Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A Home for the Heart

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf : 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002897

ISBN-13: 9780394483771

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

x + 461 pp., bibliography, 13 color plates. Small dent along top back edge, tiny spot on spine. DJ has very minor edgewear, two closed 1/4" tears.

The groundbreaking treatise by the great authority on child development and disorder, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, of the theory and implementation of his philosophy of "total milieu therapy" at the Orthogenic School of the University of Chicago and its transformative effect on the lives of so-called "incurable" schizophrenic and autistic children and youths.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Abide With Me: A Novel

By: Harris, E. Lynn

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Doubleday & Company : 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006000

ISBN-13: 9780385486576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, PO name inside. DJ has very minor edgewear and one tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "In Abide With Me, Harris returns with the utmost finesse to his signature themes of love, friendship, and family, and craftily guides his irresistible characters through new challenges and heartbreaks, and ultimately to redemption through love. At the end of Just As I Am, Raymond Tyler, Jr. was beginning a relationship with Trent, a fraternity brother from his college days, while Nicole had found love with Jared, Raymond's buddy from Atlanta. As Abide With Me opens, Raymon...
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Agatha Christie Crossword Puzzle Book

By: Toye, Randall; Gaffney Judith Hawkins (compilers)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Bell Publishing Company : 1989

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 8955

ISBN-13: 9780517680162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Red boards with gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 131 pages;

44 puzzles based entirely on the works of Agatha Christie. There are 20 American-style crosswords, 16 British-style crosswords, and 8 other puzzles. Each puzzle is based on a single novel or collection. Answers are provided at the end. A delight for mystery loving crossword fans.
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Ancient Images

By: Campbell, Ramsey

Price: $9.40

Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons : 1989

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine very slightly slanted, top corners bumped, book plate on free endpaper. DJ has minor edgewear/bumping along top. A bright, attractive copy. "In Ancient Images, Campbell focuses his nightmarish vision on a long-forgotten 1930s Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi film, Tower of Fear. For reasons blurred by history, powerful forces suppressed the film and destroyed the prints. Nobody now living had seen the finished film until film researcher Graham Nolan’s two-year search unearthed the sole surviving print. Graham invited colleague Sandy Allan, a film editor at London’s Metropolitan Televis...
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Beirut Diary: A Husband Held Hostage and a Wife Determined to Set Him Free

By: Levin, Sis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Downers Grove, IL, Intervarsity Press : 1989

Edition: Apparent First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 003625

ISBN-13: 9780830817160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Corners somewhat bumped w/ small mark at one edge. Inscribed by the author. Note laid in from Marie S. Jemison who apparently was a childhood neighbor of the author and gives biographical info about her. DJ shows some edgewear and some tiny tears at top and bottom. A bright, attractive copy.

The story of a retiring Southern woman's courageous attempts to free her journalist husband held hostage in Beirut during the 1980's.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
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Chesapeake Blue

By: Roberts, Nora

Price: $22.50

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

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 003039

ISBN-13: 9780399149399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, a little edge wear. Jacket shows minor edge wear and a little rubbing along spine. Signed by author. An attractive copy. Conclusion to the Chesapeake Bay series ("Sea Swept", "Rising Tides", and "Inner Harbor"). "After a five-year absence, Seth Quinn has returned home from Europe a world-renowned artist. He’s ready to settle down in the same picturesque town on the Bay where the three stepbrothers who raised him now live. Soon, Seth meets beautiful, independent Drusilla Whitcomb Banks and falls in love with her almost immediately. Life ta...
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Cradle and All

By: Patterson, James

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company : 2000

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 004090

ISBN-13: 9780316690614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Minor edgewear to boards & DJ. A bright, attractive copy.

"In Boston and an ocean away, in Ireland, two young women-both virgins- find themselves pregnant. Around the world epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse threaten major cities. Terrifying forces of light and darkness are gathering, and former nun turned P I Anne Fitzgerald investigates the immaculate conceptions to discover the truth-and to save the young women, and possibly herself."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Death of a Busybody

By: Shannon, Dell

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Mystery Guild : 1988

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001978

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, very slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear/darkening, and a small (1/8") hole at bottom front right. A clean, attractive copy. "Margaret Chadwick seemed to have everything-good looks, more money than she knew what to do with, and a pedigree to rival a princess. Margaret, however, had one serious flaw: she was a chronic do-gooder who insisted on prying too deeply into the lives of the 'unfortunates.' She was such a malicious busybody that hardly a tear was shed when her body was found in the freight yards-neatly strangled and minus a single slue....
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Decider

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1993

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 005478

ISBN-13: 9780399138713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear, binding tight. Jacket shows some rubbing and a little edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. "Free choice? According to architect, engineer, and jobbing builder Lee Morris, there's no such thing. Choice is preordained by personality, of that the young entrepreneur is sure. Then he becomes involved with Stratton Park racecourse, which faces ruin at the hands of the combative clan that wholly owns it. Connected with but not related to any of the family's warring factions, he nonetheless is drawn into the fray - reluctant, yet attr...
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Decider

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1993

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006708

ISBN-13: 9780399138713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, PO name inside, binding tight. Jacket shows some rubbing, a little edge wear, and a tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Free choice? According to architect, engineer, and jobbing builder Lee Morris, there's no such thing. Choice is preordained by personality, of that the young entrepreneur is sure. Then he becomes involved with Stratton Park racecourse, which faces ruin at the hands of the combative clan that wholly owns it. Connected with but not related to any of the family's warring factions, he nonetheless is drawn into the fray - reluctant, yet attracte...
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Desert Sinner (Father Dowling Mysteries)

By: McInerny, Ralph

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martin's Press : 1992

Edition: Likely Book Club

Seller ID: 001966

ISBN-13: 9780312081775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Owner's name on ffep. Jacket has bumped corners, slight soiling to back. A clean, tight attractive copy. "A former Las Vegas showgirl named Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. While the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Sin, innocence, and their linked consequences are played out by a varied cast of charac...
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Dreamers of the American Dream

By: Holbrook, Stewart H.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1957

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002970

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

369 pp., bibliography, index. Very minor shelfwear, PO's name on free endpaper. DJ has a few small chips along edges. A bright, attractive copy. "Only a few of their names can be found in our schoolbooks. Fewer still stand in marbler or bronze in our halls and parks. The mass of Americans knows little or nothing of them. . . They dreamed nobly, and they acted. . . They were a daft, honest, and all-but-incredible lot of men and women. These are the persons of whom Stewart H. Holbrook has written in 'Dreamers of the American Dream,' tenth volume in the Mainstream of America Series. S...
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Evil under the Sun

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : 2006

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 9028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

1579126286 Black clothe with silver lettering, 220 pp. Corners bumped, spine slightly cocked. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. ; Part of Black Dog's Agatha Christie Collection. Includes an Agatha Christie themed bookmark. ; Hercule Poirot; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾" Tall; 220 pages; Arlena Marshall's appearance on the beach had all the importance of a stage entrance. She wore a simple backless white bathing suit and every inch of her exposed body was tanned a beautiful shade of bronze. Her hair was a rich flaming auburn. There was something about her that made ever...
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Flight of a Witch (Inspector George Felse Series #3)

By: Peters, Ellis

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press : 1991

Seller ID: 001426

ISBN-13: 9780892964048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Corners slightly bumped, jacket shows slight edge wear. "18-year-old Annet Beck has a haunting, innocent beauty few can forget. There isn't a man in her small Shropshire village who hasn't once fallen in love with her. Small wonder her aged parents keep their only daughter on a short leash, screening her escorts to the local dances and encouraging her interest in singing with the church choir. One ordinary Thursday, just before teatime, Annet goes out to mail a letter . . . and doesn't return. Tom Kenyon, a young schoolmaster who boards with the Becks,saw her disappear over the Hallowmou...
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Garden Style

By: Hobhouse, Penelope

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Company : 1988

Seller ID: 002247

ISBN-13: 9780316367509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Corners bumped, jacket shows a little edge wear, rubbing. 216 pp, bibliography, index, gardens to visit. A bright attractive copy. "The successful designing and planting of a fine garden is an art which, like all others, is rooted in basic principles and techniques. Written by Penelope Hobhouse, one of Britain's foremost authorities on gardens and gardening, Garden Style covers every aspect of garden style, from the formal structure of the garden to the smallest detail in individual plantings, and provides an informed commentary on many of the best designed gardens in the world. Using t...
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George Washington's Ghost

By: Brown, Jane Clark

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003212

ISBN-13: 9780395694527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, top corners bumped. DJ shows slight edgewear, one very small closed tear. A bright, tight, attractive copy.

"Celinda, the smallest member of a traveling family of puppeteers, is determined to find an important part to play when the troupe sets out to earn a living in the early days of the new United States."
Age Level: Grades 3-6; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail

By: Shivers, Louise

Price: $17.95

Publisher: London, Collins : 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005990

ISBN-13: 9780002227384

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wraps. DJ edge a little sunned. A bright, attractive copy. "North Carolina, 1937. A small town in tobacco country, where a good harvest meant the difference between getting by and starving. A town where people stayed put and newcomers were rare, a town heavy with the sweet scent of cured tobacco, 'the syrupy, musty smell like bodies making love in the heat'. Roxy, the wife of a struggling young farmer and mother of a two-year-old child, seems an almost unwilling participant in the dramatic events that she relates. 'I never ha...
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Herself: An Autobiographical Work

By: Calisher, Hortense

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004535

ISBN-13: 9780877950424

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, one corner slightly bumped. DJ has 1/4"tear at back flap, very minor shelfwear. A clean attractive copy. "This is Hortense Calisher's account of her life-in-progress as a woman and a writer --- and the inseparability of the two in her mind and heart. In this intimate "rediscovery" of herself and those moments of truth that have formed her, Miss Calisher includes her private writings and journals, and begins with her appraisal of the '30s (which she designates the Era of The Big Apple), treats of ego art, gives her views of sex and politics, of writer...
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If Death Ever Slept

By: Stout, Rex

Price: $24.50

Publisher: New York, Viking Books : 1957

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 004625

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in protective wraps, a little edge wear, a little chipping at top and base of spine. An attractive copy.

"'Get that snake out of my house!' raved Otis Jarrell, referring to his daughter-in-law. Jarrell was one of the world's richest men, but any difficulty he was having with his son's seductive wife was strictly his own problem. Nero Wolfe never meddled in marital intrigue. . . never until marriage turned to murder and the cops tried to hang it on Archie."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Moonrise

By: Bova, Ben

Price: $12.75

Publisher: New York, Avon : 1996

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000664

ISBN-13: 9780380973026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Black over light blue cloth boards, bright blue lettering, stated first edition, 417 pp. Slight edge wear and just a bit of fading along top edge of boards. Jacket in new Brodart, price clipped, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. "Moonbase is little more than a dream. A privatized former government lunar project, it consists of a dozen cramped, interconnected 'temporary' shelters buried below piles of regolith rubble. But ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger envisions the majestic domed city Moonbase must inevitably become: a bustling center for manufacturing and scientific development vital to...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket