Judith Kerr

This is a board book, in new condition.  Originally published in 1970, this edition published in 2020.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat... A very special fiftieth anniversary edition of the very first adventure of Mog the Forgetful Cat, in a cased board book format perfect for little hands Fifty years ago, everyone's favourite family cat, Mog, first got into trouble for her forgetfulness, and she has been loved ever since for her funny and warm-hearted escapades. From Judith Kerr, the bestselling author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the beloved Mog stories still delight children all over the world. This special anniversary edition of Mog the Forgetful Cat celebrates this unforgettable cat's very first adventure, and for the first time is in a beautiful cased board book format, perfect for small hands The perfect gift for families, boys, girls, fans of Judith Kerr, and anyone who has ever known or loved a cat.

Mog the Forgetful Cat

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No marks inside or out, a couple very minor bumps.  Book originally published in 1952.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Seven Famoud New Orleans Murders

Ready to Hang

Nelson Johnson

No marks inside or out, dust jacket in very good condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

(Los Angeles 1911-1913)

From the author of the New York Times bestselling book and hit HBO series BOARDWALK EMPIRE comes the forgotten story of the legendary Clarence Darrow, America’s most famous criminal trial lawyer, and the charges that threatened to destroy his career. “A fascinating portrait of Clarence Darrow as we've never seen him before—as a criminal defendant. In Darrow's Nightmare, Nelson Johnson tells the riveting tale of America's most famous lawyer as he fights for his life, marriage, career, and reputation. I couldn't put it down.” —Terence Winter, Creator & Executive Producer, Boardwalk Empire Considered by many to be one of the best-known criminal defense lawyers in the country, Clarence Darrow became nationally recognized for his eloquence, withering cross-examinations, and compassionate support for the underdog, both in and out of the courtroom. Though his fifty-year-long career was replete with momentous cases, specifically his work in the Scopes Monkey Trial and the Leopold and Loeb Murder Trial, Darrow’s Nightmare zeroes in on just two years of Darrow’s career: 1911 to 1913. It was during this time period that Darrow was hired to represent the McNamara brothers, two union workers accused of bombing the Los Angeles Times building, an incident that resulted in twenty-one deaths and hundreds more injuries. Along with investigative journalist Lincoln Steffens, Darrow negotiated an ambitious plea bargain on behalf of the McNamara brothers. But the plan soon unraveled; not long after the plea bargain was finalized, Darrow was accused of attempting to bribe a juror. As Darrow himself became the defendant, what was once his shining moment in the national spotlight became a threat to the future of his career and the safety of his family. Forgotten by history books, New York Times best-selling author Nelson Johnson brings two of the most tumultuous years of Darrow’s life back to the forefront of conversation. Drawing upon the 8,500-page transcript saved from the two trials, Johnson makes Darrow’s story come to life like never before. Darrow’s Nightmare is a true story unlike any other—a historical courtroom thriller brought to life.

Darrow's Nightmare: the Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer

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Alexandra Koken

Claire Baker

Story of the Superstar Taylor Swift

A story book about everyone's favorite superstar!

Let's Meet Taylor

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Peter McCarty

In very good condition, both book and dust jacket.  Chloe is a middle rabbit with 10 older brothers and sisters and 10 younger brothers and sisters.

Chloe has ten older brothers and sisters and ten younger brothers and sisters. She’s in the middle and she loves it—especially when they all gather for family fun time. But when Dad brings home a surprise one evening, Chloe finds she is not in the middle anymore . . . but not for long! With gorgeous colored-ink drawings and funny, spare text, Peter McCarty tells a winning story of family, imagination, and love.

Chloe

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With progress we lose peace and quiet unless we take the time to stop and think.   Book is for children or adults and is in very good condition.

Varmints

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ridley’s Believe It or Not Weird-Ities

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Beautiful illustrated in watercolors, it tells about each dragon that different persons own.  Originally published in Great Britain.

Tell me a Dragon

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Jason Carter Eaton

A whimsical guide to training a "pet train" instructs young enthusiasts about important issues including where trains live, what they like to eat, and how to get them to perform the best train tricks.

How to Train a Train

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Jory John

Have you ever thought: I have so many problems and nobody even cares? Well, penguins have problems too! Discover them in this hilarious collaboration from Jory John (All my friends are dead. and Quit Calling Me a Monster!) and Lane Smith (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales)!
 
This penguin has come to tell you that life in Antarctica is no paradise. For starters, it is FREEZING. Also, penguins have a ton of natural predators. Plus, can you imagine trying to find your mom in a big ol' crowd of identical penguins? No, thank you.
 
Yes, it seems there is no escaping the drudgery of your daily grind, whatever it might be. Or perhaps we've just learned that grumps are everywhere. . . . 
 
This book is sure to tickle kids' funny bones and will elicit appreciative sighs from the adults reading it aloud.
 
"We are all Mortimer [the main character in Penguin Problems]." --The New York Times

"Bursting with humor." --Kirkus Reviews
 
"The snark level is cranked up high." --The Horn Book, Starred
 
"Will be right at home with fans of Jon Klassen's This Is Not My Hat." --Booklist
 
"Classic comedy." --Publishers Weekly
 
"Rib-tickling." --School Library Journal

Penguin Problems

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Linda Newbery

Here comes Posy - the most adorable and lovable kitten you'll ever meet!

Posy

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The Golden Egg Book

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Emily Gravett

The outside shows some slight wear but the inside is complete.  Nothing missing or damaged.  The book is a 12 month calendar that chronicles the rabbit problem month by month with a surprise in December.  A unique book!!! 

How does 1+1 = 288? A family of rabbits soon supplies the answer in this funny story! Hop along to Fibonacci's Field and follow Lonely and Chalk Rabbit through a year as they try to cope with their fast expanding brood and handle a different seasonal challenge each month, from the cold of February to the wet of April and the heat of July. This extraordinary picture book is packed with gorgeous details and novelty elements including a baby rabbit record book, a carrot recipe book and a surprise pop-up ending.

The Rabbit Problem

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An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity

Curiosities 

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Jennifer S. Holland

47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom

It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf. A lionness mothers a baby oryx. Ms. Holland narrates the details and arc of each story, and also offers insights into why—how the young leopard, probably motherless, sought maternal comfort with the calf, and how a baby oryx inspired the same mothering instinct in the lionness. Or, in the story of Kizzy, a nervous retired Greyhound, and Murphy, a red tabby, how cats and dogs actually understand each other’s body language. With Murphy’s friendship and support, Kizzy recovered from life as a racing dog and became a confident, loyal family pet. These are the most amazing friendships between species, collected from around the world and documented in a selection of full-color candid photographs.

Unlikely Friendships

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Steve Kemme

Bon Koizumi

The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World

Step into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture--a position he still occupies today. Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and became a famous writer but always felt like an outsider--in Dublin, London, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and French-speaking Martinique. To him, none of these places felt like home. Hearn's life in America was punctuated by a string of successes and failures. In Cincinnati he became the city's best-known crime reporter but was fired after marrying a black woman. Devastated, he moved to New Orleans, where he championed French Creole and Caribbean culture and created the city's image as a place of voodoo and debauchery (the image which many Americans still hold today). Hearn arrived in Japan at a time of historic change. Sent there as a correspondent, he soon found himself alone and jobless. He settled in the remote town of Matsue, firmly believing that Japan would provide him with an endless supply of rich writing material--perhaps enough to last a lifetime. Over the next dozen years, Hearn published 15 books which were lauded by the likes of Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin. Hearn's books made him famous as the leading writer on Japan and Japanese culture. Discover the fascinating journey of Hearn's life and the series of events--from peaks to pitfalls--that shaped his remarkable story, including: His troubled childhood and emigration to America with no job or money His career as a popular newspaper writer and essayist in Cincinnati and New Orleans His life in Japan where he became a Buddhist, married the daughter of a Samurai and took the Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi Hearn's worldwide fame as a writer, especially for his works on ghosts, demons, monsters and the supernatural world of Japanese folklore Author Steve Kemme is president of the Lafcadio Hearn Society/USA and a leading expert on Hearn's life and writings. This book includes a foreword by Bon Koizumi, Hearn's great-grandson and director of the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, Japan, along with 30 images which portray the pivotal people and places in Hearn's amazing life.

The Outsider: the Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn

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Mike Dash

Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

They called it Satan's Circus--a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common there that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owne

Satan's Circus

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Nancy Goldstone

The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa--one of the most renowned women rulers in history--and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.



Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg Empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, and perhaps the most famous princess in history.

 

Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory.

 

Each of these women's lives was packed with passion and heart-stopping suspense. Maria Theresa inherited her father's thrones at the age of twenty-three and was immediately attacked on all sides by foreign powers confident that a woman would to be too weak to defend herself. Maria Christina, a gifted artist who alone among her sisters succeeded in marrying for love, would face the same dangers that destroyed the monarchy in France. Resourceful Maria Carolina would usher in the golden age of Naples only to face the deadly whirlwind of Napoleon. And, finally, Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen whose stylish excesses and captivating notoriety have masked the truth about her husband and herself for two hundred and fifty years.

 

Vividly written and deeply researched, In the Shadow of the Empress is the riveting story of four exceptional women who changed the course of history.

In the Shadow of the Empress

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The Life of Marie de Vignerot

La Duchesse

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Beatrice Fontanel

A Mythical Adventure inspired by the Unicorn Tapestry 

The reader gallops through the story on the back of the unicorn, which will find shelter in the heart of a secret garden, a peaceful alcove where love is awaiting. The Lady and the Unicorn is an adventure tale of love and magic. The Unicorn's horn was known to have supreme powers and was a prize possession. It could turn polluted lakes and streams into drinkable water for woodland creatures. Hunted by a Feudal Lord, the Unicorn escapes into a secret garden to find a young lady in the middle of the garden playing an organ. She turns a mirror towards the Unicorn, who is magically transformed into a knight. He immediately declares his love for the lady, who smiles at him. The Unicorn Tapestries in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Cluny Museum in Paris, serves as the inspiration for the story. The book ends with information about the tapestries, that connects the illustrations to the reproductions of the tapestries in order to decipher the symbols and their meanings at the heart of the work. Kids and adults of all ages are sure to enjoy this beautifully illustrated and engaging story.

The Lady and the Unicorn

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Jerry Pinkney

A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

Puss in Boots

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William J. Mann

The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story--the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart--capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years--Bogart's effete upbringing in New York City; Bacall's rise as a model and actress. He paints a vivid portrait of their courtship and twelve-year marriage: the fights, the reconciliations, the children, the affairs, Bogie's illness and Bacall's steadfastness until his death. He offers a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of Bacall's life after Bogie, exploring her relationships with Frank Sinatra and Jason Robards, who would become her second husband, and the identity crisis she faced. Surpassing previous biographies, Mann digs deep into the celebrities' personal lives and considers their relationship from surprising angles. Bacall was just nineteen when she started dating the thrice-married forty-five-year-old Bogart. How might that age gap have influenced their relationship? In addition to what she gained, what might Bacall have lost by marrying a Hollywood superstar more than twice her age? How did Bogart, a man of average looks, become one of the greatest movie stars of all time? Throughout, Mann explains the unparalleled successes of their individual careers as well as the extraordinary love between them and the legend that has endured. Filled with entertaining details and thoughtful insights based on newly available records and correspondence, and illustrated with 30-40 photographs, Bogie & Becall offers a fresh look at this famous couple, their remarkable relationship, and their legacy.

Bogie and Bacall

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Miryam

This is a 1978 edition, in very good condition.  No marks or tears.  

A Little Golden Book Classic

A happy man thrills a group of farm animals when he takes them for a joy ride in his dump truck. This book is a true classic illustrated by the inimitable Tibor Gergely.

The Happy Man and His Dump Truck

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Tibor Gergely

This is a 1987 edition, clean inside and out. The illustrator did a lot of children’s books during the 1950s and 1960s.



Children will feel as though they are riding the big red fire engines and hearing the "clang, clang" of the bell! Large-scale, active pictures will transport young readers to the scene where they'll see brave firemen connect hoses and save the day.

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Judith Kerr

Mog the Forgetful Cat

Robert Tallant

Ready to Hang

Nelson Johnson

Darrow's Nightmare: the Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer

Alexandra Koken; Claire Baker

Let's Meet Taylor

Peter McCarty

Chloe

Helen Ward illustrated by Marc Craste

Varmints

Robert Ripley

Ridley’s Believe It or Not Weird-Ities

Jackie Morris

Tell me a Dragon

Jason Carter Eaton illustrated by John Rocco

How to Train a Train

Jory John illustrated by Lane Smith

Penguin Problems

Linda Newbery & Catherine Rayner

Posy

Margaret Wise Brown illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

The Golden Egg Book

Emily Gravett

The Rabbit Problem

Mike Yamaha Victoria Ying with Jonathan Ying

Curiosities

Jennifer S. Holland

Unlikely Friendships

Steve Kemme; foreword by Bon Koizumi

The Outsider: the Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn

Mike Dash

Satan's Circus

Nancy Goldstone

In the Shadow of the Empress

Bronwen Mcshea

La Duchesse

Beatrice Fontanel Vanessa Hie

The Lady and the Unicorn

Jerry Pinkney

Puss in Boots

William J. Mann

Bogie and Bacall

Miryam illustrated by Tibor Gergely

The Happy Man and His Dump Truck

Tibor Gergely (illustrator )

The Fire Engine Book

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