Search Results: Titles starting with R from Storbeck's

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Dark red boards debossed with a red metallic R with black spine imprinted with title and author in metallic red. Dark red endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 352 pages. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, No. 18. A seemingly straightforward assignment to 'babysit' Reba Lafferty, a wealthy and spoiled young woman just out of prison on probation from the California Institution for Women for embezzlement, turns unexpectedly dangerous for Kinsey Milhone when one of Reba's former associates is suddenly very much back in the picture. .

Kearney, NE: Morris Press. Very Good. 2003. Plastic comb binding. 94 + 4 pages. Recipes from Retired & Senior Volunteer Program, Marquette, Michigan. Each recipe includes name of the submitter. .

New York: Henry Holt and Co.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 352 pages. Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. Corey Grace--a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio--is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War Air Force pilot known for speaking his mind, Grace's reputation for voting his own conscience rather than the party line--together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star--has earned him a reputation as a maverick and an iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present… Read More

Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 5 4 3 2 1. . 320 pages. This electric narrative of suspense and intrigue delivers a firsthand account of heinous criminals and stern justice from the insider's view of David Race Bannon. At age 18, the American youth is recruited by Interpol after he is caught in a deadly riot in South Korea. Over the next 15 years, Bannon is trained to work in the darkest regions of humanity, to deny societal inhibitors against killing and embrace the agency's role as deliverer of grim justice to evildoers beyond the reach of the law. His missions take him from investigating the bombing of KAL 858 and infiltrating prisons in Korea to the disappearance of London's most notorious child pornographer and searching out terrorists and criminals in the United States. Disclosing the tactics, teamwork, weapons and combat techniques the world's secretive agency uses, he shares the… Read More

New York: William Morrow. As New in As New dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark Green boards with black spine imprinted in white with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 341 pages. An Inspector Rutledge Mystery, No. 19. Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead-and make it through the war-they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends. They will celebrate their good fortune by racing motorcars they beg, borrow, or own from Paris to Nice. In November 1919, the officers all meet as planned, and though their motorcars are not designed for racing, they… Read More

Stanley, VA: SparrowHawk Publications. Near Fine. Slight bend to a corner. Tiny amount of edge wear along spine . . 258 pp. 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Trade Paperback. 0970693826 . This book brings together the concepts set forth in Blanton's 3 previous books and applies then systematically to child rearing. .

New York: Viking. Very Good in As New dust jacket. 2000. First American Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 344 pages. A Lovejoy Mystery, No. 21. In his twenty-first caper, mystery fans' favorite antiques dealer faces his biggest challenge ever: not just solving a murder, but also deciphering the knotty mysteries of fatherhood. In order to find out who's been passing off phony gemstones, Lovejoy needs to trawl the London markets. In between Camden Passage and Portobello, he pays a visit to his old friends Colette and Arthur Goldhorn, but he is in for a dreadful surprise--the Goldhorn's King's Road shop has been taken over by one Dieter Gluck, a handsome and elegant thug with bad breath. Thanks to him, Colette is on the street, her husband mysteriously dead and her fifteen-year-old son Mortimer's life at risk.... He's a handsome lad, too, with a familiar face and a genius for sensing genuine articles from fake.… Read More

New York: The Modern Library. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. Includes 1994 biographical notes Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Gray cloth boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold. . 320 pages. Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1981. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Minor edgewear . No spine crease. Mass Market Paperback. 181 pages. Indiana Jones, archeology professor and swashbuckling adventurer, has unearthed many an ancient treasure. But now the very future of the world depends on his finding one special relic.With a bullwhip in his hand and a beautiful lady at his side, Jones journeys from Nepal and Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps and snakes, battling rivals old and new, all in pursuit of an ancient artifact said to give invincible power to its possessor.It's a battle to a startling finish, a finish dictated by the magic, the light -- and the power -- of the Lost Ark. .

Dulles, VA: Brassey's Inc. Near Fine. 2000. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 263 pages. Even the most knowledgeable Civil War aficionado will be surprised to learn that the naval war was so broad. .

New York: Berkley Publishing Group. Very Good. 1999. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 897 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark gray board with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future.<br><br>Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also… Read More

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Very Good. 2000. 1st Berkley PrimeCrime Edition. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Mass Market Paperback. Paperback Original. . 207 pages. A Birdwatcher's Mystery, No. 1. Her marriage in shambles and her fast-paced life stuck in low gear, Rachel Stanhope seeks refuge at her Aunt Miriam’s Colorado ranch.As a favor to her widowed aunt, Rachel agrees to go on a birdwatching expedition and makes a gruesome discovery—the dead body of a reporter.Donald Bursau had recently questioned Miriam about her late-husband’s involvement in a decades old bird-trafficking scheme, and warned her of danger. Now Miriam is the chief suspect in his murder.Then, while Rachel is busy sorting out possible motives, three rare birds go missing and her aunt disappears without a trace.Unable to convince the police her aunt hasn’t fled town, Rachel turns to the birdwatchers for help.The more they investigate, the closer the answers lie to home and the more… Read More

New York: NAL Trade. Fine. 2007. Trade Paperback. 384 pages. A Penny Nichols, Book 1. Penny Nichols is a historical researcher working on a big budget film in the South of France when she get an urgent call. Her Aunt Penelope has just died, and Penny's presence is required in London for the reading of the will. From a rather lovely inheritance... With slim recall of her eccentric aunt, Penny's astonished to learn that not only is she a bona fide heiress-but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work. This time, the history she's researching happens to be her very own. To the irresistible dare of a lifetime...What she discovers about Aunt Penelope, a pair of wills, double lives, secret histories, and a family tree of vultures is about to sweep Penny and a long-lost cousin across France, over the hills of Italy, and throughout half of Europe on the adventure of several lifetimes. This is her life, her past, her chance at romance-and she's going to live… Read More

New York: HarperCollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 1 x 9.2 x 6 Inches. 231 pages. More than 50 million Americans play poker. But poker is much more than a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated by a multitude of colorful characters -- professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. From the rich field of all the writers who have ever loved the game, editor John Stravinsky has gathered thirty-nine best-of-breed short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poems: Mark Twain, John Updike, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, and Billy Collins are among the winning hand of renowned writers in this collection who have mined their personal experiences at the poker table. Entertaining, enlightening, and essential, <I>Read 'Em and Weep</I> is a stacked deck of pure poker-reading pleasure. .

New York: Obsidian. Very Good. 2015. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Slight spine creasing . Paperback Original. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 320 pages. A Book Club Mystery, No. 2. Amy-Faye Johnson’s book club, the Readaholics, is engrossed in Murder on the Orient Express, and Poirot’s surprising resolution is stirring up debate. Is the solution remotely realistic? Is justice served by Poirot's decision? Well, the book is fiction after all…Then, just as Amy-Faye is planning the grand opening of her brother Derek’s pub, his hot-headed partner is murdered. To keep Derek from being railroaded as a suspect, Amy-Faye and the Readaholics take a page from Poirot and investigate. But as the clues lead to unlikely places, surprising motives, and a multitude of suspects, Amy-Faye and her pals wonder if truth can be just as strange as fiction. .

New York: Mysterious Press. Good+. 1989. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. Beginning of curl to bottom corner; checkmarks next to some titles . 1.62 x 9 x 6 Inches. 588 pages .

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. Very Good. 2004.. Trade Paperback. Reading crease on front cover . 356 pages. Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature. .

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Tiny corner bumps . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover .Red boards quarterbound in medium gray with title and author imprinted in silver. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 339 pages. In telling the story of Reagan's ultimate triumph over Communism, Schweizer brings to light dozens of previously unknown facts about the Cold War based on secret documents. This is a fresh look at Reagan and his central role in winning the war for global dominance. .

New York: Crown. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. 255 pages. This first crime novel of Annette Roome has a heroine in whom the conflicting stresses of marriage, motherhood and the investigative instinct are balanced. .