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WITH OR WITHOUT YOU: A Memoir.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013). Hardcover - The author's first book, an account of an unconventional coming of age in the 1990s. "Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. . despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by." 207 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993240.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79310More details Price: $15.00 -
BUFFALO NICKEL: A MEMOIR.
Edition: First printing.
Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This coming of age account of a young man at first following his older brother into a life of crime and drug use, and then struggling to save himself (and failing to save his brother) is an "autobiography that reads like a well-crafted novel in its recording of the excessive human costs of drug addication.". SIGNED and dated on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 155885049X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 52248More details Price: $35.00 -
HEROIN and Other Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2000( dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems on addiction, loss and remembrance. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049973.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on front flap of dj)
Book ID: 60857More details Price: $20.00 -
WEST OF THEN: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - "A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her homeless mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of the paradise from which she hails, Hawaii." 319 pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-7432-36793.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43131More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TENNIS PARTNER: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security, in the sport they love and in each other. But when the dark beast that is David's addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened. . . an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive." SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-060174056.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62073More details Price: $28.50 -
ORFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel derived from Greek mythology by this Newbery award winning writer. "Enny recounts the story of her best friend, Orfe, a talented artist known for the beauty of her music; Orfe's romance with Yuri, a recovering drug addict; and Orfe's doomed struggle to save Yuri - and herself." 120 pp. ISBN: 0-689317719.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (withdrawn stamp on front endpaper, but no signs that this was ever in a library - or even read!) .
Book ID: 75946More details Price: $13.50 -
SING, UNBURIED, SING.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine first issue dust jacket without the award sticker.
Book ID: 79642More details Price: $28.50 -
NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, (1992.). Second book by this activist African American minister, pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, and known for his fight against drug addiction in the black community. Photographs, 228 pages. ISBN: 0-06-2509888.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 53504More details Price: $10.00 -
NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this activist African American minister, pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, and known for his fight against drug addiction in the black community. Photographs, 228 pages. ISBN: 0-06-2509675.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42555More details Price: $16.00 -
NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by this activist African American minister, pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, and known for his fight against drug addiction in the black community. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper 'To Dan, No Hiding Place.' Photographs, 228 pages. ISBN: 0-06-2509675.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (embossed stamp of prev owner.)
Book ID: 21217More details Price: $25.00 -
NO HIDING PLACE: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this activist African American minister, pastor of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church, and known for his fight against drug addiction in the black community. Photographs, 228 pages. ISBN: 0-06-2509675.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 21216More details Price: $14.00 -
THE STORY OF JUNK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a novel about a 'nice girl's' descent into the world of heroin dealing. Dustjacket praise from John Waters and Michael Cunningham, among others. SIGNED opposite the title page with the words "Knock, knock." 325 pp,. ISBN: 0-374-270244.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64232More details Price: $30.00
