Fiction - Adult from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From back cover: "Based on real characters and events, Saddle the Pale Horse weaves together the stories of a land where treachery ruled and blood ran and cruelty had no bounds. This was Missouri in 1864: Teenaged bushwhackers rode and killed with Jesse James and Quantrill and Bloody Bill, and a uniform was no guarantee of a soldier's allegiance. Book -… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a urricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems." Book - Very… Read more about this item

From back cover: "A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. But just one of the girls has a chance at survival. Arrested by the Gestapo, "Verity" is given a choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. They'll get the truth out of her. Only, it won't be what they expect." From… Read more about this item

In TARA ROAD, Mareve Binchy "...again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves." Book - Very Good+ condition. Red paper over boards, black spine with gold gilt text. There is… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "From the best mystery writers at work today, here is a collection of nineteen original stories written exclusively for this edition of the beloved Cat Crimes series. Our four-footed friends are always up to something, especially around the holidays, when mischief is usually brewing." Book - Good condition. Ex-lib stamps and dried glue. Front end paper has… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times - bestselling series. Book - Good condition. End papers are cracked in both front and back. Ex-library so stamps and card pocket. Book has slight slant, but will… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world, and slipped into the next. It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful and quizotic woman named Susan Delgodo. With shocking plot twists and a driving narrative force, Wizard and Glass is the… Read more about this item

According to "British Literature Wiki" Middlemarch is "...a fictional representation of provincial life during the Victorian era. It is a novel that encapsulates all aspects of Victorian life and its social classes where the working class, middle class and country gentry live and interact in a communtiy." New Edition - Complete in One Volume Published by John Wurtele Lovell, Publisher 1881 Fair condition.… Read more about this item

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic novel by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). It tells of Huck's escape from his abusive father and journey down the Mississippi with a runaway slave (Jim). Good condition for a book printed in 1918. No Jacket. Red cloth over boards with Green text on front and spine. Spine is seriously faded and shows… Read more about this item

From Chapter I. The Workshop. - "With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr.… Read more about this item

From Wikipedia: "King Leopold's Soliloquy is a 1905 pamphlet by American author Mark Twain. Its subject is King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State. A work of political satire harshly condemnatory of his actions, it ostensibly recounts a fictional monologue of Leopold II speaking in his own defense." There are a few black & white illustrations and a few black… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "...this magical novel of Seville at Eastertide - a seaons of splendid pageantry, thrilling bullfights, and deep piety. And, of course, miracles. An american journalist is in Seville on assignment. He is to report on efforts the rancher Don Cayetano Mota is making to revive his once-proud line of bulls. But the story Shenstone discovers goes… Read more about this item

From the "Introductory" page: "In the hills of life there are two trails. One lies along the higher sunlit fields where whose who journey see afar, and the light lingers even when the sun is down; and one leads to the lower ground, where those who travel, as they go, look always over their shoulders with eyes of dread, and… Read more about this item

Two tales of heroics on the planet Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Very Good condition. Green leather over boards with faded gold text on spine. Small stain at top of front cover. Light bumping to covers. Some edge/corner wear. Top of closed book pages has some speckles. Book has slight twist. Some pages have light age tanning/spots, but most pages are… Read more about this item

From "Of Course I Believe in Ghosts" by Red Skelton: "DOESN'T EVERYBODY? Sometimes, just before I go on stage, the ghost of the greatest pantomimist of all whispers in my ear. His name was Grimaldi and even though he lived a couple of centuries ago, he tells me funny things to try and do." This is a collection of ghost stories from various… Read more about this item

From an review: "A story of adventure, romance, and even some humor." Good- condition. Red cloth over boards with ivory text and design on front with image of woman. The ivory text is flaking from both the front and spine. Light edge and corner wear. Closed book page edges have some soiling. Pages 75 through 116 have a corner crease that… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Meredith Bancroft, a serenely beautiful blonde, and Matthew Farrell, an intense, magnetic tycoon, are both haunted by their once-in-a-lifetime love...betrayed in a conflict of heartache and pain. When the Bancroft family empire is threatened by a hostile takeover attempt, Meredith is forced to turn to Matt. As tensions build between them, bittersweet, poignant memories rise to the… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Under the dark, languorous eyes of the Duke of Claymore, Whitney Stone grew from a saucy hoyden into a ravishingly sensual woman. Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, she returned to England to win the heart of Paul, her childhood love...only to be bargained away by her bankrupt father to the handsome, arrogant Duke. Outraged, she… Read more about this item

From back cover: "...the story of Alexandra Lawrence, an artless country girl, and her tempestuous marriage to Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne. ...Now, she will fight for his very life...and the rapturous love they alone can share!" Poor condition. Covers are rubbed, bumped, have edge/corner wear and hard creases. Fairly large chip at spine. Some age tanning… Read more about this item

From a book review: "Lively, fast-paced...A worthy companion to The Killer Angels...Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded. His accounts of the battles of Williamsburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville are exciting....Through the story of the Civil War has been told many times,… Read more about this item