New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1978 A 'Ready to Read' book. Donkey Ysabel is upset when she is replaced by a car but proves to her farmer owner that she is still superior to an automobile. Ex-lib. The binding is fine and has a clear cover. The price is marked on the front. Has usual ex-lib markings on the first few pages and a pocket in the front. 47 pages, the ffep has the top right corner torn out, otherwise no marks or tears. Book is fully illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"... more information

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San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books LLC, 2000 Sick of misplacing your wallet, checkbook, or keys? Need to memorize a presentation or prepare for an exam? Help is here. Master the art of remembering with these highly effective techniques, shortcuts, and exercises from the extraordinary memory wizard, Dominic O'Brien. Discover and use untapped powers of your memory; remember names and faces; develop instant recall; and never forget a telephone number or date again! 160 pages, color illustra... more information

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1935 The way men laugh and the things they laugh at reflect their tastes, thoughts, and sympathies. Society offers its pulse in the nature of its laughter." The career of Will Rogers is the finest illustration you could find of these observations. If we hadn't had him during the last ten years, if we hadn't appreciated him and had the sense to laugh with him and at ourselves, we should have been a sad people. He first burgeoned out as the Smiling Prophet of America in the era of the Great Insan... more information

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Pr Book Pub, 2004 Whether you're facing a tropical monsoon or a Midwestern flood, you're in need of the security and comfort of a hooded poncho - and equally in need of the expertise to use it. The Hooded Poncho and NEW - Storm Survival Guide offers a dependable outdoorperson's poncho along with a 32-page book covering techniques for surviving rains and floods. This unique kit offers the expertise and practical utility that have come to be universally associat... more information

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Pr Book Pub, 2004 NEW - Whether you're facing a tropical monsoon or a Midwestern flood, you're in need of the security and comfort of a hooded poncho - and equally in need of the expertise to use it. The Hooded Poncho and Storm Survival Guide offers a dependable outdoorperson's poncho along with a 32-page book covering techniques for surviving rains and floods. This unique kit offers the expertise and practical utility that have come to be universally associat... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2000 Harley Atmyer, the heartbreaking and lovable hero of the author's debut novel, should be in college drinking beer and chasing girls. He should be freed from his stifling coal town with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his thre beloved but unruly younger sisters. He has, at best, a shaky hold on the vicissitudes of day care, mac and cheese dinners, and visits to a once-devoted mother. Fru... more information

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New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 The DJ has one tiny tear on the front bottom and two tiny tears on the back bottom. This is the author's first book. ... more information

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New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1941 My Friend Flicka is a wonderful story for children and teens, about a horse and the love you can have for something dear to you. This volume is in red cloth, 349 pages. The cover has wear at the corners with light wear at the spine ends. There are light discolorations to the binding, and the spine is somewhat darkened. The ffep has a book plate on it, and a brownish spot that continues for the first three pages of the book. Otherwise the pages are clean. The spine is... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1984 Second printing. When 19-year-old Helen Reynolds sets out to cross the country by train from California to Washington, D.C., she has some idea of what to expect at the end of her journey but no notion of the emotional baggage she is destined to acquire along the way. Helen is going to see her mother, the sad, beautiful, alcoholic Selma. America has enter WWII, and the train is crowded with soldiers. One of them, John O'Connell, a union organizer and former boyf... more information

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Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1981 This book is full of beautiful photographs encompassing a wide range of marine mammals. It discusses the characteristics of the whale, dolphin, manatee, sea otter, sea lion, seal, and other marine mammals. Written in a very interesting and readable manner, this book includes puzzles, games, and related activities. 104 pages, fully illustrated with color photographs both in and out of the water. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.... more information

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Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1997 Stories about alcoholism may be the best means we have of comprehending that disorder, because only stories can begin to contain alcoholism's bewildering, protean, contradictory nature. Working from this premise, the author examines literary texts as well as oral recovery narratives presented at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. He seeks to discover what these stories reveal about the qualities and mechanisms of addiction and what they suggest about the condit... more information

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E. P. Dutton, 1981 Binding is fine, tan with a lighter cloth spine; gold lettering. Inside front has an impression from a private library. 434 pages, fine, no marks. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1994 At forty-two, Jerome Corcoran - "Corky" to his friends and associates - is by all appearances a successful real estate developer and broker, a city councilman with a promising future in local politics, a genuine ladies' man, and all-around great guy. His big house, fifteen-hundred-dollar suits, and the ridiculously large tips he hands out all over town reassure him that he's put plenty of distance between himself and the family history (which in... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 1999 In the heat of a languid July, fresh from Las Vegas, John Reddy Heart drives into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. Eleven years old, piloting a trafic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac, he arrives with his stunning mother beside him, his grandfather and younger siblings in the backseat. His mysterious past has been left behind, but his legend is about to be born. 369 pages, the spine is shifted forward a bit. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾... more information

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New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2001 NEW - In this book, Starr Ockenga illustrates how a diverse group of visionary American plantsmen and women have taken risks, pushed boundaries, and stretched traditions to create distinctive, idiosyncratic gardens. Boldly conceived and boldly executed, these 21 gardens are highly personal interpretations of paradise. From the making of welcoming garden rooms densely planted with exotic flowers and foliage to sprawling landscapes featuring drifts of native plants i... more information

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Ohio: F & W Pubns, 1994 In this book, best-selling mystery writer Shannon OCork helps you start right at the beginning with your first sinister thought and takes you all the way through to the end, where Good always conquers Evil (that's the key to a good mystery, you know!). You'll learn the finer points of: Identifying a plot (not just a situation); getting over the "hump" of the opening line; developing a series character versus a "one shot" character; hiding the "bad... more information

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Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline Australia, 2005 A new prankster is one step ahead of Edgar and Ellen. Who is this darting foe? To find out, and to stop the rash of copycat capers, the twins must descend under town - but the streets in the sewers run deeper than they could possibly suspect. Black & White illustrations.... more information

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Rutland, Vermont, U.S.A.: Tuttle (Charles E.) Co Inc.,U.S., 1997 Japan, Kakuzo Okakura wrote more than 60 years ago, is a museum of Asiatic civilization, and yet more than a museum, because the singular genius of the race leads it to dwell on all phases of the ideals of the past, which welcomes the new without losing the old. He wrote of that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritence of the Asiatic races, enabling them to produce all the great religions of... more information

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Victor Books, 1997 Binding has a dark spot on the front on the bottom middle. This book focuses on teaching children healthy emotional attitudes. 233 pages, including endnotes. Also includes a source list for further reading. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1973 Daktar Diplomat in Bangladesh is the dramatic story of Dr. Viggo B. Olsen's phenomenal surgical/diplomatic/wartime adventures - and the bloody birth of Bangladesh." "Propelled from a carefree Nebraska boyhood into the operating rooms of noted hospitals, Dr. Olsen rejects a remarkable opportunity in academic surgery to serve suffering East Pakistanis half a world away. When war strikes, he rejects evacuation to treat the injured and face a killing, burning, raping... more information

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