Search Results: Titles starting with K from Better Bindings

Ex-library book has usual marking, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Kate and her friends fight to save their favorite tree from being destroyed by coming up with a novel plan to save it. 1965. B3.

Used book has markings, writing from the previous owner. Some bumping, rubbing, creasing on the top, tail of spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Life, for Katie, has become a growing heartache. Experiencing the loneliness and depression of her mother's unhappy remarriage... learning she's an adopted child... searching desperately for her real parents. All these things had hardened Katie's feelings toward people. Why can't everyone just leave her alone? 1972. U1.

Ex-library book in fair condition. DJ has tears and bumping on top edge front and back and some bumping on tail. Book has usual library markings, stickers, stampss, and card holder. Despite the disapproval of her mother and three sisters, Katie Thorne persists in her search for a husband, approaching her goal along an open road of initially promising but ultimately unsuitable candidates. 1978. A27.

Out of print. First Edition. No DJ. Acceptable to good condition. Slight wearing of cover, and some yellowing of pages due to agiing. 63 pages of excellent text, filled with great illustrations. A warm and charming story, beautifully illustrated by a Japanese artist, giving real-life glimpses of modern Japanese family life. B2.

Ex-library in fair to good condition. Usual library markings, stamps, stickers, marking, writing and card holder. DJ is in acceptable condition with normal wear, rubbing and smudges. Pages clean and tight. Binding tight. Kenneth MacMillan has been Company Choreographer to the Royal Ballet since 1955, and has created over fifty ballets. This book has produced a unique work of refernce which chronicles his complete output, from the day he forged his father's signature on a application for an audition to his appointment as Associate Director of the American Ballet Theatre. This book also includes his art and fineaa attention to timelss classical works, a gift for abstract lyricism, and an imagination encompassing Expressionism,which particularly appealed, perhaps, when he directed the Berlin Opera Ballet. This is a detailed history of each work and put the record straight. 1985. A5.

Used paperback in acceptable condition. Pages clean except pen marks on inside cover. Smuding, staining and spots on edges of pages. Tanning of pages from aging. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Rubbing and smudging on cover. Creasing on cover. When a sultry siren quirked her pinky and invited playboy Nick Wyatt for the ride of his life, he happily obliged... right up until the woman held him at gunpoint and headed for Mexico! Harlequin American Romance, No 506. 1993. A20.

Ex-library book in acceptable to good condition with usual marking, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Peter Maas presents the true-life thriller about the greatest espionage case in American history - the pursuit, capture, and conviction of the CIA's murderous mole, Aldrich (Rick) Ames. With the full cooperation of the FBI, Maas goes behind the headlines and provides us with an exclusive hour-by-hour, often minute-by-minute, account of how FBI counterintelligence agents, despite set-backs and mishaps, never gave up as they inexorably closed in on Ames and his Colombian-born wife. U10.

Paperback in --above-- average condition. Writing from previous owner in title page. Signs of use from previous owner. Pages and inside cover tanning but clean with no writing. Aspiring model Sandee Rozzo's big mistake was being kind to Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the 'roided-up ex-con's advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her. 2010. T12.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges has some tanning, browning, stains and foxing. The myth of the cowboy resonates with us all - it represents physical freedom and spiritual solitude, individualism, and a closeness to nature in all its rugged, soaring magnificence. But the cowboy's intimacy with animals rests on his domination of them. His cattle are protected so that they can be killed. Wild animals - coyotes, bears, eagles - are competition and must be destroyed. Land is being overgrazed and in some places permanently damaged. "Some would say that we need to kill the myth of the cowboy," Russell writes. "We need new images and new role models - heroines as well as heroes, Indians as well as cavalry, ecologists as well as individualists." In Kill the Cowboy she offers a new perspective on this cultural icon, urging all of us, cowboys included, to find "that inner part of us… Read More

RARE. The Father Koesler Mysteries book 6/24. Book in average condition with moderate use. Library card holder, stamps, stickers, markings, tape markings and writing. DJ in clear Mylar cover and has moderate bumping, rubbing and smuding. Pages clean. Binding tight. Image of actual book. Father Koesler threads his way through the boardrooms and backrooms of the auto industry in search of the person who is trying to kill rising executive Frank Hoffman. 1984. T13.

Signs of previous usage and wear include a written dedication and name on inside cover. Cover fraid by design. Book includes library card holder. Cover and pages tanning from aging. Pages clean with no writing. Image of actual book. Slight bumping, rubbing and fading on the cover. Outer page edges with tanning. This is a religious sermon, not a baseball story. 1951. Kill the Umpire. Taylor, Charles Forbes. 1951. T5.

Harlequin Presents Series #313. Used paperback in fair condition. Pages clean with no writing. Slight tanning of pages from aging. Sticker residue on back cover over ISBN number. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Rubbing and smudging on cover. He appeared on her doorstep on a moonless, snowy night. He didn't know who he was or how he'd gotten there. Alone in the Rocky Mountains, with not another cabin in sight, Ellen Coster knew it wasn't happenstance that brought the sexy stranger to her. (Harlequin Presents Series #313. 1995. A20.

Novel. A Torquil Book. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. The board on the top half on the spine has come unglue and torn but is still attached (fragile). Outer edges have yellowed, browned has stains and foxing. Has deckled edges. Pages inside has some stains from usage but has not interfered with the reading material. The author's 39th Michael Shayne mystery, dedicated to Richard Denning who played Shayne on the television series. 1961. A24.

Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wooded area nearby. Bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps delves into the lives of Danny Hembree's victims and reconstructs the twisting path from his horrifying crimes to his high-profile trial and conviction. Drawing on interviews with the killer himself, Phelps chillingly brings readers into the mind of a murderer. 2015. T10.

RARE. Econo-Clad hardcover book with paperback dimensions! Ex-library book in acceptable condition with the usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing and card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the edges, spine and corners. Outer edges with tanning, browning, small stains and foxing. High school can be tough. But with teachers like Mr. Griffin it can seem impossible. They only planned to scare him. But sometimes even the best-laid plans go wrong. 1990. U1.

A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert sixteen-month manhunt. With unprecedented access to important players--including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez-as well as top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone conversations, Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal of rough justice in the real world. 2002. T10.

Signs of previous owner include some smudging on cover. Outer page edges have some smudging, markings and foxing. Slight bumping on edges and corners. Edition: "King Herod's Dream Caesarea on the Sea" by Kenneth G. and Avner, Raban and Robert L. Hohlfelder and Robert J. Bull Holum (Authors) Beautiful Illustrated color photos. 1988. A22.

Used book may have markings, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. THEOPHILUS BIRD, having walked the half-mile or so from Blackheath Station, opened the gate of his dark villa, crossed the bit of garden faintly lit by the fanlight over the front door, and with his latch-key let himself into the house. Hat and coat hung up on a walnut hatstand, he rubbed his hands together, for it was a frosty January evening, and though, according to convention, he had put on his gloves in order to walk from his office in Whitehall to Charing Cross Station, he had taken them off in the railway carriage and forgotten to put them on again. The plan of the entrance floor was simple. On the immediate left of the hall, a small room- grandiloquently termed the library- and, farther along, the dining-room. On the right, one flight of stairs going up, and another going down, with a toilet-room between. In… Read More

Used book has some markings or writing from previous owner. Pages deckled. DJ has very little bumping rubbing on the top, tail of spine, edges, corners. Black remainder on tail edges. Golf in the Kingdom introduced Shivas Irons, the golf pro and philosopher with whom Murphy played a mythic round of golf on Scotland's Burningbush links, a round that profoundly altered his game and vision. Shivas's insights about competition, life, and "true gravity," all instilled in him by his elusive mentor Seamus MacDuff, captured the imaginations and the devoted following of students of the inner game of golf. 1997. U15.

Used book has very little markings, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, spine, edges, corners, front and back covers. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Pages deckled. Top stain of mustard yellow on the top outer edges. B8.