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Harper , 2016. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2016 Harper hardcover (navy boards) & dust jacket, first US edition, first printing. Small remainder mark bottom edges make this book "as new." CONTENT: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. Francois, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the… Read More

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2020. 1st Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2020 HarperCollins trade paperback (with dust wrapper), first Canadian edition (yup, that's what it says), first printing. Dust wrapper shows embossed title. Deckle edges. CONTENT: In a world of pagan traditions and deeply rooted love, a girl in jeopardy must save her family and community. A transporting historical novel. It's the season of Fallow, in the era of iron. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple--or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed… Read More

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Grand Central large hardcover (turquoise boards), first edition, first printing. Gold foil decorations and dragonflies front panel DJ. 2 lb book. CONTENT: At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds -- a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad… Read More

HarperPerennial, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2019 HarperPerennial trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. CONTENT: Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family's fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true?and if they will survive to see their country liberated.… Read More

Quirk Publications, 2008. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Lars Leetaru cover art; B&W illus by Eugene Smith. CONDITION: NEW 2009 Quirk trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. Cover art by Lars Leetaru. Clever B&W maps and 3 illustrations by Eugene Smith. The illustrations are within the first few pages. CONTENT: From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster… Read More

London: Ashgate, 2015. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. B&W newspaper/magazine art repros; magazine articles. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Ashgate (London) hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket ( in mylar cover), first edition, assumed first printing. Illustrated throughout with B&W newspaper/magazine art and articles. CONTENT: Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination of the texts and considers how first publication affected the consumption and reception of the novel through the periodical medium. Delafield contends that a novel in volume form has been separated from its original context, that is, from the pattern of consumption and reception presented by the serial. The novel's later re-publication still bears… Read More

Forge, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Forge trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Chapter decorations - small but there. CONTENT: "History, Romance, Crime, and Action - a Great Book" - Historical Novel Society. "Full of charm and sly humor, SIDE BY SIDE tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde's slide from lovebirds to jailbirds?and what an action-packed story it is! Vivid storytelling and a few shots of humanity breathe new life into this notorious duo. This book should be on everyone's "most wanted" list this summer." Texas: 1931. It's the height of the Great Depression, and Bonnie is miles from Clyde. He's locked up, and she's left waiting, their dreams of a life together dwindling every day. When Clyde returns from prison damaged and distant, unable to keep a job, and dogged by the cops, Bonnie knows the law will soon come for him. But… Read More