Colleen McCullough

Pre-owned in good condition with a little minor of crease on the dust jacket as seen on photos.  No smudges nor writing on pages.

 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

Scottish-born Alexander Kinross writes home from the gold fields of 1860s Sydney for a bride and marries young cousin Elizabeth, who struggles with Alexander's rowdy ex-madam mistress and illegitimate son.

The Touch

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Gabrielle Hamilton

Pre-owned, good condition, just like new.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • National Post • The Toronto Star • BookPage • Bookreporter Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; Hamilton’s own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton’s idyllic past and her own future family—the result of a prickly marriage that nonetheless yields lasting dividends. By turns epic and intimate, Gabrielle Hamilton’s story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion. Features a new essay by Gabrielle Hamilton at the back of the book Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Blood, Bones and Butter

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Samuel Hall

Pre-owned in good condition with no flaws.  No smudge or writing pages still intact no rips.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

It's 1928 ... the Great Depression lurks just around the corner. Divorcing a cheating husband means disgracing her family, but Claire Devoe can't take it anymore. Forced to provide for herself, she travels the Midwest with a sales crew. Can she trust the God who didn't save her first marriage to lead her through the maze of new love and overwhelming expectations? The long twilight of the Great Depression-with its debt, disgrace, drought, and despair-becomes the crucible that remakes her life. Daughter of the Cimarron is the fictionalized tale of the author's mother as she went from ragtime to breadlines, from the silent cities and melancholy towns to a dugout overlooking the Cimarron Canyon, from brokenness to strength. "Readers who find themselves wrestling for control over what needs to be left in God's hands will see themselves in Claire." ROMANTIC TIMES "As a consummate crafter of words and characters, Sam Hall weaves an engaging story of one woman's search for herself and her God." BILL MYERS, Author of Eli "Bravo to author Sam Hall on his debut novel, Daughter of the Cimarron! His heroine is a character you'll never forget. Troubled, but always determined, she and the love of her life struggle through the Depression and the Dust Bowl in a twister of a story. Sam doesn't shy away from the tough issues, both in life and love, and his hard work has paid off in a memorable tale of what really matters." LESLIE GOULD, #1 Best-Selling and Christy Award-Winning Author "Sam Hall writes the kind of narrative I love most, the search for self amidst the search for faith." GINA OCHSNER, Author of The Necessary Grace to Fall (Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award) and People I Wanted to Be (Winner of the Oregon Book Award) "Daughter of the Cimarron grips the reader's heart while at the same time illuminating the historical period in which the story is set. Author Samuel Hall hits all the right notes in this compelling debut novel. Recommended!" ANN SHOREY, Author of the At Home in Beldon Grove and Sisters at Heart Series "Sam Hall's debut novel, Daughter of the Cimarron, kept me reading when I should have been doing other things. A historical novel based on real life, its readers are plunged into Claire's struggle to live down a divorce and find a way to earn a living in 1928, at the beginning of the Great Depression. How do we find faith after we've been disillusioned? Crawl under the covers if you plan to read this book before bedtime, because you won't want to put it down." MARION DUCKWORTH, Author of 16 Books, including Naked on God's Doorstep and The Greening of Mrs. Duckworth

Daughter of the Cimarron

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Julia Bartz

Pre-owned excellent condition except for the top dust jacket a slight torn.  313 pages.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

"Darkly satirical and action-packed....An absolutely splendid debut!" --Wendy Walker, nationally bestselling author of Don't Look for Me

The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer's retreat that descends into a nightmare.

Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn't dampen her excitement.

But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell--they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza's erratic behavior, Wren's cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she's desperate to discover the truth and save herself.

A claustrophobic and propulsive thriller exploring the dark side of female friendships and fame, The Writing Retreat is the unputdownable debut novel from a compelling new talent.

The Writing Retreat

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Robert Dugoni

Pre-owned in great condition with no flaws.

"A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it." --Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one's own destiny.

The World Played Chess

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Jan Karon

Pre-owned in great condition with no flaws.  288 pages.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Shepherds Abiding

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Linda Francis Lee

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws.  341 pages.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing left her native Texas to start a new life in Boston, she had no regrets. The former Texas debutante, who never felt at home in her Southern skin, had found liberation--or so she thought. Until the day she gets an urgent call from her mother, reporting that: one, the Symphony Association Debutante Ball, which Carlisle's family has sponsored for years, is about to be called off; Two, her mother's divorce has the whole town talking; And three, the family's good name is at stake and Carlisle is the only one who can fix it all. So Carlisle takes a leave of absence from her law firm and goes to Texas to help. Her fiance, who has no idea she's an heiress, can't know that she's organizing the ball, handling the dramas of the girls involved, settling her mother's suit--and coming face to face with the true love of her life, whom she ran out on when she left Texas. Her trip home challenges Carlisle's sense of herself and brings the pieces of her past togther, so that when she finally re-meets the man of her dreams, she's in a perfect place to tempt fate.

The Ex-Debutante

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Karin Slaughter

Pre-owned.  The only flaw is on the bottom right hand corner a slight crease.  Other then that the book is in good condition.  461 pages.

“Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping.” --theSkimm Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found. Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away. But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues. Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller -- a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.

The Kept Woman

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Elin Hilderbrand

Are the skies clearing up at last for the Quinn family? Some of the stormy weather of the last few years seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns, and if there's one holiday that lets them be grateful for the good times, it's Christmas. This year promises to be a celebration unlike any other as they prepare to host a family wedding at the Inn. As the special day approaches, a once-in-a-century blizzard bears down on Nantucket, threatening to keep the Quinns away from the place, and the people, they love most. Before the snow clears, the Quinns will have to survive enough upheavals to send anyone running for the spiked eggnog, in this touching novel that proves when the holidays roll around, you can always go home again.

Winter Storms

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Sara Woods

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws.  This begins a case that leads Queen’s Counsel Anthony Maitland to further evidence that Black Mass has actually been performed in a London house and then to a brief to represent a possible murderer. 269 pages.

Naked Villainy

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Sebastian Faulks

Pre-owned. Excellent condition with no flaws.  399 pages.

A young Scottish woman who falls in love with a World War II RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France joins the Resistance movement to find him, only to discover a larger meaning in her new role

Charlotte Gray

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Naomi Ragen

Book is in excellent condition.  Pages are clean with no flaws, except the left hand corner a slight crease on the dust jacket.  See photo. 292 pages.

With more than half a million copies of her novels sold, Naomi Ragen has connected with the hearts of readers as well as reviewers who have met her work with unanimous praise. In The Saturday Wife, Ragen utilizes her fluid writing style--rich with charm and detail--to break new ground as she harnesses satire to expose a world filled with contradiction.
Beautiful, blonde, materialistc Delilah Levy steps into a life she could have never imagined when in a moment of panic she decides to marry a sincere Rabbinical student. But the reality of becoming a paragon of virtue for a demanding and hypocritical congregation leads sexy Delilah into a vortex of shocking choices which spiral out of comtrol into a catastrophe which is as sadly believeable as it is wildly amusing.
Told with immense warmth, fascinating insight, and wicked humor, The Saturday Wife depicts the pitched and often losing battle of all of us as we struggle to hold on to our faith and our values amid the often delicious temptations of the modern world.

The Saturday Wife

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Reader's Digest Editors

Pre-owned excellent condition except front and back page a slight discoloration.  (See photo). 480 pages.

What to Do When You Feel Cheated or Wronged

Presents specific situations involving family, the workplace, landlords, accidents, and other aspects of life in which one might feel wronged, and provides advice for handling them, from the first step to the last resort.

Fight Back and Win

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Fern Michaels

Pre-owned in excellent condition except discoloration from age inside covers.  (See photo)

Yesterday
Raised on her father's South Carolina plantation, Callie Parker wanted for nothing, and now she is about to marry wealthy local scion Wyn Archer. But her wedding wouldn't be complete without the three people she grew up with under the sheltering branches of the angel oaks at Parker Manor.
There's Bode Jessup, part brother and part idol, who has become a wildly attractive man. Next is Brie Canfield, Callie's freckle-faced playmate, now an FBI agent with a life of her own. Last is shy waif Sela Bronson, whose only reason for returning to Parker Manor is to escape an unhappy marriage.
As Callie's childhood companions gather to relive the charmed years they spent together, they discover how little they know of their beloved yesterday. . .and how one woman's darkest secret can tear them apart.

Yesterday

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Pre-owned in excellent condition with no flaws. 385 pages.

Fern Michaels, one of the world's best-loved storytellers, delivers an emotionally charged and surprising tale of two very different brothers and the one woman who loved them both -- and who holds the key to a family secret. Handsome, rich, and adored by millions, Ricky Lam was a golden boy -- with a dark side. The substance-addicted superstar had hit rock bottom, but luckily he had a business manager, his older brother Philip, who forced him into a rehab clinic -- a move that would create an irreparable rift between them. Yet, years later, when tragedy strikes, Ricky dedicates himself to Philip's dream: constructing a unique resort in South Carolina called the Crown Jewel. Stepping into his brother's shoes, Ricky encounters unsettling surprises, one of which is an amazing woman, his sister-in-law Roxy, who leads him to the mystery at the center of his brother's life, and into a passionate love affair. As Ricky attempts to discover the brother he loved but never truly knew, he must settle a grave injustice committed decades ago -- even if it means risking his fame, his fortune, and his life.

Crown Jewel

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Pre-owned with no flaws.  188 pages.  Those words, printed on a slip of paper in an old cookery book, were the first clue that Cordelia James, identity of the child in ruffled pink dress who makes brief appearances in the vicinity of the Cedars where she has rented a room.  There are other clues the records of mid-nineteenth century case of a vanished governess and child, footsteps along the landing, a girl hanging washing in the back yard of suburban Liverpool house.

My name is Polly Winter

Dorothea Benton Frank

Pre-owned in great condition with no flaws. 392 pages.

With Susan in Paris, Beth returns from college to house-sit the Island Gamble, intending to wrap herself in childhood memories and the island's magic, until cunning Max Mitchell arrives on the scene and steals her heart.

Return to Sullivans Island

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Alice Hoffman

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws.  255 pages.

Test A remarkable new novel, luminous with passion and mystery, from the incredible bestselling author of Seventh Heaven. Hoffman, one of the finest writers of her generation (Newsweek), transports readers to Florida--a place where anything can happen during the month of May. A transplanted New Yorker and her son have no idea what Verity holds in store for them.

Turtle Moon

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Harry Mulisch

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws including the pages. 180 pages.

From the bestselling author of "The Discovery of Heaven" comes a compelling new novel with the daring premise that Hitler and Eva Braun produced a son.

Siegfried

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Frances Patton Statham

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws including the pages.  Daughter of an English fur trader and his wilderness wife, young Coosaponakeesa, princess upper and Lower Creeks left her Indian village for Charlestown to be reared in the ways of theEnglish.  Baptized Mary,  the deerskin-clad girl blossomed into a regal beauty, possessing the proud, courageous spirit of her Indian heritage.  As wife, mother, and queen, her influence helped forge the greatest trading empire in the Charlestown and Savannah colonies.  But times were treacherous, and as the English colonies expanded in the New World, so did the tensions and hostilities between Anglo and Indian. 408 pages.

Call the River Home

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Marilyn Harris

Lane Harris

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws.  All pages are clean with no discoloration.

Thirty two years old wife to a handsome but distant husband and mother of two young sons,Zoe is a woman under siege haunted by painful memories of her youth that threaten to tear her world apart.  With Clay and the boys gone for few days, she has traveled to her childhood New Hampshire home to try to drive out her demons.

Night Games

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Mignon F. Ballard

Pre-owned.  Excellent condition with no flaws

While in Redpath, South Carolina, for her high school reunion, Laura Graham also investigates the mysterious death of her cousin, Laney McCall, and discovers that Laney's death is somehow linked to a long-dead child named Amanda

Cry at Dusk

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Pre-owned.  Condition just like new, except creases on both corners of the dust jacket.  Look at photo.

The “piranhas” are not only the dangerous fish that lurk under the calm surface of the Amazon River.  They are also the men and women whose greed, immorality and amorality feed on the fabric of society, not only those who run he illegal machinations of Mafia and the worldwide drug trade that controls the shadow governments of many countries.  But also those who live in the more “respectable” world of finance, banking and Wall Street, and who fleece the innocent of their savings in order to gobble up big businesses and whole industries.  They live only by their own rules, believing they are above its rules.  They are truly The Piranhas. 

The Piranhas

Ellen Forney

Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: a Graphic Memoir

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind. Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.

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The Touch

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The World Played Chess

Jan Karon

Shepherds Abiding

Linda Francis Lee

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Karin Slaughter

The Kept Woman

Elin Hilderbrand

Winter Storms

Sara Woods

Naked Villainy

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Charlotte Gray

Naomi Ragen

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Reader's Digest Editors

Fight Back and Win

Fern Michaels

Yesterday

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Crown Jewel

Veronica Black

My name is Polly Winter

Dorothea Benton Frank

Return to Sullivans Island

Alice Hoffman

Turtle Moon

Harry Mulisch

Siegfried

Frances Patton Statham

Call the River Home

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Night Games

Mignon F. Ballard

Cry at Dusk

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