truth.
Hardcover 1973 edition
In good condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: it has regular wear and tear on the edges of the spine and a small dent. Doesn’t have dust jacket
Synopsis: Eager to clear her step-brother of a murder charge, Linda Earle comes to a snow-covered ski resort in the Northeast, where she finds herself in a unique world of icy weather and fiery passions. In this new novel of romantic suspense Phyllis A. Whitney follows her young heroine into the storm of conflicting emotions that surrounds Greystones, a brooding Norman-style mansion with a foreboding past.
Hardcover 1976 edition
In near fine condition!
Damage/Wear and Tear: Regular use wear and tear. With a bit of sun damage on dusk jacket’s spine.
Synopsis: We meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.
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