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A Joyous Season Kerry is the 11 year old son of a New York City Architect and his "Olde... | The Adventures of Bobby Coon Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories.... | Five Children and It Illustrated by H.R. Millar | Pollyanna Best Price: $13.50 This is the very FIRST time that I had liked a movie so much more than the book. The book... | The Last of the Mohicans (Lightyear Press Limited Edition) Best Price: $14.89 Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white... |
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The Day of the Triffids Best Price: $7.24 Nature has always been an unfolding mystery to the human race.Ê From the very beginning of... | Grand Hotel | The Last of the Plainsmen | The Light That Failed Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his... | The Turquoise First published in 1946, The Turquoise was the great historical novelist Anya Seton?s third... |
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The Thorn Birds Best Price: $20.00 I've read "The Thorn Birds" many times, and as I've matured I... | The Searchers Best Price: $18.00 This is yet another in the long line of great tales about the American west. Like the best of... | Strength of the Hills Best Price: $5.77 Thane fans expecting a biography with the drama and character development of her Williamsburg... | The Blue Hills | LAD : a dog |
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Wild Animals I Have Known Best Price: $21.82 I first read this book as a very young reader, almost sixty years ago. Seton's ability to... | Cities of the Plain | The Outsider First published over 30 years ago, this book rationalizes the psychological dislocation so... | The Story of San Michele I came to this strange and wonderful book without the slightest inkling of what it was about --... | Great Roxhythe It's fairly clear why the author suppressed this book, the writing is not as mature nor are... |
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Green Than You Think | At the Foot of the Rainbow This book does not have the quality that I am use to reading in her books. If you want to read... | Dandelion Wine This is a lovely little book...childhood summertime capture in so many pages in your hands just... | R Is for Rocket Too many books, so little time...I finally picked up this collection of Bradbury classics and... | Last Days of Pompeii Best Price: $28.95 Though the description is overdone and the plot rather creaking, I was caught up by both the... |
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Little Princess Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies... | Little Minister I recently picked up a copy of this book at the Lenox used book sale. My copy was inscribed by... | Pippi Longstocking "A rollicking story of Pippi, who lives without any grownups in a little house at the edge... | A Christmas Carol Best Price: $14.25 Subjects: Christmas stories Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or... | Barry Lyndon Here, in this relatively obscure work, Thackeray is at his ironic and satiric best. Modern... |
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Matilda Mary Shelley's story has been suppressed for over a century, because it treats a taboo... | Fire on the Mountain Fire on the Mountain Grandfather John Vogelin's land is his life -- a barren stretch of... | Taking Liberties (Black Lace) Best Price: $4.99 well, maybe she'd be good to meet during ANY seminar ... A divorced,late 30's Beth, with... | Deep Summer I recently decided to go back and reread some books that I had enjoyed as a teenager. I started... | Agony Column Best Price: $15.95 Take a large helping of mystery, add a heap of suspense and sprinkle liberally with a charming... |
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The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses Best Price: $12.65 I loved the movie "The Man From Snowy River" and knew it was based on the... | The Diary of a Drug Fiend The true story of Aleister Crowley's own experience with drugs. | The Stranger Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel,... | The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook Best Price: $122.94 I was 12 years old when I learned to cook with Mother's Boston Cooking School Cookbook. My... | A Lost Lady I really enjoyed reading this book. The storyline was unique and the characters intricate and... |
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Little Minister I recently picked up a copy of this book at the Lenox used book sale. My copy was inscribed by... | Pippi Longstocking "A rollicking story of Pippi, who lives without any grownups in a little house at the edge... | A Christmas Carol Best Price: $14.25 Subjects: Christmas stories Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or... | Barry Lyndon Here, in this relatively obscure work, Thackeray is at his ironic and satiric best. Modern... | God So Loved the World |
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The Pioneers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read... | Twenty Seventh Wife i read this book. it was okay, although, there was one actually written buy the wife herself. i... | That Quail, Robert This book is a fine example of what people are like around a great pet -- they ascribe all... | The First Hundred Years of Nino Cochise The reviewers who call this book fraudelent obviously haven't researched the matter. Nino... | The Cry and the Covenant Best Price: $26.59 This book is OLD. I mean, I'M old, and I read The Cry and the Covenant when I was a... |
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Where Are the Children? Best Price: $19.80 I think Mary Higgins Clark was at her best with this book; Where Are the Children. It was well... | Maiden Voyage The sinking of the Titanic, like many traumatic events, can be and has been examined over and... | Point Counter Point Huxley had to be one of the most astute minds of his age. Although Point Counter Point and a... | The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash | The African Queen The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would take a boat like... |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was very neat.It was realalistic, yet very creative. The... | Old Yeller Best Price: $15.00 I really enjoyed the book Old Yeller. Some of the words I couldn't understand but I still... | The Compleat Practical Joker You'll pass out from lack of oxygen for laughing so much! There is an original edition, and... | | |