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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 374 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Advanced Reading Copy. 100,000 copies printed for first hard back edition. Elizabeth Stride has come to Hilton Head Island to escape her past as the Black Angel--a ruthless assassin--and to escape Martin Kessler, a fellow operative who owned a piece of her soul. But just as she's begun to rebuild her shattered life, Kessler reappears, toppling Elizabeth's protective wall of anonymity.A teenage girl about to be abducted from an exclusive nearby tennis club--a girl who unwittingly holds the key to horrific planned act of terrorism. By joining forces in a daring rescue of the girl, Elizabeth and Martin will be forced to put their fates in each other's hands one more time--and decide once and for all if they are to live together or apart. In doing so, they will be drawn into a secret war of fanaticism, greed, and doomsday technology.And there will be no haven. Condition: Near fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. First American edition. From one of Latin America's most celebrated writers--author of Kiss of the Spider Woman--comes his poignant yet hard-edged final novel. At the heart of the story are two elderly Argentine sisters who share a life of gentle gossip. But through their conversations, Puig reveals the chaotic, violent lives of their neighbors. Condition: Head corners gently bumped. Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, near fine, attractive copy. FRIEDLÄNDER, SAUL. When Memory Comes. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, , . 9780299190446 ISBN 0299190447 8.20.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 371 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with silver and gilt lettering to spine and silver lettering to cover in original jacket. First trade edition after the Franklin Library limited signed edition. Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel, has received a request from the Northern New England Association of American Historians for his memories and impressions of the Gerald ford Administration (1974-77). "Alf" obliges with his memories of a turbulent period in his personal history, as well as pages of an unpublished book he was writing at the time, on the life of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States (1857-61). The alternating texts body forth an arresting contrast between the life-styles and social divisions two American centuries. The contemporary characters include Clayton's wife, Norma, whom he thinks of as the Queen of disorder, and his mistress, Genevieve Mueller, whom he thinks of as the Perfect Wife, as well as his various colleagues on the faculty of Wayward College. Remainder mark at head end pages. The characters around Buchanan include his doomed fiancee, Ann Coleman, and such eloquent contemporary politicians as Andrew Jackson, Edwin Stanton, and (in his capacity as American Consul in Liverpool) Nathaniel Hawthorne. All come unsettlingly to life in Clayton's wide-ranging confessions, which bring us down to the year 1991. Condition: Remainder mark at head end pages else a near fine copy in fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 270 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. Second printing. Walking Shadow is the 21st Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The story follows Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to solve the on-stage murder of an actor in the run-down town of Port City. While investigating the crime, he runs afoul of the local Chinese mob and uncovers a web of infidelity, organized crime, and psychologically unstable actors. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 223 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original jacket. First edition. Spenser's semi-adopted son, Paul Giacomin, visits Spenser in Boston asking for his help. He can't locate his mother, who has apparently left on an extended trip without telling him. While Paul's mother is somewhat lacking in motherly skills, he doesn't believe she would voluntarily leave her home for such an extended period without contacting him. Though Paul can't pay Spenser, he takes the case anyway as a favor to Paul. Spenser takes Paul along in his sleuthing, introducing him as his "prentice", though Paul has no real intention of becoming a detective: he just wants to find his mother. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 223 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over purple boards with gilt facsimile signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Paper Doll is the 20th Spenser novel by Robert B Parker. The story follows the Boston-based PI Spenser as he tries to solve the apparently random killing of the well-regarded wife of a local businessman. The novel's hero is Spenser, a private investigator in Boston. Spenser, who served as an infantryman in the 1st Infantry Division during the Korean War[1] and as a former State trooper, is hired by Boston aristocrat Loudon Tripp to investigate his wife's murder, and Spenser soon uncovers upper-class scandals and a corpse who might not be dead after all. Condition: Page ends dusty else better than very good in a near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 229 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. The fourth novel featuring V.(for Victor) Daniels, the private eye who operates out of a fearlessly modest office between a lousy Vietnamese takeaway and an empty lot in the San Fernando Valley. He co-opts a punk poetess and a con-man extraordinaire to spring a friend from a Mexican jail. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 363 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth over red boards with silver lettering to spine and gilt lettering to cover. First edition. Two men and a woman plan the heist of a lifetime before the government broadcast a mind-altering signal that will wipe out criminal behavior forever. Condition: Previous owner's notes to back end paper. Jacket spine lightly toned else very good in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 260 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with white lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Eager to establish an efficient money-laundering organization, a Mafia family acquires a Swiss bank. But their almost-legitimate enterprise soon incorporates the schemes of a billionaire American speculator living in England, the hustles of a pair of smugglers running an illicit Iranian silver mine, and a scam that could topple the international monetary system. Condition: Sunning to endpapers and paste down edges. Jacket with some edge wear and closed tears, spine sunned else very good in like jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 250 pages with diagrams and bibliography. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Imagine spending an evening or two at the master's elbow and asking questions to your heart's delight! That is what this book enables you to do. Larry Evans, who was U. S. National Champion at nineteen, has brought his seasoned judgment to bear on knotty problems posed in the course of his long career. By means of a question-and-answer format, progressing from simple to complex, the average player is led step by step to a clearer understanding of the game. Condition: Light edge wear else near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 188+[4 ad] pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. (Lusis: 220) First published in 1959. This book, by an acknowledged chess genius, assumes that the student knows absolutely nothing about chess and leads him to the point where he can conduct an intelligent game. It is a complete, practical, modern presentation of the "royal" game. The visual approach, using 183 diagrams, enables anyone to learn at a glance. Larry Evans is a Grandmaster, the highest title that can be awarded by the International Chess Federation. All his knowledge and experience have gone into the creation of this work which not only provides a clear exposition of basic principals but also countless tips for the novice as well as the more advanced player. The questions of what to do, what not to do, and why are answered fully in text and diagrams. Much space is devoted to particularly knotty problems and exercises. Although no book can turn anyone into an expert by magic, this volume makes it possible for the student even if he is completely unfamiliar with chess to become a proficient player if he has the will to learn. Condition: Corners bumped with some light edge wear else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 306 page. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown paper with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition, Review copy with material laid in. From bestselling author Rosalyn McMillan comes the dramatic story of one African-American family's struggle for survival as the civil rights movement rages around them. "This Side of Eternity". When Anne Russell's father is killed in a work-related accident in the late 1960s, she and her five siblings battle poverty and racial strife in their hometown of Memphis. Just sixteen years old, Anne lands a job at the local newspaper and copes as best she can with her siblings' problems: everything from epilepsy to abortions to bad attitudes. In the years to come, Anne's romance with the newspaper's owner leads to pregnancy and marriage, and Anne herself begins to embody the proud, indefatigable spirit of those who would succeed in changing the world. Still, many challenges lie ahead for Anne and the Russell family.and for a nation striving toward equality. Condition: Corners gently bumped else a near fine in a fine jacket.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, fresh attractive copy, bright white paper, probably unused. FRIEDLÄNDER, SAUL. When memory comes. Translated from the French by Helen R. Lane. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, copyright 2003, but later printing 2010 as noted on last blank page, 185pp., . Originally published in English in 1979. - "Distinguished historian Saul Friedlander recalls his childhood during the Holocaust in this memoir. Four months before Hitler came to power, he was born in Prague as Pavel Friedlander to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, seven-year-old Pavel and his family were forced to flee Czechoslovakia for France, but his parents were able to conceal their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being shipped to their destruction. After a whole-hearted religious conversion, young Pavel began training for priesthood. The birth of Israel prompted his discovery of his Jewish past and his true identity. Friedlander describes his experiences, moving from Israeli present to European past with composure and elegance.". ISBN 9780299190446 8.80.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Natural History of the Chorus Girl / Derek & Julia Parker This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

MMPB 4.25"x6.75". Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4.25"x6.75" 340 pgs. 1st printing. Spine slanted, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Boston P.I. Sunny Randall hits the road to protect a bestselling author, uncovering a world of dark secrets and discovering some disturbing truths about herself in this "New York Times" bestseller. Sunny Randall is hired to protect a bestselling novelist from her ex-husband. He's not only a stalker.he's a shrink. And when Sunny becomes his patient, she discovers as much about herself as she does about the criminal mind.Source: Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.