2000, ISBN: 9780897214346

Badlands Natural History Association. B000K1T1CC Ships, well packaged and very quickly, from MI. A detailed description is coming soon. The condition selected for the item is accurate and… More...

Badlands Natural History Association. B000K1T1CC Ships, well packaged and very quickly, from MI. A detailed description is coming soon. The condition selected for the item is accurate and consistent with our other listings of the same general condition. If you have any questions or you would like a detailed description of the item prior to our revision of the listing, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will get back to you as quickly as possible. Please buy with confidence from us, as we have several thousand satisfied customers and your satisfaction is the goal we strive to achieve with every transaction. . Fine., Badlands Natural History Association, 5, Home Planners, 1990-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0.6000 in x 10.8000 in x 8.2000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Home Planners, 1990-01-01, 2.5, 196 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In her first book, Kadohata works wonders in evoking the mysterious balance, imperfectly held, of a Japanese-American family drifting apprehensively during the 1950s in ``ukiyo ,'' a ``floating world'' of menial jobs and humble yet hopeful upward mobility pursued at the edges of an enchanted but exclusive American normalcy. Twelve-year-old Olivia, the first-person narrator, is a storyteller by temperament and heredity: her sharp-tongued, hot-tempered grandmother, who in her heyday had three husbands and seven lovers, ``owned a valise in which she carried all her possessions, but the stories she told were also possessions.'' Intelligent, impish, perpetually dislocated--``I wanted to stay where we were--where I didn't know anyone and no one knew me''--Olivia soon comes into possession of tales of her own: ``I sort of salivated inside whenever I met someone new. I was nosy, and I thought new people might tell me interesting things.'' Her shrewd roadside appraisals as the family travels from the Pacific Northwest to Arkansas in search of employment (hard to come by for Japanese at that time), and, years later, when Olivia sets out on her own for Los Angeles, range from a delicate appreciation of the American landscape to a frank appetite for the crasser curios of a foreign culture. With equal sympathy, Olivia turns her eye inward on her own family, offering an artless, prescient running commentary that never strains in the pursuit. In striking and keeping the tone of Olivia's voice, a bewitching composite of American brashness and expatriate otherness, Kadohata achieves perfect pitch inconspicuously, telling of the lonely and comic immigrant experience of "moving from the hard life just past to the life, maybe harder, to come." Condition: Remainder mark at head end pages else a near fine copy in a fine jacket., Viking Press, 1989, 4.5, Ortho, 1999-01-15. Paperback. Good. 0.3000 in x 10.8000 in x 8.1000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Ortho, 1999-01-15, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780897214346

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the… More...

A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves. Simon Winchester's breathtaking story delves deep beneath the surface of the earth and explains to us why the world moves as it does; and breaks apart with such devastating results. At the same time he never lets us forget the human story: what happened in this new, seemingly blessed city on the 18th April 1906. As he vividly portrays the lives of the people who suffered and survived the devastation he also tells a universal story: the hubris of man as he ignores the warnings of nature and how we respond and try to understand the world around us. Compelling, moving and enlightening, Simon Winchester brings to light the world beneath our feet and through the story of this one terrifying event one hundred years ago, begins to make sense of our world now., Penguin, 1.5, Ortho. Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Ortho, 1<

2001, ISBN: 9780897214346

Hardcover

Harry N. Abrams, 2001-05-15. Hardcover. Good. 0.5118 in x 7.0197 in x 6.9409 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Harry N. Abrams, 2001-05… More...

Harry N. Abrams, 2001-05-15. Hardcover. Good. 0.5118 in x 7.0197 in x 6.9409 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Harry N. Abrams, 2001-05-15, 2.5, Ortho, 1999-01-15. Paperback. Good. 0.3000 in x 10.8000 in x 8.1000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Ortho, 1999-01-15, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780897214346

Ortho. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… More...

Ortho. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Ortho, 2.5<

1999, ISBN: 9780897214346

Ortho, 1999-01-15. Paperback. Good. 0.3000 in x 10.8000 in x 8.1000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Ortho, 1999-01-15, 2.5