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  • THE WOWZER. by Wheeler, Frank Jr.
    Wheeler, Frank Jr.
    THE WOWZER.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Seattle: Thomas & Mercer (2012.). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original by Amazon publishing. "In the Arkansas Ozarks, old-timers spin tales of the Wowzer, a giant panther-like creature that decapitates those who wander too far into the woods. County sheriffs deputy Jerry was raised on Wowzer stories, but they arent enough to stop him from carrying out his own business in the remote hills. Jerrys more than a sheriffs deputy; he moonlights as muscle for local drug traffickers, who sometimes need people to get hurtor get dead. Fortunately, Jerrys pretty good at his job. And since Tom Haskell runs the sheriffs office and the drug-protection racket, Jerry doesnt see much of a…

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    Seattle: Thomas & Mercer (2012.). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original by Amazon publishing. "In the Arkansas Ozarks, old-timers spin tales of the Wowzer, a giant panther-like creature that decapitates those who wander too far into the woods. County sheriffs deputy Jerry was raised on Wowzer stories, but they arent enough to stop him from carrying out his own business in the remote hills. Jerrys more than a sheriffs deputy; he moonlights as muscle for local drug traffickers, who sometimes need people to get hurtor get dead. Fortunately, Jerrys pretty good at his job. And since Tom Haskell runs the sheriffs office and the drug-protection racket, Jerry doesnt see much of a moral dilemma. That is, until he starts thinking about getting out of the trade, and then things get complicated fast." 290 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy black and white wrappers.

    Book ID: 53737
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  • THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET. by White, Karen.
    White, Karen.
    THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: New American Library - NAL, (2009). First edition - Psychic suspense novel set in Charleston, South Carolina. Issued as a trade paperback original. 335 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58538
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  • TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS. by White, Randy Wayne.
    White, Randy Wayne.
    TEN THOUSAND ISLANDS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2000.). First edition - The 7th mystery featuring marine biologist Doc Ford - set in the labyrinth of mangrove trees, sawgrass and swamp on the Gulf coast of Florida called the Ten Thousand Islands. 320 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 39325
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  • TAMPA BURN. by White, Randy Wayne.
    White, Randy Wayne.
    TAMPA BURN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2004.). Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 372 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 50939
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  • BLACK WIDOW. by White, Randy Wayne.
    White, Randy Wayne.
    BLACK WIDOW.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2008.). First edition - Mystery set in Florida, feauturing marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 342 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 60882
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  • DEEP BLUE. by White, Randy Wayne.
    White, Randy Wayne.
    DEEP BLUE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2016.). First edition - Thriller set in Florida and Mexico, feauturing marine biologist (and deepcover operative) Doc Ford. 316 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69431
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  • SIBERIAN LIGHT. by White, Robin.
    White, Robin.
    SIBERIAN LIGHT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Delacorte, (1997). First edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. 441 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped).

    Book ID: 81448
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  • MANNER OF DEATH. by White, Stephen.
    White, Stephen.
    MANNER OF DEATH.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Dutton, (1999). First edition - The seventh Alan Gregory thriller. 354 pp.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of back cover.)

    Book ID: 74446
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  • THE INTUITIONIST. by Whitehead, Colson.
    Whitehead, Colson.
    THE INTUITIONIST.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Highly praised debut novel. Although this can be simply described as a story of elevator inspectors, it has caused Whitehead to be compared to writers from Ralph Ellison to P. K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon. SIGNED on the title page.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 76734
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  • DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico. by Whitlock, Flint.
    Whitlock, Flint.
    DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80128
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  • WHEN YOU WERE HERE. by Whitney, Daisy.
    Whitney, Daisy.
    WHEN YOU WERE HERE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages).

    Book ID: 88008
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  • NECESSARY ENDS: A Tai Randolph Mystery. by Whittle, Tina.
    Whittle, Tina.
    NECESSARY ENDS: A Tai Randolph Mystery.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Scottsdale, AZ Poisoned Pen Press (2018) dj. SIGNED first edition - The sixth book in the Tai Randolph mystery series set in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 308 pp. ISBN: 9781590585467.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72155
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  • DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. by Whitty, Julia.
    Whitty, Julia.
    DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - An account of the ocean river and of the creatures dependent on this - a combination of cutting edge science by this documentary film-maker and diver and accounts of her encounters with oceanside and underwater creatures ranging from the Gulf of California in 1980 to Newfoundland, the Galapagos and more. Notes. 245 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57617
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  • DONOVAN'S WIFE. by Wicker, Tom.
    Wicker, Tom.
    DONOVAN'S WIFE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1992). First edition - Novel by this long time political columnist: "A tale of backstabbing, attack television, dirty pool and sexual double dealings" in a race for the Senate. 335 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 69169
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  • THIS COMMON SECRET: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor. by Wicklund, Susan with Alan Kesselheim.
    Wicklund, Susan with Alan Kesselheim.
    THIS COMMON SECRET: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Public Affairs, (2007). First edition - A chronicle of her more than 20 years as an activist devoted to women's reproductive health. An honest and compassionate portrait of the clinics that opponents denigrate as slaughterhouses. 268 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 59643
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  • JUST BREATHE. by Wiggs, Susan.
    Wiggs, Susan.
    JUST BREATHE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Ontario, Canada: Mira Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - "Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidelity.
    In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in Northern California where she grew up. There, she revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics.. . The winds of change have led Sarah to this surprising new beginning. All she can do is just…

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    Ontario, Canada: Mira Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - "Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidelity.
    In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in Northern California where she grew up. There, she revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics.. . The winds of change have led Sarah to this surprising new beginning. All she can do is just close her eyes...and breathe." SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 469 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (some toning to edges of textblock).

    Book ID: 87061
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  • A CERTAIN AGE. by Williams, Beatriz.
    Williams, Beatriz.
    A CERTAIN AGE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016). First edition - Novel set during the Jazz Age - the Roaring Twenties - in New York CIty. Author's note. 326 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.

    Book ID: 69429
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  • Williams, Lori Aurelia.
    SHAYLA'S DOUBLE BROWN BABY BLUES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). First edition - African American author's second novel - written for young adults, set in a poor Houston neighborhood. 300 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63421
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  • WHEN KAMBIA ELAINE FLEW IN FROM NEPTUNE. by Williams, Lori Aurelia.
    Williams, Lori Aurelia.
    WHEN KAMBIA ELAINE FLEW IN FROM NEPTUNE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). First edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.

    Condition: Near fine in foil wrappers (corners bumped)

    Book ID: 64985
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  • THE YUMMY MUMMY. by Williams, Polly.
    Williams, Polly.
    THE YUMMY MUMMY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Hyperion, (2007). First edition - The author's first novel, one which uses humor to "weigh in on nearly every maternal controversy (from extended breastfeeding to the return to paid employment). Thirty-one-year-old Amy Crane, six months postpartum, is stuck between two groups of mommy friends. On one side are the women from her childbirth class, dedicated mothers with chubby figures and comfy clothes. . On the other side is Amy's new friend Alice, a so-called 'yummy mummy,' who, with her similarly slim and elegant West London friends, takes Amy on as her newest project." (Publishers Weekly) 372 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87576
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  • SOME THINGS THAT STAY. by Willis, Sarah.
    Willis, Sarah.
    SOME THINGS THAT STAY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Set in Sherman, New York in the spring of 1954 , Tamara and her family begin to settle into their farmhouse. The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's coming to age and the fears she encounters with a mother ill with tuberculosis and a father who escapes into his art. 275 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 61307
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  • ANTIPODES JANE: A Novel of Jane Austen in Australia. by Wilson, Barbara Ker.
    Wilson, Barbara Ker.
    ANTIPODES JANE: A Novel of Jane Austen in Australia.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: The Viking Press, (1985.). First edition - Interesting premise that Jane Austen might have accompanied her aunt (who really was arrested for shoplifting some lace) when she was deported to Australia. First adult novel by this Australian author. Notes on the real-life characters. 330 pp.

    Condition: Fine in pale blue printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 55303
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  • IMPLANT by Wilson, F. Paul
    Wilson, F. Paul
    IMPLANT

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doherty, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - A novel of medical suspense. SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 5589
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  • SELECT. by Wilson, F. Paul
    Wilson, F. Paul
    SELECT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Morrow, (1994.). First edition - A medical thriller which draws upon Wilson's years of experience as a medical practicioner. According to the publisher's comments on the back cover, this was originally submitted anonymously. 332 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 49020
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  • THE KING OF COLORED TOWN. by Wimberley, Darryl.
    Wimberley, Darryl.
    THE KING OF COLORED TOWN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New Milford, CT: Toby Press Ltd, (2007.). First edition - Intertwined stories of two black teenagers which "put courage, cowardice, loyalty and betrayal side by side in an eloquent, evocative narrative where the demons and angels of a time and place are portrayed in black and white. There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Coloured Town'. .... Cilla will emerge from her ordeal carrying scars and grace to become a widely travelled classical musician. Joe Billy will be found hanging from the bars of his cell in a Florida penitentiary." Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Fiction. 351 pp. ISBN: 1592641814.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58785
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  • AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE. by Winspear, Jacqueline.
    Winspear, Jacqueline.
    AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (2007 - c 2008.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth in the prize-winning Maisie Dobbs mystery series, this one set in a small village still suffering from a Zeppelin raid during the Great War.SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.

    Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name, some scattered underlining, mostly in pencil.) Publisher's letter laid in.

    Book ID: 41557
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  • BREATH. by Winton, Tim.
    Winton, Tim.
    BREATH.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.). First edition - An unusual coming of age story - one about testing the limits - set in a small Australian town and along the coastline, where surfing provides a dangerous challenge. 205 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. Letter from publisher bound in.

    Book ID: 58891
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  • THE PLUM TREE. by Wiseman, Ellen Marie.
    Wiseman, Ellen Marie.
    THE PLUM TREE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kensington, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, set in Germany during the Nazi era. "A Holocaust story told from the unlikely perspective of a German teenage girl in love with a Jewish boy, it explores the horrors and fears of innocent citizens on the homefront, as well as the risks they were willing to take to do the right thing. Ultimately a story of human survival and enduring love despite insurmountable odds, it's an original and important addition to the World War II canon."(RT Book Reviews Top Pick)

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.

    Book ID: 77565
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  • THE POSITION. by Wolitzer, Meg.
    Wolitzer, Meg.
    THE POSITION.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (2005.). First edition - A "take on sex and the suburban American family at the height of the sexual revolution" of the 1960s and "throughout the 30 year hangover that followed."307 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. (toning to edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 88945
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  • THE BLESSING STONE. by Wood, Barbara.
    Wood, Barbara.
    THE BLESSING STONE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's, (2002). First edition - An ambitious novel, which follows a blue stone thru the ages, as it changes hands and affects the lives of those who touch it. 450 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of back cover)

    Book ID: 64699
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