Search Results: Authors starting with J from Trolls Treasure

New York: Jove, 2007. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in the oddest of places-and a couple that has mysteriously gone missing. Book is in near fine condition with mild edge wear. The inside covers are beginning to tan.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. Third printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Dining together one night at Sevcik's apartment—the two Jewish widowers and the unmarried Gentile, Treslove—the men share a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time before they had loved and lost, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. But as Treslove makes his way home, he is attacked and mugged outside a violin dealer's window. Treslove is convinced the crime was a misdirected act of anti-Semitism, and in its aftermath, his whole sense of self will ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a funny, furious, unflinching novel of friendship and… Read More

Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Sarasota, FL: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation, 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good. 116 pp, 10 ½" x 8 ½", copy is in excellent condition, includes many bw and color reproductions. This is an overview of the greatest paintings in the permanent collection of the John And Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. Book is very good, but cover does show some wear. Edges rubbed, especially along the spine. Front corners have slightest crease at very tips. Interior is fine, unmarked, clean and bright with a tight binding. The picture is a scan of the actual book.

Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers , 2002. Soft Cover. Near Fine. The first volume of a dazzling trilogy, THE KEY shows a world on the verge of collapse through the eyes of its greatest and most passionate poet. Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome, is dead at twenty-nine. His friend Marcus Caelius Rufus must search for the meaning of his life in the slums and bloody secret cults, the palaces and law courts of the tottering Roman Republic. Vivid, exciting, carefully researched and beautifully written, THE KEY has been a cult favorite in hardbound for years. Jaro inserts English translations of and comments on Catullus' poems into the text of her novel, The Key. Written with the most scrupulous attention to historical accuracy. Contains some 40 poems of Catullus', in acclaimed translations by the author. Some have appeared in the recent anthology CATULLUS IN ENGLISH, and the… Read More

New York: Doubleday / Anchor Books, 1996. 1st Anchor Book edition. Paperback. Very Good +. A magic carpet of a book: you just sink into it and let it take you away." The New Yorker. A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga: the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. Later printing. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Fine. PreSchool-Grade 2. Two young brothers head out with their mother in a rowboat for an evening of fishing. They ask her to tell them who is better at digging worms, rowing, and catching fish, and later, back in their cabin at bedtime, they ask whom she loves the best. With each answer the caring mother assures both boys that they are equally skilled and equally loved. "I love you the bluest" she tells thoughtful, methodical Julian, "the color of a cave...splash of a waterfall...hush of a whisper." To peripatetic, energetic Max, she says, "I love you the reddest...the color of sky before it blazes into night." The final double-page spread, illustrating their cabin at night, is awash with purples; and so, she loves both "the purplest." The text effectively conveys movement with vigorous verbs and uses expressive phrases. Clues to each boy's character and temperament are… Read More

New York: Sterling Publishing / Lark Books, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. DRYING FLOWERS WITH A MICROWAVE shows you how to preserve the brilliant colors and forms of fresh flowers without the frustrating problems of the space, light, and time requirements of tradtional methods. The book also includes guidelines for drying leaves and flowers unique to your particular locale. Book is near fine with little wear. There is a roughness to the bottom edge, can't tell if accidental or result of production run. Interior of the book is pristine. The dust jacket shows wear at the ends of the spine and at the corners which are also rubbed. In addition, the jacket cover has a piece of glossy wrap torn from the paper leaving a white piece the size of fingernail tip.