Tiny dent and small bend to cover. . 544 pages. The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin,it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 194... View More...
432 pages. How on earth did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia's Ten Most Wanted Criminals list for bestiality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right-wing conspiracy to steal the presidency? It all begins so innocently when Goldberg starts moonlighting for eccentric, conservative billionaire Alan Carston Stowe as an archivist. But Goldberg's appointment worries a cabal of ruthless right-wingers--ostensibly allies of Stowe, whose money lubricates their zany scary conspiracies--with very close ties to the White House. They fear that Goldberg will find something ... View More...
Several scratches to back of dust jacket. Short (1/4" in. ) closed tear on the back of the dust jacket at the top. . Protected with a removable Brodart cover. Black boards with author's initials and spine imprinted with title and author in silver. First Edition with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. A bright, tight, clean book that appears to be unread. . 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.2 Inches. 352 pages. The first time Bridger saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerized.... View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red-orange boards with black spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Gold endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 9 x 6.1 x .09 inches. 256 pages View More...
Spine creasing; Reading crease on front cover; edgewear; crease to back cover corner. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 914 pages. A Jack Ryan Thriller, No. 5. Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East, as Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play: a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the United States.With one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the w... View More...
No spine crease.. 197 pages. A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. Includes a Reader's Guide, map of Santiago' journey, interview with Paulo Coelho, and more View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with full number line. . 1.3 x 9.36 x 6.26 Inches. 352 pages. Unfairly passed over for promotion, disillusioned Air Force investigator Major Burton Webber has resigned from the service to work in his Korean wife's jewelry store, located in the red-light district outside South Korea's Osan Air Base. When an old friend, the commanding general's executive officer, approaches him about solving the brutal murder of a beautiful Amerasian bar girl, Webber reluctantly agrees. After discovering the shocking secret behind the killing, Webber finds hi... View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale green boards with dark blue spine. Pale green endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 390 pages. Everyone has secrets.Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love.Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly tested by her impeccably dressed, overly judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt -- the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she'd find in suburbia. With Lake, another recent arrival, Cornelia... View More...
Light reading crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 229 pages. Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories?the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild?yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning o... View More...
Map on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 677 pages. After John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, the stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a qua... View More...
Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 629 pages. Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders-and the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate... View More...
Green boards with dark green spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Debut novel. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 326 pages. A powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness. He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again. Still grieving the sudden death of their mother, Sam and her younger sister Ollie McAlister move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear, their beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive, a young woman is found dead ... View More...
Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition: June 1998 with full number line. Book appears to be unread.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 304 pages. In a contemporary twist on the legend of Faust, a cynical millionaire is pressed by a seemingly ordinary businessman to save his soul by making amends for his treatment of others. View More...
Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.9 x 9 x 5.9 Inches. 286 pages. A one-time literary novelist of some respectability, now brought low by the double insult of obscurity and crippling debt, Robert G. Mehlman is a man in need of money and recognition, fast. But Mehlman's publisher is only interested in his long overdue novel, since the people don't want short stories, and his portfolio was liquidated months ago. So, it is to culinary writing that he turns. A practiced decadent, a habitual spendthrift, and a serial womanizer, he has, ostensibly, all the right qualities. But the path t... View More...
