2019, ISBN: 9780700603688

Hardcover

Ballantine Books, 2019. Hardcover. Used Like New. In this intense and intimate family portrait that moves at a thriller's pace, a troubled woman faces a gripping moral dilemma after res… More...

Ballantine Books, 2019. Hardcover. Used Like New. In this intense and intimate family portrait that moves at a thriller's pace, a troubled woman faces a gripping moral dilemma after rescuing two abandoned children from a hurricane.On the outskirts of North Carolina's Outer Banks sits the Paradise, an apartment complex where renters never stay long enough to call the place "home"--and neighbors are seldom neighborly. It's ideal for Sara Lennox, who moved there to escape a complicated past--and even her name--and rebuild a new life for herself under the radar. But Sara cannot help but notice the family next door, especially twelve-year-old Cassie and five-year-old Boon. She hears rumors and whispers of a recent tragedy slowly tearing them apart.When a raging storm threatens then slams the coastal community, Sara makes a quick, bold decision: Rescue Cassie and Boon from the storm and their broken home--without telling a soul. But this seemingly noble act is not without consequences. Some lethal.Carla Buckley crafts a richly rewarding psychological portrait, combining a heart-wrenching family drama with high-stakes suspense, as the lives of three characters intertwine in an unforgettable story of fury, fate--and redemption., Ballantine Books, 2019, 5, Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him. Overwhelmed by hatred and anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. Westall's immense talent is evident from the opening line - Simon's anger and unhapp, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Matt sepia scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj, along with all corners,minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,plain beige paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 260pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,contents list/ table and a fictional murder report. The island is a place where things are not quite as they appear; a magical place where the murder of a reclusive woman is not a cut and dried case. 'I thought I had come to the island to wrest control of my life back from the woman who had sabotaged it.But I was wrong. My mother was still writing my plot.' Nikki Black,intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth,goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. But her plans are confounded by the discovery that she has a brother.Not just any old brother,but a brother strangely possessed by their mother; a brother with a terrifying violent streak; an apparent simpleton whose head is filled with the stories of past Islanders,Crofters,Vikings, Little People.A brother whose dangerous love and strange way of seeing the world transform Nikki's life. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN AND COMPANY,1999., 5, New York: North Point Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book As New with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The story of Mountain City, Nevada, which has thirty-three people living in it, when Gregory Martin starts his portrait of this town and there are thirty-one, none of them children, by the end of the book. He tells the story of the town's heyday, with abandoned mines giving testimony to a cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition-a story repeated throughout the West. But mostly he tells of the remaining folks and the native Americans on a nearby reservation, descendants of the Basque sheepherders whs settled in this area during the 19th century, and celebrates their dramas and their attachment to a place that seems likely to disappear in the future. Handsome volume in gray half-cloth with red titles, red paper-wrapped boards; very clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals are immaculate. Rough cut. Clean unclipped jacket with slight rumpling along top edge. . 193 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. North Point Press, New York, 2000., North Point Press, 2000, 4, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1988. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New in publisher's vinyl wrapper. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 368 pp 8vo. This book is a practical guide to the forsaken settlements of Kansas and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only “a shadowy remnant of what they once were,” telling the story of each town’s settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline. The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author’s immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler’s guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes. With this new guide in hand, travelers and armchair adventurers alike can journey back to the Kansas frontier—to places like Octagon City, where settlers signed a pledge not to consume liquor, tobacco, or “the flesh of animals” in order to purchase land at $1.25 per acre from the Vegetarian Settlement Company. Or to Sheridan, a tough, end-of-the-line railroad town where, according to the Kansas Commonwealth, “the scum of creation have congregated and assumed control of municipal and social affairs.” At least thirty men were hanged and a hundred killed either in gunfights or by Indians during Sheridan's tumultuous two-year life span. Today the only remainder of Octagon City is a stream named Vegetarian Creek, and “wild and woolly” Sheridan is again a pasture. A clean very presentable copy., University Press of Kansas, 1988, 6<

2001, ISBN: 9780700603688

gewerbliches Angebot, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], 229x152x20 mm, 366, [GW: 530g], [ED: Taschenbuch], DE, Neuware - As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened fo… More...

gewerbliches Angebot, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], 229x152x20 mm, 366, [GW: 530g], [ED: Taschenbuch], DE, Neuware - As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement in 1854, towns sprang up like mushrooms--first along the Missouri border, then steadily westward along trail routes, rivers, and railroad lines. Many of them barely got beyond the drawing board and hundreds of them flowered briefly and died, victims of the 'boom or bust' economy of the frontier and the vagaries of weather, finance, mining, agriculture, railroad construction, and politics.Ghost Towns of Kansas is a practical guide to these forsaken settlements and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were,' telling the story of each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline.The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author's immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler's guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes.With this new guide in hand, travelers and armchair adventurers alike can journey back to the Kansas frontier--to places like Octagon City, where settlers signed a pledge not to consume liquor, tobacco, or 'the flesh of animals' in order to purchase land at $1.25 per acre from the Vegetarian Settlement Company. Or to Sheridan, a tough, end-of-the-line railroad town where, according to the Kansas Commonwealth, 'the scum of creation have congregated and assumed control of municipal and social affairs.' At least thirty men were hanged and a hundred killed either in gunfights or by Indians during Sheridan's tumultuous two-year life span. Today the only remainder of Octagon City is a stream named Vegetarian Creek, and 'wild and woolly' Sheridan is again a pasture.PRAISE'A fascinating trip back in time to some Kansas communities most of us never heard of. Concise and easy to read, this book is as entertaining as it is educational.'--Ron Welch, editor, Kansas Motorist'It's a day-trippers delight.'--Wichita Eagle'While all the towns contained here are in Kansas, the historical significance of the stories as case studies far transcend that state.'--Kansas History'Fitzgerald breathes life into these forgotten settlements, finding in each community a unique personality.'--Annals of Iowa'This is a must resource for either the traveler or the armchair adventurer interested in Kansas and its widely diversified past.'--Great Plains Newsletter, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Skrill/Moneybookers, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

2001, ISBN: 9780700603688

gewerbliches Angebot, Neuware, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], 229x152x20 mm, 366, [GW: 530g], [ED: Taschenbuch], DE, Neuware - As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement… More...

gewerbliches Angebot, Neuware, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], 229x152x20 mm, 366, [GW: 530g], [ED: Taschenbuch], DE, Neuware - As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement in 1854, towns sprang up like mushrooms--first along the Missouri border, then steadily westward along trail routes, rivers, and railroad lines. Many of them barely got beyond the drawing board and hundreds of them flowered briefly and died, victims of the 'boom or bust' economy of the frontier and the vagaries of weather, finance, mining, agriculture, railroad construction, and politics.Ghost Towns of Kansas is a practical guide to these forsaken settlements and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were,' telling the story of each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline.The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author's immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler's guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes.With this new guide in hand, travelers and armchair adventurers alike can journey back to the Kansas frontier--to places like Octagon City, where settlers signed a pledge not to consume liquor, tobacco, or 'the flesh of animals' in order to purchase land at $1.25 per acre from the Vegetarian Settlement Company. Or to Sheridan, a tough, end-of-the-line railroad town where, according to the Kansas Commonwealth, 'the scum of creation have congregated and assumed control of municipal and social affairs.' At least thirty men were hanged and a hundred killed either in gunfights or by Indians during Sheridan's tumultuous two-year life span. Today the only remainder of Octagon City is a stream named Vegetarian Creek, and 'wild and woolly' Sheridan is again a pasture.PRAISE'A fascinating trip back in time to some Kansas communities most of us never heard of. Concise and easy to read, this book is as entertaining as it is educational.'--Ron Welch, editor, Kansas Motorist'It's a day-trippers delight.'--Wichita Eagle'While all the towns contained here are in Kansas, the historical significance of the stories as case studies far transcend that state.'--Kansas History'Fitzgerald breathes life into these forgotten settlements, finding in each community a unique personality.'--Annals of Iowa'This is a must resource for either the traveler or the armchair adventurer interested in Kansas and its widely diversified past.'--Great Plains Newsletter, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Skrill/Moneybookers, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

1988, ISBN: 0700603689

Paperback

[EAN: 9780700603688], Neubuch, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], KANSAS HISTORY; GHOST TOWNS; GUIDE, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As soon as the Kansas … More...

[EAN: 9780700603688], Neubuch, [PU: University Press Of Kansas], KANSAS HISTORY; GHOST TOWNS; GUIDE, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As soon as the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement in 1854, towns sprang up like mushrooms--first along the Missouri border, then steadily westward along trail routes, rivers, and railroad lines. Many of them barely got beyond the drawing board and hundreds of them flowered briefly and died, victims of the 'boom or bust' economy of the frontier and the vagaries of weather, finance, mining, agriculture, railroad construction, and politics.Ghost Towns of Kansas is a practical guide to these forsaken settlements and a chronicle of their role in the history of Kansas. It focuses on 100 towns that have either disappeared without a trace or are only 'a shadowy remnant of what they once were,' telling the story of each town's settlement, politics, colorful figures and legends, and eventual abandonment or decline.The culmination of more than ten years of research, this new book is a distillation of the author's immensely popular three-volume work on the state's ghost towns, now out of print. Condensed and redesigned as a traveler's guide, it is organized by region and features ten maps and detailed instructions for finding each site. Twenty of the towns included are discussed for the first time in this volume. The book also contains more than 100 black-and-white photographs of town scenes.With this new guide in hand, travelers and armchair adventurers alike can journey back to the Kansas frontier--to places like Octagon City, where settlers signed a pledge not to consume liquor, tobacco, or 'the flesh of animals' in order to purchase land at $1.25 per acre from the Vegetarian Settlement Company. Or to Sheridan, a tough, end-of-the-line railroad town where, according to the Kansas Commonwealth, 'the scum of creation have congregated and assumed control of municipal and social affairs.' At least thirty men were hanged and a hundred killed either in gunfights or by Indians during Sheridan's tumultuous two-year life span. Today the only remainder of Octagon City is a stream named Vegetarian Creek, and 'wild and woolly' Sheridan is again a pasture.PRAISE'A fascinating trip back in time to some Kansas communities most of us never heard of. Concise and easy to read, this book is as entertaining as it is educational.'--Ron Welch, editor, Kansas Motorist'It's a day-trippers delight.'--Wichita Eagle'While all the towns contained here are in Kansas, the historical significance of the stories as case studies far transcend that state.'--Kansas History'Fitzgerald breathes life into these forgotten settlements, finding in each community a unique personality.'--Annals of Iowa'This is a must resource for either the traveler or the armchair adventurer interested in Kansas and its widely diversified past.'--Great Plains Newsletter, Books<