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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114440. ISBN #0446579823 / 9780446579827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114440. ISBN #0446579823 / 9780446579827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird , the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six . Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.
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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship Twelve 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135738. ISBN #0446697982 / 9780446697989. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship Twelve 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135738. ISBN #0446697982 / 9780446697989. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird , the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six . Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. 2008
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Buckley, Christopher Wry Martinis HarperPerennial 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or904927. ISBN #0060977426 / 9780060977429. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Wry Martinis HarperPerennial 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or904927. ISBN #0060977426 / 9780060977429. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they're named Thompson, O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley.Read this book and you'll die laughing. But as Wrong-Way Kennedy said, 'What a way to go.'" -- Tom Wolfe "Funny and devastating." -- Entertainment Weekly "Clever, erudite, sophisticated, funny and flip. Buckley shows that his antennae are ever alert to the absurdities in our world." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Buckley's comic muse -- and as Wry Martinis attests, he is one of the rarest specimens in his generation of that endangered species, the authentically inventive comic writer -- adorns the Benchley-Thurber line of social observation. He is probably the most versatile practitioner of that tradition today.... Wry Martinis has an astonishing range, all the way from the history of the miniskirt to the language of the New American Bible." -- Boston Globe
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail-Safe hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1099700. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction) W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095487. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction) W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095487. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Dorothy Say Uncle hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or1130265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burke, James Lee White Doves At Morning Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. Book Club edition.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or854182. ISBN #0743244710 / 9780743244718. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burke, James Lee White Doves At Morning Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. Book Club edition.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or854182. ISBN #0743244710 / 9780743244718. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For years, critics have acclaimed the power of James Lee Burke's writing, the luminosity of his prose, the psychological complexity of his characters, the richness of his landscapes. Over the course of twenty novels and one collection of short stories, he has developed a loyal and dedicated following among both critics and general readers. His thrillers, featuring either Louisiana cop Dave Robicheaux or Billy Bob Holland, a hardened Texas-based lawyer, have consistently appeared on national bestseller lists, making Burke one of America's most celebrated authors of crime fiction. Now, in a startling and brilliantly successful departure, Burke has written a historical novel -- an epic story of love, hate, and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the novel are James Lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from a slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willie Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite their personal and political conflicts with the issues of the time, both men join the Confederate Army, choosing to face ordeal by fire, yet determined not to back down in their commitment to their moral beliefs, to their friends, and to the abolitionist woman with whom both have become infatuated. One of the most compelling characters in the story, and the catalyst for much of its drama, is Flower Jamison, a beautiful young black slave befriended, at great risk to himself, by Willie and owned by -- and fathered by, although he will not admit it -- Ira Jamison. Owner of Angola Plantation, Ira Jamison is a true son of the Old South and also a ruthless businessman, who, after the war, returns to the plantation and re-energizes it by transforming it into a penal colony, which houses prisoners he rents out as laborers to replace the slaves who have been emancipated. Against all local law and customs, Flower learns from Willie to read and write, and receives the help and protection of Abigail Dowling, a Massachusetts abolitionist who had come south several years prior to help fight yellow fever and never left, and who has attracted the eye of both Willie and Robert Perry. These love affairs are not only fraught with danger, but compromised by the great and grim events of the Civil War and its aftermath. As in all of Burke's writings, White Doves at Morning is full of wonderful, colorful, unforgettable villains. Some, like Clay Hatcher, are pure "white trash" considered the lowest of the low, they were despised by the white ruling class and feared by former slaves . From their ranks came the most notorious of the vigilante groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White League and the Knights of the White Camellia. Most villainous of all, though, are the petty and mean-minded Todd McCain, owner of New Iberia's hardware store, and the diabolically evil Rufus Atkins, former overseer of Angola Plantation and the man Jamison has placed in charge of his convict labor crews. Rounding out this unforgettable cast of characters are Carrie LaRose, madam of New Iberia's house of ill repute, and her ship's-captain brother Jean-Jacques LaRose, Cajuns who assist Flower and Abigail in their struggle to help the blacks of the town. With battle scenes at Shiloh and in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia that no reader will ever forget, and set in a time of upheaval that affected all men and all women at all levels of society, White Doves at Morning is an epic worthy of America's most tragic conflict, as well as a book of substance, importance, and genuine originality, one that will undoubtedly come to be regarded as a masterpiece of historical fiction.
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson Secret Garden 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101446. ISBN #0766607178 / 9780766607170. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson Secret Garden 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101446. ISBN #0766607178 / 9780766607170. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This timeless classic is a poignant tale of Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals, the invalid Colin, an unhappy boy terrified of life, and a mysterious, abandoned garden...
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Burney, Frances Evelina paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107148. ISBN #0140433473 / 9780140433470. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burr, Jane The queen is dead: A book of impertinent stories and unabashed verse (SIGNED) Elliot Pub. Co 1938 hardcover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or724539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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