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Straub, Peter, Mystery E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with blue tape binding; silver and blue embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; some yellowing to pages. ''On the tiny Caribbean island of Mill Walk, a ten-year-old boy named Tom Pasmore is tragically killed in a traffic accident -- well, almost killed. Miraculously, he survives, but as he grows up the accident leads this brilliant boy to an obsession with death, and particularly two unvolved mysteries -- one in the present, the murder of the sister of the island's finance minister; the other in the past, the murder of a neighbor and friend of Tom's grandfather in the resort town of Eagle Lake, Wisconsin. He is aided in his investigations by one of the great detectives in modern fiction -- Lamont von Ceilitz, known as 'The Shadow'.'' -- from the dj $13.50



Straub, Peter, The Throat Dutton Adult, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 1st Edition; Minor shelf Wear $5.40



Street, James, The Gauntlet Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Red boards with black lettering on spine; corners are bumped and spine edges show wear; some fading and wear on back cover; previous owner's address sticker on ffep; 311 pages. $9.00



Street, James, The Velvet Doublet Doubleday & Company, Inc., (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Tan boards with lavender embossed title on spine; tight clean pages. $4.50



Strieber, Whitley, Lilith's Dream Atria Books, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with dark blue tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; remainder mark on bottom edge; stated First Atria Books hardcover printing October 2002. ''An ancient vampire, beautiful beyond words, a vulnerable young man drawn to her by a power beyond his udnerstanding, two desperate parents searching across the world for the son they love -- these are the riveting, unexpected elements of Whitley Strieber's extraordinary new novel.'' -- from the dj $9.00



Swank, Denise Grover, Chosen (0.00) Trade Paperback, Very Good - Trade paperback; no spine creases, minor edge bumping. ''Everything Emma Thompson owns fits in a suitcase she moves from one roach infested motel to another. She and Jake, her five year old son who can see the future, are running from the men intent on taking him. Emma will do anything to protect him even when it means accepting the help of a stranger named Will. Jake insists she needs Will, but Emma's never needed help before. And even though she's learned to trust her son, it doesn't mean she trusts Will.'' -- from the back cover. $9.00



Swank, Denise Grover, Sacrifice (0.00) Trade Paperback, Very Good - Trade paperback; no spine creases and minor bumping to edges. Book three of the Chosen series. ''She was dead. No. She only wished she was. Everything Emma loves has been ripped away - Jake, Will, and her unborn baby. Within minutes of confronting her new reality, Emma is thrust in the middle of a ware between two supernatural beings and she's the prize. To save her son, she must choose a die, but emma wonders if there's another option -- Water.'' -- from the back cover $9.00



Swann, E.L., Night Gardening Hyperion, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Blue boards with blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with a Brodart cover and is not price-clipped. ''Within the shadows of night, in a grand old city, in a graceful neighborhood, there was a garden where lives would be chnaged and hopes renewed and two hearts forever restored.'' -- from the dj $4.50



Tademy, Lalita, Cane River Warner Books, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - Green boards with brown tape binding; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; possible first edition. ''Lalita Tademy had always been intensely interested in her family's stories, especially ones about her great-grandmother Emily, a formidable figure who died with her life's savings hidden in her mattress. Probing deeper for her family's roots, Tademy soon found herself swept up in an obsessive two-year odyssey -- and leaving her corporate career for the liffle Louisiana farming commnity of Cane River.'' -- from the dj $7.20



Tan, Amy, The Bonesetter's Daughter Putnam Adult, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 1st Edition $5.40



Tan, Amy, The Hundred Secret Senses Putnam Pub Group, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - 1st Edition $4.95



Tanenbaum, Robert K., Act of Revenge Harper Collins, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover and is not price clipped; stated First Edition with full number line; flat signed on title page with date. ''In 'Act of Revenge,'' his finest and most dramatically rich novel to date, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, the married couple who have been described by the 'Chicago Tribune' as 'the most interesting pair of characters in the suspense genre,' must purue, survive, and triumph over two of New York's toughest and most dangerous criminal forces -- the Mafia and the Chinese gangs.'' -- from the dj $18.00



Tanenbaum, Robert K., Justice Denied Dutton, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Printing, September 1994. ''In the world of legal fiction, Robert K. Tanenbaum has emerged with a style, a vision, and a following all his own. In 'Justice Denied,' Butch Karp is newly appointed Homicide Buereau Chief of the New York District Attorney's Office. Karp, the prosecutor with a perfect record of gulty verdicts, finds himself entangled in a case of murder that could be the first he'll ever lose -- and the last he'll ever try.'' -- from the fj $7.65



Tartt, Donna, The Goldfinch Little, Brown and Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Very Good - White boards with black embossed lettering on front cover and spine; dj is not price clippsed and is protected with a Brodart cover; number line from 2 to 10; ''It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above allb y his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating paiting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld.'' -- from the dj $13.50



Teilhet, Darwin, The Happy Island William Sloane Associates, Inc., (0.00) First Printing, Hardcover, Very Good - Green boards with silver foil printing on spine; dj has a one inch tear on the front and several dings; dj is not price-clipped; dj protected with a Brodart cover; previous owner's name on ffep. ''It could have been a paradise for Park Mattison. With a woman like Laina it should have been. But Park was mixed up in a ruthless game in which the blue chips were human beings and the violence of which respected no paradise -- not even on the Happy Island in Hawaii.'' from the dj $10.80



Thanet, Octave, The Man of the Hour The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Green boards with ivory printing and gold hour glass on front board and spine, embossed eagles on front; 477 pages with advertisements for additional Bobbs-Merrill Company titles. ''In the early eighties Fairport considered herself a city; but she was, in fact, an overgrown, delightful town sprawling among the low hills of the Mississippi Valley. Near enough the town's origin still to distinguich its outlines, but remote enough to idelize them, the old settlers were a power, and could be found of a sunny afternoon at Luke Darrell's livery stable, busy with the apotheosis of the days when they shot quail before breafkast; true brotherly love prevailed among men; and the river was the highway of commerce.'' -- opening paragraphs. $18.00



The Editors of Creative Publishing, Fabric Artistry (Singer Design Series) Creative Publishing International, (0.00) Soft cover, Very Good - Pin weaving, felting, texturizing and more. 112 pp. ''Explore innovative texturizing like bubbling, crinkling and pleating; create original fabrics by felting or pin weaving; build dimension with quilting or trapunto; redesign fabrics with decorative stitching, devore, or embossing; sew unique apparel and home decorating items that feature your own fabric artistry.'' Full color pictures; step-by-step instructions. $4.50



Theiss, Nola, Decorating Sweaters With Duplicate Stitch Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, As New - Clean, bright pages; tight spine; dj in like new condition. ''Transform a plain, store-bought sweater into a magnificent hand-decorated fashion item. Using a simple technique called duplicate stitch, even a novice needleworker can add one of these 60 designs to an existing sweater.'' -- from the dj. $6.75



Thomas, Craig, Lion's Run Bantam, (0.00) First Edition, Hardcover, Very Good - Black boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with Brodart cover; edges are stamped with previous owner's library name. ''The upper echelon of British Intelligence has just collapsed. Director-General Sir Kenneth Aubrey has been charged with treason. It seems a ludicrous mistake, until the damning evidence piles up: a videotape shows Aubrey begging the KGB for asylum, and a top-secret Moscow file called 'Teardrop'' reveals a long-hidden history of Aubrey's treachery dating from 1946. The KGB's frame-up of Aubrey is exquisite and complete. Aubrey's successor, Sir Andrew Babbington, is appointed, and Aubrey is whisked away to be interrogated. Now the KGB rush to fulfill the final step in their plan: to bring Aubrey to Russia, where he will quietly -- and permanently -- disappear.'' from the dj $11.25



Thompson, Maurice, Alice of Old Vincennes Grosset & Dunlap, (0.00) Hardcover, Good - Red boards with gold lettering on spine; ex-library copy with ''property of'' stamps throughout; 419 ppgs with three pages of ads in the back; previous owner's name on ffep $4.50



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