Recent Arrivals from The Purple Chair Antiques and Curios

Autobiography styled book by the TLC star Buddy Valastro, of the #1 hit show Cake Boss. Recipes and photos are sprinkled throughout the text, with 8 pages of full color photos. A very nice book in excellent condition.

A controversial and extensive analysis of the historical Jesus and his era. It raises important questions, and offers new understanding of the foundations of Christianity. The book itself is like new, and in excellent readable condition.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... The first book in the ever-popular Star Wars collection. This book was originally purchased from a Border's, and has the accompanying stickers on the front and back of the dust jacket, as seen in the pictures. The book is in excellent reading condition, with near perfect cover boards and spine.

Still a legend in his own mind, the Hawk, hero of THE ROAD TO GANDOLFO, is back, with a $500 million caper up his sleeve. Worshipped by the men he once led into battle, General MacKenzie Hawkins is now in his sixties, and shows no sign of retiring from the intrigue and politicking which is his lifeblood. And it is… Read more about this item

The Tristan Betrayal is a novel by Robert Ludlum, published posthumously in 2003. Ludlum wrote an outline shortly before his death. The novel itself was written by a ghostwriter. 1940, with no one else in place, it falls to Stephen Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for the quickly dwindling remains of… Read more about this item

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist. Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful,… Read more about this item

The Bourne Ultimatumis the third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel toThe Bourne Supremacy (1986). Published in 1990, it was the last Bourne novel to be written by Ludlum himself. Eric Van Lustbader wrote a sequel titled The Bourne Legacy fourteen years later. The book is in excellent used condition with no marks or writing, there… Read more about this item

Book twelve in the wildly popular The Wheel of Time series. When Jordan died he had the last volume of the series outlined, partially written including the ending and titled A Memory of Light. Because of the amount of material involved Tor opted to split the last book into a trilogy with this volume being the first of three. This… Read more about this item

Book nine in the wildly successful The Wheel of Time series. Book and dust jacket both in excellent condition.

15th book in the Prey series of novels. The book is in excellent used condition. The dust jacket has a bit of shelf wear, but is in very good shape.

Joshua Armstrong is the founder and leader of the Seekers, an elite team of the most successful bounty hunters in the country. Anthony Bruno is a veteran crime writer who has published more than a dozen books of both fiction and non-fiction. Book is in excellent used condition, and the dust jacket is in very good shape as well.

This is the third installment in the John Puller book series. In this novel Puller, a former Army Ranger who served at Iraq and Afghanistan and now works for the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigations Division, has to hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother, Robert. The book is in excellent used condition.… Read more about this item

The third novel in Sharon Kay Penman's much-loved Medieval Mystery series. The book is in like-new condition. The dust jacket is in near new condition with one little blemish.

Book 3 from the fantasy seriesThe Sword of Truth, byTerry Goodkind. Former Library book, in fair condition. Pages 31-62 have partially separated from the binding. The outside edge of the dustjacket is a bit faded, and the dust jacket has been attached to the insides of the cover with a clear book protector. The actual pages are in good condition.

An in-depth history of England from the time of the Norman Conquest (William the Conqueror) to the death of Richard III - excluding William (Rufus) II and Henry I. The first volume in this work begins with the final scenes in the reign of Henry I, whose daughter married Geoffrey of Anjou and whose son succeeded in due course to… Read more about this item

A biography of Elizabeth I, written for young readers by Dell Shannon under the pseudonym Elizabeth Linington. There is a stain at the bottom of the spine, and a little shelf wear, other than that the book is in very good condition, with no writing or marks.

After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince William--and the ideal time, Theroux found, to… Read more about this item

This is the luminous personal story of a great man of God, written by his wife -- a moving record of an inspired ministry and a warm, truly happy marriage. The inside of the front cover has been partially torn off, and has been signed by a previous owner, other than that the book is in pretty good shape.

Classic Charles Dickens, The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. It is written in the first person, as a description of his life… Read more about this item

A historical novel based on the life of Marie Antoinette from her own perspective. The book itself has been "gift" signed inside of the front cover, under the dust jacket, other than that it is like new.