Rich Shapero

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

Escape with a disaffected young sculptor from a desert dystopia to “heaven,” a blue ocean realm ruled by a perverse, tentacled god with a mysterious purpose. Your trust may be outraged, but dive deeper and you’ll uncover clues to the creative sea change in our ideals that could redeem a desolate world.

Arms from the Sea

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Virginia

A novel

Mencuah Publishers

This book was written by a Rabbi who gave his life to save a child 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

Yanky's Amazing Discovery (Jewish Story)

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Belva Plain

Louisiana

Three weeks after an elderly woman sends letters to her troubled relatives, two estranged and hostile brothers, a young couple on the verge of divorce, and a loving couple whose parents despise one another come together at the home of the family matriarch, in a story of familial conflict and reconciliation. 200,000 first printing.

Homecoming

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M. C. Beaton

This is another cozy read, with lots mysteries, suspense, crime, thriller, by MCBeaton 

In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. Once again, it's up to Hamish to discover who's responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.

Death of a Chimney Sweep

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Diane Mott Davidson

Was given as a gift after I had purchased it. A wonderful cozy mystery that includes recipes for cute desserts for your book club meetings. This is brand new Chicklit FirstEdition1995. See all photos 

A scrumptious new entree in the bestselling mystery series, starring caterer/sleuth Goldy B. Schulz. Her latest assignment, catering for Mignon Cosmetics, has Goldy on a collision course with a killer, sending her sleuthing at a department store make-up counter, and tussling with a violent animal rights group called Spare the Hares.

Killer Pancake

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New York

This is a fantastic love story. Hardcover new and includes silk bookmark. See all photos 

A Love Story 

Set in contemporary Shanghai, this work tells the story of Shen, a Chinese art dealer and Ruth a young Australian artist. Their obsessive love is mirrored in an antique manuscript, and when Ruth falls prey to a terminal illness Shen embarks on a quest for the missing chapters.

The Red Thread

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Disha Bose

A twisted tale of murder and love gone wrong…….,
Brand new psychological thriller. First Edition 2023. See all photos 

A Novel

"A twisty tale of murder and love gone wrong, rife with bone-chilling revelations . . . This is a riveting debut, and Disha Bose is a writer to watch."--Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Mother May I

She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it.

Ciara Dunphy has it all--a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success--a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. But behind the filters, reality is less polished.

Enter Mishti Guha: Ciara's best friend. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being . . . unlike the other mothers in the group. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. She wants what Ciara has--the ease with which she moves through the world--and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers.

And there's earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they're mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara's immaculate world. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over.

Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she'd worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara's death, so if they don't want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies' dirty laundry.

In this dazzling debut novel, Disha Bose revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. What ensues is the delicious unspooling of a group of women desperate to preserve themselves.

Dirty Laundry

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Everything in this book is perfect except a tiny tear in dust jacket on back of book. See all  photos #HardcoverFiction #Humorous #Heartwarming #BabyBommersAging #RetirementHomeAdventure#AgingDiaries #Retirees #GrowingOlderWithGrace #OneMoreTime #EffieLelandWilder

Just for the Fun of It

Another surefire hit by best-selling author Effie Leland Wilder featuring Hattie McNair and her fellow FairAcres Retirement Home residents!


"Maybe the reason I have so many hang-ups about the way I look is because there are so many hang downs. Oh, me!" The irrepressible Hattie McNair and her friends at the FairAcres Retirement Home are back!


This time around, a degenerative eye condition doesn't stop Hattie from participating and recording in her diary all that is going on around her, reminiscing about the past and ruminating on the upcoming millennium. There is much to celebrate and much to lament as Hattie is saddened by the illness of her friend Louly and shocked by a storm that damages many of the homes in her small town. A variety show-complete with a Hattie-led Kitchen Band, washboards, kazoos, and all!-raises money to help the town recover. The end of the year finds the FairAcres crew creating a special holiday celebration with each resident contributing an ornament for the tree and a poignant memory to lift up the spirits.


With grace and humor, Wilder once again gently pokes fun at growing older, all the while reflecting on the special wisdom gained from aging, and the challenges and losses that must be faced.



One More Time

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Leslie Meier

Small town Murder in Tinkers Cove Maine. A wonderful cozy mystery to read

Leaving Tinker's Cove to attend a conference in Boston, Lucy Stone's thoughts are focused on being away from her family on Father's Day, but the murder of newspaper magnate Luther Read turns her thoughts to Luther's children as possible suspects.

Father's Day Murder(A Lucy Stone Mystery)

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Benjamin W. Farley

Book would be new except for small tear on spine of dust jacket. See all photos 

A Novel of the French and Indian War. A story of love and war, sacrifice, passion, and Valor

Three Thousand Days and Nights

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Daniel Hecht

Book purchase new in 1998. Been in my library since. One slight bump on dust jacket at top of binder. See all photos 

The great house stands alone at the top of a hill. Outside, all is peaceful - but inside lies destruction of an almost superhuman degree: an incredible violence that seems to be mirrored by a series of disappearaces and deaths that have haunted the surrounding region. In this sophisticated thriller, filled with richly drawn characters and crafted with uncommon intelligence , Daniel Hecht explores with the expert detail of a Patricia Cornwell novel the perplexing, shadowy workings of the human brain.Paul Skoglund, at the mercy of the bizarre effects of his Touretts's syndrome, is desperate for a job. When his wealthy aunt hires him to repair her damaged home, Paul unknowingly enters a world where everything he values is at risk. Joined by Lia, his tough, independent girlfriend, and by Morgan Ford, a sensitive but ruthless police investigator, Paul discovers links between the ravaged house and other brutal crimes. The trio's search for answers takes them from the most ancient, primal human impulses to the cutting edge of biomedical research - and across the ambiguous borderline between thought and reality.As events lead him deeper into his family's past and the mysterious processes of the human brain, Paul must face the darkest aspects of his own nature, and brave the possibility that in saving those he loves, he might well destroy himself. Rich in neurological and psychological detail, this powerful debut novel cresendos to a shocking conclusion in which the solution to the mystery hinges upon essential and terrifying questions about what it means to be human.

Skull Session

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Sheila Turnage

Great mystery fantasy. This is Book one the Mo & Dale mysteries. Has deckled pages. See all photos 

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafâe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

Three Times Lucky

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Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain.

That was all before she turned fourteen.

Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself?

National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way.

The Lucy Variations

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Joseph Kanon

Gripping and authentic of the prisoners of Auschwitz prison camp. Gripping and roller coaster plot. Like new condition, see all photos 

'Gripping and authentic . . . A thoroughly satisfying piece of entertainment that extends a tentacle into some serious moral reflection' NEW YORK TIMES 'Heartrending reading . . . Buenos Aires in the 1960s, home to remnants of the Third Reich in exile, is brought chillingly to life . . . An engrossing read' Adam LeBor, FINANCIAL TIMES A heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman connected to them both. Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz--nor the face of Dr Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America. There, leaders like Argentina's Juan Perón gave them safe harbour and new identities. With his life nearing its end, Max asks his nephew Aaron Wiley--an American CIA desk analyst--to complete the task Max never could: to track down Otto in Argentina, capture him and bring him back to Germany to stand trial. Unable to distinguish allies from enemies, Aaron will ultimately have to discover not only Otto, but the boundaries of his own personal morality, how far he is prepared to go to render justice. Praise for The Accomplice 'Joseph Kanon is on adventurous form in his ninth novel' The Times 'Kanon ratchets up both the sense of mystery and element of excitement . . . Keeps his reader hooked and tearing through the pages . . . Herald 'The Accomplice is a top-notch historical thriller that combines style, excitement and intelligent story-telling to stunning effect' NB Magazine 'Kanon clearly occupies the territory once so clearly staked out by Graham Greene . . . packed with atmosphere and well-developed plot' New Statesman Praise for Joseph Kanon 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape and it's a joy to see him reassert his title with such emphatic authority' Lee Child 'Sensational! No one writes period fiction with the same style and suspense - not to mention substance - as Joseph Kanon' Scott Turow 'Kanon is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of le Carré and Greene but even of Orwell' New York Times 'Clever, devious and morally complex' Sunday Times 'The perfect combination of intrigue and accurate history brought to life' Alan Furst 'Joseph Kanon continues to demonstrate that he is up there with the very best...of spy thriller writers...Kanon writes beautifully, superbly...he is the master of the shadows of the era' The Times 'The critical stock of Joseph Kanon is high, and Defectors will add further lustre to his reputation...There are pleasing echoes here of the "entertainments" of Graham Greene' Guardian

The Accomplice

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Judy Blundell

Great Book in like new condition except back cover has small tear. Otherwise book in new condition. Wonderful read about a teenager girl caught in a mix of love and mystery 

From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New York.When Kit Corrigan arrives in New York City, she doesn't have much. She's fled from her family in Providence, Rhode Island, and she's broken off her tempestuous relationship with a boy named Billy, who's enlisted in the army. The city doesn't exactly welcome her with open arms. She gets a bit part as a chorus girl in a Broadway show, but she knows that's not going to last very long. She needs help--and then it comes, from an unexpected source.

Strings Attached

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This is a wonderful cozy mystery with a little romance, mystery, thriller, adventure and suspense. This book is part of a series from the Chocolate Shop Mysteries book #3
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Sugar Coated Lies

Charlie Lovett

Missouri

When two customers come in requesting an obscure book by Jane Austen's friend Richard Mansfield, book lover and Austen enthusiast, Sophie Collingwood is drawn into the mystery of the true author of "Pride and Prejudice."

First Impressions

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Tim Mason

Oklahoma

In this twisty new Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London.



Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey--despite fierce objections from the male doctors around her. When young women start turning up dead, their mouths sewn shut with embroidered fabric roses, Inspector Charles Field (the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickens's Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming Turkey's famous Barrack Hospital. Here Field meets both the famous Nightingale as well as Nurse Jane Rolly, the woman who will become his wife, and as he races to protect them, the prime suspect takes his own life.



Case closed. Or is it?



Twelve years later, back in London, amid the turmoil surrounding the expansion of voting rights, women again start turning up dead, their mouths covered by that telltale embroidered rose. Did Field suspect the wrong man before, or is he dealing with a deviant copycat? Either way, he must race against time to stop the killer before more bodies are discovered, and before his own family gets pulled into danger. Populated by real figures of the day, from Benjamin Disraeli to novelist Wilkie Collins to, of course, Florence Nightingale herself, and steeped in historical details of 1860s London, The Nightingale Affair plays out against a backdrop of a rapidly changing society. Most of all, it is a pure reading delight, offering shocks, unforgettably vivid scenes, and surprising twists.

The Nightingale Affair

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Nicholas Meyer

Awesome Horror Vintage Book Dated 1976. Would be in like new condition except small tear on dust jacket cover. Book binder tight with no dog ears pages. See all photos 

From the Memoris of John H. Watson

March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde.Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.

The West End Horror

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2 Hardcover horror books . West End Horrors is vintage, published 1976. Book is in excellent condition for age. Pages have yellowed due to age but has deckled pages. Very small tear on front of dust jacket. Skull Session is like new published in 1998. See all photos. Warning violence 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Horror Bundle

John Gregory Betancourt

Roger Zelazny

Wonderful book on fantasy and SciFi. In like new condition with no stains or dog ears. If you love SciFi books with action, I think your will enjoy this book. See all photos 

The first volume in a new trilogy based on Roger Zelazny's Amber universe offers a prequel to the existing novels in the series, chronicling the lives of some of Amber's immortal characters and answering questions about the creation of Amber, the war between Chaos and Amber, and the nature of the universal, sentient forces represented by Amber and Chaos.

Roger Zelazny's the Dawn of Amber

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Carolyn Parkhurst

Has small blemish on spine of dust jacket. See all photos 

Thrown together in a high-stakes, televised contest, seven unlikely couples--including two flight attendants, born-again Christians, and two former child stars--participate in a reality show in which they scour the globe in search of love and treasure. By the author of The Dogs of Babel. 175,000 first printing.

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Rich Shapero

Arms from the Sea

Rich Shapero

Arms from the Sea

Mencuah Publishers(Memorial Edition Dedicated To Rabbi Reuven Bauman)

Yanky's Amazing Discovery (Jewish Story)

Belva Plain

Homecoming

M. C. Beaton

Death of a Chimney Sweep

Diane Mott Davidson

Killer Pancake

Belva Plain

Homecoming

Nicholas Jose

The Red Thread

Disha Bose

Dirty Laundry

Effie Leland Wilder; Laurie Allen Klein (Illustrator)

One More Time

Leslie Meier

Father's Day Murder(A Lucy Stone Mystery)

Benjamin W. Farley

Three Thousand Days and Nights

Daniel Hecht

Skull Session

Sheila Turnage

Three Times Lucky

Sara Zarr

The Lucy Variations

Joseph Kanon

The Accomplice

Judy Blundell

Strings Attached

Jan Fields

Sugar Coated Lies

Charlie Lovett

First Impressions

Tim Mason

The Nightingale Affair

Nicholas Meyer

The West End Horror

Daniel Hecht; John Watson MD

Horror Bundle

John Gregory Betancourt; Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny's the Dawn of Amber

Carolyn Parkhurst

Lost and Found (First Edition 2006)