Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
Box 39A, Box 38B
|
| | (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) | | AUTHOR | TITLE | Unabr | SALE | New | Media |
| BOX 39A |
| |
| OLIVE ANN BURNS | LEAVING COLD SASSY - After Olive Ann Burns gave us 'COLD SASSY TREE - Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoats showed, the ladies could make the talk last a week.
But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson -- a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
"Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness...a novel about an old man growing young, a young man growing up, and the modern age coming to a small Southern town." (The Washington Post Book World)', a wonderful story of a small Georgia town at the turn of the century, we wanted more. Who can forget Grandpa Blakeslee, Miss Love, his young bride, and Will Tweedy, the boisterous 15-year-old? Ms. Burns worked passionately to finish 'Leaving Cold Sassy', her sequel. But a fatal cancer was working against her. In her final days, she insisted the finished chapters be published, along with her notes for the rest of the story. Thanks to her courage, we get to see a grown-up Will Tweedy and the feisty schoolteacher who steals his heart. And we say a tender good-bye to Cold Sassy, Georgia. "Time beautifully spent." | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| A.S. BYATT | THE MATISSE STORIES - This brilliant new collection has been called "a masterpiece" and The Observer proclaimed, "These stories show us Byatt still advancing in her technique and range." This elegant collection contains three stories, each touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings, but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is peeled back to expose pain, reveal desire, or express the intensity of joy in color and creation. | Y
(2T,3H) | $10 | No | T |
| RICHARD CONDON | THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE - Everybody knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, even though it was taken out of circulation for twenty-five years after JFK’s assassination. Equally controversial on publication, and just as timely today, is Richard Condon’s original novel. First published in 1959, at the height of cold war paranoia, The Manchurian Candidate is a terrifying and suspenseful political thriller featuring Sergeant Raymond Shaw, ex-prisoner of war, Medal of Honor winner, American hero . . . and brainwashed assassin. Condon’s expert manipulation of the book’s multiple themes—from anticommunist hysteria to megalomaniacal motherhood—makes this one of the most entertaining, and enduring, books of the era.
| Y
(7T,10.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| RICHARD CONDON | PRIZZI'S FAMILY - By day Charley Partanna is a hit man for the Prizzi family. By night he studies for his high school equivalency exam, when he's not juggling two gorgeous women. But these two may be more than even Charley can handle. One, Mardell is a knockout, on-third fantash and two-thirds legs. The other, Maerose, is Charley's boss' granddaughter. She's hungry for power, honor, and Charley, usually in that order. And she doesn't want to share. For Charley, it's a problem that he needs to solve, but his hormones keep getting in the way. "Cheerful and funny ... foaming with perversity, rascality, obsessional religious mania, assault and battery and our old friends greed and lust." | Y
(5T, 7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| RICHARD CONDON | PRIZZI'S GLORY - Tired, depressed and bored, Charley Fontana marries Maerose "for the change." But he needn't have bothered. Don Corrado has a bigger change in mind .. respectability for the Prizzis. Gambling, narcotics, extortion, murder, loan-sharking, prostitution -- these lines get franchised to young muscle. But the money still flows to the family. Don Corrado uses it to leverage a new scam: national political power, with Charley (now the respectable Charles Macy Barton) at the helm. "Another feast of cheerful mordancy. Prizzi's Glory is further proof that there is no more accomplished or entertaining satirist writing today." | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| RICHARD CONDON | PRIZZI'S HONOR - Prizzi's Honor is no ordinary story of boy-meets-girl. Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for the Prizzis, New York's most powerful Mafia family. The object of his affections is Irene Walker, a Los Angeles-based tax consultant. But it's her freelancing that pays ... she's a hit woman for the Mob. She has also cheated the Prizzis out of an unforgivably large sum of money. This is very dangerous moonlighting inded, and eventually it places Charley's oldest loyalties in conflict with his newest one. Which wins? "His best book since The Manchurian Candidate ... he mixes caricature and character as easily as Charley hacks off thumbs." | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE WATER IS WIDE - Yamacraw Island is nearly deserted. This beautiful slip of land just off South Carolina is home to a few poor black families who've lived off the sea for generations. But industrial waste, polluting the fishing waters, threatens the only vocation they've ever known. Unless they learn a new way of life, they will perish. They don't, because a young schoolteacher gives up a year of his life to give them renewed hope. He teaches the children, and the adults of Yamacraw Island learn extraordinary lessons they didn't even know they needed to learn. This is based on a true story, and it shows us the difference one person can make. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S COMPANY - January, 1812. Looming on the border of Portugal and Spain is the fortress of Badajoz. To lead an assault on its thick, sheer walls and battlements is suicide, yet Richard Sharpe must lead on. Inside the walls are his wife and daughter, and only he can save them. Outside is the misshapen, vengeance-crazed Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, a man determined to kill Sharpe. Sharpe knows that in the heat of battle only the cold steel of his battered sword and the ruthless bloodlust of a soldier at war will protect him from the danger of both sides. "Best of the series so far." | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $25 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S EAGLE - Here is one of those rare novels that completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history. At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon into what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others, such as the foppish Lieutenant Gibbons and his uncle, Colonel Henry Simmerson, who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharp turns to treachery, and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $25 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S ENEMY - A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious mortal enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage in a strategic mountain pass. On the other side of the pass, Napoleon's Grande Armee seeks to smash through and crush the British army in Portugal. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt. "The charm of the Sharpe novels is that of meticulously researched stories, books with a passionate correctness as to the details of military organization ... and an old-fashioned devotion to heroic conduct." | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S GOLD - Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular army, vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty, was on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government had fallen, the last Spanish armies had been crushed by the French, and all that was left were the peasants fighting the guerrilla, the "little war." But Wellington had one hope left. He knew that in the dangerous Portuguese hills lay a fortune in gold, enough gold perhaps to turn the Peninsular War around. And he knew of one fighting man capable of stealing it: Captain Richard Sharpe of the South Essex Regiment. In this novel, the third in the series, Cornwell tells the gripping story of Sharpe's secret mission, an adventure unlike any form of warfare Sharpe has known in his long and embattled career as a soldier fighting his way up through the ranks. | Y
(6T, 9.5H) | $23 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S HONOR - Alas, a perfect plot for Napoleon: Stop Wellington's forces in Spain and destroy Major Richard Sharpe. An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to Sharpe's imprisionment. Condemned to die as an assassin, he is the pawn in a plot conceived by his archennemy, Pierre Ducos. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive, a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike. | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S REGIMENT - Subtitled Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1913, this story features a corrupt political enemy who is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment, and to destroy the life of Major Richard Sharpe. Sharpe returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders know Sharpe is on their trail, and they try to kill him at every turn. But Sharpe is fighting for his command, and as he moves from the dark slums of London to the highest courts of political power, Sharpe will risk charges of treason and death for a final chance at revenge | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S REVENGE - It is 1814 and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent, if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory. But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different sort of battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's personal treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military court and embarks on the battle of his life, armed with only the unflinching resolve to protect his honor. | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S RIFLES - It's 1809 and the powerful French juggernaut is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the 95th Rifles. He must lead them to safety, and the only means of escape is a treacherous trek through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain. Blas Vivar and his band of intrepid Spanish soldiers may prove to be their salvation. But Vivar is transporting a mysterious chest that he claims can shift the tides of war, and the French are determined to get it, no matter what the cost. | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S SIEGE - Sharpe's mission had seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines, Sharpe's old enemy Pierre Ducos, awaits Sharpe's arrival with a battalion of French soldiers and a vicious commanding general who keeps the scalps of his dead enemies as tophies. Outmaneuvered by Ducos' treachery and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe has only two choices: to escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary, Cornelius Killick, or die ... | Y
(8T, 12H) | $29 | No | T |
| BERNARD CORNWELL | SHARPE'S SWORD - Colonel Leroux is killing Britain's most valuable spies, and it's up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe must tangle with La Marquesa, a beguiling, extraordinarily beautiful woman whose embrace is as calculating as it is passionate. As she leads him through a maze of secrecy, cunning, and deception, Sharpe relentlessly pursues Leroux, determined to exact his revenge with the cold steel of his sword. | Y
(8T,12H) | $29 | No | T |
| MICHAEL CRICHTON | AIRFRAME - Disaster, or something close to it, strikes an airliner en route from Hong Kong to Denver. Three passengers dead, 56 injured, the interior cabin destroyed. Whether through luck or skill, the pilot gets the plane down, more or less in one piece. But to what end? The public, jaded with excuses, calls for a fix, and Congress calls for an investigation. Where will it all lead? | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| ELLIS PETERS | A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES - The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Soon after his arrival at the Benedictine monastery of Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael finds himself on a mission to his Welsh homeland. Acting as translator, he must help his prior obtain the bones of Saint Winifred, which now rest in a small village grave. The Welsh villagers are loath to part with the relics of a martyr said to have miraculous powers, but before an agreement can be reached, the one villager most outspoken in his dissent is found murdered. His lovely daughter is determined to find the killer, and Cadfael is eager to help. Carefully, kindly, and with cunning enough to please any mystery fans, the good monk sets out to solve his first case. In the process, his heart is touched by two pairs of star-crossed lovers, and he just may effect a miracle of his own. "Ellis Peters has created a cast guaranteed to entrap the modern reader's heart ... and a mystery to snare the mind." | Y
(5T,7.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| ELLIS PETERS | MONK'S HOOD - Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest at the Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the abbey boasts the services of the shrewd and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted by two very different surprises. In Master Bonel's wife, the good monk recognizes Richildis, whom he loved any years ago, before he took his vows. And Master Bonel himself has been fatally poisoned by a dose of deadly monk's hood oil from Cadfael's own laboratory. The sheriff is convinced that the murderer is Richildis' son, Edwin, who had reasons aplenty to hate his stepfather. But Cadfael, guided in part by his tender concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son's innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cafael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder. | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| ELLIS PETERS | ONE CORPSE TOO MANY - In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the Empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: ninety-five dead bodies lie in a row; the extra victim has been cruelly strangled, not hanged. This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure, and a single broken flower ... the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can most expose a murderer's black heart. "Delightful ... a colorlful and authentic medieval background fraught with swordplay and a challenge to the death." | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| ELLIS PETERS | ST. PETER'S FAIR - St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to the town of Shrewsbury.
Until, that is, the body of a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. was Thomas of Bristol the victim of murderous thieves? And, if so, why were his valuables abandoned nearby?
Brother Cadfael, that shrewd but kindly monk, offers to help the merchant's lovely niece emma. But while he is searching for the killer, Thomas of Bristol's wares are ransacked and two more men are murdered. Emma almost certainly knows more than she is telling-as others will soon realize. Cadfael desperately races to save the young girl, knowing that in a country at war with itself, betrayal can come from any direction-and even good intentions can kill.
| Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| ELLIS PETERS | THE LEPER OF SAINT GILES - Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. Yet as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates.
He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. And he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Brother Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing-and a secret-are hid among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael's skills must ferret out a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul-in the fifth Brother Cadfael Chronicle, a work that displays Ellis Peters' special genius at her best.
| Y
(5T, 7.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| |
| BOX 39B |
| |
| T. CORAGHESSAS BOYLE | THE TORTILLA CURTAIN - This tale of cultural collision confronts the immigration issue head-on. Candido Ramon and his young, pregnant bride, America ... illegal immigrants ... cross the border into California to find a better life. They camp in Topanga Canyon, surrounded by the Anglo community where Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher live in quiet, yuppie comfort. When Delano hits Candido with his car, fear and self-interest dissolve Delaney's liberal pretensions. "Boyle earns well-deserved comparison to Steinbeck in this Grapes of Wrath for the 90's." | Y
(10T,15H) | $35 | No | T |
| JOHN CHEEVER | THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER part 1 - Cheever captures a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river-light, when Benny Goodman was king of the air. Everyone wore a hat and nearly everyone chainsmoked. Getting stoned was what you did at cocktail parties. Europe meant ship travel. Love and happiness were elusive and nostalgic, and the gods were ancient, not fresh-cut. Here are 61 magnificent stories, bringing together everything from five earlier collections as well as four major stories that have never been published in book form. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JOHN CHEEVER | THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER part 2 - "Wonderful stories. For more than 30 years, John Cheever celebrated the deepest feelings we have, and did it with unequaled grace and tenderness." | Y
(11T, 16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JOHN CHEEVER | THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL - Where the Wapshot Chronicle leaves off, The Wapshot Scandal takes over and completes the tale of the Wapshot family. "This second novel about the Wapshot family is a delectable and glorious piece of fiction, especially in the three main strands of its subject matter: the pitiful lust of a well-meaning upperclass woman; the harm done by a scientist who lacks a grounding in the humanities; the humor inherent in old age. If it is a portrait of paradise, the author has included a fair leavening of serpents." | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | BEACH MUSIC part1 - After his wife kills herself, Jack McCall seeks a place of reflection with his daughter in Rome. But it doesn't work. His search has to be more active, and whether the truth is past or present, in Europe or America, it finally comes home to roost ... ultimately liberating Jack McCall | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | BEACH MUSIC part 2 - "Add Beach Music to Conroy's legendary list of classics including The Great Santini and Prince of Tides." | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $34 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE part 1 - This book sweeps us into the world of a military school and four young men ... friends, cadets and blood brothers ... and their days of hazing, heartbreak, pride and betrayal. Conroy's hero, Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal code of honor, battles into manhood the hard way. Deeply in love with a beautiful, haunting young woman, Will boldly confronts the injustices of a corrupt institution. At the same time he takes on a shadow group known only as "The Ten." (Conroy is obviously paranoid about our military and institutions which attempt to mold the individual.) | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE part 2 - "A work of enormous power, passion, humor and wisdom." And paranoia. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE GREAT SANTINI - Bull Meecham is a Marine fighter pilot who runs his family like a drill instructor shaping up a bunch of raw recruits. His beautiful wife, Lillian, is southern-bred with a soul of velvet steel. Without her cool, her kids would be in real trouble. The oldest, Ben, is a pure athlete who can't seem to please the old man. But he's got to stand up ... even fight back ... against a father who doesn't give in to anyone. Bull Meecham should be hated; instead, he's a man you'll grow to love. "A tender, raucous, and often hilarious story." | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| STEPHEN COONTS | FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER - Stephen Coonts flew A-6's in Vietnam. He has the credentials to write this story, which helps explain its long stay on the best seller list. A-6's were called Intruders. Their pilots tackled assignments of dazzling complexity and flew them with daring and dispatch. But they paid a price ... in lost lives, disillusion, incredible tension. They had one reward ... exhilaration ... worth the whole candle. You share the airmen's special brand of comradery, the one stabilizing force in an otherwise precarious life, that only an insider knows. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| ROBERT B. PARKER | ALL OUR YESTERDAYS - From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Spenser novels, comes a sprawling family saga of cops and heroes, fathers and sons, lovers and losers ... a magnificent work that spans the whole turbulent 20th century. The book opens in the violence and tumult of 1920s Ireland with Conn Sheridan, a reckless young IRA captain. Conn's forbidden affair with Hadley Winslow, a Boston tycoon's wife, initiates a dangerous entanglement of desire and blackmail between two families that will span three generations. "Grand in scope, a living, breathing portrait of an era." | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| |
| Wholesale Price Box - 25% MSRP (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) |
| Media Mail S&H (Insurance optional to buyer) |
| |
|
|
|