Emily Van Duyne

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Reclamation

A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century.

Loving Sylvia Plath

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This is perfect for a kindergartener! Over 60 flaps to lift. No rips.

Usbrne Lift the Flap Questions and Answers about Time

Over 130 flaps to lift. No rips. Great intro to fractions and decimals.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Lift-The-Flap Fractions and Decimals IR

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Alex Frith

My kiddo loved this book! It does not have the world map poster that originally came with it because I laminated it for use in our homeschool. (My price reflects the missing map.) All the flaps are in tact, no rips.

Features a world map as well as maps of each of the continents with liftable flaps that reveal various facts and trivia. On board pages.

Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas

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My kiddo loved this book! Over 70 flaps to lift. The pages are a heavy cardboard. I don’t see any rips.

Usborne Look Inside How Computers Work

This bundle includes both the book and the workbook. The workbook has SO many activities! Please see the pix of the back cover of each book for a synopsis.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

History

From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

The Story of the World Bundle Vol. 2: The Middle Ages

Susan Wise Bauer

Please see pic of back cover for synopsis. I used this for elementary school age history in our homeschool.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

From Earliest Nomads to Last Roman Empire

Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.

Story of the World #1 Ancient Times Revised

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Lawton Evans

Please see pic of back cover for synopsis.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Updated Edition

This edition of America First has been completely UPDATED AND REVISED for modern readers.

AMERICA FIRST by Lawton Evans has always been my favorite book for elementary American History. The author has such a wonderful narrative style that always keeps students engaged. Unfortunately, the book also contains language and attitudes that are racially insensitive, as it was first published in the early 1900s. I have tried to remedy this so that parents can enjoy reading this book to their children without having to edit as they read it aloud.

AMERICA FIRST: UPDATED EDITION includes the following changes:

 * Any language that described Native Americans as savages or blood-thirsty has been removed.
 * The term "Indian" has been replaced with "Native American" or simply, "natives" or "people" in most instances
 * The term "negro" has been replaced with "person" or "citizen," or, when referring to enslaved peoples prior to or during the Civil War, the term "negro" has been replaced with "slave."
 * All instances of the term "master" and "marse" have been removed.
 * The term "white men" has been changed to "explorers," "English colonists," "colonists," or simply, "citizens" or "people," depending on the context.
 * Other updates to the book include restoring dignity to the descriptions of enslaved peoples.
 * Dates have been updated.
 * New illustrations have been added to the original illustrations.

I hope you and your children enjoy the updated edition of AMERICA FIRST.



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America First

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Ken Ham

I used this as our homeschool Bible study. Please see pic of back cover for synopsis.

A Commentary for Families

Faith without a strong foundation crumbles in the face of today's relentless cultural rejections. Christians, young and old, will find the strong foundation they need in the biblical bedrock of Genesis. In Creation to Babel, Ken Ham provides parents a powerful combination of apologetics and doctrine to ensure the next generation understands Gods' greatness and authority.

Creation to Babel

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Lysa TerKeurst

This is a study guide with a dvd. Please see pic of back cover for synopsis. (I also have the Unglued book for sale. Please visit my page.)

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

The New York Times best-selling author of Made to Crave offers words of hope and healing for women struggling in the midst of their raw emotions, showing how to positively process reactive emotions that come from situations all women face daily. Original.

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Please see pic of back cover for synopsis. (I also have the study guide with dvd listed. Please visit my page.)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions 

Unglued 

Please see picture of back cover for synopsis. I marked it as in fair condition just because the front cover is a little beat up and a few of the page corners are bent. (See pic)

Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

Offers advice for overcoming an unhealthy will to please others and learning to make wise choices, counseling readers to learn to say no when appropriate so that they can say yes to God and find the right course for themselves.

The Best Yes

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Please see the picture of the back cover for a synopsis. This is a workbook and there is writing on a few of the pages (see pix).

How Jesus Fully Satisfies the Cry of Your Heart

Finding I Am

Connie Witt

Cathi Workman

Please see my pic of the back cover for a synopsis of this book.

Lifestyle Mentoring for Women

Mentoring can happen when you simply go out for coffee, catch a movie, drive to the airport, visit a favorite store, or walk around your neighborhood. (Just think of anything two people can do together.)

Sound too easy to be true? It isn't.

Let God use you right now...just as you are.

* Discover an exciting way to mentor the younger women in your life--and those to come! Connie's approach is not the bland & basic match-you-with-a-mentor program, and there's no formal structure to follow.

* Learn how to watch for "God" moments & lifestyle connections with other women. You'll gain lots of ideas and up-to-date research as Connie busts popular mentoring myths--and empowers you to invest in other women through relationship.

* It's fun! Not time-consuming, not expensive. You don't need to have an endless supply of wisdom or know the Bible inside & out. You just need to be available, ready to listen & share, and willing to walk through life situations with another person.


That Makes Two of Us

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Ann Hood

I love reading about authors, and this one by the author herself doesn’t disappoint! Please see my pic of the inside cover for a synopsis of the book. A very quick read! Warning: I ended up buying more books due to this one! 😂 This is a former library copy. 

Growing up with Books

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.

Morningstar

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Shari Lapena

This one is full of twists and turns and a shocking ending! Please see my pic of the back cover for a synopsis of this book.

A Novel

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years.

The Couple Next Door

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Nina de Gramont

This is a must read for any Agatha Christie fan! Please see my pic of the back cover for a synopsis of this book. I enjoyed this story very much!

Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning novel that reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world.

"Sizzles from its first sentence."--The Wall Street Journal

A Reese's Book Club Pick

Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge?

In 1925, Miss Nan O'Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life--first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. Nan's plot didn't begin the day she met Archie and Agatha.

It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be together--until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart. Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated.

What drives someone to murder? What will someone do in the name of love? What kind of crime can someone never forgive? Nina de Gramont's brilliant, unforgettable novel explores these questions and more.

The Christie Affair

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Patti Callahan

This is a good story about an unfamiliar US disaster which took place in the 1800s. Please see the photos for a synopsis of this book.

After a luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board, their fates were lost to history. Until, that is, the wreck was found 180 years later. When professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection of artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she can't resist the opportunity to try to solve the mysteries surrounding its sinking. Everly's research leads her to the astounding stories of two women: a known survivor, Augusta Longstreet, and her niece, Lilly Forsyth, who was never found. When the ship exploded, each was faced with difficult and heart-breaking decisions.

Surviving Savannah

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Debbie Rix

Please see photo of the back cover for a synopsis. I really enjoyed this story of Italy during WW2!

She began to turn the pages of the paper more quickly, searching for the details about the war, the scandal, the trial... She thought back to those days at the end, when trust in Italy was in short supply. Betrayal was everywhere and the world went mad.



Italy, 2019: Each morning Livia Moretti drinks espresso in her favorite café in Florence. The tourists simply walk on by. They don't know of her role in saving this beautiful city during the dark days of World War II. Days that now seem long gone. But in the morning newspaper one day, Livia sees a familiar name--Isabella Bellucci. And she's jolted back to the past.



Italy, 1942: As an Italian Resistance fighter, Livia monitors radio transmissions and decodes messages that could have the power to safeguard her country and those closest to her. Until the day her life intersects with movie star Isabella Bellucci. A siren of the silver screen, Isabella has cultivated the right connections to ensure her rise to stardom. But when Rome falls to the Nazis, Isabella must make a devastating choice.



As war ravages Europe, Isabella and Livia's lives are forever entwined as they risk everything to protect the ones they love.

The Italian Girls

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Janet Skeslien Charles

See photos for a synopsis of this book (the inside cover). Loved this story about a young French librarian during WW2 and her friendship with a 1980’s teen later in her life! 👍🏻👍🏻

An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller—based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II—The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author). Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings, and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them. “A love letter to Paris, the power of books, and the beauty of intergenerational friendship” (Booklist), The Paris Libraryshows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest places.

The Paris Library

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Susanna Davidson

This is an Usborne book. My son loved this one! Please see pix for table of contents. From a smoke-free, dog friendly home.

Reports show that reading or being read to for ten minutes every day will significantly improve children's reading skills. This short story collection supports this - each story taking about ten minutes to read. Ideal for sharing with younger children; as children learn to read on their own they can tackle these simple stories on their own. This title follows up on 10 Ten-Minute Stories.

10 More 10-Minute Stories

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Lesley Sims

This is an Usborne book.

It contains the following stories:

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Prisoner of Zenda
Don Quixote
The Three Musketeers
The 39 Steps

Illustrated Adventure Stories

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Mitch Albom

The Little Liar is centered around the Holocaust and the lasting effects that deception has on the story’s four main characters — Nico, Sebastian (Nico’s older brother), Fannie and a Nazi officer named Udo Graf. The story is an exploration of the consequences of a person’s honesty and dishonesty as narrated by the voice of Truth.

Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.

The Little Liar

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Caroline Woods

From the inside jacket: “A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner… inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.”
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Louise Leithauser is a young journalist in 1950’s NYC. Writing & publishing are still male dominated fields at this point in time, and it’s difficult for a woman to be taken seriously. However, as luck would have it, Louise’s lover, Joe, has started up his own literary magazine and has handed her some very sought after interviews… including one with Ernest Hemingway!

Along the way, Louise begins to notice things that make her wonder if Joe is on the up and up. Her interview with Hemingway makes her even more suspicious of Joe! Is he a spy? Does he work for the CIA?

Louise is also writing a novel whose main character defects from the US to Russia. Joe is extremely unhappy about this and attempts to keep it from ever being published. Why does he do this? You’ll have to read it for yourself!

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.

New York City, 1953- Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown (albeit under a male pseudonym), her relationship still makes her weak at the knees, and the science fiction romance she's writing on the side, "The Lunar Housewife," is going swimmingly. But when she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise can't help but investigate, and she quickly finds herself wading into dangerous waters.

As Louise pieces together rumors, hunches, and clues, the picture begins to come together--Downtown's strings are being pulled by someone powerful, and that someone doesn't want artists or writers criticizing Uncle Sam. Meanwhile, opportunities are falling in Louise's lap that she'd have to be crazy to refuse, including an interview with America's most famous living author, Ernest Hemingway. Can Louise stand by and let doors keep opening for her, while the establishment sells out and censors her fellow writers? As her suspicions and paranoia mount, Louise's own novel "The Lunar Housewife" changes shape, colored by her newfound knowledge. And when Louise is forced to consider her future sooner than she planned, she needs to decide whether she can trust Joe for the rest of her life.

Peppered with cameos from real life luminaries such as Truman Capote and James Baldwin, and full of period detail and nail-biting tension, Caroline Woods channels 1950s New York glamour as Louise's investigation brings her face to face with shocking secrets, brutal sexism, and life or death consequences. Deeply researched and propulsive, The Lunar Housewife is a historical thriller rich with meaning for modern readers.

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