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1996rif. 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
1990rif. 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
1999rif. 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
1990rif. 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
1995rif. 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
2000rif. 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
2014rif. 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
2005rif. 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
2019rif. 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
2019rif. 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
1995rif. 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
2009rif. 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
2006rif. 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
2001rif. 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
1993rif. 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
2012rif. 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
2015rif. 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
2003rif. 008723New York : HarperCollins c2003. 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 440 pages ; 21 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060566692 9780060199593 0060566698 0060199598 ; OCLC 55689706 ; LCCn 2002191275 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 L58 2003 ; glod and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tantalizing tale about an abandoned Atlanta housewife and mother who tells one tiny white lie that sets her world spiraling outrageously out of control. ; This winning and wonderful romp focuses on all the important things in life: marriage and divorce mothers and daughters friendship and betrayal. Throw in small town secrets one woman's lifelong quest for home and the perfect chicken salad recipe and you have an ideal escape for fans of Fannie Flagg Jennifer Crusie Adriana Trigiani Emily Giffin and the Sweet Potato Queens. --Source: Publisher ;; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; FINE/FINE New York : HarperCollins, c2003. hardcover
2002rif. 008686New 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 New York : Warner Books, c2002. hardcover
2010rif. 008699New York : Grand Central Pub. 2010. 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; viii 344 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780446582346 0446582344 ; OCLC 430192650 ; LCCN 2009032518 ; LOC No PS3610.A3525 B33 2010 ; pea-green and light green cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; After a gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband will kill her Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets.; Joshilyn Jackson graduated with honors from Georgia State with a degree in English literature. After earning her Master's in English at the University of Illinois in Chicago she taught university-level English. Jackson's short fiction has been published in many literary magazines and anthologies and plays that she has written have been produced in Chicago and Atlanta. Gods in Alabama Jackson's first book won SIBA's Novel of the Year award in 2005 and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick which gave Jackson the distinction of being the first author to receive that status in two consecutive years. Jackson also won the Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly for her audio book reading. ; FINE/FINE New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. hardcover
1998rif. 008663New 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 New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1998. hardcover
2003rif. 008764Florida Classics Library Port Salerno Fla. ©2001 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 335 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ; ISBN 9780912451558 0912451556 ; OCLC 51072959 ; gold and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Anyone reading this book will develop a working understanding of nearly every major Florida environmental issue from the last twenty-five years. The author a former Florida state senator uses twenty-two fictional short stories each constructed around an actual environmental issue to illustrate the challenges facing Florida as it tries to preserve a rural way of life that is threatened by population growth. Magnificent artwork by the great artist Paul Schulz complements the copy perfectly making the book as enjoyable to look at as it is to read. ; Rick Dantzler is an American lawyer former Florida politician and a member of the Democratic Party. From Winter Haven Dantzler served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1990 and in the Florida Senate from 1990 to 1998. ; Contents: All is well -- Finally home -- Straight talk at Flamingo -- Hallowed ground -- Crapper Creek -- All grown up -- One day at a time -- The blessing and the curse -- The legend of Marley Pinder -- The animal band -- The chair -- Under the panther moon -- Too close for comfort -- Soldier -- The cow pens -- The right spirit -- Endless possibilities -- A day well lived -- The sentinels -- The ghost -- Wonders of the deep -- The footwashers ; includes map of story locations ; FINE/FINE Florida Classics Library, Port Salerno, Fla., ©2001 hardcover
1989rif. 008649Boston : 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 Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. hardcover
2016rif. 008651New York NY : Flatiron Books 2016. 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 293 pages ; 22 cm ; Signed presentation by the author on the title page ; ISBN 9781250075000 9781250133823 1250075009 1250133823 ; OCLC 945434023 ; LCCn 2016001606 ; LOC No PZ7.1.U46 Am 2016 ; "Portions of this book originally appeared in a slightly different form under the title "Anna Has Two Mommies" in Waccamaw"--Title page verso. ; A bittersweet honest and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel that distills honest truths about American girldom. Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and runs away to Los Angeles where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna had imagined. As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls-and although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leaves physical scars she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA and of America past and present. In Anna's singular voice we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in LA but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young vulnerable lost and female in America-in short on the B-list of life. Alison Umminger writes about girls violence and which people society deems worthy of caring about which ones it doesn't in a way not often seen in teen fiction. ; Alison Umminger grew up in Arlington Virginia and as an undergraduate was the fourth woman to be elected president of "The Harvard Lampoon." Today she is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton Georgia where she lives with her family. "American Girls" is her first novel. ; FINE/FINE New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2016. hardcover
1990rif. 008657New 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 New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1990. hardcover
