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A mixed bag: mystery, American West, Iraq and more - $12,345 (near coquitlam city hall)
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The Janson Directive - Robert Ludlum (hardcover) $2
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Exile - Joshua Hood (hardcover) $2
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Falling in Love - Donna Leon (softcover) $1
A Commimissario Guido Brunetti mystery
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Unto Us a Son is Given - Donna Leon (hardcover) $2
A Commimissario Guido Brunetti mystery, who done it?
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Beastly Things - Donna Leon (hardcover) $2
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By It's Cover - Donna Leon (hardcover) $3
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The Malta Exchange - Steve Berry (hardcover) $2
The Kaiser's Web - Steve Berry (hardcover) $2
The 14th Colony - Steve Berry (hardcover) $2
The King's Deception - Steve Berry (hardcover) $2
The 9th Man - Steve Berry (hardcover) $2
The King's Deception - Steve Berry (softcover) $1
The Lincoln Myth - Steve Berry (softcover) $1
The Patriot Threat - Steve Berry (softcover) $1
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Sherlock Holmes The Complete Illustrated Short Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (hardcover) $5
All 56 short stories with original illustrations from the Strand magazine
From the internet
Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction. Every short story is here--grouped into series (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Last Bow), each containing several adventures. Among the highlights: "A Scandal in Bohemia," where the great detective first encounters the unforgettable Irene Adler; "The Red-Headed League;" "The Speckled Band;" and "The Problem of Thor Bridge.
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The Big Sky - A.B.Guthrie Jr. (softcover) $2
Off the internet
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Big Sky is a classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. It is a story as great as the land that inspired it, sweeping westward from Kentucky, up the Missouri River into Indian Country.
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Hoot - Carl Hiaasen (softcover) 1
From the internet
A children's mystery/suspense novel by Carl Hiaasen. The story takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy. Roy joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site.
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Mayada Daughter of Iraq - Jean Sasson (paperback) $1
One woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
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Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay (softcover) $2
Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - "Independent". From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different.
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The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (hardcover) $3
Stock pic, the cover on mine is different. This was made into a very watchable movie from England.
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Star Island - Carl Hiaasen (hardcover) $2
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Tom Duquette Retrospective (softcover) $10
Published by Thunderbird Galley
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The Gunfighters - Lea F. McCarty (softcover) $5
From the internet:
McCarty illustrates biographical sketches of twenty gun-slinging characters from the Old West with full-color portraits that capture each one perfectly. Readers will be familiar with Wild Bill Hickock, Wyatt Earp, and Jesse James, but will also find lesser-known gunfighters like John Ringo and King Fisher. Marshals, deputies, and outlaws, they are a part of American history that still resonates today. The Gunfighters was first published in 1959.
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A Goat’s Eye View of the Black Hills - Archer Gilfillan (softcover) $3
Published 1953, South Dakota History
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The White Cliffs - Alice Duer Miller $5
1944 hardcover 1st Canadian edition, writing on inside page
Off the internet:
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses impacted on the suffrage issue, while her verse-play The White Cliffs encouraged US entry into World War II.
"The White Cliffs" is a story told through a collection of poems of Sue, a young Yankee woman who travels to England, the old homeland which holds ever an allure for many Americans. There she falls in love, marries, becomes a mother and then a widow to the Great War.
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Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe (hardcover) $10
published by Portland House in 1987
Off the internet
The book "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" features an illustrated cover designed by award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley. The cover includes 20 full-and double-page paintings, with each page of text surrounded by subtle decorative frames. Kelley's illustrations are known for their richness of color and atmospheric quality, particularly in the portrayal of classic Gothic images and dark, melancholic themes.