8 books mysteries and romance great writers modern stories $5 ea

8 books mysteries and romance great writers modern stories $5 ea Each book $5.00 1: THE APHRODITE BY DAVID CHANDLER STORY: The discovery of the ancient Aphrodite statue starts Eric Galloway on a world wide journey to get the statue that will save the museum financially. The archbishop escapes by a getaway car chase; thieves and worse challenge for the prize; the killer rich hermit eccentric enters the plot, and it gets complicated. BOOK DATA: Hardcover book; Publisher: William Morrow (September 1977) 1st printing, 1st edition; © 1977 by author; printed USA; language: English; ISBN-13: 978-0688032281; size: 5-5/8” x 8 ½” x 1 3/8”; weight: 22 ounces; pages: 360. CONDITION: Like new; has a personal note when it was given as a gift on the 1st leaf; no dust jacket BOOK 2: SCARPETTA BY PATRICIA CORNWELL, crime/mystery STORY: Scarpetta is the heroine forensic pathologist of 16 novels by Patricia Cornwell. Invited to New York City Scarpetta interviews a Bellevue Hospital patient held as insane and guilty of murder and hears his story of innocence and conspiracies. She realizes that he may be truthful, that torture and murders will continue, and begins an investigation through New York’s dark back streets while entangled in a computer network gossip site smearing her work. BOOK DATA: title - Scarpetta; author – Patricia Cornwell; © 2008; pages - 579; Publisher – Berkley Publishing Group; soft cover -1st printing Sept 2009; target ages - 18 and up; school grades – 12; English; ISBN 978-0-425-23016-9; Size – 7.5” x 4.125” x 1.125”; weight 12 ounces; category – fiction, crime, mystery; CONDITION: VERY GOOD –all pages are clean, stain free, no writing or creases, tightly bound, crisp and creaseless covers including spine, clear printing. Smoke free home. BOOK 3: CIRCLE OF FRIENDS BY MAEVE BINCHY STORY: It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a... Circle of Friends. BOOK DATA: Title: Circle of Friends; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: Coronet Books, 27th printing; covers: paperback; copyright, author, 1990; ISBN: 0 340 55133; language: English; pages: 551; size: 4.375” x 6.875” x 1.5”; weight 17 ounces. CONDITION: excellent – former senior’s library book; clean, legible, intact, bound, creases on spine and minor cover wear; smoke free home BOOK 4: THE RETURN JOURNEY BY MAEVE BINCHY STORY: A collection of 14 short stories by Maeve Binchy. BOOK DATA: Title: The Return Journey; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: Dell, 1st printing, June 1999; covers: paperback; copyright, author, 1998; ISBN: 0 440 22459 4; language: English; pages: 225; size: 4-1/8” x 6-7/8” x 5/8”; weight 6 ounces. CONDITION: very good – no markings, clean, legible, intact, all pages bound, creases on spine and minor cover wear; smoke free home BOOK 5: EVENING CLASS BY MAEVE BINCHY STORY: A large class of Irish men and women learning Italian in a year of study find their lives affected by the other students, told as a chapter for each person impacted, love, wealth, fear, family, deception. The book became the inspiration for the movie Italian for Beginners. BOOK DATA: Title: Evening Class; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: McArthur & Company 2nd printing; covers: paperback;copyright, author, 1996; ISBN: 1-552780112; language: English; pages: 520; size: 4-3/8” x 7” x 1-1/8”; weight ounces. CONDITION: excellent – no markings, clean, legible, intact, bound, creases on spine, smoke free home. BOOK 6: EVENING CLASS BY MAEVE BINCHY Story: A large class of Irish men and women learning Italian in a year of study find their lives affected by the other students, told as a chapter for each person impacted, love, wealth, fear, family, deception. The book became the inspiration for the movie Italian for Beginners. Little Brown – BOOK DATA: Title: Evening Class; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: Little Brown and Company; covers: paperback; copyright, author 1996; ISBN: 0-316-09781-3; language: English; pages: 520; size: 4-3/8” x 7” x 1-1/2”; weight ounces. CONDITION: very-good – no markings, clean, legible, intact, bound, creases on spine, crease on cover, smoke free home BOOK 7: THE LILAC BUS BY MAEVE BINCHY STORY: The Lilac Bus operator and 7 passengers return to their little Irish town outside of Dublin every Friday night to spend the weekend at home. All 8 have secrets that none of the others know. You meet these very interesting, likeable people with all their charms and faults, a small part of their total lives and you want to know more. Then you find another story of 4 who are in and stay in Dublin and again you see life and want more. You want more and like in life it ends. BOOK DATA: Title: The Lilac Bus; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: Dell; covers: paperback; copyright, author 1984; ISBN: 0-440-21302-9; language: English; pages: 390; size: 4-1/8” x 6 ¾” x 1-1/8”; weight 9 ounces CONDITION: Good, BOOK 8: FIREFLY SUMER by Maeve Binchy STORY: Everything was changing. The big man for the States was here, with a dream on his heart and money in his pocket. With plans for Mountfern. Sleepy little Mountfern, where people go quietly about their business – while taking a deep interest in everyone’s else’s business. Where the big house, Fernscourt, burned down in the Troubles, has for years been no more than an Ivy-clad playground for the village children, Patrick O’Neill’ arrival will change all this: Fernscourt will be turn into a sophisticated hotel catering to Americans; and by summer’s end new friendships, passions and tragedy will have destroyed the lulling surfaces of Mountfern’s life. BOOK DATA: Title: Firefly Summer; author: Maeve Binchy; Publisher: Coronet, Printing Great Britain, 15th printing 1991; covers: paperback; copyright, author, 1987; ISBN: 0-340-42802-3; language: English; pages: 762; size: 4- ¼” x 7” x 1½”; weight 13 ounces CONDITION: first 2 leaves edge damaged, spine creased, light wear to covers, book in good condition without further defects or blemishes. Each book $5.00 Please provide telephone number with reply. Toronto address, Finch Ave and Yonge St area, near Finch subway station.