Books grouped by city; cities listed alphabetically: A ~ D
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GENERAL
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Chiappone, Richard,
CITY FISHING.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. 188 pages.
~~~ Shelves of books have been written about the ultimate fly-fishing experience:
the trip to remote, pristine waters where fish are plentiful and wild. But
sometimes there's good fishing to be found right down the street, in the most
unlikely of settings. These writers share stories about the fish they've found
in the midst of Manhattan, London, Tokyo, and Paris. Fishing a manmade lake in
the suburbs of Minnesota, a park pond in New Jersey, in suspect rivers within
sight of factories in Buffalo and Oakland, they steal an hour or two and go off
to fish where they can, when they can, because they can't not fish. This
unorthodox collection reveals what true fishermen understand: good fishing is to
be had anywhere you can find it.
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Jakle, John A.,
CITY LIGHTS: Illuminating the American Night.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Illustrations, notes, index,
292 pages.
~~~ Today's cities shine brightly at night, illuminated by millions of
street
lamps, neon signs, and incandescent and fluorescent bulbs burning in the windows
of office blocks, apartment buildings, and homes. Indeed, the modern city is in
large part defined by this brilliance. In contrast, cities before the end of the
nineteenth century were dominated by shadows and darkness, their oil lamps
mostly ineffectual against the night. The introduction of modern lighting
technologies in the 1870s - at first natural gas and later electricity -
transformed urban life in America and around the world.
~~~
This Promethean story
and its impact on the shape and pace of life in the American city is recounted
by John A. Jakle in City Lights. Jakle reveals how artificial lighting became a
dynamic instrument that altered every aspect of the urban landscape and was in
turn shaped by the growth of America's automobile culture. He examines the
technological and entrepreneurial innovations that made urban illumination
possible and then explores the various ways in which artificial lighting was
used to enhance - for reasons of commerce, safety, aesthetics, and mobility -
such public spaces as streets, festivals, world's fairs, amusement parks,
landmarks, and business districts. From the corner street lamp to the dazzling
display of Broadway's "Great White Way," City Lights offers a lively and
informative investigation into the geography of the night.
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Currrently in print at $48.
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Kunstler, James Howard,
THE CITY IN MIND: Notes on the Urban Condition.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. Free Press,188 pages.
~~~ The City in Mind tells the story of urban
design and how the architectural
makeup of a city directly influences its culture as
well as its success. From
the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's
renovation of Paris to
the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when
Cortes conquered the Aztec
capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural
schemes of Hitler and
Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous
spectacle of Las Vegas,
Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development
and effects of urban
construction. In his investigations, he discovers
American communities in the
Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and
themselves, Northeastern
cities caught between their initial civic construction
and our current
car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its
mix of pre-industrial
creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth
century.
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Suarez, Ray,
THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD.
NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. Free Press, 264 pages.
~~~ With a great deal of sadness, NPR host Ray Suarez chronicles
the effects of the American migration from cities to suburbs in the second half of
the 20th century. He visited a number of cities--including Chicago, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Miami, and Washington--to find out what went wrong. The Old Neighborhood
makes its case with an effective mix of data and quotations from interviews with
community organizers, government officials, people who stayed in the cities,
and those who left. One of the best things about the book--no doubt a product
of Suarez's radio background--is its tendency for extended quotations, where the
voices of his interview subjects more fully emerge.
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ATLANTA,
Georgia
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Jones, Tayari,
LEAVING ATLANTA. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket,
Warner Books, 255
pages.
~~~ It's summer in Atlanta and black children are disappearing. By the time the heinous killing spree is over, 29 will be dead. This haunting menace provides the backdrop to the exquisitely evocative stories of three children fighting the everyday battles of adolescence: Tasha, who is coping with her parents' separation and the sweet pain of a first crush on a tender boy; Rodney, who struggles to make friends and wants only to please his abusive father; and Octavia, who faces down the popular crowd at school and must straddle the line between protected and protective daughter. Ultimately, these individual stories reveal the loss of innocence that accompanies the passage from childhood to adulthood.
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Lamb, Robert,
ATLANTA BLUES. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket,
Harbor House, 240
pages.
~~~ A mother's plea to find her missing daughter leads a reporter to probe the dark underbelly of Atlanta where he come face-to-face with an all-too-human evil.
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BALTIMORE,
Maryland
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Walker, Blair S.,
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket,
One World, 225
pages.
~~~
Every month for the last eighteen years, the payments for
unit twenty-five at a
storage facility in West Baltimore have arrived without
fail. After the money
orders mysteriously stop, a grisly surprise is found
inside the abandoned space:
the mummified remains of black socialite Adrienne Jackson.
The victim's fiancé
was none other than one of Baltimore's most prominent
politicians, who has since
remarried a much younger woman. Adrienne's disappearance
during an apparent
robbery in 1984 shocked and saddened the people of
Baltimore. Now her murder has
reopened old wounds, and cast a shadow of suspicion on a
pillar of the
community. Into this lurid state of affairs steps Baltimore
Herald reporter
Darryl Billups, who is set to marry his longtime, live-in
girlfriend, Yolanda.
Nervous about the upcoming wedding after fifteen years of
bachelorhood, he
welcomes any distraction and eagerly throws himself into
the sordid case. Yet
after receiving sensitive inside information from a
contact in the police
department, Darryl discovers there's much more to the
story than meets the eye.
Maneuvering through a world of lies and deception,
privilege and power, Darryl
uncovers secrets and bombshells that will lead him to
an unlikely suspect - one
who will shake the foundations of a proud city . . .
and one that just may cost
Darryl his life.
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BOSTON,
Massachusetts
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Barnes, Linda,
DEEP POCKETS. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
St Martin's Minotaur. 310 pages.
~~~ Harvard Professor Wilson
Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread: his
marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard, are in
the hands
of a blackmailer: someone threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very
high
prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the
blackmailer's
evidence - proof of his affair with a young student - become public
knowledge.
So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to track
down the
blackmailer and put a stop to the scheme. Can she do it? Of course.
But should
she? The professor doesn't inspire much loyalty - after all, he did
commit
adultery with one of his own students - but Carlotta agrees to help
him. Digging
into the case, nosing around Harvard and the possible suspects from
the rest of
Dr. Chaney's life, she uncovers a suspicious death as part of the
backstory to
Dr. Chaney's situation. Suddenly Carlotta's sixth sense is telling
her the case
might be more dangerous than it first seemed.
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Costello, Mark,
BAG MEN. NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Harvest Books. 263 pages.
~~~ It is New Year's Day, 1965, and the body of Father George Sedgewick is
discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport. Gone missing are four
thousand communion hosts consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to
the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year. Ray
Dunn, a rising young assistant district attorney and the son of a corrupt cop,
is assigned to the case. In another part of the city, legendary narcotics
detective Manny Manning begins a desperate search for the shadowy source of
deadly new heroin hitting the streets. This time Manny is determined to reach
the top, but his adversary is cunning, brutal - and branching out into a strange
drug called "acid." These quests for a killer and a dealer will intersect,
unleashing the ghosts of the past and unlocking the secrets of Boston's most
powerful institutions.
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Devane, Terry,
UNCOMMON JUSTICE. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Putnam Publishing Group. 307 pages.
~~~ Disillusioned with her first foray into corporate law, Mairead O'Clare leaves a
high-powered Boston firm to join ranks with Sheldon Gold, a down-at-the-heels
criminal attorney. Mairead barely knows how to find the courthouse, let alone
how to navigate the treacherous waters of a criminal trial. And immediately she
finds herself thrust in the middle of a capital murder case, when she is
assigned to represent Alpha, a homeless man and self-proclaimed hermit charged
with the murder of another homeless man on the banks of the Charles River.
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Faherty, Terence,
ORION RISING: An Owen Keene Mystery. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
St Martin's Press, 307 pages.
~~~ In the spring of 1969, a young nurse is raped and brutally beaten in a quiet
suburb of Boston called Cleveland Circle. Twenty-six years later, a
ne'er-do-well Boston accountant, James Courtney Murray, is murdered and a
yellowed newspaper clipping describing the old rape is left on his body. The
latest DNA-testing techniques confirm his killer's charge: Murray was the
Cleveland Circle rapist. Enter Owen Keane, failed seminarian and compulsive
solver of mysteries. Keane was a college classmate of Murray's and a fellow
suspect in the Cleveland Circle attack. He sets out to clear his friend and find
his murderer, driven by his own guilty knowledge of the 1969 crime. As he moves
though the Boston of 1995, Keane slips back repeatedly to his lost days in
college, both to reexamine the old mystery and to revisit a love affair that had
as profound an effect on his life as any murder. He is caught in the middle when
the past and present collide in the most harrowing climax of this critically
acclaimed series.
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Parker, Robert B.,
HUSH MONEY: A Spenser Novel. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Putnam Publishing Group. 309 pages.
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Boston P.I. Spenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a
high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political
correctness. And in the other, Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim,
only to find himself the unwilling object of the woman's dangerous affection.
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Rossiter, William S. (ed),
DAYS AND WAYS IN OLD BOSTON. Malcom Fraser
and Jacques Reich. Boston: R.H. Stearns and Company, 1915. Cloth. book:Good.
Exterior of cover hinges beginning to crack at ends, though interior hinges still intact.
Some fraying at spine ends and corners. Book otherwise intact. Paper labels on cover
& spine still intact. Profusely illustrated with drawings, engravings and photographic
plates. Finely printed with wide margins. Nine essays covering different aspects of
Boston's cultural, literary and business history, from the colonial period to the early
twentieth century. 144 pages.
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BROOKLYN,
New York
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[Brooklyn] Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.
IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN. Harcourt & Brace,
Harvest Book, 1993., NEW. Paperback. 8x10. Profusely illustrated, index, 250 pp.
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[Brooklyn] Andrea Wyatt Sexton & Alice Leccese Powers (editors),
THE BROOKLYN READER: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's
Favorite Borough. Harmony Books, NY, 1994. "There is no other place quite
like Brooklyn. Not only has it inspired and nurtured many native writers, it has
had a profound impact on those passing through. The Brooklyn Reader features a
rich diversity of writings — short stories, poetry, essays, novels, biographies,
and plays — that offer thirty writers' unique and colorful experiences of New
York City's biggest borough. Ranging from warm, nostalgic memories of childhood
to humorous tales of new arrivals adjusting to the American way, or just stories
of life's unplanned adventures, this reading tour is a true delight.
Contributors include: Anatole Broyard, Cristina Garcia, Henry Miller, Betty Smith,
Derek Walcott, Truman Capote, Spike Lee, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Styron,
Walt Whitman."
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CHICAGO,
Illinois
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Collins, Mas Allan,
CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signet Books,
229 pages.
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Chicago 1950 - the target of America's first-ever
congressional inquiry into
organized crime. Big trouble for anyone who knows
where the bodies are buried,
and Nate Heller has buried more than a few of them
himself. He has no illusions
about his civic duty - he prefers to stay alive and
in business, mixing with the
likes of starlet Jayne Mansfield and singer Frank
Sinatra. But certain
high-level gangsters, including Sam Giancana and the
Fischetti brothers, aren't
so sure Heller will stay discreet. After all, the
private eye's partner, ex-cop
Bill Drury, is cooperating with the feds in a big
way. And soon Heller finds
himself at the center of a federal squeeze play as Red-baiting senator Joe
McCarthy weighs in with his own threats . . . and a strange hidden agenda. When
Drury becomes the target of Syndicate assassins, and a troubled showgirl is
sadistically victimized, Heller stands up against the mob - not in court, but
with his own brand of rough justice.
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Highsmith, Carol M. and Ted Landphair,
CHICAGO: A Photographic Tour.
Crescent Books. NEW copy, Hardcover with dust jacket (coffee table size),
128 pages.
~~~ Chicago, A Photographic Tour is the
perfect souvenir for anyone familiar with
Chicago, and an excellent gift for anyone eager for a sense
of the strength and
style of this quintessential city of the American Midwest.
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Lowe, David Garrard,
LOST CHICAGO.
Watson-Guptill Publications. VG, coffee table sized PAPERBACK,
261 pages.
~~~ These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the
magical built environment - grand
residences, hotels, theaters, and department stores - that
thrilled generations
of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling
victim to the wrecking
ball of "progress."
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Monroe, Steve,
'57, CHICAGO.
Chicago: Talk Miramax Books. NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK, 226 pages.
~~~ In the tradition of James Ellroy and Elmore Leonard, a hard-boiled thriller set
in 1950s Chicago during the tense buildup to a high-stakes boxing match. Bobby
the Lip, a scheming down-on-his-luck sports promoter, intends to score big by
setting up--and fixing--a bout between Tomcat Gordon, the reigning heavyweight
champion, and Junior, a young black contender. But everyone wants a piece of the
action, and the Lip soon finds himself having to outsmart a hungry little crowd
of crooks, bookies, detectives, and mob goons.
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Paretsky, Sara,
BLACKLIST.
NEW copy, Hardcover with dust jacket.
Putnam Publishing Group, 415 pages.
~~~ In the wake of 9/11, Sara Paretsky examines the devastating effect of personal
fear set against an escalating climate of national paranoia and despair.
Blacklist, the 12th outing for Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski, is rife with
weighty themes, including terrorism, McCarthyism, and the never-ending fight to
preserve the First Amendment; but the author balances out the heaviness with
plenty of her trademark dark humor, one-line zingers, intense action, and
thrills galore.
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[Terkel], Tony Parker,
STUDS TERKEL: A LIFE IN WORDS. Henry Holt & Co,
1996., NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. "Studs Terkel: A Life in Words
is the story of a broadcasting and writing phenomenon and represents the
remarkable result of a sequence of meetings between the two supreme masters of
the tape-recorded interview, America's Studs Terkel and Britain's Tony Parker.
For forty years, Studs Terkel's daily radio talk show, based in Chicago, has won
him national recognition. His best-selling books, including Hard Times, Working,
and his Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Good War," are classics of oral history and
have brought him international fame. In this meeting of the maestros, Tony
Parker recounts Terkel's life story using Terkel's own method, that of the
tape-recorded interview. Through a kaleidoscope of voices - from John Kenneth
Galbraith, Mike Royko, and Calvin Trillin to Terkel's office assistant, his
family, friends, and the people with whom he's worked - the master interviewer
gradually emerges. But the soul of the book is found in Parker's extended
interviews with Terkel himself. This is the first biography with which Terkel
has cooperated, and in a series of fascinating conversations we come to know not
only the highlights of his life but also the personality of the man who can
discover the essence of people's lives in their answers to his questions."
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CLEVELAND,
Ohio
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Winegardner, Mark,
THE MIDNIGHT MAN.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Harvest Books, 565 pages.
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Two youngsters from different sides of the track meet in early 1950s Cleveland and carry their romance through to the tumultuous Sixties.
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DETROIT,
Michigan
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Estleman, Loren D.,
THE MIDNIGHT MAN.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Ibooks, 278 pages.
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An Amos Walker mystery. In Detroit's seamier side of life, Walker takes on a
case of vengeance that heads to terrorism and assassination.
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Estleman, Loren D.,
MOTOR CITY BLUE.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Ibooks, 244 pages.
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An Amos Walker mystery. Tough-talking Detroit detective Walker is hired by a
semi-retired gangster to find his enticing young ward--in 48 hours.
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Estleman, Loren D.,
THUNDER CITY.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Forge, 252 pages.
~~~
When the twentieth century was in its infancy, two things
were invented that
would spawn the two biggest industries in history. One was
the automobile. The
other was organized crime. Thunder City presents
Detroit in the process of
becoming Motor City. Harlan Crownover, scion of a great
family of carriage
makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run
by Henry Ford, who
has failed twice before in the automobile business.
Desperate for funds, Harlan
turns to Big Jim Dolan, the Midwest's most powerful
political boss, and Sal
Borneo, a visionary Mafioso struggling to bring the
commerce of vice into the
new century. Allies at first, they soon will be mortal
enemies. At the crisis,
only Edith Hampton Crownover, Harlan's troubled,
aristocratic mother, will be in
a position to shift the balance of power.
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LINCOLN,
Nebraska
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[Lincoln] James L. McKee,
LINCOLN, THE PRAIRIE CAPITAL: AN ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY.. Windsor Publications, 1988., NEW. PAPERBACK. 8.5x11.
Profusely illustrated with prints & photographs. Bibliography,
index, 123 pp.
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LOS ANGELES,
California
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Aulier, Dan,
THE VERTIGO MURDERS.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Simon & Schuster, 304 pages.
~~~ The year is 1957, and the sun-tanned
citizenry of Los Angeles is in the grip of
a bizarre series of murders. Alfred Hitchcock
is developing his latest film when
he receives a painting from an old friend and
director. Shortly after receiving
it, his friend turns up murdered, and the painting
becomes a clue to the
identity of the criminal who has paralyzed the city.
Joining forces with an LAPD
detective, Hitch sets out on a trail that takes the
pair from the mansions of
Beverly Hills to the haunts of forgotten starlets
and the docks of Long Beach
Harbor, as the mystery grows more and more like a
thrilling Hitchcock film
itself.
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Blance, Tony, Anthony T. Hernandez and Brad Schreiber,
DEATH IN PARADISE: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK.
Four Walls Eight Windows, 192 pages.
~~~ Unnatural celebrity deaths and unnaturally celebrated
murders pockmark the
history of Los Angeles, looming as large in the public
imagination as the
Hollywood stars themselves. Death in Paradise is
the first authorized history of
Los Angeles by way of its coroner's office, revisiting
important or high-profile
cases that remain shrouded in mystery. With many
never-before-published
photographs documenting the notorious deaths of Bobby
Kennedy, Sam Rummel,
Dorothy Dandridge, Bugsy Siegel, Sharon Tate, Janis
Joplin, and others, this
book presents an unflinching view of Tinseltown's
dark underbelly.
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Corwin, Miles,
HOMICIDE SPECIAL.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. Henry Holt & Company,
389 pp.
~~~ Los Angeles is a town of dreamers - and of those who prey on them. The scene of
innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called
Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial,
and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his
unprecedented access to this legendary unit to narrate six of its cases - and
capture its newest generation at work.
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Darden, Christopher, with Dick Lochte,
L.A. JUSTICE.
NEW copy, Warner Books, hardcover with dust jacket, 434 pages.
~~~ Murder has been committed in Hancock Park, last bastion of old-money Los
Angeles. A wealthy woman has been shot dead on the ground floor of a mansion.
The only other adult in the house is her inebriated lover, the dissolute younger
son of one of the city's top financiers, the eccentric Rudolph Bingham. Also in
the house is the woman's son, Adam, a 10-year-old computer game genius, who had
been asleep at the time of the killing. Now, Virgil Sykes, homicide detective
and Assistant D.A. Nikki Hill's lover, is handed the call. As the case takes on
deeper dimension and the forces of big money call in legal experts, Nikki
becomes involved in the complex prosecution of the younger Bingham...and
explores her maternal side as she begins to bond with young Adam.
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Loh, Sandra Tsing and Donald Rawley,
THE VIEW FROM BABYLON: The Notes of a Hollywood Voyeur.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. Warner Books,
204 pp.
~~~ Take an unforgettable journey through the extremes of Los Angeles, California,
where you'll see extravagant galas attended by the rich and famous who scoff at
nine-figure deals. Author Donald Rawley also takes readers beneath the city, to
hear the echoing cries of infants murdered by drug addicted parents, where
husbands kill themselves in hotel rooms and where marriages shatter over bank
accounts. The View from Babylon is an honest, disturbing voyage.
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Moore, Deborah D.,
TO THE GOLDEN CITIES.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Free Press.
~~~ Looks at the migration of post-World War II Jews to Miami and Los Angeles and
examines the new economic niches they carved out and the cultural institutions
they created there.
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Randall, Stephen,
THE OTHER SIDE OF MULHOLLAND.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket, 277 pages.
LA Weekly Books, hardcover with dust jacket.
~~~ In Stephen Randall's hilarious novel of manners and mores in modern Los Angeles,
twin brothers Perry and Tim Newman fight the ties that bind them to their pasts
on the other side of Mulholland while trying to make their mark in the teeming
competitive world spread out below the canyons.
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Sawhney, Deepak Narang,
UNMASKING L.A.: Third Worlds and the City.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK, 277 pages.
Palgrave MacMillan, 266 pages.
~~~ Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come
to define both the material and
spiritual force of American civilization. The American
dream is realized,
experienced, and lost in the City of Angels.
Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and
the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays,
dialogues, and photographs,
seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures,
and populations of Los
Angeles. It examines the social, political, cultural,
and literary climate of
the city, bringing together diverse responses to the
complexities facing Los
Angeles from respected intellectuals, writers, and
artists such as Mike Davis,
Deepak Chopra, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. By
uncovering the forces that
marginalize Los Angeles's ever-shifting populations
into internal third worlds,
the collection unmasks the raw contradictions, the grim
paradoxes, and the
understated ironies of the global city.
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Shah, Diane K.,
HIGH-HEEL BLUE.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. Simon & Schuster,
318 pp.
~~~ The city of Los Angeles is reeling in the wake of a series of brutal slayings
that are clearly the handiwork of one killer who obsessively trademarks his
crime scenes, secluded ATM machines, by leaving a pair of handcuffs in the
pooling blood of his female victims. Brenden Harlow, one of the few women in the
stridently male elite Metro Division of the LAPD, is assigned to decoy duty in
the department's increasingly frantic attempts to stop the serial killer. She
soon finds herself mired in contradictory clues and senses her higher-ups are
withholding the information she needs to do her job. As her relationship with
the disturbingly uncommunicative "Operation ATM" command staff becomes strained
and her personal life rapidly deteriorates, Brenden finds herself too often at
the First Base Saloon in an effort to keep from becoming unglued. When she
starts receiving threatening phone calls on her unlisted number from someone who
knows too much about her and details of the crimes she is tracking, Brenden
knows she will be forced to face the killer alone.
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Spiotta, Dana,
LIGHTNING FIELD.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. Scribner Book Company,
219 pp.
~~~ The Los Angeles Dana Spiotta evokes in her bold and strangely lyrical first
novel is a land of Spirit Gyms and Miracle Miles, a great centerless place where
chains of reference get lost, or finally don't matter. Mina lives with her
screenwriter husband and works at her best friend Lorene's highly successful
concept restaurants, which exploit the often unconscious desires and
idiosyncrasies of a rich, chic clientele. Almost inadvertently, Mina has
acquired two lovers. And then there are the other men in her life: her father, a
washed-up Hollywood director living in a yurt and hiding from his debtors, and
her disturbed brother, Michael, whose attempts to connect with her force Mina to
consider that she might still have a heart - if only she could remember where
she had left it. Between her Spiritual Exfoliation and Detoxification therapies
and her elaborate devotion to style, Lorene is interested only in charting her
own perfection and impending decay. Although supremely confident in a million
shallow ways, she, too, starts to fray at the edges. And there is Lisa, a loving
mother who cleans houses, scrapes by, and dreams of food terrorists and child
abductors, until even the most innocent events seem to hint at dark
possibilities.
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Stansberry, Domenic,
MANIFESTO FOR THE DEAD.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK, St Martin's Press, 184 pages.
~~~ Manifesto for the Dead is a fictional
memoir of pulp novelist Jim Thompson. It's
1971, and Jim is drinking away the end of his days in the
bars of Los Angeles'
seamy streets. He's approached by a small-time producer,
Billy Miracle, with an
offer to work on a script about the murder-for-hire of a
film exec's girlfriend.
Without options, he begins work on the script but soon
finds himself at the
center of a lurid triangle involving a dead starlet and
a powerful producer.
Nightmarish and terrifying, it seems Thompson's life is
beginning to imitate his
art, as if he's become a character in one of his own
stories. Manifesto for the
Dead is top-notch noir blended with biography,
fiction, suspense, and satire.
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Wright, Edward,
THE SILVER FACE.
NEW copy, TRADE PAPERBACK. Orion,
314 pp.
~~~ John Ray Horn has had about as much trouble in life as a man can stand. He was
once Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of cheap Westerns.
Now, after a spell in prison he lives on the margins of 1940s Los Angeles. In
the early evening of an LA autumn, the air has a harsh edge to it - a hint that
somewhere in the hills, a slow-moving fire is eating at the dry grass. And there
is another source of unease - the news that subpoenas are appearing all over
Hollywood, orders to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
John Ray is approached by Maggie O' Dare, an old friend and former lover. She
has a favor to ask: Will Bruder, a brilliantly talented but notoriously
difficult screenwriter, has been called to testify before the committee. Bruder
is accused of having belonged to the Communist Party - a claim he strongly
denies. If John Ray can discover Bruder's secret accuser, they might have a
chance to clear his name. But no one is willing to talk. People are scared -
perhaps more frightened than they were in the depression, or even the war.
Hollywood has become a place driven by fear and suspicion, where a name,
whispered in anger or malice, can see an innocent man persecuted. And now
there's no mistaking the smell of fire in the air. It is just over the
mountains, still unseen, but it's coming this way...
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MIAMI,
Florida
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Coffey, Tom,
MIAMI TWILIGHT.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
Atria Books, 292 pages.
~~~ Illicit thoughts run incessantly through the mind of Garrett Doherty,
a Miami-based PR executive who is jeopardizing his marriage, his career, and possibly
his life because of his fascination with a mysterious beauty named Magdalena. Their
affair and his shady business dealings have connected Doherty to notorious Cuban
expatriate and land developer Ernesto Rodriguez, a man whose long associations with
U.S. intelligence agencies and the international underworld have placed him in the
center of the anti-Castro movement and a far-reaching cocaine empire. Rodriguez wants
Doherty to help him promote Tierra Grande, a gated playground for millionaires, and
his final shot at a legitimate legacy. As Doherty's obsession with Magdalena consumes
more and more of him, he is pulled into the violent dealings and double-crosses that
just may be the handiwork of his alluring temptress. Will Doherty follow his fixation
to a new life...or to a cold grave?
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NEW ORLEANS,
Louisiana
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Bradley, John Ed,
MY JULIET.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Doubleday.
~~~
My Juliet tells the story of a struggling artist, Sonny LaMott, and his obsessive
love for Juliet Beauvais, who is Thanatos and Eros all
balled up into one nasty,
irresistible package. Juliet returns to New Orleans after her years as an
"actress" in California, thinking that her mother is about to die and that she
will inherit the family mansion. But Juliet discovers she's been tricked by her
mother, so this most fatale of femmes seeks out the
damaged Sonny, who still
can't resist her fifteen years after she crushed his heart. With ease,
Juliet
seduces him anew, nefarious purposes in mind.
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Hall, Barbara,
A SUMMONS TO NEW ORLEANS.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Simon & Schuster, 286
pages.
~~~
Drawn from the author's own experience, A Summons to New Orleans
is a wonderfully written and beautifully crafted novel of three women and
their fateful reunion that propels each one to search her past -- together
their shocking revelations test the true limits of loyalty, friendship and trust.
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Hiss, Elizabeth Starr,
THE BANJO PLAYER.
NEW copy. Viking Books, 197 pages.
In 1888, adopted by a farming couple outside of New Orleans, twelve-year-old
orphan Jonathan must choose between security and the excitement of performing as
a musician along the river. Ages 10 to 14.
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Lochte, Dick,
THE NEON SMILE.
NEW copy. Hardcover with
dust jacket. Simon & Schuster, 332 pages.
~~~
When Terry Manion, the New Orleans private investigator
introduced in Blue
Bayou, agrees to work for Pierre Reynaldo, the king of
exploitation TV, he
doesn't have a clue about what he's getting into. Reynaldo
wants to reopen a
case the police slammed shut thirty years ago - the
racially motivated murder of
Tyrone Pano, a black militant leader. But the more Manion
learns about the case,
the more personal it becomes. Both Manion's father and his
revered mentor, J. J.
Legendre, had ties to Pano that might have been better left
buried. The Neon
Smile takes the reader back to 1965, a fateful year
for J. J. Legendre. It is
then that Legendre, a young and cynical homicide detective,
tackles both the
Pano case and a series of brutal murders committed by a
killer as clever as he
is cold-blooded. Each victim is found with a voodoo doll,
the signature
previously employed by a nineteenth-century murderer
known as the "Meddler".
Legendre connects past and present to end the Meddler's
new reign of terror. But
things are never what they seem in the Big Easy, and
three decades later Manion
must make a couple of connections his mentor missed -
between the Meddler
killings and the Pano case, between the violent unrest of
the sixties and
today's more subtle racial politics.
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[Rice] Joy Dickinson,
HAUNTED CITY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Citadel Press.
~~~
This newly updated guide offers a walking tour of all New Orleans hotels, grave sites, streets, and places mentioned or evoked in Anne Rice's novels. Maps & photos.
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[Rice] Jana Marcus,
IN THE SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE: Reflections from the World of Anne Rice.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Publishers Group West. Introduction by Katherine Ramsland. Photographs.
~~~Anne Rice has single-handedly re-popularized the vampire genre for a massive international audience of every age and social class. In The Shadow of the Vampire offers a close up view of her devotees and disciples, fangs and all. Over 100 photographs from Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans as well as other events serve as a portrait of this growing subculture. The photographs illustrate the themes the readers relate to in their fantasies and everyday lives and the extremes to which they will go to be close to their mentor. The subjects of the photographs, the fans themselves, explain in accompanying interviews their spiritual relationships to romance, eroticism, loneliness, bloodlust or outsider status of the characters in the book. From the people who sleep in coffins to the teenage Goth-rockers to the HIV-positive man who found a deep allegorical comfort in the vampire Lestat, their responses range from the burlesque to the sublime.
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Rice, Christopher,
A DENSITY OF SOULS.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Miramax Books, 307 pages.
~~~ A Density Of Souls is the story of four high school friends in present-day New
Orleans who are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder. Meredith,
Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between
friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances.
Brandon and Greg gain popularity as football jocks and Meredith joins the
bulimic in-crowd, while Stephen is treated as an outcast and is the target of
homophobia. Then two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared.
Five years later the friends are drawn back together and what was held to be a
tragic accident is discovered to be murder. Other secrets begin to unravel and
the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten
an entire city.
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Welty, Eudora,
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Book-of-the-Month-Club. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 180 pages.
~~~
Laurel McKelva Hand, a war widow in her mid-forties who has left the South and
returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father, a prominent retired
judge, is undergoing surgery for a "little disturbance" in his vision. After her
father's sudden but not completely unexpected death, Laurel and her slightly
younger and very self-absorbed stepmother, Fay, go back still farther, to Mount
Salus, the small Mississippi town where Laurel grew up, for Judge McKelva's
funeral, a raucous affair attended by many family friends and Fay's Texas
relatives. But afterward, while spending time in her childhood home, now
inhabited only by brash and unpolished Fay, with whom she battles over a damaged
breadboard that had once belonged to her dad mother, Laurel finally comes to an
understanding of the past, her parents, her marriage, and herself.
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NEW YORK,
New York
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$14.95
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Buff, Sheila,
NATURE WALKS IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Appalachian Mountain Club, 350
pages.
~~~
Dozens of easily accessible getaways in near-to-home locations with detailed
descriptions, photographs and maps, expert notes on flora and fauna, driving
and parking instruction, history, anecdotes, and useful suggestions. Discover
more than 40 self-guided nature walks in parks and preserves from Central Park
to Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, and more. The nature to be found is
astounding - special emphasis on bird-watching.
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Butler, Rev. John,
CHURCHYARDS OF TRINITY PARISH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1657 - 1969.
NY: Corporation of Trinity Church, 1969. VG--
(light rubbing to wrappers). TRADE PAPERBACK;
illustrations; scarce. 1st (of this) edition.
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$35.00
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Gray, Christopher, and Suzanne Braley,
NEW YORK STREETSCAPES: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks.
NEW copy.
TRADE Oversized PAPERBACK, Harry N. Abrams, 447 pages.
~~~
Christopher Gray's engaging tales of historic Gotham locales transport
readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York.
The noted
architectural historian, who writes the popular "Streetscapes" column
in The New
York Times, here gathers 190 of the best-loved of those columns to
captivate readers with his wealth of information about sites and
buildings and the intriguing lives of the people connected to them. From the Bridge Cafe (New
York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary
War-era
Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on
both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his witty, urbane
essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph. Gray's
vast enthusiasm and love
for New York's vast architecture is evident in all that he writes, as
is his concern for the preservation of the city's architectural
treasures.
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Hopkinson, Deborah,
SHUTTING OUT THE SKY: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1915.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Orchard Books, 133
pages. (children's book)
~~~
Acclaimed author Hopkinson recounts the lives of five immigrants to New
York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative.
We hear Romanian-born Marcus Ravage's disappointment when his aunt
pushes him outside to peddle chocolates on the street. And about the
pickle cart lady who stored her pickles in a rat-infested basement. We
read Rose Cohen's terrifying account of living through the Triangle
Shirtwaist fire, and of Pauline Newman's struggles to learn English.
But through it all, each one of these kids keeps working,
keeps hoping, to achieve their own American dream. Ages 8-12.
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Kessner, Thomas,
CAPITAL CITY: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Simon & Schuster, 396
pages.
~~~
We take it for granted today that New York City is the nation's financial capital.
But why New York? Why not Boston or Philadelphia, Baltimore or Charleston - or any
other East Coast cities? In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of how an
undistinguished port city rose to become the center of finance in the United States
- and the world.
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Monkkonen, Eric H.,
MURDER IN NEW YORK CITY.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, University of California Press, 238
pages.
~~~
Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban
homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's
unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's big city,
combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other documentary sources
to tease out the story behind the figures.
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Sagalyn, Lynne B.,
TIMES SQUARE ROULETTE: Remaking the City Icon.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, MIT Press, 620
pages.
~~~
The compelling story of the politics, policies, and
personalities that made
Times Square's revitalization possible.
~~~ Currently in print at $59.95.
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Wolfman, Ira,
JEWISH NEW YORK: A Guide to a 350-year-old Community.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Universe Publishing, 93
pages.
~~~
A beautifully illustrated guide to Jewish life in the metropolis: Jewish New York
celebrates Jewish life in New York City from the seventeenth century to the
present, through a selection of photographs, memorabilia, souvenirs,
manuscripts, postcards, maps, and much more.
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PHILADELPHIA,
Pennsylvania
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Flander, Scott,
FOUR TO MIDNIGHT. NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
William Morrow & Company, 312 pages.
~~~ When a black city councilman is badly beaten on a West Philadelphia
street and blames two of Sergeant Eddie North's best cops, they deny it. Called to
the scene, Eddie - uncertain of what really happened - decides to back his men and
finds himself accused of a conspiracy to cover up the truth. The media, the
politicians, and the public are outraged. And then a man in a black ski mask
begins a campaign to assassinate cops. As Eddie races to learn what was really
behind the beating, more trouble erupts. A fellow sergeant has taken advantage
of the tension in the city and formed a ring of corrupt officers that includes
one of the two cops for whom Eddie is risking everything. The widening conflict
between the police and the black community is mirrored by the battle of cop against
cop. And with the stakes so high, there are no winners . . . just those strong
enough - and lucky enough - to survive.
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PITTSBURGH,
Pennsylvania
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Silvis, Randall, DISQUIET HEART. DETECTIVE FICTION. NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. Thomas Dunne Books, 322 pages. "After the death of his beloved wife, a devastated Poe decides that a change of scenery is in order. He has been invited to Pittsburgh by a wealthy benefactor, Dr. Alfred Brunrichter, a man of intriguing contradiction who on the one hand was fascinated by subjects so macabre that even Poe did not wish to consider, while on the other hand was solicitous of Poe's comfort in every regard and was a local philanthropist and patron of the arts. Augie Dubbins, now a young man in search of adventure, joins Poe in order to keep an eye on his increasingly maudlin friend.
After an exhausting journey across the length of Pennsylvania, their first glimpse of Pittsburgh is not a heartening one. The city, a tight triangle of enterprise squeezed between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, is gray with factory smoke; its riverbanks clogged with barges, streamboats and freighters, choked with log rafts from the denuded forests farther north. It is at every turn a working-class city, gritty and rough. Moreover, the air of Pittsburgh reeks of death - a cholera epidemic has recently swept through the city, killing hundreds - and Poe and Augie soon learn the real reason behind the city's malaise.
Several young females, all attractive women in their late teens, have disappeared over the past six months. All are of the merchant class - not among the cultural elite but not outright prostitutes either. With Poe almost incapacitated by the lavish attention of their host, Augie finds himself exploring Pittsburgh on his own and begins to investigate the killings.
With great attention to period detail and utilizing all of his skill as a seasoned novelist, Randall Silvis once again crafts awonderful historical thriller that will leave you gripping the edge of your seats."
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Wideman, John Edgar,
SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Mariner Books, 208 pages.
~~~
Winner of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction,
Sent for You Yesterday
is the stunning first book in John Edgar Wideman's
highly acclaimed Homewood
trilogy. Reimagining Homewood, the black
Pittsburgh neighborhood of his youth,
Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu.
From the wild and uninhibited
1920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes a
mythological and symbolic link
between character and landscape, language and plot"
(New York Times).
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Wideman, John Edgar,
TWO CITIES.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Houghton Mifflin Company, 107 pages.
~~~
Two Cities is a redemptive, healing love
story that brings to brilliant
culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has
developed in fourteen previous
acclaimed books. It is a novel of bridges - bridges
spanning the rivers of
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, bridges arching over
the rifts that have divided
our communities, our country, and our hearts.
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Wilson, August,
JITNEY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Overlook Press, 96 pages.
~~~
A thoroughly revised version of a play August Wilson
first wrote in 1979, Jitney
was produced in New York for the first time in the
spring of 2000, winning rave
reviews and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
as the Best Play of the
Year. Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District,
and depicting gypsy
cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney
is the seventh in Wilson's
projected 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the
black experience in
twentieth century America. He writes not about
historical events or the
pathologies of the black community, but, as he says,
about "the unique
particulars of black culture . . . I wanted to place
this culture onstage in all
its richness and fullness and to demonstrate
its ability to sustain us . . .
through profound moments in our history in which the
larger society has thought
less of us than we have thought of ourselves".
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Wilson, August,
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Plume Books, 94 pages.
~~~
When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh
boarding house after
seven years impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain
gang, he is a free man - in body.
But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of
inescapable alienation oppress
his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable
rooming house seethes with
tension and distrust in the presence of this
tormented stranger. Loomis is
looking for the wife he left behind, believing that
she can help him reclaim his
old identity. But through his encounters with the
other residents he begins to
realize that what he really seeks is his rightful
place in a new world - and it
will take more than the skills of the local "People
Finder" to discover it.
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Wilson, August,
SEVEN GUITARS.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Plume Books, 107 pages.
~~~
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool
evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill
district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster
crows and screen doors slam.
The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card
game rises just above the
wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the
sound of the blues,
played and sung by young men and women with little
more than a guitar in their
hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's
Seven Guitars is the sixth
chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that
explores the hope, heartbreak,
and heritage of the African-American experience in
the twentieth century. The
story follows a small group of friends who gather
following the untimely death
of Floyd Barton, a local blues guitarist on the
edge of stardom. Together, they
reminisce about his short life and discover the
unspoken passions and undying
spirit that live within each of them.
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ROCHESTER,
New York
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Kelly, Jack,
MOBTOWN. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket,
Hyperion Books, 271
pages.
~~~ Kelly sets this novel in Rochester, New York,
circa 1959. Kelly's Rochester is a
dark and glamorous place, not unlike Los Angeles in the
forties - filled with
dapper mobsters and slightly dangerous, mysterious women.
Rochester is home to,
among others, gangsters, a dead heiress, and a savvy
private detective named Ike
Van Savage. Enter a beautiful mystery woman in the flesh,
the wife of a
notorious local gangster, who believes her husband is
out to kill her. Van
Savage takes on the case despite its dangers - perhaps
even because of them -
and finds himself drawn into a dark world of seduction,
suspicion, and violence.
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SANTA BARBARA,
California
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$25.00
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MacDonald, Ross,
SLEEPING BEAUTY. VG/VG--. Some chipping & creasing
to jacket (see photo), which is in a mylar protector. Slight cock to spine of book, which is otherwise clean. Book Club Edition,
Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, 280 pages.
~~~ The New York Times Book Review has called the novels of Ross Macdonald "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American."
And Eudora Welty says of his detective hero, Lew Archer, "He is of today, one of ours."
Ross Macdonald's new Lew Archer novel -- his first since his best-selling and brilliantly acclaimed The
Underground Man and The Goodbye Look -- is itself strikingly "of today", of this moment in America.
Sleeping Beauty plunges Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a
disastrous oil spill on the coast of Southern California. It involves him with three generations of the imposing Lennox family whose offshore oil platform has caused the spill; whose young heiress, glimpsed for a haunting moment
on the beach -- handsome, angry-eyed, clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms --
has disappeared...
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[MacDonald], Nolan, Tom,
ROSS MACDONALD. NEW copy,
hardcover with dust jacket. Scribner Book Co., 496 pages. Introduction by Sue Grafton.
~~~ When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded
crime-fiction writer in America. Now, in the first full-length biography of this
extraordinary and influential writer, a much fuller picture emerges of a man to
whom hiding things came as second nature.
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SEATTLE,
Washington
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Hecht, Daniel,
CITY OF MASKS.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Cree Black, 438
pages.
~~~
Cree Black didn't believe in ghosts until she encountered her dead husband. Now
she not only sees ghosts, she feels, hears, and even talks to them. Seeking
answers to life's mysteries as well as to riddles from her past, she's putting
her newfound abilities to use. Based out of Seattle, Cree and her partner are
detectives of the spirit, scientific ghost busters who study ghosts as they try
to exorcise them from people's lives. But the ghost in their latest client's
life has Cree fearing for her own.
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Moody, Fred,
SEATTLE AND THE DEMONS OF AMBITION.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, St. Martin's Press, 303
pages.
~~~
A fascinating yet unsettling account of the transformation of America's
most
conflicted city. Once a paradise for artists, slackers,
and utopians, Seattle's
spectacular ocean and mountain scenery has long beckoned
to those seeking an
ideal city. Seattle and the Demons of Ambition
tracks the astonishing ten years
during which Seattle became the "it" destination for new
urbanites - and began
to lose the struggle for its soul. Tracing the rise of
Microsoft, Starbucks,
Amazon, and other avatars of the new economy, balanced
against the growing
homelessness, child abuse, and cultural disenchantment that
culminated in the
1999 World Trade Organization riots, Fred Moody offers a
remarkable account of
urban boosterism and underground rage. Seattle's struggle
with itself mirrors
our larger American dilemma, where technology and
development build wealth, but
leave behind troubling human consequences that go
unnoticed at our peril.
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WASHINGTON,
District of Columbia
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Eliach, Yaffa,
THERE ONCE WAS A WORLD.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Little Brown & Company, 818 pages.
~~~
In the soaring, three-story space that is the Tower of Life
at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., sixteen
hundred photographs
collected by the historian Yaffa Eliach give face to a
murdered people. In There
Once Was a World, Eliach brilliantly and movingly records
the history of that
people. Nineteen years of scholarship, a poet's ear, and a
storyteller's voice
have yielded what is perhaps the richest, fullest, most
detailed portrait of
Eastern Jewish life that we will ever have, a book that
encompasses both the
sweep of history and an intimate view of the day-to-day
lives of generations of
small-town Jews, in all their uniqueness and universality.
Eliach's own roots in
Eishyshok - she is a descendant of one of the five
founding families and herself
one of only twenty-nine survivors - give her work an
unrivaled depth and
passion.
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Solomon, Burt,
THE WASHINGTON CENTURY: Three Families and the Shaping
of the Nation's Capitol.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, William Morrow & Company, 498 pages.
~~~
Solomon focuses on the families of three individuals -
black activist Julius
Hobson Sr., southern congressman Hale Boggs, and
real-estate developer Morris
Cafritiz - to reveal various perspectives in our
nation's capital during the
last century. Solomon juxtaposes the lives of these
families with
administrations from Roosevelt through Clinton, providing
perspectives that
allow for a panoramic view of Washington, D.C.
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$23.95
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Williams, Edward Christopher,
WHEN WASHINGTON WAS IN VOGUE.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Amistad Press, 285 pages.
~~~
When Washington Was in Vogue casts a loving but
critical eye on Black high
society of 1920s Washington, D.C. A novel told in letters,
this sly, humorous
story was first published anonymously in the Black journal
The Messenger from
1925 to 1926. This is the first time When Washington
Was in Vogue is being
published as a book.
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