Search Results: Titles starting with A from Storbeck's

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Grey endpapers. Full letter line H G F E D C B A . 252 pages. A Hercule Poirot Mystery, No. 13. Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirot’s most challenging cases yet. .

Hanover: University Press of New England. As New. 1998. Paperback. 0.91 x 8.47 x 5.5 Inches. 304 pages. A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson's participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded in the poetry and books she wrote during her lifetime, offer a dramatic account of how one strong-minded woman, who first worked as a textile worker in the industrial town of Lowell, MA, turned to writing and politics to sustain her family after her husband's early death. Harriet's personal papers shed light on such topics as labor history, state politics, and the mechanics of writing and publication. Her best-known publications, Loom and Spindle, which deals with early factory life, and Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement, are often quoted today. .

New York: Crimeline. Fine. 1987. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 0.63 x 6.89 x 4.22 Inches. 224 pages. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, No. 1. Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and  slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The  jury believed that it was his pretty young wife  Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years.  Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in  for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who  really killed her husband. But the trail is eight  years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even  Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old  murder and a brand new corpse. .

New York: Bantam Books. Very Good. 1987. Mass Market Paperback. Mild spine crease. 0.63 x 6.89 x 4.22 Inches. 224 pages. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, No. 1. Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and a slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed that it was his pretty young wife, Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old murder and a brand new corpse. .

Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Co.. Very Good+. 1992. Paperback. 148 pages .

New York: Avon Books. As New. 2006. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Trace of spine creasing . Paperback Original, Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 416 pages. A Knights Templar Mystery, No. 1. The knights templar were warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land -- until an avaricious king savagely destroyed the order. One knight, however, escaped the stake, vowing justice for his murdered brothers. With scores of merchants streaming into Devon to participate in the Tavistock fair of 1319, a goodly amount of unlawful activity is expected. No one, however, anticipates a murder. The guests of Abbot Robert Champeaux, former Knight Templar Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford, have been asked by their host to investigate the grisly discovery of a headless corpse by a local butcher. Hunting a killer in the din and bustle of the fair could prove a daunting task, especially with the victim's identity a mystery. But Sir Baldwin… Read More

Provo: Ancestry Publishing. New. 2003. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. 0.56 x 11.02 x 8.52 Inches. 192 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine. 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Mild spine crease. 0.69 x 6.89 x 4.13 Inches. 256 pages. Aerial Fiction. Based on the actual kidnapping of Inuit Eskimos by European traders in the seventeenth century, this story describes the violence inflicted in the name of civilization, while also evoking the beauty of Eskimo life. .

Pownal, VtT: Storey Communications. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. One turned-down page corner . 298 pages. Tips and techniques that make gardening easier and more enjoyable no matter what your ability. Yeomans covers adapting tools, managing garden tasks, and more. Features easy-to-read type, 20 garden ideas, and an extensive listing of special tools, equipment suppliers, and horticultural therapy groups. Line drawings. Photos. .

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a Brodart removable archival cover. Black boards and black cloth spine imprinted in gold with title and authoe. Map on the end papers; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 278 pages. A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, No. 18. After an investigator from the Carabiniere looking into the illegal hauling of garbage asks for a favor, Brunetti soon finds himself in the middle of murder and corruption more dangerous than anything he's seen before. .

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown & Co. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. previous owner's name and date on page before back end paper . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red orange boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full letter line I H G F E D C B A . 204 pages. Library of American Biography. A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years. .

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. As New. 2008. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 4 3 2 1. . 584 pages .

New York: Rodale Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 . 256 pages. Look around at America's waistlines and you'll see belts busting all over the place. Some might say that this weight problem is won or lost at the dinner table. Or at restaurants. Or in the drive-thru lane. Or when Mom invites you over for meat loaf. While it's true that such nutritional skirmishes take place every day, the real battle over broken scales and too-tight pants happens because you're not being fed something else: the nutrition information you need to make smart decisions every day. <I>The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook</I> feeds you that information the same way the Abs Diet feeds your body: in quick, convenient, completely satisfying bites. Among the most tempting morsels:  -99 tips, tricks and trivia about food, including why walnuts should be your sixth meal of the day, how a veggie's color can… Read More

Washington: Regnery Publishing, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected with a removable Brodart cover.. . 386 pages. The pictures are a searing part of American history. The Branch Davidian settlement at Waco in flames. The machine-gun wielding, helmeted troopers crashing their way into an unarmed house to steel away Elian Gonzales. Al Gore robotically repeating that there was no controlling legal authority to keep him from raising money in the White House. .

Southern Historical Press. New. 2007. Trade Paperback. Pittsylvania County was created in 1767 from Halifax County, VA. It was a important migration path for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia and North & South Carolina. Deeds are GREAT source for genealogical research due to the many and varied family members that are mentioned. Not only will the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters you can anticipate finding within records of deeds. .

Heritage Books Inc.. New. (1997) 2006. Trade Paperback. 222 pages. One of the original three counties of Pennsylvania from which Lancaster (1729) and Delaware (1789) Counties were formed. Thus, these volumes cover a three-county area. Included are deeds, mortgages, bonds, leases/releases, and land patented in 1681 (recorded as deeds in 1688). Recorded dates begin in 1688 with apparent gaps in 1714 (only 2 entries) and 1715 (none). Numerous entries give clues to relationships and British origins. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. (1995) 2007. Paperback. 297 pages. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence and occupation of the deceased when given. .

Southern Historical Press. New. 1996. Hardcover. 667 pages. This is probably the MOST important book on the Up-Country of South Carolina. It contains more than 3,500 abstracts of wills, bonds and administrations between 1774 and 1860 and more than 30,000 names of persons mentioned in these records. Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District are the present-day counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Edgefield, Greenwood, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry, Pickens, Oconee, Saluda, Spartanburg, and Union. Old Ninety-Six District bordered Georgia on its western boundary and was the ancestral home of many early Georgia settlers. .

Bowie: Heritage Books. New. 2008. Paperback. 154 pages. Names of owners, adjoining property owners, heirs, wives, etc. giving relationships of heirs; gives history of the land back to the original patent. Especially useful when there was not a will. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc.. New. 2009. Paperback. 346 pages. Based on the works of volunteers of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Gives names of persons mentioned in wills, decedent, heirs, trustees, guardians, witnesses, executors, debtors, relatives, references to property being devised; .