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Canada: MIRA Books, 2019. New Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2019 MIRA Books trade paperback, new edition, no printing given. Adorable book cover shows Author's name in red foil. CONTENT: TWO BOOKS: RETURN TO PROMISE (Heart of Texas series from 2000): Rancher Cal Patterson and his wife, Jane-known as Dr. Texas-have recently separated, with Jane going back to her childhood home in California with their children. Now Cal, alone on his ranch, is forced to confront what he really wants in his life, what he needs. Jane is confronting the same questions. How seriously does Cal take his marriage vows? And how important is Promise, Texas, to Jane? Is there hope for a reconciliation-in time for Christmas? BUFFALO VALLEY (from 2001): The town of Buffalo Valley, North Dakota-a community in farm country-is undergoing a revival. Vaughn Kyle, who's just out of the army, is looking for a place to live, a life to live. While he's waiting for his ambitious fiancée to make… Read More

Liveright/WW Norton, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Bedelgeuse jacket art. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Liveright/WW Norton hardcover (decorated tan boards) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Let me say that this is one of the most beautiful dust jackets I've seen in a long while. The designs are covered in foils - gold, red, yellow, pink - both front panel and back panel. The mylar cover is to protect the beauty of the DJ. CONTENT: Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast's reputation as a "new young American voice for the ages". Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy, charming Ollie, her well-honed defenses falter, and she's faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine, manicured isolation or risk the… Read More

Mariner, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Mariner trade paperback, first paperback edition (reprint edition), first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse. Mary Sharratt has finally given center stage to one of the most controversial and complex women of her time.

William Morrow, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Serge Balkin cover art. CONDITION: LIKE NEW, UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 William Morrow hardcover (dark blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. What makes this book "like new?" - remainder mark bottom edges. Interior perfect. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young "society reporter" is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of… Read More

Harper, 2021. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new"? - short remainder mark bottom edges at spine. AS NEW 2021 Harper trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: "In real life, Mary Pinchot Meyer had a love affair with JFK, may have done LSD with him and was mysteriously murdered in 1964. Wolfe's riveting novel imagines what Meyer's diary--burned by the CIA after her death--might have revealed. Great fun for conspiracy theorists and romantics alike." - [People] She was a longtime lover of JFK. She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War. And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination. The diary she kept was never found. Until now. . . . [There… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. No illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 2010 St Martin's hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover with the smallest edge wear at top corner fold), first edition, first printing. I can't say I'm a fan of the paper St. Martin's chose, but . . .. No illustrations. CONTENT: Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the… Read More

Waterhouse Press, 2018. Assumed First Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Shutterstock Cover Art. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Waterhouse Press trade paperback, assumed first edition. Clever cover art by Shutterstock. CONTENT: "Misadventures" is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. They're the perfect bedside read, a 'quick blush' for the reader who loves a page-turning romance. Her husband has run off with the nanny, leaving Vera with a broken heart, three very angry sons, and even less time to juggle the demands of family and her career. After her boys scare away a sixth replacement nanny, Vera is out of time off from work and desperately out of options. Still nursing an aching heart, she turns to an unlikely source for help?a manny. Lincoln Scott is no stranger to family chaos. But rather than grow jaded, he… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Bob Sabin DJ art; chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 1998 St. Martin's hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Bob Sabin dust jacket art with small chapter decorations. CONTENT: Veryan's follow-up to The Riddle of Alabaster Royal is an exciting tale of swashbuckling adventure and romance. Readers who enjoyed the first novel will be eager to discover what new adventures await Capt. Jack Vesper and his friends, while those making their first acquaintance with Veryan's work will find that this new novel stands on its own. The premise here is a (deceptively) simple one: Jack is determined to discover the identity of his real father in hopes that his true parentage will make him worthy of Miss Consuela Jones, the woman he loves. Various people, not all of them villains, try to stop him. Danger awaits him and those he loves. Well researched, thoroughly involving,… Read More

Illinois: Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2020. 1 MMPB Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Kris Keller cover art. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Sourcebooks Casablanca paperback, first MMPB edition, first printing. Tiny tiny edge wear to cover bottom edge with cover art by Kris Keller. Embossed title and author name. CONTENT: In a world of danger and uncertainty, the Alpha has enough to worry about without him. For Alpha Evie Kitwanasdottir, things are never easy. The Great North Pack has just survived a deadly attack. Evie is determined to do whatever is necessary to keep her Pack safe, especially from the four Shifters who are their prisoners. Constantine lost his parents and his humanity on the same devastating day. He has been a thoughtless killer ever since. When Constantine is moved to live under Evie's watchful eye, he discovers that taking directions and having a purpose are not the same thing. Each moment spent together brings new revelations to Constantine, who begins to… 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

Viking, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Viking hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: This is a "convoluted" book - historical, biographical novel. The Author has taken the life of real-life writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) - a Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West - added here and there and come up with a fascinating character and three women in his life. [Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women. A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky… Read More

G.P. Putnam's , 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Putnam's trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. CONTENT: Big Little Lies meets One Plus One in this story of three women neighbors looking for a fresh start, and the love affairs, rivalries, and scandals found on the other side of the white picket fence. One happy street. Three pretty houses. So many lies. Martha used to be a force of nature: calm, collected, and in charge. But since moving her husband and two daughters to Dublin under sudden and mysterious circumstances, she can't seem to find her footing. Robin was the "it" girl in school, destined for success. Now she's back at her parents' with her four-year-old son, vowing that her ne'er-do-well ex is out of the picture for good. Edie has everything she could want, apart from a baby, and the acceptance of her new neighbors. She longs to be one of the girls, and to figure out why her… Read More