Search Results: Titles starting with G from BIAbooks

New York: Times Books (Random House), 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dorothy Leech. A very attractive book that appears UNREAD. "Sheer etymological garden fun. Barnette begins with the flower's name and immediately jumps off the neat garden path into the wild underbrush of mythology, history, folk tales and scientific investigation."----Linda Yang, The New York Times Book Review

New York: Viking, 2006. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book, flawless. Second crime fiction novel featuring, barrister turned monk, Father Anselm. 'THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD held me spellbound and fascinated. It is something of a tour de force.' Christina Hardyment, The Times. 'Ultimately superior murder mystery' --Daily Mirror

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2009. First Edition/First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, NEW, SIGNED novel. Selected as NYTimes Ten Best for 2009."[A] luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel. . . Moore¿s graceful prose considers serious emotional and political issues with low-key clarity and poignancy. . . generous flashes of wit endow this stellar novel with great heart."--Publishers Weekly. "This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore¿s most ambitious book to date, textured, beguiling, and wise."--Book Browse

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2009. First Edition/First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, NEW, SIGNED novel. Selected as NYTimes Ten Best for 2009."[A] luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel. . . Moore¿s graceful prose considers serious emotional and political issues with low-key clarity and poignancy. . . generous flashes of wit endow this stellar novel with great heart."--Publishers Weekly. "This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore¿s most ambitious book to date, textured, beguiling, and wise."--Book Browse

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. A pristine, NEW, SIGNED novel. Selected as NYTimes Ten Best for 2009."[A] luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel. . . Moore¿s graceful prose considers serious emotional and political issues with low-key clarity and poignancy. . . generous flashes of wit endow this stellar novel with great heart."--Publishers Weekly. "This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore¿s most ambitious book to date, textured, beguiling, and wise."--Book Browse

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A bright, crisp, clean book. "Vicki COvington has the courage to write with tenderness, the wit to keep her characters close to the heart.is an achieved work full of loveliness and restrained tension." --Louise Erdrich

New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The Author, a previous winner of the National Book Critics Award and the William Faulkner Award, has produced a continuation of 'A Long and Happy Life' a story of Rosa and Wesley Beaver's marriage. First edition of Reynolds Price's third novel. Text is clean, bright and fresh. DJ is price-clipped, some edge wear, two small closed tears along edge, minor fraying at crown.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. This book is in pristine condition and appears UNREAD. In Genesis, Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind. "Crace may be the most original and interesting of living British writers." --Richard Eder, The New York Times

New York: Harmony Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. This is an emotionally powerful, poetic novel about a woman's struggle with the complexities of modern romance and the conflicting impluses of her heart and her mind. A pristine book. Appears UNREAD.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. Master storyteller Stephen King presents this classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller. When a game of seduction between a husband and wife ends in death, the nightmare has only begun.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable. Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful to never overstep his bounds and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. A story of a forbidden love lost, and the way outsiders conform and the price they pay for it. A pristine book.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable. Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful to never overstep his bounds and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. A story of a forbbidden love lost, and the way outsiders conform and the price they pay for it. A pristine book.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable. Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful to never overstep his bounds and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. A story of a forbbidden love lost, and the way outsiders conform and the price they pay for it. A pristine book.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Inch tear along top corner, front of dlj. "A Gesture Life" is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen, who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable. Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful to never overstep his bounds and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. A story of a forbidden love lost, and the way outsiders conform and the price they pay for it.

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Previous owner's signature on endpaper. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2004, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2005, and Nominated for Pen/Faulkner for Fiction, 2005. "It is religious, somewhat essayistic and fiercely calm. Gilead is a beautiful work -- demanding, grave and lucid." --- The New York Times. "So serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it."--Washington Post

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Moderate wear on corners of DJ, else fine. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2004, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2005, and Nominated for Pen/Faulkner for Fiction, 2005. "It is religious, somewhat essayistic and fiercely calm. Gilead is a beautiful work -- demanding, grave and lucid." --- The New York Times. "So serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it."--Washington Post

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's FIRST novel. "¿Lisa Glatt's novel with its brilliant array of female characters, does the near-impossible-it says something true about all women. This is the most honest book I've ever read about the complex relationship between women and their bodies-how they use them, and how they are betrayed by them."--Susan Perabo ---Keywords: FICTION GLATT PARENT ADULT CHILD MOTHERS DAUGHTERS BREAST CANCER

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. This is the second book in the trilogy by Stieg Larsson, featuring the morally ruthless and socially dysfunctional genius Lisbeth Salander. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. Date on bottom of back flap of DJ is 8/2009.

New York: Little Brown & Co, 2008. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "[An] amusing debut. Crouch's portrayal of a young woman's self-sabotage and the pitfalls facing young women in a cold world is wise, wry and heartbreaking." (Publisher's Weekly ) "A page-turner by every account, Girls in Trucks blends steamy scenes and heartbreak with an infectious, dreamlike prose, to deliver a graceful work of literature--not to be read while wearing white lace gloves!" (#1 BookSense Pick April 2008 )

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. A pristine book that has a deft two line gift inscription at top edge of front free endpaper, else fine. Ranging across a uniquely American landscape, from rural Idaho and suburban Arizona to downtown Boston, these eleven stories explore with painful lyricism the harsh awakenings of adolescence: eroticism and hypocrisy, love and violence, responsibility and guilt, adult inconstancy and the random cruelty of life and death. "Melanie Rae Thon belts out her short stories in a tone and style reminiscent of classic blues singers. The reader is swept along not only by Ms. Thon's remarkable characterizations but also by the taut, magic current of her prose, which carries an exhilarating rhythmic punch." -- The New York Times Book Review. Winner of a 1997 Whiting Writers'Award. One of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists