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Standiford, Les ; design, Lynne Ampt, Thomas Tafuri; photo, Tom Corcoran
Deal With the Dead: A Novel
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons c2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 302 pages ; 24 cm ;SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780399147043 0399147047 ; OCLC 44541795 ; LCCN 00055938 ; LOC No PS3569.T331528 D45 2001 ; blue cloth in worn pictorial dustjacket ; As John Deal seeks to resurrect his late father's Miami building firm he reluctantly agrees to work secretly for the same government agency which once employed his father ; The "unassailable new kingpin of the South Florida crime novel" James Ellroy returns with a breathtaking novel of family secrets and murder. With his first five John Deal novels Standiford attracted universal critical praise and acclaim from such masters as Elmore Leonard Tony Hillerman and Stephen King. With his new Deal however he has surpassed himself. Attempting to resurrect the Miami building firm that his late father ruined Deal is elated to be awarded part of a major project only to find that the project has strings. Deal never knew that under duress his father had been working secretly for a government agency and now the same agency wants Deal to take his place. With great reluctance he agrees--and his life is immediately torn apart as he is caught in the middle of a vicious personal vendetta his family threatened and his friends hunted his own existence hanging by a thread. Deal's only chance is to turn the tables on everybody seeking to use him but unless he finds a way to do it soon . . . there'll be nobody left to save. Filled with intense character-driven action and rich textured prose Deal with the Dead proves again that "like Raymond Chandler Standiford is a poet in a trenchcoat" The Miami Herald. ; Les Standiford is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University. He has lived in Miami since 1981. ; nick to bottom of front cover ; remainder mark on bottom of textblock ; G/G <br/> <br/> New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2001. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008716 ISBN : 0399147047 9780399147043
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Kay, Terry, 1938-2020 ; art, Elizabeth Cain ; design, Lisa Lytton Smith
To dance with the white dog : a novel
Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers c1990. 1990. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed; 6th printing ; 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; SIGNED by authorof title page ; ISBN 9781561450022 1561450022 ; OCLC 21975712 ; LCCN 90041752 ; LOC No PS3561.A885 T6 1990 ; beige and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The beloved best-selling story of an elderly man mourning the death of his wife and the mysterious white dog who helps ease his grief. From author Terry Kay. ; "A deftly shaped and vivid book.a tender and bracing tale of an octogenarian fighting to live a connected and purposeful life." The New York Times ; "A hauntingly beautiful story about love family and relationships.I found it all such a moving experience a lovely enduring tribute to love." The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu ; "Terry Kay is a perfect writer for those who love to read. His prose contains music and passion and fire. His work is tender and heartbreaking and memorable." Pat Conroy New York Times best-selling author ; The elderly Sam Peek is still mourning the death of his beloved wife when a mysterious white dog appears. Seen only by Sam White Dog becomes a part of Sam's grief. Though it's unclear if White Dog is real or phantom the creature eases Sam's sorrow brings him closer to his family and helps him reconcile with his own mortality. ; Best-selling author Terry Kay brings Northeast Georgia to life through his elegant prose and the thought-provoking themes of family love and loss will make readers come back to this touching story again and again. ; Terry Kay was born February 10 1938 in Royston Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty Shadow Song After Eli and The Runaway which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12 2020 at the age of 82. ; FINE/FINE Also an Emmy Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Hume Cronyn and Academy Award-winner Jessica Tandy. Source: Publisher <br/> <br/> Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, c1990. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008669 ISBN : 1561450022 9781561450022
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Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014 ; design, Cynthia Krupat
Selected Poems Sheffield Ghazal 5: passing the cemetery -- Parkinson's disease -- Rapture -- Flies -- Neverland -- The tragedy of bricks -- The cat -- Oatmeal -- The perch -- The room -- Last Gods -- Farewell -- The waking -- That silent evening -- From When one has lived a long time alone -- Conception -- The sow Piglet's escapes -- The olive wood fire -- The frog pond -- Prayer
Houghton Mifflin Boston 1982 1982. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 9th printing ; 148 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780395320457 9780395320464 0395320453 0395320461 ; OCLC 8051528 ; stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: From What a kingdom it was 1960 : First song -- For William Carlos Williams -- Freedom New Hampshire -- The supper after the last -- The avenue Bearing the initial of Christ into the new world -- From Flower herding on Mount Monadnock 1964 : The river that is east -- For Robert Frost -- Poem of night -- Middle of the way -- Ruins under the stars -- Flower herding on Mount Monadnock -- From Body rags 1968 : Another night in the ruins -- Vapor Trail Reflected in the frog pond -- The burn -- The fly -- The correspondence school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students -- How many nights -- The porcupine -- The bear -- From The book of nightmares 1971 : Under the Maud moon -- The hen flower -- The dead shall be raised incorruptible -- Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight -- Lastness. -- From Mortal acts mortal words 1980 : Fergus falling After making love we hear footsteps -- Saint Francis and the sow -- Wait -- Daybreak -- Blackberry eating -- Kissing the toad -- On the tennis court at night -- The last hiding places of snow -- Looking at your face -- Fisherman -- 52 Oswald Street -- A milk bottle -- From The past 1985 : The road between here and there -- Conception -- The sow Piglet's escapes -- The olive wood fire -- The frog pond -- Prayer -- Fire in Luna Park -- Cemetery angels -- On the Oregon coast -- First day of the future -- The fundamental project of technology -- The waking -- That silent evening -- From When one has lived a long time alone 1990 : The tragedy of bricks -- The cat -- Oatmeal -- The perch -- The room -- Last Gods -- Farewell -- When one has lived a long time alone -- From Imperfect thirst 1994 : My mother's r & r -- The man in the chair -- The cellist -- Running on silk -- The deconstruction of Emily Dickinson -- Sheffield Ghazal 4: driving west -- Sheffield Ghazal 5: passing the cemetery -- Parkinson's disease -- Rapture -- Flies -- Neverland ; Galway Kinnell was born on February 1 1927 in Providence Rhode Island. During World War II he served in the Navy. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1948 and a M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1949. He taught writing at many schools around the world including universities in France Australia and Iran and served as director of the creative writing programs at New York University. He wrote several collections of poetry including Body Rags The Book of Nightmares Walking down the Stairs When One Has Lived a Long Time Imperfect Thirst and Mortal Acts Mortal Words. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a National Book Award for Selected Poems in 1983. He also wrote one novel entitled Black Light. He died from leukemia on October 28 2014 at the age of 87. ; FINE <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982 paperback
Bookseller reference : 008857 ISBN : 0395320461 9780395320464
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Lal, Ruby ; design, Chin-Yee Tai ; photo, Myron McGhee
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan Queen of queens an introduction -- Miracle girl -- Al-hind -- The cupolas of chastity and the perfect man -- The wak-wak tree -- The mirror of happiness -- Grave matters -- A key for closed doors -- Ascent -- Wonder of the age -- Veils of light -- The light-scattering garden -- Fitna -- The rescue -- Angel of death -- Beyond 1627
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company 2018 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; iii 308 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations chiefly color maps ; 25 cm; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title ; ISBN 9780393239348 0393239349 ; OCLC 1005112551 ; LCCN 2018003419 ; LOC No DS461.9.N8 L35 2018 ; yellow-gold and black cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; Contents: Note on transliteration and terminology -- Dramatis personae -- Queen of queens an introduction -- Miracle girl -- Al-hind -- The cupolas of chastity and the perfect man -- The wak-wak tree -- The mirror of happiness -- Grave matters -- A key for closed doors -- Ascent -- Wonder of the age -- Veils of light -- The light-scattering garden -- Fitna -- The rescue -- Angel of death -- Beyond 1627 an epilogue. ; A Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Four centuries ago a Muslim woman ruled an empire. When it came to hunting she was a master shot. As a dress designer few could compare. An ingenious architect she innovated the use of marble in her parents' mausoleum on the banks of the Yamuna River that inspired her stepson's Taj Mahal. And she was both celebrated and reviled for her political acumen and diplomatic skill which rivaled those of her female counterparts in Europe and beyond. In 1611 thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were secluded behind walls Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband and governed in his stead as his health failed and his attentions wandered from matters of state. An astute politician and devoted partner Nur led troops into battle to free Jahangir when he was imprisoned by one of his own officers. She signed and issued imperial orders and coins of the realm bore her name. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist cliches of romance and intrigue and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur's confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In Empress she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history. -- Source: Publisher ; Ruby Lal is an acclaimed historian of India and a professor of South Asian History at Emory University. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World and Coming of Age in Nineteenth Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. She divides her time between Atlanta and Delhi. ; underlining throughout ; G/FINE <br/> <br/> New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008672 ISBN : 0393239349 9780393239348
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Jackson, Joshilyn ; design, Charles Sutherland, Elizabeth Connor; photo, Cig Horsey
Backseat Saints : A Novel Back-seat saints
New York : Grand Central Pub. 2010. 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; viii 344 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780446582346 0446582344 ; OCLC 430192650 ; LCCN 2009032518 ; LOC No PS3610.A3525 B33 2010 ; pea-green and light green cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; After a gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband will kill her Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets.; Joshilyn Jackson graduated with honors from Georgia State with a degree in English literature. After earning her Master's in English at the University of Illinois in Chicago she taught university-level English. Jackson's short fiction has been published in many literary magazines and anthologies and plays that she has written have been produced in Chicago and Atlanta. Gods in Alabama Jackson's first book won SIBA's Novel of the Year award in 2005 and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick which gave Jackson the distinction of being the first author to receive that status in two consecutive years. Jackson also won the Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly for her audio book reading. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008699 ISBN : 0446582344 9780446582346
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Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909-1994 ; translated by Katherine Silver. ; art, Jean Dubuffer; design, Zoe Guttenplan
A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo- Obstacle- Possible Baldi- Tragic end of Alfredo Plumet- Perfect crime- Convalescence- Dream come true- Masquerade- Welcome Bob- Long tale- Ninth of July : Independence Day- Back to the South- Esbjery by the Sea- House in the Sand- Album- Tale of the Rosenkavalier and the Pregnant Virgin from Liliput- Most Dreaded Hell- Face of Disgrace- Jacob and the Other- As Sad as She- On the Thirty-First- Kidnapped Bride- Matias the Telegraph Operator- Twins- Death and the Girl- Dogs will have their Day- Presencia- Friends- Soap- Cat- Marketplace- Piggy- Full Moon- Tomorrow will be Another Day- Tree- Montiagne- Ki no Tsurayuki- Shotgun- She-
Brooklyn NY : Archipelago Books 2019. 2019. Soft cover. Fine. First Archipelago Books edition.; 1st printing ; x 547 pages ; 20 cm ; ISBN 9781939810465 1939810469 ; OCLC 1085637522 ; LCCN 2019033025 ; LOC No PQ8519.O59 A2 2019 ; Dewey 863/.62 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; "Mario Vargas Llosa referred to Juan Carlos Onetti as "one of the great modern writers not only in Latin America." A hero to the likes of Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a vital forbearer to magical realism Onetti won the Cervantes Prize in 1980. A Dream Come True beautifully translated by Katherine Silver gathers Onetti's entire body of short fiction into English for the first time. Onetti's characters drift untethered through strange places with unfamiliar people. A woman idles in a beachside hotel during a prolonged convalescence; a grandmother serves cafe-con-leche to schoolboys resembling her lost grandson. In these mysterious dream-like stories everything is gestured at nothing plainly told. Each offers a brief glimpse into the life of one of Onetti's vast cast of unusual characters intimately rendering their sorrows fears and joys"-- Provided by publisher. ; Synopsis: A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti presenting his existentialist complex and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp coherent literary voice encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl" an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa MarÃa. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages. ; Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories. ; Contents: Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo -- Obstacle -- Possible Baldi -- Tragic end of Alfredo Plumet -- Perfect crime -- Convalescence -- Dream come true -- Masquerade -- Welcome Bob -- Long tale -- Ninth of July : Independence Day -- Back to the South -- Esbjery by the Sea -- House in the Sand -- Album -- Tale of the Rosenkavalier and the Pregnant Virgin from Liliput -- Most Dreaded Hell -- Face of Disgrace -- Jacob and the Other -- As Sad as She -- On the Thirty-First -- Kidnapped Bride -- Matias the Telegraph Operator -- Twins -- Death and the Girl -- Dogs will have their Day -- Presencia -- Friends -- Soap -- Cat -- Marketplace -- Piggy -- Full Moon -- Tomorrow will be Another Day -- Tree -- Montiagne -- Ki no Tsurayuki -- Shotgun -- She -- Araucaria -- At Three in the Morning -- Imposter -- Kisses -- Her Hand -- Back and Forth -- Ti me dai la cosa me io te do la cosa te -- Cursed Springtime -- Beachcomber -- Visit -- Saint Joseph ; FINE <br/> <br/> Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2019. paperback
Bookseller reference : 008783 ISBN : 1939810469 9781939810465
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Umminger, Alison, 1970- ; design, Philip Pascuzzo
American Girls: A Novel "Anna Has Two Mommies"
New York NY : Flatiron Books 2016. 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 293 pages ; 22 cm ; Signed presentation by the author on the title page ; ISBN 9781250075000 9781250133823 1250075009 1250133823 ; OCLC 945434023 ; LCCn 2016001606 ; LOC No PZ7.1.U46 Am 2016 ; "Portions of this book originally appeared in a slightly different form under the title "Anna Has Two Mommies" in Waccamaw"--Title page verso. ; A bittersweet honest and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel that distills honest truths about American girldom. Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna had imagined. As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls-and although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leaves physical scars she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA and of America past and present. In Anna's singular voice we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in LA but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young vulnerable lost and female in America-in short on the B-list of life. Alison Umminger writes about girls violence and which people society deems worthy of caring about which ones it doesn't in a way not often seen in teen fiction. ; Alison Umminger grew up in Arlington Virginia and as an undergraduate was the fourth woman to be elected president of "The Harvard Lampoon." Today she is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton Georgia where she lives with her family. "American Girls" is her first novel. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2016. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008651 ISBN : 1250075009 9781250075000
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Rye, Scott ; design, Lisa Stokes, Mike Stromberg ; photo, Steve Goraum; illusmithtration, Xanthus S
Men and Ships of the Civil War Spark of Secession: the fires of Gosport -- Exciting sport of the highest order -- CSS Sumter: first raider of the Confederacy -- The Harriet Lane First Lady of the Revenue Marine -- The four lives of the Nashville -- Commander James Bulloch naval agent -- Clash of the titans -- The great stone fleets -- America at war and peace -- Cottonclads and gunboats on the western waters -- Lieutenant Charles Read the Confederate corsair -- Submarines of the Civil War -- The life and death of the USS Florida -- Those damned torpedoes -- The most famous of them all -- The battle between the Alabama and the Hatteras -- Pathfinder of the seas -- The defense of Sabine Pass -- The death of an ironclad -- Lady of the Lakes
Longmeadow Press Stamford CT ©1994 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Longmeadow Edition ; 1st printing ; xv 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780681102644 0681102640 ; OCLC 31814840 ; blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Spark of Secession: the fires of Gosport -- Exciting sport of the highest order -- CSS Sumter: first raider of the Confederacy -- The Harriet Lane First Lady of the Revenue Marine -- The four lives of the Nashville -- Commander James Bulloch naval agent -- Clash of the titans -- The great stone fleets -- America at war and peace -- Cottonclads and gunboats on the western waters -- Lieutenant Charles Read the Confederate corsair -- Submarines of the Civil War -- The life and death of the USS Florida -- Those damned torpedoes -- The most famous of them all -- The battle between the Alabama and the Hatteras -- Pathfinder of the seas -- The defense of Sabine Pass -- The death of an ironclad -- Lady of the Lakes -- The battle of Mobile Bay -- The career of the CSS Tallahassee -- The last hurrah -- America's worst maritime disaster ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Longmeadow Press, Stamford, CT, ©1994 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008739 ISBN : 0681102640 9780681102644
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Groarke, Vona ; design, Richard Eckersley
Flight and Earlier Poems
Wake Forest Winston-Salem 2005 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 111 p. ; 26 cm ; 9781930630123 1930630123 ; OCLC 335010452 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Vona Groarke is an Irish poet who will appear at the Auckland Writers Festival and the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival in 2015. She is the author of six collections of poems. Her work has been noted for its powerful music and formal accomplishment 'energised by uncertainties' and recognized with many prizes. She teaches poetry in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester in the UK and is the editor of Poetry Ireland Review. ; "for sale in North America only" ; FINE <br/> <br/> Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, 2005 paperback
Bookseller reference : 008777 ISBN : 1930630123 9781930630123
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Johnny Neil And Susan Smith ; design, Rodrigo Adolfo, Rommel Luspoc; illustrations, Norma Joanne Trammel
The Messenger and the Journey: A Novel
Tate Publishing & Enterprises LLC Mustang Oklahoma 2013 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 381 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9781622958276 1622958276 ; OCLC 837958887 ; color photographic boards no dustjacket ; The freezing winds off Lake Michigan swept across the snow laden grounds and through the cracks of a building that held southern prisoners in Camp Douglas Illinois. Huddled with the other prisoners John mulled over the reasons he had enlisted even after his father had forbidden it. He knew the only real reason was to protect his best friend Frankie who had enlisted first but never even bothered to show up at the station when the recruits left for war. Shivering he wondered if he would ever see his family again and especially the girl he had loved since childhood. John realized that nothing but an act of God could deliver him from this hell on earth. The year was 1864 ; Johnny Neil Smith is an educator in Mississippi and Georgia where he has taught Mississippi Georgia American and World history. He has been recognized as a finalist by the Georgia Writer's Association for Georgia Author of the Year.; Susan Elaine Smith also an educator has both edited and given the book a woman's perspective and added much of the Biblical and scriptural insights ; FINE <br/> <br/> Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, Mustang, Oklahoma, 2013 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008715 ISBN : 1622958276 9781622958276
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Little, Benilde ; design , Jan Pisciotta, Tom Lau ; photo, Wendy Rountree
Acting Out: A Novel
New York : Free Press c2003. 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; 275 pages ; 23 cm ;SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780684854809 9780684854816 0684854805 0684854813 ; OCLC 51277474 ; LCCN 2002029810 ; LOC No PS3562.I78276 A64 2003 ; white and blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Benilde Little the beloved bestselling author of "Good Hair" and "The Itch" is a writer whose works are touchstones for legions of people because they reach deeply into readers' lives. Her new novel will do that again. "Acting Out" is the probing poignant and ultimately uplifting story of a woman caught between the life she thought she was supposed to lead and the dreams she gave up long ago. Ina West grew up independent and solitary raised by an artistic unavailable mother and a reliable loving father. As a twenty-something photographer Ina landed in Manhattan's bohemian art scene after college at the same time that she started dating the devoted hardworking Jay Robinson. When her mother's mental state began to deteriorate her closest cousin became dangerously ill and her free artist's lifestyle put her in some vulnerable situations Ina found comfort in Jay's trajectory into the safe privileged world of the African-American upper middle class. Forsaking her independence and creativity for the joys of family life and material wealth she married Jay had three children and moved to the suburbs; gradually Ina gave herself completely to motherhood and the upkeep of their increasingly luxurious lifestyle. And they had it all: the SUV the lavish home the expensive but casual wardrobe. Then one day after twelve years Jay comes home from work and announces that he's leaving. Amid her shock grief and fear a single clear truth emerges: though still physically present Ina herself had checked out of the marriage long ago. As she struggles with single motherhood reduced financial stability and the emotional roller coaster of her breakup Ina undertakes a journey of self-discovery with no sure destination. She moves to a smaller house rekindles an old love and takes up photography again. The old adventuresome independent Ina begins to resurface tempered by a self-knowledge borne of experience: she has learned how to look unflinchingly into her past and to determine what she wants for her future. Little delves into some of the most private and difficult questions people face. This moving ambitious and accomplished novel explores the fallout -- and the healing -- that can occur when the African-American dream crumbles and when a woman is torn between divergent lifestyle choices. Ina's story of loss and courageous self-revelation will resonate for any woman who has struggled with finding her path in life. --Source: Publisher ; ink mark on bottom of text block else VG/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Free Press, c2003. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008694 ISBN : 0684854805 9780684854809
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Gunning Francis, Leah ; design, Connie Wang
Faith after Ferguson: Resilient Leadership in Pursuit of Racial Justice Timeline of selected events since the Ferguson uprising -- This is us -- The fire this time -- Words create worlds -- Bitter dregs of discomfort -- Holy boldness -- Finding joy -- Reclaiming our time
Chalice Press 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xxii 177 pages : illustrations portraits ; 23 cm ; SIGNED y author on the title page ; printed letter from Amber Martin of the Society for Diversity laid in ; ISBN 9780827211445 0827211449 ; OCLC 1246144592 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Timeline of selected events since the Ferguson uprising -- This is us -- The fire this time -- Words create worlds -- Bitter dregs of discomfort -- Holy boldness -- Finding joy -- Reclaiming our time ; Leah Gunning Francis revisits the clergy and activists from the front lines of the Ferguson MO Black Lives Matter protests to hear what they've learned in the struggle for justice and healing five years later. Weaving the personal accounts of more than a dozen activists and clergy with her own experiences Francis offers profound new insights on faith-filled living in response to social injustice as well as lessons for organizing and mobilizing people to effect real change. Learn from the courageous and resilient leaders on the front lines for justice and discover new ways of leading in the movement for racial justice.--Source: Publisher ; Dr. Leah Gunning Francis is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis Indiana. She is the author of Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community. ; FINE <br/> <br/> Chalice Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 008844 ISBN : 0827211449 9780827211445
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Fleming, Celestine Sibley ; design, Anne Richmond Boston ; photo, Joey Ivanson, Eileen Drennan
Celestine Sibley: A Granddaughter's Reminiscence
Athens Ga. : Hill Street Press c1999. 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; ix 203 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations portraits ; 23 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title ; ISBN 9781892514684 1892514680 ; OCLC 263116766 ; LOC No PS3569.I256 Z67 1999 ; LCCN 99087287 ; light-green and green cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; When Celestine Sibley died in August 1999 hundreds of thousands of her fans mourned for weeks and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrated her life with daily coverage and a special 24-page supplement of which over 1.5 million copies were published. There is no one more perfect to encapsulate the life and memory of the deeply loved novelist memoirist and widely syndicated columnist Celestine Sibley than her granddaughter Celestine Sibley Fleming. Celestine Sibley wrote extensively about her granddaughter over the years -- and vice-versa -- and they shared a very close bond. Featuring Fleming's memories about her grandmother in terms of her life both as a public figure and family matriarch together with tales from her grandmother's garden and kitchen and a collection of family photographs Celestine Sibley is a much-needed final word on her life. In the words of Sibley Fleming: "The book is about the inheritance left to me by my grandmother not about diamond tiaras or strings of pearls but instead a look at the richness of life the miracle of relationships and the wisdom that comes from greeting every day with and open mind and sense of humor like only my grandmother could. 'Tine taught me how to see life". At last Celestine Sibley fans everywhere are offered a rare and affectionate look into the soul of Celestine Sibley. ; Celestine Sibley Fleming is a columnist writer and editor whose work appears regularly in national magazines and regional newspapers. She is the author of several books including How to Rock Your Baby. Fleming teaches writing at Georgia State University and writes a syndicated personal humor column on parenting and family. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Athens, Ga. : Hill Street Press, c1999. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008659 ISBN : 1892514680 9781892514684
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Bush, Barbara, 1925-2018 ; design, Laura Hough, Jackie Seow; photo, Carol Powers
Barbara Bush: A Memoir
New York : Scribner's Sons c1994. 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. x 575 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by Barbara Bush on the title page ; ISBN 9780025196353 9780025192751 0025196359 0025192752 ; OCLC 30356182 ; LCCN 94013829 ; LOC No E883.B87 A3 1994 ; Dewey 973.928/092/2 ; blue cloth in photographic dustjacket ; "A Lisa Drew book." ; Mrs. Bush offers a heartfelt portrait of her life in and out of the White House from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye New York to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush to her role as First Lady of the United States. Here she writes candidly about her early years with George Bush in West Texas and the tragic death of their young daughter Pauline. She also discusses the world of Washington politics and the famous figures she's met as well as the disappointment of the 1992 presidential campaign-and the mixed blessing of regaining her private life including her role as the nation's leading literacy champion. ; Filled with entertaining anecdotes thirty-two pages of personal photographs and a healthy dose of introspection this memoir is "a book of good grace and humor-written in a style that like the author herself is straightforward unembellished generous good-hearted and wise.A pleasure" The Washington Times. ; Barbara Bush was born Barbara Pierce in New York City on June 8 1925. She married George Bush on January 6 1945 while he was on leave from the Navy. She was the wife of the 41st president of the United States and the mother of the 43rd president of the United States George W. Bush. She was a huge supporter of civil rights and literacy. While she was first lady from January 1989 to January 1993 she insisted that her press secretary be black a first for that position and started the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She wrote several books including C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life and Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush. The profits from those books went to literacy causes. She also wrote two memoirs entitled Barbara Bush: A Memoir and Reflections: Life After the White House. She died on April 17 2018 at the age of 92 ; ownership bookplate on front endpaper ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Scribner's Sons, c1994. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008714 ISBN : 0025196359 9780025196353
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McCann, Jim ; art, Janet Lee; lettering, Dave Lanphear; design, Todd Klein; production, Jeremy Brody, Scott Newman; ed. Stephen
Return of the Dapper Men
Archaia Comics Los Angeles Calif. 2010 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st ed/ 1st printing ; 1 volume unpaged : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9781932386905 1932386904 ; OCLC 609536087 ; brown and red cloth with paste-down imagery on cover ; ex-library stamps labels ; "A tale of a world in between time where children have played so long it's almost become work machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. This is how this land has remained until 314 dapper-looking gentlemen rain down from the sky and set off in different directions to start the world again. Now Ayden the only boy to still ask questions; Zoe the robot girl all other machines hold dear; and the Dapper Man known only as '41' must discover what happened that made time stop understand what their true places are in this world and learn what 'tomorrow' really means. The sun is setting for the first time in memory and once that happens everything changes"--Publisher's web site ; James Andrew McCann II is an American writer of comic books theater and television programs. McCann has worked on several films and music videos before entering the ABC Daytime Writer Development Program during which time he wrote for the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. ; ex-library stamps labels ; silk ribbon ; bottom corners bumped else VG <br/> <br/> Archaia Comics, Los Angeles [Calif.], 2010 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008896 ISBN : 1932386904 9781932386905
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Green, Tim, 1963- ; photo, J Stoll, Patrick Harbron; design, Michael J. Walsh
Ruffians: A Novel
Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel c1993. 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 298 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9781878685780 1878685783 ; OCLC 28764205 ; black and tan cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Humphrey Lyles owns the Birmingham Ruffians a franchise football team trained according to the Program fueled by a dark secret that promotes the aggressive fury that means victory in the violent arenas of pro football ; Timothy Green was born in Liverpool New York on December 16 1963. He received a degree in English from Syracuse University in 1986. He was the Atlanta Falcons' first-round draft pick in 1986 and played for them through 1993. In 2002 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1994 and began writing books for adults including The Dark Side of the Game False Convictions and A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search. He also writes children's books including Football Genius Baseball Great The Big Time and Unstoppable. He has served as a commentator for the NFL on Fox ; ownership stamp ; else FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City, Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, c1993. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008690 ISBN : 1878685783 9781878685780
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Shearer, Cynthia ; design, Songhee Kim, Marjorie Anderson ; photo, Wilhelm Schultz, Robert Jordan
The Wonder Book of Air: A novel
New York : Pantheon Books c1996. 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed. 1st printing ; 305 p. ; 25 cm. ; SIGNED by author on title page ISBN 067943982X ; LCCN 95031552 ; LOC No PS3569.H39145 W66 1996 ; OCLC 32819757 ; blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; A Southern family saga featuring one protagonist but many narrators. The protagonist is Harrison Durrance of Georgia and the narrators include a fellow cadet from West Point his wife his sister his mistress his children. In the course of portraying this one man from various and sometimes conflicting points of view a family's history is told. A first novel ; The Wonder Book of the Air leads us through the lives of three generations in a Southern family. At the center is Harrison Durrance who learns early that the nature of love is both transaction and transgression. As a young man he comes into his own during World War II where he falls for the magic of flight and thrives on the danger of battle. He has become a man of undeniable magnetism brash and vigorously optimistic. But when the war is over and he is back on the ground - in cold-war America - Harrison loses his bearings and catapults out of orbit. As his notions of the world begin to fail him and the people he claims to love fail to understand him he sabotages his career drinks to excess and drives his family into emotional bedlam. But the story is not Harrison's alone. In Cynthia Shearer's arresting vision the turbulence Harrison creates is woven into a canvas that captures the seismic shifts of history of change of forces that we try to name to protect ourselves from their randomness. In the wake of Harrison's terrifying-and-terrified behavior we watch his children search for hope in the emotional wreckage and find some understanding of solace compassion and love. --Source: Publisher ; Cynthia Shearer is the former curator of Rowan Oak the home of William Faulkner and holds a M.A. in English from the University of Mississippi. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. ; bookplate of Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Pantheon Books, c1996. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008717 ISBN : 067943982x 9780679439820
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Hart, John, 1965- ; design, James Iacobelli ; photo, Tina Lee, Kim Veillon
Redemption Road: A Novel
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016. 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 417 pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780312380366 9781848541825 9781250132116 0312380364 1848541821 1250132118 ; OCLC 922910315 ; LCCN 2015048657 ; LOC No PS3608.A78575 R43 2016 ; blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. Now after five years John Hart is back with a stunning literary thriller. Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison a good cop walks free. But for how long And deep in the forest on the altar of an abandoned church the unthinkable has just happened. This is a town on the brink. This is a road with no mercy. ; John Hart is the only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels John has also won the Barry Award the Southern Independent Bookseller's Award for Fiction the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in over seventy countries. A former defense attorney and stockbroker John spends his time in North Carolina and Virginia where he writes full-time. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008692 ISBN : 0312380364 9780312380366
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Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935-2024 ; design, Robert G. Lowe ; Angela Skouras ; photos, Holger Thoss, Mary Jernigan McCormick
I Rhoda Manning Go Hunting with My Daddy: And Other Stories
Boston : Little Brown and Co. c2002. 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xi 291 p. ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 0316173584 ; LCCN 2001037678 ; white and mauve cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: I Rhoda Manning go hunting with my daddy -- Entropy -- A christmas in Wyoming -- On the Wind River in Wyoming -- The Gold Bough -- Gotterdammerung in which Nora Jane and Freddy Harwood confront evil in a world they never made -- The Abortion -- Remorse -- Alone -- Light shinning through a honey jar. ; A new Ellen Gilchrist collection is always an event for the legions of her loyal readers. In I Rhoda Manning Go Hunting with My Daddy Gilchrist writes again of one of her most beloved characters with the hilarity wisdom and poignancy that marks all of her fiction. Here a clutch of stories are told in the voice of Rhoda -- as a child as a divorced mother of three sons and as an old woman recalling the curse and blessing of being the only daughter of Big Dudley. In The Abortion a young girl whose father is dying and the boy who loves her struggle with clashing notions of what makes life meaningful. In Remorse a small town hairdresser revisits the last days of his best friend's life and what he might have done to save her. There is a rich vein of sorrow here but Gilchrist lightens the burden with a grasp of how both folly and grace are born of love. As her characters both new and familiar spin out their unlikely fates Gilchrist proves once again that there is no other Southern writer quite like her. --Source: Publisher ; Ellen Louise Gilchrist was an American novelist short story writer and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories Victory Over Japan. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2002. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008678 ISBN : 0316173584 9780316173582
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Grizzard, Debra ; Perry, Chuck. ; design, Jill Dilde; jacket photo, France Dorman; authors: Dudley Tamps, Ludlow Porch, Loran Sm
Don't Fence Me In: An Anecdotal Biography of Lewis Grizzard By Those Who Knew Him Best
Atlanta Ga. : Longstreet Press c1995. 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 289 pages : portraits ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by the author Debra Grizzard on title page ; ISBN 9781563522505 1563522500 ; OCLC 33355532 ; LCCN 95077248 ; LOC No PS3557.R5368 Z58 1995 ; Dewey 814/.54 ; white and green cloth in photographic color dustjacket ; Contents: Early lessons of life / Dudley Tamps -- Lewis Sr.: loving but flawed father / Ludlow Porch -- With a little help from a friend / Loran Smith -- Details page 2: Journalism 101 / Glenn Vaughn -- Lewis Grizzard: the ultimate newspaperman / Jim Minter -- Life on the streets of "Hot-Lanta" / Ron Hudspeth -- Cold climate warm friends hot business / Tim Jarvis -- Georgia Bulldogs: The majority party / Loran Smith -- At the reins of a runaway rocket / Tony Privett -- Vicarious philandering with Lewis / Tony Privett -- Highs and lows: Life on the road / Steve Enoch -- A tale of too many broken hearts / Debra Grizzard with Judson Knight -- Why me Why now No answer / Steve Enoch -- A reason to fight even harder / Debra Grizzard with Judson Knight -- Beating the odds again and again / Dr. Randy Martin -- Hos way was the right way / Jim Minter -- Memories keep the spirit alive / Debra Grizzard with Judson Knight ; At the time of Lewis Grizzard's death in 1994 he was one of America's best known and most beloved humorists. This unique biography of the bestselling author and columnist has been compiled by the people who knew him best and were closest to him at various stages of his life including his lifelong friend Dudley Stamps his first editor Jim Minter and Tim Jarvis his friend and tennis partner. 30 photos. --Source: Publisher ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet Press, c1995. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008808 ISBN : 1563522500 9781563522505
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Panowich, Brian ; design, David Baldeosingh Rotstein; photo, Maslov Dmitry; photo, David Kernaghan
Like Lions: A Novel
New York : Minotaur Books 2019 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; 307 pages ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9781250206947 1250206944 ; OCLC 1085621328 ; LCCN 2019002776 ; LOC No PS3616.A385 L55 2019 ; green cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain. Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015 winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction. Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff a new father and improbably the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family he finally has to make a choice. When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs territory leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. Revenge is a powerful force and the vacuum left by his brothers' deaths has left them all vulnerable. With his wife and child in danger and the way of life in Bull Mountain under siege for everyone Clayton will need to find a way to bury the bloody legacy of his past once and for all. --Source: Publisher ; Brian Panowich is an award winning author a Georgia firefighter and a father to four incredible children. His first novel Bull Mountain was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist ITW Thriller Award winner for Best First Novel Southern Book Prize winner and a finalist for both the Anthony and the Barry Awards. He lives in Georgia with his family. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Minotaur Books, 2019 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008691 ISBN : 1250206944 9781250206947
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Daugharty, Janice, 1944- ; design, Kyoko Watanabe, Honi Werner; photo, Sid Hoetzel, Herb Pilcher
Like A Sister: A Novel
New York : Harper Collins c1999. 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. 1st printing ; 192 pages ; 22 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780060193607 0060193603 ; OCLC 41272958 ; LCCN 99015621 ; LOC No PS3554.A844 L54 1999 ; gold and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Sister cannot say exactly when or where she was when she first saw--heard--that look and maybe it was sometime at night after she lay down to sloop but she saw it. Then her eyes sprang wide and her lips parted and she repeated over and over like a sinner's prayer how she would not sorry away like Marnie.-- From Like a Sister ;It is 1956 and Sister is only thirteen years old but she is a mother to her two younger twin brothers and her toddler sister. Her mother Marnie has had a string of boyfriends and her latest is more interested in building up business at his new café than he is in raising three children that are not his own. Marnie is involved in the café as well--but Sister is not exactly sure how. All she knows is that Marnie isn't around very much. Things weren't always this way--at one time they were close "just like sisters." Now it seems they are strangers and Sister has noticed that the neighbors are giving each other looks--looks that say that whatever Marnie is up to at the café it isn't respectable. Deciding that she will not follow in Marnie's footsteps Sister begins to take charge of her life as best she can by minding her manners and by befriending her kindly next-door neighbor Willa who seems to Sister to be a fine example of how a mother should be. But then Ray Williams a respected and powerful man in town begins to notice the blossoming Sister and when he realizes that she has no adult supervision he sets his sights on her. Willa steps in to intervene and Sister thinks she may have found salvation but in Like a Sister all is never what it seems. ; A haunting coming-of-age tale Like a Sister will linger in the minds of readers long after the last page has been turned. -- Source: Publisher ; Janice Daugharty is Artist-in-Residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton Georgia. She is the author of one story collection and five novels: Dark of the Moon Necessary Lies Pawpaw Patch Earl in the Yellow Shirt and Whistle. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Harper Collins, c1999. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008724 ISBN : 0060193603 9780060193607
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Frazier, Charles, 1950- ; design, Barbara M. Buchanan ; Thomas Beck Stvan ; photo, Phil Bray
Thirteen Moons: A Novel
New York : Random House c2006. 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st trade edition 1st printing ; 422 pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780375509322 9781400066391 9780812967586 0375509321 1400066395 0812967585 ; OCLC 74270968 ; LCCN 2006284735 ; sea-green and light tan cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse a key and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty Will finds a father in Bear a Cherokee chief and is adopted by him and his people developing relationships that ultimately forge Will's character. All the while his love of Claire the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone will forever rule Will's heart. In a distinct voice filled with both humor and yearning Will tells of a lifelong search for home the hunger for fortune and adventure the rebuilding of a trampled culture and above all an enduring pursuit of passion. As he comes to realize "When all else is lost and gone forever there is yearning. One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire trumps time." Will Cooper in the hands of Charles Frazier becomes a classic American soul: a man devoted to a place and its people a woman and a way of life all of which are forever just beyond his reach. Thirteen Moons takes us from the uncharted wilderness of an unspoiled continent across the South up and down the Mississippi and to the urban clamor of a raw Washington City. Throughout Will is swept along as the wild beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones automobiles and encroaching railways of the twentieth. Steeped in history rich in insight and filled with moments of sudden beauty Thirteen Moons is an unforgettable work of fiction ; "Thirteen Moons brings this vanished world thrillingly to life.One of the great Native American and American stories and a great gift to all of us from one of our very best writers." --Kirkus Reviews ; Charles Frazier was born in 1950 and grew up in western North Carolina. Frazier received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of North Carolina and his doctorate in American literature from the University of South Carolina. He taught at the University of Colorado and North Carolina State University before writing his first novel Cold Mountain. He based the bestselling book on true stories written by his great-great-grandfather in journals during the Civil War period. Cold Mountain won the National Book Award. His other novels are Thirteen Moons and Nightwoods. He made the bestseller list in 2018 with his title Varina. ; Note this is NOT the limited edition ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Random House, c2006. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008684 ISBN : 0375509321 9780375509322
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Gilbert, Sarah ; design, Bob McRee; photo, Russell Jeffcoat
Summer Gloves
New York : Warner Books c1993. 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 197 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ownership stamp ; ISBN 9780446516891 9780446515276 0446516899 0446515272 ; OCLC 26722271 ; LCCN 92050523 ; LOC No PS3557.I34228 S85 1993 ; red and black cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; "As sexy and outrageous as Sarah Gilbert's high-spirited previous works but twice as wise Summer Gloves will knock your socks off with its plain-talking honest portrayal of a woman's true needs." ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Warner Books, c1993. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008679 ISBN : 0446516899 9780446516891
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Day, Felicia, 1979- ; foreword by Joss Whedon ; design, Jill Putorti; photos, Ronen Boidek, David LaPorte, Ron Jaffe, Bui Brot
You're never weird on the Internet almost : a memoir Why I'm weird -- What avatar should I be -- Jail bait -- Hollywood: Not a meritocracy -- Quirky addiction = Still an addiction -- The Guild: A ruthless beginning -- Web series: A DIY journey -- We made something! #lookit -- Convention fevah -- The deletion of myself -- #GamerGate and meeeeee! -- It's been real
New York: Touchstone an Imprint of Simon and Schuster 2015 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Touchstone hardcover edition. 1st printing ; x 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781476785653 9781476785677 9781476785660 1476785651 1476785678 147678566X ; OCLC 898161071 ; sky-blue and blue cloth in photographic color dustjacket ; Contents: Why I'm weird -- What avatar should I be -- Jail bait -- Hollywood: Not a meritocracy -- Quirky addiction = Still an addiction -- The Guild: A ruthless beginning -- Web series: A DIY journey -- We made something! #lookit -- Convention fevah -- The deletion of myself -- #GamerGate and meeeeee! -- It's been real ; The instant New York Times bestseller from "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day You're Never Weird on the Internet Almost is a "relentlessly funny and surprisingly inspirational" Forbes memoir about her unusual upbringing her rise to internet stardom and embracing her weirdness to find her place in the world. When Felicia Day was a girl all she wanted was to connect with other kids desperately. Growing up in the Deep South where she was "home-schooled for hippie reasons" she looked online to find her tribe. The Internet was in its infancy and she became an early adopter at every stage of its growth-finding joy and unlikely friendships in the emerging digital world. Her relative isolation meant that she could pursue passions like gaming calculus and 1930's detective novels without shame. Because she had no idea how "uncool" she really was. But if it hadn't been for her strange background-the awkwardness continued when she started college at sixteen with Mom driving her to campus every day-she might never have had the naive confidence to forge her own path. Like when she graduated as valedictorian with a math degree and then headed to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting despite having zero contacts. Or when she tired of being typecast as the crazy cat-lady secretary and decided to create her own web series before people in show business understood that online video could be more than just cats chasing laser pointers.Felicia's rags-to-riches rise to Internet fame launched her career as one of the most influenÂtial creators in new media. Ever candid she opens up about the rough patches along the way recounting battles with writer's block a full-blown gaming addiction severe anxiety and depression-and how she reinvented herself when overachieving became overwhelming. ; Showcasing Felicia's "engaging and often hilarious voice" USA TODAY ; You're Never Weird on the Internet Almost is proof that everyone should celebrate what makes them different and be brave enough to share it with the world because anything is possible now-even for a digital misfit. --Source: Publisher ; Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress singer writer and web series creator. She is the creator and star of the web series The Guild a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York: Touchstone, an Imprint of Simon and Schuster, 2015 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008801 ISBN : 1476785651 9781476785653
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Dempsey, Ethan ; design, Ethan W Dempsey
13 Treasures: Book One
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 219 pages ; 21 cm ; SIGNED presentation by the author on title page ; ISBN 9781453671313 1453671315 ; OCLC 696003478 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; High school senior Evan Snowden loves his eccentric grandfather more than anything. Grandpa Kent is an adventurer a man who seeks to answer history's greatest mysteries. To Evan he's a man of wonderful stories. It's these stories that have enthralled and captivated Evan for years. But a vicious attack on his grandfather plunges Evan and his best friend Charlie into a world of intrigue danger and unimaginable discovery. A world that Evan has only known in the voice of his grandfather.Until now. --Source: Publisher ; Ethan Dempsey currently lives and teaches high school social studies in northwest Georgia. ; FINE <br/> <br/> CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform paperback
Bookseller reference : 008811 ISBN : 1453671315 9781453671313
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Dantzler, Rick ; design, Carole Ann Schulz, Paul Schulz; artwork by Paul Schulz
Under the Panther Moon All is well -- Finally home -- Straight talk at Flamingo -- Hallowed ground -- Crapper Creek -- All grown up -- One day at a time -- The blessing and the curse -- The legend of Marley Pinder -- The animal band -- The chair -- Under the panther moon -- Too close for comfort -- Soldier -- The cow pens -- The right spirit -- Endless possibilities -- A day well lived -- The sentinels -- The ghost -- Wonders of the deep -- The footwashers
Florida Classics Library Port Salerno Fla. ©2001 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 335 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ; ISBN 9780912451558 0912451556 ; OCLC 51072959 ; gold and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Anyone reading this book will develop a working understanding of nearly every major Florida environmental issue from the last twenty-five years. The author a former Florida state senator uses twenty-two fictional short stories each constructed around an actual environmental issue to illustrate the challenges facing Florida as it tries to preserve a rural way of life that is threatened by population growth. Magnificent artwork by the great artist Paul Schulz complements the copy perfectly making the book as enjoyable to look at as it is to read. ; Rick Dantzler is an American lawyer former Florida politician and a member of the Democratic Party. From Winter Haven Dantzler served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1990 and in the Florida Senate from 1990 to 1998. ; Contents: All is well -- Finally home -- Straight talk at Flamingo -- Hallowed ground -- Crapper Creek -- All grown up -- One day at a time -- The blessing and the curse -- The legend of Marley Pinder -- The animal band -- The chair -- Under the panther moon -- Too close for comfort -- Soldier -- The cow pens -- The right spirit -- Endless possibilities -- A day well lived -- The sentinels -- The ghost -- Wonders of the deep -- The footwashers ; includes map of story locations ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Florida Classics Library, Port Salerno, Fla., ©2001 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008764 ISBN : 0912451556 9780912451558
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Kidder, Tracy ; design, Wendell Minor ; photo, Gabriele A. Cooney
Among Schoolchildren
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. 1989. 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 340 pages ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED by author of title page; ISBN 9780395475911 0395475910 ; OCLC 19778983 ; LCCN 89034378 ; LOC No LB1776 .K48 1989 ; Dewey372.11/02/0973 ; textured white and blue on red cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; "A Richard Todd book." ; Mrs. Zajac is feisty funny and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady schoolteacher." She is thirty-four. Around Kelly School she is famous for her discipline: "She is mean bro" says one of her students. But children love her. And so will the reader of this extraordinarily moving book by the author of House and The Soul of a New Machine. Mrs. Zajac spends her working life "among schoolchildren." To some it might seem a small world a world of spelling and recess and endless papers to correct. But we soon realize that Mrs. Zajac's classroom is big enough to house much of human nature. Her little room contains a distillate of some of the worst social problems of our time. Some of the children's young lives seem already stunted by physical and emotional deprivation. And some are full of precarious promise. As we come to know these children we long for their salvation - and we come to understand as if for the first time the difference that a good teacher can make in a child's life and in our society. Among Schoolchildren provides the most realistic account of American education ever written - on every page we encounter the precisely rendered truth for which Tracy Kidder is famous. But this is more than a book about education. It is about one woman's indomitability about the joy of acting out of conscience and love. At bottom its subject is nothing less than the struggle between good and evil. In Among Schoolchildren Tracy Kidder has written his most emotionally powerful most memorable work. --Source: Publisher ; Tracy Kidder was educated at the University of Iowa and Harvard University. He served in the US Army in Vietnam. Kidder has garnered numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction and the National Book Award for General Nonfiction both in 1982. He has also been honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 1990 and the Christopher Award 1990. His publications include numerous nonfiction articles and short fiction for The Atlantic and other periodicals. Non-Fiction books include The Road to Yuba City Doubleday 1974; The Soul of a New Machine Atlantic Monthly-Little Brown 1981 for which he won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award; House Houghton Mifflin 1985; Old Friends Houghton Mifflin 1993; Home Town Random House 1999; Mountains Beyond Mountains Random House 2003; My Detachment Random House 2005; Strength in What Remains Random House 2009. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008649 ISBN : 0395475910 9780395475911
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McNamee, Thomas, 1947- ; design, Cheryl L. Cipriani, Neil Sruart; photo, Jerry Bauer; illustration, David McAll Johnston
A Story of Deep Delight : A Novel
New York N.Y. U.S.A. : Viking 1990. 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xiii 460 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on front endpaper ; ISBN 9780670818969 0670818968 ; OCLC 21294889 ; LCCN 89040687 ; LOC No PS3563.C38837 S76 1990 ; gold and red cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Lives interlock break apart and recombine in a southern novel that surges forward through heartbreak farce triumph betrayal and ultimately love. "An ambitious first novel" The Philadelphia Inquirer that sweeps through three eras of shattering change that formed the American South. ; Thomas McNamee is an American writer and Guggenheim Fellow. He has written four nonfiction books in the field of natural history and conservation as well as a novel. He has also written biographies of notable culinary figures Craig Claiborne and Alice Waters. ; Author's first novel ; newspaper review of the book from the Memphis Tennessee Commercial Appeal Sunday October 21 1990 laid in ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1990. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008657 ISBN : 0670818968 9780670818969
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Bronner, Simon J., 1954- ; ed., Liz Parkhurst, Judith Faust, Ted Parkhurst; cover design and painting, Wendell E. Hall
Piled Higher and Deeper: The Folklore of Campus Life
Little Rock Ark. : August House Publishers 1990. 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780874831542 9780874831610 0874831547 087483161X ; OCLC 21875317 ; LCCN 90039590 ; LOC No LA229 .B66 1990 ; Dewey 378.1/98/0973 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Folklorist Simon J. Bronner takes a long engaging look at the experience of American campus life and how it shapes the cultural and social values of those who pass through it. The menacing profs the fumbling jocks the curve-setting dweebs are all here along with a rich assortment of tales rituals and practical jokes. ; Simon J. Bronner born April 7 1954 in Haifa Israel is an American folklorist ethnologist historian sociologist educator college dean and author. Bronner's parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1960. His childhood in the U.S. was spent in Chicago and New York City. His undergraduate study was in political science history and folklore at Binghamton University and then he received his M.A. in American Folk Culture at the Cooperstown Graduate Programs of the State University of New York 1977 where he also studied social history ethnology and museum studies. In 1990 he was founding director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies now the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and in 2007 the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at thePennsylvania State University Harrisburg. He served as Coordinator of the American Studies Program at the college from 1987 to 2002. ; FINE <br/> <br/> Little Rock, Ark. : August House Publishers, 1990. paperback
Bookseller reference : 008878 ISBN : 0874831547 9780874831542
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Nordan, Lewis, 1939-2012 ; design, Deborah Wong, Debbie Drechsler, Holly Russell ; music, Jo Trent, Harry Richman, Peter De Rose
Music of the Swamp
Chapel Hill NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991. 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed' 1st printing ; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; 191 pages ; 18 cm ; ISBN 9780945575764 0945575769 ; OCLC 23144113 ; LCCN 91007777 ; LOC No PS3564.O55 M8 1991 ; blue and wine-colored cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Music of the Swamp. focuses . on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father -- a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells the tastes and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar somewhat bizarre Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: "The Delta is filled up with death"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. -- Source: Publisher ; Lewis Nordan was born in Forest Mississippi on August 23 1939. He received a bachelor's degree from Millsaps College a master's degree from Mississippi State University and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. He taught at the University of Arkansas and elsewhere before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired from there in 2005. His first book Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair was published in 1983. His other works include Wolf Whistle Lightning Song Sugar among the Freaks and Boy with Loaded Gun. He died due to complications of pneumonia on April 13 2012 at the age of 72. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008695 ISBN : 0945575769 9780945575764
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Marrs, Gibson [Leon J. Leonard] ; design, Micah Sanger
Broken Rings
Research Triangle Pub. Fuquay-Varina NC ©1995 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 313 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED by author as Leon J. Leonard on title page ; ISBN 9781884570377 1884570372 ; OCLC 34533580 ; "Gibson Marrs is the pen name for Dr. Leon J. Leonard." ; dark brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The countdown to the biggest sporting event in Atlanta's history is drawing closer and the body count of construction workers is mysteriously rising. It's Mark Townsend's job to find the answer as the time grows short--the final victim could be the games themselves. --Source: Publisher ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Research Triangle Pub., [Fuquay-Varina, NC], ©1995 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008705 ISBN : 1884570372 9781884570377
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Smith, Lee, 1944- ; design, Claire Naylon Vaccaro, Honi Werner ; illustrations, Beth Krommes; photo, David G. Spielman
News of the Spirit The Bubba stories -- Blue wedding -- Live bottomless -- The southern cross -- The happy memories club -- News of the spirit.
New York : G. P. Putnam c1997. 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed. 1st printing ; 267 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED byt author on title page ; ISBN 9780399142819 0399142819 ; OCLC 36648648 ; LCCN 97011660 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 N48 1997 ; steel grey and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The Bubba stories -- Blue wedding -- Live bottomless -- The southern cross -- The happy memories club -- News of the spirit. ; In "Live Bottomless" thirteen-year-old Jenny tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and the family's subsequent trip to Keys West as her parents attempt a "geographical cure" for their troubled marriage. In "The Southern Cross" Chanel a girl of easy virtue and dubious reputation chronicles her cruise around the Caribbean with three Atlanta developers. "I may be old but I'm not dead" begins Alice Scully scandalizing her retirement-home writers' group in "The Happy Memories Club." And prim old-maid Sarah is titillated by the housekeeper's horrific account of her daughter's "blue wedding.". --Source: Publisher ; Lee Smith is a novelist short story writer and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories Cakewalk was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel Oral History published in 1983 ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : G. P. Putnam, c1997. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008718 ISBN : 0399142819 9780399142819
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McMurtry, Larry ; design, Karolina Harris; photo, Kevin Kwan, Diana Lynn Ossana, Evan Gaffney, ; painting, Cassily Adams;
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 The meat shop -- The vulnerable pioneer -- The big massacres and some others -- The moral taint
New York : Simon & Schuster 2005. 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780743250771 074325077X ; OCLC 61130878 ; LCCn 2005051849 ; LOC No E78.W5 M35 2005 ; Dewey 973.04/97078 ; brown and red cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The meat shop -- The vulnerable pioneer -- The big massacres and some others -- The moral taint -- Did Kit regret -- Counts -- Images heroes stars -- The Sacramento River Massacre spring 1846 -- The Mountain Meadows massacre September 11 1857 -- Mountain Meadows II -- Sand Creek November 29 1864 -- The Marias River Massacre January 23 1870 -- The Camp Grant Massacre April 30 1871 -- The broken hoop : 1871-1890 -- Wounded Knee December 29 1890 -- Wounded Knee II -- Wounded Knee III -- The waning moon ; A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In Oh What a Slaughter Larry McMurtry has written a unique brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked-and marred-the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River Mountain Meadows Sand Creek Marias River Camp Grant and Wounded Knee among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians but also Indians killing Americans and in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror and the deep constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small-Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than two hundred dead-yet in the thinly populated West of that time the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star and Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. In Larry McMurtry's own words: "I have visited all but one of these famous massacre sites-the Sacramento River massacre of 1846 is so forgotten that its site near the northern California village of Vina can only be approximated. It is no surprise to report that none of the sites are exactly pleasant places to be though the Camp Grant site north of Tucson does have a pretty community college nearby. In general the taint that followed the terror still lingers and is still powerful enough to affect locals who happen to live nearby. None of the massacres were effectively covered up though the Sacramento River massacre was overlooked for a very long time. "But the lesson if it is a lesson is that blood-in time and often not that much time-will out. In case after case the dead have managed to assert a surprising potency. "The deep constant apprehension which neither the pioneers nor the Indians escaped has it seems to me been too seldom factored in by historians of the settlement era though certainly it saturates the diary-literature of the pioneers particularly the diary-literature produced by frontier women who were of course the likeliest candidates for rapine and kidnap." --Source: Publisher ; Larry McMurtry winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other awards is the author of twenty-four novels two collections of essays two memoirs more than thirty screenplays & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City Texas. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008736 ISBN : 074325077x 9780743250771
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Grippando, James, 1958- ; design, Jackie McKee, Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich; photo, Anne Marie
A King's Ransom : a novel of suspense
New York : HarperCollins Publishers c2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 426 pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780060192419 9780062024534 9780061097843 0060192410 0062024531 0061097845 ; OCLC 45485188 ; LCCN 2001016786 ; LOC No PS3557.R534 K56 2001 ; grey and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Just two years out of law school Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been kidnapped while on business in Columbia's exotic port city of Cartagena. The ransom demand of three million dollars is far more than the Rey family can ever hope to raise. Fortunately Matthew had purchased an insurance policy to protect against just such a threat. Unfortunately the kidnappers seem to know all about the policy and the insurance company suspecting fraud is refusing to pay out. With nowhere to turn Nick links up with Alex a beautiful street-smart woman who may be the only person capable of negotiating with Matthew's abductors. But Nick soon discovers that the gravest dangers to him and his family are not the kidnappers and their guns but the men in suits: lawyers to be exact at a powerful firm with something to hide and they will stop at nothing to keep Nick from unleashing the truth. --Source: Publisher ; Author James Grippando was born in Antioch Illinois in 1958. He spent one year at the University of Illinois before transferring to the University of Florida in Gainesville where he received his B.A. with high honors and his law degree with honors. While in law school he was executive editor of the University of Florida Law Review. He was practicing commercial litigation with the law firm of Steel Hector & Davis for 12 years before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote his first two novels while he was still working as a trial lawyer. His novels include the Jack Swyteck series. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008703 ISBN : 0060192410 9780060192419
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Porch, Ludlow ; design, Don Bratton, Jill Dible; photo, Floyd Jillson
Lewis and Me and Skipper Makes Three Skip's daddy was a pistol --Skjp Grizzard: poor little rich boy -- On the wide path -- The second time around -- Major talent -- Aero medico and other phobias -- Proving Murphy's Law -- Just a bowl of butterbeans
Atlanta Ga. : Longstreet Press c1991. 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on front endpaper ; ISBN 9781563520099 1563520095 ; OCLC 25344088 ; LCCN 91061937 ; LOC No PS3557.R5368 Z83 1991 ; blue and red cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Here it is--Ludlow Porch's unvarnished tell-all story about life with Lewis Grizzard Sr. Lewis Grizzard Jr. and all the rest of the clan. Porch and Grizzard Jr. two of the South's funniest funnymen happen also to be step-brothers so who better than Porch to reveal all the tales Grizzard never told on himself. ; Ludlow Porch born Bobby Crawford Hanson was an American radio humorist popular in the Southern United States. He was the author of many humor books including Fat White Guys Cookbook and Who Cares about Apathy. His stepbrother was Lewis Grizzard. ; Contents: Skip's daddy was a pistol --Skjp Grizzard: poor little rich boy -- On the wide path -- The second time around -- Major talent -- Aero medico and other phobias -- Proving Murphy's Law -- Just a bowl of butterbeans ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet Press, c1991. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008721 ISBN : 1563520095 9781563520099
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Andrews, Mary Kay, 1954- [Kathy Hogan Trocheck] ; design, Joy O'Meara; illustration, Helen Chapman; photo, Deborah Feingold
Blue Christmas Weezie & Bebe Mystery 3
New York : HarperCollins c2006. 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ;194 pages ; 20 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060837341 9780061146015 9780061370489 9780061782985 0060837349 0061146013 0061370487 006178298X ; OCLC 63179076 ; LCCN 2006041087 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 B58 2006 ; blue and white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Antiques dealer Weezie Foley works vigorously to win a window decorating contest an effort that is challenged when components from her display begin to disappear and her fiance begins to act in a distant manner ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; author's promotional card laid in ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollins, c2006. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008700 ISBN : 0060837349 9780060837341
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Andrews, Mary Kay [Kathy Hogan Trocheck] ; photo, Deborah Feingold ; design, Jessica Heslin
The Fixer Upper: A Novel
Harper New York 2009 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 422 pages ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060837389 9780060837396 9780061768040 9780061774959 0060837381 006083739X 0061768049 0061774952 ; OCLC 262886342 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; A hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life ; After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie Georgia. All it will take he tells her is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But when she arrives Dempsey realizes that "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There's also a murderously grumpy old lady one of Dempsey's distant relations who has claimed squatter's rights and isn't moving out. Ever. Everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey's business from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local paper. As if that's not bad enough pesky FBI agents keep showing up on her doorstep looking for information about her ex-boss. All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. Before long what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and ultimately a journey that takes her to a place she never expected-back home. --Source: Publisher ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Harper, New York, 2009 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008698 ISBN : 0060837381 9780060837389
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Barefoot, Daniel W.; painting, Dan Troiani; design Debra Long Hampton
Let Us Die Like Brave Men: Behind The Dying Words Of Confederate Warriors James F Jackson Innkeeper- One Flag Two Martyrs- Colonel Francis Stebbins Bartow- The Martyr of First Manassas- Second Lieutenant William Preston Mangum Jr- Earning a Regiment Its Famed Nickname- Captain Dabney Carr Harrison- In His Brother's Footsteps- Private Charlie Jackson- His Father's Son- Brigadier General Robert Hopkins Hatton- A Grand Final Review- Brigadier General Turner Ashby- To Kill the Yankee-Killer- William Bruce Mumford Disabled Soldier- Treason or Patriotism- Color Sergeant James Hunt Taylor- The Stained Banner- Private John Frederick Krenson- Just One of the "Beardless Boys"- Corporal James Cal Jones- The Final Farewell- Captain Hugh Augustus
John F. Blair Winston-Salem N.C. 2005 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xiv 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780895873118 0895873117 ; OCLC 58595472 ; beige and brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: James F. Jackson Innkeeper -- One Flag Two Martyrs -- Colonel Francis Stebbins Bartow -- The Martyr of First Manassas -- Second Lieutenant William Preston Mangum Jr. -- Earning a Regiment Its Famed Nickname -- Captain Dabney Carr Harrison -- In His Brother's Footsteps -- Private Charlie Jackson -- His Father's Son -- Brigadier General Robert Hopkins Hatton -- A Grand Final Review -- Brigadier General Turner Ashby -- To Kill the Yankee-Killer -- William Bruce Mumford Disabled Soldier -- Treason or Patriotism -- Color Sergeant James Hunt Taylor -- The Stained Banner -- Private John Frederick Krenson -- Just One of the "Beardless Boys" -- Corporal James Cal Jones -- The Final Farewell -- Captain Hugh Augustus White -- Exercising a Wider Influence for Good -- Unidentified Confederate Soldier -- Praying with a Stranger -- Colonel William Peleg Rogers -- Honor at All Costs -- Hiram T. Smith Civilian -- The Substitute -- Lieutenant Nathaniel D. Renfroe -- The Fighting Parson -- Captain Peter Bramlett -- Gratitude for a Good Samaritan -- Major John Pelham -- The Gallant Pelham -- Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson -- Stonewall -- Captain William Francis Corbin -- A Worthy Example -- Colonel William Orton Williams -- The Curious Case of Colonel Williams and Lieutenant Peters -- Private Stringfellow Houston -- The Indefatigable Spirit of Youth -- Colonel Henry "Harry" King Burgwyn Jr. -- The Boy Colonel -- Colonel Isaac Erwin Avery -- Cemetery Hill -- Brigadier General William Barksdale -- Living and Dying the Dream -- Colonel James Keith Marshall -- Sinking at the High-Water Mark -- Brigadier General Lewis Addison Armistead -- That Sublime Four-Letter Word -- George Cummings Body Servant -- Undying Loyalty -- Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew -- From High Tide to Falling Waters -- Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm -- Brother-in-Law vs. Brother-in-Law -- Lieutenant Richard Rowland Kirkland -- Death of an Angel -- First Lieutenant John E. Wilson -- Brothers in Blood -- Private Samuel Davis -- But One Life to Give -- David Owen Dodd Telegrapher -- Too Young to Die -- Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart -- Lee's Eyes and Ears -- Artilleryman Edward Cooper -- From the Firing Squad to the Firing Line -- Dr. David Herbert Llewellyn Assistant Surgeon -- Every Man for Himself Save One -- Lieutenant Isaac Lightner -- Three Years behind the Big Guns -- Private William Youree -- Billy Reb -- Private Dewitt Smith Jobe -- Action Rather Than Words -- Chaplain Emmeran Bliemel -- Under the Din of Battle -- Lieutenant Colonel David Berkley Lang -- Wherever Duty Calls -- Private William Thomas Overby -- The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy -- Major General Stephen Dodson Ramseur -- From Birth to Death In the Company of Friends -- Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne -- The Wearing o' the Gray -- Colonel Mike Farrell -- The Fighting Irishman -- Captain John Yates Beall Confederate States Navy -- Master of Intrigue -- Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy -- Burning and Hanging in New York -- Colonel William Johnson Pegram -- Tempting Fate -- Edmund Ruffin Fire-Eater -- The First and Last Shots of the War -- Captain George Washington Summers and Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz -- Injustice in the Name of Justice -- Captain Champ Ferguson -- The Master of Mayhem ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> John F. Blair, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2005 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008740 ISBN : 0895873117 9780895873118
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Sibley, Celestine, 1914-1999 ; design, Paulette Livers-Lambert, Jill Dible ; photo, Wayne Smith
Tokens of Myself Home & hearth -- Branches of the tree -- From seed & soil -- Old ays old ways -- Portrait gallery -- A Sibley miscellany -- rom the kitchen -- Women & Men -- Chainsaws and bulldozers -- Old clothes and cats -- Celebration -- Weather
Atlanta Ga. : Longstreet Press c1990. 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; iii 160 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on front endpaper ; ISBN 9780929264400 0929264401 ; OCLC 22608184 ; LCCn 90061852 ; LOC No PS3569.I256 T64 1990 ; green and beige cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Sibley was born in Holley Florida. She graduated from high school in Mobile Alabama and began her journalistic career writing for the Mobile Press-Register and the Pensacola News Journal. Sibley gained fame as an award-winning reporter editor and beloved columnist for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia "Sibley was one of the most popular and long-running columnists for the Constitution and her well-written and poignant essays on Southern culture made her an icon in the South." In addition to her column she covered Georgia politics along with many high-profile court cases. She also wrote 25 books both nonfiction and fiction including mystery novels. ; Contents: Home & hearth -- Branches of the tree -- From seed & soil -- Old ays old ways -- Portrait gallery -- A Sibley miscellany -- rom the kitchen -- Women & Men -- Chainsaws and bulldozers -- Old clothes and cats -- Celebration -- Weather ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet Press, c1990. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008653 ISBN : 0929264401 9780929264400
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Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-1983; Bok, Priscilla F., 1896-1975 ; design, Gwen Frankfeldt
The Milky Way: Fifth Edition Harvard Books on Astronomy Presenting the Milky Way -- The data of observation -- The sun's nearest neighbors : stellar populations -- Moving clusters and open clusters -- Pulsating stars and globular clusters -- The whirling galaxy -- The nucleus of our galaxy -- The interstellar gas -- Dark nebulae and cosmic grains -- The spiral structure of the galaxy -- Our changing galaxy
Harvard University Press Cambridge Mass. 1981 1981. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. viii 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ; ISBN 9780674575035 0674575032 ; OCLC 6762059 ; blue cloth in chipped dustjacket ; Contents: Presenting the Milky Way -- The data of observation -- The sun's nearest neighbors : stellar populations -- Moving clusters and open clusters -- Pulsating stars and globular clusters -- The whirling galaxy -- The nucleus of our galaxy -- The interstellar gas -- Dark nebulae and cosmic grains -- The spiral structure of the galaxy -- Our changing galaxy ; A swirling spiral of 100 billion star-suns star clusters nebulae and cosmic dust the Milky Way is our home galaxy and for astronomers a source of endless fascination. Since 1941 The Milky Way has conveyed Bart and Priscilla Bok's own fascination with our galaxy in an authoritative yet easily understandable account. For two generations this immensely popular book has been the standard introduction to the Milky Way but once again scientific advances have demanded a complete revision and thorough updating. In just the last decade an entirely new model of a much more massive Milky Way has emerged and new techniques of radio and infrared astronomy have opened up the full study of the galactic center. As in earlier editions presentation of new research and dynamic new theoretical advances will delight amateur and professional stargazers alike.; Born in northern Holland Bart Jan Bok received his Ph.D. from the University of Groningen. His poor performance on a Boy Scout examination covering the stellar constellations kindled a lifelong interest in astronomy. Prior to World War II Bok emigrated to the United States becoming a citizen in 1938. For nearly 30 years he served on the faculty at Harvard University where he taught astronomy and directed the Harvard Observatory. From 1966 to 1974 Bok was professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona. Bok is most widely known for the discovery of Bok globules or small patches of dust that might be the sites of star and planet formation. In his later life Bok developed astronomical enterprises in Australia and in Arizona. Bol died in 1983. ; VG/VG <br/> <br/> Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008828 ISBN : 0674575032 9780674575035
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Smith, Lee, 1944- ; photo, Keith Burgens; painting, Lawrence Valenza; design, Jill Andrews
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse Bob a dog -- Mom -- Life on the moon -- Tongues of fire -- Dreamers -- The interpretation of dreams -- Desire on Domino Island -- Intensive care -- Me and my baby view the eclipse.
New York : G. P. Putnam c1990. 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 206 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780399135071 9780425271865 0399135073 0425271862 ; OCLC 20422750 ; LCCN 89027377 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 M4 1990 ; mauve and orange cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Bob a dog -- Mom -- Life on the moon -- Tongues of fire -- Dreamers -- The interpretation of dreams -- Desire on Domino Island -- Intensive care -- Me and my baby view the eclipse. ; "Extremely powerful.Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories-thank heaven-not everything fits: they are loose they are sometimes awkward but just about every one shines with revelation and awe in the face of momentary greatness and tragedy.Nearly every one of these stories could move a reader to tears for in almost every one of them there is a moment of vision or love or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent."-The New York Times Book Review ; Lee Smith was born in Grundy VA. She is author of many novels including the New York Times bestseller The Last Girls and most recently Guests On Earth. She is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the North Carolina Award for Literature and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : G. P. Putnam, c1990. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008708 ISBN : 0399135073 9780399135071
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Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- ; design, Jenny Carrow
Lost Children Archive: A novel Family soundscape -- Relocations -- Box I -- Routes and roots -- Box II -- Undocumented -- Box III -- Missing -- Box IV -- Removals -- Reenactment -- Deportations -- Maps & Boxes -- Box V -- Continental divide -- Lost -- Apacheria -- Dust valleys -- Heart of light -- Echo Canyon -- Lost Children archive -- Box VI -- Document -- Box VII
New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2019. 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition ; 1st printing ; 383 pages : illustrations some color color maps ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780525436461 9780525520610 9781524711504 0525436464 0525520619 1524711500 ; OCLC 1035792290 ; LCCN 2018018390 ; LOC No PS3612.U378 L67 2019 ; brown and brick-red cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "From the two-time NBCC Finalist a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that with breathtaking imagery spare lyricism and profound humanity probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father a sound documentarist hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic mythic place. The mother a radio journalist becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border held in detention centers or being sent back to their homelands to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led inexorably to a grand unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations. Told through the voices of the mother and her son as well as through a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images--including prior stories of migration and displacement--Lost Children Archive is a story of how we document our experiences and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. Blending the personal and the political with astonishing empathy it is a powerful wholly original work of fiction: exquisite provocative and deeply moving"-- Provided by publisher. ; "A novel about a family of four on the cusp of fracture who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view and including archival documents and photographs"-- Provided by publisher. ; Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and most recently Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant"; the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes an American Book Award and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award; and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and the Kirkus Prize on three occasions. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Granta and McSweeney's among other publications and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City. ; 31 photos in black and white and color by the author ; Contents: Family soundscape -- Relocations -- Box I -- Routes and roots -- Box II -- Undocumented -- Box III -- Missing -- Box IV -- Removals -- Reenactment -- Deportations -- Maps & Boxes -- Box V -- Continental divide -- Lost -- Apacheria -- Dust valleys -- Heart of light -- Echo Canyon -- Lost Children archive -- Box VI -- Document -- Box VII ; This is NOT the special edition in slipcase but the first trade edition ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008713 ISBN : 0525520619 9780525520610
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Trocheck, Kathy Hogan, 1954- design and illustration, Mark Burkhardt; photo, Jerry Bauer
Midnight Clear: A Callahan Garrity Mystery
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers c1998. 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 279 pages ; 25 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020; ISBN 9780060175436 0060175435 ; ISBN 9780060175436 0060175435 ; OCLC 39078859 ; LCCN 98020321 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 M54 1998 ; red and yellow cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; In six previous books Kathy Hogan Trocheck's Callahan Garrity series has risen to the apex of Southern suspense. Now the acclaimed sleuth's latest outing shows how amply she and her creator deserve their acclaim as Callahan and the outrageous band of "girls" in her Atlanta cleaning crew set out during the Christmas rush to prove her no-account brother innocent of his ex-wife's murder. It's a few days before Christmas and Callahan thinks for once she has things under control. Her presents are all bought her baking is almost done and she's relaxing with a well-earned drink when her brother Brian--missing for over ten years--strolls through the door whistling off-key carols and lugging his two-year-old daughter Maura in his arms. Happy as she is to see her charming brother and her ever-more-charming niece Callahan hasn't forgotten that Brian carries trouble wherever he goes. That's never been truer than now for Brian reveals he's kidnapped Maura from his estranged wife who's on the warpath and of course has the law on her side. When Brian's ex-wife is found dead in her spectacularly messy apartment the law comes down on Brian big time. True to form Brian disappears again leaving Maura behind for Callahan to look after and forcing her to clear his name without his help. For Callahan knows that although Brian is many things he's no murderer. As the Christmas rush picks up Callahan her irascible mom Edna and a gaggle of House Mouse employees submerge themselves in the most dangerous undercurrents of Atlanta street life and head for wherever else in the New South's yuletide their search for truth leads them. In true Trocheck tradition Midnight Clear is heartwarming chilling and hilarious--a thoroughly up-to-date and irresistible Christmas tale. --Source: Publisher ; Kathy Hogan Trocheck was born on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under the pen name Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. promotional author's card laid in ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1998. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008663 ISBN : 0060175435 9780060175436
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Greene-Nicholas, Phyllis ; design, Suzanne Kelly
Driven
Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency SBPRA 2013 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; 212 pp ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page ; ISBN 9781612045917 161204591X ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; A complex tale of love lust betrayal and hatred Driven is the story of Charlotte a divorced mother of two who meets Edward also a divorcee in a chance encounter at a grocery store. The two are stirred by an irresistible attraction to one another that neither can fight. But sometimes it's difficult for love to find its way; especially when Charlotte's controlling ex-husband Trevon finds out she's dating and becomes insane with jealousy. The extent of his rage becomes evident in increasingly violent ways. Edward is also dealing with his own complications from his previous marriage as well as a pair of managers at his network of auto dealerships that are attempting to undermine his business. Things go from bad to worse for Edward when he finds that his ex-wife's new boyfriend has molested his daughter. Although love can arise at the most unexpected of times and places it can also be tested. For a love to survive such adversities it must be true and Driven. Phyllis Greene-Nicholas was born in Valdosta GA. Even though she now lives in Atlanta she still calls Homestead FL home. Although she has been writing poetry since the age of 15 Driven is her first book. It was inspired by her children her love of romance novels and her own life experiences. ; FINE <br/> <br/> Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency (SBPRA), 2013 paperback
Bookseller reference : 008851 ISBN : 161204591x 9781612045917
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Porch, Ludlow ; design, Paulette L. Lambert; photo, Lea Laseter
Weirdos Winos & Defrocked Priests Best friends with the bottle -- Peachy Pie the Irish bulldog -- Would you buy a car from Lindley -- Cool cat Not with Pete around -- Happiness is a best-selling title -- Max had a way with the ladies -- Pardon me while I turn weird -- When insurance can't protect you -- The old folks tell it straight -- A nickel spent is a tearful event -- Love is worth the price you pay -- Charlie walked too close to the edge -- Montana is right for Mr. Macho -- The napalm crew was a handful -- Are you sure you're not sick -- The norm is not normal in N.Y. -- Commerical break It's already broken -- Seeing red in the Soviet Union
Peachtree Publishers Atlanta Ga. ©1986 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; ii 180 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED by author on the front endpaper ; ISBN 9780934601054 0934601054 ; OCLC 14576272 ; LCCn 86061545 ; LOC No PN6162 .P587 1986 ; red and yellow cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Ludlow Porch born Bobby Crawford Hanson was an American radio humorist popular in the Southern United States. He was the author of many humor books including Fat White Guys Cookbook and Who Cares about Apathy. His stepbrother was Lewis Grizzard. ; Contents: Best friends with the bottle -- Peachy Pie the Irish bulldog -- Would you buy a car from Lindley -- Cool cat Not with Pete around -- Happiness is a best-selling title -- Max had a way with the ladies -- Pardon me while I turn weird -- When insurance can't protect you -- The old folks tell it straight -- A nickel spent is a tearful event -- Love is worth the price you pay -- Charlie walked too close to the edge -- Montana is right for Mr. Macho -- The napalm crew was a handful -- Are you sure you're not sick -- The norm is not normal in N.Y. -- Commerical break It's already broken -- Seeing red in the Soviet Union ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, Ga., ©1986 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008720 ISBN : 0934601054 9780934601054
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Groarke, Vona ; design, Jessica R. Koman
Juniper Street Ghosts- Windmill hymns- The couch- To smithereens- The undercurrent- The local accent- Athlones- Song- The return- The stain- Slow set- We had words- Call waiting- The boat- 'I just saw a man with a hole in his head'- The game of tennis in Irish history- Footnotes- Parnell- The British Museum gift shop- Archaeology- The round house- Chinese lacquer- Quoits- Terms and conditions- Bournemouth- Northeast of nowhere- Why I am not a nature poet- Theme park- Transatlantic- Juniper Street- Glaze- The annotated house- The letter 'd'- Acknowledgements- In passing- Ghosts- A dream of wind- Re-gifting
Wake Forest University Press 2006. Soft cover. Fine. 57 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9781930630291 9781930630284 1930630298 193063028X ; OCLC 75193503 ; pictorial color stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Ghosts -- Windmill hymns -- The couch -- To smithereens -- The undercurrent -- The local accent -- Athlones -- Song -- The return -- The stain -- Slow set -- We had words -- Call waiting -- The boat -- 'I just saw a man with a hole in his head' -- The game of tennis in Irish history -- Footnotes -- Parnell -- The British Museum gift shop -- Archaeology -- The round house -- Chinese lacquer -- Quoits -- Terms and conditions -- Bournemouth -- Northeast of nowhere -- Why I am not a nature poet -- Theme park -- Transatlantic -- Juniper Street -- Glaze -- The annotated house -- The letter 'd' -- Acknowledgements -- In passing -- Ghosts -- A dream of wind -- Re-gifting ; Poems Originally published : Oldcastle Ireland : Gallery Press 2006 ; FINE <br/> <br/> Wake Forest University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 008774 ISBN : 193063028x 9781930630284
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Carlson, Peter, 1952- ; design, Cynthia Young
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
New York : PublicAffairs 2013 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xiii 268 pages : illustrations maps ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on half title page ; ISBN 9781610391542 9781610391559 1610391543 1610391551 ; OCLC 811598776 ; LCCN 2012042886 ; LOC No E468.9 .C347 2013 ; white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history packed with drama courage horrors and heroics plus moments of antic comedy. On their long strange adventure Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters-Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant Rebel con men and Union spies a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright a sadistic hangman nicknamed "the Anti-Christ" a secret society called the Heroes of America a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment. Peter Carlson author of the critically acclaimed K Blows Top has in Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields dark prisons and cold mountains of the Civil War.--Source: Publisher ; Peter Carlson is the author of K Blows Top which has been optioned into a feature film. For many years he was a reporter and columnist for the Washington Post. He has also written for Smithsonian magazine American History and the Huffington Post. He lives in Rockville MD. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : PublicAffairs, [2013] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008838 ISBN : 1610391543 9781610391542
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Trocheck, Kathy Hogan, 1954- ; design, George J. McKeon, Suzanne Noli; illlustration, Ko, Barnes; photo, Michael Schwartz
Homemade Sin Callahan Garrity Mysteries
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers 1994. 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 264 pages ; 22 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060177652 9780061092565 9780062195104 0060177659 0061092568 0062195107 ; OCLC 29703239 ; LCCN 94002767 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 H66 1994 ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; Callahan Garrity Atlanta's most inquisitive cleaning lady probes the drive-by shooting of a woman by questioning her son. When the boy's father obtains an injunction to get her to lay off Callahan realizes she is onto a murder ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008662 ISBN : 0060177659 9780060177652
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Lux, Thomas, 1946-2017; design, Greta D. Sibley
To The Left Of Time Cow Chases Boys -- Haystack of Needles -- Nullius in Verba Take Nobody's Word for It -- Indigo Felix: -- The Horse Poisoner -- A Long Line of Nightingales -- My Father Whistled -- Double Barrel Sparrow -- For My Sister -- The Milking Stool -- Glass Eye -- Manure Pile Covered in Snow -- So Bury Me in a Barrel -- The Day -- Grade Schools' Large Windows -- II: ODES -- Ode to the Joyful Ones -- Ode to the Eating Establishment Where the Utensils Were Chained to the Table -- Ode to the Fire Hydrant -- Ode While Awaiting Execution -- Ode to What I Have Forgotten -- Ode to the Eraser as Big as a Bus -- Ode Elaborating on the Obvious -- Ode to All Songs Poems Stories That Begin "I Woke Up This Morning" -- Ode to IQ And Apt
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 1st. ed. 1st printing ; 75 pages ; 21 cm ; ISBN 9780544649651 0544649656 ; OCLC 913924162 ; LCCN 2015047705 ; LOC No PS3562.U87 A6 2016 ; "A Mariner original." ; stiff paper wrappers ; "A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet Thomas Lux With To the Left of Time Thomas Lux adds more than fifty new poems to his celebrated oeuvre. Broken into three sections these include semi-autobiographical poems odes and a final section that delves into a variety of subjects reflective of Lux's imaginative range. Full of his characteristic satire and humor this new collection promises laughter and profound insight into the human condition. To the Left of Time is a powerful addition to the work of one who has been widely praised for his ability to offer image- and metaphor-driven visions as well as lines of plain language and immediacy. This collection proves that Lux's work will continue to inspire readers for decades to come."-- Provided by publisher ; Thomas Lux was born in Northampton Massachusetts on December 10 1946. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College for 25 years before becoming the Bourne Professor of Poetry at Georgia Tech in 2001. He was also the director of the McEver Visiting Writers program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the director of Poetry@Tech. His first collection of poetry Memory's Handgrenade was published in 1972. His other collections of poetry include To the Left of Time New and Selected Poems of Thomas Lux: 1975-1995 God Particles Child Made of Sand The Street of Clocks and From the Southland. In 1994 he won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for the collection Split Horizon. He died February 5 2017 at the age of 70. ; Contents: Cow Chases Boys -- Haystack of Needles -- Nullius in Verba Take Nobody's Word for It -- Indigo Felix: -- The Horse Poisoner -- A Long Line of Nightingales -- My Father Whistled -- Double Barrel Sparrow -- For My Sister -- The Milking Stool -- Glass Eye -- Manure Pile Covered in Snow -- So Bury Me in a Barrel -- The Day -- Grade Schools' Large Windows -- II: ODES -- Ode to the Joyful Ones -- Ode to the Eating Establishment Where the Utensils Were Chained to the Table -- Ode to the Fire Hydrant -- Ode While Awaiting Execution -- Ode to What I Have Forgotten -- Ode to the Eraser as Big as a Bus -- Ode Elaborating on the Obvious -- Ode to All Songs Poems Stories That Begin "I Woke Up This Morning" -- Ode to IQ And Aptitude Tests -- Ode to the Unbroken World Which Is Coming -- Ode to the Electric Fish That Eat Only the Tails of Other Electric Fish -- Ode to Small Islands -- Ode to Peep Tubes and Their Makers -- Ode to Chronic Insolvency -- Ode to the Pig Rolled from the Castle down a Hill to Where the Peasants Wait with Axes -- Ode to Gandhi Who Wrote a Letter to Hitler Asking Him Not to Start a War -- Ode to Pain in the Absence of an Obvious Cause of Pain -- Ode to the Fat Child Who Went First onto the Thin Ice -- Ode to the Moment Between Dust and Dust -- Ode to Those Who Study the Miasmas -- Ode to the River That Abandons One Channel and Finds Another More Suited to Its Purpose -- Ode to Asa Bundy Sheffey -- Ode to the Archipelagoes of Discarded Chewing Gum on Sidewalks -- Ode to Scars -- Ode to Lichen -- A Man's Little Heart's Short Fever Fit -- There's a Word for It -- Blue with Collapse -- Praisegod Barebones -- Attila the Hun Meets Pope Leo I -- Along the Trail of Your Vertebral Spine -- For Second Lieutenant J. Wesley Rosenquest -- Tristan da Cunha -- Oofty Goofty -- Lobotomobile -- History Island -- Frank Stanford at Sixty-three -- Onomatomania -- The Nervo-Sanguine -- Ancient Blades ; FINE <br/> <br/> Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] paperback
Bookseller reference : 008873 ISBN : 0544649656 9780544649651
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