Fiction from Nostalgic Books & Elements

1931 (1921) Vintage "IN its vast scope, its rapid succession of highly dramatic episodes, its vivid interplay of absorbing plot, its strange revelations of the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy, its startling treatment of death and what follow it, in its great uncovering of the forces actuating human nature, and, above all, in its divinely appointed message to a world now… Read more about this item

2022 "Part memoir and part literary true crime. Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open." - front flap.

"Deputy Pennington of Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin must embark on a murder investigation when the bodies of Maggie and Michael Butler are found in a wheat field, which plunges him into a labyrinth of strange twists and turns that helps him solve the murder, but unexpectedly leads him to an assassination plot set for election night." - goodreads

"A Scourge of Vipers is at one a suspenseful crime story and a serious exploration of the hypocrisy surrounding sports gambling and the corrupting influence of big money on politics. - front flap

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page "To mark and Deb, Who so graciously welcomed me to Phoenix, Thank you, guys for reading my novel. All my best," BEST BOOKS AWARD FINALIST USA BOOK NEWS "The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street… Read more about this item

SIGNED Used - As New. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($28.99) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Miller on publisher's tipped-in page. Includes dust jacket. "A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family happiness, and sorow,… Read more about this item

2022 "A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetraring novel of empathy and forgiveness" - front flap

2021 "Avni Doshi is a writer of surgical precision and sharp intelligence. This novel of mother-and-daughter resentments and the deep, intimate cuts of ancient family history gleams like a blade - both dangerous and beautiful. I loved it." Elizabeth Gilber, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic back cover

"A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel set in and around a beauty salon in Bogota 'This delicate, merciless filleting of race and gender politics is highly recommended' Guardian 'A revelation. A rewarding read and an unexpected insight into a foreign society not often documented in novels. Treat yourself' Crime Time 'We thought we were bored of thrillers, but then we found House of Beauty… Read more about this item

2023 As New condition "This is a gorgous novel, full of mystery, dread, and a deep, melancholy understanding of what it means to love someone who is mentally ill. I was completely captivated." - Ban Chaon, Authoer of Sleepwalk back cover

"Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time sheriff - and even fuller-time coffee guzzler - sunshine Vicram didn't get the memo." - back flap

SIGNED by the author on the half title page "From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, OFF THE PAGE is a tender and appealing YA novel filled with romance, humor, and adventure. Delilah and Oliver shouldn't be together. But they are together. And just as they're getting used to the possibility that happily ever after… Read more about this item

INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "Spanning most of the 20th century, a fictional family is woven through historical places, people and events as they struggle to maintain values passed on from knights loyal to Scottish Kings. They resist escalation of wars, violence sexual temptations and crime in what they view as a world gone mad. Many twists ensue… Read more about this item

1974 Book: red leatherette boards with gilt design and lettering; beautiful black and white illustrations throughout

"When Tamara Britton agrees to temporarily take in fourteen-year-old foster child Sienna Larson, she at first finds the girl more than she can handle, until she learns to open her heart as well as her home." -bookfinder

Printed in Germany "Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickenss great novels, Oliver Twist is… Read more about this item

"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees… Read more about this item

A Hamish Macbeth Murder Mystery

SIGNED by the author on the title page The sequel to "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Doubleday (20 pounds) "When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel" - John… Read more about this item

SIGNED BY TONY HILLMAN "Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, and Donald Westlake describe how they would commit the perfect murder" - Bookfinder