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  • Language: English

    Published by Signet Classics, 1950

    0451514742 / 9780451514745

    Series: Book 3 of 8 - The English Edition

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  • Language: English

    Published by Aladdin (edition Illustrated), 2000

    0689821948 / 9780689821943

    Series: Book 1 of 2 - Third-Grade Detectives

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    Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

  • Language: English

    Published by Lumos Learning (edition ), 2018

    1949855007 / 9781949855005

    Series: Book 1 of 8 - Curious Reader Series by Lumos Learning

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

  • Language: English

    Published by HarperCollins (edition Illustrated), 2019

    0062353217 / 9780062353214

    Series: Book 94 of 155 - My First I Can Read

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Vidal, Oriol (illustrator).

  • Language: English

    Published by Ingram, 2015

    1930808844 / 9781930808843

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  • Language: English

    Published by Little, Brown Book Group, 2014

    0349401373 / 9780349401379

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An accessible, step-by-step guide to building an app-based business - now revised and updated.

  • Language: English

    Published by Johnson, George, 2000

    0970302886 / 9780970302885

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  • Language: English

    Published by Princeton University Press, 1992

    0691015376 / 9780691015378

    Series: Book 17 of 23 - The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The resetting of the entire edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savidis has revised the notes according to his latest edition of the Greek text.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Bright Mountain Books, 1997

    0914875302 / 9780914875307

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. A series of nuclear attacks has left the world in a Great Depression. Katia Wynter is a teenage girl living in a commune in New Mexico, ruled by motorcycle gangs who exchange protection for tribute. One of many kids who left their poverty-stricken homes in the town of Truth Or Consequences, Katia is searching for a better future outside the world their parents destroyed. But when Katia meets four mysterious men at the outskirts of the town, her world is turned upside down, and she's forced to rethink her view on the world, and her future. Wendy (illustrator).…

  • Language: English

    Published by Random House USA Inc, 2005

    081297218X / 9780812972184

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    Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Meet the Laments--the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen's exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto Laments move His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband's oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the waif with a paper-thin heart who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. In Bahrain, Howard takes a job with an oil company and young Will makes his first friend. But in short order he is wrenched off to another land, his mother's complicated friendship with the American siren Trixie Howitzer causing the family to bolt. In Northern Rhodesia, during its last days as a white colony, the twin enfants terribles Marcus and Julius are born, and Will falls for the gardener's daughter, a girl so vain that she admires her image in the lid of a biscuit tin. But soon the family's life is upturned again, thie time by their neighbor Major Buck Quinn, with his suburban tirades against black self-rule. Envisioning a more civilized life on the sceptered isle, the Laments board an ocean liner bound for England. Alas, poor Will is greeted by the tribal ferocity of his schoolmates and a society fixated on the Blitz. No sooner has he succumbed to British pop culture in the guise of mop-top Sally Byrd and her stacks of 45s, than the Laments uproot themselves once again, and it's off to New Jersey, where life deals crisis and opportunity in equal measure. Undeniably eccentric, the Laments are also universal. Every family moves on in life. Children grow up, things are left behind; there is always something to lament. Through the Lament's restlessness, responses to adversity, and especially their unwieldy love for one another, George Hagen gives us a portrait of every family that is funny, tragic, and improbably true. From the Hardcover edition.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Princeton University Press, 1992

    0691015376 / 9780691015378

    Series: Book 17 of 23 - The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The resetting of the entire edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savidis has revised the notes according to his latest edition of the Greek text.…

  • Language: English

    Published by ABDO Publishing Co, 2015

    1624034640 / 9781624034640

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Chicago Cubs is a beginner's history of the Cubs, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), 1960

    0374316503 / 9780374316501

    Series: Book 1 of 7 - Chester Cricket and His Friends

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book. Williams, Garth (illustrator).…

  • Language: English

    Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), 1960

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    Hardback. Condition: Fair. After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick, Harry the Cat. The escapades of these four friends in bustling New York City makes for lively listening and humorous entertainment. And somehow, they manage to bring a taste of success to the nearly bankrupt newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book. Williams, Garth (illustrator).…

  • Language: English

    Published by Macmillan Publishing Co ,U.S., 1985

    0671763288 / 9780671763282

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  • Language: English

    Published by Adventure Publications, Incorporated, 2021

    1647551684 / 9781647551681

    Series: Book 6 of 7 - Nature Science Workbooks for Kids

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    Paperback. Condition: Fair. This region-specific workbook introduces children to nature in California through fun activities and hands-on science projects.

  • Language: English

    Published by Random House USA Inc, 2005

    081297218X / 9780812972184

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. Meet the Laments--the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen's exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto Laments move His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband's oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the waif with a paper-thin heart who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. In Bahrain, Howard takes a job with an oil company and young Will makes his first friend. But in short order he is wrenched off to another land, his mother's complicated friendship with the American siren Trixie Howitzer causing the family to bolt. In Northern Rhodesia, during its last days as a white colony, the twin enfants terribles Marcus and Julius are born, and Will falls for the gardener's daughter, a girl so vain that she admires her image in the lid of a biscuit tin. But soon the family's life is upturned again, thie time by their neighbor Major Buck Quinn, with his suburban tirades against black self-rule. Envisioning a more civilized life on the sceptered isle, the Laments board an ocean liner bound for England. Alas, poor Will is greeted by the tribal ferocity of his schoolmates and a society fixated on the Blitz. No sooner has he succumbed to British pop culture in the guise of mop-top Sally Byrd and her stacks of 45s, than the Laments uproot themselves once again, and it's off to New Jersey, where life deals crisis and opportunity in equal measure. Undeniably eccentric, the Laments are also universal. Every family moves on in life. Children grow up, things are left behind; there is always something to lament. Through the Lament's restlessness, responses to adversity, and especially their unwieldy love for one another, George Hagen gives us a portrait of every family that is funny, tragic, and improbably true. From the Hardcover edition.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000

    0689821948 / 9780689821943

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. WHO SENT AMBER LEE AN ANONYMOUS LETTER? Everyone loves the new teacher, Mr. Merlin. Mr. Merlin used to be a spy, and he knows all about secret codes and the strange and gross ways the police solve mysteries. Now there's a mystery in their very own class -- someone sent Amber Lee Johnson an anonymous letter. Noelle and Todd want to solve the mystery before anyone else. But first they have to figure out Mr. Merlin's clues. How can a bunch of envelopes tell them who sent the letter.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Scholastic Inc., 2010

    0545293464 / 9780545293464

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. It's 1922, and thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper has moved with his widowed mother to his father's hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Perhaps here he will be able to find the closeness to his father that eluded him when his father was alive. He is befriended by his new next-door neighbor, a powerful state senator who becomes the father figure Woodrow always wanted, who understands him in a way his own father never did. The senator introduces Woodrow to the best people in town, but Woodrow soon realizes the best people have some terrible secrets, and to be accepted by them he has to do things that make him abandon his own values, culminating in a terrifying act of violence close to home.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 1987

    0425104850 / 9780425104859

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  • Language: English

    Published by Kregel Publications, 2000

    0825430623 / 9780825430626

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  • Language: English

    Published by Aladdin, 2004

    0689864876 / 9780689864872

    Series: Book 6 of 8 - Third-Grade Detectives

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    Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Murdocca, Salvatore (illustrator).

  • Language: English

    Published by HarperCollins, 2019

    0062353217 / 9780062353214

    Series: Book 94 of 155 - My First I Can Read

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    Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Vidal, Oriol (illustrator).

  • Language: English

    Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1995

    0395727731 / 9780395727737

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    Hardback. Condition: Fair. Bjorkman, Steve (illustrator).

  • Language: English

    Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2005

    0525674985 / 9780525674986

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  • Language: English

    Published by Glass House Press, 2021

    0997746165 / 9780997746167

    Series: Book 1 of 1 - Helen of Mars

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    Paperback. Condition: Good. She always thought that Role Playing Games were safe. Until she ran into one that wasn't. Helen Hunter isn't anything special. Just a techie teenager who likes to play online games, build custom robots, and test her skills in the occasional gaming competition. She definitely isn't looking to do anything more than that.But when her mother falls ill, putting the entire family's future at risk, she finds herself on a path that will take her beyond online games and into outer space. To Mars. There, a shady corporation called MARSCORP has a fleet of rovers mining ore on the Red Planet. Rovers controlled remotely by freelance operators on Earth. And her parents, desperate for the money to pay incoming medical bills, have just signed a contract for their own rover. Even worse, they've put everything on the line to cover the cost of it. The house. Their savings. Helen's future.Suddenly Helen is thrust into a world she can only see on a computer screen-a real-life RPG. And a game where the stakes are a whole lot higher than just having to go back to the start. The mission: Find enough ore to pay off the contract. The danger: a band of thieves intent on taking everything she earns.Then she discovers that Mars is full of secrets. This is no simple mining operation. Someone else-someone who isn't with MARSCORP-is gaming the system. Someone else is controlling those thieves.And they're intent on destroying operators like her parents.Now in the fight of her life, she will learn just how dangerous some games can be? and how far some people will go to win.…

  • Language: English

    Published by Chelsea House Publishers, 1998

    0791046788 / 9780791046784

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    Hardback. Condition: Good. Explains that people of various cultures from around the world have different ideas about Santa Claus or a comparable mythical figure who is often seen as a gift-giver.

  • Language: English

    Published by Xlibris Corporation, 2010

    145681091X / 9781456810917

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  • Language: English

    Published by Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc., 2017

    1944272003 / 9781944272005

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  • Language: English

    Published by Random House USA Inc, 2005

    081297218X / 9780812972184

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    Paperback. Condition: Fair. Meet the Laments--the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen's exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto Laments move His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband's oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the waif with a paper-thin heart who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. In Bahrain, Howard takes a job with an oil company and young Will makes his first friend. But in short order he is wrenched off to another land, his mother's complicated friendship with the American siren Trixie Howitzer causing the family to bolt. In Northern Rhodesia, during its last days as a white colony, the twin enfants terribles Marcus and Julius are born, and Will falls for the gardener's daughter, a girl so vain that she admires her image in the lid of a biscuit tin. But soon the family's life is upturned again, thie time by their neighbor Major Buck Quinn, with his suburban tirades against black self-rule. Envisioning a more civilized life on the sceptered isle, the Laments board an ocean liner bound for England. Alas, poor Will is greeted by the tribal ferocity of his schoolmates and a society fixated on the Blitz. No sooner has he succumbed to British pop culture in the guise of mop-top Sally Byrd and her stacks of 45s, than the Laments uproot themselves once again, and it's off to New Jersey, where life deals crisis and opportunity in equal measure. Undeniably eccentric, the Laments are also universal. Every family moves on in life. Children grow up, things are left behind; there is always something to lament. Through the Lament's restlessness, responses to adversity, and especially their unwieldy love for one another, George Hagen gives us a portrait of every family that is funny, tragic, and improbably true. From the Hardcover edition.…