Christopher Hitchens

Book is in good condition. Small dent on back cover. Dust jacket is in poor condition. Inside flap torn. Back of jacket is stained. 


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

How Religion Poisons Everything

"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.

God Is Not Great

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Ken Kuhlken

Book and dust jacket in good condition. 
Signed by author. 
Fast-moving adventure. 

In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin. Though Alvaro doubts her divinity, he’s firmly on her side. She wants them to vote the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) out of power. When Lourdes Shuler asks him to unite her with her sister Lupe, Alvaro doesn’t think much of it until Lourdes claims Lupe is the campesinos’ Virgin. Alvaro’s not the kind to turn down an appeal for help, especially from such a beauty. Besides, the published sketch a savant girl drew of the Virgin looks just like Lourdes. He suspects that Lourdes might not have a sister after all. Then, on their way to dinner, Lourdes and Alvaro pick up a tail. Lourdes admits the man could’ve been sent by her brother Andres. But is Lourdes hiding something more? Alvaro chooses to stand with the lady although he knows she might become his last adventure. Then someone arrives to rid the land of this vagabond Virgin....

The Vagabond Virgins

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Janis Thomas

Book in good condition. Some minor curling of cover. 

Detective uses music to help her solve a murder. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Sam Wedlock Musical Murder Mystery

Murder in A-Minor

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sheila Lowe

Book in good condition. Some curl to back cover. Signed. 

Can handwriting be faked to make murder look like suicide?

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Can handwriting be faked to make murder look like suicide? Forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose must answer that question when powerful Hollywood publicist Lindsey Alexander is found dead in a hot tub. Police are all too willing to believe it's Lindsey's handwriting on the scrap of paper they're calling a suicide note, but not everyone is ready to accept this easy conclusion. Claudia Rose knows first-hand the publicist's ruthlessness and cruelty, so when Ivan Novak, Lindsey's business associate, begs her to prove the suicide note a fake, Claudia's instincts scream at her to run the other way. She hasn't forgotten how it felt to be humiliated by the best, nor the way Lindsey sabotaged their friend Kelly Brennan's marriage. But Ivan leans hard, and when she accepts the case, Claudia becomes trapped in a far darker scenario than she bargained for.

Poison Pen: Forensic Handwriting Series. Signed 

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Patrick O'Brian

Book in decent condition. Sticker residue on front and back cover. 

Introduce Captain Jack Aubery and Stephen Maturiinn, ships surgeon and intelligence agent, in the age of the Napoleonic wars.

Master and Commander

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Anne Cleeland

Book is in good condition. Signed by author. 

Adventure, deception, attraction and redemption. 

After a shipwreck, Nonie Rafferty washes up on the shore of Algiers, where the slave traders look to sell the pretty Irishwoman-or worse. She must come up with a tale to save herself-and fast-before anyone discovers the true reason she sailed to this misbegotten corner of the world, or the true reason she was wearing a priceless strand of pearls, when she was rescued. Fortunately, the Dey's mysterious necromancer appears willing to come to her aid, and what follows is a cat-and-mouse game of deception, attraction, and above all, redemption.

The Barbary Mark: A Novel. Signed  

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Stuart Horwitz

Book is in good condition. Signed by author. Helps writers craft a powerful plot and an effective outline. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula

In Book Architecture: How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula, Stuart Horwitz returns with his trademark clarity to help writers craft a powerful plot and an effective outline for their works-in-progress. Along the way, Horwitz offers detailed, concrete examples that reveal how the Book Architecture Method works with everything from literary classics to blockbuster films.

Book Architecture

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Book in fair condition. Some shelf wear with cover creases. Small tear on spine. Binding intact. 

Fathers and Children

This book is in fair condition. Some shelf wear. Some age yellowing.  Binding tight. 

Nana is the most widely known of the long series of violently realistic novels by Émile Zola about the Rougon-Macquart family. Through them he intended to represent different combinations of "good" and "bad" blood, to submit his characters to all kinds of situations, to demonstrate that the character and course of life of each human being is determined by heredity and environment.
About the validity of his theories, critics have quarreled violently. But his influence on other writers as disparate as De Maupassant, Huysmans, George Moore, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, etc., has been profound. For Zola did succeed in producing novels of great strength and vividness, novels which present an arresting picture of the life of his time.
Of all the novels in the Rougon-Macquart series, Nana has been the most popular. It is, indeed, one of the best-selling novels of all time. In its Роскт Book editions alone, it has sold nearly 3,000,000 copies.

Nana

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT is all things to all men: a superb story of crime and detection, a taut psychological novel, and a Christian drama of man's eternal revolt against God.
This new translation is the first version of Dostoevsky's masterpiece in the American idiom and is based on the most authoritative Russian text available.
The supplemental materials in this Collateral Classic edition appear in the colored insert. They have been prepared under the supervision of an editorial committee directed by Harry Shefter, Associate Professor of English at New York University and former Vice-Principal of the William Howard Taft High School. He is also the supervising editor of the popular Reader's Enrichment Series, as well as the author of books used extensively in the schools, including FASTER READING SELF-TAUGHT and SHEFTER'S GUIDE TO BETTER COMPOSITIONS. All editorial work and writing has been done by practicing teachers working as a team. The contributing editor of this edition was William D. Baker.

Crime and Punishment 

Book and dust jacket are in good condition. Mild shelf wear. Some small tears at top and bottom of spine. Binding tight. Previous owner’s name & date in ink at top of title page. 

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Leaves of Grass AND SELECTED PROSE

Book Club Edition. Has some shelf wear, especially on spine edges. LOOK AT THE PHOTOS. The ítem pictured is the item you will receive. Please look at the photos to ensure condition and decide for yourself.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Anne Boleyn

Floyd Clymer’s Historical Motor Scrapbook Ford Model T  - Volume 1.   6th Printing 1978. 259 photos 

Book in very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Price sticker residue on front cover. Tight joint 


Floyd Clymer’s Historical Motor Scrapbook Ford Model T  - Volume 1.   6th Printing 1978. 259 photos   

Private Duty By Faith Baldwin. Pocket Books 1947. Nurse Fiction Romance. First published in 1935 in Ladies Home Journal. This edition is complete & unabridged. 

Paperback is in fair condition. Cover laminate is peeling. Half of book blurb on back cover is missing. Front cover has tear along the binding edge. Binding itself is somewhat fragile. 

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Private Duty

The Golden Kazoo by John G. Schneider (1956 Dell D178 1st Print PB). 192 pgs. The fictional story of the Presidential campaign of 1960. “Fellow Americans: This is the funniest novel of the year!”

Paperback novel in decent condition. Binding is good. Some foxing of pages. Pencil mark on front cover. Date in ink on inside. Old price sticker on back cover. Some shelf wear and such on covers. 

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The story of the Presidential campaign of 1960

The Golden Kazoo

1949 Novel Library #22 MIRABELLE WOMAN OF PASSION Ellen Caren GGA Cover. Paperback “An Audacious Beauty and her Loveswept Men. 

In good condition. Some kind of issue inside front cover. See photo. Binding is brittle and starting to split. Requires gentle reading. 

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GGA cover

Mirabelle Woman of Passion

Betty White's Teen-Age Dancebook 1952 5th Printing David McKay Co. Illustrated by Robert Burns. Directions for Waltz, Foxtrot, Charleston, and many more. Includes how to dress, manners, transportation and more. 243 pgs

In very good condition. No dust jacket. Includes clipping about rock ‘n roll dance steps.  

Betty White’s Teen-Age Dancebook

Apocalypse Troll by David Weber. USN vs UFOs. “Rollicking fun tale…”. Mass market paperback. 398 pgs. Science fiction with nonstop action. 

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Apocalypse Troll

The Blue Hour by bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Merci Rayborn Series. Book has shelf wear and dust jacket has some rolling of edges. Signed by author. 

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The Blue Hour

Behave Yourself! Etiquette for the High School Student. Copyright 1936. Excelsior Union High School, Norwalk, CA. “This little book is in answer to many questions from students. The authors have attempted to compile and translate into student vernacular those points of etiquette that tough closely the lives of high school students.”

Illustrated. Has inscription on inside front cover. Some creases and shelf wear. Light soiling of cover. Binding tight. Overall in good condition, especially considering age. Almost as though it was only lightly read by a teenager without much interest in the subject. 

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Behave Yourself! Etiquette for the High School Student

The History of Torture: a Study of Cruelty, the Ugliest Impulse in Man by Joseph McCabe. New forward by Jon G. Murray. Originally published in 1949 by McCabe, an ex-Roman Catholic priest, this reprint is from 1982 published by American Atheist Press. 

In good condition with minor creasing and shelf wear. Stapled 


A Study of Cruelty, the Ugliest Impulse of Man

The History of Torture

Jennifer Robson

Interesting story set in England and France during WWI

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A Novel of the Great War

Somewhere in France

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Lisa Morton

A Haunted History

From that cheerful puff of smoke known as Casper to the hunkiest potter living or dead, Sam Wheat, there is probably no more iconic entity in supernatural history than the ghost. And these are just recent examples. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today’s ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every culture in human history. In this book, Lisa Morton uses her scholarly prowess—more powerful than any proton pack—to wrangle together history’s most enduring ghosts into an entertaining and comprehensive look at what otherwise seems to always evade our eyes. Tracing the ghost’s constantly shifting contours, Morton asks the most direct question—What exactly is a ghost?—and examines related entities such as poltergeists, wraiths, and revenants. She asks how a ghost is related to a soul, and she outlines all the different kinds of ghosts there are. To do so, she visits the spirits of the classical world, including the five-part Egyptian soul and the first haunted-house, conceived in the Roman playwright Plautus’s comedy, Mostellaria. She confronts us with the frightening phantoms of the Middle Ages—who could incinerate priests and devour children—and reminds us of the nineteenth-century rise of Spiritualism, a religion essentially devoted to ghosts. She visits with the Indian bhuta and goes to the Hungry Ghost Festival in China, and of course she spends time in Mexico, where ghosts have a particularly strong grip on belief and culture. Along the way she gathers the ectoplasmic residues seeping from books and film reels, from the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the 2007 blockbuster Paranormal Activity, from the stories of Ann Radcliffe to those of Stephen King. Wide-ranging, informative, and slicked with over fifty unearthly images, Ghosts is an entertaining read of a cultural phenomenon that will delight anyone, whether they believe in ghosts or not.

Ghosts

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Leslie S. Klinger

Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense

A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers--including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton--presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton.  

The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James.

Acclaimed anthologists Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) and Lisa Morton (Ghosts: A Haunted History) set these stories in historical context and trace the literary significance of ghosts in fiction over almost two hundred years--from a traditional English ballad first printed in 1724 through the Christmas-themed ghost stories of the Victorian era and up to the science fiction-tinged tales of the early twentieth century. 

In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans and new readers of the genre.  

Including stories by:

Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Frank Stockton, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. 

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