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Condition: Good. Beneath the ice-locked surface of the planet the freehold is ruled by the sword. In the subterranean darkness the old order crumbles as the life giving machine of the ancients stop one by one. Nameless savagery stalks the lower depths and the broken cries of the tortured haunt the war lords chambers. In a Doomed land there is one man whose spirit is not crushed, whose sword is as leathal as it is swift. Loathed by the law, he is a master of the ancient arts of love and war. He is a rebel and the lover of the majestically beautiful K'reen. He seeks a quest into the void and beyond. He is the Sunset Warrior.…

Condition: Good. With his girlfriend held hostage by a group of cult religious fanatics in armed Winnebagos and his cash flow down to a slow drip, Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton is looking for any case he can find. When rising country music singer Rebecca Gibson is found beaten to death, a heap of damning evidence points to her ex-husband--and Harry's pal--Slim Gibson. Harry digs into the case and discovers the dark history of a marriage made somewhere south of Heaven, somewhere deep in the cutthroat heart of the country music business, where deceit, betrayal, passion and vengeance are not only sung about. they're lived and died.The third installment of award-winning author Steven Womack's Nashville P.I. series, Way Past Dead was nominated for the PWA Shamus Award.…

Condition: Good. This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s.Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. She is one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.…

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Condition: Very Good. Social psychologists have often assumed that situations and behavior are gender neutral, yet assumptions about gender have affected the questions they have posed as well as the answers they have provided. Authors Judith A. Howard and Jocelyn A. Hollander explore the ways in which social psychology has simultaneously ignored and been deeply influenced by gender-carefully noting that gender differences are not the same as sex differences. Also discussed are the approaches to gender in social psychology research; how social psychology theories have been shaped by assumptions about gender, race, class, and sexuality; and the way gender influences identity and interaction. Gendered Situations, Gender Selves is an ideal introduction to the discussion of gender in social psychology, and will be useful in sociology and gender studies courses.…

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Condition: Good. It's life and death neck-and-neck in the stretch in this, Dick Francis's thirty-first horseracing thriller. Young ex-jockey Freddie Croft owns a profitable fleet of horse vans that convey runners to the course. A man who has few illusions about racing's smarmier aspects, Freddie is a stickler for security. But even he is startled by the violence that erupts when a hard, fast rule is broken: Never pick up a hitchhiker. In what will be the first of many ironies, the passenger - not the driver - turns up dead. And if one corpse is bad for business, what happens next could well be fatal: Freddie is swept unknowingly into the vortex of a malign conspiracy in which appearances deceive and the cost of being duped is murderously high. Tilting at the shifting shadows cast by his elusive adversaries, he must summon up extraordinary guile and courage to protect his enterprise - and save his life. Driving Force is Dick Francis at his most tantalizingly complex and dramatically propulsive - the kind of top-drawer suspense no aficionado can resist.…

Condition: Very Good. FBI Special Agent Ana Grey debuts in this electrifying thriller marked by psychological acuity and unfaltering suspense. After Ana Grey pulls off the most amazing arrest of the year, the squad supervisor--who doesn't like irreverent, tough-minded young women--gives her a reprimand instead of the promotion she deserves. As a test, she is assigned a high-profile case involving a beloved Hollywood movie star and an illegal supply of prescription drugs. It doesn't take Ana and her partner, Mike Donnato, long to realize this is not a case but a political situation waiting to explode--and they're holding the bomb. As the boundary between her private and professional lives begins to blur, Ana's own world collides with her investigation, and she is forced to confront the searing truth about the nature of power and identity, and the mystery of her past.…

Condition: Fair. Beneath the ice-locked surface of the planet the freehold is ruled by the sword. In the subterranean darkness the old order crumbles as the life giving machine of the ancients stop one by one. Nameless savagery stalks the lower depths and the broken cries of the tortured haunt the war lords chambers. In a Doomed land there is one man whose spirit is not crushed, whose sword is as leathal as it is swift. Loathed by the law, he is a master of the ancient arts of love and war. He is a rebel and the lover of the majestically beautiful K'reen. He seeks a quest into the void and beyond. He is the Sunset Warrior.…

Condition: Fair. FBI Special Agent Ana Grey debuts in this electrifying thriller marked by psychological acuity and unfaltering suspense. After Ana Grey pulls off the most amazing arrest of the year, the squad supervisor--who doesn't like irreverent, tough-minded young women--gives her a reprimand instead of the promotion she deserves. As a test, she is assigned a high-profile case involving a beloved Hollywood movie star and an illegal supply of prescription drugs. It doesn't take Ana and her partner, Mike Donnato, long to realize this is not a case but a political situation waiting to explode--and they're holding the bomb. As the boundary between her private and professional lives begins to blur, Ana's own world collides with her investigation, and she is forced to confront the searing truth about the nature of power and identity, and the mystery of her past.…

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Condition: Good. The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child--especially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff . . . with a corpse inside.A most grievous sin has been committed. In pursuit of justice, Decker--with the help of his tough-as-nails partner, Madge, and an able assist from his teenage daughter Cindy--follows a twisted path that winds through a sinister maze of hospital politics, misplaced passions, and torturous mind games that can all too easily lead to murder.…

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Condition: Fair. Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcees with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick--and through the even darker fantasies of the town's collective psyche. …

Condition: Good. Bestselling author Daniel Silva's celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is a roller-coaster World War I adventure that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth (The Orlando Sentinel).In wartime, Winston Churchill wrote, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agents imaginable--including a history professor named Alfred Vicary. Handpicked by Churchill himself, Vicary must stop an unknown spy from uncovering the Allied battle plans for D-Day. The Nazis, however, have also chosen their operative carefully. Posing as a war widow and hospital volunteer, Catherine Blake is under direct orders from Hitler to seal the German victory--no matter what the cost.Layers of depth and intrigue.Silva succeeds with panache. --USA Today.…

Condition: Fair. Bestselling author Daniel Silva's celebrated debut novel, The Unlikely Spy, is a roller-coaster World War I adventure that conjures up memories of the best of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth (The Orlando Sentinel).In wartime, Winston Churchill wrote, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agents imaginable--including a history professor named Alfred Vicary. Handpicked by Churchill himself, Vicary must stop an unknown spy from uncovering the Allied battle plans for D-Day. The Nazis, however, have also chosen their operative carefully. Posing as a war widow and hospital volunteer, Catherine Blake is under direct orders from Hitler to seal the German victory--no matter what the cost.Layers of depth and intrigue.Silva succeeds with panache. --USA Today.…

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Condition: Good. Henry Grey takes a dirty, demanding job transporting racehorses by air. But when he discovers that he's actually transporting something altogether different, he has to call upon every ounce of resourcefulness he has to land with his life intact.

Condition: Fair. From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight. On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote, rarified community of the faithful-and the frightened. And when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime but to begin an unholy order of murder. . . . Gracefully sculpted prose and a] superbly executed mystery . . . Death in Holy Orders is among James's] most remarkable and accomplished Dalgliesh novels.-The Philadelphia Inquirer An elegant work about hope, death, and the alternately redemptive and destructive nature of love.-The Miami Herald Absorbing . . . James's] plotting and characterization are] impeccable.-Orlando Sentinel P. D. James is in top form.-The Boston Globe Open the exclusive dossier at the back of this book, featuring P. D. James' essay on penning the perfect detective novel.…

Condition: Fair. This lavish hardcover introduces a new generation of readers to Sam Gross's inimitable brand of dark humour.