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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008873 ISBN : 0544649656 9780544649651
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Sheinkin, Steve; design, Kay Petronio
Lincoln's Grave Robbers Scholastic Focus
Scholastic Press 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 214 pages : illustrations portraits plans ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780545405720 9780545552547 9780605591103 0545405726 0545552540 0605591105 ; OCLC 795009454 ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; A true crime thriller -- tells the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus with an exciting new cover. The action begins in October of 1875 as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton Illinois workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to prison members of his counterfeiting ring gather in the back room of a smoky Chicago saloon to discuss how to spring their ringleader. Their plan: grab Lincoln's body from its Springfield tomb stash it in the sand dunes near Lake Michigan and demand as a ransom the release of Ben Boyd -- and $200000 in cash. From here the action alternates between the conspirators the Secret Service agents on their trail and the undercover agent moving back and forth between them. Along the way readers get glimpses into the inner workings of counterfeiting grave robbing detective work and the early days of the Secret Service. The plot moves toward a wild climax as robbers and lawmen converge at Lincoln's tomb on election night: November 7 1876.A dynamic and thrilling tale from critically acclaimed author Steve Sheinkin. ; Steve Sheinkin is the critically acclaimed author of National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Medal winner Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon; Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction; and National Book Award Finalist The Port Chicago 50. He resides in Saratoga Springs New York. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Scholastic Press hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008840 ISBN : 0545405726 9780545405720
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Trocheck, Kathy Hogan, 1954- ; design, Ruth HN Lee, Suzanne Noli; photo, Barnaby Hall, Jerry Bauer
Heart Trouble: A Callahan Garrity Mystery
HarperCollins 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 295 pages ; 22 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060176389 0060176385 ; OCLC 34285162 ; LCCN 96006254 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 H43 1996 ; white and blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Atlanta is temporarily distracted from its pre-Olympic frenzy by the sensational case of Whitney Dobbs the boozy ex-wife of a prominent cardiologist who runs over a little girl in the park. The city is outraged when she gets off with only a misdemeanor charge. When Whitney is shot while doing her community service cleaning lady/sleuth Callahan Garrity has reason to be suspicious. ; 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 ; bookplate on front endpaper ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> HarperCollins hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008661 ISBN : 0060176385 9780060176389
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Trocheck, Kathy Hogan, 1954- design, Honi Werner; photo, Jerry Bauer
Irish Eyes: A Callahan Garrity Mystery Callahan Garrity Mysteries
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers c2000 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 296 pages ; 25 cm.; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060194215 0060194219 ; OCLC 42798133 ; LCCN 99055680 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 I75 2000 ; dark green and brown cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Entertaining. . . . If you are up for a big helping of humor and heartbreak insanity and intrigue read Irish Eyes." --Orange Country Register ; The eighth outing in the heartwarming and hilarious mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews featuring former cop turned cleaning lady Callahan Garrity and her outrageous Atlanta cleaning crew. Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth and she and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. When Callahan gets caught in a liquor store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy's Day party one of her best friends is shot. Callahan and her House Mouse cleaning crew dive into the investigation--only to discover that her old friend might have been working both sides of the law as an accomplice in a string of robberies. It will take every trick they've got to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding an Irish police organization and prove that the case is more than it seems. The Callahan Garrity novels can be read in any order ; Mary Kay Andrews is the pen name of American writer Kathy Hogan Trocheck based in Savannah Georgia who has authored a number of best-selling books under the Andrews pen name since 2002. Trochek graduated from the University of Georgia with a journalism degree in 1976. ; author's promotional card laid in ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000 hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008664 ISBN : 0060194219 9780060194215
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Shaw, David W., 1961- ; design, Karolina Harris
Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
New York : Free Press 2004. 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 235 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780743235556 074323555X ; OCLC 53434718 ; LCCN 2003064248 ; LOC No E467.1.R27 S53 2004 ; Dewey 973.7/57/092 ; brown and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; In June 1862 just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast. At the center of the conflict was the hotheaded young adventurer Charles W. Read. Serving aboard the CSS FLORIDA off the coast of Brazil Read hatched a daring plan to sail a captured brig directly into the Union's home waters and wreak havoc on their shipping lanes. Burning or capturing more than twenty merchant vessels in less than three weeks Read's rampage caused widespread panic in Northern cities and brought enormous pressure to stop the rebel pirate. At one point there were nearly forty Union ships sent to hunt down Read in a cat-and-mouse chase that finally led to his dramatic capture off the coast of Maine. --Source: Publisher ; David W. Shaw is a frequent contributor to many sailing magazines and the author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them Inland Passage Daring the Sea and Flying Cloud. He lives in Westfield NJ and sails his cutter in Maine ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Free Press, 2004. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008737 ISBN : 074323555x 9780743235556
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Nordan, Lewis, 1939-2012 ; design, Paul Camarello; illustration, Pol Turgeon; photo, Sally Maxson
The sharpshooter blues : a novel
Chapel Hill N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1995. 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; 291 pages ; 20 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9781565120839 1565120833 ; OCLC 32311883 ; LCCN 95015306 ; LOC No PS3564.O55 S53 1995 ; red and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues Is it Morgan the teenage trick-shot artist who stops by The William Tell grocery in Arrow Catcher Mississippi one day to show off some fancy moves Or is it Marshal Chisolm who enforces Law and Order Or is it one of the two lovely children who pick the wrong country store to rob Or is it maybe Hydro Raney a sweet simple boy who does the right thing and loses everything But the story asks a deeper question: Can the power of love hold up to the power of bullets Don't expect an easy answer for as one Arrow Catcher citizen puts it "You wouldn't want to hurt anybody but when you were singing the blues.sometimes there was just nothing as satisfying as shooting a gun inside a house.it relieved stress it cemented relationships strangers or partners in marriage.it cleared the air". The Sharpshooter Blues is in part an exuberant meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and snub-nose bullets and in part a heartbreaking look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. But most of all after the bullets have flown it's a story of love - between fathers and sons between husbands and wives between gay lovers and between longtime neighbors and friends. --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, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008696 ISBN : 1565120833 9781565120839
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Fulmer, David. ; design, Cathy Riggs, Charles Brock; photos, Frances Benjamin Johnston
Lost river
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009. 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 317 pages ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780151011872 0151011877 ; OCLC 213601691 ; LCCN 2008012619 ; red and grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Autumn 1913. New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with his longtime love Justine. But then a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel. The madam immediately turns to the Creole detective for help." ; The next heart-pounding chapter in Fulmer's Storyville series featuring New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr Autumn 1913. Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with his longtime love Justine. But then a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel.The madam immediately turns to the creole detective for help.He resists but when several more bodies turn up in Storyville Valentin can t help but come to the aid of the place and the people he tried to leave behind. Just when he has the case wrapped around his finger it turns out Valentin has been played.The police captain thinks he s meddling and may be guilty of murder.He s on the run and Justine has turned her back on him retaliating with a handsome young fellow in a very sporty car. But is she being lured into a trap too Taking us back to his acclaimed and much-loved Storyville series in Lost River award-winning author David Fulmer marks a heart-pounding return to the streets of early-1900s New Orleans." --Source: Publisher ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008680 ISBN : 0151011877 9780151011872
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Trobaugh, Augusta ; design Leonard Telesca ; Royce M. Becker; photo, Joseph Van, photo, V. Jane Windsor
Sophie and the Rising Sun: A Novel
New York : Dutton 2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 213 pages ; 21 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780525946274 0525946276 ; OCLC 46729257 ; LCCN 2001028734 ; LOC No PS3570.R585 S6 2001 ; yellow and red cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; An unforgettable story of an extraordinary love and a town's prejudice during World War II. Sophie and the Rising Sun "suggests the small but heartwarming triumphs made possible by human dignity and courage." -Publisher's Weekly. ; In sleepy Salty Creek Georgia strangers are rare. When a quiet unassuming stranger arrives--a Japanese man with a secret history of his own--he becomes the talk of the town and a new beginning for lonely Sophie who lost her first love during World War I. Middle-aged Sophie had resigned herself to a passionless existence. That all begins to change as she finds herself drawn to the mysterious Mr. Oto. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor Mr. Oto's newfound life comes under siege; his safety even in Salty Creek is no longer certain. Sophie must decide how much she is willing to risk for a future with the man who has brought such joy into her life. ; Augusta Trobaugh is the author of five previous novels: "River Jordan Swan Place Sophie and the Rising Sun" a Barnes & Noble Discover New Authors pick "Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb" and "Praise Jerusalem!" a semifinalist in the 1993 Pirates Alley Faulkner Competition. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Dutton, 2001. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008827 ISBN : 0525946276 9780525946274
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Mayes, Frances ; design, Elizabeth Rendfleisch, Elena Giavaldi ; photos, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Will Garin; editor Vanessa Moble
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir A Grape leaf from Faulkner's arbor -- Looking toward home -- By my lights -- Under Magnolia -- A silver globe in the garden -- Talking back -- Coloring -- Islands of summer -- Watering -- Namesake -- Riddles and tricks -- Whatever was hidden -- Frankye: A white tucked-chiffon crystal-beaded dress -- Ten thousand rules to live by -- The walking rain -- To Florida -- The last wedding
New York : Crown Publishers 2014 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xxxiii 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780307885913 0307885917 ; OCLC 852457476 ; LCCN 2013042448 ; LOC No PS3563.A956 Z46 2014 ; Dewey 811/.54 ; textured white boards in color photographic dustjacket ; "A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes the Bard of Tuscany about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald Georgia. With her signature style and grace Mayes explores the power of landscape the idea of home and the lasting force of a chaotic and loving family. From her years as a spirited secretive child through her university studies--a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel--to her escape to a new life in California Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother Frankye; her unpredictable father Garbert; Daddy Jack whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid Frances's confidant Willie Bell. Under Magnolia is a searingly honest humorous and moving ode to family and place and a thoughtful meditation on the ways they define us or cause us to define ourselves. With acute sensory language Mayes relishes the sweetness of the South the smells and tastes at her family table the fragrance of her hometown trees and writes an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self-knowledge lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world and then to a profound return home"-- Provided by publisher. ;"A memoir of author Frances Mayes's coming of age in the Deep South and of the region's powerful influence on her life. Mayes delves into the power of landscape the idea of home and the force of a chaotic and loving family"-- Provided by publisher. Frances Mayes is the author of the now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane. Other international bestsellers include: Bella Tuscany Everyday in Tuscany A Year in the World and three illustrated books: In Tuscany Bringing Tuscany Home and The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. She is also the author of two novels Swan and Women in Sunlight. She has written six books of poetry and The Discovery of Poetry. The most recent books are See You in the Piazza and Always Italy. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages. ; Contents: Preface: A Grape leaf from Faulkner's arbor -- Looking toward home -- By my lights -- Under Magnolia -- A silver globe in the garden -- Talking back -- Coloring -- Islands of summer -- Watering -- Namesake -- Riddles and tricks -- Whatever was hidden -- Frankye: A white tucked-chiffon crystal-beaded dress -- Ten thousand rules to live by -- The walking rain -- To Florida -- The last wedding ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Crown Publishers, [2014] hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 008656 ISBN : 0307885917 9780307885913
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Taylor Design
Declaration of Independence & the Constitution of the United States of America: The Texts
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0160426596.G ISBN : 0160426596 9780160426599
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Design Council
Designing Against Vandalism
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0850720923.G ISBN : 0850720923 9780850720921
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Design, Blush
Robotic Animals: Adult Coloring Book Creative Fun Drawings for Grownups & Teens Relaxation
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 65 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.15 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1098981618 ISBN : 1098981618 9781098981617
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Co., Journal Design
My Prayer Journal - Psalm 86: 6-7: A Workbook To Journal Your Journey With God. Keep track of your prayers and your answers to prayer Psalm 86: 6-7 Keeping A Journal Could Be Transformational
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1096336987 ISBN : 1096336987 9781096336983
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SilentSoulArts Design
Cheerleader Book Girls Cheerleading Journal: Blank Lined Notebook Goals and Wish List 10th Birthday Little Girl Cheerleader Book Black Pink Cover with Cheerleader Bow
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1091483728 ISBN : 1091483728 9781091483729
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Design Your Life Publishing
Happy Easter: Beautiful square Journal 8.5x8.5 with 110 white pages college ruled and a crisp and colorful Easter design which is duplicated on the inside
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 110 pages. 8.50x8.50x0.25 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1091636230 ISBN : 1091636230 9781091636231
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Dadamilla Design
My Baby 5 Year Journal.: A Five Year Memory Journal for new Moms and Dads. Cute Hedgehog Cover.
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 370 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.84 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1092838988 ISBN : 1092838988 9781092838986
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mob. publishing & design m. o.
Cheetah: Plain Lined Notebook Paper 6 x 9 inches 125 Pages Soft Cover Portable Journal
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 126 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.29 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1092980423 ISBN : 1092980423 9781092980425
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Baby Grass Design
K: Letter K Journal Rose Gold Swirls On Black Personalized Notebook Monogram Initial 6 x 9
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 110 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1090470207 ISBN : 1090470207 9781090470201
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Hurok, S., Ninette de Valois, Arnold L. Haskell, cover design by Honor Frost
Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet 1951-1952 tour United States & Canada souvenir program
New York: Hurok Attractions 1951. 52p includes covers 9x11.75 inches appreciation by Haskell photos bios ads four panel program for the performance of "Coppelia: or the Girl With the Enamel Eyes" laid-in very good in stapled pictorial wraps. Hurok Attractions unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 327687
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Shizen Design
Burgundy Bagasse Paper Cover W/Marigold Petal Paper
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1889077240.G ISBN : 1889077240 9781889077246
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Shizen Design
Green Rainbow Journal: From Shizen Design Handmade Paper Journals
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1889077259.G ISBN : 1889077259 9781889077253
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Design Center Stuttgart
Focus Safety
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3899860292.G ISBN : 3899860292 9783899860290
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Trinda Cole (book design)
Three Months Under the Snow and Other Stories
Ithaca MI: AB Publishing Inc. Light edge wear pages yellowing clean copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 2005. AB Publishing, Inc. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005945 ISBN : 1597650587 9781597650588
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Design, Whyitsme
A4 Notebook 8mm: Green Leaves Lined Exercise Book
Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 100 pages. 11.69x8.27x0.23 inches. Independently published paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2-1080043330 ISBN : 1080043330 9781080043330
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