Paul Fleischman

1996 first edition. Based on the Trojan War. A simple retelling of the Iliad for juvenile readers. With images of modern day newspapers, this book is anti-war, but also shows other gruesome things that perhaps juvenile readers are not mature enough to see and read. IMO.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Combining the legend of the Trojan War with newspaper clippings from the First World War to the current War on Terror, an updated historical volume traces the similarities between the world of Homer's Iliad and our own current state of affairs. Simultaneous.

Dateline: Troy

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Richard Munson

2018 first edition in excellent condition. The only flaw is a few pages that got bent at the bottom.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Inventor of the Modern

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp and the remote control. His breakthrough came in alternating current, which pitted him against Thomas Edison's direct current empire and bitter patent battles ensued. But Tesla's technology was superior and he prevailed. He had no business sense, could not capitalise on this success and his most advanced ideas were unrecognised for decades.

Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. Strikingly handsome, he was germophobic and never shook hands. He required nine napkins when he sat down to dinner. In later years he ate only white food and conversed with the pigeons in Bryant Park. This authoritative and highly readable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life.

Tesla

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Heidi Squier Kraft

2007 signed first edition in excellent condition.

Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital

When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer. One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.

Rule Number Two signed first edition

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Ann Cummins

2007 first edition, inscribed "To another Ann warm regards..."
Like new.

First Edition, Inscribed

For her acclaimed collection of stories, "Red Ant House," Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as "a master storyteller." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest.

Yellowcake

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

1964 reprint by International Collectors Library. Edges are tanned. Small water mark on top edge. Otherwise clean and tight.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Gone With the Wind

Elmore Leonard

February 1998 first edition signed. Excellent condition.

first edition, signed

Set on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Elmore Leonard's electrifying novel takes off like a shot.  A spellbinding journey into the heart and soul of the Cuban revolution of a hundred years ago,Cuba Libreis an explosive mix of high adventure, history brought to life, and a honey of a love story--all with the dead-on dialogue and unforgettable characters that mark Elmore Leonard as an American original. Just three days after the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, Ben Tyler arrives with a string of horses to sell--cover for a boatload of guns he's running to Cuban insurgents, risking a firing squad if he's caught. This cowboy's first day ashore sets the pace for a wild ride to come.  He sells the horses to an American planter, Roland Boudreaux, who's making a killing in Cuba...meets the man's sparkly New Orleans-born mistress, Amelia Brown, and falls in love...makes an enemy of a terrorizing Guardia Civil officer named Tavalera, and a friend of a mysterious old Cuban, Victor Fuentes...is forced into a gunfight and thrown in prison, Tavalera determined to nail him as a spy.   Tyler has done time in the past for robbing banks, but never in a place like Morro Castle.  America is about to declare war on Spain, and if Tyler doesn't manage to get out very soon, he's a dead man.   How his escape comes about, with surprising help, is the high point from which the plot takes off on a train ride across Cuba, with Tyler and Amelia looking for more than love, a lot more--a chance to snatch a bundle of Boudreaux's cash, if they can pull it off.  But who can you trust?  Everyone's a schemer in this one. Leonard breaks new ground in this rip-roaring jaunt into history, packed with all the twists, turns, sly plot, and wicked wit his fans have come to expect of the writer who has redefined the art of the novel.   Elmore Leonard has written thirty-four novels, including such bestsellers asOut of Sight, Riding the Rap, Pronto, Rum Punch,andGet Shorty,and numerous screenplays.  He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

Cuba Libre

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1994 Berkley Prime Crime Mystery. Mass market paperback. Clean and tight. Inside of covers yellowing,  but not the pages.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Benni Harper Mystery

Fool's Puzzle

Vivien Goldman

The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century

Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience. Named by Time magazine as “Album of the Century,” Exodus is reggae superstar Bob Marley’s masterpiece of spiritual exploration. Vivien Goldman was the first journalist to introduce mass white audiences to the Rasta sounds of Bob Marley. Throughout the late 1970s, Goldman was a fly on the wall as she watched reggae grow and evolve, and charted the careers of many of its superstars, especially Bob Marley. So close was Vivien to Bob and the Wailers that she was a guest at his Kingston home just days before gunmen came in a rush to kill “The Skip.” Now, in The Book of Exodus, Goldman chronicles the making of this album, from its conception in Jamaica to the raucous but intense all-night studio sessions in London. But The Book of Exodus is so much more than a making-of-a-record story. This remarkable book takes us through the history of Jamaican music, Marley’s own personal journey from the Trench Town ghetto to his status as global superstar, as well as Marley’s deep spiritual practice of Rastafari and the roots of this religion. Goldman also traces the biblical themes of the Exodus story, and its practical relevance to us today, through various other art forms, leading up to and culminating with Exodus. Never before has there been such an intimate, first-hand portrait of Marley’s spirituality, his political involvement, and his life in exile in London, leading up to histriumphant return to the stage in Jamaica at the Peace Concert of 1978. Here is an unforgettable portrait of Bob Marley and an acutely perceptive appreciation of his musical and spiritual legacy.

The Book of Exodus

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M. C. Beaton

February 2012 first edition in excellent condition.

A Hamish Macbeth Mystery

Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened “Fairy Glen” in the latest mystery from the author of Death of a Greedy Woman. 50,000 first printing.

Death of a Kingfisher first edition

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Christine Bennett Mystery

The St. Patrick's Day Murder; The Good Friday Murder; The Thanksgiving Day Murder; The Christmas Night Murder Bundle

J. Kennedy

2018 first edition in excellent condition.

A Templar Detective Thriller Book #4

Father Mercier is on a mission to save the souls of the possessed in the Kingdom of France, but he makes a mistake when he pries a young woman from her family in the sleepy village of Crécy-la-Chapelle, the home of Templar Knight Sir Marcus de Rancourt and his men, to whom the young woman is a friend. Once word is received of her abduction, Sir Marcus and his men spring into action to save their friend and to uncover the secret behind what motivates this unholy exorcist and his loyal followers.

The Templar Detective and the Unholy Exorcist

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J. Robert Kennedy

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A James Acton Thriller Book #23

In 989 AD, when informed of her impending arranged marriage, Fatima takes drastic action with her forbidden lover, Viking Prince Magnus, actions that not only have immediate consequences for her entire family, but reverberate a millennium later. But upon arriving in Stockholm, Sweden, their friend is nowhere to be found, last seen entering the Saudi embassy and not heard from since. Before they can notify the authorities, Acton receives a disturbing phone call, and is forced into action to save his friend. Becoming a criminal in the process.

The Viking Deception

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Flawless, clean and tight, except 3 pages in Major Vices, as shown.
Cousins Judith McMonigle and Renie team up to solve crimes that threaten their livelihood and the reputation of Judith's Hillside Manor Inn.

A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery

Holy Terrors; Ajor Vices; Wed and Buried Bundle

1981 first edition in excellent condition. Dust jacket has a couple of issues, but now has a new Demco cover. The book is spotless.

The warm and joyful sequel to ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL

The Lord God Made Them All first edition 

Mark Bechtel

Feb 2010 first edition in excellent condition.

The True Story of the Year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the Rest of Nascar's Feudin', Fightin', Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing on the Map

He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back first edition

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Joseph Heller

1994 Simon and Schuster in excellent condition, with one small tear on the dj.

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.) His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. The others range from Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur (he bombs his own airfield when the Germans make him a reasonable offer: cost plus 6%), to the dead man in Yossarian's tent; from Major Major Major, whose tragedy is that he resembles Henry Fonda, to Nately's whore's kid sister; from Lieutenant Scheisskopf (he loves a parade) to Major -- de Coverley, whose face is so forbidding no one has ever dared ask him his first name; from Clevinger, who is lost in the clouds, to the soldier in white, who lies encased in bandages from head to toe and may not even be there at all; from Dori Duz, who does, to the wounded gunner Snowden, who lies dying in the tail of Yossarian's plane and at last reveals his terrifying secret. Catch-22 is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. It is a novel that lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality. It is, we believe, one of the strongest creations of the mid-century.

Catch-22

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Paige Dearth

2023. Page writes real life horror and refers to her work as Fiction with Meaning.

Rainey Paxton Series: Book Three

Some people die long before their heart stops beating. Rainey Paxton is convinced there is a link between the disappearances of several women and her friend Winnie. Her obsession leads her back to the mysterious house where she said goodbye to Winnie years prior. Rainey is certain there is something sinister about the man who took her friend to Florida. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Dakota Jagger is on her own looking for shelter. While roaming the city streets, Dakota meets a charming and persuasive man who offers to help her. This is the same man who stalks women and keeps them as his own. Dakota does not know the man she trusts is a serial killer until she wakes up in a cold, dark place with no recollection of how she got there. The only hope for any survivors is if Rainey Paxton has enough fire in her belly to feed her craving to find Winnie. **WARNING** 18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter. Girls Missing eBook categories: Horror Novels Psychological Thriller Psychological Horror Suspenseful Novels Realistic Fiction Thriller Dark Kidnapping Disturbing Crime Fiction Murder Family Drama Novels Vigilante Justice Suspense Horror Serial Killer Street Gangs

Girls Missing

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Richard Ellmann

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The First Revision of the 1959 Classic

James Joyce

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Mary Ellin Barrett

1994 first edition in excellent condition.

A Daughter's Memoir

A biography of the American composer Irving Berlin from the time of his marriage to his death.

Irving Berlin

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1998 guide book to the permanent exhibition at the Zwinger in Dresden, Germany. This book is in German.

Porcelain Collection Dresden Guide Through the Permanent Exhibition

Porzellan SammlungDresden: Fuhrer Durch Die Standige Ausstellung

John Joseph Mathews

1981 third edition. U of Oklahoma Press. Front cover is rippled from water, staining is minimal.

The Osage and the White Man's Road

In Wah’Kon-Tah, John Joseph Mathews relied heavily on the papers of Osage agent Major Labian J. Miles to recreate the world of the Osage during the last quarter of the Nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century. Using his own experiences, Mathews stressed the spirituality, dignity, and humor of the Osages as they acculturated to the non-Indian world and adapted some of its aspects for their own use.

Wah'Kon-Tah

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Trav S. D.

2005 first edition in excellent condition.

Or the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

The author probes the roots of vaudville in this rich chronicle of a lost but very influential brand of American entertainment, illuminating the impact of vaudville actors and techniques on everyone from Ed Sullivan to the Muppet Show.

No Applause--Just Throw Money (first edition)

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Mary C. Meglemre

2001 first edition inscribed by the author. A memoir of the author and of Cary Grant as told to the author over the course of their friendship. Excellent condition. Inscribed on the title page. 

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