Excellent condition 
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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

English

An Incremental Writing Program

WriteShop I

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Heather Couper

Nigel Henbest

Carol Vorderman

100 Ways Parents and Kids Can Share the Secrets of the Universe

Astronomy, the science that studies the composition, motion, relative position, and size of the stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies, has not always been accessible. This guide demonstrates that you don't have to have sophisticated telescopes and advanced degrees to learn many of the basic secrets of the universe. 1,000 photos.

How the Universe Works

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John Farndon

Excellent condition 

But
Dust jacket edges roughed up

100 Ways Parents and Kids Can Share the Secrets of the Earth

Experiments and projects explore the earth's structure, features, and changing landscape.

How the Earth Works📕

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Steve Parker

Excellent condition 
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Label inside cover
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Science

100 Ways Parents and Kids Can Share the Miracles of the Human Body

Photographs, color illustrations, and diagrams accompany more than one hundred experiments, projects, and activities that help readers discover how the organs and systems of the human body work

How the Body Works 📕

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Milton Meltzer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Portraits of Women of Power

Provides biographical portraits of ten queens from history including Esther, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Zenobia, Eleanor of Acquitaine, Isabel of Spain, Elizabeth I, Christina of Sweden, Maria Theresa, and Catherine the Great.

Ten Queens 📕

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Excellent condition 

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Eric Sloane's Weather book 📕

History

Around the world in 180 days 📕

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Sue Grafton

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.
 
In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband.   
But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet's absence has never been explained or forgotten.
 
Now, thirty-four years later, she wants the solace of closure.
 
In S is for Silence, Kinsey Millhone's nineteenth excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, S is for surprises as Sue Grafton takes a whole new approach to telling the tale. And S is for superb: Kinsey and Grafton at their best.

S Is for Silence 📕

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A Kinsey Millhone Novel

Kinsey Millhone gets in over her head when she becomes involved in an elusive mystery that entangles her in everyone's dirty laundry--literally. 750,000 first printing. Tour. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

L Is for Lawless 📕

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Chevy Stevens

Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.

Never Knowing 📕

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A Magical Journey

Witch 📕

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Holly Seddon

"In this novel of psychological suspense, a young journalist struggles to keep the demons of her alcoholism at bay as she finds her purpose again in tackling the mystery of a shocking headline-making crime, still unsolved after fifteen years."--

Try Not to Breathe 📕

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Felicia Day

Joss Whedon

A Memoir

From online entertainment mogul, actress, and “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to Internet-stardom, and embracing her individuality to find success in Hollywood. The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day—violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world…or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet geeks and Goodreads book clubs. After growing up in the south where she was “homeschooled for hippie reasons,” Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But Felicia's misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her own production company, and become an Internet star. Felicia's short-ish life and her rags-to-riches rise to Internet fame launched her career as one of the most influential creators in new media. Now, Felicia's strange world is filled with thoughts on creativity, video games, and a dash of mild feminist activism—just like her memoir. Hilarious and inspirational, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is proof that everyone should embrace what makes them different and be brave enough to share it with the world, because anything is possible now—even for a digital misfit.

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) 📕

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Howard Gordon

Gideon's War 📕

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S. S. Taylor

Kit West and his siblings, now students at an academy for explorers, undertake an expedition based on a map left by their missing father but led by their enemy that takes them to a mysterious area in the ocean.

The Expeditioners and the Secret of King Triton's Lair

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Mark Twain

Adv of Huckleberry Finn W/Conn

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft.

Adventures of huckleberry finn

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William Shakespeare

Joseph Bryant

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)

The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.

Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Romeo and Juliet

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Anton Gill

A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

"MRS. GUGGENHEIM, HOW MANY HUSBANDS HAVE YOU HAD?" SHE WAS ONCE ASKED. "D'YOU MEAN MY OWN, OR OTHER PEOPLE'S?"

Peggy Guggenheim's tempestuous life (1898-1979) spanned the most exciting and volatile years of the twentieth century, and she lived it to the full. How she became one of the century's foremost collectors of modern art-and one of its most formidable lovers-is the subject of this lively and authoritative biography.

Her father, Benjamin Guggenheim, went down with the Titanic en route home from installing the elevator machinery in the Eiffel Tower, and it was in Paris in the 1930s that the young heiress came into a small fortune and began to make her mark in the art world. Uneasily married to the alcoholic English dilettante writer Laurence Vail, she joined the American expatriate bohemian set. Though her many lovers included such lions of the worlds of art and literature as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst (whom she later married), Yves Tanguy, and Roland Penrose, real love always seemed to elude her.

In the later 1930s, Peggy set up one of the first galleries of modern art in London, quickly acquiring a magnificent selection of works by Picasso (who snubbed her), Magritte, Miró, and Brancusi, and buying great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America after the Nazi invasion of France. Escaping from Vichy, she moved back to New York, where she was hugely influential in assisting the beginnings of the new American abstract expressionist movement (in particular, Jackson Pollock).

Meticulously researched, filled with colorful incident, and boasting a distinguished cast, Anton Gill's biography reveals the inner drives of a remarkable woman and indefatigable patron of the arts.

Art Lover

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When zachary beaver came to town

John P. McKay

A History of World Societies

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Thomas Hauser

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens

An evocative historical novel that explores the rising influence of Dickens's work in mid-19th century London through the journey of a young woman's struggle against poverty and injustice.

In the winter of 1836, a young journalist named Charles Dickens held an infant in his arms. Only eight months of age, Ruby Spriggs was living under the most deplorable conditions that existed in London. Crushing poverty seemed her only future.

Through the intervention of kind patrons, the child blossoms into a young woman instilled with a love of learning and books. But the forces that Dickens fought against for most of his life threaten to destroy her.

At the heart of The Baker's Tale is Ruby Spriggs; Edwin Chatfield, the young man who would be her lover; Alexander Murd, the scheming coal baron who would destroy them; Abraham Hart, a dwarf who befriends Ruby in a faraway land; and Octavius Joy, a 19th-century philanthropist cut from unique cloth.

Meticulously researched and masterfully told, The Baker's Tale recreates the voice of beloved author Charles Dickens in gorgeous prose brimming with the atmosphere of historical London. It's a gripping tale of obsession, corruption, hope, and love instilled with the unequaled passion of Dickens's social conscience.

The Baker's Tale

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Peter Ward

Joe Kirschvink

The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that understanding. In fact the currently accepted history of life on Earth is flawed and out of date. Now two pioneering scientists, one already an award-winning popular author, deliver an eye-opening narrative that synthesizes a generation's worth of insights from new research.

Writing with zest, humor, and clarity, Ward and Kirschvink show that many of our long-held beliefs about the history of life are wrong. Three central themes emerge from the narrative. First, the development of life was not a stately, gradual process: Catastrophe, argue Ward and Kirschvink, shaped life's history more than all other forces combined--from notorious events like the sudden extinction of dinosaurs to recently discovered ones like "Snowball Earth" and the "Great Oxygenation Event." One startling possibility: that life arrived on Earth from Mars. Second, life consists of carbon, but three other molecules have determined how it evolved: oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide are carbon's silent partners. Third, ever since Darwin we have thought of evolution in terms of species. Yet it is the evolution of ecosystems--from deep-ocean vents to rainforests--that has formed the living world as we know it.

Drawing on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology, Ward and Kirschvink tell a story of life on Earth that is at once too fabulous to imagine and too familiar to dismiss. And in a provocative coda, they assemble discoveries from the latest cutting-edge research to imagine how the history of life might unfold deep into the future.

A New History of Life

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Twenty letters to a Friend

Andrea A. Lunsford

Robert Connors

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St. Martin's Handbook

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How the Body Works 📕

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Ten Queens 📕

Eric Sloane

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Sherrie Payne

Around the world in 180 days 📕

Sue Grafton

S Is for Silence 📕

Sue Grafton

L Is for Lawless 📕

Chevy Stevens

Never Knowing 📕

Fiona Horne

Witch 📕

Holly Seddon

Try Not to Breathe 📕

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You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) 📕

Howard Gordon

Gideon's War 📕

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The Expeditioners and the Secret of King Triton's Lair

Mark Twain

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William Shakespeare; Joseph Bryant

Romeo and Juliet

Anton Gill

Art Lover

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When zachary beaver came to town

John P. McKay

A History of World Societies

Thomas Hauser

The Baker's Tale

Peter Ward; Joe Kirschvink

A New History of Life

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Twenty letters to a Friend

Andrea A. Lunsford; Robert Connors

St. Martin's Handbook

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