Search Results: Authors starting with I from Blacks Bookshop

Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible - VeryGood/No Jacket. 6"x8.75"x1.25". 625 pages. First Printing. Ex-library w/graphics. Glossy photo hardcover. Spine straight, binding tight, pages bright. "It's a quiet morning in the suburbs. Elizabeth Pike is a 35-year-old housewife who is about to discover that she is pregnant by her adulterous ex-lover, retired Air Force pilot Daniel McDavitt. On the same morning, her husband, Dr. John Pike, finds a badly concealed love letter from McDavitt to Elizabeth. Already under intense stress, he begins to unravel. In Third Degree, we relive what happens during that climactic day. An intense domestic drama that unfolds like a movie." Goodreads ***3.82.

NY: Dutton, 1997. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 344 pages. Black boards w/silver foil letters. DJ #00586 designed by Carl D. Galian. Author photo by Robert Clark. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. A man with a secret life risks everything to clear his name in this "ingenious suspense thriller"(The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling author of the Penn Cage series. By day, Harper Cole trades commodities from his isolated home in the Mississippi Delta. By night he leads quite a different life, serving as a systems operator for an exclusive, annonymous erotic online service that caters to the rich and famous. But now a stranger has penetrated the network's state-of-the-art security, brutally murdering six celebrated female clients. Falsely accused of these horrible crimes, Harper realizes there's only one way to lure the elusive madman offline and into the open.… Read More

New York: Scribner, 2007. hardback. near fine/Near Fine. 385 pgs. 5 7/8" x 8.5"x1.25". Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Text set in Sabon. Jacket pho by Garry Wade/Getty Images. Author photo by Ben Hillyer. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not price clipped, not ex-library, and no marking.s Gift Quality. "It's a quiet morning in the suburbs. Elizabeth Pike is a 35-year-old housewife who is about to discover that she is pregnant by her adulterous ex-lover, retired Air Force pilot Daniel McDavitt. On the same morning, her husband, Dr. John Pike, finds a badly concealed love letter from McDavitt to Elizabeth. Already under intense stress, he begins to unravel. In Third Degree, we relive what happens during that climactic day. An intense domestic drama that unfolds like a movie." Goodreads ***3.82.

USA: Hay House, 2011. 1st Edition. hardback. Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 5.5"x8.75" 219 pgs. First printing. White speckled boards w/hunter green letters on spine. Front-cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou. Jacket design: Tricia Breidenthal. Photo of Immaculee: Kathy Lesnar. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minor edge wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. It's the greatest story never told: that of a boy who met Jesus and dared to ask Him all the questions that have consumed mankind since the dawn of time. His name was Segatashya. He was a shepherd born into a penniless and illiterate pagan family in the most remote region of Rwanda. He never attended school, never saw a bible, and never set foot in a church. Then one summer day in 1982 while the 15-year-old was resting beneath a shade tree, Jesus Christ paid him a visit. Jesus asked the startled young man if he'd be willing to go on a mission to remind mankind how to live a life that leads to… Read More

Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster Inc, 2014. MMPB. New. Physical Info: 1.6" H x 6.6" L x 4.1" W (0.9 lbs) 808 pages. 6th printing. Features: Ikids, Table of Contents, Bilingual, Price on Product. Secure ship w/track #. Highlighting Latin American Spanish, this dictionary features the unique Spanish of Central and South America. Over 80,000 words and phrases are provided for those at all levels of language skill, from travellers to business professionals.

Minnetonka, MN: DeCosse Subscriber Books, 1996. Hardcover. Near fine/No jacket made for this hardcover.

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2002. Hardcover_boards. Used - VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25" 254 pp. Melon boards. Black spine w/metallic letters. Matching melon paste downs. No DJ. Sun fade stripe along top of front cover. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library and unmarked. With wisdom and a keen ability to apply biblical truth to everyday problems, this book reveals God's true nature and desire to care for his people in a way the no earthly person can. It illustrates how God works in times of need. It provides strength and encouragement you need through author's exploration of the Psalms.

NY: Howard Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 5.5"x8.5" 268 pp. First printing. Cover design by Lighthouse Marketing. Edited by Denny Boultinghouse. Interior design by Susan Yang. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. Some yellow highlighting. Minor edge wear. Based on the biblical model for Christianity, Living on the Edge challenges readers to experience Christianity the way God intended and provides an actual profile of a disciple of Jesus Christ that is relational, grace-based, faith-focused, practical, and measureable. A launching pad for a journey toward becoming a Christian who lives like Christ, this book provides questions and resources at the end of each chapter, as well as directions to continue on your journey through an interactive Web site, where the reader will discover clear spiritual pathways and personal coaching to make it over barriers.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1910. Hardcover_cloth. Used - VeryGood. Edmund Frederick & Bertha Stuart. 5.5"x8.25" 195 pp. Green cloth boards. Embossed with letters on front, black embossed wings, round color photo pasted, blind stamped designs. White letters to spine. Moderate foxing on frontispiece and title but faint elsewhere. Frontispiece has tissue cover. Each page has flying hearts banner on top. Spine straight, binding tight. Not x-library. POGI on ffep. Edge wear w/rubs. Numbers in ink on bottom edge.

Loizeaux Brothers, 1946. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood. 5.13"x7.5". Maroon cloth boards w/gilt letters to spine. Ex-libris w/stamps. Includes fold-out time line chart. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slight toned. Some discoloration to boards. Ghost sticker to spine. Light soiling inside boards. Year on T/P but edition not stated on C/R page. The truth of God is learned through the conscience; this is why the most brilliant men can read the Bible through over and over and never hear the voice of God in it at all. It has been said that "what is one man's meat is another man's poison." The very Word of God may become poison to an unspiritual man if he reads it without being in subjection to God-reads it to find difficulties-and arises from its perusal more confirmed in his unbelief than he was when he sat down to consider it. The results are different when the same book is put into the hands of a spiritually-minded person-one who has bowed in God's presence, acknowledged his lost… Read More

NY: Viking Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. Juliette Borda. 5.75"x8.5" 231 numbered pages. Persimmon boards blind-stamped "V.I." Vanilla spine w/red metallic letters. Book designed by Francesca Belanger. Author photo: Carole Latimer. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Small soil spot on back cover. Secure ship w/track #. A delightful novel about letting go of youth and embracing the sassy curmudgeon within Don't harass her about parasailing or taking Italian language courses. Forget about suggesting she join a gym. Marie Sharp may be a little creaky in the bones as she heads toward the big 6-0, but she's fine with it. She would rather do without all the moving-to-Florida-bicycling-across- Mongolia-for-the-hell-of-it hoopla that her friends insist upon. She's already led an exciting life: She came of age in the 1960s, after all. Now, with both a new grandchild and a new man on the… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1945. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood/VeryGood. 5.5"x7.75" 208 pp. Green cloth boards. Black letters to spine. Printed during war time. Spine straight, binding tight, pages toned. Deckled edge. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light edge wear. Many chips and small tears to DJ. The story of a lovely woman ruined by the evil influence of her sinister family.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Very Good-Collectible/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5" 425 pgs. First printing. Steel gray boards. Gray cloth w/mint letters on spine. DJ design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photo by Mark Dye. Author photo by Jane Sobel Klonsky. Book designed by Nancy Singer. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. PON inside front boards. Edge wear to bottom edge of front board. Secure ship w/tracking number. From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century)… Read More

Pacific, MO: Mel Bay, 1984. Paperback. Near Fine. 8.75"x11.75" 41 pgs. 11 pages for piano & violin. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. See second photo for song list.

New York: Scribner, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25" 340 pages. First printing. Red boards. Black card stock spine w/silver letters. Old mylar glued to inside boards. Spine striaght, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Maybe x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. From the New York Times bestselling author of Any Place I Hang My Hat, Compromising Positions, and Shining Through comes a wonderful new novel about a woman ousted from the CIA who, years later, finds herself back in the game.

Ny: Harper Collins, 2001. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.50"x9.5" 358 pgs. Black boards w/stamped gold letters to spine. DJ designed by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Author photo by Melanie Einzig. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (number line but no price), unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. Judith Singer is back! After twenty years Susan Isaacs brings us back the heroine from Compromising Positions, her first and most beloved novel and returns to a great suspense story set in suburbia. Judith's life has changed. She now has her doctorate in history. Her workaday hours are spent at St. Elizabeth's College, mostly squandered in history department shriek-fests. She is also a widow. Her husband Bob died one half-day after triumphantly finishing the New York City Marathon in four hours and twelve minutes. And although twenty years have passed without seeing him, she still cannot get her former lover, Nelson Sharpe of the… Read More

1993. 1st Edition. The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving "a great gentleman." But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness" and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served." Goodreads 4.12.

NY: Vintage, 1992. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. Fine-Collectible. 5.25"x8" 284 pgs. First printing. Book design: Robbin Schiff. Cover photo of Ivins: Kelly Campbell. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest—and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general is under indictment. He ran as 'the people's lawyer'; now we call him 'the people's felon." -The flag burning debate: "Bush's last birthday cake was in the form of the American flag, and he ate it—stars, stripes, and all. Think about where that flag wound up—I call that desecration." -Beign a woman in Texas: "There are several strains of Texas culture: They are all rotten for women... One not infrequently sees cars or trucks… Read More