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Los Angeles: West Coast Publications, '60s-'70s. Paperback. VeryGood. 8.5"x11" 96 pgs. Includes B&W photos of artists. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, few notations. Secure ship w/track #. See second photo for contents list.

Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large Print Publishing, 2011. Hardcover_pictorial boards. VeryGood/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.75" 383 num. pgs. X-library w/graphics. A mother's faith, a child's courage, a doctor's dedication--a moving and thought-provoking tale of hope, love, and family. He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he's sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fiercely believes her faith will protect her ailing son, but Colm is not so sure. With a wisdom far beyond his years, Colm has come to terms with his probable fate, but he does have one special wish. He wants to meet his father who abandoned his beloved mother before Colm was born. But the quest to find the dying boy's missing parent soon becomes a powerful journey of emotional discovery--a test of belief and an anxious search for proof of heaven. A magnificent debut novel, Mary Curran Hackett's "Proof of Heaven" is a beautiful and unforgettable exploration of the power of love and the monumental questions of… Read More

NY: Tor, 2001. 1st Edition Thus. MMPB 4.25"x6.75. Near Fine-Collectible. 533 pgs. 5th Printing. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/tracking #. When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolition bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's base of operation in Afghanistan, killing his daughter, retaliation against America is inevitable. Now, Kirk McGarvey is in for the race of his life, and a race against time. McGarvey has to find out how the bomb will get to the United States, where it will be detonated, and when this, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, will take place. But not only must McGarvey stop the bomb, he must protect his own daughter and the daughter of the president of the United States for a savage act of retaliation by a man gone mad. At the Publisher's request,… Read More

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 211 pages. Black Boards w/gold foil letters to spine. 4th printing. DJ design Andrew M. Newman. DJ photo c PhotoDisc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Pastor John Hagee never dreamed that his life would change the night he took a bold stand against terrorism and anti-Semitism in his own hometown. Though his life was threatened, his property destroyed, and his peace of mind rocked, he stood with and supported the people of prophecy...and found his eyes opened to unimaginable horrors, unbearable atrocities, and unspeakable joys. In his dealings with the nation of Isreal, the true people of prophecy, he has uncovered secret treasures of spiritual insights available to all believers...and a blueprint for the rapidly approaching end times. Source: Publisher.

Avon, Mass: Adams Media, 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 2ND PRINTING. 8"x9.25" 293 indexed pages. Photos: istock. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (price), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Pressure cookers will boost flavor and cut cooking time a whopping 70 percent - but only if you know how to use them. In this cookbook, author Pamela Rice Hahn teaches you about the joys of cooking with a pressure cooker. No longer the dangers they once were, these time-saving devices are godsends to busy cooks everywhere. In no time, you can whip up: Roasted Red Bell Pepper Pesto Cranberry-Braised Turkey Breast Balsamic Pork Chops with Figs Halibut in Black Olive Sauce Peanut Butter and Fudge Cheesecake For that slow-cooked taste in far less time, a pressure cooker is the perfect solution. Veteran cookbook author Hahn has been conjuring up recipes using her pressure cooker for years. With a full spectrum of pressure cooker recipes at your fingertips, you… Read More

Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1979. Hardcover_cloth. Used - VeryGood. 8.5"x11.25"x2". 1239 pages plus index. Ex-libris, Ashland Petroleum Co. Green cloth boards. Black gilt framed box on front with Gilt letters and gilt letters on spine. PON on first fly paper. Annual series began in 1952. No DJ. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Edges slightly toned. Price covers extra weight for shipping. Forty-first Annual Meeting @ The Palmer House April 23, 24, 25, 1979. General Interest Sessions; Nuclear Sessions; Mechanical Sessions; Industrial Sessions; Water Technology Sessions; Hydroelectric Sessions; Electrical Sessions. Invocation by The Reverend Canon David N. Harris with photo. Canon Pastor Cathedral of St. James, Chicago.

Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good-Collectible. 6"x9" 141 pgs. First printing w/full number line. Cover image by Chief Swift Eagle. Cover design by Peri Champine. Text design and layout by Priscilla Baker. Typeset in Caslon, w/Papyrus. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Crease to front cover w/mild shelf wear. Ephemeris in back of book. The first book to explain the ancient system of cosmology sacred to the Cherokees and how to use it in the modern world. Written by a tribal elder, The Cherokee Sacred Calendar makes this native wisdom available for the first time to those outside the Cherokee tradition. Provides an easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny. An essential aspect of Cherokee Religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a star. This includes not only people and animals, but trees,… Read More

Ny: Crown, 1997. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25" 400 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters to spine. Designed by Leonard Henderson. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman. Author photo by Susan Hailey. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. 2 small tears to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this "engrossing thriller" from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to start his vacation when a call comes in from death row. Before serial killer Elroy Doil is taken to the electric chair, he wants to make a full confession to the cop who put him away. To close the books on additional murder cases in which Doil is a suspect, Ainslie drives four hundred miles to Florida State Prison. Although Doil confesses to ten other homicides, he insists that he didn't commit the crime for… Read More

NY: Minotaur, 2011. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Near Fine. Hiro Kimura. 5.5"x8.5" 340 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters on spine. DJ design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein. Author photo: John Adams. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/tracking number. A ruby necklace worth four million dollars appears to have been stolen, and its owners, Monica and Eleanor Levert—twin heirs of a wealthy Natchez clan—seem a bit too anxious to get their hands on the insurance money. It sounds a tad suspicious to Sarah Booth, who's been asked to file a report, but she can't be sure someone's committing fraud—or any other crime, for that matter—until one of the sisters is kidnapped... The police suspect the heiresses are playing some sort of game. But when Sarah Booth and her partner Tinkie begin to scratch the surface of the family's sordid past, they uncover more skeletons than any one closet can hold. Throw in a sneaky romantic… Read More

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, 1991. Hardcover_buckram spine. Very Good. 5.75"x8.5" 415 pages. Black buckram spine w/gold foil letters over black boards. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ, pon on ffep, soiling to boards. Secure ship w/track #. A mouth-watering collection of short stories, in which food and death are blended with devastating effect, features the very cream of crime writers, from P.D. James to Rex Stout. Here the combination of delectable concoctions--with fear of what may result from the first unwary mouthful--results in fiction of a very high order. Source: Publisher.

Urichsville, OH: Barbour, 2001. Paperback. Fine. 5.25"x8" 339 pgs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Button String Bride / Wedding Quilt Bride / Bayside Bride / Persistent Bride These four closely related stories will warm your heart with family love and traditions. Each bride has a legacy of faith to leave with generations to come. And the heirloom chest will forever be symbolic of their love. Goodreads.

Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House, 2009. Hardcover_boards. Used - Near Fine/Near Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 348 pp. Black boards w/silver metallic letters on spine. Cover design by Jennifer Parker. Art direction by Paul Higdon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, initials on ffep. A Crossings Book Club Edition DJ# 1278665. Gooding, Texas, is about to gain a double blessing--a veterinarian and a doctor. But when siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, the discovery that Taylor is a lady doctor has the town up in arms. Especially Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes the first patient...against his will. Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this surprising woman who dares to drive about town on her own, wearing the color red, for heaven's sake! Taylor, on the other hand, wants only to prove that doctoring is her life's calling, despite the town's opposition. The result? Pride meets attraction… Read More

NY: Villard, 1993. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth spine. Fine/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 800 pages. First ed./Second print. Black boards w/blue initials on front. Black cloth spine w/silver letters. DJ designed by Bradford Foltz. Author photo by Bruce Plotkin. Spine straight w/crease, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It's undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is also the focus of David Halberstam's triumphant The Fifties, which stands as an enduring classic and was an instant New York Times bestseller upon its publication. More than a survey of the decade, it is a masterfully woven examination of far-reaching change, from the unexpected popularity of Holiday Inn to the marketing savvy behind McDonald's expansion. A meditation on the staggering… Read More

NY: Bantam, 1979. MassMarketPaperBack. Used - VeryGood. 150 pp., About Author, 3 pgs of ads. Slight slant. Pages lightly tanned. Edge wear. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. The Menace of Chatalia...a fantastic artificial world, inhabited by furry winged creatures with awesome powers. Here Kirk, Spock and their Enterprise mates, trapped, face terrifying death. And if by some miracle they escape, they will confront the roving killers of the dread Klingon Empire!

NY: Bantam, 1977. MassMarketPaperBack. Used - VeryGood. 151 pp, About the Author, 1 leaf ad. Spine straight, binding tight. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. RLI: VLM 8 (VLR 7-9) / IL 8+. Edge wear. Ad insert for Star Trek art. Creases to covers. The Enterprise encounters a world orbited by a black hole and ruled by chaos--where man was a helpless plaything for a race of beings more powerful than the laws of the universe. Source: Publisher.

NY: Little, Brown & Co, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 0.74" H x 9.47" L x 6.31" W (1.01 lbs) 256 pages. Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product , Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. While visiting home from college, Grace Hale learned of her grandfather's legend: as sheriff in 1947 Mississippi, he saved a Black man from a lynch mob, only for the man to die during an escape. A deeper investigation, spurred by her studies on white supremacy, revealed a disturbing truth. Using a Carnegie fellowship, she delved into the story and discovered her family's narrative was skewed: the man's death was a lynching, challenging her perceptions of family, tragedy, and Southern history. The guilty party, she realized, was not an anonymous mob.

NY: Ballantine, 1992. 1st Edition Thus. Rebound hardback. Good-Collectible/VeryGood. 33RD PRINTING. This is a 4.25"x7" paperback rebound into a library hardback. 460 numb. pgs. All original. X-library w/graphics and underlinings. Laminated cover. Spine straight, binding tight, pages toned. Small tear to pg. 460. Secure ship w/track #. From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope and self-respect. This autobiography (written with Alex Haley) reveals his quick-witted integrity, usually obscured by batteries of frenzied headlines, and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism. Assassinated in 1965. Source: Publisher This book that the script was based on… Read More

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library, 1976. Leatherette. VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5" 688 numbered pages. Red leatherette boards w/gilt frame design on front, letters on spine. Light almond speckled paste downs. Red silk ribbon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Faint foxing to top edge. Faded spine w/faint short creases. Secure ship w/track #. When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to… Read More

NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Good. 6.5"x9.5" 587 numbered pages. Date on title page but no edition or priniting stated. Black cloth spine w/gilt letters in brown frame over dk. gold boards. DJ design yb Al Nagy. Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, unclipped ($12.50). DJ has moderate edge wear w/small tears & chips. Faint wear to crown and heel of spine. Secure ship w/track #. When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial… Read More

Tulsa: Trade Life Books, 1996. Spiral bound. Near Fine.