Denise Kiernan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness. He summoned the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to tame the grounds, collaborated with celebrated architect Richard Morris Hunt to build a 175,000-square-foot chateau, filled it with priceless art and antiques, and erected a charming village beyond the gates. Newlywed Edith was now mistress of an estate nearly three times the size of Washington, DC and benefactress of the village and surrounding rural area. When fortunes shifted and changing times threatened her family, her home, and her community, it was up to Edith to save Biltmore—and secure the future of the region and her husband’s legacy. This is the fascinating, “soaring and gorgeous” (Karen Abbott) story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.

The Last Castle

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Man-Made Wonders

Bridges: 75 Most Spectacular Bridges

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Super Wing Total Force Integration

USAF for the 21st Century

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Belinda Gallagher

1. Earth and Space
2. Science and Technology 
3. The Natural World 
4. People in Place and Time
5. Me and My Body
6. Atlas of the World

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Volumes 1-6

Atlas of the World

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Cat Ninja:Wanted

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Official Guide

Battlebots

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The Wit and Wisdom of Mike Turpin 

Turpin Time

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Robert A. Caro

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books. Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after years of working in solitude, he found a writers' community at the New York Public Library, and details the ways he goes about planning and composing his books. Caro recalls the moments at which he came to understand that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power but about the people and the politics that were shaped by that power. And he talks about the importance to him of the writing itself, of how he tries to infuse it with a sense of place and mood to bring characters and situations to life on the page. Taken together, these reminiscences--some previously published, some written expressly for this book--bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.

Working

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A Hercule Poirot Novel

Hallowe’en Party

Original Sherlock Holmes adventure made into a film itself. 1976 paperback

Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, MD

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Role of Honor

Classic historical fiction. Tir-in edition to the Stanley Kubrick film. A vintage 1960 Bantam Book paperback. 

Spartacus

James Bond in his final Ian Fleming adventure. Tie-in to the Roger Moore adaptation. A vintage 1070s Signet paperback. 

The Man with the Golden Gun

Ian Fleming’s James Bond. paperback from the 1980s.  

Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times. In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming's experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London Sunday Times, by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.

Diamonds Are Forever

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Excellent reading copy with some inside pencil markings. 

Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Award and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. He has also won four Shamus Awards, and was the first recipient of the Nero Wolfe Award. He is the author of over 40 books, many of which feature the characters Bernie Rhodenbarr, Matthew Scudder, Chip Harrison, and Evan Tanner. He lives in New York City with his wife Lynne.

Here Comes a Hero

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Excellent reading copy eith some markings on cover. 

It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner's been in over his head before. This time, however, he's in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries . . . and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena. Tanner's always been a sucker for a pretty face and a curvaceous body, especially one that's wrapped in leopard skin. But this red hot renegade daughter of a local missionary is a maneater. Which means this time Tanner's goose is well and truly cooked.

Me Tanner, You Jane

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Evan Tanner, the spy who couldn’t sleep, in his third adventure. Vintage Fawcett Gold Medal Book.  Some markings on cover and pages. 

Tanner’s Twelve Swingers

New adventure of Ian Fleming’s James Bond

Nobody Lives Forever

Orignal adventure of Ian Fleming’s James Bond. 

John Gardner is the author of Confessor, the epic Secret Generations trilogy and the following James Bond thrillers: Cold Fall; Never Send Flowers; Death is Forever; The Man from Barbarossa; Brokenclaw; Win, Lose or Die; Scorpius; No Deals, Mr. Bond; Nobody Lives Forever; Role of Honor; Icebreaker; For Special Services; License Renewed; and Seafire. He lives in Virginia.

License Renewed

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Original spy caper from Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. A vintage 1960s Dell paperback. 

The Diamond Smugglers

James Bind in the romance The Spy Who Lived Me. A vintage Signey paperback. 

The Spy Who Loved Me

Fourteen globe trotting articles from Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. A vibtage 1960s Signet paperback. 

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