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New. DJ has slight bumping on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges could be in the beginning stages of tanning, browning, foxing. Top outer edges near spine has a red line. Laura and Mark Gerber, a loving couple living in an affluent New York suburb, find their lives and marriage falling apart after their youngest daughter is killed by a drunken driver, a tragedy that leads them on an emotionally devastating odyssey. A28.

New. DJ has slight bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges could have the beginning of tanning, browning, stains, foxing due to age and shelfwear. This work is meant to be a coming-of-age story about Jack, a shiftless young man in a very odd family. Its members include his seductive sister LaDonna, a brilliant would-be scientist; his mother, a perpetually dissatisfied woman who destroys the men who fall under her spell; and the men themselves, a mostly pitiful lot. What begins as a truly humorous story about an interesting family is eventually spoiled by the author's self-indulgent whining. A29.

Stated First Edition. Very good. Some signs of previous ownership. DJ in very good condition. While tracking the kidnappers of Mikhail Gorbachev, veteran CIA agent Sean Brennan uncovers a KGB plot to strip Gorbachev of power and crush public support for perestroika. 1989. A30.

New. With a dangerously late spring monsoon, Superintendent Bamsan Kiet fears the worst--failed crops, mob rule in the streets, and a bloody insurrection--but instead encounters disaster in the form of Prince Pakse's illegitimate playboy son and a beautiful American missionary. A29.

New. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs. B2.

New. Used in a novelization of the LucasArts CD-ROM computer game, a space shuttle is dispatched to prevent an asteroid from striking the earth, only to be pulled away to a distant and dangerous planet, with little hope of return. B2.

New. Stated First Edition. When dog writer Holly Winter receives her first book contract, her research leads to some surprising--and deadly--discoveries. Holly Winter has a contract to write the text for a book of photographs commemorating the legendary Morris and Essex Dog Shows, canine extravaganzas produced by the fabulously wealthy and famously dog-obsessed Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge in the years leading up to World War II. Needless to say, Holly is delighted with the assignment, and immediately sets out to interview one of the few remaining people who actually attended one of the shows--B. Robert Motherway, a Princeton classmate of the Dodges' late son. 1999. A13.

New. Has a green sticker on inside cover. A young, up-and-coming White House attorney, Michael Garrick becomes enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy when he gets too close to Nora Harston, the president's sexy daughter, and finds himself on the run, accused of a murder he did not commit. A28.

New. Encouraging readers to consider the economy as the "fourth frontier," the author focuses on the role of Christian teachings in the workplace. A28.

New. Craft Sequence Series #3. On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren't conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods―perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the divinely controlled Old World. When Kai sees one of her creations dying and tries to save her, she's grievously injured―then sidelined from the business entirely, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and starts digging into the reasons her creations die, she uncovers. 2014. A10.

Book in --very good-- condition. Slight bumping and wear on corners and edges. Kwan, a seventeen-year-old Chinese half-sister, turns young Olivia's world upside down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future. A28.

Like New - very slight markings on outer edge. Psychic Nuala Ann McGrail and Dermot Coyne are only weeks away from their wedding when Nuala experiences a vision of a past wrong that needs to be righted, this one involving the mysterious death of Al Capone's famous rival, Jimmy "Sweet Rolls" Sullivan, and a secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden. A29.

New. Hamish Hamilton, London, U.K. Hardcover, 180 pages, short story collection. This is a unique title in that the 5 stories contained herein are linked to a playwright named Howard Murray. Murray is not a happy camper and he interferes in other people's lives, not always successfully. The author himself is a noted Scottish playwright. "Well written, always canny, with a marvelous ear for Scottish dialogue." 1986. A29.

New. This nonfiction equivalent to the bestselling Waiting to Exhale and Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues showcases the frank, hopeful, and defiant voices of 26 African American women. Arranged by topic, these interviews on love, sex, and growing up in the African American culture examine both the positive and negative aspects of women's relationships with men. Love Awaits is a book that women will read...and recommend to others. A29.

New. Million-dollar baby Deedee Dahleen and her ambitious, money-wise, illegitimate half-sister, Lana, both set their sights on out-of-nowhere Wall Street boomer Slash Steiner. A29.

New. The evening before she is to be hanged for witchcraft in 1655, Alice Shade meets with the local vicar and confronts him with all he fears to know about himself and the other villagers. A28.

New. A series of violent, life-threatening events disturbs the equilibrium of at least five lives in the port town of Providence. A29.

New with DJ. Reading age: 9 - 12 years, Grade level: 3 - 9. Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about kids who set out to find a crashed meteor, but find mystery and danger instead as their friendships begin to fracture. A27.

New with DJ. Reading age: 12-17 years. Grade level: 7-9. A warlord killed Caledonia's parents and kidnapped her brother. Now, on the deadly Bullet seas, Captain Caledonia Styx and her all-female crew are ready for revenge. A28.

New. Templars In America is thoroughly researched and extremely well written. Its academic depth will appeal to historians, but the directness of the logical sequence of arguments makes it totally accessible to every reader. 2006. A30.