Best Novels

• ISBN13: 9780061703256
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new ­partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems. … More >>

Shutter Island

• ISBN13: 9780061567193
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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The underground population of witches, vampires, werewolves—creatures of dreams and nightmares—has lived beside humans for centuries, hiding their powers. But after a genetically engineered virus wipes out a large part of humanity, many of the “Inderlanders” reveal themselves, changing everything. Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland’s best runner . . . and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death . . . not to mention her own room… More >>

Dead Witch Walking

• ISBN13: 9780764204807
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father’s shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London. Exposed to fashionable society and romance–as well as clues about her mother–Lilly is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father’s bedside. Women are forbidden to work as apothecaries, so to save the family legacy, Lilly will have to make it appear as if her father is still making all the diagnoses and decisions. But the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her. As they vie for village prominence, three men also vie for Lilly’s heart. … More >>

The Apothecary’s Daughter

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Straight from the canine’s mouth comes this truly “Wilde” narrative of the life and times of Dorian Greyhound. From his lowly origins and brutish upbringing to his well-deserved position as cherished family member, this self-made dog marks a lot of territory, though he would blush (if he could) to admit it. With a dry wit and as much candor as his old-school manners allow, he recounts his physically and emotionally harrowing journey from an Arizona race track to his Hollywood Hills mansion. The constant struggle between his refined sensibilities and his baser instincts leads him in and out of trouble and if, ultimately, he emerges a wiser and better dog; his tale has something to offer us all. Dorian Greyhound is illustrated by noted painter Martha Szabo…. More >>

Dorian Greyhound: A Novel

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“….An expansive, eclectic, and innovative novel.”–Women’s Review of Books A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and the traditions of her Cameroon village, Halla Njokè recalls childhood traumas and reconstructs forgotten experiences to reclaim her sense of self. Winner of the Noma Award—previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ken Saro-Wiwa—The Amputated Memory was called by the Noma jury “a truly remarkable achievement . . . a deeply felt presentation of the female condition in Africa; and a celebration of women as the country’s memory… More >>

The Amputated Memory: A Song-Novel

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Seven Volumes of the Complete Novels of Mark Twain. Library Editions in Gray, blue and Red hardbacks with Mark Twains initials of the front cover with Mark Twain in Red on the spine. End papers are red. Some volumes includes apprendixes from the author. The Gilded Age is by mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. Includes the Personnal recollections of Joan of Arc… More >>

7 Volume Set The Complete Novels of Mark Twain

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Love and death walk hand in hand…

Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a man paralyzed by the fate of his adored wife, dead in childbirth, their only child with her. He searches for a way to build angels from women, a pastime known to Scotland Yard as murder. Robarts meets the Vistani seer named Trueblood, who becomes his assistant and leads him to the Antebellum-era domain of Riverbend, controlled by the sadistic Dr. Weldon, to create angels, unfettered by conventional morality, or even rules. When the murderer returns to earth, it is the task of a Vistani policeman and a woman with a strange connection to Robarts to stop him. If he can be stopped.

Heaven’s Bones skillfully blends horror and steampunk and classic Victorian literary style into something exotic and fascinating…. More >>

Heaven’s Bones: A Novel of the Mists

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Part illustrated biography, part comics adaptation, R. Crumb’s Kafka is a vibrant biography that examines this Czech writer and his works in a way that a bland textbook never could! R. Crumb’s Kafka goes far beyond being explication or popularization or survey—it is a work of art in its own right, a very rare example of what happens when one very idiosyncratic artist absorbs another into his world view without obliterating the individuality of the absorbed one. Crumb’s art is filled with Kafka’s insurmountable neuroses. They are all there: Gregor Samsa’s sister, the luscious Milena Jesenska, the Advocate’s ‘nurse’ Leni, Olda and Frieda, and the ravishing Dora Diamant—drawn in that mixture of self-command, tantalizing knowingness and sly sexuality—that Amazonian randiness and thick-limbed physicality that is Crumb…. More >>

R. Crumb’s Kafka

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A modern-day tale of Greek mythological folly, this story follows the spoiled and vain Hera, who yearns for a family at any cost, as she pursues macho Zeus, still on the prowl in the 21st century. Meanwhile, Zeus, having given a family some cursory effort, is attempting to find himself in wine, women of all descriptions, and male rituals engaged in by his very own new age cult. Blind passion is truly a disaster when it involves the gods, leading to broken hearts, shattered dreams, and entomologically enhanced offspring. It is left to an unlikely band of mortals and one determined water nymph to somehow rein in the Olympian chaos.
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Olympic Games

• ISBN13: 9780446617895
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door shut, because “Useless” is a snake who brings bad luck wherever he goes. But trouble always finds an open window, and soon there’s a man murdered on his bookshop floor, evidence of blackmail is discovered, and Useless has vanished. To get out of this mess, Paris turns to his solid-hearted but quick-fisted friend Fearless Jones. Traversing the complex landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find deperate women, secret lives–and more than one dead body…. More >>

Fear of the Dark: A Novel