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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992
ISBN 10: 0374178925ISBN 13: 9780374178925
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Recently adapted for the screen, this now-classic collection of ten stories from the author of Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Angels is narrated by a young man, a recovering alcholic and heroin addict whose dependencies have led him to petty crime, cruelty, betrayal, and various kinds of loss.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972
ISBN 10: 0374370990ISBN 13: 9780374370992
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Reissue. Burkert's tapestrylike paintings, strong yet delicately detailed, radiate a spiritual beauty that enriches the movement of the story in its medieval setting. Jarrell's style, graceful and dignified, stays close to the original."-Starred/Booklist.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004
ISBN 10: 0374430896ISBN 13: 9780374430894
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos - once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell - moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life. Hole in My Life is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999
ISBN 10: 0374318271ISBN 13: 9780374318277
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stevenson, James (illustrator). First Edition. "Mr. Frimdimpny, a heavy, bossy, gloomy alligator, lays down the rules for this book: do not laugh! Do not smile! If you do, you have to go back to the front of the book. Then various slapstick scenes show animal characters in mess and mayhem-caused by the reader." --Booklist "A giggly masterpiece." --Kirkus Reviews.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001
ISBN 10: 0374368821ISBN 13: 9780374368821
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Potter, Giselle (illustrator). First Edition. Never has being shy seemed so rewarding!Whether she's impersonating Elvis, swaggering like Captain Hook, or imitating the sounds of a cricket, Violet is expressive and funny -- but only when she's alone or with her best friend, Opal. At school, especially around class bully Irwin, who teases her nonstop, she retreats into a shell of shyness. But when Irwin, playing the part of Planet Mars in the class play, begins to spin wildly out of control and threatens to ruin the entire production, it's Violet who saves the day -- managing not only to give Irwin his comeuppance but to find her own unique way of surviving the spotlight.Illustrations brimming with humor and charm add to the fun in this fresh take on overcoming shyness.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996
ISBN 10: 0374215146ISBN 13: 9780374215149
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A portrait of a beloved First Lady and an account of a complex marriage examines the life of Mamie Eisenhower and her relationship with Ike Eisenhower.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374283540ISBN 13: 9780374283544
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reignBetween 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build.The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. The Ruling Caste is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1996
ISBN 10: 0374172463ISBN 13: 9780374172466
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In a collection of essays, three of our generation's greatest poets explore the mythologies and misconceptions that surround one of this country's most idolized poets.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374216495ISBN 13: 9780374216498
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The author of The Bird Artist, a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the darkening world of Europe in the 1930s through the story of a Jewish woman who comes under the spell of an unusual painting.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1969
ISBN 10: 0374378541ISBN 13: 9780374378547
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Chester Cricket needs help. Thats the message John Robin carries into the Times Square subway station where Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse live. Quickly, Chesters good friends set off on the long, hard journey to the Old Meadow, where all is not well.Houses are creeping closer. Bulldozers and construction are everywhere. It looks like Chester and his friends home will be ruined and the children of the town wont have a place to play. Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse are used to the city life. Now in the country, they need to find a place to stay and good things to eat. And most of all they must think of a plan to help their friends.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374303800ISBN 13: 9780374303808
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Kleven, Elisa (illustrator). 1. Lizzy loves the big apple tree in her yard more than anything. So when the first day of school comes, she picks a beautiful apple, turns it into a makeshift doll she names Susanna, and takes it along to keep her company. But her teacher tells her that dolls aren't allowed at school. Even worse, her sister says that Susanna won't last forever. Then Lizzy's mom shows her a way to turn Susanna into a real apple doll. And with the help of Susanna the Apple Doll, Lizzy overcomes her shyness at school and makes plenty of new friends to bring home to play in her beloved apple tree.Detailed, delightful collage illustrations accompany this sweet story about one girl's success in bringing together her home world and her school world. Instructions for making an apple doll just like Susanna are included!.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374350671ISBN 13: 9780374350673
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Millman, Isaac (illustrator). First Edition. Moses and his school friends are deaf, but like most children, they have a lot to say. They communicate in American Sigh Language, using visual signs and facial expressions. This is called signing. And even though they can't hear, they can enjoy many activities through their other senses. Today, Moses and his classmates are going to a concert. Their teacher, Mr. Samuels, has two surprises in store for them, to make this particular concert a special event.Isaac Millman tells Moses's story in pictures and written English, and in American Sign Language (ASL), introducing hearing children to the signs for some of the key words and ideas. At the end of the book are two full conversations in sign language and a page showing the hand alphabet.You can learn sign language, too.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1988
ISBN 10: 0374520925ISBN 13: 9780374520922
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reissue. Tom Wolfe offers observations and speculations about American life, providing insight into trends in art; sex, crime, and salvation; New York City; and the attitudes of intellectuals.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 2002
ISBN 10: 0374106770ISBN 13: 9780374106775
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The English debut of one of Spain's most dazzling younger writers -- a postmodern murder mystery set in ancient Greece.In this brilliant, highly entertaining, and intriguing novel, Jose Carlos Somoza intertwines two darkly compelling riddles, forcing us to confront the ways in which we interpret reality.In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas," to investigate. As the death toll rises, the two men find themselves drawn into the dangerous underworld of the Athenian aristocracy, risking their own lives to solve the riddle of these young men's deaths. Simultaneously, a second plot unfolds: that of the modern-day translator of the ancient text, who, as he proceeds with his work, becomes convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning in the text, one that can be interpreted through certain repeated words and images. As the story advances, however, the translator is alarmed to discover references to himself, which seem to address him personally in an increasingly menacing fashion.An original and unsettling literary mystery, The Athenian Murders introduces a beguiling new talent to an American readership.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012
ISBN 10: 0374104573ISBN 13: 9780374104573
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death.In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship.But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day.Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
ISBN 10: 0374357293ISBN 13: 9780374357290
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bright and witty paintings of different breeds of chickens highlight the heartwarming tale of an artist, who only wants to paint chickens, and his ultimate success in earning a living doing what he loves best.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374220735ISBN 13: 9780374220730
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A culinary memoir recollects the strange, good, and terrible dramas of the author's life and places them in the context of the realm of food, from childhood mud pies and bridal dinners to the experiments created during an affair.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374270821ISBN 13: 9780374270827
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (1st printing). In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy.There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger--torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places--a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town builtto repel slave raiders--and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship.Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973
ISBN 10: 0374132178ISBN 13: 9780374132170
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Printing Stated. Twenty-four stories depicting life in the United States and pre-war Poland explore the depths and dimensions of truth.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374530254ISBN 13: 9780374530259
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Translation. Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow's masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre-World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer's unforgettable prose.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992
ISBN 10: 0374271054ISBN 13: 9780374271053
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Louis Holland falls in love with a seismologist who discovers that recent Boston earthquakes had human causes, in a novel that deals with such issues as environmental pollution, religious fundamentalism, abortion, and the threat of the apocalypse.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901ISBN 13: 9780374128906
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control.In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is.In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers.Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris.Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374217238ISBN 13: 9780374217235
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The author profiles the storied Great Plains of the American Midwest, relating the history, the lore, and the stories of the current inhabitants of the area.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
ISBN 10: 0374159386ISBN 13: 9780374159382
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In The Devil's Horn, Michael Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone-a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and negative passions among all who hear it. The saxophone has insinuated itself into virtually every musical idiom that has come along since its birth as well as into music with traditions thousands of years old. But it has also been controversial, viewed as a symbol of decadence, immorality and lasciviousness: it was banned in Japan, saxophonists have been sent to Siberian lockdown by Communist officials, and a pope even indicted it.Segell outlines the saxophone's fascinating history while he highlights many of its legendary players, including Benny Carter, Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Branford Marsalis, and Michael Brecker. The Devil's Horn explores the saxophone's intersections with social movement and change, the innovative acoustical science behind the instrument, its struggles in the world of "legit" music, and the mystical properties that seduce all who fall under its influence. Colorful, evocative, and richly informed, The Devil's Horn is an ingenious portrait of one of the most popular instruments in the world.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982
ISBN 10: 0374126313ISBN 13: 9780374126315
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1984
ISBN 10: 0374330654ISBN 13: 9780374330651
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Le Cain, Errol (illustrator). First American Edition. Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1963
ISBN 10: 0374293805ISBN 13: 9780374293802
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Printing. In this book, the life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers paractical wisdom on how a human being in a chaotic world can cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. it offers 33 "recipies" for living, which show you how to change, hoe to influence the elements around you, how to cope successfully with the problems of the inner and outer world.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994
ISBN 10: 0374103054ISBN 13: 9780374103057
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st A. An intimate, detailed portrayal of the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters--great-granddaughters of King Charles II who lived wealthy, public lives--is based on diaries and letters and reveals the joys and tragedies they shared.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992
ISBN 10: 0374291330ISBN 13: 9780374291334
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nora and Dora Chance, the twin illegitimate daughters of a British theater legend, ring in their father's hundredth birthday by remembering the special family moments that forged the bond between them.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996
ISBN 10: 0374186901ISBN 13: 9780374186906
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A biography of the German poet combines detailed interpretations of his life with an intimate reading of his verse and prose and shows how he grew from an ambitious versifier into a great poet.