Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Joe Staats, Bookseller

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, THE FIVE WOUNDS spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother,… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. First Thus Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A revised and expanded edition of Quammen's first book of nonfiction, including the best of his recent work."Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to NATURAL ACTS. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of his first essay collection, Quammen's lively curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?). This expanded edition returns to print Quammen's best-loved "Natural Acts" columns, which first appeared in Outside… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner., 2000. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In 1981 David Quammen began what might be every freelance writer's dream: a monthly column for Outside magazine in which he was given free rein to write about anything that interested him in the natural world. His column was called "Natural Acts," and for the next fifteen years he delighted Outside's readers with his fascinating ruminations on the world around us. THE BOILERPLATE RHINO brings together twenty-six of Quammen's most thoughtful and engaging essays from that column, none previously printed in any of his previous books. In lucid, penetrating, and often quirkily idiosyncratic prose, David Quammen takes his readers with him as he explores the world. His travels lead him to rattlesnake handlers in Texas; a lizard specialist in Baja; the dinosaur museum in Jordan, Montana and halfway across Indonesia in search of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In which golden-throated Desmond Howl, the world's biggest rock star, King of the Backseat Fumble, Avatar of the California Sound, who can dash off hit singles the way others write postcards, returns, cleaned up, matured, detoxed...and as weird as ever. Maybe weirder. Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L66

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Includes author's bookmark for this title. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A75

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, in bronze cloth boards, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A77

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author of BOY21, SORTA LIKE A ROCKSTAR, and THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, which was made into an Oscar-winning movie byDavid O. Russell and for which Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L109

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. As new, first edition, first printing,in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} NFB3/ A28/A52

New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ONE TRUE THING, OBJECT LESSONS, THINKING OUT LOUD, BLACK AND BLUE. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L107

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Inc., 2000. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In this first-of-its-kind, insider's look at the powerful, lucrative new world of venture capital, Ruthann Quindlen, the woman who was an early champion of Microsoft and American Online, unveils the names and faces, the deals and the dollars, and the vital role of venture capital in creating companies, jobs, and wealth for the 21st century. CONFESSIONS OF A VENTURE CAPITALIST helps you bypass the most common errors made by start-up entrepreneurs. And it provides everyone, businesspersons and casual readers alike, with an intimate, front-row understanding of how the venture capital economy and Silicon Valley are radically changing the world we all inhabit. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. CC

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 1998. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ONE TRUE THING, OBJECT LESSONS, and THINKING OUT LOUD. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L107

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 2002. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Inc., 1988. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L107

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Random House, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ONE TRUE THING, OBJECT LESSONS, THINKING OUT LOUD, BLACK AND BLUE and others. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND

New York, New York, U.S.A: Random House, Inc., 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ONE TRUE THING, OBJECT LESSONS, THINKING OUT LOUD, BLACK AND BLUE. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L107

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for isolating new radioactive elements. Despite these achievements, or perhaps because of her fame, she has remained a saintly, unapproachable genius. From family documents and a private journal only recently made available, Susan Quinn at last tells the full human story. From the stubborn sixteen-year-old studying science at night while working as a governess, to her romance and scientific partnership with Pierre Curie-an extraordinary marriage of equals-we feel her defeats as well as her successes: her rejection by the French Academy, her unbearable grief at Pierre's untimely and gruesome death, and her retreat into a love affair with a married fellow… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Rayo/Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second novel by the author of BODEGA DREAMS. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L5

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Mulholland Books, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A deadly fall on a rugged stretch of California coast. A home invasion gone wrong in Brittany. No one connects the killings because the victims are living under cover, their true identities closely-held secrets. They are members of America's most select kill/capture team, which combines special operations lethality with CIA tradecraft. They are the last line of defense against foreign threats, and someone is assassinating them one by one where they sleep, taking family and innocent bystanders to make the deaths seem like accidents. Captain John Hayes, a special operations legend, has left the military and spent the past year at home with his family. Once he uncovers the pattern behind the killings, he returns to the field to protect the men and women he once worked with. One of those women, Claire Sutherland, draws suspicion for her brilliant… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1988. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Playwright-in-residence Matthew Prior turns amateur sleuth as the cast members, one by one, begin to die in this refreshingly witty and cleverly plotted mystery debut. Fine tight copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. E