Spine very slightly slanted/creased, very minor edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. "LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend, psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware, to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion, but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial killer. Delaware's suspicions are borne out when he and Milo find there's a link between the artist's death and the murder of a noted blues g... View More...
"Did the son murder his father? That's what the southern country sheriff can't find out, and that's what brought two city cops off the pavement and into the swamplands. Detectives Parrish and Recks bushwhack their way through the backwoods, a southern plantation, and more suspects than they can handle -- mentally or physically. Soon they uncover blackmail, two wanted criminals, and become involved it -- as if they needed it -- a young couple with shaky marriage plans."; Remainder; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
White wraps, 3 holes punched along left edge for inserting in binder. Corners bumped, slight edge wear. A nice copy.
"This manual provides a practical guide to company training meetings for company commanders, platoon leaders, platoon sergeants, and other leaders involved in the planning and execution of company-level training."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted, minor bumping. A bright, attractive copy.
Book three of the Nurses Who Dare Trilogy…"E.R. nurse Rachel Wyman has come back to Hooper to get over a tragedy - and think about a new career. Dr. Nick Sheridan adores Rachel and knows she's a brilliant nurse. He needs her and so does Hooper General Hospital. If getting her back to work and winning her love means helping her conquer her fears about nursing, then he will. But success depends on one other thing: Rachel's courage to take them both on."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
"Claire Malloy, reluctant director of Farberville's Miss Thurberfest beauty pageant, is being driven to distraction . . . So she's hardly prepared when a nail is driven into the stage for the present Miss Thurberfest to trip over, a sandbag crashes . . . a bullet . . . It can only end in murder and it does . . ." Spine shows a little creasing.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
044080261X Corners bumped, slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. ; Winner of the National Book Award in 1980. ; Time Quintet; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 256 pages; "In this companion volume to A Wrinkle in Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind in the Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her broth... View More...
Spine very slightly slanted, very minor edgewear/bumping. A bright, attractive copy. "Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client’s life . . . and then his ow... View More...
Spine has single crease, very slight edgewear. A bright, attractive copy. A book in the ongoing The Fortunes of Texas: Reunion series. "Business whiz Christina Mendoza lived for her work. So when she started a terrific new job at Fortune-Rockwell, she wasn't prepared for the ultimate distraction - her new boss, Derek Rockwell, who made her blood sizzle like the salsa she loved to dance. Derek's passion was for making money, not for the many women he loved and left. But his new employee - as brilliant as she was beautiful - was unlike anyone he'd ever known. Would one forbidden night o... View More...
Pictorial boards with no jacket as issued. Ex-library from a retirement community and very gently used. Spot on p. 1, otherwise text is clean and bright. A quite attractive copy. "On the Cornish moor where Sister Joan lives with other Sisters of the Daughters of Compassion, a shadowy figure is stalking the night, slashing trees. When Father Malone's housekeeper is found dead, suicide is the verdict - but Sister Joan and her old friend, Detective Sergeant Mill, think otherwise. When Sister Joan is sent to the presbytery to work as temporary housekeeper, the stage is set for a race agai... View More...
Ex-library with pictorial cover. A bright, attractive copy. It’s a time of change, and Mady and Sue Ellen, two young African-American girls, are growing up in New York City. Sometimes they take their dolls to tea parties and sometimes they pretend they’re going on civil rights marches with Martin Luther King, Jr. Then the big and scary opportunity comes--summer camp in Vermont with animals and swimming in the lake and all sorts of strange and wonderful things to do. Will the other girls like them? Will they be too homesick? One thing’s for sure--this experience will change them forever.... View More...
Slight spine slant, corners bumped. A clean, tight copy. ; 6" - 7" Tall; "Among the most dangerous pieces on the chessboard of espionage are the gullible idealist in a position of trust and the constantly vulnerable agent in place. When the idealist is duped to reveal sensitive information, when the agent in place is forced into the open, disaster strikes. "The NATO Memorandum, classified Top Secret, is the ethal prize sought by Soviet Intelligence in the deadly game that continues relentlessly beneath the dubious veneer of detente. A cryptic telephone call to a Russian 'sleepe... View More...
"Second wife. . . . she loved him. She knew that he was the man she had been waiting for - that he was the man she had kept herself for. He was decent and honest and strong. And he loved her. But she wondered if the happiness she could bring him would be enough. Because she could never forget that he had known another happiness with another woman - with the woman who had been his wife."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View More...
216 pp., index, 16 glossy pages of black and white photographs tipped in. Spine very slightly slanted. A bright, attractive copy. "To all fans young and old, Mickey Mantle epitomizes the Golden Age of American sport: an athletic hero who rose from small-town Oklahoma to play in twelve World Series with the legendary New York Yankees. From the thrill of playing alongside an aging Joe DiMaggio in 1951 to belting three Series home runs in 1964,Mickey Mantle recounts each World Series moment by moment. In this unparalleled memoir, Mantle also speaks candidly about how, with the help of fri... View More...
Spine very slightly slanted, corners very slightly bumped. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "The double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soncji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" ... View More...
Spine slightly slanted/creased, very minor edgewear/bumping. A bright, attractive copy. "Darci has never given up searching for her kidnapped husband, Adam Montgomery. But her quest has taken her deeper into the world of psychic phenomena than she ever dreamed - or dared to go. When the FBI enlists her help in locating the missing father of undercover agent Jack Rose, Darci signs on for the covert operation, not knowing that her attraction to handsome, sexy Jack is about to lead her into deadly territory - and into an era long past. For Jack has a protector, a mysterious 19th century ... View More...
Light spoting along edge. Wraps and text clean and unmarked. From the Prefatory Note: "We have put together a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian experience. They were all written by women who define themselves as lesbians. And who have chosen, by publishing their poetry here, to affirm that identity. With us, they - and their poems - belie a simple sexual definition of lesbianism. Our lives have many sides. The poetry expresses them - growing up, sisterhood, sexuality, family, motherhood, work, dying. Myth. Racism. Old age, war, ritual. For us, this range... View More...
Top corners slightly bumped. A bright, attractive copy.
"Master storyteller J. N. Williamson looks at three people who suddenly find that they don't quite fit into the system. Are they 'anomalies'? Or are they really all of us in disguise?" Introduction by Thomas Millstead.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Minor edgewear/bumping. A bright, attractive copy. "When Priscilla Pringle, a well-known writer of clerical murder mysteries, learns that the last rector of a West Country village died under questionable circumstances, she decides to see if there's material for a new book. In addition, Priscilla's curiosity is piqued by Captain Bulkington, a peculiar resident of the village who is seeking her advice on an ingenious murder device for a novel he may be writing. As the maniacal plot twist accumulate and Miss Pringle becomes aware of the deadly reality, Sir John Appleby, retired Commission... View More...
Spine slightly slanted and lightly creased. A bright, attractive copy. "Chosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond imagining, Talia, once a run-away, has now become a trainee Herald, destined to become one of the Queen's own elite guard. For Talia has certain awakening talents of the mind that only a Companion like Rolan can truly sense. But as Talia struggles to master her unique abilities, time is running out. For conspiracy is brewing in Valdemar, a deadly treason which could destroy Queen and kingdom.." This trilogy, The Heralds of Valdemar,... View More...
Another charming book in the Hoban tradition. Arthur is plagued by a little sister and complains about her to his pen pal until he gets a big surprise. You will especially love the cute color illustrations by the author. Age Level: Preschool Read Aloud and Grades K-2; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
