FICTION / Historical from Trolls Treasure

London: Headline Book Publishing / Review, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Former library book but very clean-looking, no stickers on the front of the jacket. Neat Spine and back stickers and label with stamp on the each of the flyleaf. There is a library stamp on the top page block, unfortunately x'd out with… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A fascinating glimpse into the life of a woman on the frontier. Readers follow Abigail Conklin as she and her husband leave the post-Civil War South in 1867 in search of land and economic opportunity in the West. Through letters written to her sister,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Perennial / Ecco, 2002. 1st Ecco Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. At the turn of the nineteenth century in England, a young, beautiful Mary Ann Bulkeley gives birth to a redheaded baby girl of uncertain paternity Before the sensitve tomboy turns ten, the family determines she should be raised and schooled as a boy." … Read more about this item

New York: Signet, 2007. First Signet Printing. Paperback. Fine. Fans of quality historical suspense who mourn the end of the late Kate Ross's Julian Kestrel mysteries and the late Bruce Alexander's Sir John Fielding novels should find solace in the work of promising newcomer Harris, whose series (beginning with 2005's What Angels Fear) is set in Regency England.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin /Sandpiper. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Includes Linda Sue Park's 2002 Newberry Award acceptance speech. An SLJ Best Book of the Year. Book is in very good condition with very light edge wear. There is a crease down the back cover.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/near fine. Bayard's first two novels (Fool's Errand; Endangered Species) were contemporary romantic comedies, a far cry from his third, an audacious and triumphant entertainment that imagines the post-Christmas Carol life of Tiny Tim, transformed from an iconic representation of innocent suffering ("the iron brace was bought by a… Read more about this item

New York: Minotaur Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Prussia has been overrun by Napoleon’s forces, and the Emperor’s troops have discovered a new source of funds there: enough amber to finance France’s wars. But their plans stall when the girls who collect the stones begin to disappear, only to be found gruesomely disfigured by an unknown killer.… Read more about this item

Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers , 2002. Soft Cover. Near Fine. The first volume of a dazzling trilogy, THE KEY shows a world on the verge of collapse through the eyes of its greatest and most passionate poet. Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome,… Read more about this item

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. Originally published as Een Nieuwer Testament in 1964. A novel set in 414 AD, when the Roman Empire is in its death throes. The uncertainty of life at the Emperor's court is reflected in the drama which enfolds the powerful Prefect Hadrian; a Christian convert; Marcus Anicius,… Read more about this item

St Michaels, MD: Tiller Publishing, 2001. First edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine. The year is 1814, the final year of the War of 1812. With the Atlantic seaboard closed by the British blockade, Isaac Biggs, Jack Clements, and Jake Tate, fresh from their harrowing adventures in Canada, find berths with Joshua Barney's Gunboat Flotilla in the Chesapeake Bay.… Read more about this item