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New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first stand-alone novel by the award-winning King makes use of her studies in theology. It features Anne Waverly, a university professor and expert in alternative religious movements, who occasionally works undercover for the FBI. Waverly penetrates a religious group called "Change," which operates a school for over a… Read more

New York: The Mershon Company, 1903. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Arthur I. Keller. The Rev. Banks was a late-19th/early-20th century Boston pastor and author whose books and sermons often dealt with social issues of the day, including alcoholism. The temperance movement in the U.S. began early in the 19th century, then gained momentum in the… Read more

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1885. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good to Good Plus. Roe, a late 19th century Presbyterian clergyman, a chaplain during the Civil War, became a bestselling novelist after retiring from the ministry in 1874. His novels, with their strong moral and religious themes, were popular with the middle class in the U.S. and… Read more

New York: Knopf, 2006. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Though critics and reviewers seldom comment on the religious themes in Updike's work, these themes run strongly through many of his novels, including his last. "Terrorist," is the story of an 18-year-old boy growing up in a dying factory town in New Jersey, disillusioned by the poverty-ridden, materialistic… Read more

New York: G.W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1888. Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. A prominent, bestselling Southern novelist both before and after the Civil War, Wilson wrote "Inez" in 1850, when she was fifteen and living with her parents in San Antonio shortly after the Mexican-American War. It was first published in 1855 and many times since by… Read more

Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 2014. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A True Crime story about a young, fundamentalist Pentacostal preacher with a secret second wife who stopped her from leaving him by murdering her and leaving her chopped-up body in the Arizona desert. The story is told by one of the preacher's co-workers when both were… Read more

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus to Very Good. Three original science fiction novellas by three outstanding SciFi writers on a single theme: Exploring the reaction of modern man to a miracle, to scientific proof of God. With a foreword by SciFi master, Lester del Rey. Science Fiction Book Club… Read more

London: Panther/Granada, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Panther 04339: The sixth novel in Doc Smith"s Family d'Alembert series, this time featuring the new team of Yvette and Pias Abol, who are called upon to stop the religious zealots on planet Purity from launching a holy war with… Read more

New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus. Vintage Paperback, Ballantine 23660: H. Rider Haggard, a prolific writer of adventure fantasy from the late 19th into the early 20th century, is credited with creating the "lost race" sub-genre with the publication of "King Solomon's Mines" in 1885 and "She" in… Read more

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The seventh of the 16 spy-thrillers featuring the legendary fictional British secret agent, James Bond, which Gardner wrote under the publisher's Ian Fleming "house name" after Fleming's death. Once again Bond returns to action to combat a violent religious cult which serves as… Read more

Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1981. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book is a reproduction of the original book, a work of art composed of 52 chapters and 52 paintings (written by Kovner, paintings by Dan Reisinger) exhibited at Beth Hatefuhsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, in Tell-Aviv. The pages… Read more

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth book for Hansen, a master of the historical novel, is set in 1906 when Mariette, a beautiful, seventeen-year-old postulant, enters a convent in upstate New York. When she begins to bleed from her hands, feet and side, the convent community is thrown into confused turmoil.… Read more

New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Mailer's vision of Jesus of the New Testament told by Jesus himself, showing us the son of God who is wholly unlike other men yet still struggling with passion and doubt, a divinity sharing our human condition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket… Read more

New York: Avon Books, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The fourth novel in Doss' highly-praised mystery series set in southern Colorado and featuring Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon and his aunt, Shaman Daisy Perika, this time investigating the unexplained deaths of young men taking part in the annual Sun Dance ritual; remainder mark… Read more

New York: Pocket Books, 1965. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Pocket Books Cardinal Edition 75054; Levin, the award-winning author of "Compulsion," considered by many to be the most significant American Jewish writer of the first half of the 20th century, made his tenth novel the story of one… Read more

London: Burns & Oates, Ltd., 1960. First Edition, Later Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. A biography of Nicolas LeClerq, known as Brother Solomon, Abbe' of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Paris, who was among the clerics murdered in 1792 by the French Revolutionary mobs. The author, Dr. W. J. Battersby, a respected author, educator… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Using material gathered during work on his highly-praised biography of Pope John Paul II, Szulc, former foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the "New York Times," has written this fictional account of the real-life assassination attempt on the Pope in 1981, choosing the fictional format to… Read more

New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Kirn's first novel, following his highly-praised collection of short stories, "My Hard Bargain," is the story of the relationship between a pregnant young woman seeking an abortion and a bible-toting young man, born again after teenaged years filled with drugs and violence; boards and text are… Read more

New York: Knopf, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A major novel from the bestselling MacDonald that details the rise, corruption and downfall of a televangelism empire; a remainder mark on bottom edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Edghill's first novel presents a hard-to-forget portrait of a woman behind the throne, biblical Queen Michal, daughter of King Saul, wife of King David, who became the spiritual foundation for the Kingdom of Israel; First Printing of the First St. Martin's Edition; previous owner's name… Read more