Peter Joffre Nye

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

From Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon, an Untold Story of Speed, Success, and Betrayal

This is the first biography of the short but exciting life of Albert Champion-record-setting bicyclist and motorcyclist, daredevil race car driver, early automobile innovator with thirty US patents, charismatic ladies' man, and celebrity of the Jazz Age. Though most Americans have heard of the two companies he founded-Champion Spark Plug and ACDelco-few know much about the flamboyant man behind the companies. The book's lively narrative describes the many adventures of the Frenchman who rose from poverty in Paris to great wealth and fame in both his native France and the United States. As a bicycle racer, Champion set more than a hundred world records. When the urban speed limit was 8 mph, he was the first ever to drive a motorcycle a mile under a minute. Then a car-racing crash in Brooklyn snapped a leg bone that kept him in traction for eleven weeks. Handicapped but undeterred, he hobbled out of the hospital on crutches and recovered to win the French national cycling championship. He subsequently invested his prize money to become a tycoon in the American auto industry, working closely with the leading players in this new revolutionary industry. Good looking and a natty dresser, he was an incorrigible ladies' man, whose many dalliances finally ended in a love triangle that resulted in his death under mysterious circumstances.

1st Ed 1st Print * The Fast Times of Albert Champion

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Walter Stahr

Unread conditions. Strong binding. Minor shelf wear to the jacket.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Lincoln's Indispensable Man

From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals" to appear in more than forty years.

William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken US senator, he was the odds-on favorite to win the 1860 Republican nomination for president. As secretary of state and Lincoln's closest adviser during the Civil War, Seward not only managed foreign affairs but had a substantial role in military, political, and personnel matters.

Some of Lincoln's critics even saw Seward, erroneously, as the power behind the throne; this is why John Wilkes Booth and his colleagues attempted to kill Seward as well as Lincoln. Seward survived the assassin's attack, continued as secretary of state, and emerged as a staunch supporter of President Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's controversial successor. Through his purchase of Alaska ("Seward's Folly"), and his groundwork for the purchase of the Canal Zone and other territory, Seward set America on course to become a world empire.

Seward was not only important, he was fascinating. Most nights this well-known raconteur with unruly hair and untidy clothes would gather diplomats, soldiers, politicians, or actors around his table to enjoy a cigar, a drink, and a good story. Drawing on hundreds of sources not available to or neglected by previous biographers, Walter Stahr's bestselling biography sheds new light on this complex and central figure, as well as on pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath.

Seward * 2013 3rd Print

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David Novak

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen

Outlines the author's trademarked management program for creating enthusiastic and focused teams, sharing straightforward, jargon-free recommendations for such topics as understanding the employee perspective, setting big goals and acknowledging personal weaknesses.

1st Ed 1st Print * Taking People with You

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Somaiya Daud

A Novel

Signed 1st Ed 1st Print * Mirage

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Gregg Hurwitz

Very good unread conditions. First print. 

An Orphan X Novel

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed—in the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name – The Nowhere Man—and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer - in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he’s least equipped to do – live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew – his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran – a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother-and-sister assassination team are after him and with no safe place to hide, Duran turns to his only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he’s fought for is on the line– including his own life.

1st Ed 1st Print * Prodigal Son

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Susan E. Tifft

Alex S. Jones

Clean and tight first printing. High quality paper. Price clipped. Some shelf wear. Strong binding. 

The A. M. Sperber Award for Exceptional Achievement in Writing and Research and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.

The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times

For more than one hundred years, a single family has controlled America's newspaper of record, setting the agenda not only for The New York Times but for the nation as well. The family's story is now revealed in a compelling narrative that dramatically evokes world events, private power struggles, and the burden and privilege of wealth and responsibility.-- The Trust was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.-- Time selected The Trust as one of the five best nonfiction books of the year.-- The success of Katharine Graham's Personal History, Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power, and David Halberstam's The Powers that Be arrests to broad interest in behind-the-scenes accounts of newspapering.

1999 1st Ed 1st Print * The Trust

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Jhumpa Lahiri

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

1st Ed * Whereabouts

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Bo Jackson

Dick Schaap

Signed by Bo Jackson. Very good copy. Minor edge wear in the jacket. 

The Autobiography of a Ballplayer

The candid autobiography of professional athlete Bo Jackson describes his troubled youth, his discovery of sports, his struggle to attend college, his athletic achievements, his family life, and his success on and off the field

Signed 1990 1st Ed * Bo Knows Bo

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Christopher Gray

Suzanne Braley

Collects vignettes depicting unique sites and buildings of New York, with each location accompanied by a period photograph.

2003 1st Ed 1st Print * New York Streetscapes

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Philip Roth

Very good unread conditions. Strong binding. A small nick in the jacket.

In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.

The Plot Against America * 2004 9th Print

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Anne Rice

Clean and tight. Strong binding. Minor shelf wear. First edition. 

The third volume in the saga of the Mayfair witches journeys through time to explore an ancient civilization of mysterious origins that finds itself at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt

1994 1st Ed * Taltos

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Doris Mortman

A small nick in the jacket. Inscribed, “Enjoy, enjoy.” signed first print.

Now she explores some of the most compelling ideas in dream research, combined with a page-turning plot that will keep you guessing until the last page.Callie Jamieson has a mysterious link to the past-she has the same disturbing dreams her mother had, ones that drove her mother eventually to suicide. But Callie is determined not to let them destroy her life, too. They're under until the death of her ex-lover sends Callie on a quest to find out the truth. Her search intensifies her dreams, and leads her to an old-money New York family with a revered and respected name, to secrets that someone will kill to protect, and to a passionate love she never expected. Before and Again explores the fascinating issues of memory's long reach... and the hold the past can have on the present.

Signed 1st Ed 1st Print * Before and Again

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Ian McEwan

Pristine unread conditions. Strong binding. 

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

Atonement * 2002 4th Print

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Jimmy Carter

A owner name. A sticker. Unread conditions.

For almost three decades, President Carter has regularly spent part of each Sunday reading from scripture and sharing his personal faith with neighbors, friends, and visitors at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia. In Living Faith, he draws on this experience, exploring the values closest to his heart and the personal beliefs that have nurtured and sustained him.

For President Carter, faith finds its deepest expression in a life of compassion, reconciliation, and service to others. Living Faith is filled with stories of people whose lives have touched his--some from the world stage, more from modest walks of life. We see how President Carter learned about other faiths from Prime Minister Menachim Begin and President Anwar Sadat; learned a lesson in forgiveness from a clash with commentator George Will; how he was inspired by the simple theology of preacher Ely Cruz, "Love God and the person in front of you"; and how the cheerful strength of family friend Annie Mae Rhodes taught him the meaning of "patient faith."

Rooted in scripture and infused with a vision of how a dynamic faith can enrich our public and private lives, this is the most personal book yet by one of our most admired Americans--a warmly inspirational volume to give and to share.

Living Faith

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Richard Ford

Jacket inside has damp stain. Strong binding. 

1990 2nd Print * Wildlife

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Thomas Harris

First printing. The jacket is clean inside,  has light scratches. Clean and tight text block. Book to movie.

Seven years after his escape from the authorities, Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer, is tracked down by one of his former victims using FBI agent Clarice Starling as bait

1999 1st Ed 1st Print * Hannibal

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Stephen King

Five interconnected, sequential tales set in the years between 1960 and 1999 center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery.

1999 1st Ed 1st Print * Hearts in Atlantis

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Barry M. Goldwater

Very clean text, unread conditions. The jacket has minor edge wear and is price clipped. First printing.

The Personal and Political Memoirs of United States Senator Barry M. Goldwater

The memoirs of Barry Goldwater, a former U. S. Senator and the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1964.

1979 1st Ed 1st Print * With No Apologies

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Lamar Underwood

Seventeen Incredible Tales

Many adventures begin when a storm descends, a boat overturns, a plane crashes, a grizzly attacks out of nowhere, or a wilderness traveller becomes lost. From the tropics to the Arctic Poles, here are 27 epic tales of survival and adventure, both fact and realistic fiction.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told * 2nd Print

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Unread conditions. Strong binding. A board corner cracks slightly. A sticker. First printing.

The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.

1st Ed 1st Print * On Writing

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Donald J. Trump

The Best Business Advice I Ever Received

Donald Trump asks successful businesspeople to reveal the best business advice they have ever received, resulting in inspiring and practical business tips.

1st Ed 1st Print * Trump: the Way to the Top

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Stuart Levine

Inscribed, “ Embrace fundamentals to ensure success.” Signed first print. Strong binding.

The Rules for Getting It Right for Yourself and Your Organization

In a straightforward, common-sense guide to business success, a corporate consultant shares six time-tested principles that help readers satisfy customers, accomplish goals and objectives, communicate clearly, and develop strong business relationships.

Signed 1st Ed 1st Print * The Six Fundamentals of Success

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Isabel Allende

Frances Riddle

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers—and never stop dreaming.

1st Ed 1st Print * The Wind Knows My Name

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Roy Porter

Simon Schama

Unread conditions . Little foxing inside the jacket.

The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Porter goes on to chart how--through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon--ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self.

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