“Providing astrological advice for the lovelorn is balm for the spirit, but unfortunately for Stella the Stargaze, not very fruitful for the pocket. So she’s moonlighting as the assistant director for the local production of the Garden of Iden. And with a title like that she should have known there’d be problems: an anxious producer, a temperamental cast, a stage mother from hell. 
So when Barbara Steadman is found barely alive and tied - to a Venus Flytrap prop - by a cord around her neck, the cast can only wonder. A second “accident” nearly knocks the director out of his chair ….permanently. Then a real corpse makes an appearance and the show takes a very dramatic turn to murder.”



Dead on Her Feet by Christine T. Jorgensen
Paperback 
Condition: New, Unread, Light signs of shelf wear 
Print: 2001 (Vintage)
Cozy mystery, female sleuth, contemporary fiction, woman led mystery

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Dead On Her Feet

Celia Jerome

No dog eared pages.  Please see photos.  Well loved / read. 

When her fictional character--a troll who is a superhero--becomes all too real, graphic novelist Willow Tate must help British Agent Grant from the Department of Unexplained Events save the planet, especially since she has broken an ages-old cosmic law. Original.

Trolls in the Hamptons

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“For first time in the US, this timeless cat-and-mouse classic from the Edgar Award-winning "genius" examines political tensions in an era of espionage (Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series). 
In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. 
Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with dismay as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. When a colleague who suspects something strange disappears, Hepton realizes there is much more at stake than anyone knows -- and many more people on his trail than he can possibly evade . . .”

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

WESTWIND 

And 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

As one of today’s most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world. Now, for the first time, Godin has collected the most provocative short pieces from his pioneering blog—ranked #70 by Feedster (out of millions published) in worldwide readership. This book also includes his most popular columns from Fast Company magazine, and several of the short e-books he has written in the last few years. A sample: • Bon Jovi And The Pirates • Christmas Card Spam • Clinging To Your Job Title? • How Much Would You Pay to Be on Oprah’s Show? • The Persistence of Really Bad Ideas • The Seduction of “Good Enough” • What Happens When It's All on Tape? • Would You Buy Life Insurance at a Rock Concert? Small is the New Big is a huge bowl of inspiration that you can gobble in one sitting or dip into at any time. As Godin writes in his introduction: “I guarantee that you'll find some ideas that don’t work for you. But I’m certain that you're smart enough to see the stuff you’ve always wanted to do, buried deep inside one of these riffs. And I’m betting that once inspired, you’ll actually make something happen.”

Small Is the New Big

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Little Known Facts About Well-Known Places 

Disneyland

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#paperback #sparta #bestsellingauthor #contemporary #tragicviolence #murder #drama #thriller 

A Novel

A searing exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America, Little Bird of Heaven returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates's previous bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and The Gravedigger's Daughter.

When young wife and mother Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the police target two suspects: her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Diehl's daughter, Krista, become obsessed with each other, each believing the other's father guilty. By novel's end, the fated lovers are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love, and redemptive yearning.

Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Oates--where the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty.

Little Bird of Heaven

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A Holiday Mystery at Sea

Embarking on a Mystery Seminar luxury cruise during the holiday season, amateur sleuth Alvirah, private detective Regan, and their family members find their voyage overshadowed by reports of a ghost spotting, the disappearance of a fan, and an unexpected storm. 550,000 first printing.

Santa Cruise

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The Regulators by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman 
Hardcover Book
Fiction
Good pre-loved condition
Says First Trade Printing 
Has the back cover w peep hole to other book (read below)

“The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Additionally, the hardcover first editions of each novel, if set side by side, make a complete painting, and on the back of each cover is also a peek at the opposite's cover.”  #hardcover #fiction #stephenking #horrorfiction #richardbachman #horror #suspense #stephen 

On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon, whose supernatural powers are just awakening. 1,250,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

The Regulators

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Living within New York City's most elite apartment building, five women pursue relationships and personal dreams amid the social and sexual politics of New York's privileged, including comeback-seeking actress Schiffer Diamond, rich-husband-hunting Lola, and high-powered career woman Winnie. By the author of Trading Up. 350,000 first printing.

One Fifth Avenue

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Enid Lambert begins to worry about her husband when he starts to withdraw and lose himself in negativity and depression as he faces Parkinson's disease. Winner of the National Book Award. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.

The Corrections

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#hardcover #fiction #davidbaldacci #mystery #longroadtomercy #fbi #thriller #atlleepine

An Atlee Pine Thriller

#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces a remarkable new character: Atlee Pine, an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she's the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau's top criminal profilers, if she didn't prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her chosen mission is a lonesome one--but that suits her just fine. Now, Atlee is called in to investigate the mutilated carcass of a mule found in the Grand Canyon--and hopefully, solve the disappearance of its rider. But this isn't the only recent disappearance. In fact, it may be just the first clue, the key to unraveling a rash of other similar missing persons cases in the canyon....

Long Road to Mercy

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And Other Amazing Things I've Learned

Award-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe, the slightly warped mind behind Stupid Pet Tricks, is an old hand with dogs. She knows who’s boss (they are) and the myriad ways a loving pet can make you feel guilty twenty-four hours a day. This new edition of Merrill Markoe’s classic collection of humorous essays gives readers the choicest selections along with brand-new material.

In these razor-sharp essays, Markoe recounts her dogs’ phone chats with animal communicators, her search for past lives, and her brief stint as a stun gun saleswoman. She describes the workshop that taught her how to launch an Internet porn business and another that gave proper instruction in the esoteric art of becoming a dominatrix.

She shares insight into what it is like to structure your day using only dog rules, how to spot a really horrible restaurant, and what it’s like to have a romantic dinner with Fabio. There’s even a bright side to preparing for the apocalypse: “At last, it is time to forget about fat grams and low cholesterol.” This enchantingly rambunctious and boundlessly enjoyable book gives you Merrill Markoe at her best. You’ll devour it in one sitting (and so may your pet).

What the Dogs Have Taught Me

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Returning home from Ireland, where she had been called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose body was marked by the signature of a cunning serial killer, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is shocked when another body turns up, this time in a Virginia landfill. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

Unnatural Exposure

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#hardcover #jamespatterson #fiction #youngadultfiction #camping #scarystory #murder #friendship #storytelling #horrorstories NO DUST COVER

Be careful what stories you tell around the campfire... they just might come true. Fans of Scream and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will devour this chilling horror debut. While camping in a remote location, Maddie Davenport gathers around the fire with her friends and family to tell scary stories. Caleb, the handsome young guide, shares the local legend of the ferocious Mountain Men who hunt unsuspecting campers and leave their mark by carving grisly antlers into their victims' foreheads. The next day, the story comes true. Now Maddie and her family are lost in the deep woods--with no way out--being stalked by their worst nightmares. Because there were other, more horrifying stories told that night--and Maddie's about to find out just how they end...

Campfire

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#paperback #selling #sales #marketing #salesperson #howtosell 

Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff

Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!

The SPIN Selling Fieldbook is your guide to the method that has revolutionized big-ticket sales in the United States and globally. It's the method being used by one-half of all Fortune 500 companies to train their sales forces, and here's the interactive, hands-on field book that provides the practical tools you need to put this revolutionary method into action­­immediately. The SPIN Selling Fieldbook includes:

 * Individual diagnostic exercises
 * Illustrative case studies from leading companies
 * Practical planning suggestions
 * Provocative questionnaires
 * Practice sessions to prepare you for dealing with challenging selling situations

Written by the pioneering author of the original bestseller, SPIN Selling, this book is aimed at making implementation easy for companies that have not yet established SPIN techniques. It will also enable companies that are already using the method to reinforce SPIN methods in the field and in coaching sessions.

The SPIN Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources

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#paperback #fiction #jamespatterson #holidaythriller #maxinepaetro #thriller 

The  New Women’s Club Murder Thriller 

#1 New York Times bestseller -- If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco. Then a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman" seizes control of the headlines. Solving crimes never happens on schedule, but as this criminal mastermind unleashes credible threats by the hour, the month of December is upended for the Women's Murder Club. Avoiding tragedy is the only holiday miracle they seek.

The 19th Christmas

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#paperback #branding #business #marketing

The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People

Emotional Branding is the best selling revolutionary business book that has created a movement in branding circles by shifting the focus from products to people. The "10 Commandments of Emotional Branding" have become a new benchmark for marketing and creative professionals, emotional branding has become a coined term by many top industry experts to express the new dynamic that exists now between brands and people. The emergence of social media, consumer empowerment and interaction were all clearly predicted in this book 10 years ago around the new concept of a consumer democracy. In this updated edition, Marc Gobé covers how social media helped elect Barack Obama to the White House, how the idea behind Twitter is transforming our civilization, and why new generations are re-inventing business, commerce, and management as we know it by leveraging the power of the web. In studying the role of women as "shoppers in chief, "and defining the need to look at the marketplace by recognizing differences in origins, cultures, and choices, Emotional Branding foresaw the break up of mass media to more targeted and culturally sensitive modes of communications. As the first marketing book ever to study the role of the LGBTQ community as powerful influencers for many brands, Emotional Branding opened the door to a renewed sensitivity toward traditional research that privilege individuality and the power of the margins to be at the center of any marketing strategy. A whole segment in the book looks at the role of the senses in branding and design. The opportunity that exists in understanding how we feel about a brand determines how much we want to buy. By exploring the 5 senses, Emotional Branding shows how some brands have built up their businesses by engaging in a sensory interaction with their consumers. Emotional Branding explores how effective consumer interaction needs to be about senses and feelings, emotions and sentiments. Not unlike the Greek culture that used philosophy, poetry, music, and the art of discussion and debate to stimulate the imagination, the concept of emotional branding establishes the forum in which people can convene and push the limits of their creativity. Through poetry the Greeks invented mathematics, the basis of science, sculpture, and drama. Unless we focus on humanizing the branding process we will lose the powerful emotional connection people have with brands. Critics hailed Emotional Branding as a breakthrough and a fresh approach to building brands. Design in this book is considered a new media, the web a place where people will share information and communicate, architecture a part of the brand building process, and people as the most powerful element of any branding strategy. Most importantly, it emphasizes the need to transcend the traditional language of marketing--from one based on statistics and data to a visually compelling new form of communication that fosters creativity and innovation.

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Emotional Branding

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A romance in reverse is set in Paris and London and follows an artist's attempts to fall back in love with his wife after the end of his affair, an effort that is challenged by the sale of a personal painting and his wife's discovery of his infidelity. A first novel.

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

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A Theory of Feline Aesthetics

Offers a look at feline paintings, discusses aspects of their creativity, and examines everyday cat behavior

Why Cats Paint

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#hardcover #christmasstory #children #holidays #bedtimestories #storytime #firstedition #popupbook #popupstory

A Pop-Up Book

Featuring an amazing pop-up Santa's cottage with built-in 3-D windows to peek through.

One Christmas morning, Sam wakes up to find that Santa has brought him just what he asked for. But that night he can't help but wonder: Does anyone ever give Santa a gift? After saving up all year to buy Santa the perfect present, Sam still can't decide what the jolly old fellow might want. Something to wear? Something to eat? Or maybe some special help on Christmas Eve? Sprinkled with pop-ups, this holiday tale leads up to a final surprise: an amazing rendition of Santa's cottage, with 3-D windows revealing the bustling activity inside.

A Present for Santa Claus

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Loving Home for the Holidays 

#paperback #fiction #massmarketpb #werewolf #fantasy #historical #humor #romance 

An Alexia Tarabotti Novel 

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

Soulless

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Personal Heroes of America's Most Inspiring People

Prepare yourself for a journey, because you're about to meet some of our nation's most successful people--and those who made them who they are. What defines a successful life? Legacy--what we leave behind; what we pass on to others. There are Heroes Among Us Who Have Become an Inspiration to Us All.Meet Bonnie Carroll, the real-life inspiration behind the film The Big Miracle who, after losing her husband in a military air crash, created an organization that has helped thousands of veterans' families traumatized by death and injury.Meet Kevin Saunders who, against all odds, survived one of the most devastating industrial explosions in American history. Catastrophically injured, he fought his way back, becoming a world-recognized para-Olympic athlete and motivational speaker.See how Father Joe Carroll, the Catholic Priest, dramatically improved the lives of countless homeless men, women, and children by creating the nation's most innovative facilities to rehabilitate, educate, and restore the lives of those in need.Get to know Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books and films, who has also touched lives by creating a safe and creative environment for abused women.Learn about Sandy Heverly, whose entire family was killed and injured by a drunk driver punished only with a $100 fine, and read of her tireless crusade that changed the laws and the lives of thousands of victims.READ INCREDIBLE STORIES OF COMPASSION, CHARITY, SHARING, LEADERSHIP, JUSTICE AND COURAGE TOLD BY SOME OF AMERICA'S MOST INSPIRING MEN AND WOMEN. THIS IS THE POWER OF LEGACY.

The Power of Legacy

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A shocking accident. A little girl struggling to survive. And the childless aunt who transforms her own world to help her . . . Danielle Steel's deeply moving novel is a story of resilience and hope. Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her acting dreams into making her own daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path from her sister's. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped their childhood. Instead, she is a psychiatrist who lives for her work and enjoys a no-strings-attached love affair with a wealthy venture capitalist. But at a moment's notice, Whitney drops everything to help her niece. Once famous, outgoing, and charismatic, Emma is now a shadow of her former self--without speech, without memory, lost and terrified. But with her aunt Whitney's help, along with a team of caregivers and doctors, Emma begins to find her way, starting her young life all over again--and changing the lives of everyone around her. Emotionally gripping and richly involving, Silent Night explores how the heart has mysterious healing powers of its own, and blessings happen when we think all is lost.

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