Harlan Coben

Very little shelfwear 
Pages starting to yellow
No creases on spine 

Signet Book, 2009, 488 pages

Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son - 'Just stay quiet and all safe.'

Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range; but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question they must answer is this: when it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much?



Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A Suspense Thriller

The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears. “We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all....

Hold Tight

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Very little shelfwear 
No creases in spine 
Pages starting to yellow 
Light Stain on last 4 pages - see photos 

Dell Fiction, 2001, 319 pages 

Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings him to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant-from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: The boy is Myron's son, conceived the night before her wedding to another man.

Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But finding him means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the donor who disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation.

A friend's son is gravely ill and the potential bone-marrow donor who could save his life has disappeared, so detective Myron Bolitar has no choice but to investigate, even though his sports agency desperately needs his attention. Reprint.

Darkest Fear

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Jo Clayton

Small amount of shelfwear 
Crease on spine from reading 

DAW Books, 1983, 304 pages

Duel of Sorcery Trilogy Book #2

As a young child, Serroi was held in thrall to Ser Noris, the powerful and villainous mage who saved her from certain death only to exploit her as a tool in his unholy experiments in necromancy and demonic possession. After being cast aside, she became a chosen warrior of the meie, though nightmarish memories continue to haunt her. As for the dark sorcerer, his power and malevolence have since increased a thousandfold. Having achieved eternal life, no evil in this world can compare with his, and now Ser Noris, bored with a lack of worthy opponents, has challenged the Goddess herself, She who lives at the center of all things.
 
Only Serroi can truly recognize the terrible depth of the darkness that is overtaking her world. And as she sets forth on a desperate quest to locate the last remaining power capable of defeating Ser Noris’s insidious plot—the enigmatic and wildly unpredictable hermit Coyote—a young girl in a faraway village, whose fate will soon be intertwined with Serroi’s, is coming of age in a time of violence and fear.
 
But what chance do mere mortal heroes have when faced with malevolence so powerful and brazen that it dares to take on a goddess, and would obliterate an entire world on a whim?


Moonscatter

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Barry Chubin

Well read copy 
Creases on spine 
Small tear on spine cover 

Ballentine Books, 1989, 341 pages

When American intelligence learns that a generation-old covert KGB plot to infiltrate the White House has been activated, Washington secret agent Nick Delan is ordered to assassinate the leading presidential candidate

The Thirteenth Directorate

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Slight shelfwear 
No creases on spine 

Trumpet Club, 1990, 218 pages

Tripod Trilogy Book #2

Will, Beanpole, and Henry have managed to escape the Tripods. But instead of living in safety, in the small community of free people, they have chosen to embark upon a mission that may cost them their lives.

The City of Gold and Lead 

Kate Chopin

Rachel Adams

Couple pages of underlining in the first story - Awakening 
Little creasing on spine 
Slight shelfwear 

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003, 297 pages 

When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.

Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity." Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.

A reprint of the 1899 novel about Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother who is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation. Also includes the short stories: Beyond the bayou -- Ma'ame Pelagle -- Desiree's baby -- A Respectable woman -- The Kiss -- A Pair of silk stockings -- The Locket -- A Reflection.

The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction

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Rob Chilson

Like new with minimal shelfwear 

Baen Books, 1998, 274 pages

In a world where the dead walk, however poorly, for a corpse to sit up at his funeral and curse his ex-partner is shocking but not unheard of.ÿMurder, mayhem, and mirth follow, involving partner Bernie McKay, "Hat" Stetson and his redneck friends, Justin Waley the sword-swinging accountant, and Rod Parker the troll-like deputy sheriff in a search for stolen gold, for revenge, for the truth.

Black As Blood

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Deborah Chester

Small marker mark on cover 
Spine has creases from reading and is slight skewed, but in good condition 
Minimal shelfwear 

Ace books, 1996, 344 pages

Ruby Throne Trilogy Book #1

For over nine hundred years, the Emperor Kostimon has sat upon the Ruby Throne. He bargained with the dark gods for his immortality-and now he and his kingdom will have to pay the price.

Reign of Shadows

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Slight shelfwear 
Pages yellowed Spine

Bantam Book, 1959, 119 pages 

SEX WAS NOT ENOUGH. She had that with her young jazz musician husband. She needed a love that was deeper, richer, stronger, more mature and fulfilling. She found it with a man who knew how to love her in a way that made her feel she was a complete woman. But everyone, every circumstance conspired to pull them apart... 


Middle of the Night 

Kylie Chan

Small fold on back cover at corner 
No creases on spine 
Marker strike across bottom book ledge 

Voyager Books, 2007, 563 pages 

Dark Heavens Book #2

When Emma Donahoe took the position of nanny to John Chen's daughter Simone, she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god, and she didn't expect that demons would want him dead. Nor has moving from nanny to partner in his heavenly realm made Emma's life any easier. Now a powerful race of demons has been created to hunt her and her family from Hong Kong to Europe. And she and Simone have become targets - pawns to be used in a deadly celestial power play.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Continuing a fabulous debut fantasy adventure, a trilogy based on Chinese mythology, set in modern day Hong Kong, where an ancient god falls in love with a young Australian woman.

Red Phoenix

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Daniel Carney

Spine has creases from reading, but book is in good condition 

zebra Books, 1986, 556 pages 

Six square miles of lawless corruption on the turbulent China coast. A teeming metropolis of ancient cobble streets and lavish, modern casinos. Cloaked in the romance of the far east, possessing a dark and deadly magic uniquely its own. 

Safe haven for spies and blockade runners. Violent breeding ground of racketeers, pimps, thieves and murderers. Where puppet government officials and rich banking taipans bow to the evil will of Mafia-style criminal and terrorist organizations. And where a beautiful but ruthless young woman and a legendary odds, allies in a brue battle to she death or lisibless wealth and ultimate power.

American-educated Crystal Lily assumes control of her father's Far East Macau Syndicate of smuggling and drug dealing and shrewdly confronts those who would rob her of her inheritance

Macau

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Well read used copy 
Pages yellowed 
Spine is slightly skewed from being read, but spine is in good condition 
All pages intact 
First 20 pages has a small stain on bottom - see photo 
Pen markings on back cover 

Fawcett Crest Books, 1962, 303 pages 

A timeless American classic rediscovered—an unforgettable saga of a heartland family.

On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive—and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.





The Moonflower Vine

Great condition 
Book jacket has some color fading on spine 

Doubleday & Company, 1970 book club edition, 597 pages 

Born a veritable great lion of God to a devout Jewish family, Saul of Tarsus is raised by his parents to embrace their love of humanity. Dogged by what he perceives as a lack of true faith, he embarks on a journey to save his people from sacrilege. But on the road to Damascus a vision of the resurrected Jesus changes the course of his life. Converting to Christianity, the newly christened Paul transforms from persecutor of blasphemers into apostle to the gentiles, becoming one of the supreme influences on the Catholic Church and the Western world.

Great Lion of God paints a unique and very human portrait of Saint Paul, one of the most passionate, dauntless, and complex figures of early Christianity—Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and above all, a “man like ourselves with our own despairs, doubts, anxieties and angers and intolerances, and ‘lusts of the flesh.’”

The central novel in author Taylor Caldwell’s biblical trilogy, which also includes Dear and Glorious Physician and I, Judas, Great Lion of God is both “sheer entertainment” and a moving tribute to the majesty and power of the Christian faith (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Great Lion of God

Well read copy 
Pages yellowing fold on back cover Little shelfwear

Jove Book, 1977, 446 pages

Barbours/Bouchards book #2
Sequel to Dynasty of Death

The Bouchard children had inherited massive wealth and power, a dynasty forged in the flames of war. Now a rapacious private war was raging- for control of their world-wide munitions empire. With deadly cunning the Bouchard men conspired for final, ruthless bloodletting. 
But the fate of the clan rested in the hands of two Bouchard women. The widow of old Jules Bouchard who dared to set her sons against each other to save her daughter. And a young woman who wielded the only weapon the family could neither manufacture or destroy-a luminous, passionate love.



The Eagles Gather 

Well read copy 
Top paper on bottom spine is rolled a bit 
Spine is slightly skewed from being read 

Jove Book, 1977, 512 pages 

The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of gentlemanly leisure. His path: graduate from his fashionable school and marry his beautiful cousin, Eugenia, whom he loves. Yet, one wild night, a jealous classmate tricks him into making a fateful mistake.

Forced to give up his former life, Turnbull sails for America. He soon falls in with the unscrupulous businessman Mr. Wilkins. Together, they steal patents, smuggle contraband through the Southern blockade during the Civil War, run guns to Japan, and finance the opium trade. But as Turnbull amasses a fortune large enough to vanquish his most powerful enemies, he doesn't realize his gravest threat comes from within his own family.

Packed with fascinating period details, The Turnbulls is a mesmerizing family drama from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Captains and the Kings and Dynasty of Death.

The Turnbulls

Very nice copy for a vintage book 
Small corner fold on back cover 
Little shelfwear 

Signet Book, 1957, 158 pages

With a true American voice, Caldwell presents a searing view of the tragic struggles of a black brother and sister in their attempt to survive the racism and perverse sexuality of their brutal Southern employers.


Place Called Estherville

Vintage book - spine glue is slightly weakening, but all pages are intact 
Very little shelfwear for the books age 
Some red pen on cover 
Pencil marks n first page 

Lion Books, 1957, 159 pages 

A short novel focusing on the lives of British RAF bomber pilots during World War II. The battle scenes are frightening. And the stresses and strains of war ..

The Naked Night 

Minimal shelfwear 

Pocket Books, 2004 - Fiction - 281 pages

Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Greer mistakenly turns to a knife-sharp Vietnamese kingpin for help. Soon he and his wife Carol are thrust into the thick of a bloody Asian gang war - a clash that's seeping into the city's corridors of power and wealth. But not until Carol is kidnapped does Greer guess the scope of the dark, vicious game he has entered, and the frightening price he must pay for victory. Trapped between warring factions, terrified by the senseless violence exploding around him, Greer reluctantly prepares himself for battle. He'll risk anything to save his wife - and exact a very personal revenge.

Predator’s Waltz

Used readable copy
Back cover is coming loose 
All pages intact and spine is good

Avon Books, 1974, 380 pages 

Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past The department has taken away Dermot Davey's gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing moment where he nearly killed a civilian, the New York Police Department has dumped him on the "Bow and Arrow Squad"--the home for alcoholic cops unfit to carry firearms. Without his pistol, Dermot feels like he's hardly a cop. As his marriage tanks, Dermot drinks, and considers ending it all. But everything changes when he learns about his dad. Dermot's father disappeared when he was a child, leaving Dermot's mother to raise him alone. Now Dermot hears word that his old man has surfaced in Ulster, the heart of the increasingly bloody Irish Troubles. Hoping to find redemption, he travels to Ireland to meet his father. What he finds is a war-torn, deadly place--a brutish, ugly city that is nevertheless no uglier than the darkness inside his own soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

World Without End, Amen

Book Jacket is discolored on edges and spine 

Viking Press, 1969 book club edition, 254 pages

It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun!

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa Baccala, a Brooklyn Mafia boss, and Kid Sally Palumbo, a would-be capo who "couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars". There's also Kid Sally's grandmother, who will go to extravagant lengths to see her boy make his mark. A love interest? Sure. Kid Sally's sister tumbles for an artistic type who rides a bicycle and has recently arrived from Calabria...

The high adventure begins with a six-day bike race that is only partly responsible for a rash of obituary notices "Died. Suddenly". Eventually it all gets worked out in fine Sicilian fashion -- and, in the end, everybody gets his, in a manner of speaking


The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight

Asa Briggs

Very little shelfwear 
Pages yellowing 

Pelican Books, 1982, 319 pages 

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.

"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."— Times Literary Supplement

A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

Victorian People

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Color fading on book jacket 

Thomas Y Crowell Co., 1970 book club edition, 589 pages

Kendra comes to San Francisco, a sleepy town of nine hundred people, because her stepfather, an army colonel, is charged with overseeing its defenses during the Mexican War. Marny arrives from Honolulu to set up a gambling hall. Neither expects to be swept up in one of history's greatest adventures, which begins when tiny flakes of gold are discovered in the California hills.

As both young women follow their dreams into the mining camps and back to a rapidly growing San Francisco, they encounter ambitious settlers, sailors, miners, ranchers, and mysterious drifters, men who will offer them love or friendship or will break their hearts. Yet Kendra and Marny's lives stay centered on the Calico Palace, the little gambling operation in a tent in Shiny Gulch that becomes the most opulent gambling house in California.

Thrilling and rich in authentic historical detail, Calico Palace is first-rate historical fiction that informs and entertains.

Calico Palace

Terry Brooks

Back cover has a chipped corner and a bit of the edge missing 
No spine creases 
Little bit of white paint on top ledge 

Shannara Trilogy Book #3

Horror stalks the Four Lands. The Ildatch, immemorial book of evil spells, has stirred to eldritch life, sending its foul Mord Wraiths to accomplish at last Mankind's destruction. Once again Allanon, ancient Druid Protector of the Races, must seek the help of a descendant of Jerle Shannara. Brin, daughter of Wil Ohmsford, born with the magic of the Wishsong which alone can open a way to the Ildatch, reluctantly joins him on his perilous journey east; meanwhile her younger brother Jair learns that Brin will fail and die, unless he can reach her in time. And as Brin walks into the trap the Ildatch has set, Jair must travel through the very heart of evil to reach her...

Terror engulfs the Four Land as the "Ildatch," the ancient book of evil spells sends its Mord Wraiths to bring about the destruction of human life, and Allanon calls on the aid of a descendent of Jerle Shannara

The Wishsong of Shannara (the Shannara Chronicles)

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Spine is creased due to reading 
A good used copy 
Spine is good and all pages are intact 

Del Rey Books, 1991, 419 pages

Heritage of Shannara Book #1
Since the death of Allanon, life in the Four Lands has drastially changed. Yet Par Ohmsford still has some power of the Wishsong. And when a message from the ancient Druid, Allanon, reaches them, Par is ordered to recover the long-lost Sword of Shannara, and the glory that once was the Four Lands....

The Four Lands suffer under the totalitarian rule of a cruel federation that forbids magic while the gifted Par Ohmsford and his brother set out to restore their homeland's past glories

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