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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 342 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours. Condition: Light edge wear. Jacket with light edge wear else a very good copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 232 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering and gilt label to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Newlyweds Anneke Haagen and Police Lieutenant Karl Genesko are enjoying their honeymoon in San Francisco when they receive an invitation for Richard Killian, Anneke's friend, to watch the University of Michigan game at his sports bar, Maize and Blue. Anneke gladly accepts the invitation, but when Anneke and Karl arrive, they discover that a number of things would have been better than going to Maize and Blue. A Michigan graduate student, Lindsay Summers, has something other than the game on her mind: She is interviewing everyone about what triggers their urges to overeat, which doesn't make her very popular. But is that reason enough to kill her? Anneke and Karl soon find themselves dragged into the investigation to help their friend Richard, who has become the prime suspect. As they search for answers amid a shish kebob of food activists with a dozen different agendas, deadly secrets are revealed--secrets that one person will ensure stay buried--even if it means resorting to murder again and again. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 258 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Detective Victoria has never been shy about robbing heroin addicts. He loves the looks on their faces when he kicks down their doors and finds them with needles hanging out of their arms, their highs gone in an instant. After seventeen years on the force, Victoria has no delusions about being an honest cop. And that makes him a perfect bagman for Tommy Doyle. Doyle is the New York Police Department s chief of detectives, the top dog in a very dirty bunch. To young Bobby Porterfield who s deeply in love with Doyle s daughter, Cathy the old man is a legend. But as Porterfield is drawn deeper into the dark side of the department, he finds that justice is never black and white. And when Doyle s top men begin to die, Porterfield fears he may be next. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 297 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with silver lettering to spine over beige boards in original jacket. A darkly humorous crime story. Bret and Sarah, Shel and Ramy, were married together 20 years ago, and now they plan to renew their marital vows. But Bret and Ramy are having an affair, and preparing an anniversary surprise - a bomb that will blow their respective partners to kingdom come. Condition: Small bump to heal edge else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, near fine copy, probably unused, tiniest ding to corner. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The Songlines. New York: Penguin Books, 1988, later printing, 294pp., . 9780140094299 ISBN 0140094296 9.60.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 274 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth over black boards in original pictorial wrappers. First edition. It was a one-way ticket out of his self-imposed isolation and into the courtroom on the right side of justice. It was a favor for his old friend Judge Horace Woolner. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to serve as special prosecutor in a case against a man sworn to uphold the law, Marshall Goodwin, the chief deputy district attorney accused of having his former wife murdered. It was an opportunity Joseph Antonelli couldn't walk away from. But Antonelli is walking into more than he bargained for. The Goodwin case renews his appetite for the practice of law, and although Antonelli is determined to remain on the side of justice, there are many shades between right and wrong. And Antonelli may be over his head when Russell Gray, an urbane, worldly, and wealthy man from a prominent Portland family, is found murdered in his living room. Horace Woolner's wife stands accused of the crime. With justice and love on the line, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this stunning look at our legal system and our hearts, D. W. Buffa delivers on the promise of The Defense and takes us into the dark recesses of our courtrooms and our souls, where there are no easy answers. Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 296 pages with map. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and red boards. First edition. In Wild Steps of Heaven, Victor Villasenor breathes life into his father family, and in particular, the Villasenor women. Mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers - their faith transcends the madness that surrounds them and their love is all-powerful, life-giving, and touched by the miraculous. Margarita is the indomitable Indian matriarch who guards her family and conquers her enemies with the cutting edge of unconditional love - and a touch of magic. As a young woman, she was swept away by Juan Jesus Villasenor, who carried the blood of Spanish royalty in his veins - and who unarmed once wrestled with the great serpent that held his village hostage . and won. Together, Don Juan and Dona Margarita woulcl create a dynasty on the eve of the Mexican Revolution. their daughters . Emilia, and Luisa, who find courage in their mother's faith, and searing, explosive passion amid the turmoil of war. Their sons . Jose, who becomes a legendary horseman and a hero of the revolution. And Juan, the youngest , Victor's father, through whose eyes this brilliant, tumultuous saga unfolds. Rejected by his own father, little Juan would learn from his mother how to live and love con gusto y amor, and from his brother, Jose, how to be a man. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 218 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over gold boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Alan Saxon, pro golfer and amateur sleuth, has hit rock bottom. After a disastrous season on the golf circuit, he is hounded by his bank, harassed by his ex-wife and on the verge of losing his current girlfriend. So when his friend and fellow pro golfer, Zuke Everett, invites him to trade another dreary English winter for a tournament at the posh new Golden Haze Golf Club in sunny California, he leaps at the chance. However, Saxon soon finds himself enmeshed in a tenacious web of violence and intrigue as he attempts to find his friend's killer and free himself from suspicion. Beatings, betrayal and police badgering are par for this, the most treacherous course of Saxon's life. Double Eagle, Miles' second Saxon mystery, with its clever plotting, humor and breathless suspense, will delight readers--whether they golf or not. Condition: Jacket price clipped else very good to fine in near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii+246 pages with figures, graphs, tables, references, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with brown lettering to spine in original jacket. Foreword by Michael Cole. First edition. This work is based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print on Asian gypsies. By applying methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship between social experience and mental growth. He suggest that there are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive development. Condition: Front heal corner bumped. Jacket corners lightly chipped, spine lightly sunned else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Former library book. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $14.95, near fine, light wear. ERNAUX, ANNIE. Happening. Translated from the French by Tanya Leslie. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2019, 3d printing number line of the May 2019 paperback edition, 95pp., . The author recalls her traumatic experience with abortion as a young literature student in the early 1960s--an event that left her hemorrhaging in a Paris dormitory. ISBN 9781609809485 4.30.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). This is an Advance Reading Copy, or ARC (similar to, but not the same as an "Uncorrected Proof" or an "Unedited, Uncorrected Page Proof") a publishing state fast becoming an attractive "collectible", as it precedes the First Edition. We have here Quinnell's riveting tale of the old-guard Soviet Premiere's plot to assassinate the Pope and the Vatican's counterplot to assassinate the Premiere, tempered with a powerful love story. 324 pages. CONDITION: a bright, solid, square, unmarked, uncreased copy with light edge- and corner-wear - now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $15.00, near fine copy, corners lightly bumped. previous owner's gift inscription on top corner of title page. LE CLÉZIO, J.-M. G. Wandering star. Translated by C. Dickson. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2008, 2d printing, 316pp., . While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee. ISBN 9781931896115 12.30.

paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, cover price $18.00, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. CHATWIN, BRUCE. The songlines. Introduction by Rory Stewart. New York: Penguin Books, 2012, xxiv, 294pp., . Series: Penguin classics A story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter in Central Australia's almost uninhabitable regions. ISBN 9780142422571 7.60.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition.  viii+293 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over purple boards in orignal pictorial jacket. First editon. When detectives Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory spot a body in a barrel off South Street Seaport's Peck Slip, their investigation leads them into the darkest depths of corruption and murder. It turns out that the corpse has been there for 10 years--a murdered cop. Their investigation does not win them any new friends on the force, and it may get them killed. Condition: Fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 228 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with green gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original jacket. First edition. Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. May 1822, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother's estate. However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a seance, the consequences of which are catastrophic. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 230 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition review copy. In this eighth Brady Coyne mystery, the Boston-based lawyer/sleuth investigates the murder of an old friend's daughter-in-law and unearths some family secrets that are best left undisturbed. A shocking tale of secret horror. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with green lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Dr. Robert Frederickson, aka Mongo the Magnificent--dwarf, private detective, martial artist and ex-circus headliner--is hired by the White House to investigate the CIA's role in Haiti. He discovers the mutilated remains of Haiti's most notorious citizens scattered throughout the United States. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. viii+255 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Robinson's argument takes rise from a close analysis of social dynamics as represented in "Tom Sawyer". Robinson finds that Mark Twain's characters are engaged in an elaborate form of social play whose dominant feature is "bad faith," the broad spectrum of deceits people resort to in their quest for social stability and individual equanimity. Characters and author and audience, he argues, share very similar cultural predispositions to affirm and deny. Condition: a near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 202 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Victor Villasenor has presented us with the gift of seeing our lives through a magical lens that makes us feel confident and powerful to meet life's challenges. He offers as examples beautiful stories from his own family history, stories of his mother and father facing the derision and ridicule of older children, developing the courage to encounter the unknown or supernatural, escaping from persecution by soldiers during the Mexican revolution, extending the abilities of their bodies to endure hunger, thirst and physical stress. Walking Stars is filled with the triumph of young people exceeding their the expectations of friends, family and even themselves. The world of young adults, aside from being fraught with trauma and real-life danger, is also filled with the magic and the opportunity to discover what one can really achieve in life. Condition: Jacket slightly torn at front heal hinge, small chip in heal spine, small tear at head of spine, spine sunned else near fine copy in a very good to fine jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Wrapped in plastic with some tape marks. Associated with Lucinda de Leftwich Templeton.

paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, HEAVILY MARKED in red underlining in last 15 pages of epilogue by a reader who couldn't bother with the rest of the book, I guess, which is clean. JACKSON, MICHAEL. At home in the world : COPY WITH MARKINGS. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000, x, 188pp., . "Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a search. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert." "Something of a nomad himself, having lived in New Zealand, Sierra Leone, England, France, Australia, and the United States, Jackson is deft at capturing the ambiguities of home as a lived experience among the Warlpiri. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, he focuses on the existential meaning of being at home in the world. Here home becomes a metaphor for the intimate relationship between the part of the world a person calls "self" and the part of the world called "other." To speak of "at-homeness," Jackson suggests, implies that people everywhere try to strike a balance between closure and openness, between acting and being acted upon, between acquiescing in the given and choosing their own fate. His book is an exhilarating journey into this existential struggle, responsive at every turn to the political questions of equity and justice that such a struggle entails. A moving depiction of an aboriginal culture at once at home and in exile, and a personal meditation on the practice of ethnography and the meaning of home in our increasingly rootless age, At Home in the World is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves.". 9790822325382 ISBN 0822325381.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, cover price $18.95, near fine copy, appears unused. ERNAUX, ANNIE. Getting Lost. Translated by Alison L. Strayer. New York, Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2022, 1st printing number line ending with 1, 239pp., . First published in French in 2001. - "'Getting lost' is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, 'Simple passion,' was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying 'his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.' She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. 'Getting lost' is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.". ISBN 9781644212196 8.80.

Condizione: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.