Alice Steinbach

Ex-library. Some damage to the cover but overall in decent readable condition. No highlighting that i recall. Entertaining, easy to read a chapter at a time. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

The Travels of an Independent Woman

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen into the habit of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me." But who was she away from the people and things that defined her? In this exquisite book, Steinbach searches for the answer to this question in some of the most beautiful and exciting places in the world: Paris, where she finds a soul mate; Oxford, where she takes a course on the English village; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards from Steinbach's journeys, this revealing and witty book transports you into a fascinating inner and outer journey, an unforgettable voyage of discovery.

Praise for Without Reservations:

"A rich account of one woman's journey through Europe and into the self."
--Us Weekly

"I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world." --DOMINICK DUNNE

"More than a chronicle of the writer's search for self-discovery, Without Reservations is a lovely travelogue."
--Chicago Tribune

"The best books, like the best vacations, contain unexpected delights, surprises that enrich the soul as well as the senses. This is a book about love, and longing, and the passage of time. It's about hope, and courage, and the resiliency of memory. This book is a feast. Bon appétit!"
--The Des Moines Register

"Beautifully written, clear, insightful, thoughtful . . . Steinbach's book should be taken in slowly and savored all the way."
--St. Petersburg Times

Without Reservations

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Georgette Heyer

Well oops! I have a duplicate, so even though i haven't read this one yet, selling this copy and looking forward to reading the other. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"Heyer was one of the great protagonists of the historical novel in the post-war golden age..." --Philippa Gregory

Considered the book that launched Gerogette Heyer's career, These Old Shades features two of Heyer's most memorable characters: Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, and Leonie, whom he rescues from a life of ignominy and comes to love and marry.

The Duke is known for his coldness of manner, his remarkable omniscience, and his debauched lifestyle. Late one evening, he is accosted by a young person dressed in ragged boy's clothing running away from a brutal rustic guardian. The Duke buys "Leon" and makes the child his page. "Leon" is in fact Leonie, and she serves the Duke with deep devotion. When he uncovers the true story of her birth, he wreaks an unforgettable revenge on her sinister father in a chilling scene of public humiliation.

PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER:

"Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."

Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC

"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."

Publishers Weekly

"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."

Katie Fforde

"Absolute monarch of the Regency romance."

Kirkus Reviews

These Old Shades

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Charlotte MacLeod

Complete series Max Bittersohn and Sarah Kelling cozy (madcap, zany, screwball, quite a number of descriptions) mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod. Collected up as used books for the simple purpose of reading them, now selling as a bundle so I can price lower than if sold individually. 

Mass market paperbacks ranging from earlier vintage printings to newer printings in a variety of conditions. All are intact and very readable but some have creased spines, bent covers, perhaps small tears or other flaws, possible minor markings, shelf wear. Will send additional photos/details upon request.

1. The Family Vault 
2. The Withdrawing Room
3. The Palace Guard 
4. The Bilbao Looking Glass
5. The Convivial Codfish 
6. The Plain Old Man
7. The Recycled Citizen 
8. The Silver Ghost 
9. The Gladstone Bag
10. The Resurrection Man
11. The Odd Job
12. The Balloon Man

📚 will be shipped in a ♻️ box.
 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mysteries 1-12

The Family Vault, Max Bittersohn and Sarah Kelling bundle, 1-12

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Books 1-4 of The Grub-and-Stakers cozy mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod writing as Alisa Craig. Vintage mass market paperbacks with yellowing pages, a few dings, markings, and imperfections of age but all still tightly bound and considering their age, in very good shape.

Book 5 of the series is listed separately as it is a hardcover.

Making space on my shelves for the physical TBR. 

Move a Mountain, Quilt a Bee, Pinch a Poke, Spin a Yarn

The Grub-and-Stakers bundle, 1-4

Alisa Craig

Ex-library with usual markings, but otherwise in good condition with no major flaws. Minor shelf wear top and bottom of spine area.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Book 5

"Lobelia Falls, Ontario, home of the Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club, has seen some odd things, but the ghost of murdered mule driver Hiram Jellyby is the weirdest yet. And when he manifests himself in the kitchen of the widow Zilla Trott, demanding that she find both his bones and a cache of buried gold, even imperturbable Sergeant MacVicar's aplomb is blown. Can the Grub-and-Stakers avenge the apparition and uncover the loot without starting a gold rush? Can Arethusa Monk, reigning queen of the roguish Regency romance, survive the suspicious attentions of innkeeper Hedrick Snarf? Most enigmatic of all, why is Snarf wearing purple silk socks?" "Alisa Craig's great and growing legion of fans have a particularly warm spot in their hearts for the denizens of Lobelia Falls, and this charming, crafty tale of murder and mayhem is sure not to disappoint even one. The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt is undoubtedly her most delightful work yet."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Grub and Stakers House a Haunt #5

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Ex-library wirh the usual markings/stickers, but in good readable condition, appears to have had low circulation. 1st of the Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries.

An Asey Mayo Mystery #1

When his best friend is accused of murdering Dale Sanborn, a vacationing writer, Asey Mayo is determined to solve the case, even if his only clue is a sardine can

The Cape Cod Mystery #1

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Daisy Goodwin

Pages yellowing slightly, paper was likely was off white or cream originally. Slight crease lower spine.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora’s story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn’t always buy them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The Daily Mail The American Heiress was originally sold and distributed in the UK as My Last Duchess

The American Heiress

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Gill Hornby

Entertaining and easy reading. Focused on Cassandra Austen.

Changed condition rating to good for wrinkle and tears at top of dust jacket spine

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel of the Austen Sisters

"A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.” —Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker’s Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister’s reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fiancé, in search of a trove of Jane’s letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister’s legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra’s vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane’s brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane’s life. With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine.

Miss Austen

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Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon #9

In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West… Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped...

Blood Lure #9

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Anna Pigeon #8

Nevada Barr's ever-popular Anna Pigeon series is consistently praised as "exceptional" (Denver Post), "stunning" (Seattle Times), and "superb" (New York Times Book Review). In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south...

Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It's a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep-and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna...

Deep South #8

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Anna Pigeon #7

Park ranger Anna Pigeon, in New York to visit her desperately ill sister, becomes drawn into an investigation of a series of strange murders in Statue of Liberty Park.

Liberty Falling #7

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Anna Pigeon #6

Park ranger Anna Pigeon, summoned to the side of a friend who was injured while exploring Lechugilla Cavern, learns that her mission is much more dangerous than she had imagined when Frieda, suffering from leg and head injuries, confides that someone tried to kill her.

Blind Descent #6

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Anna Pigeon #5

Endangered Species #5

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Anna Pigeon #4

Park ranger Anna Pigeon and her companions discover a slain firefighter in a Northern California park, sending them on a search for a murderer in the midst of a winter firestorm.

Firestorm #4

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Anna Pigeon #3

Anna Pigeon investigates the links between the mysterious death of a child, the murder of a friend and an unexplainable illness affecting visitors to the Anasazi cave dwellings in Colorado.

Ill Wind #3

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Anna Pigeon #2

The inaccessible wreck, Kamloops, has rested at the bottom of Lake Superior for nearly seven decades, the bodies of its ill-fated crew eerily preserved in the frigid waters. But now there is an extra corpse on board -- a newly slain interloper suspiciously dressed in 1920's clothing. It is Anna Pigeon's jobas a ranger with the U.S. National Park Service to help protect wild and lonely places from civilization's corrupting touch. Now a bizarre mystery held firmly in a Great Lake's icy grip is drawing Anna into a nightmare of greed adn cold-blooded murder. And what she finds waiting beneath the surface could prove fatal.

A Superior Death #2

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Anna Pigeon #1

A stunning mystery set against the high-country trails of the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas, where the age-old battle of man against nature is fought with a frightening twist. Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country's national parks. In the remote backcountry of West Texas, however, she discovers murder and violence. Fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed, presumably by a mountain lion. But the deep claw marks Anna finds across Drury's throat and the paw prints surrounding the body are too perfect to be real. Suspicious from the start and eager to prevent the needless slaughter of her beloved cougars, Anna can't let the matter rest. The disappearance of another ranger and the frightening reality of a hiking accident of her own convince Anna that something is very wrong. Following a trail with few leads, Anna must confront the dark side of the desert. As she comes closer to the truth, she realizes that whatever is stalking the land she loves is now stalking her as well. Atmospheric, evocative, and rich in the mysterious secrets of the Southwestern wilderness, Track of the Cat marks the mystery debut of a superior writer.

Track of the Cat #1

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Sue Grafton

She was a "Jane Doe" - an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. 

The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved.

That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. Kinsey is intrigued and agrees to the job. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business; it becomes a high-risk hunt for her killer with Kinsey in the middle of it all.

"Q is for Quarry" is based on an actual unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969

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She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago. Now, the two men who found the body, both nearing the end of long careers in law enforcement, want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to do the legwork for them, and they turn to Kinsey Millhone. They will, they tell her, find closure if they can just identify the victim. Kinsey is intrigued with the challenge and agrees to work with them. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.

Q Is for Quarry

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It is now nine weeks since Dr. Dowan Purcell vanished without trace.

The 69-year-old doctor said goodnight to colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, climbed into his car and drove away - never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal, a former stripper forty years his junior, is just as sure he is dead.

Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what happened to the man the two women loved. And also enter Tommy Hevener, a flame-haired, twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. It doesn't take long before we find out that Tommy is a man with a very interesting past. The word 'peril?' It applies most of all to Kinsey herself!

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Kinsey Millhone trusts her life to her instincts as her investigation into the disappearance of a renowned physician takes her into a dark and dangerous world of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing, in the noir-influenced novel by the author of fifteen mysteries spanning the first two-thirds of the alphabet. Reprint.

P Is for Peril

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Emily Brontë

Some blemishes on front cover. Combine with other books from my shop for bundle savings!

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.

This edition ofWuthering Heights includes a Biographical Note and Foreward by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.

The dark, wild gypsy orphan Heathcliff loved only one person on earth, beautiful, willful Cathy Earnshaw. But Cathy's brother Hindley--the cruel, drunken master of Wuthering Heights--hated and abused the orphan; their rich neighbors at Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton and Isabella Linton, reviled the boy. They all conspired to force Heathcliff and Cathy apart, first as playmates, then as lovers, and at last to drive Heathcliff away.

Years passed. Heathcliff returned a rich man--and found Cathy had married Edgar. Like a sullen demon, the gypsy vowed to ruin Wuthering Heights and the Grange, to plague his tormentors, to relentlessly hound and ruin the Earnshaws, the Lintons, even their children--until he won back the woman he loved.

Which would never be.

For Cathy was dead.

Wuthering Heights

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Laura Childs

Slightest crease on spine, some light yellowing inside cover due to age. Ask me about saving on bundles!

A Tea Shop Mystery

Charleston is bustling with shoppers looking for antiques-and, of course, Theodosia Browning's delicious teas. But when the cobblestone alleys clear, Theodosia finds the map store owner strangled to death. Many wanted her shop-but enough to kill? Most alarming, however, is Detective Tidwell's theory: that the killer mistook her for Theodosia.

The Teaberry Strangler #11

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When her delectable spread for socialite Delaine Dish's charity Candelight Concert is interrupted by the killing of local politician Duke Wilkes, tea shop proprietor Theodosia Browning is asked by the victim's widow to uncover the truth about the crime. Reprint.

Blood Orange Brewing #7

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Y. S. Lee

Fourth of a four book series featuring Mary Quinn, half Chinese, half Irish orphan in Victorian London.  Ask me about saving on bundles!

A Mary Quinn Mystery

In her fourth adventure, available in paperback for the first time, Mary Quinn no longer has the Agency to support her — just James Easton. Though Mary has officially left the Agency, her former superiors have asked her to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison, and Mary must watch for the return of his estranged wife, herself a notorious criminal with a potentially deadly grudge against James Easton, who wants to wed Mary. And Mary can't shake the feeling that a Chinese prizefighter newly arrived in town is somehow familiar. With the stakes higher than ever, can Mary balance family secrets, conflicting loyalties, and professional expertise to bring a criminal to justice and find her own happiness?

The Agency: Rivals in the City, #4

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Small flaw to dust jacket on barcode. Third of a four book series featuring Mary Quinn, half Chinese, half Irish orphan in Victorian London. Ask me about saving on bundles!

When Mary Quinn is ordered to work undercover after a petty thief steals from Buckingham Palace, she receives attention from a prince, wonders at a murder suspect's shared name with her father, and struggles with her feelings for James Easton.

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