Synopsis:
Savvy young Los Angeles P.I. Regan Reilly faces an unusual challenge when she gets an urgent call from Lilac Weldon, owner — with her two hippie brothers — of the run-down California winery Altered States. Lilac asks Regan to find her actress daughter, Whitney, AKA "Freshness," in time to attend the wedding of Lilac's wealthy aunt Lucretia Standish, a 93-year-old silent-film star. The Weldons have learned from a secret source that each family member will receive a gift of $2 million from Lucretia — but only if they all attend.
Lucretia's bridegroom, a 46-year-old con man and former actor, knows he must keep Whitney away; they have met before and she is wise to his game. How Regan foils his plot makes for an exciting climax to this comic suspense novel, filled with Carol Higgins Clark's inimitable characters.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good / Acceptable
Synopsis:
Wanted: Mistress And Mother by Carol Marinelli
At the Italian's beck and call...
When ruthless Italian barrister Dante Costello hires Matilda Hamilton, he sees an opportunity. Matilda's job is to create a magical garden, in the hope it will help Dante's troubled little girl. However, since attraction between them is hot and intense, why not take Matilda as his mistress, as well?
Dante has always kept his emotions firmly under wraps when it comes to relationships. But this time will he succeed when his desire for Matilda is pushing him to the edge of control?
Condition: Good+, Some dirt/residue on the back cover
Dirty Magic A novel by Carol HughesAfter a night of particularly strange and vivid dreams, Joe is visited by a girl who seems to be all gray, from her hair to her eyes to her clothes. Wherever she steps, the world melts away, replaced by a land of mud and rain. Telling Joe he must come with her if he wants to save his younger sister, who is gravely ill, the girl leads Joe through to her gray world, which is in the midst of a twenty-year-old war. There Joe dodges bullets, fearsome motion-tracking tanks, and the secret police as he searches for his sister.
Description / Synopsis:
Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bight and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command - at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic care ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.
Format: Trade Paperback
Condition: Good
My Heart Laid Bare A novel by Joyce Carol OatesHARDBOUNDEX-LIBChronicles the endeavors of the Licht family--a clan of cheats, murderers, and con men--from the late eighteenth century through the 1930s, and details the moral consequences of their crimes and transgressions.
ITEM CODE: 0043
Title: We Were the Mulvaneys
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Binding: Paperback
PUBLICATION DETAILS:
Plume (Copyright 1996)
First Plume Printing, September 1997
ISBN: 0452282829
ISBN13: 9780452282827
CONDITION: Like new and in fine condition with only some dirt on the front and back cover and minor fraying along the edges of the front cover. Inside pages are clean and binding is tight.
ITEM CODE: 0042
Title: We Were the Mulvaneys
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
PUBLICATION DETAILS:
Plume (Copyright 1996)
Publication Date: Not Shown
ISBN: 0525942238
ISBN13: 9780525942238
DESCRIPTION: 1996 New York Times Book Review “Notable Book of the Year”. Adapted into a major Emmy-nominated movie.
CONDITION: Like new and in very fine condition with very minor fraying on top edge of the dust jacket. Clean pages; Binding is tight.
REVIEWS: “A darkly engrossing novel ... Oates unspools this expansive story and captures this memorable clan, with a huge amount of exacting yet unfussy energy. She writes expertly. rarely has her gift for broad, galloping narrative been this much on display. it will consume you.” – Washington Post Book World
Synopsis:
Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you.
It began with me a year ago this past July. A few weeks after my fourteenth birthday. When Freaky Green Eyes came into my heart.
When her parents separate, Franky Pierson has no trouble deciding whose side she's on. After all, her mother is the one who chose to leave. And when her mother is suddenly reported missing, Franky believes she's simply pulled a disappearing act and deserted their family for good. But a part of Franky, a part she calls Freaky Green Eyes, knows that something is wrong. And it's up to Freaky to open Franky's eyes to the truth.
Format: Trade Paperback
Condition: Diagonal fold on the back cover, small tear on the lower portion of the front cover, Good
