Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 1573221864 ISBN 13: 9781573221863
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L63.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 157322197X ISBN 13: 9781573221979
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A21.
Published by Riverhead, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 1594489599 ISBN 13: 9781594489594
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Ilana Tsuriel was a beautiful, brilliant Israeli intellectual and architect, the estranged wife of a prominent Holocaust scholar and the daughter of a legendary founding Zionist. At the beginning of Snapshots, she dies in a tragic car wreck, leaving her husband, Alain, to piece together the woman he thought he knew from the documents she left behind. Snapshots is assembled from her notes, photos, and drawings, which reveal Ilana's passionate, turbulent, wandering life of love and creativity around the capitals of the world. They portray a woman torn between her life in the United States and Israel; a woman who, during the first Gulf War when missiles were falling on Tel Aviv, struggled with the desire to protect her family yet still engage herself and her children with her homeland. They also uncover a secret, troubled love affair with a Palestinian man, a daughter's efforts to come to terms with her father's weighty legacy, and plans to build a "Utopian Monument" for peace in the history-laden hills of Jerusalem. The result is a whirling, wrenching portrait of a woman grappling with every element of her identity, at the center of a novel that has already been feted with prizes and celebrated as a masterwork of contemporary Israeli literature. SNAPSHOTS is a winner of Israel's Akum Prize for the Book of the Year. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. PNot remainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 1573222763 ISBN 13: 9781573222761
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A personal meditation by the best-selling Buddhist philosopher considers the existence of evil in the world, drawing on western and Buddhist literature to profile the devil as a deceptive or distracting obstacle to true goodness and humility. Fine ,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF3.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 1594489564 ISBN 13: 9781594489563
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a pre-human skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution. For Teilhard, both a scientist and man of God, the discovery also exposed a deeply personal conflict between the new science and his faith. He was commanded by his superiors to deny all scientific evidence that went against biblical teachings, and his writing and lectures were censored by the Vatican. But his curiosity and desire to find connections between scientific and spiritual truth kept him investigating man's origins. His inner struggle, and, in turn, his public rebuke by the Catholic Church personified one of the central debates of our time: How to reconcile an individual's commitment to science and his commitment to his faith. InTHE JESUIT AND THE SKULL," bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts the discovery of Peking Man and its repercussions, and how Teilhard de Chardin's scientific work helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, THE JESUIT AND THE SKUL brings fresh insight to a debate that still rages today. Author of FERMETS LAST THEOREM. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF49.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 1573220213 ISBN 13: 9781573220217
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has met in Chartres Cathedral. Her departure confounds her family and neighbors: Adele is beautiful; she is lucky; she possesses charisma; she is a champion swimmer whose stamina and grace astound the patrons of the exclusive resort in the Caribbean that her family visits each year. Adele's husband cannot understand what the Indian guru - an elusive, ever-changing man who indeed seems privy to some of life's mysteries - can give Adele that he cannot. Her two children worry as she grows gaunt and begins to look older than her years, and as her letters arrive less and less frequently. As we watch Adele's deepening spirituality, The Woman Who Walked on Water compellingly gives life to the writings of Rumi, Laotzu, and the Upanishads, which infuse this work with their wisdom. Yet what also emerges is a troubling portrait of a woman alone in a foreign country, surrounded by a family and culture not her own, in a dry and dusty city. Lily Tuck portrays with acumen, pathos, and humor a woman who may have found enlightenment. She also leaves us questioning Adele's fate, and our own desires for transcendence. Second novel by the author of INTERVIEWING MATISSE, OR THE WOMAN WHO DIED STANDING UP; SIAM, OR THE WOMAN WHO SHOT A MAN; LIMBO, AND OTHER PLACES I HAVE LIVED, and the Man Booker Prize winner, THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L51.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 159448905X ISBN 13: 9781594489051
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Author of TIPPING THE VELVET (a New York Times Notable Book), AFFINITY (Somerset Maugham Award, the London Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), and FINGERSMITH. Sarah Waters was named one of Granta's best British writers under forty in 2003. THE NIGHT WATCH was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L61.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 1594488800 ISBN 13: 9781594488801
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past.In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules. Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds. But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses' lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely. Both a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense in years, THE LITTLE STRANGERr confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today. Author of FINGERSMITH and THE NIGHT WATCH. THE LITTLE STRANGER was nominated for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. As new, first American edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not reemainder-marked or price-clipped} MLBS1/118.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1998
ISBN 10: 1573220825 ISBN 13: 9781573220828
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. In 1660s England, Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Oliver Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of the murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST is an ingenious tour-de-force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page. Fine, unread first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 691pp. {Nota remainder-marked or price-clipped} L2/A39/A43.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 1573221821 ISBN 13: 9781573221825
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Volume one ONLY. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are very lightly foxed. 577 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2010
ISBN 10: 1594487529 ISBN 13: 9781594487521
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in THE LONG FALL, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide -is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-theskyscraper office space. Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love-but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family-and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis. Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix- and he's come to Leonid for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company policy- but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to even contemplate. KNOWN TO EVIL delivers on all the promise of the characters and story lines introduced in THE LONG FALL, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty, glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a whole new way, and it firmly establishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men. Second in Mosley's fine Leonid McGill' mystery series, set in New York, and following THE LONG FALL Author is the winner of the 2016 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. As new, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. M80. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 159448886X ISBN 13: 9781594488863
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {OFC 1F. Signed by Author(s).