Kaye Around The World Story Book

Gibbons, Kaye. CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE . New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993
8vo - over 7¾" - 9" tall 0-399-13791-2 Signed by Author First edition. 8vo (5 1/2" x 8 1/4"). 254 pages. Cloth-backed boards. Beige cloth-covered spine, gilt lettering, beige paper-covered boards, gilt design stamped on front board (hardcover binding). Floral-patterned endpapers. CONDITION: Short green remainder stripe of bottom edge of pages (parallel with base of spine), else Near Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket. Signed generic inscription from the author at the top edge of the title page: "All thanks - Kaye Gibbons, June 22, 1999." "Women of grace and gumption bloom in the pages of Kaye Gibbons's fiction: The title character of Ellen Foster, her debut novel, was dubbed by Walker Percy "a southern Holden Caulfield." A Virtuous Woman prompted Reynolds Price to write, "Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of a love that easily outlasts death." And in A Cure for Dreams, wrote Josephine Humphreys, Gibbons "reveals how men's ways require [the] courage of women." In this, her fourth novel in six years, she gives life to her most passionate and tough-minded women yet:. Charlie Kate, out of nineteenth-century rural North Carolina, a self-proclaimed doctor who treats everything - leprosy, malaria, even lovesick blues - with her roots and herbs, and advises the adolescent girls she "caught" at birth that "kissing's fine, nothing more than uptown shopping on downtown business." Sophia, her daughter, who has inherited her mother's singular wisdom and will, putting them in service to her desire to control the world around her and land the man of her choice. Margaret, the narrator, Charlie Kate's granddaughter, whose struggle toward adulthood is complicated by the home-front demands of World War II and whose longing to defy heredity leads her to the happy discovery that for her, too, passion is the natural and most blessed gift. Here, in Charms for the Easy Life, a timeless story of three generations of fiery women, Kaye Gibbons proves once again that, as Elizabeth Spencer has said, "she knows how to speak to our hearts.".

First Edition, Hard Cover with Dust Jacket,

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Bear, Greg: Darwin's Children, Del Rey June 1, 2004 ISBN: 0345448367
Darwin's Children, Greg Bear's follow-up to Darwin's Radio, is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. It's no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in Darwin's Radio is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what's going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre "virus children." Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, and the world has to figure out what to do with them. The answer is evil and all too human, as governments put the kids in camps to protect regular folks from imagined dangers. Mitch and Kaye, scientists whose daughter Stella is swept up in the fray, become unwillingly involved in the politics that erupt around the issue of the new humans. Harrowing chases, gun battles, epidemics, and tense meetings about civil rights ensue, all brilliantly narrated. But just when you think you've got the book figured out, Bear throws a massive curveball by introducing... religion. That's right, a good old-fashioned epiphany, plopped down in the middle of a hard science fiction novel. But even skeptical readers will be swept along with Kaye as she tries to deal with what's happening to her and how it relates to the fate of her daughter's species. Keep reading past the words that make you uncomfortable--the hot science, the cool spirituality--and you'll be rewarded with a story of complete and moving humanity. --Therese Littleton

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Gibbons, Kaye. CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]
254 pages. Cloth-backed boards. Beige cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, beige paper-covered boards, gilt design stamped on front board (hardcover binding). Floral-patterned endpapers. Dust jacket design by Louise Fili. "Women of grace and gumption bloom in the pages of Kay Gibbons's fiction...In this, her fourth novel in six years, she gives life to her most passionate and tough-minded women yet: Charlie Kate, out of nineteenth-century rural North Carolina, a self-proclaimed doctor who treats everything - leprosy, malaria, even lovesick blues - with her roots and herbs, and advises the adolescent girls she "caught" at birth that "kissing's fine, nothing more than uptown shopping on downtown business." Sophia, her daughter, who has inherited her mother's singular wisdom and will, putting them in service to her desire to control the world around her and land the man of her choice. Margaret, the narrator, Charlie Kate's granddaughter, whose struggle toward adulthood is complicated by the homefront demands of World War II and whose longing to defy heredity leads her to the happy discovery that for her, too, passion is the natural and most blessed gift. Here, in CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE, a timeless story of three generations of fiery women, Kaye Gibbons proves once again that, as Elizabeth Spencer has said, "she knows how to speak to our hearts." ISBN 0-399-13791-2.. First edition (with the line of printing numbers on the copyright page beginning with "1"). 8vo (5 5/8" x 8 1/4").

As New book in like dust jacket

[SW: KEYWORDS: *Literature *Novel *Fiction *North Carolina *Southern Author,]

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Danny Kaye's Around the World Story Book, NY Random House 1960
Very Good- Various Artists

Illustrated throughout with color drawings and art. Pages clean, unmarked, no serious weaknesses to binding [fore-edge seam split], and square. Green boards, bright gilt lettering over red, red spine, bright gilt lettering over black, a little shelf wear and discoloration around edges, a little soiling. Decorated endpapers with PO's name. Oversize book, ships at regular Media Mail rates, but additional PRIORITY shipping charges may apply. No Jacket Quarter Cloth 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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