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  • ARIA OF THE SEA. by Calhoun, Dia.
    Calhoun, Dia.
    ARIA OF THE SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Florida & NY: Winslow Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults which blends fantasy and adventure with a coming-of-age story. This is set on the island of Normost in the kingdom of Windward, where 13 year old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Gennady Spirin. ISBN: 1890817252.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional bookmark laid in.

    Book ID: 50565
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  • WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVING ME? by Chambers, Veronica
    Chambers, Veronica
    WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVING ME?

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first novel - third book - a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone and her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone. One reviewer noted that "Chambers paints a vivid image of the political and socio-economic climate of New York in the early 1980s. The most entertaining and heartfelt scenes of this novel come when Angela describes her parents' riveting admiration for Assata Shakur's escape from prison, or her father's sense of pure joy at meeting Muhammad Ali after performing at a PBS telethon to benefit the United Negro College Fund." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88681
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  • CATCH A FALLING STAR. by Culbertson, Kim.
    Culbertson, Kim.
    CATCH A FALLING STAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Point / Scholastic, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel: "Nothing ever happens in Little, CA. Which is just the way Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star turned PR mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. .. . [and Carter gets a] secret offer of a lifetime: playing the role of Adam's girlfriend while he's in town, to improve his public image, in exchange for a hefty paycheck. Her family really needs the money and so Carters agrees. But it turns out Adam isn't at all who she thought he was. As they grow closer, their relationship walks a blurry line between what's real and what's fake." SIGNED on the title page. 299 pp. ISBN: 978-0545627047.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 72227
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  • LIFE DRAWING. by Grumley, Michael (1942-1988), Introduction by Edmund White.
    Grumley, Michael (1942-1988), Introduction by Edmund White.
    LIFE DRAWING.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Grove Press, (1991). Grumley's first (and only) novel, published posthumously - a semi-autobiographical coming of age story of a young gay man, set mostly in New Orleans and in California. Introduction by Edmund White and afterword by George Stambolian. Both the introduction and the informative afterword put the novel in the context of Grumley's career as one of the founding members of the Violet Quill and his life as partner to the writer Robert Ferro, both AIDS victims. 156 pp.

    Condition: Very good.

    Book ID: 83804
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  • MEMORY OF DEPARTURE. by Gurnah, Abdulrazak.
    Gurnah, Abdulrazak.
    MEMORY OF DEPARTURE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tanzanian author's first novel, a bitter but poetic and haunting coming of age story set in a squalid seaport in East Africa. When it appeared in England, the Times called it "159 pages of sheer joy and magic. The story is deceptively simple..." In 2021, Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." 159 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Bascove. ISBN: 0-8021-10185.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83978
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  • Guy, Rosa.
    MIRROR OF HER OWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, 1981, dj. Hardcover first edition - Coming of age novel set in the African American upper class social world of Oak Bluff on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-440-05513X.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (remainder spray, tear on back cover of dj, crease to flap.)

    Book ID: 18645
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  • GIRL IN TRANSLATION. by Kwok, Jean.
    Kwok, Jean.
    GIRL IN TRANSLATION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story about "an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings." Kwok herself immigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, and worked with her family in a sweatshop. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487569.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 78825
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  • THE ORCHARD ON FIRE. by Mackay, Shena.
    Mackay, Shena.
    THE ORCHARD ON FIRE.

    Edition: First edition, as stated

    Wakefield, Rhode Island & London: Moyer Bell, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in a small English village in the 1950s, this is the story of 8 year old April Harlency's coming of age, despite encountering prejudice, gossip and child abuse. The third novel by this New Zealand writer, 215 pp. ISBN: 155921-175X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 59497
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  • COIN LOCKER BABIES by Murikami, Ryu
    Murikami, Ryu
    COIN LOCKER BABIES

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kodansha International, (1995). First edition - A surreal tale of the search for identity, by the only two surviving "coin locker babies" - infants abandoned by their mothers at birth in the public lockers of train stations. The third novel by this innovative Japanese writer, winner of the 3rd Noma Liberal Arts New Member Prize. 395 pp. A very uncommon advance issue.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 7290
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  • JOHN THE REVELATOR. by Murphy, Peter.
    Murphy, Peter.
    JOHN THE REVELATOR.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - "This is the story of John Devine - stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeast Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, bible-quoting mother. . . " Irish author's very highly praised first novel - Colm Toibin called it "an absolutely wonderful novel . . so original and so disturbing and so brave..." 254 pp. ISBN: 9780151014026.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 45344
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  • SNOW ANGELS. by O'Nan, Stewart.
    O'Nan, Stewart.
    SNOW ANGELS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, (1994.). First edition - His first novel, second book (his first book, a collection of short stories was winner of the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize ),winner of the Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for this novel. Set in Western Pennsylvania in 1974, this 'weaves together two haunting stories.' O'Nan was named one of America's young novelists by Granta Magazine. 305 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in printed white wrappers (a bit of crinkling to bottom of front cover.)

    Book ID: 50487
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  • TO SIBERIA. by Petterson, Per (translated by Anne Born).
    Petterson, Per (translated by Anne Born).
    TO SIBERIA.

    Edition: First US printing.

    St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in rural Denmark during World War II, this was originally translated into English in 1998, but not published in the US until this edition. The narrator "vividly captures that unease which undercuts the adolescent's sense of expanding physical powers" - "The book builds up slowly, casting a spell of beauty and devastation that matches the bleak but dazzling climate that enshrouds Sistermine's young life." [Publishers Weekly] SIGNED by Petterson on the title page. Translated by Anne Born from the Norwegian. 245 pp. ISBN: 9781555975067.

    Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (tiny remainder dot, appears unread.)

    Book ID: 54442
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  • Radley, Paul John.
    JACK RIVERS & ME.

    Edition: First US printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First edition - Winner of the Australian Vogel award, the first book in the Boomeroo trilogy.

    Condition: Good overall - edge wear, crease along edge front cover, prev owner's name)

    Book ID: 14464
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  • MY BLUE-CHECKER CORKER AND ME. by Radley, Paul John.
    Radley, Paul John.
    MY BLUE-CHECKER CORKER AND ME.

    Edition: First US printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First edition - The second book in the author's award-winning Boomeroo trilogy - a "racy, rambunctious, coming of age story" set in New South Wales, Australia. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-899194729.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79094
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  • THE PATTERNS OF PAPER MONSTERS. by Rathbone, Emma.
    Rathbone, Emma.
    THE PATTERNS OF PAPER MONSTERS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay Books, (2010). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, issued as a trade paperback original, an uncommon coming-of-age story - "a dispatch from the teenage wasteland of a juvenile detention center, fervidly delivered by Emma Rathbone's irreverent, perceptive, and achingly funny young hero, Jacob Higgins. He refuses to succumb to the numbness and absurdity of his incarceration, in turn holding a jagged mirror shard to adolescence, failed relationships, and life in modern America. A voice that is at once heartbreaking and hilarious, and startlingly true."
    (author Lydia Peelle) 206 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88305
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  • FERAL, NORTH CAROLINA 1965. by Saraceno, June Sylvester.
    Saraceno, June Sylvester.
    FERAL, NORTH CAROLINA 1965.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Atlanta: SFK Press/ Southern Fried Karma, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story - "Ten-year-old Willie Mae doesn't just live near the town of Feral; she's a bit feral herself. Spending her days eavesdropping, exploring on her bike, and avoiding her brutish big brother, she's determined to uncover the secrets adults are clearly trying to keep from her. Raised in a Holy Roller family, Willie discovers bleak realities and heart-wrenching lessons that shake her to the core of her soul." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 119 pp. ISBN: 978-1970137811.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88257
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  • BURIED ONIONS. by Soto, Gary.
    Soto, Gary.
    BURIED ONIONS.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1997.) dj. Hardcover - A young adult novel of a Mexican American kid trying to survive in a violence invested neighborhood in Fresno.SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best wishes." List of Spanish words, 148 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53380
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  • EDEN. by Vernon, Olympia.
    Vernon, Olympia.
    EDEN.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young black girl in the Deep South who comes to confront the realities of sex, race, disease, and the brutal finality of death, as she watches her tough, strong-minded aunt waste away. 263 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers.

    Book ID: 63473
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  • SO B. IT. by Weeks, Sarah.
    Weeks, Sarah.
    SO B. IT.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2004). Hardcover - An unusual coming-of-age story of a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents . . "everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery, but when a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past." Basis for the film of the same name. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-066236223.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79479
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