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New York: Henry Holt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Edgewear to d j. Spot of color missing from d j . 284 pages. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, No. 11. Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign - and decides to knock on the door. Janice has waited long enough for Lorna's case to pick up steam, and she is relieved when Kinsey Millhone agrees to finish the work authorities left undone. Ten months before, local police had suspected homicide, but never could find a suspect or a motive. The trail went cold. And Lorna's death remained a mystery. Now Kinsey is about to be pulled into a netherworld of unavenged murder and damaged survivors - where sometimes it takes a deal with the devil to survive. .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in metallic red with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 1 x 8.2 x 5.6 Inches. 304 pages. The Kinsey Millhone Mysteries, No.11. Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious: Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file.Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed by the certainty that somebody out there had gotten away with murder.In the ten… Read More

New York: Random House. As New. 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 320 pages. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. <br><br>With the help of corporate and international sponsors, the Kabul Beauty School welcomed its first class in 2003. Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers,… Read More

New York: Pantheon. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First American Edition with full number line. . 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 Inches. 192 pages. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, No. 4. Now that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (the only detective agency for ladies and others in Botswana) is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride: she's reached her late thirties ( - the finest age to be - ), has a house, two children, a good fiance -- Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni -- and many satisfied customers. But life is never without its problems. It turns out that her adopted son is responsible for the dead hoopoe bird in the garden; her assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband and needs help with her idea to open the Kalahari Typing School for Men; yet Mma Ramotswe's sexist rival has no trouble opening his Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency across town. Will Precious Ramotswe's… Read More

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Very Good. 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Spine creasing. 0.92 x 6.78 x 4.17 Inches. 320 pages. Benny Harper Mystery, No. 3. With her acclaimed mysteries Fool's Puzzle and Irish Chain, Earlene Fowler introduced Benni Harper, the ex-cowgirl and quilter of San Celina, whose crime-solving talents are as colorful and complex as the patchwork patterns she loves. After a whirlwind marriage to Gabe Ortiz (and ignoring predictions that the sassy blonde and the stone-faced cop may kill each other before their first anniversary), Benni visits his hometown near Wichita. At a rowdy backyard barbecue, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country singer with a promising future - and a fascinating past. Once, Tyler lived a simple Amish life as Ruth Stoltzfus. After leaving behind a stoic husband and being shunned by an entire community, she's determined to make it on her own, selling her exquisite handmade quilts to get by. But her gifts - and her life - are cut short… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Deckle-edged pages. 1.3 x 8.4 x 6.2 Inches. 384 pages. For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time. <P>In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg - then thirty-three - and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life. <P>From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intended his role to be not just that of a friend but also of a chronicler, a confidant who might record for posterity her thoughts and feelings. Over the next… Read More

New York: Forge Books. Near Fine. 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 352 pages. Two men as different as night and day. One kayak. And 10,000 miles of the most beautiful but most treacherous coastline in the world. You'd have to be crazy to think you could kayak around an entire continent, right? But as Eric Stiller admits he thought it seemed like a good idea at the time. .

London: Tom Stacy Reprints. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. (1932) 1973. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green cloth with spine imprinted with title and author in silver. . 316 pages. Charlie Chan Mysteries, No. 6. In the 6th and final book in the mystery series featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, we find our hero in Lake Tahoe, California. Chan has been invited as a house guest. He meets a glamorous Out of Printera singer, Ellen Landini, and she is murdered by a gunshot during a party. Her servants and four of her ex-husbands are suspects in the case, all with weak alibis. It is up to Chan to solve the murder. The clues are cryptic and misleading by nature: the singer's own revolver, two scarves, two cigarette boxes with mismatched lids, and the actions of a little dog named Trouble. Part of the solution to the mystery involves an elderly Chinese servant named Ah Sing--the keeper of the keys. Chan solves the case… Read More

Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks. Near Fine. 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 175 pages .

Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks. Near Fine. 1997. Second Edition. Paperback. 232 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Fine. 2009. 1st Ballantine Mass Market Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 418 pages. A Maura Isles & Jane Rizzoli , No. 7. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Dubbed "Madam X," the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse -- horrifying proof that this "centuries-old" relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. When the grisly remains of two other women are found, it becomes clear to Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli that a maniac is at large. Now Maura and Jane must unravel a murderer's twisted endgame before the Archaeology Killer adds another chilling artifact to his monstrous collection. .

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. Fine. 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Bent corner on back of book. 128 pages. Postcard History Series. Tourists have flocked to the beaches and hotels of the Kennebunks for more than one hundred years. At the dawn of the twentieth century, postcards that showcased the area's attractions were popular with visitors as mementos and as an inexpensive means of communication. Today, the historic postcards that survive provide a look back at the Kennebunks of an earlier era. The Kennebunks in Season contains almost two hundred postcard images featuring the early hotels and businesses that catered to the tourist trade in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Cape Porpoise, along with the popular local attractions and prominent homes of the area. Also included are rare images of the motel courts that began in the late 1920s along Route 1 from Kennebunk to today's Arundel, then North Kennebunkport .

New York: Ivy Books. Very Good. 1995. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Spine creasing. Crease on front cover. Genealogical tables. A chronicle of five generations of Kennedy women provides portraits of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who played key roles in the Kennedy dynasty and provides revelations about the lives and fates of these women .

New York: The New Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First US Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 328 pages. Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller. Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1984. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very light edge soiling. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2. Cover Art. 312 pages. A Philo Vance Mystery, No. 6. When the corpse of Chinese art collector Archer Coe is found, gun in hand, in a room whose only door is bolted from the inside, the authorities assume they've discovered a suicide. But after considering the bizarre clues the locked room offers - including a wounded scottie and a blood-stained fragment of an Oriental vase - Philo Vance can only conclude that Coe was murdered. With his usual haighfalutin wit and psychological detection skills, Vance sets about solving a series of peculiarly gruesome killings that rock the elegant New York art world of the early 1930s. .

Huntington, WV: Blue Acorn Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 205 pages. In less than a month, General William T. Sherman's blueclad columns had marched and fought to within 30 miles of the spires of Atlanta. But at rugged Kennesaw Mountain northwest of the city in June 1864, their progress was stymied by the weather, terrain and tenacious resistance of the veteran Army of Tennessee led by General Joseph E. Johnston. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. Fine. 1993. Paperback. 190 pages. With over 1,500 Kentuckian surnames referenced in this major new work. Mr. Hehir provides in one source a comprehensive listing of all printed Kentuckian genealogies and family histories that have made their way into major library collections across the United States. The author researched library listings and catalogs covering many genealogical libraries including the Library of Congress, the National Genealogical Society Library and the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution along with historical association libraries from Massachusetts to California. Many of the books deal with multiple families some with non-Kentucky roots. Arranged for ease of use the entries are presented alphabetically according to surname with a cross index to family and secondary names to help researchers find surnames that would otherwise remain buried with the text. No genealogist working with Kentuckian families should be without… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1977. Hardcover. 254 pages .

Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1987. Hardcover. Helpful handwritten correction to index. 258 pages .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. (1993) 2009. Paperback. 204 pages. With over 1,500 Kentuckian surnames referenced in this major new work. Mr. Hehir provides in one source a comprehensive listing of all printed Kentuckian genealogies and family histories that have made their way into major library collections across the United States. The author researched library listings and catalogs covering many genealogical libraries including the Library of Congress, the National Genealogical Society Library and the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution along with historical association libraries from Massachusetts to California. Many of the books deal with multiple families some with non-Kentucky roots. Arranged for ease of use the entries are presented alphabetically according to surname with a cross index to family and secondary names to help researchers find surnames that would otherwise remain buried with the text. No genealogist working with Kentuckian families should be… Read More