Search Results: Authors starting with G from Zeno's

Victoria. 2021. 9/15/2021. Medicine Wheel Education. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781989122693. 40 pages. paperback. keywords: Children's Books Native American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It's been said that when teachings are passed down from one generation to the next, good things can happen. Language is learned, knowledge is shared and culture is practiced. In this story of language preservation, author/illustrator and Anishnaabemowin language teacher Juliana Armstrong illuminates a number of Anishnaabemowin words along with their cultural connections, passed down from her Ojibway ancestors. inventory #46618 ISBN: 9781989122693.

New York. 1970. World Publishing Company. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Edited by Margerie Lowry. 338 pages. hardcover. Designed by Jacqueline Schuman. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA is a novel by Malcolm Lowry and edited by his widow Margerie Bonner. It was posthumously published in 1970. OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA is an existential love story featuring the Lowry-like character, Ethan Lleweyllen, and his wife in their never fully consummated journey to Gabriola, an island near Vancouver in British Columbia. The themes: Living, loving, drinking, travel mysticism, and literature in the 1940s. inventory #5356

Ft. Lauderdale. 2021. Quick Reference Publishing. Reprinted Edition. Very Good. 6 Double-Sided Laminated Card Pages . 9781943334001. 12 laminated pages. folding guide. item # 238. keywords: Night Sky . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This informative guide is an excellent introduction to the stars, constellations and nebulae that make up the visible sky at night. Nearly two-thirds of Americans no longer live in a place where the Milky Way, our home galaxy, is visible after dark. This guide not only shows you when it is visible, but also describes its major features and where to travel in order to see it. The guide contains three maps showing the evening sky four months apart, covering the entire year. Major stars and constellations are shown in each along with the position of the Milky Way. Information is given for how to spot these features during the night and any time of year. A fourth map highlights specific details of the summer Milky Way, the most spectacular sight anyone can see without need of a… Read More

New York. 1950. December 1950. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 189 pages. paperback. 825. keywords: Literature America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - REMBERED LOVE. ‘Why is it,' Gavin Stevens said, ‘that people of eighteen or almost - are so convinced that octogenarians like me are incapable of accepting or respecting or even remembering what the young ones consider passion and love?' Hopelessly in love with a woman who had contracted two misbegotten alliances, Gavin Stevens, in his forties, suddenly finds himself controlling the destinies of his sweetheart, her lover, and her two children, in the suspense-filled story, KNIGHT'S GAMBIT. William Faulkner is called by critics, our greatest living writer, our only genius.' Born in, New Albany, Mississippi, he has spent mast of his life around Oxford, Mississippi, the Jefferson of so many of his books and stories. Of his eighteen books, millions of copies have been… Read More

Grand Rapids. 1991. Masters Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0940279355. Foreword by Ernie Harwell. 303 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph: collection of Charles Monfort. Back flap photograph: Pearce Klevan. Jacket design: Anne Shuart. Jacket photograph: AdoIfo 'Dolf'Luque, Cuban pitcher who won 27 games with Cincinnati in 1923 and 193 games in the major leagues, poses with. keywords: Baseball Latin America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Some of the finest ballplayers in the history of Major League Baseball have hailed from Latin America. Their names are etched in our memories: superstar Roberto Clemente, high-kicking ace right-hander Juan Marichal, sluggers Orlando Cepeda and Tony Perez, colorful Luis Tiant, pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela, and speedsters Bert Campaneris and Luis Aparicio. Others, such as Hector Espino, whose dignity and principles kept him in Mexico, and Martin Dihigo, whose color barred him from the major leagues, have remained outside the… Read More

New York. 1978. Viking Press. 1st Edition. Very Small Yellow Mark At Top Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 0670166677. 282 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany political boss's son. inventory #20130 ISBN: 0670166677.

Norman. 1994. University Of Oklahoma Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0806126647. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration - 'Melting retreat' by Veloy Vigil. Jacket design by Cathy Carney Imboden. keywords: Literature American Indian . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Bone Game, Louis Owens's compelling new novel, dreams and waking life, past and present, ghosts and living people echo each other and lock in conflict. From the moment we read that a Spanish priest was murdered in 1812 and that the dismembered pieces of a young woman are beginning to wash ashore in 1993 - both in Santa Cruz - we know that something is profoundly wrong in the too-beautiful California town. Cole McCurtain is at Bone Game's uneasy, dreaming center. Now a mixed-blood professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, Cole is haunted by dreams of the murdered priest, a rearing grizzly bear, a black-and-white painted Indian who offers bones in his extended hands. In his waking life Cole moves through… Read More

New York. 2010. Harper. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780061733635. 448 pages. hardcover. keywords: Politics Presidency 2008 America Obama Clinton Palin McCain. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'This s*** would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it.'--Barack Obama, September 2008. In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton--and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obamas partner and Americas face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines has yet been told. In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the countrys leading political reporters,… Read More

New York. 1973. March 1973. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394483162. 218 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Hal Siegel. keywords: Literature America Boston. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With all his brilliance of suspense, verisimilitude, and ‘dialogue so authentic it spits,' George V. Higgins floodlights the murky area of the city - his setting once more is Boston - where the borders between legitimate and criminal enterprise vanish in a fog of greed, and violence is just around the corner. This is how a slick (Beacon Street) setup like the Regent Sportsmen's Club, Inc., works. It's an air charter operation: package tours to top casinos. What its clients - respectable businessmen hooked on gambling - don't know is that in addition to the front man, a seemingly respectable ex-stockbroker, one of the partners is a Mafia connection and the third, put in by the Mob, is ‘the Greek,' the loan shark who… Read More

New York. 1997. October 1997. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684847183. 319 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by John Weiman. Signed by the Author With A Stamp That Reads 'Believe'. keywords: Mystery America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Joe Crow has hit rock bottom. First, he misplaces his girlfriend overseas and can't even find her phone number. Then, he loses his nest egg in Las Vegas. And to top it all off, he burns out his Jaguar and ends up in a screaming yellow Pontiac GTO, feeling not at all like the man he wants to be. This is all dismaying enough to make Joe think about giving up the gambling life. Joe had gotten on the bad side of his father's best friend, Axel Speeter. This happened when he unwittingly introduced Axel's almost-daughter, Carmen Roman, to Hyatt Hilton, a one-time coke dealer who claims to be walking the straight and narrow these days. Axel, who's always been suspicious of Hyatt, makes it clear that Joe had better make sure… Read More

Lincoln. 2017. September 2017. University of Nebraska Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780803295889. 328 pages. hardcover. keywords: Sports Basketball Jewish Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the 2015-16 NBA season, the Jewish presence in the league was largely confined to Adam Silver, the commissioner; David Blatt, the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers; and Omri Casspi, a player for the Sacramento Kings. Basketball, however, was once referred to as a Jewish sport. Shortly after the game was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it spread throughout the country and became particularly popular among Jewish immigrant children in northeastern cities because it could easily be played in an urban setting. Many of basketball's early stars were Jewish, including Shikey Gotthoffer, Sonny Hertzberg, Nat Holman, Red Klotz, Dolph Schayes, Moe Spahn, and Max Zaslofsky. In this oral history collection, Douglas Stark chronicles Jewish basketball throughout the twentieth century,… Read More

New York. 2007. January 2007. Harper Collins. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780061130359. 916 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Crush Design & Art Direction. keywords: Literature India. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Set in present-day Mumbai, SACRED GAMES tells the story of a notorious Hindu gangster and a police inspector whose lives unfold and eventually intersect with cataclysmic consequences. Reaching back in time to Partition and bringing to vivid life a profusion of characters and milieus, Chandra's extraordinary work depicts India with an unsurpassed richness of detail: its complexity and violence, the worlds of the poor and the wealthy, the heroes of Bollywood movies and the striving of human beings from every walk of life. As the story unfolds with surprising twists at every turn, the great game takes shape, confounding everyone's expectations. Winning is an illusion, and characters powerful and humble find themselves mere pawns, struggling to regain control of their… Read More

Santa Cruz. 1974. Green Horse One. 1st American Edition.One Thousand copies printed by Wesley Tanner, Berkeley. Very Good in Wrappers. Translated from the Spanish by William Greenwood. 55 pages. paperback. Cover: Drawing by Robert Baldock. keywords: Poetry Translated Latin America Guatemala Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - An epidemic strikes a nameless western city. No one is immune. Like any other disease, it is invisible. We see only the symptom: paleness. We have become the diagnosticians and the disease isn't hard to guess. It is a clarity that comes by surprise, the clarity of having illusions stripped away. Here disease is the first sign of possible health. In his poetry Arqueles Morales takes great pains to expose illusion. His own life becomes a laboratory in which he questions and searches. One of the first illusions he breaks down is the attitude that the self can be separated from the world in which it lives. Public events can be the terms of inner life. These poems were written… Read More

London. 1960. Heinemann. 1st British Edition. Very Small Bookseller Stamp On Bottom Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket . 208 pages. hardcover. keywords: Mystery Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The inimitable Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must penetrate a close-knit group of hard-drinking Irishmen to find the killer of a government officer, who was looking for illicit ‘stills.' inventory #13744

New York. 1995. Fireside Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671892460. 80 pages. paperback. Cover design by Mary Bess Engel. keywords: Nature Butterflies Gardening. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Plan a colorful paradise for butterflies in your garden by planting and maintaining the kinds of flowers, shrubs, trees, and other plants that these fluttering beauties will find irresistible. This lovely and practical guide offers a variety of garden plans designed to attract butterflies, and helps you select plants for different stages in their lives, from food plants for caterpillars to nectar plants for adults. As these gorgeous visitors flock to your fragrant garden, you'll enjoy referring to the butterfly identifier included in Creating a Butterfly Garden. From detailed gardening information to fascinating facts on the life cycles of these winged creatures, here is everything you need to know to let a butterfly sanctuary blossom in your backyard. inventory #38083 ISBN: 0671892460.

New York. 1993. Fireside Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671892452. 80 pages. paperback. Cover design by Mary Bess Engel. keywords: Nature Hummingbirds Gardening. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Turn your garden into a glorious haven for hummingbirds. Here are the basics on planning, planting, and maintaining a beautiful outdoor space that will lure these tiny creatures and give you hours of gardening pleasure. This charmingly illustrated volume provides a variety of garden plans, including essential information on hardiness zones, soil conditions, and sun and shade preferences, and is packed with facts on the lives and habits of hummingbirds. When your winged guests linger in your garden, you'll delight in consulting the hummingbird identifier in Creating a Hummingbird Garden. Here is everything you need to know to attract hummingbirds, from their favorite flowers to instructions for making hummingbird feeders. inventory #38091 ISBN: 0671892452.

Kenmore. 2019. July 2019. Camel Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781603817233. 5 x 8. 218 pages. paperback. keywords: Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Congressional staffer and amateur sleuth Kit Marshall hopes to reconnect with her hippie-turned-techie brother, but the reunion gets complicated when the body of a high-ranking government official is found at the United States Botanic Garden. Solving the crime becomes a family affair as Kit and her posse set out to identify the killer and unravel the complicated motive behind the murder. inventory #46771 ISBN: 9781603817233.

New York. 1984. April 1984. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374169829. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 250 pages. hardcover. Photo (c) 1984 by Joyce Ravid. Jacket design (c) 1984 by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Translated Cuba Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Heberto Padilla's frankly autobiographical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state the power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and women lost in the somber turn of the tide. A web of people-writers and writers manquë, sociologists and philosophers, bureaucrats and spiritualists-struggle to maintain some semblance of individualism in a system that is everywhere resistant to the individual. Nostalgic, erotic, political, and literary dreams form a counterplot, especially for the two central characters, Julio and… Read More

New York. 1984. April 1984. Farrar Straus Giroux. Proof Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 0374169829. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 250 pages. paperback. Photo (c) 1984 by Joyce Ravid. Jacket design (c) 1984 by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature Translated Latin America Cuba . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Heberto Padilla's frankly autobiographical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state the power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and women lost in the somber turn of the tide. A web of people-writers and writers manquë, sociologists and philosophers, bureaucrats and spiritualists-struggle to maintain some semblance of individualism in a system that is everywhere resistant to the individual. Nostalgic, erotic, political, and literary dreams form a counterplot, especially for the two central characters, Julio and… Read More

Berkeley. 2014. August 2014. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520277779. 6 x 9. 46. 314 pages. paperback . keywords: Anthropology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred interviews with a wide range of people including suburban homeowners, paid Mexican immigrant gardeners, professionals at the most elite botanical garden in the West, and immigrant community gardeners in the poorest neighborhoods of inner-city Los Angeles, this book offers insights into the ways that… Read More