Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004
ISBN 10: 0374430896 ISBN 13: 9780374430894
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Becoming a writer the hard wayIn the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos - once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell - moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of his life. Hole in My Life is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001
ISBN 10: 0374368821 ISBN 13: 9780374368821
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Potter, Giselle (illustrator). First Edition. Never has being shy seemed so rewarding!Whether she's impersonating Elvis, swaggering like Captain Hook, or imitating the sounds of a cricket, Violet is expressive and funny -- but only when she's alone or with her best friend, Opal. At school, especially around class bully Irwin, who teases her nonstop, she retreats into a shell of shyness. But when Irwin, playing the part of Planet Mars in the class play, begins to spin wildly out of control and threatens to ruin the entire production, it's Violet who saves the day -- managing not only to give Irwin his comeuppance but to find her own unique way of surviving the spotlight.Illustrations brimming with humor and charm add to the fun in this fresh take on overcoming shyness.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004
ISBN 10: 0374375550 ISBN 13: 9780374375553
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Biswas, Pulak (illustrator). First Edition. Catch this tigerAs he wanders from shore to field, a scaredy-cat tiger suddenly finds himself up a tree. "Get him! Net him! Tie him tight!" the local villagers say. But once they capture him, the villagers make a surprising decision about what to do with him - and soon the tiger is off and running again.Young readers can follow this simple, spunky adventure through vivacious verse, glowing orange-and-black pictures, and typography that soars right along with the tiger and his pursuers.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374189870 ISBN 13: 9780374189877
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.
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ISBN 10: 0374299617 ISBN 13: 9780374299613
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and The Verificationist presents a series of observations about the state of consciousness as it is altered by memories, fantasies, and alcoholism, in a portrait of the author's family that partially comes to terms with the nature of addiction and the limitations of self-healing.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 2002
ISBN 10: 0374106770 ISBN 13: 9780374106775
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The English debut of one of Spain's most dazzling younger writers -- a postmodern murder mystery set in ancient Greece.In this brilliant, highly entertaining, and intriguing novel, Jose Carlos Somoza intertwines two darkly compelling riddles, forcing us to confront the ways in which we interpret reality.In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas," to investigate. As the death toll rises, the two men find themselves drawn into the dangerous underworld of the Athenian aristocracy, risking their own lives to solve the riddle of these young men's deaths. Simultaneously, a second plot unfolds: that of the modern-day translator of the ancient text, who, as he proceeds with his work, becomes convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning in the text, one that can be interpreted through certain repeated words and images. As the story advances, however, the translator is alarmed to discover references to himself, which seem to address him personally in an increasingly menacing fashion.An original and unsettling literary mystery, The Athenian Murders introduces a beguiling new talent to an American readership.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374225524 ISBN 13: 9780374225520
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her rootsand the roots of life as we know itWhen Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959). It has never gone out of print.Back then, this was uncharted territory and little was known about our human origins. Today, our beginnings are better understood. And after a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.As she displayed in her bestseller, The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we dont usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is knowledge, not objects, that endure over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom.The Old Way is a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of seven books, nonfiction and fictionamong them The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Harmless People, and Reindeer Moon. She has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and lives in New Hampshire. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for fifteen thousand centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959), a book that is still in print. The history of mankind that most of us know is only the tip of the iceberg, a brief stint compared to fifteen thousand centuries of life as roving clans that seldom settled down adapted every day to changes in environment and food supply, and lived for the most part like the animal ancestors from which they evolved. Those origins are not so easily abandoned, Thomas suggests, and our wired, documented, and market-driven society has plenty to learn from the Bushmen of the Kalahari about human evolution. As she displayed in The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . . The Old Way is not only a timely work, but also a timeless onea last look back before we decide how to go forward."Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . . The Old Way is not only a timely work, but also a timeless onea last look back before we decide how to go forward."Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review "It is fascinating to see how Thomas has honed her observational powers over the year . . . and how her notion of 'culture' has broadened."Los Angeles Times "With a perspective honed over the intervening 50-odd years . . . Thomas captures the fascinating customs of a people that had no future as a tribe."The Daily News "A fascinating and rewarding read . . . Marshall proves again and again the full humanity and astonishing sophistication of a people so 'primitive' that she offers them as a link to our earliest Paleolithic forebears, the first humans."Chauncey Mabe, The San Diego Union-Tribune "Part memoir, part anthropolog.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1988
ISBN 10: 0374520925 ISBN 13: 9780374520922
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reissue. Tom Wolfe offers observations and speculations about American life, providing insight into trends in art; sex, crime, and salvation; New York City; and the attitudes of intellectuals.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982
ISBN 10: 0374126313 ISBN 13: 9780374126315
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374220735 ISBN 13: 9780374220730
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A culinary memoir recollects the strange, good, and terrible dramas of the author's life and places them in the context of the realm of food, from childhood mud pies and bridal dinners to the experiments created during an affair.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
ISBN 10: 0374283540 ISBN 13: 9780374283544
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reignBetween 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build.The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. The Ruling Caste is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993
ISBN 10: 0374166013 ISBN 13: 9780374166014
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Essays reprinted from "Grant's Interest Rate Observer" explore developments in the world of finance during the past ten years.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994
ISBN 10: 0374444730 ISBN 13: 9780374444730
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Agee, Jon (illustrator). Reprint. What do Adam, Napoleon, and Agee have in common? Their bond is the palindrome, that peculiar marvel of language when words or sentences read the same forward and backward. But Adam (Madam, I'm Adam) and Napoleon (Able was I ere I saw Elba) are credited with only one palindrome apiece. Jon Agee has come up with a whole bookful!Each of teh more than sixty palindromes is accompanied by hilarious illustration in the inimitable Agee style. Children and adults alike will enjoy these linguistic laughs.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
ISBN 10: 0374128901 ISBN 13: 9780374128906
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control.In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is.In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers.Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris.Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2024
ISBN 10: 0374105014 ISBN 13: 9780374105013
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Ram Karan works for the New Delhi school system but supports his widowed daughter and grandaughter by taking bribes for a small time Congress party boss, until his involvement in a terrifying political campaign could cost him his life. A first novel.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996
ISBN 10: 0374215146 ISBN 13: 9780374215149
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A portrait of a beloved First Lady and an account of a complex marriage examines the life of Mamie Eisenhower and her relationship with Ike Eisenhower.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996
ISBN 10: 0374186901 ISBN 13: 9780374186906
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A biography of the German poet combines detailed interpretations of his life with an intimate reading of his verse and prose and shows how he grew from an ambitious versifier into a great poet.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972
ISBN 10: 0374370990 ISBN 13: 9780374370992
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nancy Ekholm Burkert (illustrator). Reissue. Burkert's tapestrylike paintings, strong yet delicately detailed, radiate a spiritual beauty that enriches the movement of the story in its medieval setting. Jarrell's style, graceful and dignified, stays close to the original."-Starred/Booklist.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374237506 ISBN 13: 9780374237509
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A collection of Isaiah Berlin's essays.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994
ISBN 10: 0374103054 ISBN 13: 9780374103057
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st A. An intimate, detailed portrayal of the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters--great-granddaughters of King Charles II who lived wealthy, public lives--is based on diaries and letters and reveals the joys and tragedies they shared.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005
ISBN 10: 0374159386 ISBN 13: 9780374159382
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In The Devil's Horn, Michael Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone-a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and negative passions among all who hear it. The saxophone has insinuated itself into virtually every musical idiom that has come along since its birth as well as into music with traditions thousands of years old. But it has also been controversial, viewed as a symbol of decadence, immorality and lasciviousness: it was banned in Japan, saxophonists have been sent to Siberian lockdown by Communist officials, and a pope even indicted it.Segell outlines the saxophone's fascinating history while he highlights many of its legendary players, including Benny Carter, Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Branford Marsalis, and Michael Brecker. The Devil's Horn explores the saxophone's intersections with social movement and change, the innovative acoustical science behind the instrument, its struggles in the world of "legit" music, and the mystical properties that seduce all who fall under its influence. Colorful, evocative, and richly informed, The Devil's Horn is an ingenious portrait of one of the most popular instruments in the world.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973
ISBN 10: 0374132178 ISBN 13: 9780374132170
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Printing Stated. Twenty-four stories depicting life in the United States and pre-war Poland explore the depths and dimensions of truth.
Published by Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974
ISBN 10: 0374511055 ISBN 13: 9780374511050
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. This volume is intended as a first step toward establishing a body of standard words, a canon, of native American literature.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374236631 ISBN 13: 9780374236632
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jimmy Carter's Assistant for National Security Affairs offers a detailed account of his experiences between 1977 and 1981, and an analysis of the achievements and consequences of United States foreign policy during those years.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980
ISBN 10: 0374250863 ISBN 13: 9780374250867
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a "hell of degradation," where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985
ISBN 10: 0374133468 ISBN 13: 9780374133467
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Maurice Sendak (illustrator). First Edition. Juxtaposing a world of not-so-innocent animals and a world of humans, scarcely more intelligent or less brutal, this first translation of the Czech novel recounts the story of the forester Bartos and the vixen Sharp-Ears.
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997
ISBN 10: 0374224250 ISBN 13: 9780374224257
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The poet-translator whose acclaimed version of Gilgamesh was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award presents an elegant, accurate translation of the complete odes of the immortal Latin poet of the Roman Empire.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023
ISBN 10: 0374187711 ISBN 13: 9780374187712
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The inspiring story of the Jubilee singers follows a group of singers--all former slaves--on a grueling journey from Nashville to New York City, where they would introduce thousands of whites to Negro spirituals. 15,000 first printing.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374250332 ISBN 13: 9780374250331
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998
ISBN 10: 0374288410 ISBN 13: 9780374288419
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A collection of essays gathers pieces written over more than twenty years, including examinations of Caribbean culture and commentary on some of the world's great writers.
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