Search Results: Authors starting with F from Storbeck's

Crowood Press. Very Good+. 1990. Paperback. 128 pages. Crowood Gardening Guides. Clematis are amongst the most versatile of all garden flowers and can be grown in a number of different ways and for a number of different purposes—as climbers and trailers for trellises, walls, and even through trees; as low growing shrubs for ground cover; and for growing in containers on the patio. This guide covers everything the beginner may need for the best and most colorful results. .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Fine. 2004. 1st Berkley PrimeCrime Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Paperback Original. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 290 pages. A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery, No. 5. Arriving in Barcelona to employ her keen sense of taste for her column, food writer Carolyn Blue finds herself embroiled in mystery when she visits a modern art museum where a performance art piece about death results in murder .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Near Fine. 2005. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. No spine crease.. 304 pages. A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery, No. 7. Awaiting a passionate rendezvous with her husband in romantic Italy, Carolyn spends the day with the beautiful Paolina, who has been stood up by her lover. But Carolyn's siesta turns sour as when she finds her lovely companion drowned in the hotel's pool. Is it suicide? Or Paolina's boss--with benefits? .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Very Good-. 2003. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Spine creasing; "good" scratched on cover . Paperback Original. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 304 pages. A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery, No. 4. Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She has finally decided to throw in the dishtowel—and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of crime—to taste. She could very well get used to this... Soon after arriving in San Francisco, Carolyn takes a deep breath and does what she has to…calls her mother-in-law to tell her they’re in town. The answering machine picks up: “You have reached Professor Vera Blue. I am not home because I have been arrested for first degree murder.” Now Carolyn has to go directly to jail—to find out why the famous feminist was at the scene of the crime with the… Read More

Gordonsville, VA: St Martins Press. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Index. . 96 pages. Demonstrates the techniques used in American seamed, English mosaic, Seminole, and strip and string patchwork, as well as crazy quilts .

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Dark blue boards with darker blue spine imprinted in silver with title and author. First edition with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 386 pages. An Alex Cooper Mystery, No. 5. When a recently deceased body is discovered in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus during a donor gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Assistant DA Alex Cooper must infiltrate New York's museum society to catch a killer. .

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected with a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with full number line. . 402 pages. Alex Cooper Mysteries, No. 8. Investigating the disappearance of a world-famous dancer who went missing during a Lincoln Center performance, investigator Alex Cooper and her colleagues find themselves drawn into the underworld of Manhattan's theatrical community and simultaneously pursuing a doctor who has been drugging and assaulting women. .

New York: Scribner. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with full number line. . 416 pages. Alex Cooper Mysteries, No. 7. Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper works to uncover a link between a serial killer and a body that has been discovered in a nineteenth-century brownstone formerly belonging to Edgar Allan Poe. .

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 448 pages. New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and… Read More

San Francisco: Macadam/Cage Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Genealogical table . . 391 pages. With the confidence of a master storyteller and the precision of a trained historian, David Falconieri weaves together an intricate tale of honor, treachery, power, and intrigue in <I>The Beggars Throne</I>. Recounting the dynastic struggle between the Lancasterians and the Yorkists during the 15th-century War of the Roses, <I>The Beggars Throne</I> will delight both historians and general audiences. .

New York: St. Martin's. Near Fine. 2007. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Inscribed, dated and SIGNED by AUTHOR on the title page. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 240 pages. Handsome, charming, and a fixture on the New York City club scene, Dean Faiello had built a thriving beauty business. But money was never enough for Faiello, whose hard-partying ways constantly left him on the edge of ruin. So he did the unthinkable and worked as a cosmetic surgeon - even though he had no medical degree, or training whatsoever. In the spring of 2003, a beautiful, successful woman named Maria Cruz went to "Doctor" Faiello for a relatively simple cosmetic procedure...and succumbed to a fatal complication while under his care. Faiello allegedly buried her corpse beneath a concrete slab at his Newark, New Jersey home - and went on the run. It was only after Cruz's body was found that the true callousness of Faiello's plan would be dissected...and he would be… Read More

London: The British Library. Near Fine. (1937) 2014. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Faint spine crease. 256 pages. A British Library Crime Classic. On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea?but no one is at home.Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst. This classic Christmas mystery is now republished for the first time since the 1930s, with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards. .

Des Moines, IA: Sucessful Farming Magazine. Fine. Paperback. 128 pages. Whether you are about to build your dream shop or fix up your present one, there are ideas galore within the pages of this new Top Shops book. We cover every imaginable need you might have with your farm or construction shop. This book includes our award winning Top Shops from our Successful Farming Machinery TV Show, in addition to the best shops our machinery and shop editors found across the country. We included lots of humor from well known humorist and author, Roger Welsch along with over 10 pages of maintenance and shop safety tips. .

New York: NYU Press. Fine. 1995. Trade Paperback. Full number line.. 208 pages. The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southern belle. This groundbreaking work provides us with an intimate picture of the entire social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women, and their legacy for higher education. Christie Farnham investigates the contradiction involved in using a male-defined curricula to educate females, and explores how educators denied these incongruities. She also examines the impact of slavery on faculty and students. The emotional life of students is revealed through correspondence,… Read More

New York: Pocket Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Lavendar boards with purple spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 256 pages. Hired to protect Lucinda Merrill, the star of a low-rated soap opera, from an obsessed fan, struggling actress Annie McGrogan begins the job with enthusiasm, until Merrill's husband is murdered and Annie is named number one suspect. .

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. Fine. 1985. Trade Paperback. 137 pages. Chisholm Trail Series, Number Three .

Oklahoma City, OK: Western Heritage Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. Oklahoma Trackmaster Series .

Elwood, UT: E-Press-online Inc. Fine. 2009. Trade Paperback. Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page . 183 pages. Signed by Author .

New York: St. Martin's Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards and spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 243 pages .

New York: Doubleday. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected with a removable Brodart cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Red emdpapers, Stated First Edition in the United States of America with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.4 Inches. 304 pages. James Bond (Extended) Series, No. 38. An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal, and this urgently bears looking into. .