Jay Crownover

Originally $13.99📖

With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock-and-roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontanous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire.

Jet can't resist the Southern belle with mile-long legs in cowboy boots who defies his every expectation. Yet the closer he feels to Ayden, the less he seems to know her. While he's tempted to get under her skin and undo her in every way, he knows firsthand what happens to two people with very different ideas about relationships.

Will the blaze burn into an enduring love... or will it consume their dreams and turn them to ashes?

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

A Marked Men Novel

With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontaneous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire. Jet can't resist the Southern Belle with mile-long legs in cowboy boots who defies his every expectation. Yet the closer he feels to Ayden, the less he seems to know her. While he's tempted to get under her skin and undo her in every way, he knows firsthand what happens to two people with very different ideas about relationships. Will the blaze burn into an enduring love. . . or will it consume their dreams and turn them to ashes? Don't miss the latest bad boy in Jay Crownover's unforgettable New Adult series.

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Shannon Holmes

Fair condition - front cover creased as seen in photo.
Originally $9.99📖 lo

Dirty Game is the blazing new novel from the #1 Essence bestselling author and undisputed "king" of urban lit, Shannon Holmes.

Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter. Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs. In spite of his past or because of it, he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep Destiny off the streets.

But when he is shot and paralyzed during a robbery while on the job, Destiny knows that she has to step up to the plate to take care of the father who has provided for her. Allowing herself to learn from Rome, one of the fiercest street hustlers, Destiny becomes his lover and soon her skills rival his. But the longer she stays in the game, the deeper into the game she falls.

In the tradition of B-More Careful and Bad Girlz comes one of Shannon Holmes' hottest and most unforgettable stories that is sure to rock the streets.

Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, leaving him with a baby daughter. Now he's a cab driver, doing what he can to put food on the table and give his daughter, Destiny, everything she needs. In spite of his past or because of it, he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep Destiny off the streets. But when he is shot and paralyzed during a robbery while on the job, Destiny knows that she has to step up to the plate to take care of the father who has provided for her. Allowing herself to learn from one of the fiercest street hustlers, Destiny becomes his lover and soon her skills rival his. But the longer she stays in the game, the deeper into the game she falls.

Dirty Game

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Tim O'Brien

Good condition - nearly perfect, just slight yellowing of pages due to age.
Originally $14.95📖

The powerful and enduring work of fiction about men and war - more than one million copies in print.

They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication, The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits of the human heart and soul.

One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances), and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried  is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.

The Things They Carried

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Kristin Levine

Excellent condition - nearly perfect.
Originally $8.99📖

Though he thinks of himself as a cowboy, Tommy is really a bully.  He's always playing cruel jokes on classmates or stealing from the store. But Tommy has a life at home is tough. His abusive mother isn't well; in fact, she may be mentally ill, and his sister, Mary Lou, is in the hospital badly burned from doing a chore it was really Tommy's turn to do. To make amends, Tommy takes over Mary Lou's paper route. But the paper route also becomes the perfect way for Tommy to investigate his neighbors after stumbling across a copy of The Daily Worker , a communist newspaper.

Tommy is shocked to learn that one of his neighbors could be a communist, and soon fear of a communist in this tight-knit community takes hold of everyone when Tommy uses the paper to frame a storeowner, Mr. McKenzie. As Mr. McKenzie's business slowly falls apart and Mary Lou doesn't seem to get any better, Tommy's mother's abuse gets worse causing Tommy's bullying to spiral out of control.

Poignantly written, Kristin Levine proves herself a master of gripping and affecting historical fiction.

Though he thinks of himself as a cowboy like Gary Cooper, really Tommy is a bully. But Tommy has a reason- life at home is tough. His abusive mother isn't well and his sister, Mary Lou, is in the hospital badly burned from doing a chore it was Tommy's turn to do. Tommy takes over Mary Lou's paper route and discovers that it is the perfect way to find out why one of his neighbors had a copy of a communist newspaper. Soon fear of a communist in this tight-knit neighborhood takes hold when Tommy uses the paper to frame a storeowner. As things spiral out of control, Tommy's bullying gets worse. But in the end, it's the same neighbors he suspects of the ultimate crime that pull together to help Tommy. And when he finally discovers the true communist, it's not at all who he thought it would be.

The Paper Cowboy

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Sophie Kinsella

Fair condition - minimal wear/creasing of cover; slight yellowing of pages due to age.
Originally $18📖

A Novel

“Utterly charming . . . Put Sophie Kinsella’s Number on speed dial.”—USA Today Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill, but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life. What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents, she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life. “A rollicking page-turner . . . It’s funny. It’s clever. It twists and turns. . . . Sophie Kinsella has yet another winner.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Fresh, fast-paced, and fiercely funny . . . Kinsella pens her most lovably neurotic protagonist yet. . . . A laugh-out-loud comic caper.”—Publishers Weekly “Poppy is easily as charming and daffy as shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood.”—Kirkus Reviews “A screwball romance for the digital age.”—The Star-Ledger

I've Got Your Number

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Beverly Donofrio

Good condition - slight yellowing of pages due to age. Minimal wear to cover.
Originally $13📖

Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles. The trouble I'm talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in Is she in trouble? trouble. As in pregnant. As in the girl who got pregnant in high school. Beverly Ann Donofrio wasn't bad because she hung out with hoods - she was bad because she was a hood.

Riding in Cars with Boys--the basis of the hit movie starring Drew Barrymore--is her funny and touching account of growing up too fast in the 1960s.

Once her strict family told her she couldn’t go to college, Beverly lost interest in everything except smoking, drinking, and rebelling against authority. She was a "bad" girl, and her behavior soon got her into trouble--as in the pregnant kind of trouble. From becoming a teen-aged wife and mother through finally going to college and getting her life back in order, Donofrio faced one challenge after another in her ambivalent efforts to "grow up" as she raised her son.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good

A memoir of one young woman's journey from hoodlum to mother to successful writer tells about moving from the working to the middle class, about adult compromise, and about how a teenage mother and her son find regeneration through love. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Penny Marshall, releasing October 2001, starring Drew Barrymore) (Biography)

Riding in Cars with Boys

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Kathleen Grissom

Good condition - minimal wear on edges of cover.
Originally $16

Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom's debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.

The Kitchen House

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Chris Cleave

Good condition - minimal wear on edges of cover. Slight yellowing of pages due to age.
Originally $14📖

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.

Little Bee

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Janny Scott

Good condition - minimal wear is what you see on the edges of cover, pages perfect. There is a sticker over the barcode.
Originally $13.45📖

A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction.

Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. 

In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets.

Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex.

Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?

Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

The Beneficiary

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Good condition - slight yellowing of pages due to age. Edges of cover minimal wear.
Originally $12📖

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian-American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.

Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.

A debut collection of short fiction blends elements of Indian traditions with the complexities of American culture in such tales as "A Temporary Matter," in which a young Indian-American couple confronts their grief over the loss of a child, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Interpreter of Maladies

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P. C. Cast

Kristin Cast

Good condition - slight yellowing of pages due to age
Originally $14.14 on Amazon📖

When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames….

Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird's soul has shattered. With everything she's ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey's fading fast. It's seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able to pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her. But how? He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates. And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left…

Enter BFF Stevie Rae. She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own. The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences. Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good. The truth is, Stevie Rae's hiding a secret that might be the key to getting Zoey home but also threatens to explode her whole world.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A House of Night Novel

As Zoey's fate hangs in the balance, her friends must figure out how to bring her back from the Otherworld while coping with serious problems of their own.

Burned (Book 7)

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Sidney Sheldon

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Good condition - slight wear on front blank page
Originally $7.99 on Amazon📖

Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, violent world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with unbearable nightmares, and she awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.

Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women-Ashley, Toni, and Alette-are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century and a defense based on a startling but authentic piece of medical evidence. The story races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned. Sidney Sheldon has rightly been called "the master of the unexpected," and early readers agree that this new novel is his most inventive yet.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom. Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.

Tell Me Your Dreams

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Margaret Truman

Originally $18.95📖

In her latest Capital Crimes mystery, Margaret Truman turns to that glorious church on a hill in Washington, D.C.: the National Cathedral. A towering edifice of stone and glass that looks out over all of Washington, it is not immune to the passions and power plays that drive the city below.

Mac Smith and Annabel Reed, the attractive sleuthing duo of Murder at the Kennedy Center, return for adventures connubial and criminal. They are married in the cathedral's lovely Bethlehem Chapel, but soon thereafter a violent murder shatters the tranquility of the church community and interrupts Mac and Annabel's newlywed bliss. Enjoying and adjusting to partnership in marriage, devoted to each other and to their work—she to her art gallery, he to his law-school teaching-and trying to avoid other entanglements, they find themselves drawn into harsh and unholy realities.

A peculiarly parallel crime in a village church in the Cotswold region of England entangles them further in a plot replete with frustrated passions, secret-service agents, a playboy priest, a jealous hus-band, a choleric cleric, terrorist elements, and a not-too-charitable, not-too-peaceful worldwide peace organization.

In this, her tenth novel, Margaret Truman swings open the doors of the splendid cathedral and ushers us into its inner chapels, ceremonies, devotions, and the enmities that are part of any institution, even the nation's house of worship.
Murder at the National Cathedral is the latest landmark in Margaret Truman's entertaining storytelling career.

"One of her most enjoyable books." ASSOCIATED PRESS The brutal murder of a friend drags Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from their newlywed bliss into an unholy web of intrigue and danger. When a second murder is commited in England, which the honeymooners had just visited, the Smiths go back across the seas, and straight into the center of an ungodly plot of secret agents, a playboy priest, a frustrated lover, a choleric cleric...and a murder so perfect it's a sin.

Murder at the National Cathedral

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Mary Higgins Clark

Fair condition - a bit of sticker residue on front; minor stains on inside cover
Originally $24📖 

Sweetheart roses —the traditional gift of lovers. Yet they had been an important clue in the murder ten years ago of strikingly beautiful Suzanne Reardon, whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder.
Kerry McGrath had only begun to work in the county prosecutor's office at the time of the infamous "Sweetheart Murder Case," yet she remembers being impressed by both the ability her new boss, Frank Green, displayed in successfully pursuing the conviction, and the general ineptness of the defense counsel. Skip Reardon's fate was sealed, and Green's reputation made.

Now Kerry herself has gained quite a reputation as a smart and relentless prosecutor, so much so that her name has been given to the governor as a candidate for a new judgeship he is about to award. It is something she wants desperately, not only a chance to enter a level of the legal world open to only a few, but an opportunity to prove to her ex-husband, Bob Kinellen, that she is indeed special.

Then suddenly Kerry's plans are turned upside down. When Kerry's beloved daughter, Robin, is injured in an automobile accident, suffering superficial but nonetheless potentially disfiguring cuts to her face, she is treated by a well-known plastic surgeon. It is in the doctor's office that Kerry first sees the woman with the beautiful face, a face she remembers from the past but can't place. Then, on another visit to the plastic surgeon, she sees the same haunting face again -but not on the same woman as before!

Suddenly she remembers —the face those women share was the same face she had seen in the pictures of Suzanne Reardon, the
"Sweetheart Murder" victim, killed ten years ago!
But why would someone be giving these women the face of a dead woman? When Kerry begins to ask questions, it soon becomes clear that almost no one involved- not her boss, Frank Green; not her ex-husband and his shady
"Irish Mafia" client Jimmy Weeks; not her long-time friend and benefactor, State Senator Jonathan Hoover; and most especially not Dr.
Smith, the plastic surgeon - wants to see the case reopened. And it soon becomes apparent that one of them will stop at nothing to prevent it.

Still Kerry persists, aided by Skip Reardon's appeals lawyer, Geoff Dorso, the first man to whom she has felt any real attraction since the breakup of her marriage.

But what she doesn't know is that no matter what she decides, it is already too late - she is in great, growing danger.

In Let Me Call You Sweetheart, America's reigning Queen of Suspense provides a fascinating and terrifying look into the minds of people obsessed with beauty-some of whom will even kill in its name.

Sweetheart roses - the traditional gift of lovers. Yet they had been an important clue in the murder ten years ago of strikingly beautiful Suzanne Reardon, whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder. Kerry McGrath had only begun to work in the county prosecutor's office at the time of the infamous "Sweetheart Murder Case", yet she remembers being impressed by both the ability her new boss, Frank Green, displayed in successfully pursuing the conviction, and the general ineptness of the defense counsel. Skip Reardon's fate was sealed, and Green's reputation made. Now Kerry herself has gained quite a reputation as a smart and relentless prosecutor, so much so that her name has been given to the governor as a candidate for a new judgeship he is about to award. It is something she wants desperately, not only a chance to enter a level of the legal world open to only a few, but an opportunity to prove to her ex-husband, Bob Kinellen, that she is indeed special. Then suddenly Kerry's plans are turned upside down. When Kerry's beloved daughter, Robin, is injured in an automobile accident, suffering superficial but nonetheless potentially disfiguring cuts to her face, she is treated by a well-known plastic surgeon. It is in the doctor's office that Kerry first sees the woman with the beautiful face, a face she remembers from the past but can't place. Then, on another visit to the plastic surgeon, she sees the same haunting face again - but not on the same woman as before! Suddenly she remembers - the face those women share was the same face she had seen in the pictures of Suzanne Reardon, the "Sweetheart Murder" victim, killed ten years ago! But why would someone begiving these women the face of a dead woman? When Kerry begins to ask questions, it soon becomes clear that almost no one involved - not her boss, Frank Green; not her ex-husband and his shady "Irish Mafia" client Jimmy Weeks; not her long-time friend and benefactor, State Senator Jonathan Hoover; and most especially not Dr. Smith, the plastic surgeon - wants to see the case reopened. And it soon becomes apparent that one of them will stop at nothing to prevent it. Still Kerry persists, aided by Skip Reardon's appeals lawyer, Geoff Dorso, the first man to whom she has felt any real attraction since the breakup of her marriage. But what she doesn't know is that no matter what she decides, it is already too late - she is in great, growing danger. In Let Me Call You Sweetheart, America's reigning Queen of Suspense provides a fascinating and terrifying look into the minds of people obsessed with beauty - some of whom will even kill in its name.

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

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Fair condition - slight yellowing of pages due to age; dust cover has a slight tear at bottom

A Stranger in the Mirror

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W. E. B. Griffin

William E. Butterworth

Good condition - slight yellowing of pages due to age
Originally $26.95📖

There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and low-lifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another. In fact, he starts seeing signs that these guys are maybe getting whacked by professionals, from out of state, maybe even from out of the country.

Then comes the unexpected: copycats.

Vigilante groups claiming credit for some of the killings, even though Payne knows that isn't true. Events begin to escalate out of con-trol, as the police department tries to rein in these groups, and the public protests-they like what they think the vigilantes are doing.

The mayor hurriedly declares the formation of a special task force, led by Payne, but Payne knows he's in over his head especially when another self-proclaimed vigilante group goes around town stapling up a Crimes Against Humanity hit list that targets a handful of Philly's business and civic leaders-and the mayor himself.

If Payne and his colleagues can't figure out who's behind this very soon... the violence could overtake them all.

Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself. It's a story of fears and dangers, courage and loy-alty, genuine heroism and love-storytelling at its absolute best.

Investigating a string of murders targeting criminals in Philadelphia, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne becomes alarmed when unrelated vigilante groups begin taking credit for the hits, which become increasingly violent and high-profile. By the best-selling authors of The Traffickers.

The Vigilantes

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Joseph F. Girzone

Good condition - older book so there is some slight yellowing of the pages due to age
Originally $15.95📖

It is the end of a bitterly cold winter. A crowd of people, warmed both by the sudden thaw and by the event they have come to witness, file into a cathedral. They are here to celebrate the consecration of a new bishop—a good man, they think, strict in doctrine, but capable of compassion. A man of tradition, not of reform. A "company man." His name is David Campbell.
And sitting in the last pew of the cathedral is a clean-shaven man of ordinary build, with gentle hazel eyes. His name is Joshua.

Within twenty-four hours of this, his first encounter with the man who will become his mentor, David Campbell will propose the most far-reaching reforms in a millennium... reforms to destroy sectarian barriers.... reforms to change the direction of the church...reforms to return Christianity to its founder's simple message. With Joshua by his side, David Campbell - The Shep-herd-preaches to Catholics, Protestants, Mos-lems, and Jews the universal truth of God's love. It is a message that changes everyone it touches:
• Charles Mayberry, the chancellor of the dio-cese, who chooses to betray Campbell...or is he merely a necessity for the fulfillment of Gods plan?
• Father Edmund Marcel, who precipitates a crisis in the church by the simple, and fatal, expedient of falling in love.
• Lutheran bishop Donald Marxhausen, who meets Campbell first as an enemy, then as a fervent supporter, and finally as something even rarer: a friend

Campbell's attempt to fulfill the dream of Jesus —one flock, one shepherd-hurtles to a surprising conclusion. Here is a profoundly moving tale of faith and redemption whose message is needed now more than ever. No one who reads The Shepherd will ever forget it.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A conservative bishop becomes a church reformer--to his superiors' dismay--after he meets a man named Joshua who urges him to unify Christ's divided flock

The Shepherd

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Hugh Ambrose

Originally $26.95📖

Sidney C. Phillips, an easygoing Alabama teenager, enlisted along with a buddy. "Manila John" Basilone was the son of immigrants who found happiness in the rough-and-ready life of a marine. Eugene B. Sledge watched his best friend and his brother go off to war—and finally rebelled against his parents to follow them. "Shifty" Shoner was the scion of a prominent family with a long record of military service. Ensign Vernon "Mike" Micheel left the family farm to complete flight school.

Between America's retreat from China in late 1941 and the moment that MacArthur's plane landed in Japan in August 1945, these five men fought many of the key battles of the war in the Pacific. Here, Hugh Ambrose focuses on their real-life experiences and those of their fellow servicemen, enhancing and expanding upon the story told in the HBO miniseries.

Covering nearly four years of combat with unprecedented access to military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photographs, and interviews, this volume offers a unique historical perspective on the war against Japan, from the debacle in Bataan to the miracle at Midway, the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, the black terraces of Iwo Jima, and the killing fields of Okinawa— and ultimately the triumphant yet uneasy return home.

These are the true stories of the men who put their lives on the line for our country, who were dispatched to the other side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; men who suffered hardship and humiliation in POW camps; men who witnessed casualties among soldier and civilian alike; and men whose medals came at a shocking price-a price paid in full by all.

INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

In this companion to the HBO miniseries--executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman--Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II.

The Pacific

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Good condition - some highlights/annotations from previous owner
Originally $13.98 on Amazon📖 

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together.

They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames, and they only have each other to rely on if they're going to survive the night.

I’m Not Dying with You Tonight

Michael Baisden

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Original price $22.95

Malcolm Tremell has a lifestyle that most men only dream about, exotic cars, designer clothes, and a clientele of wealthy women. In his world sex is not a gam, it's serious business. For a generous fee he plays the role of temporary companion and lover. And women are eager to pay for his unique services, both inside and outside the bedroom. But after years of jumping in and out of bed with hundreds of emotionally scarred women he becomes weary of his occupation. The endless nights of meaningless sex and secret rendezvous with married women begins to play on his conscience. But Malcolm soon discovers that change won't come so easily, not with the allure of so many beautiful women and thousands of tax free dollars.

Simon is Malcolm's best friend, who vows to change his sinful ways. He is a modest man who prefers not to attract attention to himself. But Simon is aggressive when it comes to business. After years of sacrifice he is now the owner of the hottest nightclub in Atlanta, Club Obsession. But success has not come without a price. Simon's hard work and dedication has left a void in his relationship. During the Fourth of July weekend in New Orleans, his fiancee, Cynthia, meets a handsome pastor. And with the encouragement of her promiscuous girlfriend Debra, she is tempted to get a little maintenance of her own.

Theodore, a.k.a. Teddy Bear is the star stripper on Ladies' Night at Club Obsession. He's a cold blooded player who toys with women's emotions. He tells them he loves them and will never leave, that is, until their money runs out; then he's gone faster than the last cold beer at a July barbecue. Teddy is the consummate user who has mastered the art of irresponsibility. In thirty-two years he's never signed a lease or paid a dime of child support for his numerous children. And he has no intention of changing his ways. As far as he is concerned women were put on this earth for the sole purpose of serving his needs.

Ariel is the manager of Club Obsession. She is a savvy businesswoman who knows how to keep the employees in line and the customers happy. But the club isn't her biggest challenge. Ariel is struggling with being manless and childless at thirty. Although she is surrounded by attractive and successful men, she can't find Mr. Right. Her mother thinks she is too combative and sets her standards too high. But Ariel is determined to have the ideal man; white-collar job, large bank account, great sense of humor, physically attractive, and good in bed. After several months without a date, she calls in to the local radio station hook-up line. What happens next can only be described as a series of night-mares.

Malcolm Tremell lives the life that most men can only fantasize about: exotic cars, designer clothes, and a steady stream of sexually available women. In his world, sex is not a game -- it's serious business. For the past twelve years, Malcolm has willingly played the role of temporary companion and lover for a very generous fee. But the interminable nights of meaningless sex and secret rendezvous with married women have begun to play on his conscience. Malcolm soon discovers, however, that a lifestyle change won't come so easily. His best friend, Simon, owner of Club Obsession, the hottest nightclub in Atlanta, tries to steer Malcolm on the right path, not realizing that his own financee might be indulging in some extracurricular maintenance of her own. And Ariel, Club Obsession's manager, thinks her lonely nights are over when she meets a man through a local radio station dating line. Nothing can be further from the truth.In the tradition of New York Times bestselling authors Eric Jerome Dickey and E. Lynn Harris, Michael Baisden weaves a fast-paced, true-to-life story about the drama of male/female relationships. The Maintenance Man is a gripping, raw novel.

The Maintenance Man

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Sarah L. Thomson

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Originally $16.99📖

When middle school puzzle-master Sam and history-whiz Martina win a contest for a summer trip across the United States, they soon discover they've been drafted into something vastly more exciting.

Joining Theo, the last descendant of an American icon, they begin an extraordinary adventure across national landmarks and natural wonders, following clues to find seven artifacts left behind by the Founding Fathers.
Together, these historical artifacts are
keys to unlock Benjamin Franklin's greatest invention—a powerful secret weapon. Each of the artifacts is hidden and protected with puzzles, riddles, and traps. This has kept the invention safe ... until now. Gideon Arnold, dangerous descendant of the infamous Benedict Arnold, is on the chase!

To find the first key before Arnold and his thugs, join Sam, Martina, and Theo on their quest through Death Valley and the mysteries of history!

When middle school puzzle master Sam and history wiz Martina win a contest for a summer trip across the US, they discover they've been drafted into something vastly more extraordinary. Joining another kid on the trip, Theo, a descendant of George Washington himself, they must follow clues to find seven keys left behind by the Founding Fathers. Together the keys unlock Benjamin Franklin's greatest invention--a secret weapon intended to defend the country. Each key is hidden in a unique location around the U.S., protected with puzzles, riddles, and traps. This has kept the weapon safe . . . until now! Gideon Arnold, a dangerous descendant of the infamous Benedict Arnold, is on the chase.

In competition with Arnold and his thugs to reach the artifacts first, Sam, Martina, Theo,and readersmust use their wits to solve ingenious puzzles, escape death-by-booby-trap, and, by the end of the series, save our nation by uncovering many of its greatest secrets.

The Eureka Key

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Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life...until now.

Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.

counting by 7s

Paul Stewart

Chris Riddell

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Originally $12.95📖

Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. Both the land and the air are filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures; action-and danger-await at every turn. On board the famous sky ship Stormchaser, Twig eagerly looks forward to the adventure and excitement that lie ahead in his new life as a sky pirate. The crew's quest: to collect stormphrax—the precious substance created at the heart of a Storm the very moment it unleashes its most intense power. Only a sky ship as powerful as the Stormchaser, piloted by a man as brave and fearless as Cloud Wolf, could risk entering such
a storm.…

Twig, now a crew member on his father's sky pirate ship, must fly into the heart of a Great Storm to save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from disaster.

The Edge Chronicles: Stormchaser

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John Grisham

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Originally $27.95📖

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week

As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life —that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...

The author of such best-selling legal thrillers as The Summons and The Brethren presents his latest novel of courtroom and legal suspense. 2,500,000 first printing. $2,500,000 ad/promo.

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