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O'Faolain, Eileen (retold by): Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe: Irish Sagas and Folk - Tales -"Fin Mac Cool, The Giants and the Small Men", The Haughty Princess, The Black Thief, The Pursuit of Dermot and Grania, The Death of Cuchullin, The Quest of the Children of Turenn, Oisin in the Land of the Ever Young, +++++++ London Oxford Univ Pr 1960
Very Good Plus Joan Kiddell-Monroe cover and interior illustrator,

-----Green cloth with gilt and mauve on spine, colour illustrated end papers, (ix) 245 pages plus 8 full page colour illustrations, with b & w drawings through-out, all illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe, ink name along bottom edge of half-title page, faint edge wear, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition price clipped. Contents include: From the Dawn of Time / The Quest of the Children of Turenn (The first sorrow of story-telling) / Midir and Etain / The Children of Lir (The second sorrow of story-telling) / In The Time of Cuchullin / How Conor Mac Nessa Became King of Ulster: A Foretale to The Cattle Raid of Cooley / The Cattle Raid of Cooley: The Pillow Talk; Cuchullin Keeps the Gap of the North; Cuchullin Parleys with Maeve; The Fight with Ferdia; Ulster Awake; The Battle of the Bulls / The Fate of The Sons of Usnach (The third sorrow of story-telling) / The Death of Cuchullin / King Fergus Mac Leide and the Wee Folk / In the Time of Finn and the Fianna / The Young Finn / How Finn Became Head of the Fianna / Finn and the Fianna / The Mother of Oisin / The Pursuit of Dermot and Grania / Oisin In The Land of the Ever Young / Tales for the Chimney-Corner / The Black Thief: King Conal's Horses; The Three Enchanted Maidens; The Thirteen Enchanted Cats; The Faithless Apprentice; The Three Giants / The Palace in the Rath / The Three Sons of the King of Antua / The Haughty Princess / The Bird of the Golden Land / The Enchantment of Geraroidh Iarla / Finn Mac Cool, The Giants and The Small Men / Glossary. Any image directly beside this listing is the actaul book and not a stock photo 4th Printing NF Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"

[SW: -----Green cloth with gilt and mauve on spine, colour illustrated end papers, (ix) 245 pages plus 8 full page colour illustrations, with b & w drawings through-out, all illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe, ink name along bottom edge of half-title page, faint edge wear, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition price clipped. Contents include: From the Dawn of Time / The Quest of the Children of Turenn (The first sorrow of story-telling) / Midir and Etain / The Children of Lir (The second sorrow of story-telling) / In The Time of Cuchullin / How Conor Mac Nessa Became King of Ulster: A Foretale to The Cattle Raid of Cooley / The Cattle Raid of Cooley: The Pillow Talk; Cuchullin Keeps the Gap of the North; Cuchullin Parleys with Maeve; The Fight with Ferdia; Ulster Awake; The Battle of the Bulls / The Fate of The Sons of Usnach (The third sorrow of story-telling) / The Death of Cuchullin / King Fergus Mac Leide and the Wee Folk / In the Time of Finn and the Fianna / The Young Finn / How Finn Became Head of the Fianna / Finn and the Fianna / The Mother of Oisin / The Pursuit of Dermot and Grania / Oisin In The Land of the Ever Young / Tales for the Chimney-Corner / The Black Thief: King Conal's Horses; The Three Enchanted Maidens; The Thirteen Enchanted Cats; The Faithless Apprentice; The Three Giants / The Palace in the Rath / The Three Sons of the King of Antua / The Haughty Princess / The Bird of the Golden Land / The Enchantment of Geraroidh Iarla / Finn Mac Cool, The Giants and The Small Men / Glossary. Any image directly beside this listing is the actaul book and not a stock Photo, O'Faolain, Eileen (retold by): Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe , Irish Sagas and Folk - Tales -"Fin Mac Cool, The Giants and the Small Men", The Haughty Princess, The Black Thief, The Pursuit of Dermot and Grania, The Death of Cuchullin, The Quest of the Children of Turenn, Oisin in th, Oxford Univ PrBritain]

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Kiker, Douglas: Death at the Cut, Ballantine March 13, 1990 ISBN: 0345359933
,,TV correspondent Kiker scores a second hit with the sequel to Murder on Clam Pond, which was solved by reporter Mac McFarland, a newcomer to the Cape Cod town. Now happily settled in with his love, Kate, Mac is contemplating a plum assignment from the New York Times when he spots a car submerged in the bay and a girl buckled in the passenger seat. Identified later as Susan Jacobs, she's beyond rescue efforts, although Mac and his friend, police chief Noah Simmons, do their best. The case nags at the reporter, but he has to concentrate on the Times article as he goes to meet Republican presidential prospect Sen. Adolphus Bridges, a guest with his wife and retinue at the swank summer home of Dody and Charles Monro II. Wealthy Monro is the blameless, popular senator's strong backer and so is Mac, until he sniffs the air, redolent with secret fears, and follows his reporter's nose to the national capital and other places, where he checks on Susan's background. As a result, he's back home with questions for the political hopefuls, when gunmen kill a young suspect in the drowned girl's case and wound Kate, who's helping Noah counsel the boy. The powerful windup comes too soon for the reader enjoying the author's salty wit while squirming, perhaps, at reminders of real hanky-panky in government.

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,TV correspondent Kiker scores a second hit with the sequel to Murder on Clam Pond, which was solved by reporter Mac McFarland, a newcomer to the Cape Cod town. Now happily settled in with his love, Kate, Mac is contemplating a plum assignment from the New York Times when he spots a car submerged in the bay and a girl buckled in the passenger seat. Identified later as Susan Jacobs, she's beyond rescue efforts, although Mac and his friend, police chief Noah Simmons, do their best. The case nags at the reporter, but he has to concentrate on the Times article as he goes to meet Republican presidential prospect Sen. Adolphus Bridges, a guest with his wife and retinue at the swank summer home of Dody and Charles Monro II. Wealthy Monro is the blameless, popular senator's strong backer and so is Mac, until he sniffs the air, redolent with secret fears, and follows his reporter's nose to the national capital and other places, where he checks on Susan's background. As a result, he's back home with questions for the political hopefuls, when gunmen kill a young suspect in the drowned girl's case and wound Kate, who's helping Noah counsel the boy. The powerful windup comes too soon for the reader enjoying the author's salty wit while squirming, perhaps, at reminders of real hanky-panky in government.

[SW: Mac MacFarland Mystery Series]

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Robards, Karen: To Trust a Stranger, Pocket December 30, 2002 ISBN: 0671786601
,,The usual ingredients bubble and boil in Robards's latest romantic suspense thriller. Julie Carlson, once a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks but now the beautiful owner of a successful boutique in Charleston, S.C., seems to have it all. As the novel begins, however, a hit man circles her suburban mansion: Julie's rich husband, Sid, has hired thugs to kill her. Unaware of the danger she is in but convinced that Sid is cheating on her, Julie slips out of the house just in time and follows her husband to the red-light district, where she serendipitously and literally runs into private detective Mac McQuarry, dressed up in drag to spy on a client's husband. Julie isn't sure whether she should trust a man in a dress, but she has no one else to turn to, and soon she and Mac are working together to get the goods on Julie's crooked husband. As it happens, Mac holds a personal grudge against Sid, a prominent builder in Charleston, because Sid was involved in the disappearance of Mac's half-brother 15 years before, and then got Mac kicked off the police force when Mac tried to prove it. Robards's fans will enjoy the machinations before Julie and Mac get together, though cliches clutter every page ("The truth hit him like a hammer over the head: He had a galloping case of the hots for his newest client, who was not incidentally his oldest enemy's wife"). Of course, true love solves past mysteries, while hot kisses get as much play as life-threatening confrontations. A bodice ripper at heart, the novel is the equivalent of a box of junk candy.

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,The usual ingredients bubble and boil in Robards's latest romantic suspense thriller. Julie Carlson, once a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks but now the beautiful owner of a successful boutique in Charleston, S.C., seems to have it all. As the novel begins, however, a hit man circles her suburban mansion: Julie's rich husband, Sid, has hired thugs to kill her. Unaware of the danger she is in but convinced that Sid is cheating on her, Julie slips out of the house just in time and follows her husband to the red-light district, where she serendipitously and literally runs into private detective Mac McQuarry, dressed up in drag to spy on a client's husband. Julie isn't sure whether she should trust a man in a dress, but she has no one else to turn to, and soon she and Mac are working together to get the goods on Julie's crooked husband. As it happens, Mac holds a personal grudge against Sid, a prominent builder in Charleston, because Sid was involved in the disappearance of Mac's half-brother 15 years before, and then got Mac kicked off the police force when Mac tried to prove it. Robards's fans will enjoy the machinations before Julie and Mac get together, though cliches clutter every page ("The truth hit him like a hammer over the head: He had a galloping case of the hots for his newest client, who was not incidentally his oldest enemy's wife"). Of course, true love solves past mysteries, while hot kisses get as much play as life-threatening confrontations. A bodice ripper at heart, the novel is the equivalent of a box of junk candy.

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Czerneda, Julie E. Survival (Bk. 1) DAW May 4, 2004 ISBN: 0756401801
,,Must one species' evolution ensure another's extinction? Canadian author Czerneda (To Trade the Stars) attempts to answer that loaded question by focusing on the unique but dangerous relationship that biologist Mackenzie "Mac" Connor forges with Brymn, a Dhryn archeologist and the first of his race to visit Earth, in this imaginative, if somewhat slow-moving not-so-distant-future novel set in the Pacific Northwest and the far reaches of space. The story comes alive whenever the workaholic, emotionally withdrawn Mac interacts with the seven-armed Brymn, "a giant bearlike being," who at one point applies makeup to go diving with salmon. Trouble arrives in the form of the alien Ro, who kidnap Dr. Emily Mamani Sarmiento, a colleague of Mac's at Norcoast Salmon Research Facility. Blamed for creating the Chasm, a zone of space littered with worlds that have been sucked dry of all life forms, the Ro also want Brymn and Mac. The Interspecies Union's representative, Nikolai "Nik" Trojanowski, whose mysterious attraction to the straight-laced Mac adds romantic heat to the proceedings, helps the two escape to Haven, the Dhryn homeworld. Unfortunately, Brymn and Mac soon find no place is safe from one species' imperative to survive at any cost. A planned sequel may try to answer the next vital question-can friendship evolve to forgive the ultimate betrayal?

Condition;Very Good / Very Good ,Hardcover ,Must one species' evolution ensure another's extinction? Canadian author Czerneda (To Trade the Stars) attempts to answer that loaded question by focusing on the unique but dangerous relationship that biologist Mackenzie "Mac" Connor forges with Brymn, a Dhryn archeologist and the first of his race to visit Earth, in this imaginative, if somewhat slow-moving not-so-distant-future novel set in the Pacific Northwest and the far reaches of space. The story comes alive whenever the workaholic, emotionally withdrawn Mac interacts with the seven-armed Brymn, "a giant bearlike being," who at one point applies makeup to go diving with salmon. Trouble arrives in the form of the alien Ro, who kidnap Dr. Emily Mamani Sarmiento, a colleague of Mac's at Norcoast Salmon Research Facility. Blamed for creating the Chasm, a zone of space littered with worlds that have been sucked dry of all life forms, the Ro also want Brymn and Mac. The Interspecies Union's representative, Nikolai "Nik" Trojanowski, whose mysterious attraction to the straight-laced Mac adds romantic heat to the proceedings, helps the two escape to Haven, the Dhryn homeworld. Unfortunately, Brymn and Mac soon find no place is safe from one species' imperative to survive at any cost. A planned sequel may try to answer the next vital question-can friendship evolve to forgive the ultimate betrayal?

[SW: Species Imperative Series]

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