‎Design‎

‎Hogg, Ian V (Ian Vernon)., 1926- [design, Donald Summerville]‎

‎German Secret Weapons of the Second World War: The Missiles Rockets Weapons and New Technology of the Third Reich V Weapons: -- Vergeltungswaffe 1 -- Reichenberg -- Vergeltungswaffe 2 -- Thwe A4 design -- The high pressure pump -- V4 -- Aircraft : Messerschmitt 163 -- The Luftwaffe's Viper -- Dornier's Arrow -- New bombers -- Jet engines -- Messerschmitt 262 -- Arado 234 -- The People's Fighter -- Air-launched Weapons : -- Recoilless gun -- Gerat 104 and Sondergerat 113A -- Bordwaffen -- Air-to-ground rockets -- Fritz-X -- Henschel 293 -- Hs 293 variants -- Other Henschel designs -- Anti-ship weapons -- Hagelhorn -- Mistel -- Air-to-air wapons -- Kurt Germany's dam-buster -- Air defence weapons: -- Bigger and better guns -- All wind a‎

‎London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg Pa. : Stackpole Books Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Design Wales Ebbw Vale c1999. 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781853673252 1853673250 ; OCLC 38989630 ; LCCN 98007165 ; LOC No UF525.G3 ; Dewey 355.8/0943/09044 ; blue cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; Offers a weapon-by-weapon study of the secret weapons used by the German military during World War II with detailed descriptions and photographs of the weapons and information on how they affected the war's outcome ; Ian Vernon Hogg was a British author of books on firearms artillery ammunition and fortification as well as biographies of several famous general officers. ; Contents : List of Drawings -- List of Photographs -- The V Weapons: -- Vergeltungswaffe 1 -- Reichenberg -- Vergeltungswaffe 2 -- Thwe A4 design -- The high pressure pump -- V4 -- Aircraft : Messerschmitt 163 -- The Luftwaffe's Viper -- Dornier's Arrow -- New bombers -- Jet engines -- Messerschmitt 262 -- Arado 234 -- The People's Fighter -- Air-launched Weapons : -- Recoilless gun -- Gerat 104 and Sondergerat 113A -- Bordwaffen -- Air-to-ground rockets -- Fritz-X -- Henschel 293 -- Hs 293 variants -- Other Henschel designs -- Anti-ship weapons -- Hagelhorn -- Mistel -- Air-to-air wapons -- Kurt Germany's dam-buster -- Air defence weapons: -- Bigger and better guns -- All wind and noise -- Electric power -- Anti-aircraft rockets -- Anti-aircraft missles -- Enzian -- Rheintochter -- Feuerlillie -- Artillery : -- The taper-bore guns -- Gustac and Dora -- Adam Eve Odin Thor Loki and Ziu -- K5 Glatt the 150km cannon -- K12 the cross-Channel gun -- Small shells for big guns -- Rocket artillery -- The Rochling shell -- Other aspects of ammunition design -- The Sea War : -- Torpedoes -- New U-Boats -- Fast attack craft -- Midget submarines -- Nuclear and Chemical Warfare : -- The nuclear bomb -- Chemical warfare -- Biological warfare -- Appendices -- The Special List -- German Code Names -- Index ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, [Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Desig hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008426 ISBN : 1853673250 9781853673252

‎Mitchell, Henry, 1923-1993 [pen-and-ink drawings, Susan Davis; book design, Robert Overholtzer, jacket design, Michaela Sullivan‎

‎One Man's Garden JANUARY -- Names from the Garden's Guest Book -- Architecture to Make the Garden Glow -- Oops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant -- Maintaining Your Garden and Maintaining Your Sanity -- Tomato or Tomahto: Tips on Types to Plant -- Sowing Beauty in Beastly Surroundings -- The Gardener's Lot -- FEBRUARY -- Sowing Seeds Indoors and Other Poppycock -- The Imperfect Gardener -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Happy Returns -- The Cypress Belle of the Bald -- A Screen of Shrubs -- Timing Is the Key -- MARCH -- Year-Long Lessons -- Days of Magic -- The Thin Line Between Nature and Human Nature -- Tracing the Roots -- A Word about Worts -- Forgotten Seeds Surprising Sprouts -- The Simple Secret -- Magnificent Obsessions -‎

‎Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston 1992 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st ed. 1st printing ; x 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780395633199 0395633192 ; OCLC 25788488 ; LCCn 92011090 ; LOC no SB455 .M57 1992 ; Dewey 635 ; "The material in this volume originally appeared in slightly different form in the Washington post"--T.p. verso. ; Includes index. ; vanilla and white cloth in color pictorial dustjacket; Henry Mitchell who died in November 1993 was one of America's most beloved garden writers. A man of contradictions Mitchell built landing platforms for dragonflies after seeing one drown in his pool and never stepped on an ant intentionally. He also railed mightily at fools and the elements. This is his last book--adapted from his weekly "Earthman" columns in the Washington Post. ; name on front endpaper ; slight foxing ; two nicks on dustjacket ; Contents: JANUARY -- Names from the Garden's Guest Book -- Architecture to Make the Garden Glow -- Oops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant -- Maintaining Your Garden and Maintaining Your Sanity -- Tomato or Tomahto: Tips on Types to Plant -- Sowing Beauty in Beastly Surroundings -- The Gardener's Lot -- FEBRUARY -- Sowing Seeds Indoors and Other Poppycock -- The Imperfect Gardener -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Happy Returns -- The Cypress Belle of the Bald -- A Screen of Shrubs -- Timing Is the Key -- MARCH -- Year-Long Lessons -- Days of Magic -- The Thin Line Between Nature and Human Nature -- Tracing the Roots -- A Word about Worts -- Forgotten Seeds Surprising Sprouts -- The Simple Secret -- Magnificent Obsessions -- APRIL -- Flowering Fruit Trees -- Celestial Bamboo -- What Goes On under the Apple Tree -- In Mr. Jefferson's Garden -- Glorious Flocks of April Phlox -- Letting Nature Take Its Course -- Discovering Bulbs -- How the Garden Grows and Grows -- MAY -- Staying in the Pink -- Gone But Not Forgotten -- Agave the Can-Do Plant -- The Lilacs That Bloom in the Spring -- Chip Off the Old Bush -- Garden Pests Don't Bug Me -- The Beauties of the Black Locust -- Keeping Envy Out of Your Eden -- JUNE -- Tea Roses: The Secrets of Success -- The Right -- Bedfellows for Roses -- I Try Not to Do Stupid Things -- Foliage for Nooks and Crannies -- Daylilies by the Bouquetful -- Small Gardens: The Big Picture -- The Grand and Noble Magnolia -- JULY -- A Home for Fish and Flowers -- A Water Lily's Lust for Life -- A Word about Petunias -- Plants That Need Wet Nursing -- Madame Galen -- For Dragonflies a Place to Rest Their Wings -- The Lessons Never Learned -- The Perfect Order of a Bulb Garden -- AUGUST -- A Bulb I Can't Resist -- Beauty or Black-Eyed Susans -- Tomatoes of Good Breeding -- Cleome for Summer Heat -- Birds and a Few Beasts -- A Single Sunflower -- Uprooted by Nature's Plans -- SEPTEMBER -- Felicitous Flowers for Early Fall -- On Oddments and Changelings -- Divide and Multiply -- No Dallying with Dahlias -- In Some Gardens Only the Shadow Grows -- The Common Splendor of Barberry -- Before You Bring In the Plants Make Sure Your Rugs Are Clean -- OCTOBER -- Room with a View -- Squills of Delight -- A Change of Place Has Its Price -- The Leaves of Autumn -- Sometimes Things Just Do Not Go Well -- Old Duties Before Breaking New Ground -- When Houseplants Take Over -- NOVEMBER -- Turning Over a New Leaf -- High Crimes Against a Rambling Rose -- The Vine of Subtle Pleasures -- Cues for Minding Your Peas -- In for the Winter -- Not a Monument Just a Garden -- Go with the Seasonal Flow -- A Gardener's Thanksgiving -- DECEMBER -- Where Have All the Poppies Gone -- Turn Down the Noise -- Yewing and Strewing -- Bananas -- Happiness Is a Hummingbird -- A Good Time for Pleasant Chores -- Singular Sensations -- Nights When the Chickens Sing -- Gifts for the Gardener ; G/VG <br/> <br/> Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1992 hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008453 ISBN : 0395633192 9780395633199

‎Boylan, Henry (1912-2007) [Carole Lynch, print design]‎

‎A dictionary of Irish biography‎

‎Roberts Rinehart Niwot Colo. ©1998 1998. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd ed. 1st printing ; xviii 462 pages : illustrations portraits ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781570982361 1570982368 ; OCLC 40217521 ; LCCN 98065825 ; black cloth in blue and yellow dustjacket ; Henry Boylan 1912-2007 had a long and distinguished career as a public servant and a man of letters. Born to a seafaring family in Drogheda Co. Louth Boylan joined the Irish civil service after finishing school. Over the course of his civil service career he worked with Radio Éireann Gael Linn and the Wexford Slobs wildlife reserve. The author of a number of radio plays and adaptations Boylan published his first book a biography of Wolfe Tone in 1981 before going on to devote 25 years to his groundbreaking work of scholarship the outstanding Dictionary of Irish Biography writing all 1500 entries himself. He is the author of a number of other books including the memoir A Voyage Around My Life. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, Colo., ©1998 hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008452 ISBN : 1570982368 9781570982361

‎Darnielle, John [design, Abby Kagan; jacket, Alex Merto]‎

‎Universal Harvester: A Novel‎

‎New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux 2017. 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 214 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780374282103 9781925321937 9781250159991 0374282102 1925321932 1250159997 ; OCLC 947147125 ; LCCn 2016025809 ; LOC no PS3604.A748 U55 2017 ; Dewey PS3604.A748 ; "The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van inspired by his years living in a small town in Iowa"-- Provided by publisher.; Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut there are still regular customers a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job quiet and predictable and it gets him out of the house where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie starring Boris Karloff one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store-she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it" she says but doesn't elaborate. Two days later a different customer returns a different tape a new release and says it's not defective exactly but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." Jeremy doesn't want to be curious but he brings the movies home to take a look. And indeed in the middle of each movie the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent dark and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces no dialogue or explanation-the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing- but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. In Universal Harvester the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The novel will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. "This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-tuning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring." -O: The Oprah Magazine ; "Universal Harvester is so wonderfully strange almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle . . . But Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book's quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down." -Abram Scharf MTV News ; dark grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008456 ISBN : 0374282102 9780374282103

‎Friedman, Thomas L ; design, Jonathan D, Lippincott; design Dean Nicastro; photo, Greg Martin‎

‎The World Is Flat Updated and Expanded: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century How the World Became Flat. While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and the Flat World -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- Developing Countries and the Flat World -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- Companies and the Flat World -- How companies cope -- Geopolitics and the Flat World -- The unflat world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- Imagination -- 11/9 versus 9/11‎

‎New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux 2006. 2006. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st updated and expanded ed ; viii 593 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780374292799 9780374292782 9780374530488 0374292795 0374292787 0374530483 ; 64098349 ; Contents: How the World Became Flat. While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and the Flat World -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- Developing Countries and the Flat World -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- Companies and the Flat World -- How companies cope -- Geopolitics and the Flat World -- The unflat world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- Imagination -- 11/9 versus 9/11 ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008583 ISBN : 0374292795 9780374292799

‎Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane ; art direction, David Rowley; Design, Nigel Seper; editor, Helena Attler; photos, Heather Angel, K‎

‎Peonies: The Imperial Flower Peonies in the past: Out of the wilderness wild peony species in four continents -- The imperial flower the passion for peonies in China and Japan -- The peony the phoenix and the peacock peonies in Oriental art and mythology -- The peony travels west plant explorers and their patrons -- Embarras de Richesse the peony in Europe -- Peonies for the 20th century: Peonies in the New World the American peony Canada and New Zealand -- Gardening with peonies peonies for past present and future gardens -- Designing with peonies a scented walk -- Peonies indoors the flower arranger's flower -- Peony lists: How to use the lists -- Tree peonies and intersectional hybrids over 80 of the best etc‎

‎Seven Dials London 2000 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 384 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9781841880815 1841880817 ; OCLC 44484393 ; LOC No SB413.P4 F425 2000 ; Dewey 635.9/3362 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; With 200 colour photos illustrations and plans this book celebrates the beauty and influence of the peony and its place in art and history as well as providing comprehensive information for gardeners wishing to choose and grow the right variety for their garden detailing their fragrance colour flowering periods and hardiness.; Jane Margaret Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. ; Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999 ; Contents: Peonies in the past: Out of the wilderness wild peony species in four continents -- The imperial flower the passion for peonies in China and Japan -- The peony the phoenix and the peacock peonies in Oriental art and mythology -- The peony travels west plant explorers and their patrons -- Embarras de Richesse the peony in Europe -- Peonies for the 20th century: Peonies in the New World the American peony Canada and New Zealand -- Gardening with peonies peonies for past present and future gardens -- Designing with peonies a scented walk -- Peonies indoors the flower arranger's flower -- Peony lists: How to use the lists -- Tree peonies and intersectional hybrids over 80 of the best others commercially available -- Herbaceous peonies 125 of the best others commercially available -- Growing peonies: Where and how to plant peonies -- Aftercare trouble-shooting and propagation -- Appendix A: Where to see peonies an international list of peony gardens and collections -- Appendix B: Where to buy peonies and international list of nurseries -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. ; FINE <br/> <br/> Seven Dials, London, 2000 paperback‎

Référence libraire : 008624 ISBN : 1841880817 9781841880815

‎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

Référence libraire : 008717 ISBN : 067943982x 9780679439820

‎Rivers, Joan, 1933-2014 ; design, Elina D Nudelman; photos, Charles Harris‎

‎Don't Count the Candles: Just Keep the Fire Lit! Fine if you're wine.-Peter Stuyvesant and I went Dutch.-Early plastic isn't chic.-A roll in the hay keeps the doctor away.-No fool's gold for your golden years‎

‎New York : HarperCollinsPublishers c1999. 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 3rd printing ; vii 194 pages ; 22 cm ; SIGNED label by author affixed to half-title ; lable probably provided by the Palm Beach County Jewish Federation ; ISBN 9780060183837 0060183837 ; OCLC 40668155 ; LCCN 99011405 ; LOC No PN6231.A43 R58 1999 ; Contents: Fine if you're wine.-Peter Stuyvesant and I went Dutch.-Early plastic isn't chic.-A roll in the hay keeps the doctor away.-No fool's gold for your golden years ; With characteristic spunk humor and style Joan Rivers reveals how to deal with "the lousy crummy disgusting nauseating fact that sooner or later we all get older." ; Joan Rivers was born in Brooklyn New York on June 8 1933. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature and anthropology from Barnard College in 1954. She was a comedienne actress author television talk show host jewelry designer and cosmetic company entrepreneur. As an actress Rivers has appeared in the movie Spaceballs and the animated children's series Arthur. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990 for The Joan Rivers Show. She was the co-host of Fashion Police and starred in the reality showJoan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best Rivers wrote several books including The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz Men Are Stupid and They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery Murder at the Academy Awards I Hate Everyone. Starting with Me and Diary of a Mad Diva. She also created the Joan Rivers Classics Collection of fashion jewelry and the Joan Rivers Beauty line of products. Rivers died a few days after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest during a medical procedure on September 4 2014 at the age of 81. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1999. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008655 ISBN : 0060183837 9780060183837

‎Tan, Amy ; design, Marysarah Quinn, Honi Werner; calligraphy, Jia-Xuan Zhang; photo, Gu Jingmei, Robert Foothorap‎

‎The Bonesetter's Daughter‎

‎New York : G.P. Putnam's 2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 353 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780399146435 9780399146855 9780345457370 9780965164795 9780804114981 0399146431 0399146857 0345457374 0965164799 0804114986 ; OCLC 44883576 ; LCCN 00062673 ; LOC No PS3570.A48 B6 2001 ; yellow and brown cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart secrets she cannot tell her daughter yet hopes she will never forget. Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past its deepest wounds its most profound hopes. --Source: Publisher ; Amy Tan is the bestselling author of Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life Saving Fish from Drowning The Backyard Bird Chronicles and two children's books The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2001. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008743 ISBN : 0399146431 9780399146435

‎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

Référence libraire : 008661 ISBN : 0060176385 9780060176389

‎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

Référence libraire : 008724 ISBN : 0060193603 9780060193607

‎Grizzard, Debra ; Perry, Chuck ; design, Jill Dilde; jacket photo, France Dorman; authors: Dudley Tamps, Ludlow Porch, Loran Smi‎

‎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

Référence libraire : 008808 ISBN : 1563522500 9781563522505

‎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

Référence libraire : 008656 ISBN : 0307885917 9780307885913

‎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

Référence libraire : 008713 ISBN : 0525520619 9780525520610

‎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

Référence libraire : 008696 ISBN : 1565120833 9781565120839

‎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

Référence libraire : 008684 ISBN : 0375509321 9780375509322

‎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

Référence libraire : 008679 ISBN : 0446516899 9780446516891

‎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 influen­tial 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

Référence libraire : 008801 ISBN : 1476785651 9781476785653

‎Green, Tim, 1963- ; design, Tony Greco; photo, Maggie Smith‎

‎The Fourth Perimeter.‎

‎New York : Warner Books c2002. 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xxi 329 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780446527859 9780446612517 0446527858 0446612510 ; OCLC 46929173 ; LCCn 2001026330 ; LOC No PS3557.R37562 F68 2002 ; brown cloth in pictoral dustjacket ; Former Secret Service agent turned successful entrepreneur Kurt Ford thought he had suffered his share of tragedy when his adored wife died leaving him to raise their young son alone. But years later his beloved son -- also a Secret Service agent -- turns up dead and Ford is inconsolable. Refusing to accept the government's story that his son committed suicide Ford investigates the case as a murder. After learning from a Secret Service friend that two other young agents have also recently met with unusual deaths Ford discovers that all three men were involved in a cryptic meeting with the President. Now faced with the possibility that this meeting was the cause of his son's death Kurt Ford will attempt to do what only four other men in history have been able to accomplish -- kill the President of the United States. --Source: Publisher ; 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. ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Warner Books, c2002. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 008686 ISBN : 0446527858 9780446527859

‎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

Référence libraire : 008663 ISBN : 0060175435 9780060175436

‎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

Référence libraire : 008649 ISBN : 0395475910 9780395475911

‎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

Référence libraire : 008657 ISBN : 0670818968 9780670818969

‎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

Référence libraire : 008695 ISBN : 0945575769 9780945575764

‎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

Référence libraire : 008838 ISBN : 1610391543 9781610391542

‎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

Référence libraire : 008718 ISBN : 0399142819 9780399142819