Search Results: Family Relationships from pacaritambo books

Harvard Common Press, 2018. New Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color illustrations - no credit given. CONDITION: NEW Harvard Common Press hardcover (pictorial boards), no DJ issued, new edition, 2nd printing. Loads of color illustrations but no credit given that I could find. CONTENT: Fatherhood doesn't come with instructions, but 25 Things Every New Dad Should Know is here to give some peace of mind. Learn what to expect on the lead up to the final big day when fatherhood starts! A baby brings great joy to a new father, but also, perhaps, some uncertainty. Don't let these preliminary nerves get to you and dampen what will no doubt be one of the most joyful day of your life. 25 Things Every New Dad Should Know provide information and encouragement to stave back the worry. A little fear is nothing to be ashamed of. For many men, fatherhood may seem like a new job for which they have had no training or experience. In these pages, pediatricians, and fathers themselves, Robert and… Read More

Dutton, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "AS NEW" - a small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine - other wise, NEW. UNREAD 2019 Dutton large hardcover, first edition, first printing. B&W genealogy chart. CONTENT: A wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch wills his dwindling fortune to his youngest, adopted son-setting off a chain of events that unearths secrets and tests long-held definitions of love and family. The money is old, the problems are new. Meet the Whitbys: an American dynasty once inundated with ungodly real estate wealth and now facing a new millennium of unfamiliar obstacles. There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the long-suffering family lawyer to Roger's clan of children (from four different marriages), and the outlook… Read More

Wednesday Books, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Anna Hard Cover Art. CONDITION: NEW 2021 Wednesday Books hardcover (gold boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Cover art by Anna Hard. Front board shows embossed microphone. CONTENT: Freaky Friday meets The Parent Trap in this clever comedic whirlwind brimming with romance, and just a touch of magic. Estranged sisters Jamie and Siri are quarter-life crisis-ing: hard. With adulthood breathing down their necks, suddenly their promising career aspirations feel way out of reach, and romance ? completely implausible. After thirteen years apart, on opposite coasts, the sisters run into each other at a nature retreat. Desperate for a change of pace, they decide to go home in each other's stead to see how the other half lives. It doesn't take long to realize: swapping lives might be more than they bargained for. Turns out, pretending to be a sister you hardly know can really complicate your previously… Read More

Kensington, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Kensington hardcover (brown boards) and dust jacket (embossed title), first edition, 2nd printing. CONTENT: Based on true events in pre- Civil War America, CSA. Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves-and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband's daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel's death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels… Read More

Scout Press, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Scout Press hardcover (black boards) & DJ, first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father. Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had done. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, broadens the scope of her vision. At the intersection… Read More

St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. First Thus 13th printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 St. Martin's Griffin, trade paperback, first thus, 13th printing. Adorable doggie cover. CONTENT: Cooper Harrison, a member of the Boston K-9 unit, never thought he would ever go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful canine partner, Argos, is killed in the line of duty, Cooper finds himself mired in grief. Jobless, on the verge of divorce, and in a self-destructive rut, Cooper has little choice but to accept an offer for the position of animal control officer in Harmony Farms. And so he finds himself back where he started. Where his father, Bull, was once known as the town drunk. Where his brother, Jimmy, was a delinquent and a bully. Where he grew up as one of those Harrisons. Forced to face the past while dealing with the present--including his brother's continued involvement in the drug business--Cooper does his job with deliberate detachment, refusing… Read More

Mariner, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Mariner trade paperback, first paperback edition (reprint edition), first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse. Mary Sharratt has finally given center stage to one of the most controversial and complex women of her time.

Riverhead Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W era photos & movie stills. CONDITION: As New - what makes this book "as new?" - back board bumped corner. Not awful, but there. So . . UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2012 Riverhead hardcover (gray boards & 1 bumped corner) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photos & movie stills throughout. CONTENT: [Don't recall Lyle Talbot in movies? Take a look at one of his photos and you will go "Oh, yeah, him. I liked his work."] Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an… Read More

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. A few B&W photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 1991 Johns Hopkins Univ. Press trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. A few B&W photos illustrate throughout. CONTENT: First let me recommend something, if you have not read it. It's online. White lost his daughter Mary in a horseback riding accident. His essay/obit for her is one of the most moving pieces of American literature ever published. It is simply styled as "Mary White." Do yourself a favor - read it. (It is also included in this book.) In 1895, as a 27-year-old journalist, White bought the Emporia, Kansas newspaper and moved home. During his long tenure, White gained nationwide fame as the "Sage of Emporia" - the embodiment of the small-town newspaperman and all the treasured virtues that small towns represented in the minds of Americans. White carefully shaped his paper's vision of its community to promote local economic… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Little, Brown hardcover (red boards0 & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Deckle-edges. CONTENT: Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale". Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable… Read More

Putnam, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Vi-An Nguyen cover art. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" - Pale, small remainder dot bottom edges near spine. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 Putnam hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Cover art by Vi-An Nguyen. CONTENT: Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, How Not to Die Alone is the bighearted debut novel we all need, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it's a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose. All Andrew wants is to be normal. That's why his coworkers believe he has the perfect wife and two children waiting at home for him after a long day. But the truth is, his life isn't exactly as people think . . . and his little white lie is about to catch up with him. Because in all of Andrew's efforts to fit in, he's forgotten one important thing: how to really live. And… Read More

Berkley/Penguin, 2021. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this AS NEW? Remainder mark bottom edges at spine. Otherwise, "new." UNREAD 2021 Berkley trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history--and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams--their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she'd given up, what was taken from her, how she'd suffered, surely they'd understand. Belle Gunness learned a long time ago that a woman has to make her own way in this world. That's all it is. A bloody means to an end. A glorious enterprise meant to raise her from the bleak,… Read More

Random House, 2017. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: LIKE NEW 2017 Random House hardcover (beige boards) and dust jacket, first edition, second printing. Round stamp remainder dot bottom edges at spine. CONTENT: Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias - one of history's notorious families. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two-already three times married and a pawn in her father's plans-is discovering her own power. And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class in the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasingly erratic behavior, it is… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 1st American Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Knopf hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American edition, assumed first printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed… Read More

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this "AS NEW?" - Small remainder dot bottom edges. UNREAD 2019 Spiegel & Grau small hardcover (white boards - why, publishers, why?) with dust jacket; first edition, first printing. CONTENT: A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for your health, your finances, your kids, and your happiness. In Marriageology Luscombe examines the six major fault lines that can fracture contemporary marriages, also known as the F-words: familiarity, fighting, finances, family, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, and provides a fascinating mix of research, anecdotes, and wisdom from a wide range of approaches-from how properly dividing up chores can result in a better sex life to the benefits of fighting with your spouse (though not in the car)… Read More

Henry Holt, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Henry Holt hardcover (blue boards, 2 lbs.) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first US edition, second printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a book in 6 parts with lots of information to keep the reader on track: Cast of Characters, Simplified Tudor Genealogical Chart, and an interesting Author's Note. Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne… Read More

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1968. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONDITION: AS NEW - both DJ and Book. What makes this "AS NEW?" - the book has a signature on the title page which has nothing to do with either the Author nor Illustrator - but is from a named photography business in Ohio. Previous owner. Dust Jacket (in mylar cover) - has several very very small nics top edge and a small strange scratch on the front DJ panel. Hard to see - but there. So, AS NEW. UNREAD 1974 Northland Press hardcover (cloth boards), first edition, third printing. B&W sketches and drawings plus some color art. Don Perceval photos and sketches. CONTENT: Illustrated commentary on the earlier life of Navajo Indians. Includes both black and white sketches, along with full watercolor illustration. The drawings emerged as the product of 35 years of study and experience of the Navajo life. Book originally issued with illustrated dust jacket.… Read More

HarperCollins, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2001 HarperCollins hardcover (tan boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Small B&W era photo section. Black remainder mark bottom edges. CONTENT: The fight currently raging within the volcanological community, sketched by the discrepancies between Bruce's work and Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne's Surviving Galeras (reviewed below), concerns what is known about predicting eruptions, and particularly about Galeras when it blew, and why nine people died in that eruption (see PW, Book News, Feb. 12). In Bruce's harrowing depiction of the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption, which killed 23,000 people, scientists and survivors describe bureaucratic foolishness, scientific discovery and human strife. In her presentation of the 1993 eruption of Galeras, another Colombian volcano, numerous interviews illuminate further human folly, and particularly Williams's… Read More

Gallery Books, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Short black remainder mark top edges at spine. DJ is new and has title and Author's name in embossed lettering. UNREAD 2015 Gallery Books hardcover (grey boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. CONTENT: trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr.-the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL-tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earned him a Super Bowl victory. Great for readers of all ages. Even at a young age, if anyone told Derrick Coleman what he couldn't do, he'd just reply, "Watch me." Diagnosed as hearing-impaired at age three, he faced a potentially limited future, but neither he nor his family were going to let that happen. Now Derrick shares the story of his remarkable journey toward NFL stardom, of the friends and… Read More

FlatIron Books, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Dermot Conlan DJ photo; B&W genealogy chart. CONDITION: WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK "AS NEW?" - Small black remainder dot top edges at spine. UNREAD 2021 FlatIron Books hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful DJ photo by Dermot Conlan. CONTENT: Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith's boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble together, salvage, or grab. At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants of town founders, along with the ne'er-do-well Moody clan, the… Read More