Search Results: Fiction from Hill Country Books

Crooked Lane Books, 2020-11-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero and the most admired inspector in London's Metropolitan Police. Along with a chest full of medals, he's got a head injury that's left large chunks of his memory missing. But Jasper's biggest problem is his father, the Duke of Kersey, who, enraged by a series of front-page newspaper stories extolling Jasper's exploits, decides he's had enough of the embarrassment and uses his political connections to keep his son out of the headlines and off the police force.

William Morrow, 2023-08-21. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with a full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes.

Harper Perennial, 2018-10-30. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line.

Scribner, 2014-05-05. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. This special edition was issued by Powell's Books with a slipcase. Small black mark on the back of the slipcase. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2015. An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology. The novel is about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015-03-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by both authors on page facing title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective clear mylar cover. Laid in matching bookmark.As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin, shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range, kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze.

Grove Press, 2020-09-15. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent.Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories, heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals.

Lynx House Books, 1979-06-01. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Author. signed by author on title page and also signed and inscribed on inside front cover. Light tanning on spine and cover edges and light rubbing.

Viking, 2013-05-28. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

Hyperion, 1992-09-03. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. "Edna Buchanan 9/92 After the Storm." First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. With a police cover up and citywide outrage brewing in the wake of a black football star's suspicious death while under police custody, Cuban-American crime reporter Britt Montero steps in to uncover the truth.

Grand Central Publishing, 2023-01-16. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. DOUBLE Signed by authors on half title page without inscription. Stated First Edition January 2023. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. Constance sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But along the road to redemption, Manhattan's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation.

Montano Books, 2003-09-22. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by author and inscribed: "To Jana and Howard with best wishes" on half title page. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023-11-07. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. During May 1940, as the German army quickly takes over Europe and Parisians flee their city, the head curator of the Musee de l'Armee receives an order to move a mysterious object out of the country. He heads to the port of Le Havre but discovers that the intended ship has been sunk. In a daring move, the curator places the object on a decrepit steamer that sets sail while under fire from the German army.

Hogarth, 2013-05-07. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line, first printing. Autographed sticker is on the cover of the dust jacket. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

John M. Hardy Publishing Company, 2007-10-28. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Unread. Second printing.
A young Confederate captain with a grisly past as a cavalry raider in Tennessee is on his way home to his family plantation north of Houston in the last days of the Civil War. In Austin, Capt. Jerod Robin is accused of murder and is thrown into the stockade by U.S. Army Capt. Santana Leatherwood, a Texan whose family has feuded bitterly for decades with the Robin family. In the stockade Robin meets British novelist and adventurer Edmund Varney, in Austin to write the life story of Lt. Tom Custer, heroic younger brother of famous General George Armstrong Custer. Varney is charged with attempting to steal Tom Custer's legendary warhorse, Athena, upon whose back Custer recently won two Congressional Medals of Honor. The two prisoners stand trial beside a 16-year-old mulatto girl, Flora Bowprie, who has come from New Orleans searching for her father but has been arrested as a runaway slave. Homicidal… Read More

Ballantine Books, 1994-02-08. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Stated first edition with full number line. Blind sculptor Mo Bowdre and his lovely Anglo-Hopi girlfriend, Connie Barnes, find themselves at a remote desert research station in the bootheel of New Mexico. The station is an outpost of gossiping, back-biting research scientists, thirty miles from the Mexican border and three hundred miles from nowhere, and an unlikely site for Bowdre's newest sculpture commission, not to mention conspiracy, sexual deception, smuggling, and murder.

Scribner, 1999-05-18. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. signed by author without inscription on fep.First edition with full number line. Book very askew. Inside pages clean and binding is tight. Using her forensic skills, from the crime scene to the morgue to the lab, Tempe Brennan probes a mystery that begins with horrifying deaths in a fire in Quebec and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985-11-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. "for Dusty who was in on this from the outset. Affectionately, Jake." First Edition with full number line. Dust jacket is chipped and has a lightly stained edge. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

ZE Books, 2021-10-19. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Signed by Author. Red cloth hardcover. Signed by author on half title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. Illustrated.

Candlewick, 2014-09-09. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective clear mylar cover. Master storyteller Gregory Maguire surpasses himself in a dazzling tour de force as he spins a mesmerizing, magical tale for readers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family on their way to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg, a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age.

Simon & Schuster, 2022-05-24T00:00:01Z. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. Signed by Author. Signed by author on tipped-in publisher's page without inscription. First Edition with full number line. In protective acid-free archival quality acetate cover. Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight.