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Lucy Marsden, is narrowing in on her 100th birthday. She had been married to her husband William More Marsden since she was fifteen. But Willie, a veteran of the Civil War, never recovered from his youthful foray into battle, and more importantly, the loss of his closest friend. And the stories Lucy has to tell of the war, Willie, her life with him, and the tales she heard from his one-time slave Castalia, call to mind a time and a place, a history and a legacy that is not soon forgotten, and a call to justice that never should be. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50  This tells the story of the little Skye terrier who, for 14 years, returned every night to the shepherd's grave in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, so dearly had he loved his master. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 During a gripping and suspenseful trial, a 78-year-old professor is torn by his love for the much younger woman he has saved from suicide--and his fear that she is a murderer. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three women, representing three different generations, narrate this story about the death of Stephen Van Allen, a mathematician in Virginia. His wife feels guilt at his death, his daughter worries about her mother, and his mother-in-law wants her widowed daughter to remarry. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all -- a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call "Caesar." Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Dunne's fictionalized version of the O.J. Simpson trial stars himself as Gus Bailey, a reporter covering the case. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Bam and Maureen Smales, a South African couple who pride themselves on their liberal views on apartheid, find their lives turned around when a revolution puts their servant, July, in charge of their lives and their fates. How they confront this challenge provides the plot in Gordimer's tough take on the appalling realities of apartheid, and on the responsibility of whites who were unaware that they contributed to it. Cover Price $10.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 The marriage is troubled, Jack takes a new job on the other side of the country, and in the midst of the disruption Elizabeth's father dies. When she hides herself away at her parents' summer house on the beach to grieve in solitude, she is inspired by the happiness of her parents' marriage to face, at last, the emptiness of her own. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 This series of poignant tales explores love and loss, revelation and reconciliation. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. An insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a housesitter. A pair of star-crossed travelers accidentally switch luggage and enter each other's lives. In their company are more journeys of hope and discovery. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Remembering their painful experiences of the past in which they were each manipulated and betrayed by the same woman, Roz, Charis, and Tony are relieved at Zenia's funeral, and are shocked when Zenia turns up alive and well. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 A former congressional aide of mixed race, Henry Burton takes a new job with Jack Stanton, governor of a small Southern state who has his eye on the presidency, observing his campaign, his idiosyncratic lifestyle, and the controversies and scandals surrounding him. Format: Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Struggling with a manic-depressive partner, a dear friend's death, and a failed romance, Hollywood screenwriter Cora Sharpe learns that she is pregnant and finds her life further complicated by her zealous mother. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Nora Silk moves to a Long Island suburb in 1959, and the place will never be the same. An outrageously unconventional single mother, Nora exhibits a courage and freedom that the suburbanites she befriends have never encountered before, and her example forces them to examine their lives and face their limitations. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Forrest Gump's life spans three decades of American history, and the heartwarming book that recounts his adventures has become not only a beloved film but a classic American novel. Cover Price $5.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging in Hunter Bell, a minister who heads to Utah's gold-mining towns after his wife dies in childbirth. A man with nothing left ot loose, he plays the card tables for money to care for his youngs daughter back home. But in the heart of a driving blizzard, Hunter makes a shocking discovery --and begins to see that a life tested by unthinkable cruelty can still be rich with faith, love, and hope for a better tomorrow... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother -- coming just as her own life is spinning out of control -- has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide "turtle lady" and renews old acquaintances long thought lost. But it is in reconnecting with her mother that she will learn life's most precious lessons -- true love involves sacrifice, family is forever and the mistakes of the past can be forgiven. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Hoopes's first work of fiction is a historical novel featuring James M. Cain, later the master of "hard-boiled" mystery novels, and H. L. Mencken, the famous iconoclastic journalist, as amateur detectives. Two Baltimore reporters (friends at that time and later in real life), they are investigating the deaths and sex scandals in the Harding administration in 1923, just before the big Teapot Dome scandal breaks. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 Millionaire media mogul Raymond Neenan is flying in a plane next to the Archangel Michael. When turbulence sends the plane hurtling earthward, Neenan considers Michael's offer to save his immortal soul. But making amends will be easy task, since Neenan has destroyed his relationship with his parents, ex-wife, his children and practically everyone he's ever met. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.50 The first in a series of novels, this heartwarming book introduces readers to a small, charming North Carolina town and its equally charming denizens. Filled with the mysteries and miracles of everyday life and rich, provincial humor, At Home in Mitford will have readers clamoring for more. Followed by a sequel, A Light in the Window. Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with such problems as an unwanted pregnancy and a prison term, in a sequel to Terms of Endearment. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Seven unconventional stories feature characters caught in bewildering situations, from a college student on vacation who happens upon a guerrilla war to a group of schoolchildren trying to navigate the waters of adult corruption swirling around them. Cover Price $14.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.50 When Martin Hasford marched off to fight in the War Between the States, he left his wife and children behind to care for their small Arkansas farm. Awaiting her husband's return, Ora and her children faced deprivation, theft, and two invading armies that brought war to their doorstep. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Set in the mid-Atlantic states during the turbulent pre-Civil War years, "The Wages of Fame" continues the epic story of the Stapleton family. As the Mexican War approaches, passions both old and new surface as ideals collide over the fate of the country. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 Throughout Europe, people and their countries struggle against the Nazis, including the wife of a German submarine commander, an American Naval Intelligence officer, and his wife, an influential journalist. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Airline pilot Captain Rayford Steele guides his terror-filled 747 back to the ground with more than 100 seats empty except for clothes, jewelry, eyeglasses, shoes, and socks. Steele finds that his wife and 12-year-old son have vanished, but he and his college-age daughter, Chloe, have been left behind. He and Cameron "Buck" Williams, who had been on Rayford's plane, launch a frantic search for the truth. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In THE SMOKE JUMPER, Nicholas Evans delivers his most powerful novel to date, a story of two best friends and the woman they both love. When a terrible mountain fire forces her to choose between them, all three lives are changed forever. Here, Evans explores the territory he has carved out as his own: raw but complex emotions set against a vast landscape. Writing unflinchingly about the yearnings of the human heart and the painful quest for self-discovery, he gives listeners a story of three fine people forced to walk the flames of passion and guilt, and to make the devastating choice between love and honor. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Oskar Schindler, a German-Catholic industrialist, erects a concentration camp-cum-factory in order to employ and hide thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Good Your Price $3.00 In this first book of the beloved Earth’s Children series, Auel takes us back to the dawn of mankind and sweeps us up into the amazing and wonderful world of Ayla, one of the most remarkable heroines ever imagined. Cover Price $7.50 Here is an unforgettable odyssey into a world of awesome mysteries, into a distant past made vividly real, a novel that carries us back to the exotic, primeval world we experienced in The Clan Of The Cave Bear — and to beautiful Ayla, the bold woman who captivates us with her fierce courage and questing heart. Cruelly cast out by the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla now travels alone in a land of glacial cold and terrifying beasts. She is searching for the Others, a race as tall, blond, and blue-eyed as she. But Ayla finds only a hidden valley, where a herd of hardy steppe horses roams. Here, she is granted a unique kinship with animals, enabling her to learn the secrets of fire and raw survival — but still, her need for human companionship and love remains unfulfilled. then fate brings her a stranger, handsome Jondolar, and Ayla is torn between fear and hope — and carried to an awakening of desire that would shape the future of mankind. Cover Price $6.99 Clare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart. Cover Price $7.50 Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman she is now desperate to become again. In Mystic, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving, too-silent six-year-old daughter, Izzie. Together, the three of them begin to heal, and, at last, Annie learns that she can love without losing herself. But just when she has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again, and Annie must make a choice no woman should have to make. . . . Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 As occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughter still struggling to become a nun... a son who prefers the bleak family farm in Ireland to London... the once best man, now Desmond's boss... Deirdre's bridesmaid, now a successful career woman... and their priest with his guilty secret. A time of transformation for their eldest daughter, Anna. For only Anna can confront their tarnished lives and find a truth to draw them into a circle of love that might nourish, protect, and finally heal them all. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 In London, Katie Byrne is an American actress on the verge of a triumph. But Katie seems barely aware of her charisma or her fortune. Caught up in a relentless quest for perfection onstage, Katie is not sure she will accept the career-making role she has been offered, even less sure that she could do justice to the part. Suddenly, Katie seems incapable of taking the steps she has dreamed of taking all her life — of claiming her life as an actress and of letting a promising love affair blossom. For Katie, the answer lies in a past she has shared with almost no one, in the small Connecticut town where she was born and raised in an adoring, close-knit family. There, on a fall day ten years before, tragedy crossed Katie Byrne’s path. Now she must return there — for answers, for a miracle, and for the kind of forgiveness that can set her free.... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Aidan Dunne, a Dublin Latin teacher, always meant to go back to the Italy he visited as a youth. But as the years passed, he concentrated instead on the usual struggles of daily life, like vying for the job of headmaster at his school, keeping memories of Italy in the back corners of his mind. At 48, emotionally distanced from his wife and baffled by his two grown daughters, Aidan Dunne might have given up entirely if it hadn't been for the evening class. His class. A class called Introduction to Italian. A class where people from every walk of life come together. A class where long-buried hopes come alive again. The teacher is Signora, a vivacious, eccentric woman with an irrepressible nature and a buried past. Her real name is Nora O'Donoghue, a Dublin native who abandoned Ireland decades before to follow her mysterious lover to Italy. Having defied her parents' Catholic conventions, she ended up in a village where tradition dictated everything -- including how a woman could love or grieve. Now, as she meets Aidan Dunne and the men and women who come together each Tuesday and Thursday night, Signora begins to learn their secrets and their dreams. And slowly she transforms each of their lives. Suddenly Aidan Dunne's last chance, his evening class has become a place of intrigue and revelation. Format: Hardcover Condition Very Good Your Price $1.50 This novel about personal and cultural struggle among Chippewa Indiansin North Dakota is set earliest in time--from 1912 to 1924--in the cycle of books which includes Love Medicine and The Beet Queen. Cover Price $11.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 It's 1940 and Linda Voss, secretary extraordinaire, has a secret: she's in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy Leage. Not that he'd take a second look at her, a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time caring for her faded beauty of a mother, and following the news of the war that is engulfing Europe. How Linda wins and loses her man, puts her life on the line for her beliefs, and finally gets the man she deserved all along is the story that only Susan Isaacs can tell. Cover Price $5.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch - saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Summer Sisters chronicles the lifelong friendship between two women, from their girlhood summers together on Martha's Vineyard to their more complicated adult relationship. Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the world of the Somers family, a world of privilege, adventure and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her 'summer' family had forever reshaped her relatioship to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined. Then, the summer she falls passionately in love, in one shattering moment on a moonswept beach, everything changes, exposing a dark undercurrent in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years. A riveting exploration of the choices that define our lives, of friendship and love, of the families we are born into and those we struggle to create, and a story for every woman who has ever had a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 It takes just an instant for a family's life to be changed forever. Now seven-year-old Frankie Heywood lies in a coma. The experts are telling her parents there is no hope. Their son is slipping away emotionally. And the Heywoods their marriage already strained to the breaking point are desperate. They have one last chance. Dr. Elizabeth Chase is a brilliant neurologist who has dedicated her life to coaxing children back from the darkness. Her work is unconventional, controversial and some say illegal. But the Heywoods have put their trust in her. They are convinced their daughter is waiting just beyond their reach. And they believe Dr. Chase is the miracle worker who can throw Frankie the lifeline that will. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 As Another Gorgeous East Hampton season climaxes, a remarkable woman, admired by the millions who know her only through television and her books - and cordially despised by some of those closest to her - is found dead on the beach with a stake of privet hedge driven brutally through her heart. Who killed lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting and why? With the rich and famous of the lovely resort village among the suspects, foreign correspondent Beecher Stowe, back home at his family home on Further Lane, traces Hannah's roots while digging for clues. Competing with Stowe is a young book editor dispatched to the scene by Harry Evans of Random House to find and retrieve the tell-all manuscript on which Hannah was working when she died. This is Alix Dunraven, a member in London of Princess Di's set of "Sloane Rangers." Now Stowe and Lady Alix make for an unexpectedly sassy and stylish team as they lead an elegant but deadly romp through the Hamptons, from redneck bars to the Maidstone Country Club, from rich men's estates to the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, from surfer hangouts to the tennis courts, as all the tensions and frictions of America's famous summer playground play themselves out: Old Money vs. New, tree-huggers vs. land developers, Hollywood arrivistes vs. Establishment WASPs. As Alix and Beecher close in on why Hannah died, a great September hurricane comes boiling up the East Coast toward East Hampton's golden beaches and dune-top mansions. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A young screenwriter must find his way to career success without losing his soul in this bitingly funny Hollywood novel that combines the fascinating behind-the-scenes view of "The Player". with the guilty pleasures of "Risky Business." Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 An eagerly awaited new novel by the author of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. Campbell's new novel is set in the white-hot center of racially troubled Los Angeles, where African American Esther Jackson has a promising career at a downtown bank. When a new black male vice president's behavior draws a sexual harassment suit, Esther is forced to examine her own loyalties. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $1.00 The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.... Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Known for her ability to outwit con artists, criminal defense lawyer Lily White becomes enmeshed in the life story of Norman Torkelson, who has been charged with murdering his latest mark after making off with her life savings. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The bestselling author of Alaska, Caribbean, Texas and Hawaii explores the world of the writer in his latest endeavor--a fascinating story of a writer, editor, critic, and reader locked in a desperate scenario of life, death, love, and truth. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Spanning the young American continent...its burgeoning east coast cities...its warring fronteirs...its lawless towns of the West...the continuing sagaof the Kent family follows the dangerous bloodsoaked years of our Nation's mighty expansion and thrusts a brilliant new heroine into the foreground of its struggles. The victim of savagery, devastated by heartbreak and humiliation, young Amanda Kent is driven by one burning ambition-to restore the house of Kent to its rightful honor. Thus she begins her most daring adventure... Cover Price $1.95 Condition Good Your Price $0.75 The Maxwell's and the Popes are inextricably linked. The women went to college together; their husbands share a law practice. When a momentary indiscretion has drastic repercussions, their harmonious lives are irreparably ruptured. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In this novel, Keillor explores the endearing idiosyncrasies of the folks at Minneapolis radio station WLT, examining the weird goings-on in snakebit Studio B and the off-beat programs that characterized the station. Condition Good Your Price $3.00 From Jeffery Archer, author of the bestselling Kane and Abel, comes this spellbinding tale in its complete and original form, published for the first time in the U.S. First Among Equals chronicles the lives of four extraordinary men who battle for a prize that only one of them can win - to become Prime Minister. Charles Seymour: An accident of birth kept him from an earldom, but nothing and no one can keep him from what he believes is his destiny. Andrew Frasier: His father was a football hero to thousands. Andrew intends to be a political hero to millions. Simon Kerslake: Born not quite of the true upper class, Simon is determined to lift himself as high as his dreams and voters allow. Ray Gould: Son of a Leeds butcher, Ray realizes early on that his keen intellect and his driving ambition can raise him from the back streets to No. 10 Downing Street. Through three tumultuous decades of bitter rivalry, they fight for Britain's most powerful office - a rivalry that sets honor against deceit, love against hate, and loyalty against betrayal. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Very Good Your Price $2.00 The story of the rupture of a family, "Family Pictures" focuses on the relationships among family members. David Eberhardt is a psychiatrist who blames his wife Lainey for the autism of their son Randall. Lainey insists on keeping Randall at home rather than sending him to an institution, and we see the effect of this decision on the whole family. Cover Price $5.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Twenty-six-year-old Jeremy has left his childhood home of Elsewhere, LA, for New York City, a very successful photography career, and a lingering lack of serenity; now he is called back home to bury the father whose love he never felt or understood. In returning to his family, Jeremy finds his studied detachment faltering as he learns long-hidden truths about his parents and reveals, in reflective passages, some difficult thoughts of his own. Vivid characterizations, as of Jeremy's outwardly cocky half-brother Jason and black-talking white friend Paul, and settings, like his grandmother's homestead and the affluent, mixed-race neighborhood of his father, buoy the story, which otherwise suffers from self-conscious turns of phrase and a tendency to meander. Cover Price $14.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 The story of five Harvard men and the women they loved-and the elegant car that came to symbolize their romantic youth. It is the story of their coming-of-age in the dark days of World War II, and of their unshakable loyalty to a lost dream in the decades that followed. It is the story of all our yesterdays. Cover Price $2.50 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 The fabulous beauties, famous and infamous, tough, tan, terrific - married to success, divorced from care, flirting with scandal. They bewitch their men with sensuous cunning, naked and greedy under silk sheets, hungry to devour every new superstud. Supremely wealthy, utterly powerful, endlessly passionate, totally ruthless - the shameless women whose every shocking secret Jackie Collins reveals from the inside out. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 A child wounded inbody and spirit. A horse driven mad by pain. A woman fighting to save them both. And the man who is their only hope. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Winning the lottery may prove to be a nightmare for Claire Goddard and her daughter. Suddenly exposed to the dark side of luxury, Claire risked losing all that mattered most to her. Now she must fight for the one thing money can never buy: her precious daughter's love… Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Powered by the dreams and struggles of three generations, the Thornbirds is the epic saga of a family rooted in the Australian sheep country. At the story's heart is the love of Meggie Cleary, who can never posess the man she deperately adores, and Ralph de Bricassart, who rises from parish priest to the inner circles of the vatican...but whose passion for Meggie will follow him all the days of his life. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Fame is a fleeting thing, as ex-soap opera star Rhys Waveral discovers. when he loses all his money in the stock market and no new acting jobs are forthcoming, eviction from his elegant hotel suite looms large. Stripped of all his assets, Rhys realizes he has only one thing left to sell: himself. And a pair of jet-setting dowagers couldn't be more thrilled. From staid English country houses to flamboyant Parisian nightclubs and an outrageous costume ball in Tangiers, Rupert Everett spins a raucous and irresistible modern farce. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Jack T. Oliver is a Trailways bus driver on the route from Houston to Corpus Christi. He is several weeks away from the "master operator" badge, which commemorates his years of service and experience, when he meets his "white widow"--a beautiful woman who rides his bus each Friday. Jack's fantasies about this woman interfere with his job and his marriage, and eventually reach the level of obsession. "The White Widow" is imbued with the offbeat lore of the bus lines, and Lehrer offers a poignant portrait of a career driver's interior life. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 In Jane Alison's version of the last years of the Roman poet Ovid, he is exiled from Rome by the Emperor Augustus because of his liaison with a young women who is a practitioner of witchcraft. Cover Price $13.00 Condition Good Your Price $3.00 Five actresses, with all the usual vices and hangups of Hollywood stars, are nominated for Best Actress; one resolves that, if she doesn't win, she will murder the winner in revenge. Cover Price $10.95 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Billy Lynch is an alcoholic. At his death, his large Irish Catholic family in Queens tells stories about him--his loyalty, his wacky side, his sad past--trying to understand the roots of his destructive drinking. Cover Price $12.95 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 A Japanese-American fisherman's 1954 murder trial becomes the backdrop of a story that follows a doomed love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl, a simmering land dispute, and the wartime internment of San Piedro's Japanese residents. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 A novel in three sections about the life of Ruth Cole: her childhood in the Hamptons, her success as an author, and her experience as a widow on the brink of falling in love. The story begins in the summer of 1958, during Ted and Marion Cole's rocky marriage when their two sons die in a terrible accident. Ruth grows up in the shadow of the memory of the missing boys, about whom the parents talk incessantly. In the second section, the story leaps forward into 1990, when Ruth is on a speaking tour, and the action moves ahead to 1995 in the final third. This disturbing yet humorous novel touches upon the passage of time, the severity of grief, and a writer's relationship to her work. Format: Hardcover Cover Price $27.95 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. Cover Price $12.00 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.50 Wilton Barnhardt's novel of coming of age in New York City brims with energy, surprise, irresistible humor, and the heady rush of youth. Its hero, Gil Freeman, a mid-western aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardom--but instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn. Cover Price $12.95 Condition Very Good Your Price $3.00 In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life and death force. Condition Very Good Your Price $3.50 In the second story in the popular Lavette series, listeners share the passion of the vivid characters as they deal with the global conflict of WWII. Cover Price $2.75 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 They meet at their father's funeral, two beautiful women who could almost be twins. Abbie Lawson is the gently bred daugter, raised in the lap of luxury. Rachel Farr is the love child of Dean Lawson and a fiery artist. Rachel's life has been modest and lonely--until now. For the father's death will set off a fierce competition between the sisters, and the stakes are nothing less than all that is Texas at its most magnificent--its oil fields, its Arabian horse farms, and its extraordinary men--men who will love two women who should have been the best of friends. Instead, they are locked in a battle to prove whom their father loved best by fighting to inherit his legacy.... Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 She had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt--which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen, who at 78, might be slowing down just a bit. When young, delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake.... Cover Price $5.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Married into a family with an impeccable social standing, Mimi Myerson Moore, a woman of immigrant roots, must struggle to keep her empire, the Miray cosmetics company, as the man she loves tries to destroy it. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 The chaotic events of World War II find a shy young English girl in Ireland under the care of the wild and boisterous O'Connor family. It is through them that she meets the young lady destined to become her best friend...and together they will endure years of change, joy, sorrow, soaring dreams, bitter betrayals, and an unbreakable bond that nothing could tear asunder. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In an old New England coastal town, a sailboat named White Wings becomes the obsession of a man determined to restore the battered craft, convinced that his future is linked to the boat's history. But the repairs of the vessel lead him deep into the lives and secrets of three generations of women: Taylor Hayawaka, White Wings present owner; her daughter Rebecca; and Tayor's mother Becky, who vanished at sea many years ago...a mystery waiting to be solved! Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Returning to humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world--always driven to reach a place that they can finally call home. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 On the eve of their fortieth wedding anniversary, the Seagraves are among the most enviable couples in Miramonte, California, and still deeply in love --until the night Lydia Seagrave picks up a gun and shoots her husband. Novelist Daphne returns home and is forced to contend not only with her father's murder but also with her undeniable feelings for the only man she has ever loved--the D.A. who is prosecuting her mother. Youngest daughter Alex is determined to vindicate him and Kitty sets out to vindicate her mother and enters headlong into a passionate love affair with a younger man. As the devastated sisters come together to unravel the truth about their family, they must also face the lies and betrayals they've unknowingly taken part in. They must rebuild from their shattered illusions a life that is honest. . . even at the risk of being painful. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare’s colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi--the Mammoth Hunters. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. Bringing back the single pup of a lone wolf she has killed, Ayla shows the way she tames animals. She finds women friends and painful memories of the Clan she left behind, and meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse--inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy that he tries to control by avoiding her. Unfamiliar with the ways of the Others, Ayla misunderstands, and thinking Jondalar no longer loves her, she turns more to Ranec. Throughout the icy winter the tension mounts, but warming weather will bring the great mammoth hunt and the mating rituals of the Summer Meeting, when Ayla must choose to remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or to follow Jondalar on a long journey into an unknown future. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 In this moving sequel to the unforgettable Garden of Lies, Rose Santini Griffin and Rachel MacClanahan, now grown women with children of their own, are once again thrust into a head-on collision with the destiny that has haunted them since the two were switched at birth on the night of a catastrophic hospital blaze. Now they face the greatest challenge of their lives: the impending marriage of Rose's capable and thoughtful son to Rachel's emotionally fragile daughter, which threatens to divide both families forever--just as Rachel's dear mother, Sylvie, learns she is dying. Only Rose knows that Sylvie is in actuality her mother--and what she wants more than ever is to be loved and recognized as Sylvie's own. Now a widow coping with the loss of her beloved husband--yet powerfully attracted to a dynamic radio talk-show host--Rose turns to her mother for help. In frail health, but still strong in spirit, Sylvie is at long last forced to tear free from the tangled web woven by nearly half a century of lies and reveal a truth that must shatter the lives of both her daughters before it can begin to heal them. Sure to rival the success of the original, this spellbinding novel is the answer to the question readers around the world have been asking since the publication of Garden of Lies nearly a decade ago. Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Cover Price $5.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Six turbulent generations of the determined Pratt clan pursue a lost Paul Revere treasure, in a saga that brings readers from the grit and romance of old Boston to the Back Bay of modern day. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But in this age of magnificent triumph and barbaric cruelty, internal rebellion threatens the stability and survival of the mighty Republic. And an aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded 'conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, powerseekers and Senate intriguers -- and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three women, including psychologist Ellie Nightingale, former champion rider Kate Sutton, and star rider Skylar Sutton, find their lives changed and their destinies linked by their experiences and a cruel decision. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 At forty, Sylvie Schiffer has everything: a gorgeous house, two perfect children, a successful husband with a lucrative business.Everything but what she wants most: passion and romance. With the twins off to college, Sylvie thinks her marriage is about to bloom, until she discovers that her husband, Bob, is already seeding the garden--with a woman named Marla! When Sylvie confronts Marla, she gets the shock--and inspiration---of her life. Except for ten years and fifteen pounds, she and Marla could be twins. But all is not bliss even for Marla. Though she has the best of love--romantic presents, hot sex, candlelit dinners--she lacks the one thing she wants most: a husband of her own. Going beyond revenge, Sylvie hatches a brilliant, hilarious, and daringly outrageous scheme that just might fulfill both their wildest dreams...or leave them with nothing but two broken hearts. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Renowned novelist, poet, and short story writer Margaret Atwood has a gift unique among writers. In this marvelous collection of twelve short stories, Ms. Atwood writes of a woman who remembers her mother's favorite stories; a potter who tries to come to terms with the poets she lives with; a girl who agrees to go on a perilous raft trip because she is flattered to be invited, but knows herself unequal to the task. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three grown children try to snag an elderly bachelor for Mom when she ditches her Florida retirement home. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A brilliant Los Angeles divorce lawyer, Anne Garnett, returns to Tamarack, Colorado, her home town, to mourn her grandfather's recent death and is confronted by Vincent Chatham, the man who helped make her childhood so miserable. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again. . . . Cover Price $7.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A fortyish lawyer and rancher about to settle for a younger woman finds true love and heartbreak when he falls for a beautiful violinist, who is killed in a prairie fire. But their love is soul-deep and continues to change the lives of everyone around them. Lily Barton's most prized possession is a teardrop pearl pendant. Alone in the world, she has no idea where it came from or why she has it. But she is desperate to learn more of her forgotten past, to find her identity, and claim her legacy, whatever it might be. Searching for answers everywhere, she discovers her great-grandmother Olivia's diary. Across the years it reaches out to her, revealing the forgotten truth behind a love that is so profound, so passionate, and so complete, that nothing could destroy the power of its magic. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" comes the story of Lydia Espana, an emigre from Cuba who works in Manhattan as a cleaning woman. Writing with spellbinding passion, Hijuelos simultaneously tells Lydia's tale as well as stories of the secret lives she uncovers in her clients' apartments. Format: Hardcover Condition New Your Price $2.00 Presents the hilarious and charming tale of a lifelong rivalry between golden-boy baseball superstar Davy Tremayne and a raving psychotic player, Jay Bates, whose teams are set to meet for the National League pennant, with the fireworks about to begin. Cover Price $12.00 Condition New Your Price $2.00 Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that way... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 All of designer Karen Kahn's dreams seem to be coming true. She's been honored with the fashion industry's most coveted award, her marriage is thriving, and some very impressive money is being dangled in front of her in a proposed buyout. The only thing missing is that which she craves most -- a baby. Then shereceives the heartbreaking news that she will never be able to bear a child. it seems that although she has a designer label, she definitely doesn't have designer genes. Karen becomes determined to find her own biological mother -- a woman she has never known. But as if the doctor's verdict has pulled a loose thread, Karen's carefully stitched Iife begins to unravel, and she suddenly finds herself on the brink of losing her company, her husband, and the only family she has ever known. Now Karen must decide which of her dreams she still wants...because keeping them alive is going to be the hardest thing she's ever had to do. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Three beautiful British sisters come to live in San Francisco with their rich Uncle Gideon whose protege, Curt Ivory, is destined to claim the heart of one of the sisters. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Brothers James and Kevin Bannon, the sons of a prosperous New Jersey businessman, are forced to fight on opposing sides in the Civil War when James marches with the Lexington Defenders and Kevin joins the New Jersey militia. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Alexandria's world revolves around her beloved husband, her children and her horse farm in Maryland. Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing, carried on successfully after the death of her first husband, are important factors in Alex' life. The five children grow up, leave home to build their own lives and return to Wild Swan to share success, happiness and tragedy with their parents. Opposed to slavery, Alex and Rane run their farm and shipping business with free employees but nevertheless are touched by the political upheaval preceding the Civil War. The war brings hardships, tragedy and divided loyalities but the family is held together by a strong and caring Alex. Cover Price $4.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Harris Henderson is a man with a mission. Almost single-handedly, he's built a sanctuary for injured birds of prey in the wilds of the South Carolina coast. But the birds aren't the only wounded creatures in this book. Harris is so involved with the birds, he has lost much of his ability to connect with humans. And Ella Majors, a nurse Harris has employed to care for his daughter, who has juvenile diabetes, is consumed with overwhelming guilt. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $2.50 April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning. Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with disturbing questions about the past -- and with the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca, and the truth behind her mysterious death. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Behind the shiny façade of her seemingly idyllic life, Mattie Hart feels as though she is gradually falling apart. After sixteen years of marriage, she has discovered that her husband Jake, a high-profile defense attorney, is ensconced in yet another affair.But it is only when Jake finally confesses his infidelity and leaves to live with his girlfriend that a far greater tragedy descends upon the embattled Hart family - Mattie receives some devastating news that will alter all of their lives. Racked with guilt, Jake returns home to take care of Mattie. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Here is Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece--a story of patricide and family rivalry embodying the disintegration of a whole society, Russia in the 1870s. Cover Price $2.50 Condition Good Your Price $0.50 At four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by the shattering sound of Russian tanks tearing the city apart. The Hungarian revolution — five brief, glorious days of freedom that had yielded a glimpse at a different kind of future — was over. But there was a bridge at Andau, on the Austrian border, and if a Hungarian could reach that bridge, he was nearly free. It was about the most inconsequential bridge in Europe, but by an accident of history it became, for a few flaming weeks, one of the most important bridges in the world, for across its unsteady planks fled the soul of a nation.... Cover Price $4.95 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Hollywood producer Danny Dennison, 55, keeps his Jewish birthright a secret and bitterly endures the dissolution of his joyless marriage; fortunately, he falls for a quintessential whore-with-a-heart-of-gold whose unconditional love allows him to own up to his identity. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When Kyra Latimer loses her husband to a freak accident in Manhattan, she can't imagine how she'll be able to move into the future without him. But on the day of his funeral, the unimaginable happens. A young woman, with a small boy in tow shows up at Kyra's home, claiming to be the child Kyra surrendered for adoption some twenty-odd years before. Refusing to accept the truth -- that Kyra cannot possibly be her mother -- Jennifer Cullen insists on leaving her three-year-old son, Jesse, with his "grandmother." Touched by the boy's visible neglem Kyra agrees to keep Jesse. And Kyra takes on a new role -- as mother. As it turns out Jesse is no ordinary child, and Kyra is no ordinary mother. In the course of their life together, Kyra and Jesse flourish and flounder in unanticipated ways. Until, finally, Kyra is forced to confront an impossible choice: whether or not to honor the life-or-deach decision of her adopted son. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 After several years, McMillan is back with her distinctive style of unveiling the trials and mishaps of modern-day life for black folks. This time she focuses on the Price family: mother, father, three daughters, and a son in various stages of various life crises. Age and disappointment with her life and the lives of her children have driven Viola into a strident bitterness, and she has driven away her husband of 38 years with her constant criticism and cynicism. Cecil still loves Viola but accepts his banishment and starts over with a younger woman and her three small children. The Price children--Paris, Charlotte, Lewis, and Janelle--struggle with sibling jealousies, marital infidelities, child abuse, alcohol, and drugs. They have grown apart since all but Charlotte moved from Chicago to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and time and distance aggravate divisions among siblings and parents. Each of the children finds it hard to let long-maintained personal defenses down, even when their lives fall apart. Paris, the oldest and the "perfect one," can't reveal her loneliness since her divorce; addicted to painkillers, she maintains a punishing career schedule. Confronted with the fact that her second husband has been molesting her teenage daughter, Janelle has to choose between financial security and protecting her daughter. A strong matriarch, Viola struggles to hold the family together while she loses the softness within that had held her marriage together. Cover Price $7.99 Condition New Your Price $2.00 When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Gordon inherits a Mafia territory from his recently deceased Uncle Max, he becomes a semi-don in order to fight for his piece of the mob. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees. Cover Price $13.00 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive. Cover Price $6.99 Condition New Your Price $2.50 She was the incomparable Lily Molyneux, whose jet hair and sapphire eyes drove men to madness and revenge. Rich, reckless titles, her secrets would scar generations to come . . . . They could never have enough money or power to capture her elusive heart: three men who amassed fame and fortune in pursuit of the one woman they couldn't deny. And a fourth who dies for her sins . . . . Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Anna has studiously avoided her aunt Rose -- the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world -- ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but she can't forgive or forget. Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family's restaurant, where Rose needs her estranged niece's help -- and trust -- more than ever before. Determined to leave as soon as the struggling business is back on its feet and her own hurt is healed, Anna joins Rose in the kitchen of the Bella Sorella, where values clash and generations collide -- and outside, where their personal lives become entangled in surprising ways. Yet Anna is resolved to remain unaffected by Rose's longing to undo the past -- even though her resistance could blind her to a true and unexpected love that's reaching out to grab her by the heart. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Looking back, it seemed like paradise: lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends -- Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki -- shared everything and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through the past to discover exactly what went wrong, how dreams turned to nightmares as friendships faded and lives were destroyed.... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Philip Carey is an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelburg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor. He meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Cover Price $5.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 She had the president's ear and the nation's heart. She's the wife of the fourth president of the United States; a spirited charmer who adores parties, the latest French fashions, and the tender, brilliant man who is her husband. But while many love her, few suspect how complex Dolley Madison really is. Only in the pages of her diary--as imagined by novelist Rita Mae Brown--can Dolley fully reveal herself. And there we discover the real first lady--impulsive, courageous, and wise--as she faces her harshest trial: in 1814, the United States is once more at war with mighty Britain, and her beloved James is the most hated man in America. From the White House receptions she gaily presides over to her wild escape from a Washington under siege, Dolley gives us a legend ,made warmly human. For there has never been a first lady so testedčor one who came through the fire so brilliantly. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Shirley, Goodness and Mercy follows a few weeks in the life of capitalist slime-ball Greg Bennett as he hits rock bottom. When Greg's desperate prayers for guidance reach heaven, angels Shirley, Goodness, and (you guessed it) Mercy are given the less-than-ideal assignment of aiding him on the path to redemption. With Greg's history of abandoning his pregnant girlfriend, betraying his brother and business partner, and ignoring his dying mother, the angels have their work cut out for them. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Years after she flees the hometown that blamed her for a tragedy, Rachel Huber returns to care for her ailing grandmother and is forced to confront the hostile neighbors who still hate her. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Brimming with period realism and layers of thematic depth, this novel is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semi-autobiographical look at Jewett's world in the late 19th century. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts. It also eloquently gives voice to the women's issues of Jewett's time, cementing her as an icon in American literature. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Real-estate agent Frank Bascombe moves into his newly married ex-wife's old home and is looking forward to the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, but somehow nothing turns out the way he expects. Cover Price $13.00 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 John Jakes continues the fascinating story of the Crown family dynasty in Chicago. Moving from 1906 to 1917, American Dreams brings to life a brash young nation taking its place on an international stage as the children of the German-immigrant Crown family prepare themselves for the excitement of a new century. As Fritzi Crown becomes a movie star, her younger brother Carl seeks greater thrills in flying planes while their cousin Paul finds his destiny filming the destruction wrought by World War I to show Americans back home. From the early carefree days of a new century to the stark realities of the first world war, American Dreams careens through a decade of change and the men and women who colored a nation's future. As he has in his previous bestsellers, John Jakes combines deep historical research with a powerful story peopled by characters both vivid and memorable. American Dreams once again brings Jakes' legions of readers the drama and passion that are his hallmarks. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 In Homeland, internationally acclaimed bestselling author John Jakes brings to life an epic saga of the American immigrant experience in this story of a family dynasty in turmoil at the dawn of a new century. From the uncontrolled chaos of Chicago's infamous Pullman Strike, to the birth of the moving picture, and the bloody carnage of the Spanish-American War, the Crown family raced with the currents of a changing world-and their own limitless desires-and claimed America as their own.... Cover Price $8.50 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 James Macklin Chase was a poor Pennsylvanian who dreamed of making it rich in California. But at the turn of the century, the money to be made was in oil, citrus, water rights, and the railroads. Mack would have it all, if he had his way. And along the way, the men and women he met, the passion he found, the enemies he made, and the great historical figures like William Randolph Hearts, Leland Stanford, and Theodore Roosevelt, he encountered, helped bring glory to the extraordinary century. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $2.00 Doctor Glenna McDowell, who had grown up in a convent and then with a cruel foster family, delves into her parents' past to find out why their love had been forbidden, and what she finds transforms her life and her identity. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade. Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had been broken. . . . What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother--and herself--through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Cassandra (Casey) Ellis, 34, a single, successful psychotherapist, is the newest of this prolific writer's heroines. The novel opens with a memorial service for Dr. Cornelius Unger, a brilliant and reclusive psychologist who is also Casey's father. She never knew him personally, since she was the product of her mother's single encounter with Unger, and is shocked to learn that Dr. Unger has left her a $3 million townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill, complete with a maid, Meg, and a gardener, Jordan. Casey has always felt hostile toward her famous, mysterious father, even though her mother never expressed any anger. She's uneasy at first about living in a luxurious house haunted by her father's presence, but soon finds its meticulously attended gardens a source of relief from professional stress and the emotional turmoil of caring for her mother, left comatose after a recent accident. Moreover, she is attracted to handsome, virile Jordan. While she's rooting through Dr. Unger's personal papers, she comes across the story of Jenny Clyde, a young woman in her 20s who was abused by her father for years before being rescued by a police officer. Casey becomes intrigued: is this incestuous relationship fiction or one of Dr. Unger's case histories? Why did her father leave it for her to find? Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Determined to rise above all that she has ever known, a young and impoverished Emma Harte embarks on a journey first of survival, then of unimaginable achievement. Driven to succeed, the iron-willed Emma parlays a small shop into the world's greatest department store and an international business empire: Harte Enterprises. Unhappily married twice, loving only the one man she can never marry, personal happiness eludes her. Harte Enterprises, the realization of her grand dreams, is her all: her heart, her soul, her life. When those closest to her threaten to destroy her empire through their greed and envy, Emma brilliantly outwits her enemies. She wreaks her devastating revenge on those who would betray her in a way only she knows how. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Crafty politicians, railroad barons, bank robbers, and bounty hunters just barely on the right side of the law are all on stage as the transcontinental railroad comes at last to Old Los Angeles. America's premier historical novelist takes readers on a dangerous ride through the Old West, alongside an orphaned young woman and the railroad bandit who has adopted her. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The story of three generations of women begins with Audra in 1926 England, follows her daughter Christina to the top of the fashion industry in New York, and comes full circle with Kyle--who threatens to tear the family apart. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Scarlet Feather is the catering company newly formed by cooking school friends Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet. They're young and talented, they've made some smart connections, and they've found the perfect premises to make their new business the best in Dublin-but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of Scarlet Feather as they are. Cathy's mother-in-law, already disapproving of her son's choice of a wife, thinks that Scarlet Feather is just a hobby and that Cathy should stay at home. Cathy's husband, Neil, a high-living civil rights lawyer pays no mind to anything-except his work. Tom's parents are disappointed he has turned his back on the family building business, and Tom's relationship with his beautiful, ambitious girlfriend, Marcella, begins to unravel as she struggles with career dreams of her own. With the help of their family and friends, Tom and Cathy start to take Dublin by storm. While some things go according to plan, and their hard work begins to pay off, events occur that no one could have expected: The arrival of a precocious, troublesome twin niece and nephew to Cathy's home. Cathy's sister Marian, long since emigrated to Chicago, returning to Dublin in search of an "authentic" Irish wedding, replete with corned beef, cabbage, and leprechauns. And a troubled relative whose debts grow so great he will use any means necessary to get the money he needs-even if Scarlet Feather fails in the process. Format: Hardcover Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own -- to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny ... and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A journalist tries to discover the truth about her murdered ex-husband, a wealthy and enigmatic philanthropist, in a story of family loyalty, ambition, betrayal, and passion. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 All were orphans when they met in their teens in the late seventies, and they vowed to be a family. As they reunite at a film party in London, it is Rosalind Madigan, the angel of the title, who holds them together. An Academy Award-winning designer blessed with innate goodness, Rosie is troubled by commitments that leave her feeling estranged from herself and her friends: Gavin Ambrose, a Hollywood megastar, a brilliant actor/producer whose personal life is not as successful as it appears (Nell Jeffrey, head of an international public relations firm and Rosie's best friend, a glamorous woman having a secret love affair (and Kevin Madigan, Rosie's brother, an undercover cop in the NYPD Crime Intelligence Division who specializes in fighting organized crime, an assignment that threatens his life. Into their midst come a dashing French aristocrat and the world's most successful popular singer, two men who disrupt--and irrevocably transform--"the family."... Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The third in Susan Howatch's Church of England novels, ULTIMATE PRIZES begins in 1942 with the world at war, as narrator and archdeacon Nevill Aysgarth finds himself falling into a hopeless obsession over Dido Tallent, beautiful celebrity, and finds himself pursuing her through a swamp of guilt and the destruction of his valued moral compass.... Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him into the labyrinth of his past to pluck out the buried truth beneath the deceptions he has been living through. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 A critically acclaimed best-seller set in the glamorous, gangster-dominated Hollywood of the 1940s tells the story of Blue Tyler, a child star who disappears from Hollywood and becomes a bag lady in New York City. Cover Price $13.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Mary Read and Anne Bonny, a pair of unusual (real-life) 18th-century pirates, dress as men so they may travel freely, and, together with Calico Jack Rackam, they terrorize the West Indies. Court records provide some of the information for Garrett's reconstruction of her heroines' lives. Mary Read was dressed as a boy by her mother to dupe her in-laws; later, it seems natural for Mary to join England's cavalry in the war against the French. Falling in love with her tent-mate Frederick Heesch, Mary saves his life numerous times and eventually reveals her true identity. When their brief marriage is terminated by his death of consumption, Mary sees no alternative but to assume her previous guise and sign on as a sailor with a Dutch ship. In the West Indies the ship is besieged by the notorious Calico Jack and his lover, Anne, who has only recently thumbed her nose at her spineless husband and run off with Jack, stealing a ship from the governor in Nassau. Sailing the Caribbean in search of heavily laden merchant ships, Calico Jack's crew happily accepts Mary and Anne into their makeshift family, marveling to see the women fight, cuss and pirate with lusty enthusiasm. As each woman struggles with her double identity, the narrative becomes an absorbing blend of action, historical event and emotional drama. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Learn about the statue of the Unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon never made it onto the map, and many other small-town stories. Cover Price $3.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful -- and sexual -- for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new "family" ... that force her to prove she is a good mother. Cover Price $4.95 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Elise, Brenda, and Annie were all first wives inhabiting the headier spheres of New York society. Then in their forties, with their husbands at the pinnacle of success, they were abandoned for "trophy wives"--younger, blonder, and more decorative models. Now, they form "The First Wives Club" with the mission of getting even. How they discover the sweetness of revenge, return in kind what they have been dealt by their exes, and reclaim their own identities, ambitions, and abilities to love again, makes this an original, exhilarating, and unforgettable stow. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina at the beginning of the Depression, Collie Wright sees furtive figures emerging from the woods on a chilly, near-winter evening. The figures turn out to be clockmaker Wayland Jackson, a widower on his way to Tennessee to seek work, and his 12-year-old daughter, Paula. Wayland's truck has broke down, and the two have lost their way. Collie allows them to stay the night, and Jackson is immediately taken with her. But she is an unmarried woman with a newborn baby and dark secrets, the object of tawdry talk although her family is the most prominent in the community. Jackson stays to become a clock repairman, to build a clock tower for the community_and to court Collie. But the father of Collie's child, a wild young man from a mountain clan long in conflict with her family, soon returns to claim his rights, and a violent showdown forces Collie into the most painful decision of her life. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever.... Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Although it stands on its own, this lively page-turner chronicles five years of professional and personal ups and downs of the Wyman family introduced in Triplets . Only two of the triplets are still alive: Vail, a film critic, and Sara, a director. Two people arrive on the scene who can disrupt their lives and that of their strong-willed mother, Diana: the deranged fan who murdered actress Sky (Vail and Sara's sister) and now hounds the Wymans on his return from prison, and Sara's daughter Lindy. Lindy too is back from prison and treatment in mental facilities for having killed her lover Archie as a teenager. Her son from that affair has been adopted by Vail and his wife Patsy and believes Lindy is dead. Lindy's experiences have made her as tough as she is intelligent, and she begins building a career as an assistant to the brilliant but temperamental director Fletcher Avery. However, it turns out that Archie's ghost is yet to be laid to rest, and the Wyman clan will be further battered and exposed to unwelcome publicity before healing their wounds and becoming a real family. Cover Price $4.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.00 Twenty-four-year-old Alexa Walden secretly married 64-year-old millionaire Arthur Bannerman. And after his death, Alexa finds herself tainted with scandal and pitted against the powerful and privileged world of the New York rich, where she must fight the entire Bannerman dynasty for control of The Fortune. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 The classic feminist novel that awakened both women and men speaks to everyone about the deep feelings at the heart of love and relationships. A biting social commentary of an emotional world gone silently haywire, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Cover Price $6.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Recently graduated from UCLA's School of Journalism, newlyweds Matt and Elizabeth Lovell personify the hope and enthusiasm of their generation, with the road to success spread before them. The illness of Matt's father intrudes, however, and it is 16 years before they can embark on their dream of owning and publishing their own paper. Then Matt is lured away by an opportunity to supervise the expansion of a major newspaper chain, and soon he and Elizabeth are drifting apart. Meanwhile the two Lovell teenagers deal with the problems of growing up and their apparently disintegrating family. Cover Price $6.50 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled by his lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox. All this is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions. Condition Fair Your Price $1.00 At their 25th high school reunion, three old friends come up with the idea to hit the road for one more mellow, footloose summer in the sun. And so Ben, a divorced TV journalist, Ronnie, a high-powered CEO, and Michael, a high school English teacher, take leave of their families and jobs for a cross-country road trip to remember. Along the way, they see baseball games, state fairs, Elvis's Las Vegas hotel suite, and a convention of dental hygienists, and not only experience all of America in full bloom, but discover new truths about themselves. All Summer Long is a wise, funny, touching story you'll slurp down like a cold milkshake from the drive-in. Cover Price $5.99 Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. Condition Good Your Price $0.50 A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Now shielded by law as an endangered species, they reawaken an ancient hatred that will tear a family, and ultimately the town, apart. At the center of the storm is Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old wolf biologist sent alone into this remote and hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. The Loop charts her struggle, and her dangerous love affair with the son of her most powerful opponent, the brutal and charismatic rancher Buck Calder. Cover Price $7.99 Condition Good Your Price $1.50 When Joseph Armaugh first saw America in the early 1850's , he was a 12 year old Irish immigrant - a penniless orphan cast upon a hostile shore to make a home for himself. Years later , in his palatial estate , he looked back on his long rich life. He was now a multimillionaire, one of the world's most powerful and feared men.. a man who was determined to make his handsome eldest son the first Catholic President of the United States. Condition Fair Your Price $0.50 Lynn and Marc find they have more in common than the fact that their spouses have run off together--a powerful attraction that complicates Marc's quest for revenge and makes Lynn wonder about his real intentions. 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