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10 Lb. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 1568955251 (1-56895-525-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '10 Lb. Penalty'Book summary:One of the most impressive aspects of Dick Francis's long and celebrated career (he's won three Edgar Awards, the Silver Dagger, the Gold Dagger, a Cartier Diamond Dagger, and was named the 1996 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) is the freshness that he brings to each of his novels. Though every one of his 30-plus works of fiction has drawn from some aspect of the world of horses, Francis turns this constraint into a powerful source of inspiration. In 10 Lb. Penalty Francis adds several new arrows to his quiver. His protagonist, Ben Juliard, narrates the tale in a vivid first person that begins in his insecure late teens instead of the settled middle age of the usual Francis hero. Also, Ben's relationship with horses is more of a fading dream than an active reality. The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon finds that his "gap year"--his year before entering college--is going to be a nightmare. Orinda Nagle, the widow of the recently deceased Hoopwestern MP, and her companion, Alderney Wyvern, resist George's campaign from the start. Then, Usher Rudd, a muckraking journalist, turns his vitriol to George. When an attempt is made on George's life, he and his son find themselves inside a vigorous tale of suspense that takes several narrative years to sort out.
Francis's lucid prose is the driving force in this political mystery, and the realistic rendering of the complicated father-son relationship between George and Ben adds a sophistication and weight that marks the author's best fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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100 Bulletsby Brian Azzarello, Eduardo RissoISBN 1563896451 (1-56389-645-1)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 1561564532 (1-56156-453-2)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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Amy and Isabelleby Elizabeth StroutISBN 1568957289 (1-56895-728-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Batmanby Greg Rucka, Roger Robinson, Steve LeiberISBN 1563899477 (1-56389-947-7)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Battle Royaleby Yuji Oniki, Koushun TakamiISBN 156931778X (1-56931-778-X)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle Royale'Book summary:Synopsis: In a country ruled by a ruthless totalitarian government, a group of ninth-grade students are confined to a small isolated island, armed only with a map, some food, and various weapons, where they are forced wear special exploding collars and must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television. Original. [via]
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Before The Frost: A Linda Wallander Mysteryby Henning Mankell, Ebba SegerbergISBN 1565848357 (1-56584-835-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Big Book of Deathby Bronwyn Carlton, Carlton BronwynISBN 1563891662 (1-56389-166-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Bobby Joe: In the Mind of a Monster The Chilling Facts Behind the Story of a Brutal Serial Killerby Bernie WardISBN 1567900933 (1-56790-093-3)
Softcover, Cool Hand Communications
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Bruce Wayne Fugitiveby Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Chuck Dixon, Devin Grayson, Kelley PuckettISBN 1563899337 (1-56389-933-7)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bruce Wayne Fugitive'Book summary:One of comics' most enduring heroes, who is set to be a movie star again very soon - Batman - confronts the challenge of his life. This all-new, all-action graphic novel is Act 1 in an epic storyline that will see Gotham City torn apart by the machinations of bloodthirsty mobsters! Things start to fall apart and Gotham becomes entangled in the ultimate gang war! With each faction battling it out with various other gun-toting thugs, can Batman and his 'family' keep innocents from falling into the line of fire? Written and drawn by a talented ensemble cast of comics creators, this is the next step in Batman's evolution - welcome to War Games! [via]
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A Case of Needby Jeffrey HudsonISBN 1568950527 (1-56895-052-7)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Cat Who Played Post Officeby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 1568958404 (1-56895-840-4)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Played Post Office'Book summary:Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the life-styles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder soon show him the unsavoury side of the upper crust. But it's Koko's purr-fect propensity for clues amid the caviar and champagne that gives Qwilleran pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects...before his taste for the good life turns into his last meal. [via]
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A Crime in the Neighborhoodby Suzanne BerneISBN 1565121651 (1-56512-165-1)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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A Cry for Justice: A Mother's Journey to Confront the Killer of Her Childrenby Joy SwiftISBN 1567900844 (1-56790-084-4)
Hardcover, Cool Hand Communications
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Death of a Dissidentby Stuart M. KaminskyISBN 156287019X (1-56287-019-X)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library
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Detective Inspector Hussby Helene TurstenISBN 1569473706 (1-56947-370-6)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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The Dogs of Rigaby Laurie Thompson, Henning MankellISBN 1565847873 (1-56584-787-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dogs of Riga'Book summary:Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Inspector Kurt Wallander across the Baltic to a disintegrating soviet union
February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skåne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon plunges Wallander into an alien world of police surveillance, thinly veiled threats, and life-endangering lies.
When another murder is committed, Wallander must travel to Riga, Latvia, at the peak of the massive social and political upheaval that preceded the nation's independence from the Soviet Union. Struggling to catch up with the culprits he pursues in this shadowy nation, Wallander finds that he must make a choice, decide who is lying and who is telling the truth, and test his bravery. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, G. K. ChestertonISBN 1561384747 (1-56138-474-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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The Dragon Manby Gary DisherISBN 1569473951 (1-56947-395-1)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Man'Book summary:A first-rate piece of crime writing. The Washington Post Book World
A straightforward police story with a terrific plot, nuanced characters and solid procedures, served up on refreshing new turf. Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
A police procedural of a very different kind. . . . A down under atmosphere that most American readers will find unique. The Plain Dealer
Colorful. . . . Disher has literary talent and imagination. Chicago Tribune
Disher makes his characters as interesting as his plot. Portsmouth Herald
The American debut for Australian crime writer extraordinaire Disher is as complex and dark as anything by Ian Rankin or Michael Connelly. Las Vegas Mercury
A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been imprisoned for the past eight years for attempted murderhis.
Garry Disher is the author of over 40 books for adults and children. His crime fiction includes numerous anthologized stories and the Wyatt novels, including Kickback, winner of the 2000 German Critics Prize for Crime Fiction. The first in his Detective Inspector Challis murder mystery series, The Dragon Man won the German Critics Prize for Crime Fiction in 2001.
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The Dukeby Catherine CoulterISBN 1568954166 (1-56895-416-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Eagleby Kaiji KawaguchiISBN 1569314594 (1-56931-459-4)
Softcover, Viz
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Eagle Bk. 3: The Making of an Asian-American Presidentby Kaiji KawaguchiISBN 1569315515 (1-56931-551-5)
Softcover, Viz Media
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The Echoby Minette WaltersISBN 1568954719 (1-56895-471-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Echo'Book summary:Minette Walters's expert plotting and her ability to quickly bring a large cast of characters to life put her in the same arena as Ruth Rendell. A homeless man who called himself Billy Blake is found dead of starvation in the garage of an expensive home near London's Thames, and it looks as though he might be a merchant banker who disappeared in 1988 with 10 million pounds. A magazine journalist named Michael Deacon is intrigued by the case and by the missing banker's wife and soon finds that there are much darker overtones to both. Other Walters books in paperback include The Ice House, The Scold's Bridle. [via]
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 1568959397 (1-56895-939-7)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Ender's Gameby Tami J. StregeISBN 1560778024 (1-56077-802-4)
Softcover, Center for Learning
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The Evidence of Things Not Seenby James BaldwinISBN 1568495757 (1-56849-575-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evidence of Things Not Seen'Book summary:This edition of a classic work by one of America s premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter s skill and an essayist s insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings a city that claimed to be too busy to hate and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about justice for all. Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.[via]More editions of The Evidence of Things Not Seen:
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Father & Sonby Larry BrownISBN 1565120140 (1-56512-014-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Father & Son'Book summary:Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse, and of bringing Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare as Faulkner's is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk and disabled, and intends staying that way. To make things worse, there is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son and misery. [via]
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Finding Lauraby Kay HooperISBN 1568955340 (1-56895-534-0)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 1563120097 (1-56312-009-7)
Hardcover, Perfection Form Co
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 1566194903 (1-56619-490-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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A History of Violenceby John Wagner, Vince LockeISBN 1563893673 (1-56389-367-3)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Homicide: 100 Years of Murder in Americaby Gina Graham ScottISBN 1565659058 (1-56565-905-8)
Hardcover, School Specialty Childrens Pub
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Hound of the Baskervillesby Alexander DumasISBN 1562542893 (1-56254-289-3)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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I'll Be Seeing Youby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 1568496036 (1-56849-603-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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In the Time of the Butterfliesby Julia AlvarezISBN 1565120388 (1-56512-038-8)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Time of the Butterflies'Book summary:From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as "the butterflies" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.
In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. [via]
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Jade Lady Burningby Martin LimonISBN 1569470200 (1-56947-020-0)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1561380229 (1-56138-022-9)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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Kittyhawk Downby Garry DisherISBN 1569473943 (1-56947-394-3)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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The Last Coyote: Library Editionby Michael ConnellyISBN 1568952724 (1-56895-272-4)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Coyote: Library Edition'Book summary:Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered with no one ever accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life. [via]
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The Left Bank Gangby Fantagraphics Books, Jason, Kim ThompsonISBN 1560977426 (1-56097-742-6)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Bank Gang'Book summary:2007 Eisner Award-winner: set in 1920s Paris, this is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of the great literary figures of the period (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, and Joyce) as graphic novelists... and perpetrators of a thrilling, double-crossing heist!
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel.
Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but... graphic novelists! Yes, in Jason's warped world, cartooning is the dominant form of fiction, and not only do these four literary giants work in the comics medium but they get together to discuss pen vs. brush, chat about the latest graphic novels from Dostoevsky ("I can't tell any of his characters apart!") to Faulkner ("Hasn't he heard of white space? His panels are too crowded!"), and bemoan their erratic careers.
Add in a hilarious sequence where Hemingway is lectured by an overbearing Gertrude Stein ("What kind of pencil are you using? You should be using a blue pencil, that way you don't have to erase, all right? Avoid captions. Don't ever write 'A little later.' You don't need that. The reader will figure it out."), guest appearances by Zelda Fitzgerald and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a few remarkable twists and turns along the way, and you've got one of the funniest and most playful graphic novels of the year.
Like Jason's acclaimed Why Are You Doing This?, The Left Bank Gang is rendered in full spectacular color. This is Jason's eighth graphic novel in six years for Fantagraphics, and his audience continues to grow with every acclaimed release.
2007 Eisner Award winner, Best U.S. Edition of International Material; 2007 Eisner Award nominee: Best Coloring (Hubert). Full-color comics throughout [via]More editions of The Left Bank Gang:
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Lives Of The Twelve Caesarsby Michael Grant, Robert Graves, SuetoniusISBN 1566492106 (1-56649-210-6)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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The Making of an Asian American Presidentby Kaiji KawaguchiISBN 1569314764 (1-56931-476-4)
Softcover, Viz Media
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The Making of an Asian-American President Bk 1, vols. 1-4by Kaiji KawaguchiISBN 1569314756 (1-56931-475-6)
Softcover, Viz Media
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The Man Who Cast Two Shadowsby Carol O'ConnellISBN 1568952589 (1-56895-258-9)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Moghul Buffetby Cheryl BenardISBN 1569471797 (1-56947-179-7)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Money Cards: Words That Lead to Wealthby Suze OrmanISBN 1561708984 (1-56170-898-4)
Softcover, Hay House Inc
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Moon Musicby Faye KellermanISBN 156895672X (1-56895-672-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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More Five Minute Mysteriesby Ken WeberISBN 156138058X (1-56138-058-X)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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More Work for the Undertakerby Margery AllinghamISBN 156723013X (1-56723-013-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Mr. Punchby Neil Gaiman, Karen Berger, Dave McKeanISBN 1563892464 (1-56389-246-4)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Murder at Witches Bluffby Silver RavenwolfISBN 1567187277 (1-56718-727-7)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at Witches Bluff'Book summary:Renowned author Silver RavenWolf unites puzzling mystery, shocking horror and real magick in this adult-themed novel, creating a page-turning delight. As the nights of the year get longer, this is an ideal book to read curled up in front of a fire, or safely tucked under the covers.
The story of Murder at Witches' Bluff takes place in Cold Springs, an evil place with an evil history. As with many small towns, the citizens have many skeletons in their closets. As the mystery unfolds, you'll wonder if someone is willing to kill to make sure those secrets are not revealed.
Siren McKay returns to this, her hometown, to sort her head out. She has been acquitted of murdering her lover because of the testimony of a stranger. The truth is, she killed the man! But why did she do it? Why did the stranger lie to save her? And why does the entire town hate her so? Is it only because they wrongly think she is a Witch? Do they have other, darker hatred? Is she really a Witch?
Together with Tanner the alcoholic firefighter, and Billy the carousing cop, the three must stop the string of mysterious fires that are ravaging the town. Meanwhile, the body count starts to rise. Can they trust the mysterious Lexi, a retired, wealthy stage magician? What secrets does he know that he is not revealing? Which side is he really on?
And then there is the mysterious and beautiful Gemma, Siren's half-sister. Just how far will Gemma's perversions and hatred of Siren go?
This exciting novel will keep you in heart-numbing suspense as you go through the twists and turns of revelation. For exciting fiction with real magick, this book is a must!
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Mystery Playby Grant MorrisonISBN 1563891891 (1-56389-189-1)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystery Play'Book summary:Written by Grant Morrison; Art by Jon J. Muth The fully painted psychological thriller THE MYSTERY PLAY illustrates the devastating power of fear and accusations as a small-town community is ripped apart from within. When the actor portraying Satan is accused of brutally murdering the actor playing God in a Renaissance festival, a rural English village teeters on the edge of self-destruction. Looking to save the town from itself, a mysterious detective arrives and begins to piece together the clues of the slaying. But even if the enigmatic stranger can solve the disturbing mystery, the revelation of his true identity and past may still lead to the fiery end of the village. [via]
Orchid Beachby Stuart WoodsISBN 1568957742 (1-56895-774-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Red Leavesby Paullina SimonsISBN 1568953879 (1-56895-387-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Red Tentby Anita DiamantISBN 1568958978 (1-56895-897-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Return Of The Dancing Masterby Laurie Thompson, Henning MankellISBN 1565848608 (1-56584-860-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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It would be nearly two hours before he died. As if in a borderland of horror between the nagging pain and the hopeless will to live, he was taken back in time, to the occasion when he engaged the fate that had now caught up with him.from The Return of the Dancing Master
December 12, 1945. Nazi Germany lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in Buckeburg. A man carrying a small black bag quickly disembarks and travels to Hameln, where he disappears behind the prison gates. Early the next day, nine male and three female war criminals are hanged.
Fifty-four years later, retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Härjedalen, Sweden. At the murder scene, the police discover strange tracks in the blood on the floor...as if someone had been practicing the tango.
Stefan Lindman, a young police officer on extended sick leave, hears about the murder of his former colleague and decides to investigate it himself. Lindman's inquiry becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as he uncovers the links between Herbert Molin's death and a global web of neo-Nazi activity. [via]
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The Road to Perditionby Max Allen Collins, Bob Lappan, Richard Piers RaynerISBN 1563894491 (1-56389-449-1)
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Rose Madderby Stephen KingISBN 1568952619 (1-56895-261-9)
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The Sandman Libraryby Neil Gaiman, Kelley JonesISBN 1563890410 (1-56389-041-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Library'Book summary:One might think that the climax of the 10-volume Sandman series would come in the last book, or even the second to last. But indeed the heart and soul of Neil Gaiman's magnum opus lies here in Brief Lives. It could be because one of the most central mysteries--that of the Sandman's missing brother--is revealed here (in fact, the plot of this volume is the search for this member of the Endless). It could be because everything that comes after this volume, however surprising or unexpected, is inevitable. But it's more because this is a story about mortality and loss, the difficulty of change, the purpose of remembering, the purpose of forgetting, and the importance of humanity. If you have wanted to find out what all the good buzz on this great comic book series is about and haven't read any Gaiman before, don't be turned off by this volume's pivotal position in the larger story of the Sandman series. This book might actually operate better as a stand-alone story, in that its depth and compassion are more condensed, pure, and brief. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Secret Preyby John SandfordISBN 1568956738 (1-56895-673-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Prey'Book summary:John Sandford is back with his dapper, dangerous Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport for a ninth "preyer" meeting. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that it's full of smart suspense and deduction as well as explosive action. Davenport and his fellow cops are still recovering from the deadly revenge scheme that maimed them in Sudden Prey, which seems to have ended the relationship between Lucas and his doctor lady friend. This accounts for the depression that dogs him as he is sent to investigate the killing of top banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north of Minneapolis. Any of Kresge's four fellow hunters--all employees at his Polaris Bank--could have shot him, and all had motives, as did his almost ex-wife. About halfway through the book we find out who the real killer is, just a few pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation, an example of the banality of evil worthy of Hannah Arendt. This is where Sandford's beautifully honed skills at creating suspense really kick in: he keeps us fascinated as Davenport, revitalized by an affair with a jaunty colleague, tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence. --Dick Adler [via]
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The Sharpshooter Bluesby Lewis NordanISBN 1565121821 (1-56512-182-1)
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Single & Singleby John Le CarreISBN 1568957483 (1-56895-748-3)
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Slicky Boysby Martin LimonISBN 1569473854 (1-56947-385-4)
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Southern Crossby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 1568959737 (1-56895-973-7)
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Split Second Chanceby Brian Azzarello, Eduardo RissoISBN 1563897113 (1-56389-711-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Split Second Chance'Book summary:Suppose that you're given incontrovertible proof that you've been wronged by someone--seriously, grievously wronged. And then suppose that you're also given a handgun, a hundred bullets, and complete assurance that however you choose to use this information--and this gun--you won't be held accountable, won't go to jail, won't pay any price for exacting revenge.
Throw in a secret society, some low-life gamblers, a couple gangland executions, and a healthy dose of Thai boxing, Gracie jujitsu, and other assorted violence (not to mention sex) and you've got one of DC's most compelling comic-book series to come along in years. This trade paperback collects issues 6 through 14 of Vertigo's 100 Bullets series, so you might want to check out the first collection, First Shot, Last Call, if you haven't already. Fans will be happy to find that Split Second Chance clears up some of the questions surrounding the mysterious Agent Graves and the equally enigmatic Minutemen. But as one of the Trust's pawns later learns, "Asking questions is free... but the answers--they can cost you your life." --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 1568495714 (1-56849-571-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Stone Angelby Carol O'ConnellISBN 1568955073 (1-56895-507-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Laura Victoria LevinISBN 1566197112 (1-56619-711-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sweet Revengeby Nora RobertsISBN 1568955316 (1-56895-531-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Revenge'Book summary:At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now
she has the perfect plan to make her famous father pay. She will take possession of the one thing he values above all others--The Sun and the Moon, a fabled necklace beyond price.
Yet just as she is poised to take her vengeance, she meets a man who seems to divine her every secret. Clever, charming, and enigmatic, Philip Chamberlain has his own private reasons for getting close to Princess Adrianne. And only when it's too late will she see the hidden danger...as she finds herself up against two formidable men--one with the knowledge to take her freedom, the other with the power to take her life.
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A Train of Powderby Rebecca WestISBN 1566633192 (1-56663-319-2)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Train of Powder'Book summary:Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is "Greenhouse with Cyclamens," a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a "torso murder" in England and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose the pursuit of truth. "An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of West's breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury."Francine Prose. "It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point."Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. "Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature."William L. Shirer. [via]
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A Treasury of Victorian Murder: The Saga of the Bloody Bendersby Rick GearyISBN 1561634670 (1-56163-467-0)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th Century Crime of Passionby Idanna Pucci, Stefania FumoISBN 1568580614 (1-56858-061-4)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Urotsukidoji - Legend of the Overfiend 1: Legend of the Overfiendby Toshio MaedaISBN 156219917X (1-56219-917-X)
Softcover, Central Park Media Corp
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The Wet Foreverby David Aaron ClarkISBN 1563331179 (1-56333-117-9)
Softcover, Masquerade Books
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What's a Girl Gotta Do?by Sparkle HayterISBN 1569470006 (1-56947-000-6)
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The Witching Hourby Chris Bachalo, Jeph LoebISBN 1563896885 (1-56389-688-5)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witching Hour'Book summary:From the writer of BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and BATMAN: HUSH
The atmostpheric graphic novel by award-winning writer Jeph Loeb (BATMAN, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY) with art by Chris Bachalo (STEAMPUNK, DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING) is now available once more.
The setting is Manhattan, where the mysterious Amanda Collins moves through the troubled lives of ordinary people armed with little more than a blank white business card and a strange, supernatural presence. She's giving them the chance to change their lives, but the choice they make will depend entirely on the forces that already exist in their hearts.
At the crossroads of the supernatural and the very real, this book spins bold, provocative tales of sin, magic and redemption. [via]More editions of The Witching Hour:
Witching Hourby Jeph LoebISBN 1563899450 (1-56389-945-0)
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Wolf Whistleby Lewis NordanISBN 1565121104 (1-56512-110-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Woyzeckby Nicholas Rudall, George BuchnerISBN 1566634490 (1-56663-449-0)
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