Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Air Battle Force

By: Brown, Dale

Price: $10.75

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004825

ISBN-13: 9780060094096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted. A bright, attractive copy. "On America's newest combat base, US Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his warriors will have their first target. Chased out of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters are planning to invade the neighboring oil-rich Republic of Turkmenistan, an isolated and incredibly wealthy Central ...
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Antrax [signed] (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Vol. II)

By: Brooks, Terry

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Del Rey : 2001

Edition: 1st Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 008108

ISBN-13: 9780345397669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Navy cloth over dark blue boards, gold lettering, 375 pp. End papers have maps of Parkasia and the Blue Divide. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy, signed by the author on the title page. "In Ilse Witch, a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Walker and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes . . . "Now, as the crew aboard the airship Jerle Shannara is attacked by evil forces, the Druid's pro...
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Cat & Mouse

By: Patterson, James

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co : 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004559

ISBN-13: 9780316693295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, very minor wear at corners. DJ has very minor shelfwear along bottom edge. A bright, attractive copy.

"Now comes the ultimate case of Alex Cross's career. Two killers - one operation in America, one in Europe - believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. And Alex must contend with something he hasn't known since the loss of his wife: he's falling deeply in love, and this romance will make him, and her, all the more vulnerable."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Daddy's Little Girl

By: Clark, Mary Higgins

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 2002

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 004999

ISBN-13: 9780739425640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's sticker inside cover. Jacket has just a bit of edge wear. Bookspan Large Print edition. A bright, attractive copy. "It's been over 20 years since reporter Ellie Cavanaugh helped convict wealthy neighbor Rob Westerfield of her older sister Andrea's murder, and now she's having doubts. Was Rob really guilty of Andrea's death, or had Ellie made a terrible mistake? At the trial, Ellie had given critical testimony that helped put Westerfield away. But what if his claims of innocence were true? Determined to find the answers, Ellie returns to the sce...
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Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life

By: Coomes, David

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Oxford, Lion Publishing : 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003747

ISBN-13: 9780745919225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

242 pp. plus bibliography, notes author's acknowledgements, index. PO's name on pastedown, light spotting on to edge. A bright, attractive copy. "Known to millions as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was in reality a complex woman-moved, she said, by a 'careless rage for life'. The elusive mystery of the real person behind the public figure makes Sayers an attractive choice for the biographer. It is her own distinctive voice, the fact that she is allowed to speak for herself through extensive quotation from th...
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Killer Market (A Deborah Knott Mystery)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1997

Seller ID: 006715

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

0892966548 273 pp., purple boards. Spine very slightly slanted, remainder mark, PO name inside. DJ has very slight shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. Fifth Deborah Knott mystery. "Arriving in High Point, NC to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Judge Deborah Knott finds there is no room at the inn, the Radisson, or anywhere else. The International Home Furnishings Market, with the largest assortment of furniture and home decorations in the world, has taken over the town and left the judge hanging. All Deborah wants is a bed for the night, not thousands of living room suites ...
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Killer Market (A Deborah Knott Mystery) (Signed)

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $15.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1997

Edition: First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 002407

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

0892966548 Corners slightly bumped, slight spine slant. Slight edge wear along bottom of jacket. A bright, attractive copy. Signed by author on title page. Fifth Deborah Knott mystery. "Arriving in High Point, NC to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Judge Deborah Knott finds there is no room at the inn, the Radisson, or anywhere else. The International Home Furnishings Market, with the largest assortment of furniture and home decorations in the world, has taken over the town and left the judge hanging. All Deborah wants is a bed for the night, not thousands of living room suites ...
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Lunch at the Piccadilly

By: Edgerton, Clyde

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004522

ISBN-13: 9781565121959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Faint spot in top corner of front board. DJ has very slight edgewear at spine base. A bright, attractive copy. "Welcome to the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in beautiful Listre, NC. Here's Mrs. Lil Olive out on the front porch, talking and rocking along with the regulars. Lil's comfortable here (recuperating from a recent bad fall), but she is eager to get back to her own apartment. And since her driver's license doesn't expire until her 97th birthday, she's also eager to get back behind the wheel of her sporty '89 Olds. . . She wants some adventure. And before long, tranquil Roseha...
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Macpherson's Lament: An Elizabeth Macpherson Mystery

By: McCrumb, Sharyn

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books : 1992

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 005989

ISBN-13: 9780345365767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slanted. DJ has very slight shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. "Unflappable Elizabeth MacPherson has returned from England to Danville, Virginia, on two missions of mercy. She must rescue her brother Bill, a novice lawyer, from charges of fraud and a rather nasty jail term..AND try to reconcile her parents, who are unaccountably ending their marriage of more than twenty-five years. (When Elizabeth is away things do fall apart!) As her parents demand divorce and the authorities aim for Bill's head, Elizabeth rallies to save family honor. And in her spare time she solves a pu...
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Movement of Mountains

By: Blumlein, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004521

ISBN-13: 9780312006211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, minor bumping. Ex-Library with expected stamps. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. A bright, attractive copy. "Jules Ebert is a physician in a near-future world on the brink of economic crisis. In spite of the constant budget cutbacks at the medical clinic where he works, Jules is content with his life. But his lover, a woman named Jessica, is restless; sensing that there is no future for her on Earth, she persuades Jules to travel to the colonized planet of Eridis, where she will work as a research scientist. Jules agrees to take up practice there, adminis...
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Name Dropping

By: Heller, Jane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press : 2000

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 006076

ISBN-13: 9780312252342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped. A bright, attractive copy.

Preschool teacher Nancy Stern's life is in a rut - until another woman with the same name moves into the penthouse in her building, and the young teacher's humdrum life becomes anything but.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Pride

By: Cary, Lorene

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005999

ISBN-13: 9780385481311

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear. DJ has slight shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy.

"[The author] introduces us to four accomplished, passionate, and thoroughly down-to-earth African-American women whose lifelong friendship is about the take some unexpected turns."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Replacing Dad

By: Mickle, Shelley Fraser

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003571

ISBN-13: 9781565120174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, a couple pages with top corners bumped. A tight, attractive copy. "What happens when Dad jumps ship? Once upon a time, in a very small town, there was a model family. The father, George, was the popular principal of the grade school. The mother, Linda, loved George. And they both loved their three happy children. Linda stayed at home and took care of things. The kids - Drew, Mandy, and George the 2nd - thrived. Then George the 1st dumped Linda for Mandy's 4th grade teacher and home, as the kids had known it, started sinking. . . fast. This story, which Lin...
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Second Wind

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1999

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006167

ISBN-13: 9780399145629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, PO name inside. A bright, attractive copy. "The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at devastating speeds. For TV meteorologist Perry Stuart, however, such predictions are generally hypothetical, as he chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm. Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurrica...
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The Brethren

By: Grisham, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday Publishing : 2000

Edition: First Trade Edition

Seller ID: 002414

ISBN-13: 9780385497466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Slight spine slant. Stated first edition, but a limited edition is also shown. A bright, attractive copy. "They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time ...
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The Octagonal Raven

By: Modesitt, L. E. Jr.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Tor Books : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004832

ISBN-13: 9780312877200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Slight edgewear along bottom. A bright, attractive copy. "Someone is trying to kill Daryn Alwyn. Born to privilege, with preselected genetic advantages and the best nanotech augmentation his father's fabulous fortune can buy, Daryn spurned the lucrative family Media Network to seek his own path, a crafty raven among soaring eagles. After serving with distinction as a space pilot in the military, he enjoys success as a media consultant. But when he finds himself the target of sophisticated murder attempts, his world is turned upside down. It seems unlikely that his success outside the...
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The Shadow on the Dial

By: Lindbergh, Anne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1987

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 004951

ISBN-13: 9780060238827

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, very minor edgewear.

"Twelve-year-old Dawn and her younger brother, Marcus, find themselves traveling to the past and to the future when they enlist the aid of a mysterious moving company in order to help their crotchety great-uncle find his 'heart's desire.'"
Age Level: Grades 4-8; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Three Fates

By: Roberts, Nora

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003013

ISBN-13: 9780399148408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Small cross-out on free endpaper. DJ has very slight edgewear at top of spine. A bright, attractive copy. "When the Lusitania sank, more than a thousand people died. One passenger who survived became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief—though keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that statue, one of a priceless, long-separated set of three, has been snatched from the Sullivans. And Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather’s treasure, reunite ...
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Toward What Bright Glory? (a University Series novel)

By: Drury, Allen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006003

ISBN-13: 9780688077136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted. A bright, tight attractive copy. "Beginning in a fraternity house on the eve of Munich in September 1938, and ending with the start of World War II in September 1939, this is the first of a series that will bring that generation up to the present turbulent day. In it you will meet 'Willie' Wilson, student body president, his friends, their girls, their teachers. On the broad canvas of a generation moving inexorably toward world-consuming war, they mature and move toward their destinies, confronting along the way racism, heroism, ideology, ambition, their own sexu...
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Uncommon Clay (A Deborah Knott Mystery) [Signed]

By: Maron, Margaret

Price: $22.75

Publisher: New York, Warner Books : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 006462

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

089296720X Spine very slightly slanted. DJ in protective plastic wrap. A bright, attractive copy. Signed by the author on the title page. Eighth in the Judge Deborah Knott mystery series. "Both blessed and cursed by the red clay country of North Carolina, the Nordan clan has grown into a dynasty of skilled potters-while at the same time its members have fallen prey to suicide and scandal. Drawn into their fold is Judge Deborah Knott, who is overseeing the distribution of property in the bitter divorce between two Nordan artisans. After gruesome violence suddenly strikes the homestead,...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket