Search Results: Titles starting with U from BIAbooks

New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1987. Later printing . Soft cover. Fine. This book ".can be read as a dramatic adventure, a revelation of character, or as a love story. At each level it is a brillant work."--Howard Mosher

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible, pristine book that is"As New". Stone Barrington discovers that some jobs don't pay. "Woods's well-tested formula ensures that the action purrs along fueled by good food, good liquor, good sex, and plenty of wealth."-Publishers Weekly

New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1998. First English Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book protectect by a mylar cover. "Few people can resist a ghost story, and this one by two-time Edgar Award winner Klavan is bewitching. Set in England, with the requisite crumbling abbey haunted by a nun, it concerns a man's demonic quest for eternal life. Klavan updates the old-fashioned ghost story to include a Hollywood producer protagonist, the Nazi theft of some of Europe's best art, and a religious cult."--Library Journal. "Gripping.a modern ghost story.the results are exhilarating."----Chicago Tribune

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book, clean, tight and fresh. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2006 about freight transportation (trucks, ships, towboats, coal trains, air). "McPhee imparts a sense of the special sociology within each transportation mode, drawing from readers both enlightenment and respect."-Booklist

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "A novel of outstanding breadth and originality: almost certainly a masterpiece."--Anita Brookner. "A work of great interest and originality.Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own.frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker. "A brilliant novel that will almost certainly be remembered as one of the best of the decade." --Kirkus

Conway, MI: Conway House, 1969. First Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A FINE, SIGNED, collectable FIRST editon, 6TH PRINTING. This collection of poems Reflects Ellison's keen insight into man's natural heritage and those emotions that constantly give man a haunting memory of his past. ---Conway House

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible, pristine book that is"As New". Stone Barrington goes deep into the rarefied world of European ultra-wealth and privilege, where billionaires rub elbows with spies, insider knowledge is traded at a high premium, and murder is never too high a price to pay for a desired end."Slick...Barrington [is] smooth as silk whether making a multimillion dollar deal, bedding attractive women, or acting heroically."-Publishers Weekly. "A fun new excursion into the world of Stone Barrington...a great addition to the long list of Woods novels."-Midwest Book Review

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shield's supple prose, This is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing that proves the author's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for 'Unless', her last novel. She died in 2003.A very attractive first edition.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shield's supple prose, This is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing that proves the author's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for 'Unless', her last novel. She died in 2003.A very attractive first edition.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shield's supple prose, This is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing that proves the author's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for 'Unless', her last novel. She died in 2003.A very attractive first edition.

New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST novel. "An authentic, witty, and uncustomary voice--a sharp-eyed and funny revelation of prvilage and pain."--Alice Munro. "I love Juloe Hecht's writing. She sees the horribleness and beauty of our daily lives better than anyone else, her humor is deadpan, wild, and sibylline."--Ian Frazier

Portland, OR: Tin House, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine book with No flaws. "Fuller explores the painful realities of poverty and social isolation with immense sensitivity in this multilayered and emotionally astute novel." ? The Guardian. "Revelatory. . . . a powerful, beautiful novel."? The Times (UK). Winner of the 2021 Costa Novel Award.Finalist for the Women's Prize in Fiction.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book.The author has won the Booker Prize twice. 'Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin.Carey is an absolute master of language and of storytelling."--Tom Keneally.

New York: Grove Press, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. This is an exquisite debut novel about a family in turmoil, after the sudden death of the mother. Told in the startling, deeply affecting voice of a nine-year-old, autistic boy. In spare and gorgeous prose buoyed by the life force of its small, fearless narrator, Up High in the Trees introduces an astonishingly fresh and powerful literary voice.---GP

New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2016. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A PRISTINE, collectible book. Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. "Uniting essays from Oliver's previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet's thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . . With each page, the book gains accumulative power. The various threads intertwine and become taut." -The New York Times

New York: Weisbach Morrow, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. Weisbach Morrow NY 1998 Fine/Fine, Book in excellent cond. Gold DJ some wear on front cover.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book preserved in a mylar cover. Author is a past recepient of the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Agatha Award. Thriller about a school bus held captive by a cult of religious fanatics.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Author. Signed first edition of this highly acclaimed author's first novel. One page has very slight wrinkle.

New York: Random House, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.