England: Rowan Yarns, 2003 NEW - Inspired by innumerable items in their everyday lives, the authors have designed 32 creative sewing projects for the home. Although in the examples Rowan fabrics are used, you can easily choose fabrics from their line or another fabric line. Ranging from simple projects like the set of edged towels for the bathroom or easy lavender-filled shoe scenters, to more challenging sewing projects like appliqué bed linen and a lined picnic hamper, there are projects here for e... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2003 Everyone knows about the Nobel Prizes, those prestigious awards that recognize the world's most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics areound the globe can become Nobel Laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the esteemed Ig Nobel Prize instead. Their unbelievable accomplishments are now documented in glorious detail, in this book. Drawn from the world's wackiest actual achievements in science, eco... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1989 Kathy goes to Haiti, the first of the three novels in Literal Madness, "speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete' thta reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex. At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined." (Los Angeles Times). My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini - wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his o... more information

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Belknap Press, 2005 The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for the presidency in 1800, the rules laid down by the Constitution exacerbated the crisis. With Republican militias preparing to march on Washington, the House of Representatives deadlocked between Thomas Jeffe... more information

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 2000 This is the best book of poetry I've read in a long time. One of my favorites: New forms and faces make their mark/in my impenetrable dark./What in a disembodied ghost/can me love some more than most? I'm happy when alone, it's true/but how much happier with you, and you./So many I would welcome, if they came,/but keep returning to a certain name This is a wonderful collection of poems of all types; the writer was born in 1913 and so has had ... more information

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New York: Doubleday and Company, 1960 All pages illustrated with hand-drawings. Edges of front and back boards worn and slightly discolored in areas, spine missing. Front end paper missing. All other pages intact and in good condition.... more information

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Crown publishers, Inc., 1991 1991; HB with DJ. First edition, F/F. 404 pages, 6.25" x 9.25" high. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 This book, published by the United States of Agriculture, shows dozens of ways to enjoy the U.S woods, water, beautification, and countryside. Binding is very good, slight bend at spine, sunned on the back. 408 pages including index, Lots of photos, some in full color. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1971 When Dido Twite comes back to England, mischief awaits. While her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd dwellers of Tegleaze Manor: The strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his old witch of a nurse, Sannie. Soon odd things begin to happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido sees her rascally father in Petworth, she is s... more information

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Washington, D.C.: Whitehouse Historical Association, 1976 This volume is the third in a series of publications from the White House Historical Association (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) chartered in November 1961. It's purpose is to "enhance the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the Executive Mansion." The forward is written by Patricia Nixon, and included in this beautiful volume are numerous photographs, paintings, and illustrations, along with text describ... more information

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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000 Winner of Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Prize in Fiction, this book is a gripping, kaleidoscopic novel about isolation, love, fear, and the collison of strangers' lives on one fateful night in a Florida town. On the outskirts of the quiet resort community of Caracol Beach, its unlikeliest - and perhaps most dangerous - resident plots his own demise. A Cuban veteran of the war in Angola, the sole survivor of an ambush that killed off the rest o... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alcoholics Anonymous World Serv inc., 1985 From the foreword: Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 in Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker. Both were severe cases of alcoholism and were destined to become cofounders of the A.A. Fellowship. This book deals with the "Twelve Steps" and the "Twelve Traditions" of A.A. It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which their... more information

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Little, Brown and Company, 1928 Jack and Jill went up the hill to coast with fun and laughter; Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill cam tumbling after." The binding is tight, pages are tight. Heavy watermarks on binding and page edges. Approximately 4 pages inside are lightly marked in ink, back inside cover has ink and crayon marks on illustration(someone was coloring in the line drawing - sort of). 313 pages, all intact, yellowed with age. 1-2 small tears on pages (less than 1"). This is ... more information

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New American Library 1987; SB. A Signet Classic. Binding is very good, very slight wear at top edges. 300 pages, including afterward and selected bibliography. Pages are yellowed at the edges, otherwise fine.... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1913 Rose in Bloom" is a sequel to "Eight Cousins." This is the complete authorized edition and was published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company. The preface reads "As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl; and the Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise; hopeing to afford some... more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 2007 NEW - STILL IN PUBLISHERS PLASTIC. Heavily illustrated with 200 color reproductions of paintings and printed images—up to 17 x 11 inches—and 100 black and white photos and engravings, this large volume considers the combined history of empires in the West through the stories of 13 modern empires. This account raises new subjects, from the roles of women in empire building to food and ecology, and observes how the maps of the explorations, the chronologies of the... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996 Shalom Aleichem was called "The Yiddish Mark Twain" long before his stories about Teyva the milkman were transmuted into Fiddler on the Roof but he wrote only one love story: The Song of Songs - now published for the first time in book form. With its echoes of its biblical ancestor, this is the most beautiful love story in Yiddish literature. Told in four parts beginning in the 19th century, beautifully written and translated, framed by the periodic cycle of th... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1991 This, the writer's second book about Sylvia Plath, is a well- written, well-researched and fascinating biography of the poetess. Alexander resists the temptation of turning Plath's life into melodrama, instead capturing what it is like to be Sylvia Plath. But, some parts of her life were melodrama, which is included. The biography is 364 pages, which includes 16 pages of photographs. An acknowledgment, endnotes, and index bring the page count to 402. 8vo - ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Dutton Childrens Books, 2001 Gawgon?" she said, catching her breath. "That's a good reputation to have. Better a Gawgon than a silly old goose. I like it. I like it very much. From now on, that's what you shall call me." She raised a finger. "But only in private between the two of us. We can enjoy our small secret." I recovered enough to grin, and asked, too, if I could have a special name. "Very well," said the Gawgon. "I shall cal... more information

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Racine, Wisconsin: Western Publishing, 1992 From the Sesame Street Book Club series. Grover takes his reader on a tour of the farm in Spring. All over there are baby animals that will grow bigger and stronger into Fall. Unpaginated; every page is fully illustrated without any marks or tears. Bright and clean copy, the binding is fine, has slight wear on the front corners. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.... more information

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