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1991rif. 008753Fort Washington Pa. : Copernicus Society of America ; New York : Hippocrene Books distributor c1991. 1991. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 1st Hippocrene edition 3rd printing ; xvi 1135 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780870529740 0870529749 ; OCLC23014830 ; Map on lining papers ; Translation of: Ogniem i mieczem ; brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Despite some deviations the book's historical framework is genuine and the fictional story is woven into real events. Many characters are historical figures including Jeremi Wisniowiecki and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki. Sienkiewicz researched memoirs and chronicles of the Polish nobility or szlachta for details on life in 17th-century Poland. The book was written according to the author "to lift up the heart" of the Polish nation in the unhappy period following the failed January Uprising during the era of the partitions of Poland. Thus it often favors epic plots and heroic scenes over historical accuracy. Nonetheless Sienkiewicz's vivid language made it one of the most popular books about that particular place and era ; By Fire and Sword is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy followed by The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe. The novel has been adapted as a film several times most recently in 1999. ; Far more celebrated than any of his positivist contemporaries Henryk Sienkiewicz began as a journalist and achieved considerable renown with his account of a two-year journey to the United States. Between 1882 and 1888 he wrote three historical novels dealing with political and military events in seventeenth-century Poland: With Fire and Sword The Deluge 1886 and Fire in the Steppe 1888 also translated as Pan Michael. Although superficial in its analysis of historical events the trilogy gained enormous popularity both in Poland and in other Slavic countries thanks to Sienkiewicz's masterful use of epic techniques and of the seventeenth-century colloquial idiom. Even more popular if artistically far weaker was his Quo Vadis 1896 a novel about Rome in the age of Nero Sienkiewicz's fame in the West is chiefly based on this work. Another historical novel The Teutonic Knights 1900 deals with the fifteenth-century struggle between Poland-Lithuania and the Teutonic Order. Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded The Nobel prize in Literature for 1905 "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer". ; slight knock else G/VG Fort Washington, Pa. : Copernicus Society of America ; New York : Hippocrene Books [distributor], c1991. hardcover
1991rif. 008695Chapel Hill NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991. 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed' 1st printing ; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; 191 pages ; 18 cm ; ISBN 9780945575764 0945575769 ; OCLC 23144113 ; LCCN 91007777 ; LOC No PS3564.O55 M8 1991 ; blue and wine-colored cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Music of the Swamp. focuses . on a boy's utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father -- a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin's world with dazzling clarity: the smells the tastes and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar somewhat bizarre Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: "The Delta is filled up with death"; but he also finds an endless supply of hope. -- Source: Publisher ; Lewis Nordan was born in Forest Mississippi on August 23 1939. He received a bachelor's degree from Millsaps College a master's degree from Mississippi State University and a Ph.D. from Auburn University. He taught at the University of Arkansas and elsewhere before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired from there in 2005. His first book Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair was published in 1983. His other works include Wolf Whistle Lightning Song Sugar among the Freaks and Boy with Loaded Gun. He died due to complications of pneumonia on April 13 2012 at the age of 72. ; FINE/FINE Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. hardcover
1995rif. 008705Research Triangle Pub. Fuquay-Varina NC ©1995 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 313 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED by author as Leon J. Leonard on title page ; ISBN 9781884570377 1884570372 ; OCLC 34533580 ; "Gibson Marrs is the pen name for Dr. Leon J. Leonard." ; dark brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The countdown to the biggest sporting event in Atlanta's history is drawing closer and the body count of construction workers is mysteriously rising. It's Mark Townsend's job to find the answer as the time grows short--the final victim could be the games themselves. --Source: Publisher ; FINE/FINE Research Triangle Pub., [Fuquay-Varina, NC], ©1995 hardcover
2003rif. 008694New York : Free Press c2003. 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 1st ed.; 1st printing ; 275 pages ; 23 cm ;SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780684854809 9780684854816 0684854805 0684854813 ; OCLC 51277474 ; LCCN 2002029810 ; LOC No PS3562.I78276 A64 2003 ; white and blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Benilde Little the beloved bestselling author of "Good Hair" and "The Itch" is a writer whose works are touchstones for legions of people because they reach deeply into readers' lives. Her new novel will do that again. "Acting Out" is the probing poignant and ultimately uplifting story of a woman caught between the life she thought she was supposed to lead and the dreams she gave up long ago. Ina West grew up independent and solitary raised by an artistic unavailable mother and a reliable loving father. As a twenty-something photographer Ina landed in Manhattan's bohemian art scene after college at the same time that she started dating the devoted hardworking Jay Robinson. When her mother's mental state began to deteriorate her closest cousin became dangerously ill and her free artist's lifestyle put her in some vulnerable situations Ina found comfort in Jay's trajectory into the safe privileged world of the African-American upper middle class. Forsaking her independence and creativity for the joys of family life and material wealth she married Jay had three children and moved to the suburbs; gradually Ina gave herself completely to motherhood and the upkeep of their increasingly luxurious lifestyle. And they had it all: the SUV the lavish home the expensive but casual wardrobe. Then one day after twelve years Jay comes home from work and announces that he's leaving. Amid her shock grief and fear a single clear truth emerges: though still physically present Ina herself had checked out of the marriage long ago. As she struggles with single motherhood reduced financial stability and the emotional roller coaster of her breakup Ina undertakes a journey of self-discovery with no sure destination. She moves to a smaller house rekindles an old love and takes up photography again. The old adventuresome independent Ina begins to resurface tempered by a self-knowledge borne of experience: she has learned how to look unflinchingly into her past and to determine what she wants for her future. Little delves into some of the most private and difficult questions people face. This moving ambitious and accomplished novel explores the fallout -- and the healing -- that can occur when the African-American dream crumbles and when a woman is torn between divergent lifestyle choices. Ina's story of loss and courageous self-revelation will resonate for any woman who has struggled with finding her path in life. --Source: Publisher ; ink mark on bottom of text block else VG/FINE New York : Free Press, c2003. hardcover
1997rif. 008718New York : G. P. Putnam c1997. 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed. 1st printing ; 267 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED byt author on title page ; ISBN 9780399142819 0399142819 ; OCLC 36648648 ; LCCN 97011660 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 N48 1997 ; steel grey and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The Bubba stories -- Blue wedding -- Live bottomless -- The southern cross -- The happy memories club -- News of the spirit. ; In "Live Bottomless" thirteen-year-old Jenny tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and the family's subsequent trip to Keys West as her parents attempt a "geographical cure" for their troubled marriage. In "The Southern Cross" Chanel a girl of easy virtue and dubious reputation chronicles her cruise around the Caribbean with three Atlanta developers. "I may be old but I'm not dead" begins Alice Scully scandalizing her retirement-home writers' group in "The Happy Memories Club." And prim old-maid Sarah is titillated by the housekeeper's horrific account of her daughter's "blue wedding.". --Source: Publisher ; Lee Smith is a novelist short story writer and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories Cakewalk was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel Oral History published in 1983 ; FINE/FINE New York : G. P. Putnam, c1997. hardcover
1994rif. 008662New York : HarperCollinsPublishers 1994. 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 264 pages ; 22 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060177652 9780061092565 9780062195104 0060177659 0061092568 0062195107 ; OCLC 29703239 ; LCCN 94002767 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 H66 1994 ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; Callahan Garrity Atlanta's most inquisitive cleaning lady probes the drive-by shooting of a woman by questioning her son. When the boy's father obtains an injunction to get her to lay off Callahan realizes she is onto a murder ; FINE/FINE New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994. hardcover
2005rif. 008736New York : Simon & Schuster 2005. 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780743250771 074325077X ; OCLC 61130878 ; LCCn 2005051849 ; LOC No E78.W5 M35 2005 ; Dewey 973.04/97078 ; brown and red cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The meat shop -- The vulnerable pioneer -- The big massacres and some others -- The moral taint -- Did Kit regret -- Counts -- Images heroes stars -- The Sacramento River Massacre spring 1846 -- The Mountain Meadows massacre September 11 1857 -- Mountain Meadows II -- Sand Creek November 29 1864 -- The Marias River Massacre January 23 1870 -- The Camp Grant Massacre April 30 1871 -- The broken hoop : 1871-1890 -- Wounded Knee December 29 1890 -- Wounded Knee II -- Wounded Knee III -- The waning moon ; A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In Oh What a Slaughter Larry McMurtry has written a unique brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked-and marred-the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River Mountain Meadows Sand Creek Marias River Camp Grant and Wounded Knee among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians but also Indians killing Americans and in the case of the hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions of these events recall their full horror and the deep constant apprehension and dread endured by both pioneers and Indians. By modern standards the death tolls were often small-Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn in 1876 was the only encounter to involve more than two hundred dead-yet in the thinly populated West of that time the violent extinction of a hundred people had a colossal impact on all sides. Though the perpetrators often went unpunished many guilty and traumatized men felt compelled to tell and retell the horrors they had committed. From letters and diaries McMurtry has created a moving and swiftly paced narrative as memorable in its way as such classics as Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star and Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. In Larry McMurtry's own words: "I have visited all but one of these famous massacre sites-the Sacramento River massacre of 1846 is so forgotten that its site near the northern California village of Vina can only be approximated. It is no surprise to report that none of the sites are exactly pleasant places to be though the Camp Grant site north of Tucson does have a pretty community college nearby. In general the taint that followed the terror still lingers and is still powerful enough to affect locals who happen to live nearby. None of the massacres were effectively covered up though the Sacramento River massacre was overlooked for a very long time. "But the lesson if it is a lesson is that blood-in time and often not that much time-will out. In case after case the dead have managed to assert a surprising potency. "The deep constant apprehension which neither the pioneers nor the Indians escaped has it seems to me been too seldom factored in by historians of the settlement era though certainly it saturates the diary-literature of the pioneers particularly the diary-literature produced by frontier women who were of course the likeliest candidates for rapine and kidnap." --Source: Publisher ; Larry McMurtry winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction among other awards is the author of twenty-four novels two collections of essays two memoirs more than thirty screenplays & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City Texas. ; FINE/FINE New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. hardcover
2001rif. 008703New York : HarperCollins Publishers c2001. 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 426 pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780060192419 9780062024534 9780061097843 0060192410 0062024531 0061097845 ; OCLC 45485188 ; LCCN 2001016786 ; LOC No PS3557.R534 K56 2001 ; grey and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Just two years out of law school Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been kidnapped while on business in Columbia's exotic port city of Cartagena. The ransom demand of three million dollars is far more than the Rey family can ever hope to raise. Fortunately Matthew had purchased an insurance policy to protect against just such a threat. Unfortunately the kidnappers seem to know all about the policy and the insurance company suspecting fraud is refusing to pay out. With nowhere to turn Nick links up with Alex a beautiful street-smart woman who may be the only person capable of negotiating with Matthew's abductors. But Nick soon discovers that the gravest dangers to him and his family are not the kidnappers and their guns but the men in suits: lawyers to be exact at a powerful firm with something to hide and they will stop at nothing to keep Nick from unleashing the truth. --Source: Publisher ; Author James Grippando was born in Antioch Illinois in 1958. He spent one year at the University of Illinois before transferring to the University of Florida in Gainesville where he received his B.A. with high honors and his law degree with honors. While in law school he was executive editor of the University of Florida Law Review. He was practicing commercial litigation with the law firm of Steel Hector & Davis for 12 years before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote his first two novels while he was still working as a trial lawyer. His novels include the Jack Swyteck series. ; FINE/FINE New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001. hardcover
2000rif. 008688New York : Warner Books c2000. 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st. ed. 1st printing ; SIGNED by author on title page ; 341 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780446522991 0446522996 ; OCLC 43403470 ; LCCN 00022285 ; LOC No PS3557.R37562 L4 2000 ; brown cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; No parent ever expects his child to die young. So when Donald Sales's 22-year-old daughter is brutally murdered at law school he comes undone. In a fit of rage Sales tells the police that he suspects Eric Lipton one of his daughter's professors is the killer. And when the arrogant but brilliant Professor Lipton is found in possession of her bloody underpants Sales doesn't want the law professor in jail -- he wants him dead. Lipton's attorney is Casey Jordan. As a law professor Lipton knows quite well that anything he says to Casey cannot be used against him. Lipton adamantly denies murdering his young student and Casey believes him. To Casey the girl's father -- Donald Sales -- is a more logical suspect. His violent history makes Casey wonder if he is deranged by grief or by guilt. And when Casey discredits Sales on the witness stand and skillfully deflects the prosecution's attempt to connect Lipton with a series of similar murders Casey believes that justice is at hand. But then -- just as the jury hands its "Not Guilty" verdict to the judge -- Lipton leans over and tells Casey that he is in fact the killer. Then Lipton inexplicably disappears and more bodies begin to turn up. Casey must now decide whether to uphold her legal oath to protect her client.or join forces with an obsessed father who demands that a demented killer be brought to justice. --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, c2000. hardcover
1998rif. 008685New York : Warner Books 1998 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. ; 1st printing ; SIGNED by author of title page ; 325 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780446522984 9780446607568 0446522988 0446607568 ; OCLC 38079258 ; LCCN 97051211 ; LOC No PS3557.R37562 R43 1998 ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The owner of the football team Florida Marauders is found dead and police name the suspect as Luther Zorn the team's linebacker who was having an affair with the owner's wife. Zorn claims innocence and hires lawyer Madison McCall to clear his name an assignment which nearly costs McCall his life. By the author of Outlaws. -- 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, 1998 hardcover
1999rif. 008659Athens Ga. : Hill Street Press c1999. 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; ix 203 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations portraits ; 23 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on half-title ; ISBN 9781892514684 1892514680 ; OCLC 263116766 ; LOC No PS3569.I256 Z67 1999 ; LCCN 99087287 ; light-green and green cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; When Celestine Sibley died in August 1999 hundreds of thousands of her fans mourned for weeks and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrated her life with daily coverage and a special 24-page supplement of which over 1.5 million copies were published. There is no one more perfect to encapsulate the life and memory of the deeply loved novelist memoirist and widely syndicated columnist Celestine Sibley than her granddaughter Celestine Sibley Fleming. Celestine Sibley wrote extensively about her granddaughter over the years -- and vice-versa -- and they shared a very close bond. Featuring Fleming's memories about her grandmother in terms of her life both as a public figure and family matriarch together with tales from her grandmother's garden and kitchen and a collection of family photographs Celestine Sibley is a much-needed final word on her life. In the words of Sibley Fleming: "The book is about the inheritance left to me by my grandmother not about diamond tiaras or strings of pearls but instead a look at the richness of life the miracle of relationships and the wisdom that comes from greeting every day with and open mind and sense of humor like only my grandmother could. 'Tine taught me how to see life". At last Celestine Sibley fans everywhere are offered a rare and affectionate look into the soul of Celestine Sibley. ; Celestine Sibley Fleming is a columnist writer and editor whose work appears regularly in national magazines and regional newspapers. She is the author of several books including How to Rock Your Baby. Fleming teaches writing at Georgia State University and writes a syndicated personal humor column on parenting and family. ; FINE/FINE Athens, Ga. : Hill Street Press, c1999. hardcover
2006rif. 008700New York : HarperCollins c2006. 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ;194 pages ; 20 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060837341 9780061146015 9780061370489 9780061782985 0060837349 0061146013 0061370487 006178298X ; OCLC 63179076 ; LCCN 2006041087 ; LOC No PS3570.R587 B58 2006 ; blue and white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Antiques dealer Weezie Foley works vigorously to win a window decorating contest an effort that is challenged when components from her display begin to disappear and her fiance begins to act in a distant manner ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; author's promotional card laid in ; FINE/FINE New York : HarperCollins, c2006. hardcover
1994rif. 008714New York : Scribner's Sons c1994. 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. x 575 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by Barbara Bush on the title page ; ISBN 9780025196353 9780025192751 0025196359 0025192752 ; OCLC 30356182 ; LCCN 94013829 ; LOC No E883.B87 A3 1994 ; Dewey 973.928/092/2 ; blue cloth in photographic dustjacket ; "A Lisa Drew book." ; Mrs. Bush offers a heartfelt portrait of her life in and out of the White House from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye New York to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush to her role as First Lady of the United States. Here she writes candidly about her early years with George Bush in West Texas and the tragic death of their young daughter Pauline. She also discusses the world of Washington politics and the famous figures she's met as well as the disappointment of the 1992 presidential campaign-and the mixed blessing of regaining her private life including her role as the nation's leading literacy champion. ; Filled with entertaining anecdotes thirty-two pages of personal photographs and a healthy dose of introspection this memoir is "a book of good grace and humor-written in a style that like the author herself is straightforward unembellished generous good-hearted and wise.A pleasure" The Washington Times. ; Barbara Bush was born Barbara Pierce in New York City on June 8 1925. She married George Bush on January 6 1945 while he was on leave from the Navy. She was the wife of the 41st president of the United States and the mother of the 43rd president of the United States George W. Bush. She was a huge supporter of civil rights and literacy. While she was first lady from January 1989 to January 1993 she insisted that her press secretary be black a first for that position and started the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She wrote several books including C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life and Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush. The profits from those books went to literacy causes. She also wrote two memoirs entitled Barbara Bush: A Memoir and Reflections: Life After the White House. She died on April 17 2018 at the age of 92 ; ownership bookplate on front endpaper ; FINE/FINE New York : Scribner's Sons, c1994. hardcover
2009rif. 008698Harper New York 2009 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 422 pages ; 24 cm. ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9780060837389 9780060837396 9780061768040 9780061774959 0060837381 006083739X 0061768049 0061774952 ; OCLC 262886342 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; A hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life ; After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie Georgia. All it will take he tells her is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But when she arrives Dempsey realizes that "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows and a driveway full of junk. There's also a murderously grumpy old lady one of Dempsey's distant relations who has claimed squatter's rights and isn't moving out. Ever. Everyone in Guthrie seems to know Dempsey's business from a smooth-talking real-estate agent to a cute lawyer who owns the local paper. As if that's not bad enough pesky FBI agents keep showing up on her doorstep looking for information about her ex-boss. All Dempsey can do is roll up her sleeves and get to work. Before long what started as a job of necessity somehow becomes a labor of love and ultimately a journey that takes her to a place she never expected-back home. --Source: Publisher ; Mary Kay Andrews was born Kathy Hogan Trocheck on July 27 1954 in St. Petersburg Florida. She received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Georgia. She worked for fourteen years as a reporter mainly at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a full-time author. Under Kathy Hogan Trocheck she wrote 10 mysteries including the Callahan Garrity Mystery series and the Truman Kicklighter Mysteries series. Under Mary Kay Andrews her works include the Weezie and Bebe series Little Bitty Lies Hissy Fit Deep Dish The Fixer Upper Summer Rental Spring Fever Ladies Night Save the Date and Beach Town. Mary Kay's title The Weekenders made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. ; FINE/FINE Harper, New York, 2009 hardcover
1993rif. 008690Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel c1993. 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 298 pages ; 24 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page to Decatur Book Festival volunteer David Neville 1951-2020 ; ISBN 9781878685780 1878685783 ; OCLC 28764205 ; black and tan cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Humphrey Lyles owns the Birmingham Ruffians a franchise football team trained according to the Program fueled by a dark secret that promotes the aggressive fury that means victory in the violent arenas of pro football ; Timothy Green was born in Liverpool New York on December 16 1963. He received a degree in English from Syracuse University in 1986. He was the Atlanta Falcons' first-round draft pick in 1986 and played for them through 1993. In 2002 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1994 and began writing books for adults including The Dark Side of the Game False Convictions and A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search. He also writes children's books including Football Genius Baseball Great The Big Time and Unstoppable. He has served as a commentator for the NFL on Fox ; ownership stamp ; else FINE/FINE Atlanta : Turner Pub. ; Kansas City, Mo. : Distributed by Andrews and McMeel, c1993. hardcover
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1999rif. 008360New York : William Morrow Cookbooks ©1999 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY LAGASSE ; xiii 338 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 22 cm ; ISBN 0688164307 LCCN 99029341 OCLC 41326731 ; L:OC: TX731 .L324 199 ; Dewey: 642/.4 ; "Contains more than 125 recipes for all occasions from Mardi Gras to New Year's Eve to the New Orleans Jazz Fest" ; Emeril Lagasse is a chef restaurateur and author of fifteen bestselling cookbooks including his most recent book Farm to Fork: Cooking Local Cooking Fresh and Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking which introduced his creative take on Creole cuisine. He is the proprietor of twelve award-winning restaurants across the country. He is the host of The Originals with Emeril and his popular series Emeril Live both appearing on the Cooking Channel. His latest program Emeril's Table airs exclusively on the Hallmark Channel. In 2002 Emeril established the Emeril Lagasse Foundation to support children's educational programs that inspire and mentor young people through the culinary arts and promote nutrition and healthy eating. ; Marcelle Bienvenu has worked as a contributing editor for magazines and newspapers including Food & Wine Southern Living Redbook and the New York Times. Her articles and recipes are regularly featured in Louisiana Cookin' CityLife and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Bienvenu lives in St. Martinville Louisiana ; Felician Willett graduate of the School of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University is coauthor of Emeril's TV Dinners and coordinates food production for Emeril Live and for Chef Emeril's food segments on Good Morning America. A native of Jonesboro Arkansas she lives in New Orleans. ; FINE/FINE New York : William Morrow Cookbooks, ©1999 hardcover
2004rif. 008417O Books Winchester U.K. ©2004 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 319 pages : 1 facsimile ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9781903816578 9780806138411 1903816572 0806138416 ; OCLC 62035857 ; Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; SIGNED presentation on the title page by Christenson ; Literal translation of the Popl vuh ; Transcription of the original Popul vuh manuscript ; Literal line-by-line English translation and parallel Quiche text ; Companion volume to: Popol vuh / translated by Allen J. Christenson. Winchester U.K. ; New York. : O Books 2003 ; Mayan civilization once flourished in what is today Guatemala and the Yucatan. The Mayan sacred book the Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the universe the world of gods and demi-gods and the creation of mankind. ; FINE O Books, Winchester, U.K., ©2004 paperback
1999rif. 008426London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg Pa. : Stackpole Books Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Design Wales Ebbw Vale c1999. 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781853673252 1853673250 ; OCLC 38989630 ; LCCN 98007165 ; LOC No UF525.G3 ; Dewey 355.8/0943/09044 ; blue cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; Offers a weapon-by-weapon study of the secret weapons used by the German military during World War II with detailed descriptions and photographs of the weapons and information on how they affected the war's outcome ; Ian Vernon Hogg was a British author of books on firearms artillery ammunition and fortification as well as biographies of several famous general officers. ; Contents : List of Drawings -- List of Photographs -- The V Weapons: -- Vergeltungswaffe 1 -- Reichenberg -- Vergeltungswaffe 2 -- Thwe A4 design -- The high pressure pump -- V4 -- Aircraft : Messerschmitt 163 -- The Luftwaffe's Viper -- Dornier's Arrow -- New bombers -- Jet engines -- Messerschmitt 262 -- Arado 234 -- The People's Fighter -- Air-launched Weapons : -- Recoilless gun -- Gerat 104 and Sondergerat 113A -- Bordwaffen -- Air-to-ground rockets -- Fritz-X -- Henschel 293 -- Hs 293 variants -- Other Henschel designs -- Anti-ship weapons -- Hagelhorn -- Mistel -- Air-to-air wapons -- Kurt Germany's dam-buster -- Air defence weapons: -- Bigger and better guns -- All wind and noise -- Electric power -- Anti-aircraft rockets -- Anti-aircraft missles -- Enzian -- Rheintochter -- Feuerlillie -- Artillery : -- The taper-bore guns -- Gustac and Dora -- Adam Eve Odin Thor Loki and Ziu -- K5 Glatt the 150km cannon -- K12 the cross-Channel gun -- Small shells for big guns -- Rocket artillery -- The Rochling shell -- Other aspects of ammunition design -- The Sea War : -- Torpedoes -- New U-Boats -- Fast attack craft -- Midget submarines -- Nuclear and Chemical Warfare : -- The nuclear bomb -- Chemical warfare -- Biological warfare -- Appendices -- The Special List -- German Code Names -- Index ; FINE/FINE London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, [Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Desig hardcover
1992rif. 008453Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston 1992 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st ed. 1st printing ; x 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780395633199 0395633192 ; OCLC 25788488 ; LCCn 92011090 ; LOC no SB455 .M57 1992 ; Dewey 635 ; "The material in this volume originally appeared in slightly different form in the Washington post"--T.p. verso. ; Includes index. ; vanilla and white cloth in color pictorial dustjacket; Henry Mitchell who died in November 1993 was one of America's most beloved garden writers. A man of contradictions Mitchell built landing platforms for dragonflies after seeing one drown in his pool and never stepped on an ant intentionally. He also railed mightily at fools and the elements. This is his last book--adapted from his weekly "Earthman" columns in the Washington Post. ; name on front endpaper ; slight foxing ; two nicks on dustjacket ; Contents: JANUARY -- Names from the Garden's Guest Book -- Architecture to Make the Garden Glow -- Oops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant -- Maintaining Your Garden and Maintaining Your Sanity -- Tomato or Tomahto: Tips on Types to Plant -- Sowing Beauty in Beastly Surroundings -- The Gardener's Lot -- FEBRUARY -- Sowing Seeds Indoors and Other Poppycock -- The Imperfect Gardener -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Happy Returns -- The Cypress Belle of the Bald -- A Screen of Shrubs -- Timing Is the Key -- MARCH -- Year-Long Lessons -- Days of Magic -- The Thin Line Between Nature and Human Nature -- Tracing the Roots -- A Word about Worts -- Forgotten Seeds Surprising Sprouts -- The Simple Secret -- Magnificent Obsessions -- APRIL -- Flowering Fruit Trees -- Celestial Bamboo -- What Goes On under the Apple Tree -- In Mr. Jefferson's Garden -- Glorious Flocks of April Phlox -- Letting Nature Take Its Course -- Discovering Bulbs -- How the Garden Grows and Grows -- MAY -- Staying in the Pink -- Gone But Not Forgotten -- Agave the Can-Do Plant -- The Lilacs That Bloom in the Spring -- Chip Off the Old Bush -- Garden Pests Don't Bug Me -- The Beauties of the Black Locust -- Keeping Envy Out of Your Eden -- JUNE -- Tea Roses: The Secrets of Success -- The Right -- Bedfellows for Roses -- I Try Not to Do Stupid Things -- Foliage for Nooks and Crannies -- Daylilies by the Bouquetful -- Small Gardens: The Big Picture -- The Grand and Noble Magnolia -- JULY -- A Home for Fish and Flowers -- A Water Lily's Lust for Life -- A Word about Petunias -- Plants That Need Wet Nursing -- Madame Galen -- For Dragonflies a Place to Rest Their Wings -- The Lessons Never Learned -- The Perfect Order of a Bulb Garden -- AUGUST -- A Bulb I Can't Resist -- Beauty or Black-Eyed Susans -- Tomatoes of Good Breeding -- Cleome for Summer Heat -- Birds and a Few Beasts -- A Single Sunflower -- Uprooted by Nature's Plans -- SEPTEMBER -- Felicitous Flowers for Early Fall -- On Oddments and Changelings -- Divide and Multiply -- No Dallying with Dahlias -- In Some Gardens Only the Shadow Grows -- The Common Splendor of Barberry -- Before You Bring In the Plants Make Sure Your Rugs Are Clean -- OCTOBER -- Room with a View -- Squills of Delight -- A Change of Place Has Its Price -- The Leaves of Autumn -- Sometimes Things Just Do Not Go Well -- Old Duties Before Breaking New Ground -- When Houseplants Take Over -- NOVEMBER -- Turning Over a New Leaf -- High Crimes Against a Rambling Rose -- The Vine of Subtle Pleasures -- Cues for Minding Your Peas -- In for the Winter -- Not a Monument Just a Garden -- Go with the Seasonal Flow -- A Gardener's Thanksgiving -- DECEMBER -- Where Have All the Poppies Gone -- Turn Down the Noise -- Yewing and Strewing -- Bananas -- Happiness Is a Hummingbird -- A Good Time for Pleasant Chores -- Singular Sensations -- Nights When the Chickens Sing -- Gifts for the Gardener ; G/VG Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1992 hardcover
1988rif. 008445Pueblo Press Orlando Fla. 1988 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xvi 177 p. 16 p. of plates : ill. some col. maps ; 27 cm. ; LCCn 88060066 ; LOC No F1391.C92 S58 1988 ; Dewey 972/.74 ; ISBN 9780961994907 0961994908 ; OCLC 17971931 ; SIGNED presentation by author Eleanor Friend Slight ; Map and plan on lining paper ; red cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Prologue -- Creation myth of Cuilapan -- The physical and ethnic environment of Oaxaca Valley -- Cuilapan the town and its dependencies -- The archaeology of Cuilapan -- Hernan Cortes 1485-1547 Marques del Valle de Oaxaca and Lord of Cuilapan -- The church history -- The church architecture -- Ceremonies and folk tales of Cuilapan -- Vicente Guerrero 1783-1831 second President of Mexico executed at Cuilapan -- Epilogue -- Appendix A The founding and naming of Oaxaca -- Appendix B Domingo De Guzman St. Dominic Founder of the Dominican Order ; FINE/FINE Pueblo Press, Orlando, Fla., 1988 hardcover
1998rif. 008452Roberts Rinehart Niwot Colo. ©1998 1998. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd ed. 1st printing ; xviii 462 pages : illustrations portraits ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781570982361 1570982368 ; OCLC 40217521 ; LCCN 98065825 ; black cloth in blue and yellow dustjacket ; Henry Boylan 1912-2007 had a long and distinguished career as a public servant and a man of letters. Born to a seafaring family in Drogheda Co. Louth Boylan joined the Irish civil service after finishing school. Over the course of his civil service career he worked with Radio Éireann Gael Linn and the Wexford Slobs wildlife reserve. The author of a number of radio plays and adaptations Boylan published his first book a biography of Wolfe Tone in 1981 before going on to devote 25 years to his groundbreaking work of scholarship the outstanding Dictionary of Irish Biography writing all 1500 entries himself. He is the author of a number of other books including the memoir A Voyage Around My Life. ; FINE/FINE Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, Colo., ©1998 hardcover
1995rif. 008461New York : Guilford Press c1995. 1995. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 14th printing ; xiv 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780898628470 0898628474 ; OCLC 32352115 ; LCCN 95012521 ; LOC No RC489.C63 B43 1995 ; Dewey 616.89/142 ; blue cloth with silver lettering in grey and white dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by author Judith S. Beck on endpaper ; Contents: Introduction -- Cognitive Conceptualization -- Structure of the First Therapy Session -- Session Two and Beyond: Structure and Format -- Problems with Structuring the Therapy Session -- Identifying Automatic Thoughts -- Identifying Emotions -- Evaluating Automatic Thoughts -- Responding to Automatic Thoughts -- Identifying and Modifying Intermediate Beliefs -- Core Beliefs -- Additional Cognitive and Behavioral Techniques -- Imagery -- Homework -- Termination and Relapse Prevention -- Treatment Planning -- Problems in Therapy -- Progressing as a Cognitive Therapist -- Appendix A. Case Summary Worksheet -- Appendix B.A Basic Cognitive Therapy Reading List for Therapists -- Appendix C. Cognitive Therapy Reading List for Patients and Therapists -- Appendix D. Cognitive Therapy Resources ; Judith S. Beck Ph.D. is Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been involved in training cognitive therapists for the past 10 years. In addition to supervising intramural and extramural supervisees she is an acclaimed speaker and has presented numerous workshops nationally and internationally on cognitive therapy for depression bipolar disorder anxiety and panic disorders personality disorders relapse prevention and couples problems. ; "Providing readers with a solid foundation for practice Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond delineates the fundamental building blocks of cognitive conceptualization and treatment. Introductory chapters describe how to conceptualize clients according to the cognitive model plan and conduct the first session identify initial problems and goals and structure therapy within and across sessions. Then the basic steps for conducting cognitive therapy are presented with specific instruction on how to identify evaluate and respond to a client's automatic thoughts. Effective strategies for modifying underlying assumptions and core beliefs are also explicated. Methods for increasing homework compliance preparing for termination and preventing relapse are laid out. Even experienced cognitive therapists will find new strategies and insights in chapters on planning treatment diagnosing problems using imagery and bringing about behavioral change. In addition to numerous practical suggestions this volume features a variety of sample patient worksheets and appendices that detail resource materials and reading lists for both the practitioner and the client. A final chapter offers guidance in progressing as a cognitive therapist." ; remains of label on back else FINE/FINE New York : Guilford Press, c1995. hardcover
2017rif. 008456New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux 2017. 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 214 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780374282103 9781925321937 9781250159991 0374282102 1925321932 1250159997 ; OCLC 947147125 ; LCCn 2016025809 ; LOC no PS3604.A748 U55 2017 ; Dewey PS3604.A748 ; "The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van inspired by his years living in a small town in Iowa"-- Provided by publisher.; Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut there are still regular customers a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: it's a job quiet and predictable and it gets him out of the house where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie starring Boris Karloff one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store-she has an odd complaint: "There's something on it" she says but doesn't elaborate. Two days later a different customer returns a different tape a new release and says it's not defective exactly but altered: "There's another movie on this tape." Jeremy doesn't want to be curious but he brings the movies home to take a look. And indeed in the middle of each movie the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent dark and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces no dialogue or explanation-the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing- but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. In Universal Harvester the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The novel will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. "This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-tuning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring." -O: The Oprah Magazine ; "Universal Harvester is so wonderfully strange almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle . . . But Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book's quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down." -Abram Scharf MTV News ; dark grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; FINE/FINE New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. hardcover
2009rif. 008482New York : St. Martin's Press c2009. 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; 359 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780312531089 0312531087 ; OCLC 243544878 ; LCCn 2008035870 ; LOC NO CT275.Z88 A3 2009 ; Dewey 951.05092 ; black cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; A swaggering true tale of sex drugs and money in the new young professional class in China. ZZ's parents got him out of Communist China-but now that he's got his American education including a law degree under his belt and now that China loves a go-getting capitalist like ZZ what better time to return America was never the "Wild East" like this one: Beijing is the perfect place to start a business live large and get a piece of every lissome girl hash cigarette and bottle of Cristal China has to offer. ZZ taps into China's unreliable but plentiful workforce of "spit-'n-squatters" to start his brainchild Goodiez which delivers food all over Beijing. ZZ is the perfect guide to the real new Beijing: he's got insider's cred but an outsider's eye for the strange mores and daily annoyances of Chinese life. In China High he offers a rare glimpse into the world of guan xi a network of favors the insidious importance of "face" and into the clubs and cafes- with all their above-ground and below-ground pleasures- frequented by the new young professional class in China. But ZZ's glam urban life comes to a crashing halt when he's picked up by the police for smoking an opium-laced pot "Zigarette." None of ZZ's connections do more than get him a few extra dumplings at chow-time in Sunshine Prison where unable to bribe his way out he is forced to take a serious look at the life he has been leading. ; FINE/FINE New York : St. Martin's Press, c2009. hardcover
