Search Results: Titles starting with A from Zeno's

New York. 1982. Dial Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0803793642. Illustrations by Marc Brown. 32 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Marc Brown. keywords: Children's Books Africa Neur. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This Neur tale tells about Keto who understands animal language, but may not reveal his talent to anyone. The animal conversations he hears make him laugh, and that gets him into trouble. The story provides interesting insights about African family and village life. inventory #8780 ISBN: 0803793642.

New York. 1988. March 1988. Dial Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0803704127. Illustrations by Victoria Chess. unpaginated. hardcover. Cover art by Victoria Chess. keywords: Children's Books Africa Pourquoi Mpongwe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This Pourquoi tale of the Mpongwe explains why talapoins live in trees. King Gorilla finds a barrel of vinegar and decides to use the vinegar to get a strong and powerful husband for his daughter. Will the princess get to marry the gorilla of her dreams? Verna Aardema was a school teacher in Michigan from 1934 to 1973. Her writing is very unique with stories full of expressive animal characters. Many of her books have won various awards. inventory #9961 ISBN: 0803704127.

New York. 1979. Warne. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 072326158x. Illustrations by Diane Stanley Zuromskis. 31 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Diane Stanley Zuromskis. keywords: Children’s Books Africa Ashanti. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and, in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever. inventory #8779 ISBN: 072326158x.

New York. 1919. James A. McCann Publishers. 1st American Edition. Foxing, Otherwise Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. 340 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Western intrigue about an American cowboy, the girl he loves, and a mine he wins in payment of a poker debt full of gold and internationally important chemical substances. inventory #42167

New York. 1988. March 1988. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394558367. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 341 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph & design by Dan Lloyd taylor. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - A novel about the lives of outcasts in modern Japan which addresses such themes as ecological destruction, old age, violence and nuclear war . From PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - Abe's first novel in eight years, an allegorical fantasy at once Kafkaesque, funny and apocalpytic dazzles even when it may confuse. The principal character, nicknamed Mole, has converted a huge underground quarry into an ark capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now in search of his 'crew.' He falls victim, however, to the wiles of his first crew members, a con man-cum-insect dealer and his two shills, one of them a pretty young woman. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by a gang of youths and a… Read More

New York. 1969. Grove Press. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene. 94 pages. hardcover. GP-580. Jacket photograph by Akihisa Kanai. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia Drama. FROM THE PUBLISHER - FRIENDS is a tense drama about the destruction of an individual. The play opens to a popular romantic song- 'Poor broken necklace, where is the breast that warmed you once? When did you leave it, where has it gone? Little lost beads, little lost beads.' A family then enters the apartment of a young man. Without invitation or introduction, they announce that they will save him from his loneliness by living with him and being his friends. This is their life, restringing all the 'little lost beads.' Shocked by this strange invasion, the young man at first tries to reason with them to persuade them to leave; but reason proves as useless against their cheerful madness as it is with the policemen he then calls. Slowly and effectively,… Read More

New York. 2006. March 2006. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0375423656. 275 pages. hardcover. Cover art by the author. keywords: Literature Women Latina Graphic Novel. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This riveting story is inspired by the author's experiences in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to find herself. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, La perdida-at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal-is a story about finding oneself by getting lost. inventory #20668 ISBN: 0375423656.

New York. 1998. August 1998. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684814269. 301 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney. keywords: Mystery Cuban-American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Dead of Night features the return of Charlie Morell, the fierce and impassioned Cuban-American lawyer-and sometime private investigator. Charlie Morell finds himself once again facing a landscape of unrelenting evil cloaked in the mesmerizing rituals of the Afro-Cuban religions santeria and palo mayombe, which summon ancient spiritual powers to the service of its modern-day practitioners. Morell becomes entrapped in the maw of the occult when he promises an old friend of his recently deceased mother that he will search for her missing godson. Morell soon discovers that the godson, Ricardo Diaz, is a priest of palo mayombe who heads a black-magic cult that conducts gruesome ceremonies of torture and human sacrifice. Galvanized by the unspeakable depravities of Diaz and his followers, and… Read More

New York. 1991. September 1991. Crown. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 051758509x. 308 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Michel Delsol. Jacket design by Corsillo/Manzone. keywords: Mystery America Cuba. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this first Cuban-American thriller, the genre is reinvigorated with a stunning, brutally authentic tale of commerce and witchcraft, crime and the law in Hispanic Los Angeles. A story of mysterious sin, love and redemption, THE KILLING OF THE SAINTS explores the hidden life of that great western metropolis and its strange, seductive alliances. Charlie Morell, a court-appointed private investigator, is compelled to take on the case of two Cuban 'marielitos' - followers of the voodoo-like santeria cult - accused of a particularly vicious massacre in a downtown jewelry store. But the ordinary thriller tradition is upended by the crucial role ethnic identity plays in this story. Charlie is himself Cuban, hiding in the city of angels away from his own guilty… Read More

New York. 1991. September 1991. Crown. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 051758509x. 1st Novel. 308 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Michel Delsol. Jacket design by Corsillo/Manzone. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Cuban-American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this first Cuban-American thriller, the genre is reinvigorated with a stunning, brutally authentic tale of commerce and witchcraft, crime and the law in Hispanic Los Angeles. A story of mysterious sin, love and redemption, THE KILLING OF THE SAINTS explores the hidden life of that great western metropolis and its strange, seductive alliances. Charlie Morell, a court-appointed private investigator, is compelled to take on the case of two Cuban 'marielitos' - followers of the voodoo-like santeria cult - accused of a particularly vicious massacre in a downtown jewelry store. But the ordinary thriller tradition is upended by the crucial role ethnic identity plays in this story. Charlie is himself Cuban, hiding in the city of… Read More

Garden City. 1981. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Remainder Spray On Bottom Edge. 0385171587. 404 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Al Nagy. keywords: Literature America Anthology Short Stories. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here is a wonderful retrospective volume drawn from the last ten editions of PRIZE STORIES - a group of splendid stories that appeared during the 1970s. CONTENTS - LEONARD MICHAELS/'Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz'; JUDITH RASCOE/'Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows'; JAMES SALTER/'The Destruction of the Goetheanum'; DONALD BARTHELME/'Subpoena'; JOYCE CAROL OATES/'The Dead'; BERNARD MALAMUD/'Talking Horse'; HAROLD BRODKEY/'His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft; JOHN CHEEVER/'The Jewels of the Cabots'; RENATA ADLER/'Brownstone'; ALICE ADAMS/'Alternatives'; JAMES ALAN McPHERSON/'The Faithful'; RAYMOND CARVER/'Are You a Doctor?'; JOHN SAYLES/'I-80 Nebraska, M.490 -… Read More

Garden City. 1978. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0385128479. 208 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The eighteen stories selected in the 58th annual anthology of the O. Henry Awards - the best in American contemporary short fiction - include contributions from Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Schorer, Robert Henson, Alice Adams, Harold Brodkey, Max Apple, Josephine Jacobsen, and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. And First Prize has been awarded to an imaginative new writer of fiction, none other than actor-director-comedian Woody Allen, for 'The Kugelmass Episode,' a delightful fantasy about a discontented middle-aged man who is offered the chance of a lifetime: an affair with the literary heroine of his choice! With an illuminating introduction by William Abrahams, PRIZE STORIES continues its distinguished tradition of recognizing America's finest literary talent. CONTENTS - Woody Allen/THE KUGELMASS EPISODE; Mark… Read More

Garden City. 1981. Doubleday. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385159773. 309 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Tony Pallandino. keywords: Literature Anthology America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - CONTENTS: CYNTHIA OZICK/'The Shawl'; JOHN IRVING/'Interior Space'; JAMES TABOR/'The Runner; KAY BOYLE/'St. Stephen's Green'; NANCY HUDDLESTON PACKER/'The Women Who Walk'; LEE SMITH/'Between the Lines'; ALICE ADAMS/'Snow'; TOBIAS WOLF/'In the Garden of the North American Martyrs'; SANDRA HOLLIN FLOWERS/'Hope of Zion'; ALICE WALKER/'The Abortion'; JACK MATTHEWS/'The Last Abandonment'; MARIAN NOVICK/'Advent'; W. D. WETHERELL/'The Man Who Loved Levittown'; JOYCE CAROL OATES/'Mutilated Woman'; IVY GOODMAN/'Baby'; BARBARA REID/'The Waltz Dream'; ANNABEL THOMAS/'The Phototropic Woman'; JOHN L'HEUREUX/'Brief Lives in California'; STEVE STERN/'Isaac and the… Read More

Berkeley. 2013. February 2013. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520273757. 6 x 9. 22 b/w photos . 364 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lia Tjandra. keywords: Biography California & the West . FROM THE PUBLISHER - BUILDING HOME is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary success of the savings and loan business in Los Angeles reflects much of the cultural and economic history of Southern California. Finally, it is a personal story, a biography of one of the nation‘s most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy - Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric J. Abrahamson deftly connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson's rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and… Read More

New York. 1965. April 1965. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket . 240 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. keywords: South Africa Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - One night a submarine of a certain nationality surfaced on the dark waters off the coast of South Africa. A man using the name of Richard Nkosi stepped from it into a plastic dinghy and paddled his way to shore. He was the third man to use that name in the service of the underground; the other two were dead. He carried a large sum of money for the movement, which was trying to unite the Indian minority of Natal with the larger African population in their grim struggle against apartheid, even though there was bloody rioting between the two groups. Nkosi's plunge into this caldron of passion and prejudice is the beginning of an intense and exciting manhunt through the cities and the countryside. The totalitarian government quickly learns of his presence, and many individuals find themselves entangled in… Read More

Reading. 1995. Addison Wesley. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 020148319x. Introduction by John Edgar Wideman. 218 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jean Seal. Jacket photograph by Lou Jones. keywords: Black Politics Autobiography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal - including the censored commentaries from NPR - an unflinching account of the brutalities, humiliations and atrocities of prison life. Articulate and compelling, the work is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding capital punishment and freedom of speech. inventory #21262 ISBN: 020148319x.

New York. 1989. October 1989. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0385247303. 188 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Sally Sturman. keywords: Nigeria Africa Literature Essays . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces . From PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - Achebe's powerful critique of Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS as a racist mirror of Eurocentric attitudes leads off this challenging collection of essays on art, literature and social issues. The famed Nigerian novelist (THINGS FALL APART ) views literature as a medium that can help Africa regain a belief in itself to replace a posture of self-abasement instilled by its traumatic historical… Read More

Lincoln. 2017. December 2017. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781496203373. The Mexican experience. 348 pages. paperback. keywords: History Mexico. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects while building the kind of stories around these objects that would give meaning to the nation and teach its people to become citizens. Despite the elevated rhetoric of the museum's founding, the reality of the National Museum of Mexico was far more tumultuous. In From Idols to Antiquity, Miruna Achim explores the origins and development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Despite a lack of space and funds, and the government's habit of using the… Read More

New York. 1998. November 1998. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689806310. 88 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Nina Barnett . keywords: Cuba Latin America Caribbean Women Young Adult. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this companion volume to Alma Flor Ada's WHERE THE FLAME TREES BLOOM, the author offers young readers another inspiring collection of stories and reminiscences drawn from her childhood on the island of Cuba. Through those stories we see how the many events and relationships she enjoyed helped shape who she is today. We learn of a deep friendship with a beloved dance teacher that helped sustain young Alma Flor through a miserable year in school. We meet relatives, like her mysterious Uncle Manolo, whose secret, she later learns, is that he dedicated his life to healing lepers. We share the tragedy of another uncle whose spirited personality leads to his love of flying. and the crash that takes his life. Heartwarming, poignant, and often humorous, this collection… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2017. November 2017. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822965145. Pitt Poetry Series. 80 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. What's most impressive in this powerful book is the female speaker's voice - it's striking because what it says is often unexpected, surprising, and exactly right. - Ed Ochester, judge. Here in Let's All Die Happy we encounter a voice that is insightful, confident, and deliciously specific. In poems of dark domesticity, this book speaks to both the anchoring and erasure that come with mothering: ‘Some weeks/ no one says my first name, no one's/ tongue flicks the last letter out.' It's a remarkable debut. - Maggie Smith. inventory #42129 ISBN: 9780822965145.