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New York: Warner Books, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "Authentic in every detail, this novel should attract not only readers with Asian interests, but everyone concerned with the changing qualities of American life today."--John Espey. A very attractive book.

New York, NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. This novel by best-selling author Dean Koontz, was published in 1977, under the pseudonym Brian Coffey. ¿Real suspense¿tension upon tension!¿¿NYT. Book is FINE, tight, clean, fresh with no marking except for owner's signature on front free endpaper. DJ is good with3"X1/2" cut along front top edge with 1"X1/2" cut along top edge of back panel. Two closed tears on back panel. Stated 1st printing. Presented in a mylar cover.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. The author is a winner of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 'Fair Warning' is acclaimed novelist Robert Olen Butler's enthralling glimpse into a Manhattan auction house that caters to the shopping pheromones of the rich and powerful. "Engaging . fascinating . accompanied by the wealth of evocative detail one might expect from a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize." -- Les Standiford, The Miami Herald

New York: Random House, 1999. First Trade Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. 'Faith of My Fathers' is about what McCain learned from his father and grandfather, and how their example enabled him to survive. Told with humility, grace, and humor, it is a story of three imperfect men who faced adversity and emerged with their honor intact. It is a story to inspire and instruct, one that shows what fathers give to their sons, and what, ultimately, endures. "A serious, utterly gripping account of faith, fathers, and the military." --Publishers Weekly

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1977. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent, collectible book in great condition."Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the . U.S.A." -Saul Bellow. "One of the most important novels of our time.... Read it and be ennobled." -The New York Times

New York: St. Martin's Press,, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. Carroll Dorsey was on his way to becoming a basketball star when an injury ended that dream. Now-he's a private detective in Pittsburgh, working insurance fraud cases. Thomas Lipinski brings the reader the vivid atmosphere of this working class side of America. The people are real, the setting is real and the suspense, based in the desparate measures of desperate people, is riveting. This book was a finalist in the St. Martin's Press/PWA First Private Eye Novel contest. This book appears UNREAD.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn connect a skeleton and sniper to an old unsolved case. This book has ingeniously intricate plotting, splendid evocations of the Southwest's harsh beauty, insights into a venerable culture, and subtly poignant characterizations.

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book protected in a mylar cover. In this assured and unsettling novel, Ann Beattie traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family and the people around them.

New York: Scribner, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, collectible book.There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. "Haunting.elegiac.masterful." -- Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe

New York: Random House, 1999. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Taylor has written an eloquent and deeply felt memoir about the demise of his 11-year marriage."[A] poignant memoir . . . In lucid, unadorned prose, Taylor explores a terrain that heretofore has been left mainly to our contemporary fiction writers: the failing of a marriage . . . An emotional country unto itself?a place of dire contradictions and sacrifices and mistakes, of pain and love."--- JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ Taylor explores .rs: the failing of a marriage . . . An emotional country unto itself?a place of dire contradictions and sacrifices and mistakes, of pain and love." ?JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ

New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in mid-century.--Ecco. "Powerful, compassionate and ruefully humorous, The Falls is another example of Oates' inexhaustible brilliance."---Bookpage

New York: Scholastic Press, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book! ¿Sage is deftly characterized through humorous first-person narration, quickly establishing himself as a beguiling antihero. . . . First in the "Ascendancy Trilogy, this is an impressive, promising story with some expertly executed twists.¿ ¿ Publishers Weekly

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible, pristine book that is"As New". When Stone Barrington takes on a wealthy heiress as his client, he finds himself handling a whole lot of trouble in this "this glossy, modern take on the classic detective story" (Publishers Weekly). "Woods creates another action-packed thriller for his readers to devour, with plenty of interesting twists and turns that make for a nonstop, can't catch-your-breath read."-Booklist

New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. in this beloved collection of linked short stories, Allegra Goodman writes with wit and compassion about three generations of Markowitzes. "Funny and wise and keenly observed . . . one of the most engaging, maddening, and recognizable families to come along in years . . . an enchanting book."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Very minor shelf wear only at tips. A novel of feelings, A FAMILY ROMANCE describes in fascinating detail a young, protected, but liberated, English woman's growing appreciation of her Aunt Dolly, a woman from another time. Shaw's genteel, English dialect (with such lovely, soft "r's") reflects well the novel's subdued, confessional, often sad and solitary tone.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a very attractive book. Each story in this collection has a unique setting or circumstance, and each character is fully drawn and believable. Nelson finds the right mixture of tension to make each story gripping but not sensational, compelling but not forced." -- Karen Sbrockey, Bloomsbury Review

Legacy Books, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. This pristine SIGNED book is a special edition review copy that appears UNREAD. New York Times Bestseller and real life ER physician CJ Lyons returns to her medical thriller roots with a heart wrenching tale of good and evil, despair and hope, and the unexpected gift of grace that comes with embracing our mortality. ¿FAREWELL TO DREAMS has it all: a heroine you'll never forget and a story that whips by at bullet speed." -Tess Gerritsen

New York: Soho Press Inc., 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. Author named by Granta as one of the 20 'Best Young American Novelists'. The Farming of Bones, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book, is the author's homage to tens of thousands of Haitians who were slaughtered by their Dominican neighbors under Trujillo's rule in 1937. Against this historical background, Danticat stages the love story of Amabelle and Sebastien, two workers who are separated during the panicked flight of Haitians from Dominican borders. "Sensuously atmospheric.perfectly paced.lushly poetic and erotic.and starkly realistic." Publishers Weekly

New York: Dutton/Lawrence, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Seven short stories from this exceptional writer.The author has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction, the Fels Award for Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of arts and Letters and has been a resident at Yadoo. "Judging from this collection, it seems as if there's nothing Phillips can't do . . . a tremendously talented writer working to the limit of her powers."---Publishers Weekly

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Author's third novel (sixth book) that tells the story of a powerfully complex kinship, an exhilarating and heart stopping story by one of the boldest and best contemporary American novelists. "His [Brown's) most wise, humane and haunting work to date."--Publishers Weekly. A handsome book with minor edgewear that includes a minute closed tear on top edge. Keywords: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER EX-CONVICTS MISSISSIPPI FATHER SON RELATIONSHIP MURDER TERROIZED FAMILY