Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

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By: Francis, Dick

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1997

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 001445

ISBN-13: 9780399143021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Tight, clean copy. "At eighteen, easygoing Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride as an amateur jockey in steeplechase races. His father, George, driven toward a life of public service and politics, asks his only son to enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's growing reputation and burgeoning political career. Ben agrees lightheartedly, unaware of what lies ahead. Five years later, after graduating from university and experiencing the working world, Ben has abandoned his dream of life on the racecourse, and enters the pol...
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Balance of Power [Large Print]

By: Patterson, Richard North

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday Large Print : 2003

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 007144

ISBN-13: 9780375432088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Large print edition. Very slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart with just a bit of edge wear. An attractive copy. Conclusion to the Kerry Kilcannon trilogy, which includes "No Safe Place" and "Protect and Defend." President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a letha burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobb...
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Communicating Ideas: The Crisis of Publishing in a Post-Industrial Society

By: Horowitz, Irving Louis

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004176

ISBN-13: 9780195041200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

xi + 240 pp, navy cloth spine over dark blue boards, index, notes. Very slight edge wear. Jacket in protective wraps with slight edge wear. A tight, attractive copy. "'Communication Ideas' is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of a new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examing the classic problems of political theory (such issues as property versus rights and elite management versus citizen participation) in the context of scholarly publishi...
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Coyote (Signed) (Book 1 in the Coyote Series)

By: Steele, Allen

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Ace Books : 2002

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 183191

ISBN-13: 9780441009749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Top and bottom of spine very slightly bumped on both book and jacket. Tightly bound. A very attractive copy. ; Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket protected in new Brodart. Navy boards with gold lettering. ; Jacket art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 390 pages; Book 1 in the Coyote series. "The crime of the century begins without a hitch. On July 5th, 2070, as it's about to be launched, the starship Alabama is hijacked--by her captain and crew. In defiance of the repressive government of the United Republic of Earth, they replace her handpicked passengers with political dissidents and ...
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Crazy Time

By: Wilhelm, Kate

Price: $14.75

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006087

ISBN-13: 9780312014117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

DJ in protective plastic wrap. A bright, attractive copy.

"Why is Lauren Steele being followed around by a mysterious red-haired ghost? Why is the Pentagon after her? And why doesn't anyone believe her?"; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Damage Control (Joanna Brady Mystery series) [signed]

By: Jance, J. A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007817

ISBN-13: 9780060746766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Black cloth over burgundy boards, pink lettering, 374 pp. Jacket in new Brodart. Signed by author on title page. A bright, attractive copy. " On a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car goes off the side of a mountain and into oblivion. The terrain is so rocky that a helicopter must be flown in to retrieve the bodies, and to make matters worse, a thunder-storm is looming on the horizon. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals gruesome evidence: two trash bags containing human remains. "It's just another day in the life of Cochise...
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Death's Half Acre (signed)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007760

ISBN-13: 9780446196109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Purple over black boards, white lettering, 262 pp. Purchased new, never read. Signed and dated by author on title page. This is from the book launch at Maron's 'hometown' bookstore in Raleigh, NC. Includes a promotional bookmark featuring this book on one side and other Margaret Maron titles on the reverse. Fourteenth in the Deborah Knott mystery series. "As family-owned farms and lush fields in North Carolina's picturesque countryside start to give way to shoddy mansions and housing developments, discontent begins to rile the inhabitants of Judge Deborah Knott's beloved Colleton County....
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Death's Half Acre (signed)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007761

ISBN-13: 9780446196109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Purple over black boards, white lettering, 262 pp. Purchased new, never read. Signed and dated by author on title page. This is from the book launch at Maron's 'hometown' bookstore in Raleigh, NC. Includes a promotional bookmark featuring this book on one side and other Margaret Maron titles on the reverse. Fourteenth in the Deborah Knott mystery series. "As family-owned farms and lush fields in North Carolina's picturesque countryside start to give way to shoddy mansions and housing developments, discontent begins to rile the inhabitants of Judge Deborah Knott's beloved Colleton County....
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Deck the Halls

By: Clark, Mary Higgins; Clark, Carol Higgins

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 2000

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002046

ISBN-13: 9780743212007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear.

"Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, have joined forces for the first time to create a brilliant and exciting story of high-stakes intrigue and detection in a kidnapping played out against a holiday setting."
When her father is kidnapped and held for ransom three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, a dynamic young sleuth, joins forces with Alvirah Meehan, famous lottery winner and amateur detective, to find him before time runs out.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Double Homicide: Boston

By: Kellerman, Jonathan & Faye

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Warner Books : 2004

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006147

ISBN-13: 9780739447581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted. A bright, attractive copy. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman. Husband and wife. Each a bestselling author on his and her own. Now these masters of the crime novel are writing together for the first time, thrilling us with two riveting tales of murder and suspense. BOSTON After a flagrant foul during a basketball match leads to a fatal shooting, the city of Beantown puts pressure on Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain to find the perpetrator. For Dorothy, who knows the victim's mother, the case hits close to home. And for Mickey, the investigation is poo...
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Executive Orders

By: Clancy, Tom

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1996

Seller ID: 000688

ISBN-13: 9780399142185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Nearly as new condition. "The President is dead -- and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for the job? Whom do I ask? Where do I go? 'Debt of Honor' ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever: a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Surpreme Court and Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-Pr...
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Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line

By: Haizlip, Shirlee

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York, Free Press : 2004

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 005502

ISBN-13: 9780743200530

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Top corners slightly bumped on book & DJ. Inscribed by the author on half-title page: "To _____ with hope you find grace in your life. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, Jan 23, 2004." 272 pp with 8 pages of black and white photographs. "In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial heritage - how different gradations of dark and light skin led to a split in her mother's nuclear family, and how various relatives have been reunited many years later, some of them previ...
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From Tavern to Town : The Architectural History of Hickory, North Carolina

By: Mohney, Kirk F.; Phillips, Laura A. W.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Hickory, NC, Hickory Historic Properties Commission : 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

xii + 184 pp, notes, glossary, index of properties, numerous b/w photos and illustrations. Corners very slightly bumped, phone number neatly penned in gutter of front free end paper, slight edge wear to jacket. A beautiful, near fine copy. "A Walking Tour of Historic Oakwood" brochure is laid in. Printed in 1989, this gives background, map, and a list of structures in one of Hickory's prime historic neighborhoods. "After a decade of research and documentation, "From Tavern to Town" chronicles Hickory's past as seen through its historic architecture. More than 250 structur...
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Ilse Witch (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book I)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $13.75

Publisher: New York, Del Rey : 2000

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 005715

ISBN-13: 9780345396549

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Pictorial boards with a semi-transparent DJ through which the picture shows. Corners are very slightly bumped. DJ has a tiny bit of shelfware at bottom of spine. A bright, fairly tight, attractive copy. "When the mutilated body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery surfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kael Elessedil, brother to the current king, led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful, than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one ever returned....
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In the Company of Heroes: A True Story

By: Durant, Michael; Hartov, Steven

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004536

ISBN-13: 9780399150609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A bright, attractive copy. "A true story by Michael J. Durant, Chief Warrant Officer 4 (Ret.). Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993, in the battle depicted in Mark Bowden's bestselling book Black Hawk Down. Although saved by two valiant but doomed Delta Force operators from being town apart, Durant became a prisoner of Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid --- the man responsible for prolonging starvation in his country by hijacking United Nations food shipments. U.S. policy makers had determined that capturing Aidid was the onl...
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Isle of Dogs

By: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Price: $7.25

Publisher: New York, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated : 2001

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 002575

ISBN-13: 9780399147395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Tiny spot on front cover & inside back cover. DJ has very minor bumping at corners/spine. A bright, attractive copy. "An irreverent portrait of politically driven law enforcement run amok. Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, 14 miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia State P...
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Isle of Woman

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Tor Books : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004824

ISBN-13: 9780312855642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A bright, tight, attractive copy. "A monumental epic of unprecedented drama and scope, retelling the saga of humankind in a unique and dramatic way: At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fireworker who raised his kind out of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams. Through their eyes, and those of their descendants, we witness humanity's odysse...
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K Is for Killer (Kinsey Millhone Mystery Ser.)

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company, LLC : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000219

ISBN-13: 9780805019360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

"Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist firsting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. . . . The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. . . . Kinsey Millhone is pulled into the netherworld of unavenged murder, where only a pact with the devil will satisfy the restless ghosts of the victims and give release to the living they have left behind."; Remainder; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Kill the Messenger

By: Squire, Elizabeth Daniels

Price: $14.75

Publisher: New York, Saint Martin's Press, LLC : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 001174

ISBN-13: 9780312038540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight shelf wear. Signed by author on title page. "When Isaiah Justice, owner and publisher of 'The Defender,' a small-town newspaper, dies of cyanide poisoning, his death makes the front page of his own paper and becomes the focus of an investigation by the paper's top reporters, Howard Justice, the Old Man's son, and Leeroy Hicks, who comes from humbler origins. Then 'The Defender's' major stockholders receive a takeover bid from the gemtrex Group, a large, shady corporation that had been trying to buy out the Old Man when he was conveniently murdered. Did Gemtrex hav...
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Last Lessons of Summer (signed)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $24.50

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 005297

ISBN-13: 9780892967803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Purchased new, never read. Slight edge wear. Signed by author on title page. "In the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, has come to clean out the house of her murdered grandmother - and perhaps find some answers. Beneath her quiet, accommodating manner, a storm is brewing. "For here in this gracious home, Amy's own mother had committed suicide when her daughter was barely three years old. The tragedy put an end to her mother's turbulent marriage to Amy's father. But the secrets surrounding her mother's death live on. . ...
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Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket