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TOR, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Larry Rostant cover art; chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 TOR trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Larry Rostant cover art; chapter decorations. CONTENT: The fires of Hell heat up the Cold War in this globe-spanning thriller sequel to The Midnight Front. 1954: In Southeast Asia, Cade Martin, hero of The Midnight Front during World War II, chases ghosts and flees his past. In the United States, BrietSegfrunsdóttir heads the Pentagon's top-secret magickal warfare program.And in South America, Anja Kernova hunts fugitive Nazi sorcerers with the help of a powerful magickal tome known as The Iron Codex. In an ever-more dangerous world, a chance encounter sparks an international race to find Anja and steal The Iron Codex. Anja is hunted by friend and foe alike, leading to a showdown on Bikini Atoll in March 1954: the Castle Bravo nuclear test, where science and black magic are destined to collide.

New York: George Braziller, 1987. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 4 B&W plats/maps. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New"? It appears to have been read to page 14 and abandoned. Interior clean and tight. 4 B&W "plates" & maps. CONTENT: "The renowned French historian explores the roots and development of a popular tale of witchcraft accusations retold in 1840 by the Gascon poet Jacques Boe or "Jasmin." In a lively narrative the modern historian examines the place of witchcraft in traditional southern French society, translates Jasmin's "Francouneto," and tracks through archival sources and interviews its probable origins in the lives of late 17th-century villagers. The resultant insights into the minds and culture of Gascon peasants will intrigue patrons of public and college libraries." This fascinating account traces a story of witchcraft as it appears in village quarrels in the south of France over the course of several centuries. The starting point is the narrative poem… Leer más

Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 1st American Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Knopf hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American edition, assumed first printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and… Leer más

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… Leer más

Henry Holt, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Henry Holt hardcover (blue boards, 2 lbs.) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first US edition, second printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a book in 6 parts with lots of information to keep the reader on track: Cast of Characters, Simplified Tudor Genealogical Chart, and an interesting Author's Note. Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536:… Leer más

Henry Holt, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Vintage B&W illustrations throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Henry Holt small hardcover (red boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Vintage B&W illustrations throughout (I guess that means they got the images for free off of the net?). CONTENT: Like Nursery Rhymes, fairy tales can be rooted in true stories. Robert Bly revisits a selection of fairy tales and examines how these enduring narratives capture the essence of human nature. Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from "The Six Swans" to "The Frog Prince." Drawing on his own creative genius, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard… Leer más

HarperPerennial, 2019. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2019 HarperPerennial trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. CONTENT: Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family's fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true?and if they will survive to see their country liberated. Moving… Leer más

Poisoned Pen Press, 2020. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Poisoned Pen Press trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: There are good reasons to fear the dark... Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco's life has been spent in defiance?he's defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He's earned a break, and following the devastation of their last case, DeMarco and his girlfriend Jayme want nothing more than to live quietly in each other's company. To forget the horrors they've experienced and work on making each other whole again. But dreams of a peaceful life together are shattered when two bodies are discovered in a smoldering car in the woods, and another is found brutally mutilated nearby. Much as he'd like to leave the case to his former colleagues, dark forces are at play and DeMarco cannot escape the vortex of lies, betrayal, and desperation. He and Jayme are… Leer más

Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Reissue 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Houghton Mifflin hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket. The only date in this book is 2004, however, note the HBO miniseries on the DJ and that would place the book in 2020 - a reissue or first thus edition, first printing. I'm totally confused on this. Sorry. CONTENT: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. For one boy growing up in Newark,… Leer más

Orbit Books, 2015. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2015 Orbit Books hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American Edition, first printing. PROBLEM: Small remainder dot top edges at spine - that's it - all else perfect. CONTENT: Peter Higgins's superb and original creation, a perfect melding of fantasy, myth, SF and political thriller, reaches its extraordinary conclusion. The Vlast stands two hundred feet tall, four thousand tons of steel ready to be flung upwards on the fire of atom bombs. Ready to take the dream of President-Commander of the New Vlast General, Osip Rizhin, beyond the bounds of this world. But not everyone shares this vision. Vissarion Lom and Maroussia Shaumian have not reached the end of their story, and in Mirgorod a woman in a shabby dress carefully unwraps a sniper rifle. And all the while the Pollandore dreams its own dreams.

Putnam, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Putnam trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit comes a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know is that Goodman has furtively continued his diabolical work, amassing a congregation of followers who believe he possesses Godlike powers.… Leer más

United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 1st Paperback Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Susan Herbert color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Thames & Hudson large paperback, first PB edition, 2nd printing. The original was released in HB in 1996 and into paperback 2014. Simply beautiful color illustrations by Susan Herbert. CONTENT: For her latest book of cats in costume, Susan Herbert turns from masterpieces of the fine arts to the masterpieces of Shakespeare. Painting in her familiar and highly popular style, this imaginative artist presents an irresistible array of well-known characters in the great Shakespearean plays, from the tragic Romeo and Juliet, to the mischievous Titania; from the beautiful Cleopatra to the roguish Falstaff. In thirty-two entrancing paintings, Susan Herbert opens up an unsuspected world of Shakespeare interpreted by cats with all their winning ways. Her many devoted admirers will find this new collection full of the charm, humor and… Leer más

Philomel Books, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Dennis Nolan color illustrations. CONDITION: Why is this considered AS NEW? Remainder mark bottom edges. UNREAD 2000 Philomel Books hardcover (grey-blue boards with silver foil title on spine) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition (Impression), first printing. Color illustrations by Dennis Nolan. CONTENT: Eight new tales delight and mystify readers with stories ranging from Robin Hood's mysterious birth, to the adventures of Hood's grandson while trying to follow in his grandfather's footsteps. Yolen wrote 2 of the tales. "Containing eight short stories (and therefore being a relatively quick read), the stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with the night Robin Hood was born, and extending two stories beyond his death, including one about grandchild of Robin Hood and another rather funny one about an artificial intelligence that is programmed to believe he is Robin Hood. My favorite was probably Straight… Leer más

Forge, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Forge trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. Chapter decorations - small but there. CONTENT: "History, Romance, Crime, and Action - a Great Book" - Historical Novel Society. "Full of charm and sly humor, SIDE BY SIDE tells the story of Bonnie and Clyde's slide from lovebirds to jailbirds?and what an action-packed story it is! Vivid storytelling and a few shots of humanity breathe new life into this notorious duo. This book should be on everyone's "most wanted" list this summer." Texas: 1931. It's the height of the Great Depression, and Bonnie is miles from Clyde. He's locked up, and she's left waiting, their dreams of a life together dwindling every day. When Clyde returns from prison damaged and distant, unable to keep a job, and dogged by the cops, Bonnie knows the law will soon come for him. But there's only one road forward for her. If the world… Leer más

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 plantation, makes her way to… Leer más

William Morrow, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2021 William Morrow trade paperback, first edition, first printing. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: Two sisters join the Paris Resistance in this page-turning new novel inspired by the real-life bravery of Catherine Dior, sister of the fashion designer and a heroine of World War II France. Paris, 1944: The war is nearly over, but for members of the Resistance in occupied France, it is more dangerous than ever before. Twenty-five-year-old Gabby Foucher loathes the Nazis, though as the concierge of 10 rue Royale, she does her best to avoid conflict-unlike her bolder sister Yvette, who finds trouble at every turn. Then they are both recruited into the Resistance by Catherine Dior and swept into a treacherous world of spies, fugitives, and intrigue. While Gabby risks everything for the man she is hiding from the Nazis, Yvette must decide whether to trust an enigmatic diplomat who… Leer más

Schocken Books, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Mark Podwal color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Schocken Books small hardcover (pictorial boards), NO DJ issued, first edition, first printing. Haunting color illustrations by Mark Podwal. Introduction by Elisha Wiesel. NOTE: Although I don't think so, this edition may have had a dust jacket originally, but this release did not have one. CONTENT: Elie Wiesel's heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song, accompanied by magnificent full-color illustrations by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II in Poland. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hanged to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, which celebrates the triumph of the Jews of Persia over potential genocide some 2,400 years… Leer más

St. Martin's Press, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: "AS NEW" due to small remainder mark bottom edges. UNREAD 2017 St Martin's Press hardcover (orange boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Sure doesn't look like "Large Print" to me. No illustrations. CONTENT: 9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance... So begins the Journal of Margaret Kelly, a… Leer más

Minotaur Books, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. M. Ramirez cover photos. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Minotaur Books hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 2nd printing. The DJ title is in gold foil and the title is in embossed whiter lettering. CONTENT: In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder?blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old… Leer más

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2021 Grand Central Publishing hardcover (lime green and navy boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: One woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history. Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman's past is torn apart in a heartbeat. Herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. All she has left now is hope. On a darkened platform, two destinies become intertwined, and the choices each person makes will… Leer más