Search Results: Titles starting with C from The Book Closet

New York: Warner Books, 2005 ARC with minor wear to edges. "Cage's Bend is the story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams - and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love." A great read.

New York: Random House, 1989 Cream boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj shows some shelf wear and is now protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "Thirty years after the Gold Rush, men and women of adventurous spirit began to discover the true gold of California. They found it hidden in her soil and her streams, in black oil and golden citrus...So begins 'California Gold', the new historical novel by John Jakes. Sweeping from 1886 to 1921, the novel explores the lure and the legends of California, charts its change from a frontier to a modern state, and chronicles as only Jakes can the loves and batters of a host of vivid character..." -- from the dj

Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1914 Cover is torn in spots with part of spine missing; spine and pages are loose; browning pages.

New York: Warner Books, 2001 Green boards with brown tape binding; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; possible first edition. "Lalita Tademy had always been intensely interested in her family's stories, especially ones about her great-grandmother Emily, a formidable figure who died with her life's savings hidden in her mattress. Probing deeper for her family's roots, Tademy soon found herself swept up in an obsessive two-year odyssey -- and leaving her corporate career for the liffle Louisiana farming commnity of Cane River." -- from the dj

New York: Tor, 2009 Black boards with gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line. "Nine months ago, the power and wealth of the now-dissolved Androfrancine Order passed into the hands of Rudolfo, General of the Wandering Army and Lord of the Ninefold Houses. Nine months ago, his consort, Jin Li Tam, told him that she was finally with child and he would have an heri. Nine months ago, Rudolfo and Isaak began the arbuous rask of transcribing the books and records from the devastated city of Windwir that were stored in the memories of the mechoservitors, and collecting whatever books remained in the Named Lands into a new Great Library." -- from the bj

New York: Random House, 1989 Orange boards with embossed foil flower on front; gold lettering on spine; stated Frist Edition; ; dj has some sticker residue on back; not price clipped; protected with Brodart cover. "The lush islands of the Caribbean have always possessed a special allure -- as colonial treasures in days gone by, as vacation retreats today. Told in James A. Michener's incomparable fashion, here is a magnificent story of the struggle for empire, and of political, economic and racial currents in one of the most beautiful and hotely contested regions of the globe." -- from the dj.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1950 Tan boards with brown embossed title on front and spine; minor soiling to cover; tight spine and clean pages

New York: Philomel Books, 2001 Green binding with off white overlay; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover. "The 'Flying Dutchman!' The legend of the wind-tattered ghost ship and its mad sea captain, cursed to sail the seas forever, has been passed down throughout the centuries. But what of the boy and his dog who were trapped aboard that ship? What was to become of them?" -- from the dj

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948 Green boards with gold lettering on spine; dj shows signs of wear, but is protected with a Brodart cover; not price-clipped; spine is tight and pages are clean. "Off the coast of South Carolina, girded by a sinister swamp, lay Wood Ibis, great Southern plantation. Behind its pillared facade was a deep well of evil, an aura of terror and death. Edison Marshall, author of such best-selling novels as 'Benjamin Blake' and 'Yankee Pasha,' has written his new novel in the tradition of the Brontes, displaying a mastery of suspense, built up by haunting atmosphere, menace and the pounding march of Fate." -- from the dj

Crown Publishers, 1991 Minor Shelf Wear to DJ; Minor Tear in DJ

New York: Warner Books, 1999 Blue boards with burnt orange tape binding; blue lettering on spine; dr is not price-clipped and protected with Brodart cover. Book 1of the Sword of Shadows. "In Spire Vanis, the lord commander's foundling daughter is haunted by nightmares of ice; in the Blackhail clanhold, two brothers find their kinsmen slaughtered by swords that draw no blood; at a remote farmstead, a hardened warrior leaves his family to follow a raven's summons ... And soon, in a deadly wilderness where nature and the gods hae no mercy, two young fugitives must confront a millennial prophecy, as J.V. Jones takes readers on a journey deep into the start beauty, cruel peril, and incredible magic of the Known Lands..." from the dj

Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994 Mustard yellow boards with red tape binding; gold lettering on spine; drj is protected with a Brodart cover. "People are talking about angels as never before. More than two-thirds of Americans say they believe angels exist. Do these heavenly being touch our daily lives? Through contemporary stories and biblical accounts of angel encounters, Timothy Jones answers the question with a compelling 'yes!'" -- from the dj

Knopf, 1997 1st US Edition; dj is not price clipped.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1999 Cream boards with purple tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but has minor shelf wear; stated First Edition.

New York: Beaufort Books, 2006 Brown textured boards with green tape bindingg; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition with full number line; inscribed by author: "To Becky, I hope you enjoy Chameleon, D". Chameleon is a contempoary thriller about big money, high ambition, and low morals. Only an insider could tell a story exposing the financial world's vanitiy and greed in a way both thought-provoking and eye-opening." -- from the dj

New York: The Dial Press, 1977 Yellow boards with maroon embossed binding; gilt lettering on spine; dj is yellowing with a few tears on the top edge, but now protected with Brodart cover; previous owner's name on ffep; not price clipped; small corner torn out of ffep; spine is tight and pages are clean. "It was all true! it had been true from the beginning. God in heaven, it was never fiction; it was fact! J. Edgar Hoover had not died the natural death of a sick old man. He had been assassinated! With this realization, best-selling novelist Peter Chancellor understands with startling clarity the hell he has lived through during the past months. It begins on a lonely stretch of beach in blinding sunlight. A strange blond-haired man had approached him and spoken of unbelievable things. Of explosive private files, of deceit and extortion at the highest levels of government...and of a death that was not as it appeared to be." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 1988 Red boards with dark blue tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj shows age-related yellowing and is protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped; full number line. "Deep within the vastness of Russia lies a secret so dangerous to American security that it holds the potential to destroy Soviet-American relations. Deep within the Russian forest lies 'The Charm School'... -- from the dj

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008 Black boards with gold lettering on spine; dj not price clipped and protected with Brodart cover; remained mark on bottom. "It's the fire searon, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole's world upside down." -- from the dj

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923 Based upon the story by Hector Turnbull; Pola Negri Edition; illustrated with scenes from the paramount Picture; red boards with faded gold embossing of the title and author's name on front; spine is slightly slanted and edges show shelf wear; 310pps with advertising at the back.

New York: Daw Books, Inc., 2000 Book Four of Crown of Stars. Blue boards with dark blue binding; orange foil lettering on spine. DJ protected with Broadart cover. Jacket art by Jody A. Lee. "With CHILD OF FLAME, Kate Elliott takes us far beyond the borders of the war-torn kingdoms of Wendar and Varre as alain, Liath, Sanglant, and King Henry are cast onto different pathways - perilous, twisting roads which will neverthless lead them all to one fated moment in time..." - from the dj