Primo Levi

S244, c1989; Translated from the Italian to English (1989j

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Other People's Trades

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Henry Tedeschi

Short Stories

Small Steps

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T. F. Banks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner

June 1815. Regency-era London comes vividly to life in T. F. Banks’s darkly atmospheric mystery. Against this enthralling backdrop — when Napoleon, Wellington, and Lord Byron ruled the world stage — and featuring a lively cast of rabble-rousers and miscreants, constables and aristocrats, The Thief-Taker weaves an unforgettable tale of jealousy, revenge, and inconsolable love. When Henry Morton is called to the scene at Portman House in Claridge Square, the Bow Street constable finds a man dead — ostensibly of asphyxiation. He was Halbert Glendinning, a member of the Sussex Circle and a gentleman of unsullied character whose behavior was above reproach. Then why was he seen frequenting one of London’s most notorious dens of iniquity? And why has the driver of the hackney coach in which the dead man was discovered vanished into the night? While Sir Nathaniel Conant, the chief magistrate at Number 4 Bow Street, accepts the official verdict of accidental death, Morton knows that Glendinning was a victim of foul play. With the help of actress Arabella Malibrant, one of London’s most celebrated beauties, he embarks on his own discreet inquiry. Morton’s investigation takes him from the elegant town houses of Mayfair to the backstage dressing rooms of the Drury Lane Theatre, from the cobbled streets of Whitechapel to the docks of the Old Bailey — and into the teeming underbelly of a London he knows only too well. Yet the answers may lie somewhere else entirely: in an affair of honor between two men vying for the affections of the same woman. As Morton’s search brings him nearer to the truth, as the upper circles of London society ruthlessly close ranks against him, Morton must prevent a grave miscarriage of justice from taking place. With his own freedom — and, ultimately, his life — suspended in the balance, he races to unmask a killer whose motives are as complex and unfathomable as the passions that rule the human heart.

The Thief-Taker

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James Hawes

A White Merc with Fins

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Sherman Alexie

A Novel

Legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson appears on an Indian reservation to lead a Catholic rock band

Reservation Blues

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Naguib Mahfouz

S244, Originally published in Arabic (1985); Translated to English (1998); This edition published in 2000.

Dweller in Truth ~ a Novel

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death--including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti--in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.

Akhenaten

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Lauren Henderson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Black Rubber Dress

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Gerald Seymour

A Provisional IRA gunman assssinates a British Cabinet minister in front of his London home and skips back to Belfast undetected. The British retaliate almost hopelessly by sending a secret agent to track down the killer.

Harry's Game

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Eric Battershell

Daryl Banner

Thirsty?
Take one reckless party boy bartender. (That's me.)
Add an irresistible, hunky math teacher. (He's stupid-hot and driving me crazy.)
Throw in one ice-princess baby sister who hates my guts. (We'll work on that later.)
And you get:
One Hell-raising cocktail of trouble.

Welcome to my life.
Please drink responsibly.

"Raising Hell" is a riotous and daring stand-alone story about love, loss, and "living your truth" that will grip you from page one and never let go. A sudden tragedy leaves bartender Mathew as the sole caregiver to his spitfire baby sister Helen - and puts him face to face with her irresistible straight-laced math teacher Charlie. Contains: mature themes, adult language, spilled martinis, and drag queens.

Read all of Daryl Banner's stand-alone male/male romances!
Bromosexual (A top 100 Amazon bestseller!)
Getting Lucky
My Bad Ex-Boyfriend
Hard For My Boss

Visit "Spruce, Texas" in this steamy southern series:
Football Sundae
Born Again Sinner
Heteroflexible
Wrangled
Rebel At Spruce High
(more to come...)

Raising Hell

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Victor J. Stenger

Christopher Hitchens

S244, c2008; Some foxing (yellow spots) on side of book

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality. This book contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the central role that God is alleged to play in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans. Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, physicist Stenger examines all of the claims made for God's existence. He considers the latest Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God's influence in biology. He looks at human behavior for evidence of immaterial souls and the possible effects of prayer. He discusses the findings of physics and astronomy in weighing the suggestions that the universe is the work of a creator and that humans are God's special creation. After evaluating all the scientific evidence, Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God. This paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling hardcover edition contains a new foreword by Christopher Hitchens and a postscript by the author in which he responds to reviewers' criticisms of the original edition.

God - The Failed Hypothesis

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Barry Maitland

A Brock and Kolla Mystery

Called in to investigate after human bones are discovered in a poor area of south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard discover that the victims had died at the time of the Brixton riots, more than two decades earlier, and follow a dangerous trail into the heart of London's nemesis, Spider Roach. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Spider Trap

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Ed Gorman

S244, c1987; Anthology of Crime Fiction ~ Short Stories; Crease on front cover (see photo)

Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

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Johann Christoph Arnold

Madeleine L'Engle

Notes and Conversations along the Way

For anyone sick of the spiritual soup filling so many bookstore shelves these days, Seeking Peace is sure to satisfy a deep hunger. Arnold offers no easy solutions, but also no unrealistic promises. He spells out what peace demands. There is a peace greater than self-fulfillment, he writes. But you wont find it if you go looking for it. It is waiting for everyone ready to sacrifice the search for individual peace, everyone ready to die to self.

Seeking Peace

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Norman Kelley

The Big Mango

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Tana French

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.

In the Woods

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Augusten Burroughs

True Stories

A collection of personal writings features observations on such topics as a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the emotional side of killing a rodent in one's home, and the brief fame that accompanies starring in a commercial.

Magical Thinking

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Anne Newton Walther

S244, c2000; Signed by Author (see photo)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Historical Novel

A tale of lust and intrigue set on the brink of the American Revolution.

A Time for Treason

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Peter Schweizer

How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!

Secret Empires

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Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff

S244, c1992; Gift Inscription inside front cover

A Celebration of the Sport and the World's Best Places to Enjoy It

Sailing

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George Fraser

The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

Tells the story of the border reivers: clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who worked the border between England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

The Steel Bonnets

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Helene Tursten

Katarina Tucker

The chilling third installment in the critically acclaimed Detective Inspector Huss series A partial torso washes up on a Swedish beach, so mutilated that gender is only established through DNA testing. Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Göteborg Police liaises with her Danish counterparts, who have a similar unsolved murder in their files. But when people connected to Irene start turning up dead, she fears she might be next.

The Torso

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Fiona McIntosh

S244,  c2005; Some Foxing (yellow spots) on back cover (see photo)

The Quickening Book One

Forced to watch the torture and execution of Myrren, an accused witch, by the self-centered, calculating, and cruel Celimus, the new king, Wyl Thirsk's sympathy for the victim leads her to bequeath him an unexpected gift, which could hold the key to stopping Celimus's brutal depradations and political machinations and preserving his own life and the honor of his country. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Myrren's Gift

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Philip Rucker

Carol Leonnig

Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency “I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty—not to the country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.

A Very Stable Genius

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Marian Keyes

Ever since legwarmers were cool, best friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious thirties, only Fintan has what can honestly be called a "love life." With Tara struggling daily with her eternal diet--and her dreadful, penny-pinching boyfriend--and Katherine keeping her single existence as organized as her drawer full of matching bra and panty sets, it seems they'll never locate the exit door out of the "last chance saloon."

But it's always when you are least ready for change that fate insists on one. And when catastrophe inevitably follows crisis, the lives of three best friends are sure to change in unexpected ways ... and not necessarily for the worse.

You devoured the hilarious antics of Claire in Watermelon.

You laughed 'til you cried in Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married.

You took a vacation gone mad in Rachel's Holiday.

You flew away with Margaret--good girl gone bad--in Angels.

You got a peek inside the cutthroat world of women's fashion magazines in Sushi for Beginners.

Now, raise your glass to Tara, Katherine, and Fintan in Last Chance Saloon.

Last Chance Saloon

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