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Cunningham, Laura Shaine Sleeping Arrangements 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095142. ISBN #1573228230 / 9781573228237. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Laura Shaine Sleeping Arrangements 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095142. ISBN #1573228230 / 9781573228237. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist Laura Cunningham, a coming of age story and enchanting memoir of childhood "Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, disheveled appearance. Soil under nails.' She has in addition been AWOL from school for 37 full and 38 half days...She lives in a bizarre apartment whose living room furnishings consist of a gold lame castro convertible and two pink bath mats--her choice. She shares the habitation with a senile old woman and two bachelors, one of whom habitually cooks popcorn for breakfast wearing a pith helmet...All indications to the contrary notwithstanding. Lily is living a blessed life, as depicted in Laura Cunningham's unromantic, spare, funny, enchanting memoir." -- The Washington Post "A wonderfully vivid chronicle of a young girl's coming of age...funny and sad, irreverent and generous...A model memoir." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Sharp-witted and funny but never mean. A lovely novelistic memoir." -- Julie Salamon, The Wall Street Journal "Original, quirky, poignant, and hilarious." -- Los Angeles Times "A winner...life-affirming." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Cunningham, M.Allen Lost Son Unbridled Books 2007 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011305. ISBN #1932961348 / 9781932961348. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, M.Allen Lost Son Unbridled Books 2007 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011305. ISBN #1932961348 / 9781932961348. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Spanning western Europe from 1875 to 1917 and presenting a gothic historical Paris that subverts our old assumptions regarding the City of Light, M. Allen Cunningham s new novel brings a brooding atmosphere and human complexity to an intimate and imaginative portrait of one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of his time, a poet whose odd childhood and difficult early life will both fascinate and perhaps help explain his determination to stay true to his artistic vision at almost any cost. Here is Rainer Maria Rilke in the grip of his greatest artistic struggle: life itself. Rilke s gripping emotional drama as child, lover, husband, father, prot g , misfit soldier, and wanderer is framed by a haunted young figure, a researcher who, a century later, feels compelled to trace Rilke s itinerant footsteps and those of Rilke s fictional alter ego, the bewitched poet Malte Laurids Brigge. The result is an exploration of the forever imperfect loyalties we face in work and life, the seemingly immeasurable distances that can separate life and art, and the generational tensions between masters and admirers.
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Cunningham, Michael A Home At The End Of The World: A Novel Picador 2004 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or928628. ISBN #0312424086 / 9780312424084. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael A Home At The End Of The World: A Novel Picador 2004 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or928628. ISBN #0312424086 / 9780312424084. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours , comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
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Cunningham, Michael By Nightfall 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017956. ISBN #0374299080 / 9780374299088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael By Nightfall 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017956. ISBN #0374299080 / 9780374299088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan known in thefamily as Mizzy, the mistake , shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career the entire world he has so carefully constructed. Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours , Michael Cunningham s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084267. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084267. ISBN #0374172897 / 9780374172893. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date. The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089873. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089873. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
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Cunningham, Michael Hours: 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052489. ISBN #0312243022 / 9780312243029. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Hours: 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1052489. ISBN #0312243022 / 9780312243029. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood . In The Hours , Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
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Cunningham, Michael Snow Queen Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1018701. ISBN #0374266328 / 9780374266325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael Snow Queen Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1018701. ISBN #0374266328 / 9780374266325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions or in God but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying and failing to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon. Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul. The Snow Queen , beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.
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Cunningham, Michael Specimen Days Picador 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or847603. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael The Hours Picador 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041035. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cunningham, Michael The Hours Picador 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041035. ISBN #0312305060 / 9780312305062. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
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Currimbhoy, Nayana Miss Timmins' School for Girls Harper Paperbacks 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or756445. ISBN #0061997749 / 9780061997747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Currimbhoy, Nayana Miss Timmins' School for Girls Harper Paperbacks 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or756445. ISBN #0061997749 / 9780061997747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls in a boarding school still run like an outpost of the British Empire. In this small, foreign universe, Charu is drawn to the charismatic teacher Moira Prince, who introduces her to pot-smoking hippies, rock n' roll, and freedoms she never knew existed. Then one monsoon night, a body is found at the bottom of a cliff, and the ordered worlds of school and town are thrown into chaos. When Charu is implicated in the murder a case three intrepid schoolgirls take it upon themselves to solve Charu's real education begins. A love story and a murder mystery, Miss Timmins' School for Girls is, ultimately, a coming-of-age tale set against the turbulence of the 1970s as it played out in one small corner of India.
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Curtis, Jack Christmas in Calico Daybreak Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or873603. ISBN #0875965431 / 9780875965437. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Curtis, Jack Christmas in Calico Daybreak Books 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or873603. ISBN #0875965431 / 9780875965437. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Distinguished writer Jack Curtis winningly combines suspense and a timeless holiday message with the best Western literary tradition in this dramatic novel. Heavy with child, Rose Cameron and her delicate son, Tommy, have tried to carry on her late husband's dream of a successful horse ranch despite a long drought, a thieving hired hand, and neighbors who want her land. But the hardest ordeal of all happens during Christmas, when a winter-kill blizzard sweeps the Nevada prairie, forcing Rose and Tommy to seek refuge in the poor town of Calico, where they must depend on the kindness of desperate strangers-and one mysterious lone rider-to survive and restore their lives.
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Curtiss, Huston Sins of the Seventh Sister: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South Crown 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1126579. ISBN #140004538X / 9781400045389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Curtiss, Huston Sins of the Seventh Sister: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Gothic South Crown 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1126579. ISBN #140004538X / 9781400045389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary How many times have you thought, this has got to be true no one could make this up? Well, in 1929, Huston Curtiss was seven years old, living with his beautiful, opinionated mother whose image is on the cover of this book , and surrounded by their romantic, fiercely independent, and often certifiably insane relatives. Huston has never before written about that time an era of racism and repression, a time when this country was still relatively young, an age of quirky individualism and almost frontier-style freedom that largely has ceased to exist. Fearful he would not be believed, on one hand, but desirous of the freedom to embellish, on the other, Curtiss chronicles that time in Sins of the Seventh Sister , a book he characterizes as a novel based on a true story of the gothic South. It is his story and the story of the people of Elkins, West Virginia, a small town whose inhabitants included his mother, Billy-Pearl Curtiss, and her many sisters all stunning blondes. Billy-Pearl would prove to be an irresistibly romantic figure in her son s life. She was the seventh of eleven children, all girls to her father s consternation. By the time of her arrival, her father felt he had been patient enough and insisted on calling her Billy; he taught her everything he had intended to impart to his firstborn son. She would grow up to be one of the most beautiful women in the county, but also one of the most opinionated and liberal. Her aim was so precise that she was barred from the local turkey shoot because none of the men had a chance against her. When a Klansman accused her of attempted homicide after she shot him through the shoulder to stop him from setting fire to the home of her black neighbors, she told the sheriff, If I had meant to kill him, he d be dead. And with that defense, she was exonerated. Curtiss Farm was large and the house had many rooms, which Billy-Pearl got in the habit of gathering people to fill, especially the downtrodden who had nowhere to go. In May 1929, Billy-Pearl brought home a boy from the local orphanage. Stanley was sixteen, the age at which the orphanage kicked children out, and Billy-Pearl, knowing his sad history, could not allow him to end up on the streets. Stanley had witnessed his father beat his mother to death in a drunken rage and had taken a straight razor and slit his father s throat while he slept. A country judge had the boy castrated to control his aggressive ways. Not a boy, but not yet a man, Stanley was tall, willowy, and frightened as a colt upon his arrival at Curtiss Farm not at all the playmate for whom Huston had hoped. But quickly a friendship developed between the two that would last a lifetime a friendship that would survive murder, suicide, madness, and Stanley s eventual transformation into Stella, a singer who would live her adult life as a glamorous woman. Sins of the Seventh Sister is brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, as alive with flamboyant characters and wildly uncontained emotions as any book to come out of the South.
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Cushatt, Michele Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life Zondervan 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025850. ISBN #0310339782 / 9780310339786. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cushatt, Michele Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life Zondervan 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025850. ISBN #0310339782 / 9780310339786. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Undone is author Michele Cushatt s quest to make peace with a complicated life. It is an honest confession of a diagnosis of cancer and the joys and disappointments of motherhood and marriage, ripe with regret over what is and, yet, still hopeful for what could be. With enough humor to ease the rawness of the story, Undone takes the reader on a roller coaster two-year journey through the unexpectedness of life. A look back makes Michele long for a do-over, the chance to make fewer mistakes and leave less of a mess to clean up. A look forward makes Michele wonder if all her attempts to control life have robbed her of the vibrancy of it. And, in the middle of this internal chaos, she finds her once-pristine house filled with the sights and sounds of three small, uncontainable children who just want to be loved. In the end, Undone turns complication into a beautiful canvas, angst into joy, and the unknown into an adventure, revealing that sometimes life s most colorful and courageous stories are written right in the middle of the mess.
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Cushman, Dan Stay Away Joe STAY AWAY JOE PUBLISHERS 1981 hardcover. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or922013. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cussler, Clive Trojan Odyssey 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063884. ISBN #0399150803 / 9780399150807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cussler, Clive Trojan Odyssey 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063884. ISBN #0399150803 / 9780399150807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet. In the final pages of Valhalla Rising , Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime. There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. The twins are working in a NUMA r underwater enclosure, trying to determine its origin, when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something strange and beautiful and ancient; and the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight not only for them but also for a luxurious floating resort hotel square in its path. The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable, and, desperately, Pitt, Al Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA r crew rush to the rescue, but what they find in the storm's wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the world, and the brown tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon, its work will be complete-and the world will be a very different place. Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is already a very different place... Filled with breathtaking action and suspense, Trojan Odyssey is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099073. ISBN #0425204049 / 9780425204047. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099073. ISBN #0425204049 / 9780425204047. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this 1 New York Times -bestselling series. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices smoke and races to the rescue. He's too late to save the engineer behind the ship's new technology, but helps the man's daughter, Kelly Egan, escape with her father's work in a leather briefcase. While Ms. Egan strives to uncover the hidden value in her father's inventions, Pitt is hired on by maritime insurers to investigate the wreckage. Neither are prepared for the mechanical marvels they'll soon be forced to confront. The machines could only be the stuff of legend, described in the tales of Viking explorers or the accounts of Jules Verne. And they may be Pitt and Egan's only hope when an oil tycoon with a plan of his own appears on the scene. Before journey's end, Pitt will take on a power-mad millionaire, tread upon territory previously known only to Verne's illustrious Captain Nemo, and make shocking discoveries about his own past.
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103416. ISBN #0425204049 / 9780425204047. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103416. ISBN #0425204049 / 9780425204047. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this 1 New York Times -bestselling series. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices smoke and races to the rescue. He's too late to save the engineer behind the ship's new technology, but helps the man's daughter, Kelly Egan, escape with her father's work in a leather briefcase. While Ms. Egan strives to uncover the hidden value in her father's inventions, Pitt is hired on by maritime insurers to investigate the wreckage. Neither are prepared for the mechanical marvels they'll soon be forced to confront. The machines could only be the stuff of legend, described in the tales of Viking explorers or the accounts of Jules Verne. And they may be Pitt and Egan's only hope when an oil tycoon with a plan of his own appears on the scene. Before journey's end, Pitt will take on a power-mad millionaire, tread upon territory previously known only to Verne's illustrious Captain Nemo, and make shocking discoveries about his own past.
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt Adventures) Putnam Adult 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125403. ISBN #039914787X / 9780399147876. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cussler, Clive Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt Adventures) Putnam Adult 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125403. ISBN #039914787X / 9780399147876. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly 's verdict of Steve Martini's The Jury . Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani. After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas. As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art-something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages. In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
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