Search Results: Authors starting with D from Zeno's

New York. 1989. Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0399134158. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello/Eyetooth Design, Inc . Signed by the author. keywords: Black Women Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Summers were when Bebe Moore Campbell grew close to her father. That was the season when his fast car raced from Philadelphia to the Tidewater region of North Carolina with his prized daddy's girl. From the heat of those summers emerges this powerful memoir of the bond between a daughter and a father who were separated by divorce. With the narrative force of fiction, Bebe Moore Campbell recounts her growth toward womanhood in terms of the most complex and vital relationship of her life. With clear-eyed honesty, she tells her story, omitting nothing - the surprise appearances, the cataclysmic disappointments, the heartbreaking secrets, the loneliness, the love. And in SWEET SUMMER, love triumphs in the face of the realities of modern family life. Raised in a doubly… Read More

New York. 1989. Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0399134158. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello/Eyetooth Design, Inc . keywords: Black Women Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Summers were when Bebe Moore Campbell grew close to her father. That was the season when his fast car raced from Philadelphia to the Tidewater region of North Carolina with his prized daddy's girl. From the heat of those summers emerges this powerful memoir of the bond between a daughter and a father who were separated by divorce. With the narrative force of fiction, Bebe Moore Campbell recounts her growth toward womanhood in terms of the most complex and vital relationship of her life. With clear-eyed honesty, she tells her story, omitting nothing - the surprise appearances, the cataclysmic disappointments, the heartbreaking secrets, the loneliness, the love. And in SWEET SUMMER, love triumphs in the face of the realities of modern family life. Raised in a doubly female-headed household by… Read More

New York. 1992. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689121237. Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Arvio. 277 pages. hardcover. Jacket design (c) 1992 by Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics Tr. #1411(3)-Lienzo de Tlaxcala. keywords: Literature Translated Argentina Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Abel Posse's novel THE DOGS OF PARADISE is about Columbus, and in DAIMON, Posse continues his trilogy about the early encounters between Europeans and his native continent in a book about Lope de Aguirre, one of the most rapacious conquistadores. Aguirre was one of Pizarro's lieutenants in the conquest of Peru. At a critical moment on an expedition in the Amazon he threw over everything that was valuable to him, slaying his comrades (including his fifteen-year-old daughter), betraying his commander, his king, and even his God to establish ‘the first free territory of America,' the Marañon Empire. From his jungle fastness Aguirre dreamed of seizing Peru, reconquering… Read More

New York. 1981. October 1981. Avon Books. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0380785196. Paperback Original . 205 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - WHAT IS FAMILY? It is the births and the dying, the voices that recount and remember and bear witness. Here are the generations of an American family powerful in their endurance - from Damballah, the sacred ancient Father, to big-hat John French, the gambling man, swallowing the caterpillar his baby daughter nibbled on; from Freeda who waits silent and angry for Death the Chinaman, to stillborn Lizabeth, plunged in an alley snowdrift to shock her into life. As John Edgar Wideman renders their tale-telling and jive, he hears the cadences of their lives; hears the love that may be more dangerous than hate; hears the need that tells them to keep faith with the past - when Down Home is everywhere you've never been - and let it bear you up. DAMBALLAH is… Read More

New York. 1981. October 1981. Avon Books. 1st American Edition. Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0380785196. Paperback Original. 205 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - WHAT IS FAMILY? It is the births and the dying, the voices that recount and remember and bear witness. Here are the generations of an American family powerful in their endurance - from Damballah, the sacred ancient Father, to big-hat John French, the gambling man, swallowing the caterpillar his baby daughter nibbled on; from Freeda who waits silent and angry for Death the Chinaman, to stillborn Lizabeth, plunged in an alley snowdrift to shock her into life. As John Edgar Wideman renders their tale-telling and jive, he hears the cadences of their lives; hears the love that may be more dangerous than hate; hears the need that tells them to keep faith with the past - when Down Home is everywhere you've never been - and let it bear you up. DAMBALLAH is not only an unsparing, unsentimental portrait… Read More

New York. 1995. August 1995. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684802090. 235 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Julie Metz. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Unmarried and pregnant at forty-one, Julia returns home to Spokane, Washington, to the father she hasn't seen in twenty-three years, and to the memories of secrecy, betrayal, abuse, and abandonment that haunt her still. She is determined to understand, before her child is born, how her family unraveled. What made her mother disappear without a word one day, leaving Julia to face the terror of her father's desperate, alcohol-fueled outbursts? How did the loving father, who taught Julia the salt dance to chase away her fears, turn into the punishing father who could never be pleased? inventory #23567 ISBN: 0684802090.

New York. 1995. August 1995. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684802090. 235 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Julie Metz. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Unmarried and pregnant at forty-one, Julia returns home to Spokane, Washington, to the father she hasn't seen in twenty-three years, and to the memories of secrecy, betrayal, abuse, and abandonment that haunt her still. She is determined to understand, before her child is born, how her family unraveled. What made her mother disappear without a word one day, leaving Julia to face the terror of her father's desperate, alcohol-fueled outbursts? How did the loving father, who taught Julia the salt dance to chase away her fears, turn into the punishing father who could never be pleased? inventory #23480 ISBN: 0684802090.

Boston. 1994. Beacon Press. 1st American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0807068233. Introduction by Mona Van Duyn. 106 pages. paperback. Cover: Dennis Farber. keywords: Poetry America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 1993 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Stark and sensual, energetic and intimate, That Kind of Danger explores the dangers, histories, and passions of the life of the city - from its violences to its surprising occasions of beauty. Donna Masini writes frankly, sometimes painfully, about sex, about working-class roots and immigrant experience, about the dangers and failures of family life, the architecture of desire, the dynamics of our erotic lives. With a driving music and often startling power, these poems are about the way lives are broken and rebuilt, the layers of history we are often oblivious to, the redemptive and transforming power of memory and imagination. Urgent, unwavering, this provocative debut volume ultimately celebrates the tentative yet joyful moments… Read More

New York. 1984. McGraw Hill. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0070089698. 160 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration & design by Honi Werner. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Resurrected by popular demand in ENDERBY'S DARK LADY, the poet, the perdurable poet F. X. Enderby, must reluctantly play the role of Shakespeare to woo an African-American nightclub singer. Despite his farcical personal life and slightly sordid living habits, Enderby has delighted readers as one of the last dogged individualists, a quiet rebel living in everyone and affirming the creative impulse. inventory #1876 ISBN: 0070089698.

New York. 1999. Soho Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1569471533. 282 pages. hardcover. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Mystery Yugoslavia Sarajevo. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Intrigue reminiscent of The Third Man set in Sarajevo. Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Lately business has been slow. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion. His services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. One premeditated death does call for inquiry. It is no abused lover or distant sniper's victim but a government official shot dead at close range-the chief of the Interior Ministry's special police. In a thriller that recalls the dark excitement of Vienna in Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war-the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats… Read More

New York. 1999. April 1999. Scribner. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684841916. 285 pages. hardcover. keywords: Science Underground Space Astronomy Earth. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a narrative that combines cutting-edge science with intense physical adventure, DARK LIFE tells the fascinating story of the quest to find life far underground and deep in space. Able to thrive without sunlight or oxygen, dark life is a mass of subterranean bacteria that would likely tip the scale if weighed against all other living matter combined. Journalist Michael Ray Taylor takes us from Antarctic lakes to Hawaiian volcanoes to the satellites of Jupiter in search of these mysterious underground creatures that are redefining our understanding of evolution. Taylor serves as a field assistant on several key scientific expeditions. He descends deep into New Mexico's tortuous Lechuguilla Cave and focuses powerful NASA microscopes on never-before-seen life-forms. He accompanies a young NASA intern who unknowingly… Read More

New York. 2008. Harper & Row. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780805088397. 181 pages. paperback. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' . So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is at war not with Iraq but with itself. In this other America, the twin towers did not fall and the 2000… Read More

Sydney. 1980. Aurora Press. 1st Australian Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0867480017. 176 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration is a detail from ‘The Jetty’ by Donald Friend. keywords: Literature Australia Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Alexandra Wheatfield, a young journalist, has come to work in the Australian embassy in Djarkarta at a time of chaotic change: the coup of 1965 has been crushed but the new Order of the Indonesian Army has not yet overthrown the revered President, Sukarno. He has warned that without him the people are 'monkeys in the dark.' As a privileged group the Australian diplomats view this scene with benign contempt. The problem of Frank Greaves of Security and his protEgEe, Anthony Sinclaire, is to find the new sources of information and power in the crumbling and corrupt city. But for Alex the city mirrors her affair with Maruli Hutabarat, poet and party activist, its colours, fruits, smiles and cruelties counterpoint the sensuality of their relationship. Her… Read More

New York. 1996. Knopf. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0679441859. 351 pages. paperback. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Autobiography Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In MY DARK PLACES, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of AMERICAN TABLOID and WHITE JAZZ - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and… Read More

New York. 1996. November 1996. Knopf. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0679441859. 360 pages. paperback. Cover design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Mystery Autobiography Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In MY DARK PLACES, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of AMERICAN TABLOID and WHITE JAZZ - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and… Read More

New York. 1996. November 1996. Knopf. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0679441859. 360 pages. paperback. Cover design by Chip Kidd. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Autobiography Crime. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In MY DARK PLACES, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of AMERICAN TABLOID and WHITE JAZZ - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic… Read More

New York. 1993. February 1993. Harper Collins. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0060169249. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli. Jacket illustration by Jodi Kim. keywords: Literature America Women African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A rich and evocative first novel by a unique voice in the African-American literary tradition, One Dark Body is gracefully written and filled with startling original imagery. Its broad themes are identity, history, survival, and initiation. Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl abandoned at birth by her mother and raised by foster parents along with other damaged and unwanted children. It is the story of her mother, Nola, who has returned to reclaim her daughter and to put to rest the ghosts from the past who continue to haunt their lives: the spirits of El, Raisin's father, who committed suicide; and of Ouida, Nola's mother, who, it is rumored, shot her husband. One Dark Body is also the… Read More

New York. 1997. April 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0394574400. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Jeff Cottenden. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle,… Read More

Boston. 1960. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Printing. Very Good.No Dustjacket. 442 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A wave of sickening deaths hits the streets of modern London. Young women, mainly prostitutes, are found strangled and mutilated. The police are baffled, the press outraged - not since Jack the Ripper has such a sinister brand of violent murders been unleashed. Is the culprit a homicidal maniac or a cold-blooded, calculating killer wreaking a personal vendetta on a corrupt and callous society? inventory #16906

London. 1988. Headline. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0747200866. Introduction by Robert B. Parker. 75 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels. inventory #29690 ISBN: 0747200866.