Search Results: Authors starting with F from BIAbooks

New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Linda Fairstein sends her acclaimed heroine -- the stylish and steely-nerved D.A. Alexandra Cooper -- on a hunt for a killer inside New York City's glitzy art world. "A masterwork of thrills."- Glamour " Dazzling...fascinating and fast paced."-"Library Journal

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy of the author's FIRST book. "Breathtakingly beautiful, original and ambitious [this book] observes human eccentricity and the environmental metaphor of the Australian Blue Mountains with equally sharp attention.The discovery of the year."---Sydney Morning Herald

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's first novel.

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. East meets West. Two women, one from Cambodia and one from the USA, meet in New Hampshire and travel to Lowell, MA.The many obstacles they encounter along the way make their journey into a kind of female odyssey that bonds them. "Terry Farish is a writer of rare and artistry and a storyteller of extraordinary power. Her images imprint the reader's eye; her characters and their yearning take up a full occupancy of the reader's heart." --Susan Dodd. An excellent book. Keywords: FARISH WOMEN ON-THE-ROAD CAMBODIA NEW HAMPSHIRE LOWELL SELF-DISCOVERY FAMILY LOVE

New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A NEW, UNREAD. SIGNED book. A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers-including every living former secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson-War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. "Offers lively writing, astute commentary, and plenty of great stories, laced through with passion and outrage....Farrow is a natural storyteller, and his empathy and imagination breathe life even into the endless, awkward Thanksgiving dinner that constitutes diplomacy." - Rosa Brooks, Washington Post

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. There are " many virtues of Sebastian Faulk's wonderful new novel. This riveting account of a young Scotswoman's odyssey through wartime London, and on into a perilous secret mission in Vichy France, deserves the highest praise.Proustian cogitations, masterful narrative, and zestful pen protraits. A beautiful, near-masterpiece."--The Independent on Sunday. An excellent book. Keywords: FAULKS WORLD WAR TWO SCOTSWOMAN RAF FLYER LOVE AFFAIR RESISTENCE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENTS FRANCE EDINBURGH LONDON

London: Hutchinson, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. British Embassy family in Washington D.C. interacts with American newspaper reporter during the 1960 Presidential race and is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War. " A romance full of luminous insights, brimming with feeling and paced to perfection .No contemporary author writes with more power, more eloquent simplicity."--San Francisco Chronicle; Only flaw is a previous owner's name is deftly printed on upper right hand corner of half-title page but does not diminish the attractive quality of this book.

New York: The New American Library Inc., 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Text is fresh, clean and bright. DJ has maintained it's vividness. Some very minor edge wear. Author has previously won an Edgar Award.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition, Later Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. John Feinstein chronicles the struggles of the top golfers in the game, as well as those trying to get onto the PGA Tour. These are gifted players who've devoted their lives to the game, and on any given day they could just flat out stink. A Good Walk Spoiled is a completely engaging book from first page to last, a wonderfully observed and masterfully told story of pain and profit in the world's most frustrating sport.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. America's favorite sportswriter, John Feinstein, tells the inspirational story of Bruce Edwards, the most famous caddy in professional golf and the unexpected star of the 2003 U.S. writer Feinstein delivers another solid look at the world of golf ., and this newest is his most intimate work so far. His subject is Bruce Edwards, who has been known within golf's tight-knit world as the caddy for over 40 years for legendary pro Tom Watson.The book, in effect, also offers a fine bio of Watson, as Feinstein recounts in energetic detail the many important tournaments that Watson won with Edwards's assistance."--Publisher's Weekly

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. John Feinstein, whom the Boston Globe calls 'the best writer of sports books in America today,' captures the fiercest four days in golf as no other writer could. Chronicling the U.S. Open as it was played, for the first time in history, on a true public golf course-and one of the most challenging courses in the country (only one player, Tiger Woods, finished under par at Bethpage Black)-Feinstein lifts the mystery shrouding golf's most celebrated event and takes the reader through every shot, every trap, every thorny hole, and every bitter rivalry of golf's greatest tournament.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Army, Navy, Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Colgate: these seven colleges make up the Patriot League, basketball's smallest Division I conference. In this book, NPR commentator and bestselling sportswriter Feinstein (A Season on the Brink, The Majors, etc.) gives an exhaustive account of the Patriot League's 1999-2000 season.". Publishers Weekly

New York: Atheneum, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel of suspense by "one of the best writers in the mystery field today"---Washington Star; DJ has a small crease on inside flap where price is marked but it does not detract from the quality of the book.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's First Novel. " Erstwhile drug dealer Danny DeMedici is the prime suspect in his ex-wife's disappearance and her boyfriend's grisly murder, and his efforts to clear his name are ruthlessly thwarted by his enemies. "This impressive first novel . . . is a curious and winning combination of noir violence, L.A. attitude, drug-inspired lunacy and sheer storytelling bravado."--Publishers Weekly

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Quinn, a former investigative reporter who got burned by a source two years ago, teams up with sultry Jen Takamura to find a killer amidst the decadent streets of Hollywood. By the author of The Horse Latitudes

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's third crime novel. "An over-the-top breakout thriller by one of America"s hottest suspense writers.". --Publishers Weekly.Filled with indelibly etched denizens of L.A., fraught with the brooding moodiness of classic film noir, Dead Man's Dance is Ferrigno at his riveting best.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's First Novel. " Erstwhile drug dealer Danny DeMedici is the prime suspect in his ex-wife's disappearance and her boyfriend's grisly murder, and his efforts to clear his name are ruthlessly thwarted by his enemies. "This impressive first novel . . . is a curious and winning combination of noir violence, L.A. attitude, drug-inspired lunacy and sheer storytelling bravado."--Publishers Weekly

New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Emorous in scope and brilliantly imagined. Burning with cinematic violence, fiendish betrayal, and global intrigue, Ferrigno's sensational thriller asks: What would happen to America if the terrorists won?

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A hard-swinging Southern California writer . . . Ferrigno has a gift for creating confrontations of high impact, and his dialogue bites hard. . . . Like other inheritors of the Hammett-Chandler-Ross MacDonald private-eye tradition, Ferrigno balances the tough doings with a strong sense of moral outrage and compassion." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

New York: Little Brown & Co, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST novel. Winner of the Discover New Writers (Barnes & Noble) Award and the PEN Hemingway Award. Shortlisted for the National Book Award, and a Top 10 New York Times book of 2007. "A terrific fist novel.Awfully funny."-- Nick Hornby. Keywords: FIRSTS, DEBUT NOVEL, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, OFFICE WORKERS-CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, RECESSION OFFICE HIJINKS