Priddy, Roger:2 Books in 1 Who Lives on the Farm & Who Lives in the Wild?: 2 Books in 1
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Signet Book. 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. This classic text in both American literature and American history is read by Pete Papageorge with deliberation and simplicity, allowing the autho… More...
Signet Book. 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. This classic text in both American literature and American history is read by Pete Papageorge with deliberation and simplicity, allowing the author's words to bridge more than 160 years to today's listeners. Following a stirr ing preface by William Lloyd Garrison (who, nearly 20 years after he first met Douglass, would himself lead the black troops fighting from the North i n the Civil War), the not-yet-30-year-old author recounts his life's story, showing effective and evocative use of language as well as unflinchingly e xamining many aspects of the Peculiar Institution of American Slavery. Doug lass attributes his road to freedom as beginning with his being sent from t he Maryland plantation of his birth to live in Baltimore as a young boy. Th ere, he learned to read and, more importantly, learned the power of literac y. In early adolescence, he was returned to farm work, suffered abuse at th e hands of cruel overseers, and witnessed abuse visited on fellow slaves. H e shared his knowledge of reading with a secret "Sunday school" of 40 fello w slaves during his last years of bondage. In his early 20's, he ran away t o the North and found refuge among New England abolitionists. Douglass, a r eputed orator, combines concrete description of his circumstances with his own emerging analysis of slavery as a condition., Signet Book, 1989, Bantam. 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Paul Graves is a crime writer obsessed with a single crime--the murder of his own teenaged sister on their Southern farm almost 40 years before. To w ork out his guilt and fear, he has created a series of mysteries set at the turn of the century, in which a dedicated detective pursues a fiendish kil ler called Kessler--the real name of the man who slaughtered his sister. Hi s obsession has made Graves a sad, lonely man, "living thinly, without conn ections," already preparing to kill himself when he can no longer write his books., Bantam, 1999, General Press . softcover. New. pp. 112 Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family\'s white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography reveals the man behind the magic., General Press, Feature. 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Carol's best friend was killed, horribly, by a serial killer and she has ne ver forgiven herself. She has retreated to a lonely farm to lick her wounds , and one day she shoots and wounds a prowler; nursing him back to health, and herself back to self-respect, she starts to fall in love. The reader kn ows, as we are supposed to, that this is a bad idea. Steve is not quite the amnesiac he pretends, and has been a lot of other people in his time. And he has an enemy, who finds him wherever and whoever he is, and kills those around him; an enemy who, of course, might only exist inside his head. This first thriller is a virtuoso performance which juggles the woman-in-peril Gothic and the psychological thriller, and games with time and identity wit h considerable skill, if perhaps rather too much reliance on malignant coin cidence. Dronfield has a classy touch with milieu as well--the farm is a re al place, a home that turns scary, and the various previous lives of Steve, as French carpenter or antique car scout, all ring true even in the short takes which is all we get of them. - -Roz Kaveney Val McDermid 'A tense page-turner...dodging between serial-killer thriller, psychological suspense and full-on action drama', Feature, 1999, New York, NY Simon & Schuster, 1986. Hardcover First Edition; First Printing indicated. First Edition; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. The book shows a small bump at the bottom edge of the front panel; else flawless; the binding remains square and secure; the text clean.The DJ is very lightly sunned along the front and rear hinges and at the backstrip, but the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible; else only mild rubbing; the price is unclipped. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 239pp.Hardback with DJ. Anyone who likes travel literature will certainly not be disappointed in Alex Shoumatoff's IN SOUTHERN LIGHT. It is a book in two parts. In the first, he travels with a friend up a large, but seldom-visited tributary of the Amazon, the Nhamunda, in search of any clues about the eponymous Amazons themselves. He finds mostly caboclos, mixed race people who live off fishing, hunting, and a little farming when possible, and the last remnants of the Indian peoples who lived in the region for centuries. The second, less-focussed journey is in the former Zaire, now Congo (again). Though the current wars and massacres had not begun, the reader gets a strong impression of the crumbling, decaying society that existed under Mobutu. The author travels by truck, by riverboat, and through the jungle on foot with some BaMbuti (pygmies). I liked two things about this book. First, I liked Shoumatoff's attitude towards the people he met: neither condescending and critical, nor full of gushing admiration. He took each person as they came, just as he would have in his own society. If you are tired of the snide, superior writing style of a Theroux or Naipaul, this could be a welcome change. Secondly, I liked his descriptions of the natural world of the forests, rivers, and interactions between people. My criticism is that both sections lack focus and sometimes the book and the diary are a little too close together. The Amazon section starts off with a very fascinating description of the Greek Amazon legend and how the early Europeans were influenced by it, how the Indians may have fed it back to successive explorers once they realized what the intruders were looking for. But really, he's not interested in Amazons, - he was basically "messing around"; travelling to see what he could see - and he saw a lot. His book is well worth reading. I recommend it to anyone looking for a different sort of travel book. One more rugged - and ragged than the usual run of effete joys of Provence or Tuscany., Simon & Schuster, 1986., New York, NY, U.S.A.: Leisure Books, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Young and defenseless, Callie Hastings had no choice but to stand trial for a crime she had not committed Believing that her innocence would soon be proved, she never guessed that the irifuriatingly arrogant man who had accused her would also be her judge. Accustomed to wealth, power and the adoration of women, Jonathan Trenholme could not believe he'd been outwitted by a feisty, illiterate young girl straight off a Colonial tobacco farm. Callie Hastings needed a lesson in humility -and he was just the man for the job. Never did he imagine that their lives would soon be hopelessly entangled, their hearts forever enmeshed, their heated bodies exquisitely entwined. THE WEDDING NIGHT "My dear, that ring on your finger entitles me to rights of which I haven't yet begun to avail myself," Jonathan said evenly. Callie's eyes flew open as she suddenly realized the full import of his words. "Surely you can't mean to ... Here, take it ... Take the deuced ring." "I'm afraid it isn't that easy, Callie. I believe you signed documents to the fact that-" "Documents be damned! Trenholme, we struck a deal." "You struck a deal-with Lord Randall," Jonathan reminded her firmly. "Now tonight is between just you and me." "You despicable cad!" she breathed raggedly. "I told you before· I'll have no master-not now, not everand I'll be no man's chattel!" "And I told you before, Callie," he said hoarsely, "you can't begin an action and expect to just walk away from the consequences." And his lips. took hers with a singular intensity that nearly rendered her senseless .... ISBN 0-8439-2723-2 , Leisure Books, 1989, New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1989. BF6 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated green wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus some yellowing of the cover plus some yellowing of the paper edges. This is a title in the publisher's Harper Short Novel series. A love story about a farm couple who have been married for more than 40 years. It is about how they respond to their first major encounter with old age and mortality. Lila is hospitalized for two operations and confronts modern medical technology, surgery and her family's concern with good humor. The couple pull through the ordeal by virtue of their loyalty and love. By the author of "In Country," "Love Live," "Nabokov's Garden," "Shiloh and Other Stories," and "The Girl Sleuth." 176p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Mason, LaNelle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall., HarperTrade, 1989, Penguin Books, 2000. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4th printing. Spine lightly creased, pages slightly toned. 2000 Mass Market Paperback. Foreword by Anita Shreve. "The setting for this piercing New England novel is the aptly named Starkfield, where, despite violently blue skies, the chill of cold and snow seems to have settled in the hearts of its inhabitants. Tethered to his farm, first by helpless parents, later by his querulous, hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome ekes out a living. Then Zeena’s cousin, the impoverished and enchanting Mattie Silver, comes to work for them, and Ethan’s hopes and dreams are rekindled. Yet theirs is a forbidden love, constrained by Zeena’s presence. And the impossible intensity in which the three exist will have devastating consequences for all." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "America's most famous woman of letters, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton was born into one of the last 'leisured class' families in New York City, as she put it, in 1862. Educated privately, she was married to Edward Wharton in 1885, and for the next few years, they spent their time in the high society of Newport (Rhode Island), then Lenox (Massachusetts) and Europe. It was in Europe that Wharton first met Henry James, who was to have a profound and lasting influence on her life and work. Wharton's first published book was a work of nonfiction, in collaboration with Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses (1897), but from early on, her marriage had been a source of distress, and she was advised by her doctor to write fiction to relieve her nervous tension. Wharton's first short stories appeared in Scribner's Magazine, and though she published several volumes of fiction around the turn of the century, including The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Crucial Instances (1901), The Valley of Decision (1902), Sanctuary (1903), and The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), it wasn't until 1905, with the publication of the bestselling The House of Mirth, that she was recognized as one of the most important novelists of her time for her keen social insight and subtle sense of satire. In 1906, Wharton visited Paris, which inspired Madame de Treymes (1907), and made her home there in 1907, finally divorcing her husband in 1912. The years before the outbreak of World War I represent the core of her artistic achievement, when Ethan Frome (1911), The Reef (1912), and The Custom of the Country (1913) were published. During the war, she remained in France organizing relief for Belgian refugees, for which she was later awarded the Legion of Honor. She also wrote two novels about the war, The Marne (1918) and A Son at the Front (1923), and continued, in France, to write about New England and the Newport society she had known so well in Summer (1917), the companion to Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton died in France in 1937. Her other works include Old New York (1924), The Mother's Recompense (1925), The Writing of Fiction (1925), The Children (1928), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and her autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934).", Penguin Books, 2000, Heartsong Presents, 2001. light tan pictorial with blue ltrs, corners/edges/and head-heel of spine are nicked, creases on spine. Kayla Brown has no interest in neighboring farmer Warren Robinson and puts her career on hold to live on a rural farm to take care of her great-grandmother who has Alzheimer;s disease.. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good., Heartsong Presents, 2001, Paperback. GOOD.<
