Search Results: Titles starting with I from The Book Closet

New York: Harper Collins, 1998 Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped, but does show some minor edge wear, and is now protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "...Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with 'I Know This Much Is True,' a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of desctruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal -- this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. 'Change yourself,' the myth instructs, 'and you will inhabit a renovated world.'" -- from the dj

New York: Random House, 1988 Black boards with gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. Stated First Edition. "In the dusty Arab city of Masqat, a band of fanatical terrorists has seized the American embassy and promised a bloody massacre if its impossible demands are not met. ...At the State Department in Washington, a forty-year-old congressman who knows his way around the Arab world makes a secret offer of help that may be the last remaining hope as the terrosit deadline near." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 1995 Black boards with gold lettering on spine; possibly a book club edition; dj protected with Brodart cover. "The frontier spirit is alve and well in the old silver-mining town-turned-trendy resort of Aspen, Colorado, despite an influx of the rich and famous -- and Regan Reilly. Regan has arrived with her mystery-writing mom and suave, funeral director father to spend the Christmas holidays on the slopes and visiting friends. Secretly, she wouldn't mind meeting a single man or two. She never expects to be rubbing shoulders, and maybe risking he neck, with varmints, desperadoes, or art theives." -- fro the dj

Bantam Books, 1996 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

Riverdale: Baen Books, 1993 Black boards with red foil lettering on spine; dj shows age-related yellowing and is protected with a Brodart cover; not price clipped; stated first edition. "In the age of Mazonians women rule through magic - and men suffer what they must. Magical creations only last for a single day (magical food is great for dieting), but that is quite long enough for casting a giant wet blanket (if you're feeling kind) over a would-be rampaging male - or a block of granite (if you're not). No uppity males in Mazonia!" -- from the dj

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1984 Lavendar boards, slightly faded at the top, with grey tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped, slightly yellowed and protected with a Brodart cover. "They had parted years before in despair and anger, lowers sacrificed to a star-crossed destiny. Now she was bacck in his life -- threatening his marriage, his family, his heritage." -- from the dj

Hyperion Books, 1996 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Forge, 1995 Cream boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; previous owner's address sticker on ffep; dj is protected with a Brodart cover and is not price clipped. "Young doctor Gina Panzella has known her boss, plastic surgeon Dr. Duncan Lathram, almost her entire life, and respects him deeply. Charming and brilliant, Duncan has invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. Duncan's artistry in the operating room is the salvation of Washington's biggest power players whenever they need touch ups for C-Span." -- from the dj

New York: Atlantic Monthy Press, 2000 Burgandy boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; not price-clipped. "'In The Fall' is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent bonds between men and women that fuel their lives over the course of six decardes." -- from the dj

New York: Bantam Books, 1999 White boards with blue tape binding; authori's signature embossed on front board; silver lettering on spine; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Dani Quinn walked into her high school reunion with dread and anticipation. She knew Logan Webster would be there, and she had no idea how she would react the first time she saw him. She had left both Logan and the small Texas town years before. Her departure had been abrupt, painful, and not of her choosing. She'd never had the chance to tell Logan the truth. After all these y ears, she wasn't even sure he was interested in hearing her side of the story. She had come to the reunion to prove to herself that she wasn't afraid to see him again. And to ask him for a favor." -- from the dj

New York: Random House, 2006 Very clean copy with minor edge wear to dj; "A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship"

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934 Mauve boards with black embossed lettering on front, with cameo of two girls with a magnifyig glass; spine and edges show wear; previous owner's name and address on ffep.Part of The Adna Girls Mystery Stories series.

New York: Villard, 1986 Burgandy boards with blue tape binding; burgandy lettering on spine; inscription on ffep from prevous owner; dj has a few dings and shows some shelf wear; priotected with a Brodart cover; price is blacked out. "For young Johnny Morgan, heaven was 'a Kentucky kind of place.' Only the war that would divide his country could keep him from his land and his family. And while history has told of Confederate Genearl John Hunt Mmorgan's fearless cavalry Raiders and the battles and skirmishes wonm and lost on the great Civil War battlefields and behind the lines on back roads and across deep rivers, 'In the Seaon of the Wild Rose' tells the story of one man's Civil War, of the grace and loveliness of the way of life he fought for, and of Henrietta Morgan, Johnny's mother -- widowed, her sons off to war, her plantatio in tatters, running her family like a Roman matron, holding things together, and hoping." -- from the dj

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929 Black boards with fluer-de-lis decorated spine; previously owner's name in pencil on ffep; spine is tight and pages are intact; some age yellowing.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2014 Black boards with sliver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line; Book Two of The Testing. "With her brutal Testing experience forgotten thanks to a government-issued memory wipe, seventeen-year-old Cia Vale is eager to being her studies at the Commonwealth's elite University, as is Tomas, the boy she loves. Their bright futures are threatened by the past, however, when violent nightmares that feel more like memories force Cia to question reality and the true motives lurking behind the friendly faces of her classmates." -- from the dj

New York: Dutton, 1997 Light green boards with green tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "On the surface, David Mitchell and the beautiful Jesse Hayes could not be more different. David is a fast-rising, lavishly compensated young portfolio manager in the nation's most profitable closed-end fund, the ultra-exclusive and expensive Sagamore Investment Management Group. Jesse, both attractive and smart, is an underpaid agent for the IRS. But both are drawn closer together in a web of venomous deception and death that stretches from the frenzy of Wall Street to the darkest corridors of Washington, D.C." -- from the dj

New York: William Morrow, 2014 Blue boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; stated first edition. "A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the fold of the Sanguines, an immortal order founded on the blood of Christ and tasked with protecting the world from the beasts haunting its shadows and waiting to break free into the sunlight. Following the prophetic words found in the 'Blood Gospel' -- a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries -- Erin must again join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and the dark mystery that is Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh." -- from the dj

Scribner, 1980 1st Edition; dj is price clipped and shows minor shelf wear; pages show age yellowing

New York: The Macmillian Company, 1918 Burgandy cloth cover; rubbing on the spine; shelf wear on edges; loose front gutter; 513 pages; four pages of advertising in back

New York: Ballantine Books, 1999 Red boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "Hungry to leave his dead-end banking job and to play in the big leagues, Jay West lands a coveted position with the powerful investment firm of Donovan & Lloyd, working for the influential, charismatic Oliver Mason, a deal-maker with the Midas touch, a fierce ally who handpicked Jay for the job. With the incentive of a million-dollar bonus at the end of the year, Jay strives to make his mark, unaware that he is stepping into an elaborate trap -- baited with the seductive promise of power and influence." -- from the dj