Carolyn Hart

Mystery honoring 100th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth.  All about Christie. Treasure hunt Trivia






Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Christie Caper

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A vintage textbook in superb condition for its age. Dust jacket has some small tears...see pics. Inscribed inside front cover...see pics. No other writing or tears foind. Binding is tight ans all pages are intact. Spine is clean, no creases and will display well.

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1948 University of Louvain, Belgium

Introduction to Philosophy 

Henry Kissinger

1st edition.  1st printing. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Light age toning is just starting...see pics.Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century

The former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon argues that a coherent foreign policy is essential and lays out his own plan for getting the nation's international affairs in order. 150,000 first printing.

Does America Need a Foreign Policy?

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Anne de Courcy

1st U.S. edition.  1st edition.  


No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters -- aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon embarked on a long love affair with the novelist Elinor Glyn, before dropping her to marry his rich and beautiful second wife. It was his fierce determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives -- including the money that was rightfully theirs -- that led them one by one to revolt against their father. The three Curzon sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the twenties and thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate fox hunter, had love affairs with the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia (Cimmie) married Sir Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular and successful Labour MP herself, then following him into fascism. Alexandra (Baba), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend -- and best man -- Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933, Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Grandi, while simultaneously enjoying the romantic devotion of the foreign secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters saw British fascism from behind the scenes and had an equally intimate view of the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the marriage and life of the Windsors. The war found them based at "the Dorch" (the Dorchester Hotel), their days spent nursing wounded soldiers, working in canteens, lecturing and doing other war work. Toward the end of their extraordinary lives, the two surviving sisters became pillars of the establishment, Irene made one of the first four life peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs, while Baba was recognized for her tireless efforts for the Save the Children Fund with a CBE. Based on unpublished letters and diaries, The Viceroy's Daughters throws new light on Oswald Mosley, Nancy Astor and the Cliveden set, Lord Halifax, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It is also a wonderfully revealing portrait of British upper-class life in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Viceroy's Daughters

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Tom Wolfe

1st edition.  1st printing. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.

I Am Charlotte Simmons

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J. R. Moehringer

A Memoir

In a memoir of growing up with a single mother, the author describes how he received valuable life lessons and friendship from an assortment of characters at the neighborhood bar, who provided him with a kind of fatherhood by committee.

The Tender Bar

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Karleen Koen

1st edition.  1st printing. 

New York Times Bestselling Author.  

No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II. By the author of Through a Glass Darkly. 250,000 first printing.

Dark Angels

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Pat Conroy

1st edition.  1st printing. No rips, or tears found. Writing inside front cover, no writing found in pages...see pics. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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A Novel

Beach Music

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Stephen Frey

No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

1st printing. 1st edition.  
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Michael Rose, chief financial officer for Trafalgar Industries, wants to acquire CIS, which provides its services to a secret government program, I-4. Rose, who faces opposition allied with I-4 on the Trafalgar board, must also deal with a number of personal challenges.

The Fourth Order

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James Carlos Blake

No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

1st printing. 1st edition. 
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The Gangster"s True Confessions

They were die-hard and deadly partners who made national headlines with their daring bank holdups and gun battles -- and they had a lot of laughs while they were at it. They were known as the Dillinger Gang, but at its heart was "Handsome Harry" Pierpont -- tough, fearless, intelligent, and sworn to live by no law but his own. Presented as his intimate "confessions," Harry's story takes us from his teenage days as a small-time crook to the pinnacle of his notoriety to his final hours in the penitentiary death house. In prison, young Harry meets equally young John Dillinger, and they form an unassailable friendship. After John is paroled he helps Harry pull off one of the most infamous prison escapes in U.S. history. Then John is jailed and Harry must in turn liberate him; but the jailbreak comes at a tragic cost and ultimately seals Harry's fate. In four blazing months of freedom before he meets that fate, Harry and John and their three steadfast partners -- Red, Russell, and Fat Charley -- establish themselves as the most legendary outlaw gang of the twentieth century. They rob banks. Shoot it out with police and federal agents and rival gangs. Make harrowing getaways. And all the while -- from the Midwest to Florida to Arizona, and in the company of their bold and memorable women -- they have a grand time of it. Crafted in James Carlos Blake's signature style of fast-paced violence, sizzling sex, and darkly raucous humor, Handsome Harry brings to life a thrilling chapter from the chronicles of American crime.

Handsome Harry

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Kenneth C. Davis

Age toning. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation's fate hung in the balance.

Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, America's Hidden History details these episodes, among others:

 * The story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists
 * The coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella, who suggested that Columbus pack the moving mess hall of pigs that may have spread disease to many Native Americans
 * The long, bloody relationship between the Pilgrims and Indians that runs counter to the idyllic scene of the Thanksgiving feast
 * The little-known story of George Washington as a headstrong young soldier who committed a war crime, signed a confession, and started a war!

Full of color, intrigue, and human interest, America's Hidden History is an iconoclastic look at America's past, connecting some of the dots between history and today's headlines, proving why Davis is truly America's Teacher.

America's Hidden History

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Harold Coyle

Overall in great shape.  Small defect top right hand side of front inside cover. 1st printing.
Conclusion of Civil War Saga Look Away.
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"James and Kevin Bannon, the two brothers introduced in Look Away, continue to serve on opposing sides. James with the 4th Virginia Regiment and Kevin commanding a company in the 4th New Jersey. In their struggle to survive, their fear that one day they'd encounter each other on the battlefield was finally realized during the terrible conclusion of the third day at Gettysburg." "Now, in the bloody aftermath of that titanic struggle, James and Kevin continue their brutal and bloody experience of war. From the dark and inconclusive days of the Mine Run Campaign in the fall of 1863, through the terrible "Forty Days" that took the two armies from the Wilderness to the gates of Petersburg, the brothers soldier on. James, with Lee's Army, watches as it slowly bleeds itself to death defending a state he has come to love. Kevin, living with the realization that James is serving in the army his nation is committed to destroy, marches with the Army of the Potomac as he alternates between a desperate search for James and his terrible burden as an officer, leading men he has grown to love into bloody battles that will claim their lives."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Until the End

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Lee Martin

No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.
1st printing. 1st edition.  
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One evening, Katie Mackey sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of a suspensful novel that mixes fact, speculation, and the human need to know even the hardest truth.

The Bright Forever

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Maggie O'Farrell

Deckle edge. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.
1st US printing.
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A sweeping family drama set in London during the summer of 1976. The disappearance of a family patriarch forces three adult siblings to gather together to find him and to confront what they really know about their father and themselves.

Instructions for a Heatwave

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Emma Donoghue

Age toning.No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.
1st printing. 1st edition.  
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In eighteenth-century England, the eccentric widow Mrs. Damer works as the period's only woman sculptor, the horse race innovator Lord Derby endures public mockery, and a Drury Lane actress endeavors to gain entry into aristocratic circles.

Life Mask

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Karen Essex

1st edition.  1st printing. Deckle edges. No rips, or tears found. Writing inside front cover, no writing found in pages...see pics. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Born into wealth amid the political and artistic foment of the Italian Renaissance, worldly and ambitious Isabella and nave Beatrice Este, sisters and rivals, compete for the attentions of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan--even though he marries Beatrice--and must choose between family loyalty and survival amid the treachery of a dangerous era. 100,000 first printing.

Leonardo's Swans

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Robert Hutchinson

Age toning.No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant

A blazing narrative history that boldly captures the end of England's most despotic ruler and his court -- a time of murderous conspiracies, terrifying betrayals, and sordid intrigue Henry VIII's crimes against his wives are well documented and have become historical lore. But much less attention has been paid to his monarchy, especially the closing years of his reign. Rich with information including details from new archival material and written with the nail-biting suspense of a modern thriller, The Last Days of Henry VIII offers a superb fresh look at this fascinating figure and new insight into an intriguing chapter in history. Robert Hutchinson paints a brilliant portrait of this egotistical tyrant who governed with a ruthlessness that rivals that of modern dictators; a monarch who had "no respect or fear of anyone in this world," according to the Spanish ambassador to his court. Henry VIII pioneered the modern "show trial": cynical propaganda exercises in which the victims were condemned before the proceedings even opened, proving the most powerful men in the land could be brought down overnight. After thirty-five years in power, Henry was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humored old recluse. And despite his having had six wives, the Tudor dynasty rested on the slight shoulders of his only male heir, the nine-year-old Prince Edward -- a situation that spurred rival factions into a deadly conflict to control the throne. The Last Days of Henry VIII is a gripping and compelling history as fascinating and remarkable as its subject.

The Last Days of Henry VIII

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Steven Cojocaru

1st edition.  1st printing. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Dust jacket has some wrinkles on edges..see pics. Light foxing present on top. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Confessions of a Glamour Boy

Red Carpet Diaries

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Mississippi Sissy

Christopher Hibbert

Foxing. Inside of dustcover is stained see picture. No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases.
Pictures throughout. 1st printing.

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Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age

A well-rounded and well written study ... an excellent introduction to a remarkable woman.

The Virgin Queen

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Jennifer Gilmore

Gilmore reinvents the classic Jewish American novel in her ambitious and extraordinary debut that follows the intertwining lives of three immigrant families from the 1920s to 1960s.

Golden Country

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Jeffrey Lent

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Small spot at top. View picture.
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An interracial relationship at the end of the Civil War between a Union soldier and a runaway slave initiates a haunting family legacy of war, racism, and secrets that follows three generations from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. BOMC Main. QPB.

In the Fall

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Robert Hicks

No rips, tearsor writing found. Age toning. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf.

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Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam. But the Civil War would mark him forever. At Gettysburg, he lost the use of his left arm. At the Battle of Chickamauga, his right leg was amputated. Starting fresh after the war, he married Anna Marie Hennen and fathered 11 children with her, including three sets of twins. But fate had other plans. Crippled by his war wounds and defeat, ravaged by financial misfortune, Hood had one last foe to battle: Yellow Fever. A Separate Country is the heartrending story of a decent and good man who struggled with his inability to admit his failures-and the story of those who taught him to love, and to be loved, and transformed him.

A Separate Country

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Ruth Rendell

No rips, tears or writing found. Binding is tight, all pages intact. Spine is clean, no creases, and will display well on your bookshelf. 1st edition 1st printing
New Ypuk Times Bestselling Author
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A decade after the killing of her stepfather, Ismay is still haunted by nightmares of his murder and of seeing his naked body floating in the bathtub and her sister, Heather, standing over him. 75,000 first printing.

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