Search Results: Titles starting with S from Nostalgic Books & Elements

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

Vintage 1916 biography

RARE INSCRIBED by the author on the FFEP - FIRST EDITION
"The book is superbly illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs and seven maps."
Book: clean and unmarked
DJ: NPC $5.00 - sunning at spine - chips and small tears from shelfwear

Join the Claus family as they bring Christmas magic back to the North Pole in James Patterson's uplifting story of holiday cheer.When Warrie Ransom, the Big Boss of the Exmas Express Company, decides to buy Christmas and rename it Exmas, the Claus family can't believe their eyes. Everything at the North Pole seems to change overnight-the elves stop making kids' favorite toys, the Christmas doves won't fly or sing, and no one seems to laugh anymore. It looks like Christmas is going to be ruined.But then the Claus family's daughter, Chrissie, remembers something she had learned from her dadremembers something she had learned from her dad: you must believe in something bigger than yourself. With a little help from her dad's helpers, Chrissie-as santaKid-delivers presents to children on Christmas eve, sending Warrie Ransom back to where he came from! After all, when you believe in something, magic can happen.

INSCRIBED (POISONED PEN BOOKSHOP SIGNING PAPERWORK INCLUDED) FIRST EDITION
Now an AGATHA AWARD nominee!Now a MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD nominee!Now a DAPHNE AWARD nominee! BEST OF 2016! Library Journal Her career is all about the truth--but now, keeping silent may be her last chance to stay alive.

When Boston reporter Jane Ryland reports a hit and run, she soon learns she saw more than a car crash--she witnessed the collapse of an alibi, and now she's under pressure to tell all to the police. She's also digging up the inside scoop for an expose of sexual assaults on Boston's college campuses for the station's new documentary unit, and is working with a victim to reveal her heartbreaking experience on camera. But, a disturbing anonymous message--SAY NO MORE--has Jane really and truly scared.

Homicide detective Jake Brogan is on the hunt for the murderer of Avery Morgan, a hot-shot Hollywood screenwriter. As Jake chips his way through a code of silence as shatterproof as any street gang, he'll learn… Read More

2003 - 1st ed stated - ("1" in number line) - SIGNED - "Jimmy Gage is a reporter for Slap magazine in Los Angeles - a troublemaker by trade and inclination, with fast hands and too much curiosity for his own good." - book: near fine - dj: very good - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2005 - 1st U.S. edition - "No other sporting book will explain the colors of karate belts; George Orwell's thoughts on the lottery; the link between crosswords and the devil; the story behind the Nike 'swoosh'; and why surfing is a "Sport of Kings' (in Hawaii) - book: very good (5" - 7 1/2" tall) with fabric bookmark attached - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - dj: very good - dj in protective mylar sleeve

Scribner's Magazine May, 1938 Vol. 103, No. 5 - very good- condition for age - 3 of the center pages are loose (see photo) $15

1958 Bilingual Edition second edition
Seamarks (Amers) is a poem of ceremonial praise of the Sea as the divine source of life, love and death.

Quantity of 2 books: 1955 - Seashores 475 marine subjects in full color - book: very good 1968 Spiders and their kin - book: very goodVINTAGE/COLLECTABLE Golden Nature Guides

SIGNED FIRST PRINTING
A managing partner at his thriving law firm, Dismas Hardy becomes involved in a high-profile case involving the teenage son of a prominent San Francisco family who has been arrested for the murders of his girlfriend and English teacher, while an unseen killer--known as The Executioner--terrorizes the inhabitants of the city with a series of shocking sniper killings

From the fall of Troy to interstellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, Secret Messages is a collection of ninety-five of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history.Authors William S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney have compiled a fascinating array of encrypted communications from a varied field. Many of these examples are from times of war, including the story of how a too simple code was the undoing of Benedict Arnold, and how Commander Jeremiah Denton blinked in Morse code to indicate that his North Vietnamese captors were torturing him. Others are more lighthearted, such as the creative use of hand signals by catchers and managers in modern baseball. And some selections offer a glimpse into how codes are used in everyday life, unbeknownst to most of us, in places like hospitals, police stations, and firehouses.Uncovering hidden layers, Secret Messages will amaze you with its new insights into history and how it has been… Read More

SIGNED Sent by Pope Alejandro VI to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" at the beginning of 1497, Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the master artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that a mysterious message has been coded into the painting.

"The beautiful woman who once belonged to a ring of international jewel thieves makes known to her former associates the location of certain gems, thereby triggering a number of people to recover them at any cost" - bookfinder

Beautiful pastel color illustrations by Batlle

When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. Or, for example, when his agent told him his first novel was so bad that it would hurt both of their reputations, he nonetheless sent it to an editor, and that editor happened to like the Navajo stuff.

In this wry and whimsical memoir, Hillerman offers frequent backward glances at where he found ideas for plots of his books and the characters that inhabit them. He takes us with him to death row, where he interviews a man about to die in the gas chamber and details how this… Read More

SIGNED on the title page

"New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in The Serpent of Venice, a satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.
Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy of Britain and France, and widower of the murdered Queen Cordelia: the rascal Fool Pocket.
This trio of cunning plottersthe merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iagohave lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantios beautiful daughter, Portia.
But their invitation is, of course, bogus. The wine is drugged. The girl isnt even in the city limits. Desperate to rid themselves once and for all of the man who has consistently foiled their grand quest for power and wealth, they have lured him to… Read More

"... fourteen American poets explore their roots, their ethnic identities, and the intricate process of assimilation that has helped to shape this country."
DJ is price clipped and scuffed

SIGNED FIRST EDITION After fifteen years in the United States, Shakilah Nair returns to her home in China, pregnant and unmarried, in a story told from the viewpoints of the women around her, from her mother and best friend to rumor-telling schoolgirls and a woman she loves, all of whom believe in the power of seen and unseen spirits.