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The Vampire Trilogy: the Struggle The Rage of Jealousy
Harper 1991 0061060984 First Printing Paperback As New with no dust jacket
Mass Market PB; Vol. 2; 1.0 x 6.60 x 4.20; 313 pages; The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith is labeled as a trilogy but is actually a series in four volumes. They are best read in sequence as the cliffhanger endings seque into the next volume. The first book finds the school girl, Elena, trying to attract newcomer Stefan Salvatore who, unbeknownst to her, is a vampire. This second book starts where the first book ends, in a murder on Halloween. Stefan's brother, Damon, has come to the town of Fell's Church. Damon has a dark side and is bent on taking Elena away from Stefan.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The Journey of Self-Dicovery
The Bhactivedanta Book Trust 1990 0892132701 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Gently read, clean and tight, no marks.
0.73 x 8.5 x5.61; 302 pages; His Divine grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is recognized as a ditinguidhe teacher of Indian culture and philosophy of the modern age. In thirty one essays, the author reveals how vedic literature and mantra meditation can help resolve personal and social conflicts and satisfy the soul's timeless search for perfection.
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Aaron H. Esman The Psychiatric Treatment of Adolescents
International Universities Press, Inc 1983 0823655954 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket; Gently read, dust jacket curling, rest of book is unmarked, clean and tight.
9.50 X 1.25X 6.75; 543 pages; Edited by Aaron Esman, and a good companion book to Psychology of Adolescence, Essential Readings, this book is as timely as when it was written over 20 years ago. The book discusses a variety of psychiatric treatments for adolescence from psychodynamic psychotherapy to residential treatment.
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Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
Avon 1999 0380570009 Paperback Fair; Used book with some reading wear and 2-3 pages creased . Alarm clock curfew written in back page.
Trade PB; 8.10 x 0.75x5.42; 286 pages; This book is as timely now as when It first came out in 1980. Written in a down to earth, respectful approach, the authors teach parents how to be supportive of themselves in the process of being effective parents. Cartoons show skills in action. Parents can learn how to cope with their children's negative feelings such as frsutration, disappointment and anger, how to express their own anger without being hurtful, how to engage their child's cooperation, how to set limits firmly while maintaining goodwill and many more common parenting dilemma.
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Alain Silver and James Ursini, editors Film Noir Reader 2
Limelight Editions 2004 0879102802 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket; Gently read.
Trade PB; 0.87 x 8.74 x 5.98; 348 pages; The second of the Film Noir Reader series, this book contains seminal essays such as a New York Times article written some 50 years ago lambasting crime pictures and an essay on how crime and violence pictures reflect on contemporary society. The book then moves to analysis of specific film noir films such as a comparison of 1941 and 1981 versions of "The Postman Always Rings Twice. "
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Alex G. Malloy Comic Values Annual 2005
Krause Publications 2005 0873499638 Paperback As New; Gently read, unmarked.
Trade PB; 9.18 x 1.75 x 6.10; 840 pages; This book contains updated listings and prices for over 94,000 comic books from the Golden Age through today. For the reader who buys and sells comic books, a very helpful guide in buying and pricing.
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Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Anchor Books 2005 140009688x Sixth Edition Paperback Fair with no dust jacket; Well read book with average reading wear.
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency; Mass Market PB; 0.87 x 6.89 x 4.33; 272 pages; In this debut novel of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, we meet Mma Precious Ramotswe, main detective of a detective agency at the foot of Kagle Hill, Botswana. Mma Ramotswe loves people and aims to solve their problems. There is no one she will not help and the reader at once falls in love with this endearing, amusing woman.
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Alexander McCall Smith The Kalahari Typing School for Men The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Pantheon 2003 037542217x First American Edition Hardcover New in New dust jacket
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency; 0.70 x 8.10 x 5.40; 192 pages; The fourth book in the No.1 Ladies detective Agency series finds Mma Precious Ramotswe doing well with her business. She is at a fine age, has her own house and two adopted children. Life is fine, indeed, though not without problems. For one, her fine fiance, owner of Twlokweng Road Speedy Motors and Botswana's finest mechanic, is taking his time to set a date for the wedding. And, another detectivve agency has set up shop across town. Of course, Mma Ramotswe is undaunted.
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Alice Hoffman Here on Earth
Berkley Books 1999 0425169693 Paperback Good; Well read book. Pages are yellowing.
0.98 x 6.76 x4.19; 336 pages; An Oprah Book Club selection, this dark romantic tale, is a seductive story about March Murraywho returns to the small Massachusets town where she grew up and rekindles her love for Hollis a love fromher youth. Alice Hoffman, of course, is a great story teller.
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Alice Hoffman Seventh Heaven
G. P. Putnam's Sons 1990 0399135359 Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket
1.50 x 9.10 x 5.10; 256 pages; This is a moving tale of Nora Silk, mysterious, sensual, determined single mother of two who moves to a suburban community of the 1950's and changes the lives of those she meets. Ahead of her time, she is a free spirit, coveted by men and admired and envied by women.
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Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones
Little, Brown 2002 0316666343 Fourteenth Printing Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket; Gently read like new.
1.20 x 8.30 x 5.70; 304 pages; Susie Salmon is dead at fourteen. As she looks down from heaven at her family and friends who must grapple with their grief, she longs to be with those she loves most. At once sad and inspiring, the reader is privy to the enduring and life changing power of love.
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Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved A Writer's Activism
Random House 1997 0679455841 Stated First Edition Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket
1.00 x 9.20 x 6.20; 225 pages; Alice Walker won the Pulitser Prize for her novel The Color Purple. Her other novels are beautiful portraits of the human condition. In this collection of essays, Walker writes about a variety of subjects including autobiographical evetns and on living in contemporary times in inspiring prose.
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Alice Walker By the Light of My Father's Smile
Random House 1998 0375501525 Stated First Edition Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket; Gently read.
0.97 x 9.56 x 6.43; 225 pages; Alice Walker, author of the award winning book, The Color Purple, again tells the story of a family (father, mother, would-be author Sussana and her sister, Magdalena) who moves from the United States to the remote Sierras in Mexico where they live with a tribe of mixed Black and Indian people and learn about life, love, sexuality and the affirmation of the spirit.
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American Psychological Association Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association 1998 1557982414 Fourth Edition Paperback Good with no dust jacket; Front cover is lifting and have lost gloss.
Trade PB; 1.20 x 9.90 x 7.00; 368 pages; This is the style manual for students and writers in psychology, behavioral health, nursing and other health care areas. It includes general principles and specificity , guidelines for statistical information, and ethics of scientific publication among other issues.
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Amorah Quan Yin Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolution
Bear And Company 1996 1879181339 Paperback Very Good; Gently read. Front cover lifting slightly.
Trade PB; 0.70 x 8.30 x 5.40; 304 pages; This book, written by Amorah Quan Yin, one of the Pleiadian Emissaries of Light, writes information channeled over time about hunam spiritual evolution as chronicled by the Pleiadians.
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Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter
Ballantine Books 2002 0804114986 Paperback New
Mass Market PB; 1.12 x 6.92 x 4.18; 416 pages; AmyTan is so skillful in writing about nothers and daughters that her books transcend all cultures. This novel is the story of the many layers in the relationship of Luling Young and her daughter, Ruth.
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Andrew Torrez Off Base New Insights Into an Old Game
Woodford Press 1999 0942627431 Hardcover Very Good in Good+ dust jacket; Back of DJ is soiled.
0.92 x 9.32 x 6.32; 256 pages; Andrew Torrez is a lawyer with a prestigious law firm, owner of Arbutus Sports labs, a software company which produces commercial and professional baseball software and coach of the Catonsville high School debateteam. He is an undistinguished writer who has been blogging about baseball when persuaded by Woodford Press to write this book. It is a great book for baseball lovers, coaches, and those involved in the sports profesionally. For instance, he dispels the myth that the team who does the " little thing" ( bunt, steal bases and pull off the hit and run) best wins the game. Case in point, the Kansas City Royals, has the highest rating on the " little things. "
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Ann Crittenden If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything Leadership Begins At Home
Gotham 2005 1592401511 Paperback As New; Gently read, unmarked,
7.90 x 0.90 x 5.30; 246 pages; Ann Crittenden noticed similarities between management books and parenting books and came up with the idea for this book. She interviewed many highly successful people who indeed, said that the skills they had as parents made them more effective managers and leaders. Crittenden points out these skills with illustrations and anecdotes about how corporate culture can derive from values in the home.
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Ann Valentin and Virginia Essene Descent of the Dove
S. E. E. Publishing Co 1988 0937147036 Paperback Fine+ with no dust jacket
Trade PB; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.76; 209 pages; Although this book was written in 1988, the message of peace and love is even more important now in this time replete with man's violence against man. The authors channel messages from the Archangel Uriel who calls to humankind to rally to peaceful action.
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Anna Quindlen Black and Blue
Dell 1999 0440226104 Paperback Good with no dust jacket; Used. Previous owner's name on first page.
Mass Market PB; 1.11 x 6.88 x 4.18; 384 pages; Fran Benedetto escaped an abusive husband with her 10 year old son, creating a new identity and a new life in a new city. And she waits for the husband who vows he would never let her go.
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Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998 0374525641 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket; A few pages are dog- eared.
Trade PB; 1.10 x 8.20 x 5.50; 352 pages; This is a must read book for anyone wishing to understand cultural differences but especially for anyone in healthcare. Lia Lee, a Hmong child in California was treated for epilepsy. Given over 20 medications over a two year period, her parents decided to stop giving her medication. Lia Lee's physicians had her placed in foster care where her condition progressed to coma. Considered brain dead, Lia was allowed to be returned to her parents. When the author came to visit the family two days later, Lia was a vibrant very much alive young child. Fadiman weaves Laotian and Asian culture into the story. It is disturbing but all too real as the clash of culture and American medicine unfolds.
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Anne McCaffrey Freedom's Choice
G. P. Putnam's Sons 1997 0399142703 Book Club Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket; Dust cover is scoffed and creased at edges, soiled on edges, but inside pages are clean and binding is tight.
1.00 x 6.90 x4.10; 249 pages; In Freedom's Landing, Kris Bjornson and other slaves were exiled in an abandoned planet which they named Botany. The slaves, with the help of exiled Catteni, Zainal, have now built a working community from implements left by the previous inhabitants of the planet. While the colonists are torn between escape and staying to forge a new country, Kris and the rebel Zainal fall in love and find themselves in a difficult predicament. Anne McCaffrey, author of dozens of bestselling futuristic novels once again delivers an engaging novel about a strange new land.
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Anne Rice Taltos
Ballantine Books 1995 0345394712 Paperback Good+ with no dust jacket; Used book; pages are yellowing.
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches; Trade PB; 1.2 x 9.0 x 6.0; 476 pages; This is the third of the Mayfair Witches Trilogy and tells the tale of Ashlar, a Taltos, who has lived for ages. He learns that there is another Taltos in the British Isle and he goes to find her. The book moves from centuries ago, at the "time before the moon, when the Taltos lived in a semi-active volcano and contemporary time.
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Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain
Scribner & Company 2005 0743271327 Paperback As New with no dust jacket
0.55 x 6.93 x 4.57; 64 pages; Brokeback Mountain, the movie, was a great movie. In this short story, Annie Proloux packed an insightful, respectful courageous story of the love between two cowboys in an era when such was not acceptable.
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Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Platinum Press 1996 1879582139 Hardcover As New; There is no dust jacket.
Sherlock Holmes; 6 1/4 X 91/2 "; 193 pages; This reprint edition is a facsimile of 13 Sherlock Holmes adventures as they were published in The Strand Magazine ( London) from October 1903 through December 1904. Add to your collection.
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Avi Crispin: the Cross of Lead
Hyperion 2004 0786816589 Paperback Good with no dust jacket; Used book with slight crease on front cover and slightly bent spine.
Trade PB; 0.80 x 7.50 x 5.20; 320 pages; Crispin's mother, a peasant woman, dies and Crispin flees to the woods to save himself. He is distraught as his friend Father Quinel is murdered, Crispin thinks, because of him. In the woods , Crispin meets Bear to whom he gives an oath of servitude. Bear mentors Crispin in contradictory ways ( Such as on the one hand making Crispin his servant while insisting that everyman should be his own master and insisting that it is better to live a life of questions. ) Crispin is challenged to rethink his view of God and freedom and his own mortality. Book for 9-12 year olds.
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Avodah K. Offit Night Thoughts Reflections of a Sex Therapist
Jason Aronson 1995 Revised Edition Paperback New
8.25 X 0.675 X 5.5"; 256 pages; Avodah K. Offit, MD writes about sexuality, a very difficult subject, with sensitivity and clarity. S he reveals her great knowledge and experience on the subject. A great read for therapists and lay persons who wish to know more about a subject that is not too often discussed.
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Barbara Freethy Silent Fall
Onyx 2008 0451412559 Paperback New with no dust jacket
Mass Market PB; 1.0 x 6.70 x 4.50; 416 pages; Dylan Summers is accused of the disappearance and murder of a former lover. Catherine Hilliard is a beautiful psychic has cryptic visions that can help Dylan who remains skeptic. As they are drawn to each other, Catherine is accused of being an accomplish and both are drawn into the web of a cunning murderer who want them dead.
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Barbara Johnson Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life
Word Books 1992 0849933137 Paperback Very Good; Gently read.
Trade PB; .70 x 8.40 x 5.60; 228 pages; Barbara Johnson is a humorist who is the founder of the Spatula Ministries, an organization designed to " peel parents off the ceiling with a spatula of love and begin them on the road to recovery. " A clear eyed optimist, she shares her positive, uplifting outlook. This book makes a good gift for someone in need of cheering up.
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Barry Sears, Ph. D. Mastering the Zone The Next Step in Achieving Superhealth and Permanent Fat Loss
Regan Books 1997 0060391901 Stated First Edition Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket; Slight shelf wear.
1.40 x 9.30 x 6.30; 284Slight shelf pages; A followup of the Zone series, Dr. Sears describes SuperHealth as "permanently enhanced quality of life: looking better, feeling better, strengthening the immune system, and slowing down the physiological aging process. In this book, he give s easy steps in dietary strategies and living in the zone for a day, a week and permanently.
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Bernard Edelman, editor Dear America Letters Home from Vietnam
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc 1985 B00LB477U Paperback Very Good; Used book with slight creasing of front cover and shelf wear.
Trade PB; 9.25 x0.75 x 6.10; 316 pages; This is a very poignant book from soldiers in Vietnam, some came back and some died in action. This is a must read for all Americans, lest we forget. It is as timely now as it was then; a reminder of the tolls of war.
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Betty Berzon, Ph. D. editor Positively Gay New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life
Celestial Arts 1992 0890876762 Paperback Fair with no dust jacket; Front cover is lifting. The date 5-8-02 is written on the first fly page. There is average reading wear.
Trade PB; 1.0 x 8.70 x 5.70; 302 pages; This compendium of several essays on the gay and lesbian experience was edited by Betty Berzon. The essays are thought provoking, very enlightening and discuss the breadth of the gay and lesbian culture.
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Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters
Harper Perennial Canada 2003 0006391710 Paperback Very Good; Remainder mark at bottom, gently read.
Trade PB; O.75 x 8.00 x 5.25; 328 pages; This is a beautifully layered novel of three Calcutta born sisters who, in their own way, rebel against their traditional upbringing. Tara, the youngest, lives the American life in San Francisco, divorced from her silicon valley millionaire husband. Her life is disrupted by a stranger who claims to be a relative. She also becomes fascinated by her namesake, a child bride in 1879 India.
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Bill Gates The Road Ahead
Penguin 1995 0670772895 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Shelf wear on dust jacket which has lost its gloss.
1.10 x 9.00 x 6.10; 286 pages; In 1995, Bill Gates outlined the future uses of computing technology. Bill Gates saw the future of digital technology when he dropped out of Harvard to build his software company. His predictions in this book have come to pass, a tribute to the genius of this one man who foresaw how digitalization will change the way we live, work, conduct commerce and communicate with one another.
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Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson Embedded The Media At War in Iraq: an Oral History
Lyons Press 2004 First Paperback Edition Paperback As New with no dust jacket
Trade PB; 1.20 x8.60 x 5.50; 448 pages; Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson present an anthology of the experiences of a multicultural group of journalists who covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Embedded with different military contingents, journalists ate, slept, trained and worked with the soldiers they were assigned to. They were far more likely to be injured or killed than soldiers in the field. Their experiences bring to our consciousness the devastation of all wars.
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Bill O'Reilly Who's Looking out for You?
Broadway Books 2003 0767913795 Stated First Edition Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket; Would be new but back dust jacket has small tear.
9.60 x0.83 x 6.36; 224 pages; Best selling author, controversial conservative TV personality host of theO'Reilly Factor takes on individuals and American institutions who are failing in their duties.
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Bill Rancic You're Hired How to Succeed in Business and Life
Harper Collins 2004 0060765410 Stated First Edition Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket; Slight rubingon dust jacket.
6 X 8 1/2 "; 200 pages; Winner of series, The Apprentice, and successful entrepreneur, Bill Rancic, writes about the winning attitude, " a willingness to challenge yourself, your beliefs and ideals. "
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Bill Romanowski with Adam Schefter and Phil Towle Romo My Life on the Edge: Living Dreams and Slaying Dragons
William Morrow 2005 0060758635 Stated First Edition Hardcover New in New dust jacket; Remainder mark on the bottom.
9.20 x 1.13 x 6.36; 320 pages; Bill Romanowski was a formidable linebacker. In this book , he bares his soul, admitting to doing whatever he had to do to be the best and most intimidating linebacker in the game including supplements and banned drugs. In his youth, he vowed to outperform and outhustle anybody else in football at any price. He played his best and paid with 20 known concussions, maybe more, dizzy spells, memory lapses and pain.
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Bob Gerberg Mckenzie Scott's 15 New Rules for Job Hunting Success The Art of Marketing Yourself Into the Right New Job and Career
McKenzie Scott Press 2006 0974511455 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Dust cover with slight shelf wear.
0.50 x 8.52 x 5.75; 160 pages; There are numerous job recruiters and yet, many individuals struggle to find the job and career that is right for them. One reason is that the job market is constantly changing. This book provides an easy to read concise way of understanding the job market and positioning oneself in the best possible way to be noticed by job recruiters. McKenzie Scott is the leading provider ofjob changing resources thus is an authority on the subject.
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