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Pre-Owned Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman (Paperback) 0156761009 9780156761000

Rahel Varnhagen (1777-1833) lived during the crucial period of assimilation in Germany when it seemed imperative for Jews to escape their Jewishness. more

Pre-Owned The Salmon (Life Cycles) Paperback - USED

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback) 0618444114

In this captivating memoir the man whom Julia Child has called the best chef in America tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to... more

Pre-Owned The Witch Who Lives Down the Hall (Hardcover) 0152986103 9780152986100

A young boy who lives in an apartment house is convinced that his mysterious new neighbor is a witch. more

Pre-Owned Diabetic Living Diabetes Daily: Mindful Ways to Eat and Live Well Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned A Life of Its Own: The Politics and Power of Water (Hardcover) 015195190X 9780151951901

Is water a natural resource or is it a commodity to be sold for industrial residential and agricultural use? In the arid American West this question is crucial because water-or lack of it-affects every aspect of life. Index. more

Pre-Owned Proof of Life Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges (Hardcover) 0151119325 9780151119325

The definitive telling of Sturges life. Variety more

Pre-Owned Trick or Treat (Hardcover) 0547249691 9780547249698

The last day of October had finally arrived. The empty house at the end of the street mysteriously came to life. Oliver the ghost who lives in that empty house lives for Halloween He always has a big party. To get ready he puts dust on the furniture... more

Pre-Owned Rat Stew Rnf (Hardcover) 0395278031 9780395278031

A collection of nonsense verses dealing with life s ups and downs as experienced by some unusual pairs of friends. more

Pre-Owned Frontier Home (Hardcover) 0395640466 9780395640463

Photos of pioneer tools homes and daily life become a record that testifies to the indomitable will and spirit of the early settlers of the West. more

Pre-Owned Fima (Hardcover) 0151898510 9780151898510

Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating. -- The New Yorker Fima lives in Jerusalem but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In his life he has had secret love affairs good ideas and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. He has thought... more

Pre-Owned Virginia: A Play (Hardcover) 0151937621 9780151937622

An evocative play about Virginia Woolf s life and relationships with her husband Leonard and her lover Vita Sackville-West. more

Pre-Owned Something Permanent (Hardcover) 0152770909 9780152770907

The photographs of Walker Evans tell stories of ordinary people living in America in the extraordinary time of the Great Depression. Cynthia Rylant s poetry about the photographs offers a new voice in the telling celebrating the beauty of life lived in... more

Pre-Owned Anne Sexton CL (Hardcover) 0395353629 9780395353622

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body... more

Pre-Owned The Place of Lions (Paperback) 0152010319 9780152010317

A plane crash strands thirteen-year-old Chris on the immense Serengeti Plain and only he can save the two injured men whose lives depend on him. The exciting action in a fascinating setting coupled with the intriguing spiritual element make this a... more

Pre-Owned Cliffsnotes on Frank s the Diary of Anne Frank (Paperback) 0822003902 9780822003908

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Diary of Anne Frank takes you into the handwritten accounts of life in hiding from Nazis in World War II. Following... more

Pre-Owned La Tortillería (Paperback) 0152017143 9780152017149

In clear and eloquent language Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life--from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil operate the clanking machinery of the factory and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands... more

Pre-Owned In Trouble Again Zelda Hammersmith? (Hardcover) 0152387803 9780152387808

Five episodes in the zany life of fourth grader Zelda Hammersmith in which she deals with a bad report card a boy who does not want to be her boyfriend the loss of her best friend and other tribulations. more

Pre-Owned Living in the Past: Poems (Hardcover - Used) 0151008728 9780151008728

Set in Rochester New York in the fifties this extraordinary book-length sequence traces the year in a boy s life leading up to his bar mitzvah and passage into manhood. There is a lively mixture of ethnic groups here-many of them displaced by the war... more

Pre-Owned Lost Stars (Hardcover) 0544785061 9780544785069

Eleanor & Park meets Perks of Being a Wallflower in this bittersweet 1980 s story about love loss and a comet that only comes around every ninety-seven years. When Carrie looks through her telescope the world makes sense. It s life here on Earth that s... more

Pre-Owned The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary Queen of Scots (Hardcover) 0152061886 9780152061883

The scandalous and tragic life of Mary Queen of Scots. Read her incredible story before seeing the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her... more

Pre-Owned Miss New India (Hardcover) 0618646531 9780618646531

Anjali Bose s prospects don t look great. Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family she lives in a backwater town with only an arranged marriage on the horizon. But her ambition charm and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her... more

Pre-Owned Master of Disguises (Hardcover) 0547397097 9780547397092

In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life until it is hard to know what is innocent and what... more

Pre-Owned Ash & Bone (Hardcover) 0151011397 9780151011391

In the depths of his Cornish hideaway retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder s solitary life is disturbed by a call from his estranged wife telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter Katherine is running wild unbalanced by the abduction and rape he... more

Pre-Owned The Prince of Butterflies (Paperback) 0152058540 9780152058548

One summer morning a flock of butterflies alights on John Farrington s house and changes his life forever. Surrounding John in his yard the monarchs ask for his help. They have lost their way. The green places are gone--the meadows have become... more

Pre-Owned The Rose Horse (Hardcover) 0152000682 9780152000684

When Lily s sister is born prematurely the doctor sends the tiny baby and her mother to Coney Island s famed incubator clinic. Lily and her father also move to Coney Island where they live with Samuel the woodcarver who makes the carousel horses. Set... more

Pre-Owned Maigret Goes to School (Paperback) 015655156X 9780156551564

His artistry is supreme John Banville What was he doing there? A hundred times in the middle of an investigation he d had the same feeling of helplessness or rather futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never... more

Pre-Owned The Sky Fisherman (Hardcover) 0395677246 9780395677247

The lives of young Culver his twice-married mother and his charismatic uncle Jake have been always overshadowed by the death of Culver s father in a fishing accident. When a suspicious fire destroys the town mill and three murders occur Culver is... more

Pre-Owned College Trigonometry (Hardcover) 0395380987 9780395380987

Accessible to students and flexible for instructors College Trigonometry Sixth Edition uses the dynamic link between concepts and applications to bring mathematics to life. By incorporating interactive learning techniques the Aufmann team helps... more

Pre-Owned Lean and Lovin It: Exceptionally Delicious Recipes for Low-Fat Living and Permanent Weight Loss (Paperback) 1881527972 9781881527978

How did Don Mauer who had been heavy all of his life finally manage to lose weight and keep it off? Mauer-whose nickname was Big Guy -dieted for over thirty years. He tried every diet that came along. They all worked but he would inevitably gain back... more

Pre-Owned Fresh from the Country (Hardcover) 999752960X 9789997529602

I m looking for two really trustworthy rabbits and six sensible clear-speaking frogs Young Anna Lacey has spent most of her life on a farm in Essex. But her first teaching position carries her to an unattractive newly constructed suburb where she has... more