Search Results: Titles starting with O from BIAbooks

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. An attractive book with NO DJ. Slight rubbing at corners. Text block and endpapers like new, fresh, clean and bright.Bound in gray cloth over boards with dark blue patterned paper sides, gray endpapers, spine titled in silver. Book presents 15 fifteen poems whose subjects range from dragons and chameleons to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. The Author's FIRST novel is "an acute observer of family relationships,is discerning and skillful as a writer of fiction.This absorbing novel will draw comparisons with the work of Mary Gordon, but Quindlen is a writer with her own voice and finely honed perceptions."--Publishers Weekly. An ownership label on the free endpaper is the only flaw associated with this remarkable book. Keywords: IRISH ITALIAN FAMILIES NINETEEN SIXTIES SUBURBAN LIFE TEENAGER COMING-OF-AGE

New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This stunning FIRST novel ".fascinates as it examines and illuminates the ways in which love, friendship, and history both refract and reflect human truth. The best novels pack both an emotional and intellectual wallop. Weber's is one."---Wally Lamb. Book is in pristine condition and appears UNREAD. Keywords: WEBER AMERICANS ARTISTS FICTION FRIENDSHIP GENEVA SWITZERLAND LOVE AFFAIR TRAVEL YOUNG WOMEN FIRST DEBUT

New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This stunning FIRST novel ".fascinates as it examines and illuminates the ways in which love, friendship, and history both refract and reflect human truth. The best novels pack both an emotional and intellectual wallop. Weber's is one."---Wally Lamb. Book is in pristine condition and appears UNREAD. Keywords: WEBER AMERICANS ARTISTS FICTION FRIENDSHIP GENEVA SWITZERLAND LOVE AFFAIR TRAVEL YOUNG WOMEN FIRST DEBUT

New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Hailed as no less than a tour de force, this book is a DEBUT novel of immense originality, a strangely haunting landscape, that is Observatory Mansions a magnificent ancestral home now a crumbling apartment block, now occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters. "Edward Carey has an imagination of tremendous range and power.This is a novel of truly startling originality."--Patrick McGrath

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. A pristine book. "Savy scholarship marked by wit, compassion, fervor and sensitivity.an ambitious discussion of hindrances to excellence in women's art, .a welcome example of keen intelligence comfortably wedded to emotion."--Joanna Frueh, The Chicago Sun-Times

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book about the last season of the Yankee baseball dynasty and the fascinating account of the electrifying World Series between the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals against the background of profound social change. A very handsome book.

New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book about the last season of the Yankee baseball dynasty and the fascinating account of the electrifying World Series between the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals against the background of profound social change. A very handsome book.

New York: Harcourt Inc., 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Winner of the Hackney literary award for FIRST NOVEL. "A memorable protrait of a tormented family whose strength is the essence of the novel--the struggle of parents and children to discover how to find a way to give thier love."--Frederick Busch.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Edith Grossman. This is the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent to oversee her exorcism. "Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez writes with his usual inventiveness, but over the years his prose style has crystallized and condensed. The result is a tale whose sharp social retort is made all the louder by the luminous, uncluttered telling. Highly recommended."---Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Edith Grossman. This is the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent to oversee her exorcism. "Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez writes with his usual inventiveness, but over the years his prose style has crystallized and condensed. The result is a tale whose sharp social retort is made all the louder by the luminous, uncluttered telling. Highly recommended."---Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2007. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Of Song and Water tells a tale of the Great Lakes, of singlehanded sailors and jazz musicians, of working-class dreams blighted by family duty, personal betrayals, and the untold violence between fathers and sons.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Apristine book. In Green Bay, Wisconsin?here vividly realized and imagined?Bea Maxwell comes of age in the fifties, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives, through their frustrations and occasional successes, well toward old age. A story of family and friends, of change and many generations, it gathers itself around this remarkable woman, who discovers much about the world from her experience in the one place she has always belonged.--AAK

New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A Pristine, Collectible book. The last book written by Mr. Uris .A post Civil War era novel. A riveting, sweeping tale in inimitable Uris style, O'Hara's Choice is this master of the historical novel at his most brilliant. "Bloody battles well done, much excellent period writing ..." Kirkus Reviews. "A spellbinding storyteller." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Author's FIRST B.F. Hopper Mystery has Hopper on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting a Buddhist sect in Colorado. This book is filled with colorful characters and laced with sharp wit, is a fast-paced, hard edged beggining to the B.F. Hopper saga. Book appears UNREAD.

New Milford, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Collectible book. 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with red lettering on spine over black boards, illustrated throughout by the author-artist, red endpapers,130 pages with deckled edges + [2] blanks + [2] Reflections by the Author. Mordecai Gerstein (1935 - 2019) was an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing more than 40 children's and YA books. He became a Caldecott winner (2004). The Old Country is at once timeless and contemporary-a tale that draws on a wealth of storytelling tradition and dramatizes the question of what it is to be human.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An excellent book. "Kidder, author of the Pulitzer Prize [ & National Book Award] winning 'The Soul of a New Machine' , spent a year observing the residents of Linda Manor, a 121-bed nursing home in Northampton, Mass. He offers respectful, moving portraits of elderly people confronting their decaying minds and bodies and imminent deaths as they go about their daily routines in a facility that for most of them will be, as Kidder notes, "their last place on earth."--Publishers Weekly. "Touching, funny and inspiring." -- The New York Times

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2009. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. DR. A pristine NEW book, SIGNED by the author. "David Updike does himself and his late father, John proud with his second collection, Old Girlfriends these 10 ruminative stories set in New England sport a winning sense of whimsy, quiet surprise, and fresh, frank sensuality."--Elle Magazine. "David Updike's stories are wonderful -- small enough that you are startled by the compressed, strong emotion, expansive in what they suggest about taking a stand, taking a chance, living a meaningful life. "--Ann Beattie