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By: Behan, Brendan; McCann, Sean
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Leslie Frewin: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276982
ISBN: 009090060X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A nice copy. 1968 Hard Cover. 140 pp. Louis Macneice said of Brendan Behan: 'He ! wrote with plenty of hyperbole and emphasis. He was a man of humanity, gusto and formidable wit.' The problem of a collection of 'Behanisms' is not what to include, but what to omit. His writing was only a convenient way of letting the whole world know what he was saying. There was hardly a story he told that he didn't write, and there was hardly a quip he wrote that he didn't repeat and repeat, again and again. 'I'm like Shaw,' he once said, 'I always quote myself it adds spice to the conversation... View more info
By: Behan, Dominic
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2268440
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note on front endpaper. 1965 Hard Cover. 159 pp. Dominic Behan's bottle book uncorks the same Dionysian spirit as Brendan's Confessions of An Irish Rebel (see p. 153). Much of the story is reconstructed from Brendan's own lips, and nearly all is personal observation. Dominic's portrait of Brendan is more savagely graphic and uninhibited, covers some of the same incidents, fills in the missing parents, and carries the reader nine years farther to Brendan's funeral. He writes with as much love as his irascible, scathing brother will allow him f... View more info
By: Bender, Aimee
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270999
ISBN: 0385501137
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1500970
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Faintly rubbed.Near Fine. 1994 Hard Cover. 354 pp. Author's first novel. Full of the intensity and vibrance of Appalachian speech, a tale set in rural West Virginia vividly captures the violence of a backwoodsman and drug lord named Tannhauser and the innocence of a young man named Goody. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pinckney Benedict (born 1964) is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work often reflects his Appalachian background. Pinckney Benedict grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pa. and late... View more info
By: Bennett, Paul L.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Abelard-Schuman: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2195673
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Pages toned, pages foxed, signed by author with inscription.Jacket toned, quarter-inch tear to jacket along top edge. 1961 Hard Cover. 191 pp. Two boys resolve to set aside their differences after a tragedy and play an important role in solving a mystery. A story of suspense, danger, fun, and hard work. View more info
By: Bennett, Ray
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2280565
ISBN: 0811853683
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No jacket, faint stain on rear board. 2006 Small Hard Cover. 95 pp. Lower the bar. Turn it down a notch. Get off the Stairmaster. The Underachiever's Manifesto is the playfully persuasive pocket guide to living life to the least and loving it. With sharp humor and genuine wisdom, this welcome little book extols the fabulous benefits of underachievement in our overextended society. A witty introduction makes the case for the right amount of effort a lot less than we've been led to believe. Ten principles of underachievement establish the basics (#8: The tallest blade of grass is ... View more info
By: Benoit, Charles
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197675
ISBN: 1590582527
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 234 pp. 8vo. At 27, Jason Talley of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, precisely processing loans for a mortgage company. Its warmest spot is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife Vidya. One night Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to hold her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives home to sirens and cops--Sriram and Vidya are dead. The cops call it a mu... View more info
By: Berendt, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House, New York: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2172308
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes original jacket, as well as belly band advertising the film starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, which was directed by Clint Eastwood. Minimal wear to corners.Near Fine. 1994 Hard Cover. 388 pp. 8vo. Author's first book. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a tho... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270888
ISBN: 0679422080
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 192 pp. Author's first novel. On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hid... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270889
ISBN: 0679437452
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 217 pp. After a freak accident--ice fell on him as he walked in the street--a man lies in a coma in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lainey, his wife, is the only one who believes he will recover. She visits him every day, bringing family objects and talking of home, becoming ever more aware of the wonder and richness of daily life. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270890
ISBN: 0743411366
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 262 pp. A searing, evocative novel of a family in turmoil focuses on a family whose ordinary life has been shattered by unexpected revelations, in a story told from the perspective of a husband who must work through denial and anguish to redemption and personal responsibility after he overnight goes from lover to roommate. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270891
ISBN: 1400061598
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 237 pp. It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets—secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg’s moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past? Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270892
ISBN: 0375500995
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 272 pp. Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals how the secrets and complexities of the past have shaped the lives of the women in a family. Ginny Young is on a plane, en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for thirty-five years. S... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270893
ISBN: 067943299X
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 210 pp. What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and more honest: with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart of this deeply moving novel about the grit and power of female friends. Ann and Ruth have always talked as only great friends can--honestly, and about everything: husbands and... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270894
ISBN: 0679449728
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 193 pp. Uncomfortable with the fit of her life, now that she's in the middle of it, Nan gets into her car and just goes--driving across the country on back roads, following the moon; and stopping to talk to people. Through conversations with women, men, with her husband through letters, and with herself through her diary, Nan confronts topics long overdue for her attention. She writes to her husband and says things she's never admitted before; and she discovers how t... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270895
ISBN: 0679449434
Condition: Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of being ideal companions. When she accidentally falls through the ice while ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271022
ISBN: 0679437460
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Author trading card laid in. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. In this superb collection of short stories, the bestselling author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep takes us into the times in women’s lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change. In Ordinary Life, Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, and no, she isn’t contemplating getting a divorce—she just needs some time to think, to take stock of her life, ... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271023
ISBN: 1400061601
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected wa... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Pocket Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271025
ISBN: 0743411323
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored from afar in high school, who has returned to his New England hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271026
ISBN: 0679457224
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. What do you do when your life isn't living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along? Reading Elizabeth Berg is like having a friend sit down and talk with you about the deepest truths and most perplexing issues in life, and in this exquisite new novel the bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon once again gives... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Atria Books: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271027
ISBN: 074341134X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Living with her stern, unapproachable father and his new wife after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Katie finds herself lonely and forges an alliance with Cynthia, a fellow misfit, but when she tries to become part of the in-crowd, she loses her best friend and learns some valuable lessons about herself, her dreams, and her past. View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271028
ISBN: 0375501002
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more p... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271029
ISBN: 0060191791
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 223 pp. Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of Pleasures, and the acclaimed Oprah Book Club Selection, Open House. With Escaping Into the Open, she offers an inspiring, eminently entertaining, and delightfully practical handbook on the joys, challenges, and creative possibilities inherent in the writing life... View more info
By: Berg, Elizabeth
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Random House: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285870
ISBN: 0812993152
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A very nice copy. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 356 pp. At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new name—George Sand—and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle. Paris in the nineteenth century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman w... View more info
By: Berriault, Gina
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Counterpoint: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281558
ISBN: 1887178104
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Very faint odor of smoke. 1996 Hard Cover. viii, 342 pp. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? A collection of thirty-five stories examining people's behavior and what motivates them. Nine new stories are included in this collection of thirty-five. View more info
By: Berry, Steve
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270434
ISBN: 0345526570
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Remainder mark. 2014 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 429 pp. September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-cent... View more info
By: Bilow, John A.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Payette & Simms: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272426
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1984 Hard Cover. 151 pp. This book is meant to be as detailed as it possibly can relating to Chateaugay, N.Y. and its surrounding area during the War of 1812. Great pains have been taken to describe local people and local events. Extensive use of diaries and descriptive letters have been made use of in this text. The spelling and sentence structure has been left as is, so it will appear that many errors have been made in compiling this work. The writing of this book was no great accomplishment, but the research work and the new material discovered wa... View more info
By: Bittman, Mark; Ornish, Dean
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275575
ISBN: 0385344740
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Very minor general wear. 2013 Hard Cover. xi, 276 pp. Six years ago, an overweight, pre-diabetic Mark Bittman faced a medical directive: adopt a vegan diet or go on medication. He was no fan of a lifelong regimen of pills, but as a food writer he lived—and worked—to eat. So neither choice was appealing. His solution was a deal with himself. He would become a “flexitarian.” He adopted a diet heavy in vegetables, fruits, and grains by following a healthy vegan diet (no meat, dairy, or processed foods) all day. After 6:00 p.m. he’d eat however he wanted, though mostly in ... View more info
By: Blake, Nicholas (Lewis, Cecil Day)
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202720
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Lacks jacket. Portion of front jacket flap mounted on front endpaper beneath dealer bookplate. Cover lightly smudged. 1938 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. A novel written pseudonymously by Irish author and British Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, father of actor Daniel Day Lewis. The book was adapted into an Argentinian film entitled La Bestia debe morir in 1952. View more info
By: Blanchard, Ken; Shula, Don
Price: $30.00
Publisher: HarperBusiness: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2287862
ISBN: 0066621038
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author (Don Shula). Sticker adhesive on rear jacket panel. 2001 Small Hard Cover. 117 pp. Are the people who report to you giving you their best? Is each individual on your team performing to his or her fullest potential? For more than thirty years, renowned business consultant and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and legendary NFL coach Don Shula have motivated teams to peak performances. In their classic, authoritative work on coaching, Everyone's a Coach, they distilled their rich collective experience down to its key elements and shared their secrets for inspiring ... View more info
