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Hill, Kathleen, Still Waters in Niger (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾'' tall Cream boards with blue tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. ''In this autobiographical novel, an Irish-American woman who had lived in the West African country of Niger as the wife of an academic and the mother of three small children returns after seventeen years to visit her eldest daughter, Zara, who has herself returned to Niger during a season of devastating drought. Zara now works in a village clinic and treats children suffering from starvation.'' -- from the dj $10.76



Hillerman, Tony, The Wailing Wind (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Brown boards with blue tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but shows minor shelf wear; stated First Edition with full number line. ''To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk, which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene, which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI, which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old ''Golden Calf'' homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Hilton, James, So Well Remembered (0.00) Hardcover, Good No Jacket, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Green boards with gold embossed lettering on front cover; a few faded spots on front board; previous owner's name on ffep; spine is slightly loose; a good reading copy. $4.50



Hilton, James, So Well Remembered (0.00) Book Club (BCE/BOMC), Hardcover, Good No Jacket, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Blue boards with embossed title and author's name on front; slight warp to boards; pages are yellowed; a nice reading copy. $4.50



Hoag, Tami, Ashes to Ashes (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Black boards with black tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but has minor shelf wear; full number line. $9.00



Hoag, Tami, Dark Horse (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Like New - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall 1st Edition; DJ in Good Shape; No Tears or Nicks $4.50



Hoag, Tami, Deeper Than the Dead (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Yellow boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. ''California, 1985. Four children, running through the woods after school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn't yet realize is tha tthis will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, as the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer's escalating pattern of destruction.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Holland, Jack, Druid Time (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Cream boards with peach tape binding and brown lettering on spine; dj edges are yellowed, but protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped; full number line. ''From the back streets of Nero's Rome to the vast, haunting fenlands of Celtic Britian, 'Druid Time' takes the reader on a quest for a fabled treasure, a quest that begins in a maze of intrigue, love, and lust.'' -- from the dj $12.60



Holland, William E., Moscow Twilight (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Black binding with grey quarter boards; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. ''Moscow, January 1989: In the cold of the Russian winter, the Soviet Union burns with the heat of political change. Muscovites worry more about bartering for Western goods than about the secret police; throughout the country, long-suppressed national rivalries threaten to overwhelm the fading power of the state. Fear still chokes the Soviet people, but, as KGB captain Sergo Chanturia realizes to his astonishment, 'There is someone they fear more than they fear us.''' -- from the dj $9.00



Holman, Russell, The Cheat (0.00) Hardcover, Good No Jacket, - 12mo - over 6¾'' - 7¾'' tall Based upon the story by Hector Turnbull; Pola Negri Edition; illustrated with scenes from the paramount Picture; red boards with faded gold embossing of the title and author's name on front; spine is slightly slanted and edges show shelf wear; 310pps with advertising at the back. $18.00



Hoskisson, Tompkins, Language Arts (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Minor Shelf Wear $4.50



Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Fine Fine, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Black boards with green overlay and gold embossed symbol on front board; gold lettering on spine; full number line with 1 present; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. ''A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives -- the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness -- are inextricable from the history playing out around them.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Howatch, Susan, Sins of the Fathers (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Good Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Red boards with red tape binding; some tape residue on top an bottom of front boards; gold lettering on spine; some tearing on ffep; dj yellowed with age; protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; 608 pps. ''At the center of the novel if Cornelius Van Zale, a powerful, ruthless investment banker at the zenith of a successful career, a man who has grown used to dominating and controlling everthing and everyone around him, but whose power over his own family -- especially Alicia, his beautiful, elegant wife, and Vicky, their tormented, rebellious daughter -- is disintegrating under the weight of his own mistakes and the inevitable complacency of a man who has almost everything he wants.'' -- from the dj $4.50



Howatch, Susan, Sins of the Fathers (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Red boards with red tape binding; gold lettering on spine; previous owner's book plate on ffep; dj yellowed with age; protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; 608 pps. ''At the center of the novel if Cornelius Van Zale, a powerful, ruthless investment banker at the zenith of a successful career, a man who has grown used to dominating and controlling everthing and everyone around him, but whose power over his own family -- especially Alicia, his beautiful, elegant wife, and Vicky, their tormented, rebellious daughter -- is disintegrating under the weight of his own mistakes and the inevitable complacency of a man who has almost everything he wants.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Howatch, Susan, The Shrouded Walls and the Dark Shore (0.00) Book Club Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Tan boards with purple lettering on spine; pages are slightly yellowed due to age; dj shows signs of shelf wear and is protected with a Brodart cover. Book Club Edition. ''When Marianne Fleury agreed to marry Axel Brandson, she thought she knew what to expect. He needed a wife to qualify for a large inheritance; she needed a wealthy husband to escape her impoverished existence. Taking up residence in shte Brandson famiy estate, they agreed it was to be a marriage of convenience.'' -- from the dj $6.75



Howatch, Susan, Wheel of Fortune (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Blue boards with dark blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; previous owner's address sitcker on ffeb; another previous owner's name written on back of front board; remainder stamp on bottom edge; pages are slightly yellowed with age; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. ''This is Susan Howatch's finest, most ambitious, and most absorbing novel to date...At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Godwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family, turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decine mirroring the family's descent from Edwardiain prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life.'' -- from the dj $11.25



Hubbard, L. Ron, Disaster (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Chips and dings to dj, dj now protected with Brodart cover; some water damage to lower right corner. Volume 8 in the Mission Earth series. ''A shotgun blasted at the door. Heller grabbed his satchels and three himself on the spacetrooper sled as the shotgun roared. heller hit the controls. Another shotgun blast! THEN THE FIRST EXPLOSION WENT!'' -- from the dj $4.50



Hunt, David, The Magician's Tale (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ $4.50



Hunter, Evan, Criminal Conversation (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Dark grey boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; ffep has been sliced out; spine is tight and pages are clean; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. '''Just you,' Andrew Farrell says, whe Sarah Wells asks him what he wants of her: 'Just you.' But long before she finally gives into Andrew, long before she walks up those steps into the mysterious world of his wood-paneled offce, long before she feels his naked body against hers, Sarah knows she has already chosen to betray her husband and her marriage.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Huston, James W., Flash Point (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good Very Good, - 8vo - over 7¾'' - 9¾'' tall Black boards with green tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover; remainder mark on bottom edge; stated First Edition. ''Sean Woods and Tony Vialli are F-14 pilots stationed aboard the USS George Washington in the Mediterranean. During a port callin Naples, Vialli falls for a beautiful woman he meets on a train who tells him she's Italian. She finally reveals she isn't Italian at all, and lures him out of the country to visit her. Vialli submits false leave papers, swears Woods to secrecy, and flies off to see her. His lover's trip becomes a nightmare when Vialli and the woman are brutaly attacked in what appears to be a terrorist actionl'' -- from the dj $11.25



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