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1.
My Movie Business: A Memoir - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Date: 1999
Publisher: Random House
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher: Random House
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
2.
In The Beauty Of The Lilies - 1st Edition/1st Printing
John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life.
John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life.
3.
Thirteen Moons: A Novel
Nearly a decade has passed since Charles Frazier's melancholic Civil War-novel debut won the National Book Award and became a runaway bestseller, but the time has not been wasted. In THIRTEEN MOONS, Frazier tells the intricately researched and richly imagined life story of Will Cooper, an orphan who grows up to be a merchant, soldier, lawyer, senator, and surrogate Cherokee during the Trail of Tears, leaving him, in the end, a heartsick and bitter old man.
Nearly a decade has passed since Charles Frazier's melancholic Civil War-novel debut won the National Book Award and became a runaway bestseller, but the time has not been wasted. In THIRTEEN MOONS, Frazier tells the intricately researched and richly imagined life story of Will Cooper, an orphan who grows up to be a merchant, soldier, lawyer, senator, and surrogate Cherokee during the Trail of Tears, leaving him, in the end, a heartsick and bitter old man.
4.
The Lovely Bones - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a kid in heaven. Alice Sebold's novel, which draws on some of her own experiences, became a runaway best-seller as soon as it was published. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316666343
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket; Signed by Author
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316666343
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket; Signed by Author
Susie Salmon was raped and murdered in 1973, and, from her perch in heaven, she tells the story of what happened to her, watches her family back on earth as they go about their grief-stricken lives, and describes what it's like to be a kid in heaven. Alice Sebold's novel, which draws on some of her own experiences, became a runaway best-seller as soon as it was published. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
5.
The Name Of The Rose - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
A young Benedictine novice known as Adso narrates the events of this 14th-century tale of murder and deception, lust and greed, political intrigue and religious fervor, which unfolds over seven days and nights at a wealthy Italian abbey renowned for its library. Adso has come to the abbey with William of Baskerville, a Franciscan friar whose services have been requested by the abbot. Abbo fears that suspicion will befall his abbey due to rumors of heretical monks already in circulation and the recent mysterious death of a young monk known for imaginative (and sometimes controversial) illuminations with which he decorates the pages of library manuscripts. William, very much like a medieval Sherlock Holmes, uses Aristotelian logic and the scientific philosophies of Francis Bacon as interpreted through the religious interpretations of Thomas Aquinas to unravel the mystery, while fighting superstitious religiosity and the cruel irrationality of the Inquisition (which eventually finds its way to the abbey). But before William can begin to solve the first mystery another monk turns up dead in a vat of pigs' blood, and both deaths lead back to the library, which is shrouded in mystery and off limits to all but the initiated librarian. Integrating his work as a semiotician, philosopher, and literary theorist, Umberto Eco molds his intelligent story-within-a-story into a case study for his Reader Response Theory. Readers turned off by overtly academic themes, however, will not be distracted by such details and will appreciate the vivid medieval ambiance and the gruesome murder mystery that unfolds. A book rich in detail and humor, THE NAME OF THE ROSE can be enjoyed on many different levels and strikes a compelling and all-too-rare balance between edification and entertainment.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc
ISBN: 9780151446476
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc
ISBN: 9780151446476
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
A young Benedictine novice known as Adso narrates the events of this 14th-century tale of murder and deception, lust and greed, political intrigue and religious fervor, which unfolds over seven days and nights at a wealthy Italian abbey renowned for its library. Adso has come to the abbey with William of Baskerville, a Franciscan friar whose services have been requested by the abbot. Abbo fears that suspicion will befall his abbey due to rumors of heretical monks already in circulation and the recent mysterious death of a young monk known for imaginative (and sometimes controversial) illuminations with which he decorates the pages of library manuscripts. William, very much like a medieval Sherlock Holmes, uses Aristotelian logic and the scientific philosophies of Francis Bacon as interpreted through the religious interpretations of Thomas Aquinas to unravel the mystery, while fighting superstitious religiosity and the cruel irrationality of the Inquisition (which eventually finds its way to the abbey). But before William can begin to solve the first mystery another monk turns up dead in a vat of pigs' blood, and both deaths lead back to the library, which is shrouded in mystery and off limits to all but the initiated librarian. Integrating his work as a semiotician, philosopher, and literary theorist, Umberto Eco molds his intelligent story-within-a-story into a case study for his Reader Response Theory. Readers turned off by overtly academic themes, however, will not be distracted by such details and will appreciate the vivid medieval ambiance and the gruesome murder mystery that unfolds. A book rich in detail and humor, THE NAME OF THE ROSE can be enjoyed on many different levels and strikes a compelling and all-too-rare balance between edification and entertainment.
6.
The Historian: a Novel - 1st Edition/1st Printing
The specter of the supernatural infuses this academic thriller, the debut of author Elizabeth Kostova. In 1972 Amsterdam, a sheltered, motherless teenager stumbles across an ancient book imprinted with a dragon and stuffed with 40-year-old, mysteriously addressed letters. Gradually, her father reveals the link between the book and various attempts to discover the tomb of the brutal warrior/ruler Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula. Those who choose to become part of the search generally end up paying with their careers and their lives. Despite (or perhaps because of) these dire warnings, the nameless young woman finds herself compelled to discover who Dracula truly was...and whether he still exists today.
Date: 2005
Publisher: Little, Bown and Company
ISBN: 9780316011778
Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket; Signed by Author
Publisher: Little, Bown and Company
ISBN: 9780316011778
Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket; Signed by Author
The specter of the supernatural infuses this academic thriller, the debut of author Elizabeth Kostova. In 1972 Amsterdam, a sheltered, motherless teenager stumbles across an ancient book imprinted with a dragon and stuffed with 40-year-old, mysteriously addressed letters. Gradually, her father reveals the link between the book and various attempts to discover the tomb of the brutal warrior/ruler Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula. Those who choose to become part of the search generally end up paying with their careers and their lives. Despite (or perhaps because of) these dire warnings, the nameless young woman finds herself compelled to discover who Dracula truly was...and whether he still exists today.
7.
Chasing Vermeer - 1st Edition /1st Printing
Date: 2004
Publisher: Scholastic
Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket; Signed by Author
Publisher: Scholastic
Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket; Signed by Author
8.
Chasing Vermeer - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Date: 2004
Publisher: Scholastic
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author
Publisher: Scholastic
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author
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