New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1999 Lacie Wagner knows fire. She has the scars to prove it. And the nightmares. Nightmares that began with the horrific accident that took her father's life. Nightmares filled with a stranger's face and a taunting voice promising that she too will burn alive. It happens on the heels of a breaking story about another woman's tragedy: a U.S. Navy officer who has plunged to her death in the Bering Sea. Then Lacie's thirteen-year-old daughter, on a visit to h... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1994 A big, crowded, compelling novel about six women, best friends since high school, now in their forties and still "the girls." They've been close to each other forever. They've known each other's boyfriends and husbands-to-be, and shared in each other's most important moments. And then, on an ordinary day, one of their marriages violently crashes. Jessie Chickery, the prettiest, shoots the husband she's always been obsessi... more information

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New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Pr, 2002 NEW - STILL IN PUBLISHERS PLASTIC. Anne Valleyer-Coster (1744-1818) was a French rococo-era painter, which is a light, elaborate and decorative style of art. Despite the negative reputation that still-life painting had at this time, Vallayer-Coster’s highly developed skills, especially in the depiction of flowers, soon generated a great deal of attention from collectors and other artists. Her “precocious talent and the rave reviews” earned her the attenti... more information

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Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2002 The National Park System contains the scenic and historic treasures of our country. Presidential homes, historic lodges and hotels, and National Park Service rustic cabins are abundant throughout the parks, whether they are shadowed by interstate highways in downtown areas of a city, or discovered after miles of mountain hiking. In this book, Harvey Kaiser takes readers on a tour through historic structures discussing the architectural elements and history of each building,... more information

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New York: Knopf, 2006 A hugely informed look at the intensifying struggle over the future of the Catholic Church. Despite the popularity of John Paul II, opposition to many of his policies had hardened among Catholics by the time of his death. The Church had become more doctrinaire, the voices of millions of dissenters ignored. Now Robert Blair Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church. He also gives in-depth portraits of six of the cardinals who gathered in Rome in April... more information

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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976 The young players on a baseball team who are developing a taste for winning take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime error. The red cloth binding has light wear at one corner and at the spine ends. There is a black picture on the front that got some white on it. 103 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books Inc, 2004 This is the ongoing mystery of a concentration camp survivor who preyed on his fellow victims. Nothing Is Too Late details the rise and fall of a man of inestimable depravity - Lucian Kozminski, a victim of the Holocaustwho swindled fellow survivors and may have even faked his own death while serving out his prison sentence. The author, a former assistant U.S. attorney, independently undertook a lengthy investigation and pro bono civil action. To this day, he contin... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2006 Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death more than 80 years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, writer and expert magician team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a perni... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960 Cover is deep green with a turtle on the front. Binding is tight. Illustrated by author using drawings and photographs. 120 pages, including index. No tears or marks noted.... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997 The 19th century transition to a small family size in the Western world was unprecedented, and the reasons people began having fewer children are still not clear. Using contemporary novels, letters, biographies and poetry, this book brings forward the voices of the past to give their own comments and views on a wide range of issues which may have influenced that decision. Individuals in fact and fiction discuss families, love and marriage, as well as childbearing, chil... more information

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Coward-McCann, Inc., 1943 Binding is very good, very light wear at the corners. Included are two novels by two different authors in one volume. 208 pages, total, yellowed at the edges but otherwise fine. 5.25" x 7.75" high. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.... more information

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Boston, MA: D.C. Heath & Co, 1946 This is a terrific book for someone who wants to brush up on their German, or learn enough phrases that they can get by in Germany. The book starts out with simple conversation, English on the right, German on the left. The phrases and conversation gradually become more complex. There are ten general conversations, then 51 specific conversations ranging from getting tickets to finding a bus, going to a hotel and making conversation. There is a pronunciation guide, and a... more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2003 NEW - The Kaplans take us on a witty, literate and accessible tour of the world of mathematics. This book looks at infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path rom Pythagoras, whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers tried to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers); through Descartes and Leibniz; to the brilliant, haunted Georg Cantor, who proved that infinity can come in dif... more information

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New York: Weatherhill, 1997 The Ling Qi Jing is a classic Chinese divination manual from the third century. An easy, accurate and user-friendly Taoist alternative to the more famous I Ching (Book of Changes), it consists of 125 oracular poems, accompanied by the commentaries that clarify their meaning and significance. The ancient Chinese used a set of twelve specially made "spirit tokens" to consult this oracle, but ordinary pocket change will work just as well. You'll enjoy using this time-t... more information

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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 1994 The Katahns love good food, and they love to cook. They will show you how to prepare fabulous meals - like Sesame-Ginger Lamb Chops or Triple Cheese Manicotti - that combine low fat and low salt with lots of fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates. The recipies in this book meet all the guidelines set forth by the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society for reducing the dietary risk of heart disease. Each recipe includes total fat, saturated ... more information

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Union City, CA: Heian Intl Pub Company, 1993 Just as animals have different kinds of faces, they also have different kinds of feet. Animals use their feet for many different functions besides walking - running, climbing trees, gathering food, digging holes (maybe your dog or cat does that!), and even for protecting themselves. An animal's feet are perfectly suited to its lifestyle and environment. Depending on the species, animals have different numbers of toes. A horse, for example, only has one. An an... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 2000 Kaufman's coming-of-age account is by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irrevernt humor and poetic introspection. His authentically American voice, with its headlong energy, joy, and sensitivity, calls to mind the best of Jack Kerouc and Henry Miller. Jew Boy touches on themes rarely explored in American writing - the pain, guilt, and comfusion of American-born children of Holocaust survivors. The binding is cloth. The jac... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc., 1930 This book was originally published in England under the title "The Madness of Monty," which describes pretty much what the book is about. The author, who has published more than one book that made it to the stage or screen, is a former clergyman and author of books marked by their sexual frankness and melodrama. 325 pages, which have yellowed with age. The blue binding is lightly darkened at the edges, and has little to no wear at... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007 In 1946 rural Ireland, Brideen Conway has her heart set on Kieran McDermot, but the couple can't afford to marry and Kieran's father won't pass down the family farm. Wealthy pub owner Austin Glynn has more than enough money to offer a substantial dowry if someone would take an interest in his daughter, Aideen; Kieran's feckless older brother Martin volunteers to take Aideen's hand, but disappears after his proposal and is thought dead. The parish pr... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2000 Fresh from school, Patrizia Orman, twenty-two, works as a gallery assistant in SoHo, and dreams of success in the art world when her mother is killed in a car acident. Patrizia returns home for the funeral and her emotional shock is compounded when her godmother presents her with a cache of letters from her father - a man she has never known. He godmother reveals that this man had been her mother's great love, a charismatic art dealer she met when she studied in R... more information

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