Search Results: United States from B-Line Books

Toronto: Doubleday Canada. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385659814 . About new book, unmarked, in bright DJ. ; 387 pages; Insightful, prescient and often funny, <b>The Border</b> explores what it means to be Canadian and what Canada means to the giant to our south.<br><br>If good fences make good neighbours, do we have the sort of fence that will allow us to maintain neighbourly relations with the world&#8217;s only superpower?<br><br>In <b>The Border</b>, well-known political scientist and journalist James Laxer explores this question by taking the reader on a compelling 5000-mile journey into culture, politics, history, and the future of Canadian sovereignty.<br><br>Long ignored (or celebrated) as &#8220;the world&#8217;s longest undefended border,&#8221; the line between us and the US is now a stress point. The attacks on the World Trade Center announced to the world that North… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0374121230 . Tight clean unmarked book, about new but for slight puckering to pages at lower edge; in DJ with scuff to top of spine ; 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 Inches; 242 pages; <div><b>A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things</b><br><br>"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps.... "<br><br>Alice McDermott's haunting and enchanting new work of fiction--her first since the bestselling <i>Charming Billy</i>, winner of the 1998 National Book Award--is narrated by a woman who was born beautiful. Her parents decided that her best chance in life was to marry a wealthy man, so she was raised on the… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393050424 . About new book, unmarked, in crisp barely rubbed DJ. Author's first novel; 0.79 x 9.45 x 6.3 Inches; 295 pages; At the opening of this masterful debut novel, Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents' lives: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie. Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence. As Vishnu… Read More

New York: Harpercollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 006019037x . New book, unmarked, in crisp dj.; 4.29 x 8.99 x 5.98 Inches; 272 pages; <p>Warren is eighteen. His sister, Joan, is twenty. Their father has died of cancer, and their mother has committed suicide -- they're on their own, in a small coastal town in Maine, under desperate emotional circumstances, with the holidays approaching.</p><p>Their situation worsens as their father's partner ruthlessly strips them of financial interest in the plant nursery they had owned together and a ghoulish uncle and aunt try to exploit them. Things grow even more complicated as Warren becomes increasingly puzzled by his attraction to a beautiful young single mother who used to work for his father.</p><p>Told from Warren's point of view, <i>On This Day</i> is not only a moving story of two young people's struggle to make a place and a home for themselves, but a… Read More

New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0517478587 . New book, unmarked, in crisp dj.; The Viking Portable Library; 550 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0892961775 . Tight clean stiff book in barely rubbed DJ; 231 pages .

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316314773 . Tight clean unmarked book in DJ with impressions to front cover from using as underlay for writing. ; 0.87 x 9.5 x 6.37 Inches; 272 pages .

Christian Herald Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 0915684063 . Tight clean bright book, still stiff to open, with partially removed nameplate to front pastedown; in crisp DJ with a nick. Revised edition of "The Reluctant Farmer" published in 1950; 1 x 9.25 x 5.75 Inches; 219 pages .