Search Results: Titles starting with A from BIAbooks

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First Edition, Third Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cut to bottom front corner of DJ, some rubbing at top near hinge, else fine. "The originality and fun spilling over in Hornby's acclaimed debut, High Fidelity (1995), run deep and strong through this second novel, as a playboy pretends he's a single dad so he can date single moms. this has the right mix of hilarity and irrepressible characters to attract a wide audience: an upbeat, unqualified success."-- Kirkus Reviews

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Slight cut to top of DJ at spine, else fine. SIGNED First American edition of Hornby's second novel, the source for the successful movie of the same name starring Hugh Grant "The originality and fun spilling over in Hornby's acclaimed debut, High Fidelity (1995), run deep and strong through this second novel, as a playboy pretends he's a single dad so he can date single moms. this has the right mix of hilarity and irrepressible characters to attract a wide audience: an upbeat, unqualified success."-- Kirkus Reviews

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "What a wicked joy it is to welcome.Perrotta's extraordinary novel.Bracingly tender.at once suspenseful, ruefully funny, and ultimately generous."--The NY Times Book Review

New York, NY: Random House, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Pristine, SIGNED, PIRST PRINTING, Collectible book. "Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner alive." -Aleksandar Hemon

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book written by former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore author of the THE FRENCH CONNECTION.

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by both authors. A fine, clean, neat hardcover first edition, first printing. A novel about the first American pope, with co-writer Robin Moore (French Connection, Green Berets).

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2007. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's FIRST book. A deftly observed social comedy, ADDLED is a rich and riotous story of old money, new ideas, and the power of passion to disrupt even the most orderly of worlds. "With a delightfully wacky sense of humor and a subtle use of metaphor, Hart delivers a story of transformation. The lure of romance, rejuvenation at midlife, and the joys of creativity are all given their due in a first novel that is both very funny and very moving."-- Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist

New York: Random House, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, SIGNED book. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Number line is "24689753" no First Edition stated. The interior is pristine but has a slight indentation on bottom right corner. Jacket is clean, crisp, but has slight tear at edges. Signed by Chabon, with a small key drawn above his last name, at the bottom of title page. A "towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book" (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon's "magnum opus" (The New York Review of Books),

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, collectible book that appears UNREAD. Inscribed by the author. Presented in a archival cover. B/W photos. Mr. Harden was Bureau Chief for Sub-Sahaaran Africa for the Washington Post. "This is an extraordinary and frightening book.evokes with passion, argument, and fabulous stories the destruction of Africa. a tour de force"- William Shawcross

Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's second novel that speaks compellingly about the most vital and meaningful moments of our lives, those often disguised as ordinary family life. A young woman's sentimental journey home becomes one of self-discovery. A very attractive book.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book with discreet owners imprint on front endpaper. Chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eight best books of 1996, 'After Rain' presents a collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered stories that plumb the depths of the human heart. "Short fiction at its finest."--San Francisco Chronicle.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. An attractive book with a closed tear on top of DJ at spine. Looks great in a clear plastic cover. " A book of transformative powers. As May Sarton's journal chronicles her battles for life and health, we learn about the complex layers of her courage.passionate, spontaneous, moving.revealing May Sarton to be one of the great spirits of our time."--Valerie Miller

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2006. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible, Pristine book., "It is hard to know how to start piling on the praise for this gripping, poignant book. It would seem there is no technique of fiction McDermott has not mastered. Like the masters, she makes it look effortless." ---Chicago Tribune . "From its opening sentence -- a woman leaving a church in midtown Manhattan, in post- World War II America -- Alice McDermott's exquisite sixth novel unfolds in unhurried splendor, its pace so exacting you can feel the sting of sand in a high city wind."--Boston Globe.

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. It is hard to know how to start piling on the praise for this gripping, poignant book. It would seem there is no technique of fiction McDermott has not mastered. Like the masters, she makes it look effortless." ---Chicago Tribune . "From its opening sentence -- a woman leaving a church in midtown Manhattan, in post- World War II America -- Alice McDermott's exquisite sixth novel unfolds in unhurried splendor, its pace so exacting you can feel the sting of sand in a high city wind."--Boston Globe. Minor rubbing on two corners with a mild wrinkle on top of front panel of DJ, else fine.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine collectible book. 'An understated and quietly vigorous novel, convincing, absorbing, and unexpectedly powerful".--Time Literary Supplement. "A rich and absorbing study of a German family which spans two world wars."--Evening Standard

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. First annotated, critical edition, edited and with an introduction by Alan Jacobs. Bright, clean & tight copy. "When it was first published in 1947, THE AGE OF ANXIETY--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world. "[Auden's] most significant piece of work. . . . We have in W. H. Auden a master musician of rhythm and note, unable to be dull, in fact an enchanter, under the magic of indigenous gusto . . . . The Age of Anxiety assures us that fear and lust have, in faith and purity, a cure so potent we need never know panic or be defeated by Self."---Marianne Moore, New York Times

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An immaculate book. "The luminous novella and stories in "The Age of Grief" explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of A Thousand Acres". "This is a book that will last and last." ---The Philadelphia Inquirer

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book that provides a collection of 16 short stories " For many years Ellen Gilchrist has been one of our finest writers. 'The Age of Miracles' is her best book yet. Its comedy, irony, sexuality, inwardness, and sadness, all of it undergirded by a brave and funny sensibility, convince me anew that her work is in the first rank of American fiction today."--Willie Morris

New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book from this GRANTA author. Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story In a series of episodic vignettes of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who are just passing through. Ali's characters are profoundly sympathetic. Her understanding of their dreams, desires, and disappointments is rare and moving. Alentejo Blue is evidence that Monica Ali is one of the most gifted voices of her generation. "These stories are absorbing and beautiful. . . . legitimately gripping and lovely prose." -- Baltimore Sun

New York: Ballantine Books, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Rare-book dealer is pursued to reveal the the lost Library of Alexandria. At stake is an explosive ancient document with the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to shake the world's three major religions to their very foundations.