Editore: Vintage Canada/ A Division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2004
ISBN 10: 0679312528 ISBN 13: 9780679312529
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Eleanor Crawford (Cover Photo); Leah Springate (Cover Design); CS Richardson (Text Design) (illustratore). 269 pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!! Flawless copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!! With Inscr.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2004
ISBN 10: 0676976816 ISBN 13: 9780676976816
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Iain McIntosh (illustratore). First Canadian Edition. Soft cover in dust jacket, without flaw. 6 X 8.5" 126 pages. This third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the arrows of outrageous fortune in an eventful Colombian adventure. Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only to discover that while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.
Editore: Vintage Books a Division of Random House, Canada, 1995
ISBN 10: 0394281209 ISBN 13: 9780394281209
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. Gift inscription on first title page that says in part "This is how an Australian sees the rest of the world", small stain on bottom edge, otherwise without flaw. 5 X 8" 250 pages. True North is the compelling and inspirational Canadian chapter of Jill Kerr Conway's life story which began with her much loved memoir 'The Road From Coorain'. It is a memoir of intellectual discovery, as Conway enters a lively community of women scholars and the story of her love affair with the Canadian war hero John Conway that ripened into a remarkable marriage.
Editore: Vintage Canada A Division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 2000
ISBN 10: 0676972977 ISBN 13: 9780676972979
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Wayne Johnston, Author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Ben Hansen, Catching Capelin at Ferryland. TEXT DESIGN AND MAPS: CS Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Baltimore's Mansion introduces the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is an evocation of a time and place reminiscent of Wayne Johnston's best fiction. Wayne Johnston's latest novel (his fifth), The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, has been published internationally to tremendous critical acclaim. The film version of a previous novel, The Divine Ryans, was released in 1999. Baltimore's Mansion was the recipient of the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Vintage Canada, A Division of Random House Canada, Toronto
ISBN 10: 0679308563 ISBN 13: 9780679308560
Da: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
[9780679308560] 1980 1982. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 197, 193pp. 8vo. Two novels, told from the perspectives of both the husband and the wife at a time of changes in their respective lives and by extension, their marriage. There is a spot of sticker residue to the 'Husband's Story' wrapper; else is clean, bright, solid. Very good copy.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2002
ISBN 10: 0676973779 ISBN 13: 9780676973778
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 26th Printing. This is the story of a boy named Pi who ends up sharing a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Life of Pi is an enchanting and transformative novel that will convince the most jaded among us - and remind the rest - that something grander is afoot in our lives than we may have realized. Winner of The Man Booker Prize.
Editore: Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto,, 1992
Da: Clerc Fremin, Steingaden, Germania
Softcover. 366 Seiten Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2004
ISBN 10: 0679313494 ISBN 13: 9780679313496
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. A very nice copy without flaw. 5 X 8" 342 pages. The exhilarating story of a man, a search engine and some of the strangest people in the world. Gripped by obsession and the thrill of the chase, Dave travels three times around the world in less than three months, visiting four continents and the un-likeliest cast of real-life oddballs you'll ever meet in what becomes an epic challenge - a life-changing, globe-trotting googlewhack adventure.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2004
ISBN 10: 0676976018 ISBN 13: 9780676976014
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing. A very nice copy without flaw. 5 X 8" 321 pages published 2004. The back alleys of Victorian London's East End was a place of smoke, mud and shadows, where laundry trembled in the filthy air and where thousands of Jewish refugees were "ready to take fog as their mother's milk" and forge a new life. Lilian Nattel brings turn-of-the-century London to life and embraces the dilemmas of class, culture and history in a vanished world.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679311807 ISBN 13: 9780679311805
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing. Small sticker on first page, otherwise without flaw. Man Booker Prize Finalist. Giller Prize Finalist. Governor General's Literary Award Finalist. "This true gift that Shields gives us is that of her enormous wisdom, a wisdom that is achingly apparent in this amazing combination of darkness and light, humour and pathos called Unless." - The Globe and Mail.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679308601 ISBN 13: 9780679308607
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Side and top edge slightly soiled, front cover has small crease, very light wear at corners, small stain on back cover, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 332 pages. Garden Voices is the first and only anthology of Canadian garden writing to celebrate gardeners from every province and territory and from every decade since the 1790s. With unique selections culled from diaries, letters, books and articles, and including writers from L.M. Monrgomery and Mackenzie King to Des Kennedy and Marjorie Harris, this entertaining collection will inspire you to carry on in the perennially hardy spirit of Canadian gardeners. With Sources and Permissions, Index, and Plant Index.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2000
ISBN 10: 0676973620 ISBN 13: 9780676973624
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. A very nice copy without flaw. Donning the cloak of Islam, Alison Wearing journeys beyond the legacy of revolution, religious fundamentalism and veiled women to find the real people of Iran. She takes us into the homes and hearts of people whose spirit, intelligence and laughter enlighten and impress, and the result is a collection of riveting, often funny portraits of the generous, irrepressible people she meets on her travels. Beautifully written, fresh and fascinating at every turn, revealing an Iran rarely seen by Westerners.
Editore: Vintage Canada - a Division of Random House, 2002
ISBN 10: 0676974740 ISBN 13: 9780676974744
Da: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Black & White Photographs (illustratore). First Printing. A very nice copy without any flaws. This remarkable exchange provides a behind-the-scenes look into the making of movies and the invisible art of editing, into writing and the very texture of the creative process. With personal contributions from Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Anthony Minghella, Rich Schmidlin and others. Illustrated by more than 200 black and white photographs.
Editore: Vintage Canada a division of Random House of Canada limited, U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0676973833 ISBN 13: 9780676973839
Da: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italia
Condizione: BUONO USATO. I ED. INGLESE Buono stato, coperta illustrata in cartoncino patinato semimorbido, su I.a di coperta foto di Alexa Garbarino, Grafica: Carl Galian, punte leggermente sollevate, bordo appena sfregato, cerniera stretta, tagli minimamente ambrati, pagine ben conservate, un paio con becca. I edizione. Numero Pagine 401s.
Editore: Vintage Canada A Division of Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679308180 ISBN 13: 9780679308188
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. SUB-TITLE: The Story of Hannah Breece. EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY: Jane Jacobs. MAP RESEARCH BY: James K. Jacobs and Robert H. Jacobs. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: The village of Nondalton, assembled at the fishing camp on July 4, 1911. Hannah Breece, wearing a hat, is standing at the extreme left. Hannah Breece collection COVER DESIGN: Andy Carpenter. BOOK DESIGN BY: Oksana Kushnir. CONTENTS: Foreword; Maps and Photographs; Hannah's Alaska Chronology; Memoir by Hannah Breece; Commentary; Notes and Citations; Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote, lawless wilderness of gold prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and bravely independent mind. Her eyewitness account is more than an adventure story--it provides a unique glimpse of white settlers' behavior toward native communities at the turn of the twentieth century. Hannah Breece's great-niece Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and one of Canada's most distinguished writers and thinkers, faithfully retraces her great-aunt's footsteps in Alaska and the Yukon, deftly filling in narrative gaps and adding historical context to let Breece's memoir speak in its own clear voice. What emerges is a transgenerational collaboration that is also a riveting act of literary recovery and an important work of women's history. Jane Jacobs is the author of five critically acclaimed and influential books, including The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Economy of Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations, and the best-selling Systems of Survival. She lives in Toronto and was recently made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.
Editore: Vintage Canada A Division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679309624 ISBN 13: 9780679309628
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Steven Dana (illustratore). Second Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. With a New Afterword. DESIGNED BY: Pei Koay. COVER ILLUSTRATION BY: Steven Dana. Cover image originally appeared in the March 9, 1998 issue of The New Yorker. COVER DESIGN BY: Jesse Marinoff Reyes. CONTENTS: Girls Will Be Girls - The Nature of Female Aggression; Maybe You Mistook Me for an Angel - Perceptions of Female Violence & the Vocabulary of Motive; The Problem That Still Has No Name - Women Who Aggress Newborns & Infants; Medea in Her Modern Guise - The Use of Children as Pawns; Balancing the Domestic Equation - When Women Assault Their Spouses or Lovers; Woman as Predator - Methods of the Multiple Murderess; What's Love Got to Do with It? - Women as Partners in Violent Crime; Island of Women - The World of the Female Prison; Let the Gun Smoke - Holding Ourselves Accountable for Our Deeds; Epilogue; Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: A fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence. Why do young women murder their babies and dump them in trash cans? What motivates women to team up with men on ghoulish killing sprees? Who are the victims of the female serial killer? When She Was Bad explores the heart of female darkness and shows that women are more violent than anyone supposed. Patricia Pearson includes spell-binding portraits of contemporary murderesses including Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Karla Homolka, who raped and killed three women, including her sister, and then blamed it on battered wife syndrome; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. And Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fascinating study whose findings will take center stage in future discussions of female violence. Patricia Pearson is an award-winning writer and crime journalist. She won a National Magazine Award for her article on Karla Homolka, "Behind Every Successful Psychopath." She is a contributing editor for Saturday Night, as well as writing for many other publications and for television both in Canada and the United States. AWARDS: 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.