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Zustand: Very Good. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator).

Mass market paperback. Zustand: Good. [12], 676 pages. Reading Group Guide. Cover has some wear and soiling. Benjamin Percy (born March 28, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter. After teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Marquette University, Iowa State University, and St. Olaf College, Percy stepped away from academia to write full-time. He remains active on the lecture circuit and teaches at conferences and festivals such as the Tin House Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has published three novels, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, as well as two books of short fiction: Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. In 2016, he published his first book of non-fiction, a collection of essays on writing and genre fiction: Thrill Me. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, where he is a contributing editor, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares. Percy is a member of the WGA screenwriters' guild, having sold scripts to FOX and Starz. Percy honors include the Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. Award -winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West. They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy. So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge.and the battle for humanity will begin. First Mass Market Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Zustand: Très bon. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Zustand: Collectible. Danica Novgorodoff (illustrator). First Thus. FINE. Paperback. SIGNED by ARTIST Danica Novgorodoff with sketch on title page, and red interspersed notes about added graphic panels through out the book. Personal scarce thus. [b243]. Signed by Artist.

Zustand: New. 2007. First Edition. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Novgorodoff, Danica (illustrator). 144 pages. 8.40x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Very Fine/Very Fine. A new, pristine, unread copy, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (his name only). Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. This is the first printing, with the full number line, including the 1. Book sold out of first printing fairly quickly. Percy's fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines. His first collection of stories, The Language of Elk, was published by the Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2006 in a paperback original. His short story, Refresh, Refresh first appeared in The Paris Review, won a Pushcart Prize in 2006, and was included in Best American Short Stories 2006. In 2008, Percy was one of the winners of the Whiting Writers' Award. Percy published his second collection of fiction in 2007, with Graywolf, REFRESH, REFRESH, also a paperback original. THE WILDING is his first novel and his first hardcover publication. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: New. Rosanas, Ramon (illustrator). &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBenjamin Percy is the author of four novels -- The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding -- as well as three short story collections -- Suicide Woods, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk. His essay coll.

Zustand: New. As the war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of its men, their sons are left behind to prove to themselves that they can handle the challenges and heartbreak of growing up and losing their fathers to war, in a series of intertwined short sto.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us is a lovely, remarkable book, full of people who strive mightily to believe in things-Bigfoot, the Lochness and Lake Michigan monsters, a tunnel leading to the other side of the world, husbands, wives, lovers, parents-they shouldn't. But Laura van den Berg lets her characters believe, and believes in them, and makes us believe, and care, too. Calm, wry, and compassionate, somehow all at once, this book is impossible to resist, and I'd bet big money that we'll be talking about Laura van den Berg and her fiction for years to come.' - Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England'In her first collection Laura van den Berg creates a series of remarkable characters each of whom is striking out for territory unknown, plunging into an uncharted sea. I love the exhilarating sense of adventure in these stories, how they make the world seem larger, and how van den Berg maps our familiar pains in strikingly new ways. What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us is a dazzling and original debut.' - Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street and Eva Moves the Furniture'There is a special kind of magic in the writing of Laura van den Berg, a damp-eyed sorceress who blends the mythological with the everyday, buoyant playfulness with lacerating sadness. Each sentence reads like a beautiful bruise smeared across pages as pale as the bodies that so often strip off their clothes and tangle together in these tender, elegant stories.' - Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk'Discussions about debuts often allude to promise, as if to imply that better things will come, but in this particular case, there's no need to wait. Laura van den Berg's talents are already fully formed, and spectacular. This collection has searing emotions, a technical virtuosity, and a lyrical ferocity that dazzle us with undeniable force. Breathtakingly, we follow her characters as they seek escape in far-flung locales, both real and imagined, searching for that rarest of species-the feeling that they belong.' - Don Lee, author of Wrack and Ruin and Yellow'Laura van den Berg finds the tension between science and magic and walks it like a tightrope. . . . It is a fantastic and fascinating world, full of discoveries and moments of wonder, a book meant for the explorer in all of us."-Hannah Tinti, author of The Good ThiefContaining work reprinted in Best Non-Required Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prizes 2010, the stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot inpersonator. A bontanist seeking a rare flower crosses path with a group of men hunting the Loch Ness Monster. A disillusioned missionary in Africa grapples with grief and a growing obsession with a creature rumored to live in the forest of the Congo. And in the title story, a young woman traveling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer.Rendered with precision and longing, the women who narrate these starkly beautiful stories are consumed with searching -- for absolution, for solace, for the flash of extraordinary in the ordinary that will forever alter their lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees, blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you can think about," writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2006. This vibrant, varied sampler of the American literary scene revels in life's little absurdities, captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion. In "The View from Castle Rock," the short story master Alice Munro imagines a fictional account of her Scottish ancestors' emigration to Canada in 1818. Nathan Englander's cast of young characters in "How We Avenged the Blums" confronts a bully dubbed "The Anti-Semite" to both comic and tragic ends. In "Refresh, Refresh," Benjamin Percy gives a forceful, heart-wrenching look at a young man's choices when his father -- along with most of the men in his small town -- is deployed to Iraq. Yiyun Li's "After a Life" reveals secrets, hidden shame, and cultural change in modern China. And in "Tatooizm," Kevin Moffett weaves a story full of humor and humanity about a young couple's relationship that has run its course.Ann Patchett "brought unprecedented enthusiasm and judiciousness [to The Best American Short Stories 2006]," writes Katrina Kenison in her foreword, "and she is, surely, every story writer's ideal reader, eager to love, slow to fault, exquisitely attentive to the text and all that lies beneath it.".

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men-of fathers-leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys' bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again for word from their fathers at the front.Often from fractured homes and communities, the young men in these breathless stories do the unthinkable to prove to themselves-to everyone-that they are strong enough to face the heartbreak in this world. Set in rural Oregon with the shadow of the Cascade Mountains hanging over them, these stories bring you face-to-face with a mad bear, a house with a basement that opens up into a cave, a nuclear meltdown that renders the Pacific Northwest into a contemporary Wild West. Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy is a bold, fiery, and unforgettable collection that deals with vital issues of our time.

Written at the Request of a Lady, by a Person of Honour.   First Edition. 8vo (172 x 110mm). [16], 199pp., with the initial imprimatur leaf. Slightly browned at the edges but otherwise very clean, small repair to the blank fore-corner of the imprimatur leaf and a small paper-flaw to the upper corner of C6 (touching a couple of lines of text but not obscuring the meaning). Modern calf-backed marbled boards, red leather spine label, old red sprinkled edges.   London: for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy,  ESTC records two settings of the title-page, the present and another with "and are to be sold by Thomas Salusbury." in the imprint. ESTC seems to be confused by the two title-pages and records duplicate copies. Copies are held at BL, National Library of Ireland, Bodley and Hull in the UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Newberry, Illinois and University of Pennsylvania, Clark Library UCLCA and Chicago in the USA.   Re-published (with additions) in 1696 as part 1 of Discourses and essays useful for the vain modish ladies and their gallants with Boyle given as the author on the title-page and dedicated to Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Northumberland (1646-90). The last copy recorded on Rare Book Hub was sold at Sotheby's in 1988.   A vicious misogynistic attack on the supposed offences of "modish" women lambasting their pride, vanity and inconstancy and the "vain idleness" of their leisure time. Intended to be dedicated to the Countess of Northumberland and written anonymously by Francis Boyle who had himself been cuckolded by Charles II.   In his "Epistle to the Modish Ladies of the Age", the author, Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon (1623-1699), writes that having abandoned, "the idle follies, and pastimes of a vain London life" and "being displaced from my Military Command", he decided to write a guide for women (and men) on the supposed vanities, pride and inconstancy of women. Boyle sets out in twelve chapters his thoughts on men marrying "young handsome ladies", the problems of female power, "the inconstancy of most ladies, especially such as are cried up Beauties", issues surrounding marriage, the selection of an appropriate wife (for both men and the families of men who wish to arrange a marriage), the "inequality of many marriages", his belief that widows should not marry, the follies of female fashion and his objections to men keeping mistresses. Despite his deeply misogynistic views, Boyle writes with a very distinctive style and repeatedly uses metaphor to describe his point - he describes how, "one Inch of the Worlds Map serves to set out all Englands confines, but a hundred sheets of Paper cannot half describe the extraordinary bounds of Womens usurping power" (p.22), or describes how, ".so rare and strange a thing is this thing call'd Wife obedience, as many believe 'tis only to be found at John Tredeskins [John Tradescant (1608-1662), English antiquary and naturalist), among his Collections of Antiquities" [which would later form the basis of the Ashmolean Museum] (p.40).   Boyle writes of women:   "I cannot deny but that young Womens Company may be very advantageous, as well as agreeable to young Men, as being very useful to whet their wit, to Civilize their behaviour, and to Polish their Discourses; but yet they ought still to remember, that the Conversation of these vain young gay Ladies, is to be us'd but like Sawce [sauce] to Meat, good to quicken the Stomack, but bad to make a meal on, being to be taken like strong Cordials, not too much, not too often, and therefore to make their visits so moderate, as not to keep longer in their Company than just to refresh and fit their minds for better employment. ." (p.42)   He warns men to carefully select a wife: "there are of Wives, as of most other things, two sorts, the good and the bad, the good presents the Husband with much happiness, and great Content; and the bad creates as much misery and dissatisfaction." (p.52)   Boyle.