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By: McCourt, Malachy
Price: $6.44
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Hyperion Books: 1998
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 001358
ISBN: 0786884142
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, and on television, where the tales he spun made him a Tonight Show regular. Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere makin... View more info
By: McCourt, Malachy
Price: $6.44
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Hyperion Books: 1998
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 001359
ISBN: 0786884142
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, and on television, where the tales he spun made him a Tonight Show regular. Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere makin... View more info
By: Watkins, Mel
Price: $9.20
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001565
ISBN: 0684808641
Condition: New in Near Fine dust jacket
Arresting prose and a provocative conclusion - challenging the idea that our destinies are fundamentally linked to race - distinguish this remarkable memoir of growing up black in the American Midwest in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. Set in an Ohio steel town and an exclusive, upstate New York private university, Dancing with Strangers is an evocative remembrance of an American's coming of age during the decade preceding the sixties' revolutionary transformation of American society. A dramatic, novelistically rendered account, it is the story of an individual's triumphant struggle for persona... View more info
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Da Capo Press: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001993
ISBN: 0306812975
Condition: New with no dust jacket
A strong and sympathetic portrait. " - New York Times Book Review. Born in 1856 in upstate New York, Baum was a classic "late bloomer" who tried acting, selling and editing. Finally, in his late 30s, he took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to selling the stories he'd been tellin to his sons and their friends. After a few books were published with varying success, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (originally titled The Emerald City) was released in 1900. It quickly became a bestseller and has remained so ever since. When Oz was tra... View more info
By: Lovric, Michelle (compiled by)
Price: $12.88
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004279
ISBN: 1556527292
Condition: New in New dust jacket
This is a delightfully fresh look at a favorite subject: Writers and artists, both modern and historical, famous and unknown, describe, with love and wonder, their first experience of owning a cat. They always seem to work themselves deep into the heart of their owners, whether or not cat lovers. Contributers include Emily Bronte, Alexander Dumas, Terry Pratchett, Saki, Louisa May Alcott, and many more. Beautiful illustrations including end papers. The book cover is pictorial; the jacket has a bit of shelf wear at the top, especially at the spine. ; 12mo over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4"; 65 pages View more info
By: Jasen, David A.
Price: $9.23
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Schirmertrade Books: 2002
Seller ID: 001398
ISBN: 0825672759
Condition: As New with no dust jacket
The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time, first published in 1974, is now printed in a revised, updated edition. Lavishly illustrated, this biography is the first book to trace Wodehouse's career from his first magazine contribution in 1901 through the show-business years to his one hundred books that have given so much pleasure to readers for so many years. The author is a professor of Fine Arts at C. W. Post College in Long Island, New York. 298 pages, included is a Bibliography of Published Volumes, Bibliography of Published Short Stories... View more info
By: Pelzer, Dave
Price: $9.20
Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., E P Dutton: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002461
ISBN: 0525947698
Condition: New in New dust jacket
Millions of readers can attest to the heartbreak and courage of Dave Pelzer's story of growing up in an abusive home. Now this former lost boy who defeated insurmountable odds to emerge whole and happy at last takes us on his incredible odyssey toward healing and forgiveness. In this book, the author supplies the missing chapter of his life: As a boy on the threshold of adulthood. With his usual sensitivity and insight, he recounts the relentless taunting he endured from bullies; but he also describes the joys of learning and the thrill of making his first real friends - some of whom he still ... View more info
By: Hays, David
Price: $6.44
Publisher: New York, Touchstone Books: 2001
Edition: First Softcover Edition
Seller ID: 001639
ISBN: 0743201272
Condition: New with no dust jacket
Morley Safer said of this book "David Hays proves once again his talents as a writer and chronicler of the human condition. " When David Hays was sixty-six and joined a synagogue for the first time in over fifty years, he decided to study Hebrew and become a bar mitzvah. And so this father of two grown children borrowed his grandson's Hebrew primer and joined a class of twelve-year-olds. Thus was launched a wondrous journey of faith and community. In Today I Am a Boy, Hays' new world begins to intersect with his own history as he grapples with his mother's death and watches his grandch... View more info
