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| Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies |
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Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, come to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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$17.00 - $90.00
from 2 stores
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| Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul - Plague Ship |
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A new installment in a series featuring Captain Juan Cabrillo and his intelligence-gathering ship-for-hire finds the crew encountering an adrift cruise ship filled with hundreds of dead passengers that eventually leads to the discovery of a cult's devastating plot for the human race. Simultaneous.
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$10.00 - $35.00
from 2 stores
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| Ridley Pearson - Steel Trapp: The Challenge |
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While traveling with his mother and due on a train to Washington, D.C. for the National Science Competition, Steven ends up in the midst of an international kidnapping plot with terrorist links and must assist the federal agents in gathering up the clues left behind using his strong scientific skill ...
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$12.00 - $56.00
from 1 store
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| Jimmie Ruth Evans - Bring Your Own Poison |
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When Travis Blakely, after making a tacky toast during his third marriage, collapses and dies, his little brother becomes the prime suspect, until waitress Wanda Nell Culpepper, believing in his innocence, comes to his rescue. Original.
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$7.00 - $31.00
from 1 store
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| Sarah Mussi - The Door of No Return |
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Sixteen-year-old Zac Baxter never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.
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$14.00 - $40.00
from 1 store
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| Joan London - Gilgamesh: A Novel |
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This epic first novel by an Australian writer spans the years from the end of the first world war to the mid-20th century, beginning when Frank and Ada meet at an Australian army hospital where Frank is recovering from a leg wound, and ends with their daughter Edith's son Jim, the result of her liai ...
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$11.00 - $48.00
from 1 store
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| Donald E. Westlake - What's So Funny? |
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Tempted to find a highly valuable, seven-hundred-pound chess set, hapless crook John Dortmunder musters his merry band of fellow ne'er-do-wells on a haphazard treasure hunt that prompts his investigation of Russia's last czar, an effort in which he enlists the assistance of tough former cop Johnny E ...
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$8.00 - $31.00
from 1 store
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| Jimmie Ruth Evans - Murder over Easy |
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When her boss at the Kountry Kitchen diner is accused of murdering one of his employees, Wanda Nell Culpepper--mother, waitress, and intrepid sleuth--believing in his innocence, gets into hot water as she tries to bring the real killer to justice. Original.
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$7.00 - $32.00
from 1 store
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| Simon Brett - Murder in the Museum: A Fethering Mystery |
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When Carole Seddon is invited to become part of the Bracketts Trust, which maintains the home of a famed writer, she finds her fellow Trustees to be a somewhat argumentative lot--or worse. When a skeleton is unearthed in the house's garden and they do their best to keep the news secret, it's clear t ...
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$45.00 - $45.00
from 1 store
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| Ellen Slezak - All These Girls |
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Quitting the basketball team after losing her mother and being accused of misconduct, Candy is taken in by her widowed and divorced aunts, who hope to set Candy straight through tough love but who find their lives changed by the people they meet in a depressed northern Michigan community.
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$32.00 - $32.00
from 1 store
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| Horatio Alger Jr. - The Young Musician |
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After escaping from the county poorhouse, orphaned fifteen-year-old Philip Gray works as a fiddle player who, in his travels, stumbles across an unscrupulous entertainer and a runaway boy who wants to fight Indians.
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$56.00 - $336.00
from 1 store
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