Search Results: Titles starting with F from Shop-books.ca

Spectrum, NJ. Presumed first edition but possibly 3rd printing as there is a C on title page. Condition: Very good minus, edge and corner wear, spine creasing and slight nicks, light yellowing of rear cover.Includes essays by Lionel Trilling, John Aldridge, Malcolm Cowley, Leslie Fiedler, Edmund Wilson, and Donald Ogden Stewart.The unending fascination of F. Scott Fitzgerald lies partly in the fact that his tragic life was like the plots of his own novels. Many famous and brilliant writers have led withdrawn, prosaic, uneventful lives; but Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, existed almost wholly in the real, external world--active, social, sadly typical of that frantic time in which he experienced instant success and fame, followed by a long decline and failure. Arthur Mizener is well known as the author of the first full-scale biography of Fitzgerald. In this book, Professor Mizener looks at the facts of Fitzgerald's short life, offering insights into the subtle way in which actual events were… Read More

Quill and Brush, Rockville, 1996. First edition. Condition: Fine in paperwraps. Limited to 500 copies.Contains essays by 30 writers in all including Alice Adams, Frederick Busch, Don DeLillo, Thomas Flanagan, Herbert Gold, A.R. Gurney, Joe Haldeman, Alfred Kazin, Arthur Miller, Reynolds Price, E. Annie Proulx, Budd Schulberg, Carolyn See, Anne Rivers Siddons, Elizabeth Spence, John Updike, Richard Wilbur, Larry Woiwode, and others; plus an introductory note by Jackson R. Bryer.

Scholastic, Toronto, 2009. First printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear and corner bumps else fine.Step away from the wand...We aren't usually big fairy fans, but for Elly Knottleweed-Eversprightly, we've made an exception. You see, Elly, although she is a fairy, isn't a big fan of fairies either.In fact, she hates being a fairy.She hates her itchy tutu school uniform and she hates flying the fairy flock to school every morning, she would much rather take her cool skateboard.She's fed up with her baby sister who accidentally makes magic happen, when she can never make her wand do what she asks. Elly has already been expelled from two prestigious fairy academies; once, for turning her teacher purple (it was an accident!), and another time for catching a flyrus (which so wasn't her fault!).What's a fairy to do?Elly meets Jess, a human girl who is not at all interested in fairies (but handy with wand repairs). Finally, Elly makes a friend who understands her; even though Jess is only human.

Vintage, New York, 2004. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Come and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim.

Sourcebooks, Naperville, 2014. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light wear and corner creasing, price sticker on rear cover.Breathtaking ocean views, tranquil beaches, delicious food, and warmhearted people...these are just a few of the reasons why Jennifer Barclay loves the Greek islands. But her dreams of living there full-time seem out of reach, until a break-up turns her world upside down...a glimpse of life on a tiny Mediterranean island...

Bloomsbury, New York, 2001. First edition. Condition: Near fine book in very good plus dust jacket, book has light corner bumps, dust jacket has light edge wear and slight scuffing from price sticker that was removed.A collection of letters between a father and son. Both were published poets, but from very different generations. This volume is a personal insight into a family relationship in postwar America. It is also a document of a changing country and of two men trying to find their place in it.

Knopf, New York, 2002. 2nd hardcover printing. Condition: Near fine, books has light corner bumps, dust jacket has light edge wear.Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs.Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.

Scribner, New York. 24th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000. First edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge wear.From the publisher: Foreword by David Halberstam; edited by Douglas Brinkley. Second volume of the "Fear and Loathing Letters." Includes hundreds of letters Thompson wrote (as well as a handful he received) after his rise to fame with his 1966 hit "Hell's Angels." These letters deal primarily with Thompson and his editor at Random House, Jim Silberman, his correspondence with Oscar Zeta Acosta; Kurt Vonnegut; Tom Wolfe; Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, and many more.

Ace Books D-19, New York, 1953. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and nicks, spine has light creasing and nicks, light yellowing of interior pages.

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, rear cover has creasing at top corner.Features poems, stories, and art by Elizabeth Gifford, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Bruce Hunter, Rose Scollard, Kirk H. Wirsig, Rebecca Raglon, Michael Crummey, George Elliott Clarke, Rod Anderson, Lynn Crosbie, bptruscott, Ken Norris, Griffin Ondaatje. and Peggy Smith.

Viking, Toronto, 2005. First edition, signed by the author. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear, mild scuffing on dust jacket.From the publisher, synopsis: In St. Petersburg, beside the glittering court life of the Romanovs, the Russian people are seething. It is not only the Bolsheviks but also the new tycoons profiting from the booming economy and the more aggressively ambitious aristocrats who are impatient with the idle, incompetent Romanovs. Pyotr Ryzhkov, probing the murder of a child prostitute, suddenly finds his inquiries deliberately hampered. As the investigation widens, financiers, policemen, government officers, foreign diplomats, and even the minister of justice seem to be involved in an ever-larger circle of fraud and violence. Then a killing gives Ryzhkov the final clue and leads to a desperate journey to Serbia.

Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2015. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence.For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001-that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness, something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades,… Read More

Penguin, 1985. First large coffee table softcover printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light soiling at spine, light bowing, price sticker on rear cover. Heavy book, might require additional shipping cost.As retro as the 1950s are, the space age creations still seem to eclipse today's designs. Perhaps that's why so many people are borrowing the kitsch look for their homes and wardrobes. Fifties Styles tells you where you can get the nifty products featured in the 200 photographs in the book. Now it's possible to relive the happy days of Elvis, pink Cadillacs, and boomerang-shaped radios.

10-10-10 Publishing, Markham ON, 2020. Condition: New.Signed copy.Foreword by Kaetlyn Osmond, figure skating champion.Young author and figure skater Emma Araish recommends 10 different keys you can use to improve in any sport. You will realize that small things like eating or sleeping well can make a big difference, because talent alone can only bring you so far. By the end of your reading, you will be able to apply these keys to become a better athlete.

Nimbus, Halifax, 2015. First edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Celebrate the holiday season with over 20 tales—both true and make-believe—of Atlantic Canadian Christmases, past and present.Edited by Dan Soucoup, The Finest Tree showcases memories, traditions, and stories from all four Atlantic provinces. PEI's L. M. Montgomery brings Christmas to a group of train-bound strangers, while Gary L. Saunders turns to Christmastime to escape September writers' block in Newfoundland; Beatrice MacNeil details her magical journey to Christmas Mass in Cape Breton, while in rural New Brunswick Michael O. Nowlan and his father take their annual trip to town.Featuring these stories of homespun Christmas tradition and cheer from Atlantic Canada's finest authors, and plenty more, The Finest Tree will warm your heart on the coldest winter nights.

Pocket Books, New York. 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light spine crease.Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien & totally familiar--the landscape of our dreams. Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking & unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan & his disciples, at last constructs, from the teachings of don Juan & his own experiences, a stunning portrait of the "sorcerer's world" that is crystal-clear & dizzying in its implications.

Tor, New York, 2011. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and slight bottom front corner crease, light nicks at spine ends.A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh… Read More

NCL/M & S, Toronto, 1990. Later printing. Condition: Very good minus, edge and corner wear, creasing at right corners, slight spine nicks.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.

NCL/M & S, Toronto, 1983. First NCL edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, sun shadow on covers, creasing at spine, small crease at bottom right corner.The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone's soul.