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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

At last the ultimate book of pirates is here! Inside is the stuff of legend, where tales of adventure and intrigue are written in blood. Read about Blackbeard and Captain Kidd. Learn about walking the plank and buried treasure. Discover what was like aboard a pirate ship -- from a pirate's strict code of conduct to the punishments that awaited those that broke them. All the intrigue, adventure, and grizzly details are brought to life in this lavish hardcover package jam packed with fact and fiction, pirate lore, and amazing memorabilia, including: a booklet of pirate slang a genuine advertisement to recruit pirates a booklet of pirate biographies a letter from William the III to Captain Kidd a pullout featuring pirate weapons a treasure map a wanted poster for Blackbeard sample playing cards as well as flaps and fold outs galore!

Pirates

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hardcover, all stickers and inside items intact and unused

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Practical Course in Dragons

This indispensable workbook teaches everything you need to know to become an esteemed dragonologist.

Attention, devoted dragonology students! How many classic riddles do you know that could help you survive a dragon encounter? What dragon species attacks its victims with a "frosty blast" instead of a jet of flame? Which historical questions should you ask a dragon in order to estimate its age? Can you write your name using only dragon runes? Contained in this beautifully designed, comprehensive course book are invisibility spells to memorize, charts to complete, maps to shade in, matching exercises to do, journal entries to write, experiments to conduct, even instructions for making a dragon attractor. Among the volume's charming novelty elements are:

--Dr. Drake's own school report card

-- A pullout official ID card from the Secret & Ancient Society of
Dragonologists

--Four sheets of stickers featuring dragons, gems, vintage ads and posters -- and more!

The Dragonology Handbook

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hardcover with all insides intact and unused


The complete Book of Dragons

Dragonology

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Listening Is an Act of Love Deluxe Gift Collection

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A glorious adventure tale that celebrates girlhood! Ferocious pirate Captain Firebeard and his band meet their match when they kidnap a small but feisty girl named Molly. "Come aboard for a rowdy, satisfying seafaring adventure." - The Horn Book

Pirate Girl

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hardcover with all letters and closed envelopes intact and unopened 

The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

Merlin the wizard challenges readers to become wizards like himself by deciphering clues hidden in his guide to wizardry.

Wizardology

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paperback, first edition, Finnish language, Suomi, 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Euroopan omistaja 

Harald Hirmuinen

paperback , signed by author , first edition, crane operator, children, fiction 

Signed by author

Chapter Book.While many parents enjoy showing their kids off at work for "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day," most kids dread a day at Mommy or Daddy's boring office. Well, meet young Franklin. Today's the day he's been waiting for, and he's about to get a real world education. Instead of sitting in the corner of his father's office playing video games, Franklin's going to work with his neighbor Big Joe, a Boston crane operator. Can Franklin climb 200 feet to the top of the tower crane? What will happen if he does?

Big Joe the Crane Operator

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signed by author, first edition, paperback, never read new 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The King of Choppertown stirs the imagination of young and old alike. It has emerged as new twist on a classic American fairy tale. Heath crafts the excitement of the open road. Along the way, children see a swamp, desert, cliffs and hillside scenery. They hear the sounds of a rickety bridge, a chopper, fish, deer, a ram and so much more to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home." Follow the adventures of a king on his custom chopper motorcycle, as he rides through his kingdom and enjoys the sights of familiar wildlife in a strange land called Choppertown. Join him on an unforgettable journey where he meets an old buzzard, who cries out a warning but the king doesn't understand.

The King of Choppertown

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signed by author, hardcover with jacket, never read, new

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"This thriller is rich in brilliant discourses on religion, fanaticism, the meaning of ancient cave art, the speculative future, and love."
--Library Journal

 

Sena Jeter Naslund, the New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance explores both the dark nature of fundamentalism and the brightness of true faith in her dazzling novel, Adam & Eve. A provocative, eloquent, and deeply compelling story of a woman caught between two warring worlds--science and religion--Adam & Eve raises timely questions about identity, innocence, and sin, and represents a new literary high-water  mark for New York Times Notable author and Harper Lee Award-winner Naslund.

Adam and Eve

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signed by author, hardcover with jacket, never read, first edition, fiction, Wall Street, finance 

signed by author

In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything.The stranger isWin Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage- backed securities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitive nature--and aware of her near-desperate financial situation--Win poses a proposition: "Give me eighteen months and I'll make you a world-class bond trader." Shedding her artist's life with surprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never once looking back . . .Or does she?

With a light-handed irony that is by turns as measured as Claire Messud's and as biting as Tom Wolfe's, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of people reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay for their transformation.


Dear Money

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signed by author, hardcover with jacket, first edition, new, never read

"Hawke is...strong, shrewd and savvy, with an aplomb not seen since James Bond tore up the pages of Ian Fleming's novels....Warlord stands tall....A first rate thriller."
--National Public Radio

Thriller fiction of the highest order, Warlord by Ted Bell returns British-American MI6 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke to the field, as he races to stop a plot to murder Great Britian's royal family. This latest spellbinding installment in the New York Times bestselling series is filled with twists and turns, shocks and surprises, ever-escalating peril and ingenious spycraft. Warlord "puts a capital A in adventure" (Madison County Herald) and offers further proof why Ted Bell deserves his position on the A-list along with Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Daniel Silva.


Warlord

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signed by author, first edition, hardcover with jacket, never read

From the author of Before Women Had Wings comes this story of a woman in her mid-thirties who ultimately transcends the quagmire of her middle-aged existence and leaves her husband.

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly

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A Novel

International intrigue and adventure combine inRunning Dark, by Jamie Freveletti, the pulse-pounding sequel to Running from the Devil. Bestselling author Lee Child hailed Freveletti's debut novel as, "Just terrific--full of thrills and tradecraft, pace and peril." Now she brings back marathon runner and scientist Emma Caldwell in a gripping tale that combines terrorism, Somali pirates, and a possible chemical catastrophe as it races at breakneck speed into the most dangerous places in the world.

Running Dark

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The Epic Life of Cecil B. Demille

BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces.

As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother, William, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco, DeMille discovered how audiences responded to showmanship: sets, lights, costumes, etc. He took this knowledge with him to Los Angeles in 1913, where he became one of the movie pioneers, in partnership with Jesse Lasky and Lasky's brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn). Working out of a barn on streets fragrant with orange blossom and pepper trees, the Lasky company turned out a string of successful silents, most of them directed by DeMille, who became one of the biggest names of the silent era. With films such as The Squaw Man, Brewster's Millions, Joan the Woman, and Don't Change Your Husband, he was the creative backbone of what would become Paramount Studios. In 1923 he filmed his first version of The Ten Commandments and later a second biblical epic, King of Kings, both enormous box-office successes.

Although his reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made, DeMille's personal life was no morality tale. He remained married to his wife, Constance, for more than fifty years, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously, all of whom worked for him. He showed great loyalty to a small group of actors who knew his style, but he also discovered some major stars, among them Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston.

DeMille was one of the few silent-era directors who made a completely successful transition to sound. In 1952 he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Greatest Show on Earth. When he remade The Ten Commandments in 1956, it was an even bigger hit than the silent version. He could act, too: in Billy Wilder's classic film Sunset Boulevard, DeMille memorably played himself.

In the 1930s and 1940s DeMille became a household name thanks to the Lux Radio Theater, which he hosted. But after falling out with a union, he gave up the program, and his politics shifted to the right as he championed loyalty oaths and Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist witch hunts.

As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in this superbly researched biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image. A gifted director who worked in many genres; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life; a pioneering filmmaker: DeMille comes alive in these pages, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era.

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