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1981réf. 009324McGraw-Hill New York ©1981 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st edition 1st printing ; xv 319 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780070199408 9780070199415 9780701994105 007019940X 0070199418 070199410X ; OCLC 6789920 ; blue and black cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Introduction : Years of the jackals : the mysteries of General Patton's death -- Book one : A war too late a peace too soon. Prologue : Encounter in the haymarket -- "What a war!" -- Leaps over the hedges -- Sloughs of despond -- From "Overlord" to "Eclipse" -- Keegan's heroes -- Conquering hero with foot in mouth -- Tempest in a clouded crystal ball -- Book two : The lord of St. Querin. Return of the proconsul -- More gold more mysteries -- The specter of Streicher -- The month of the stag -- The crisis at Camp Number 8 -- The shadow of Ike -- Snares and pitfalls -- Down to the wire -- The professor versus the general -- Out of the fog -- Book three : Whiplash. Into the valley of the bug -- Ward A-1 Room 101 -- "Hooray for Colonel Spurling" -- The countdown -- Zero hour zero -- So may he rest -- Epilogue : The limited assembly ; The Last Days of Patton is the story of General George S. Patton's final battle -- the Allied victory over Germany in the spring of 1945 and the ensuing nine months of his life with particular attention given to his fatal automobile accident in December. Ladislas Fargo chronicles the postwar adventures and misfortunes that ultimately deprived Patton of the glory and victory he had earned in his career as military strategist leader and hero. - Jacket flap. ; "It would be as hard to give up all thought of being a soldier as it would be to stop breathing" wrote George S. Patton in October 1945; "The great tragedy of my life was that I survived the last battle." But Patton would not see the year out: in December he would die as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Germany. His unexpected death sent shock waves through the American and Russian commands. It seemed plausible that America's greatest general may have been a victim of foul play. In the seven months following the German surrender Patton had openly and provocatively criticized the Soviet Union and appeared to have transformed from a staunch anti-Nazi to a Nazi sympathizer. The Last Days of Patton by Ladislas Farago a follow-up to his bestselling Patton: Ordeal and Triumph attempts to reconstruct the last months of Patton's life in order to determine if the general did indeed try to provoke a war with the Soviet Union and whether he failed to sufficiently de-Nazify the area of Germany under his jurisdiction. Farago also investigates the possibility of a conspiracy to murder Patton and reveals the role other prominent men including Eisenhower Montgomery Marshall and MacArthur had in censuring and ultimately removing Patton from active service. The Last Days of Patton. is the story of the general's final battle--a professional soldier caught up in the changing politics of the emerging Cold War and new reality of the atomic age." ; FINE/FINE McGraw-Hill, New York, ©1981 hardcover
2015réf. 008712New York : St. Martin's Press 2015 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 1st printing ; 428 pages : illustrations chiefly color ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781250058904 9781447295556 1250058902 1447295552 ; OCLC 919252606 ; LCCn 2015025568 LOC No F128.37 .S734 2015 ; Dewey 974.7/1 ; white cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; "In the summer of 2010 photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project--to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. His audience steadily grew from a few hundred followers to at present count over twelve million. In 2013 his book Humans of New York based on that blog was published and immediately catapulted to the top of the NY Times Bestseller List where it has appeared for over forty-five weeks. Now Brandon is back with the Humans of New York book that his loyal followers have been waiting for: Humans of New York: Stories. Ever since Brandon began interviewing people on the streets of New York the dialogue he's had with them has increasingly become as in-depth intriguing and moving as the photos themselves. Humans of New York: Stories presents a whole new group of people in stunning photographs with a rich design and most importantly longer stories that delve deeper and surprise with greater candor. Let Brandon Stanton and the Humans of New York he's photographed astonish you all over again next fall"-- Provided by publisher. ; Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans a beautiful heartfelt funny and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010 when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera he began crisscrossing the city covering thousands of miles on foot all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their stories. The result of these efforts was a vibrant blog he called "Humans of New York" in which his photos were featured alongside quotes and anecdotes. The blog has steadily grown now boasting millions of devoted followers. Humans of New York is the book inspired by the blog. With four hundred color photos including exclusive portraits and all-new stories Humans of New York is a stunning collection of images that showcases the outsized personalities of New York. Surprising and moving printed in a beautiful full-color hardbound edition Humans of New York is a celebration of individuality and a tribute to the spirit of the city. With 400 full-color photos and a distinctive vellum jacket ; BRANDON STANTON is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Humans of New York as well as the children's book Little Humans. He was a 2013 Time Magazine "30 people under 30 changing the world" an ABC News Person of the Week told stories from around the world in collaboration with the United Nations and was invited to photograph President Obama in the Oval Office. His photography and storytelling blog also called Humans of New York is followed by over fifteen million people on several social media platforms. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and lives in New York City. ; FINE/FINE New York : St. Martin's Press, [2015] hardcover
1996réf. 008717New 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 New York : Pantheon Books, c1996. hardcover
2016réf. 008692New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016. 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 417 pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780312380366 9781848541825 9781250132116 0312380364 1848541821 1250132118 ; OCLC 922910315 ; LCCN 2015048657 ; LOC No PS3608.A78575 R43 2016 ; blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. Now after five years John Hart is back with a stunning literary thriller. Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison a good cop walks free. But for how long And deep in the forest on the altar of an abandoned church the unthinkable has just happened. This is a town on the brink. This is a road with no mercy. ; John Hart is the only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels John has also won the Barry Award the Southern Independent Bookseller's Award for Fiction the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in over seventy countries. A former defense attorney and stockbroker John spends his time in North Carolina and Virginia where he writes full-time. ; FINE/FINE New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016. hardcover
1999réf. 008655New 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 New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1999. hardcover
2002réf. 008678Boston : Little Brown and Co. c2002. 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xi 291 p. ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 0316173584 ; LCCN 2001037678 ; white and mauve cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: I Rhoda Manning go hunting with my daddy -- Entropy -- A christmas in Wyoming -- On the Wind River in Wyoming -- The Gold Bough -- Gotterdammerung in which Nora Jane and Freddy Harwood confront evil in a world they never made -- The Abortion -- Remorse -- Alone -- Light shinning through a honey jar. ; A new Ellen Gilchrist collection is always an event for the legions of her loyal readers. In I Rhoda Manning Go Hunting with My Daddy Gilchrist writes again of one of her most beloved characters with the hilarity wisdom and poignancy that marks all of her fiction. Here a clutch of stories are told in the voice of Rhoda -- as a child as a divorced mother of three sons and as an old woman recalling the curse and blessing of being the only daughter of Big Dudley. In The Abortion a young girl whose father is dying and the boy who loves her struggle with clashing notions of what makes life meaningful. In Remorse a small town hairdresser revisits the last days of his best friend's life and what he might have done to save her. There is a rich vein of sorrow here but Gilchrist lightens the burden with a grasp of how both folly and grace are born of love. As her characters both new and familiar spin out their unlikely fates Gilchrist proves once again that there is no other Southern writer quite like her. --Source: Publisher ; Ellen Louise Gilchrist was an American novelist short story writer and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories Victory Over Japan. ; FINE/FINE Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2002. hardcover
2001réf. 008743New 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 New York : G.P. Putnam's, 2001. hardcover
1981réf. 008828Harvard 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 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981 hardcover
1996réf. 008661HarperCollins 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 HarperCollins hardcover
1990réf. 008708New 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 New York : G. P. Putnam, c1990. hardcover
1999réf. 008724New 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 New York : Harper Collins, c1999. hardcover
1990réf. 008669Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers c1990. 1990. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed; 6th printing ; 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; SIGNED by authorof title page ; ISBN 9781561450022 1561450022 ; OCLC 21975712 ; LCCN 90041752 ; LOC No PS3561.A885 T6 1990 ; beige and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The beloved best-selling story of an elderly man mourning the death of his wife and the mysterious white dog who helps ease his grief. From author Terry Kay. ; "A deftly shaped and vivid book.a tender and bracing tale of an octogenarian fighting to live a connected and purposeful life." The New York Times ; "A hauntingly beautiful story about love family and relationships.I found it all such a moving experience a lovely enduring tribute to love." The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu ; "Terry Kay is a perfect writer for those who love to read. His prose contains music and passion and fire. His work is tender and heartbreaking and memorable." Pat Conroy New York Times best-selling author ; The elderly Sam Peek is still mourning the death of his beloved wife when a mysterious white dog appears. Seen only by Sam White Dog becomes a part of Sam's grief. Though it's unclear if White Dog is real or phantom the creature eases Sam's sorrow brings him closer to his family and helps him reconcile with his own mortality. ; Best-selling author Terry Kay brings Northeast Georgia to life through his elegant prose and the thought-provoking themes of family love and loss will make readers come back to this touching story again and again. ; Terry Kay was born February 10 1938 in Royston Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty Shadow Song After Eli and The Runaway which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12 2020 at the age of 82. ; FINE/FINE Also an Emmy Award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Hume Cronyn and Academy Award-winner Jessica Tandy. Source: Publisher Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, c1990. hardcover
1995réf. 008808Atlanta 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 Atlanta, Ga. : Longstreet Press, c1995. hardcover
2000réf. 008664New 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 New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000 hardcover
2014réf. 008656New 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 New York : Crown Publishers, [2014] hardcover
2005réf. 008970Island Heritage Pub. Waipahu Hawaii ©2005 2005. Soft cover. Fine. 152 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm ; ISBN 9780931548390 093154839X ; OCLC 77555203 ; stiff paper color paper wrappers ; With its excellent climate and varied terrain Hawai'i has become a gathering place for flowering plants from all over the world. This book serves as an informative and easy-to-use layperson's guide to the most common most splendid and most curious of these plants--the herbs shrubs and vines that ornament Hawai'i's roadways trails and gardens. Combining clear accurate information with color images by a master photographer this book is a must-have for every Hawaiiana reference shelf and a perfect gift for visitors ; Agavaceae -- Apocynaceae -- Aaceae -- Asteraceae -- Convoloulaceae -- Epacridaceae -- Eicacear -- Malvaceae -- Muscaceae -- Piperaceae -- Sapindaceae -- Zingiberaceae etc etc ; FINE Island Heritage Pub., Waipahu, Hawaii, ©2005 paperback
2019réf. 008713New 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 New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. hardcover
2019réf. 008691New York : Minotaur Books 2019 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; 307 pages ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9781250206947 1250206944 ; OCLC 1085621328 ; LCCN 2019002776 ; LOC No PS3616.A385 L55 2019 ; green cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain. Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015 winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction. Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff a new father and improbably the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family he finally has to make a choice. When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs territory leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. Revenge is a powerful force and the vacuum left by his brothers' deaths has left them all vulnerable. With his wife and child in danger and the way of life in Bull Mountain under siege for everyone Clayton will need to find a way to bury the bloody legacy of his past once and for all. --Source: Publisher ; Brian Panowich is an award winning author a Georgia firefighter and a father to four incredible children. His first novel Bull Mountain was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist ITW Thriller Award winner for Best First Novel Southern Book Prize winner and a finalist for both the Anthony and the Barry Awards. He lives in Georgia with his family. ; FINE/FINE New York : Minotaur Books, 2019 hardcover
1995réf. 008696Chapel 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 Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995. hardcover
2009réf. 008680Boston : 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 Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. hardcover
2006réf. 008684New 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 New York : Random House, c2006. hardcover
2001réf. 008827New 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 New York : Dutton, 2001. hardcover
1993réf. 008679New 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 New York : Warner Books, c1993. hardcover
2012réf. 008865Documentation Center of Cambodia DC-Cam Phnom Penh 2012 2012. Soft cover. Fine. 108 pages ; 22 cm. ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9789995060244 9995060248 ; OCLC 839545092 ; photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: His life story -- Postscript at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal -- Fact sheet on "S-21" Tuol Sleng Prison -- Khmer spelling -- Chum Mey's confession / with introduction by David Chandler and Youk Chhang ; Chum Mey is one of only seven known adult survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp where 20000 prisoners mostly Cambodians were sent for execution. Formerly a motor mechanic working in Phnom Penh he was taken to the prison on 28 October 1978 accused of being a spy. ; FINE Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), Phnom Penh, 2012 paperback
2015réf. 008801New 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 New York: Touchstone, an Imprint of Simon and Schuster, 2015 hardcover
