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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind

"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbors caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realize that these photographs speak volumes"--

Pianos and Flowers

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Robert H. Weinberg

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Martin H. Greenberg

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Dakota

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories

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Myron Beck

Richard A. Wolters

Georgia

Classic Stories about Smart Dogs

Foreword by Richard A. Wolters, photographs by Myron Beck. A perfect book for both dog lovers and lovers of literature, filled with nine classic short stories about dogs and wonderful color photographs. Includes Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Ring Lardner, Don Marquis, O. Henry. Robert Benchley, and more, 20 color photographs, plus spot art and borders throughout.

Dog Tales

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Doug Dorst

Pennsylvania

A volume of stories by the PEN/Hemingway Award runner-up author of Alive in Necropolis features such protagonists as an aging surfing champion who meditates on the sport's new generation, an acerbic botanist who draws uproarious biographical sketches and two drifters who share misadventures from their dilapidated car.

The Surf Guru

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Beatrix Potter

Mini book edition. Light crease on dust sleeve. Book is mint.

Texas

Jemima Puddle-duck goes to extreme lengths in order to hatch her own eggs.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

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This enchanting gift book celebrates friends. These tender and poignant stories were selected from the best selling stories for the heart collection. Like friends, you'll treasure them.

Friendship

Keepsakes fo the Heart 

Believing God for Your Greatest Needs

"Helping 21st-century believers walk in the power of the Spirit and look past their "impossible" circumstances to all the possibilities of Almighty God"--Provided by publisher.

Miracles Can Be Yours Today

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#hardcover #bookclub #Africa #love #compassion #autobiography #stories #colonialism #struggle #courage

Washington

A Daughter's Quest

"Praised as ""a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful"" (USA Today), Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of postcolonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain, and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny. Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable integrity and enchanting charisma. As Sierra Leone faced its future as a fledgling democracy, he was a new star in the political firmament, a man who had been one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. He stole the heart of Aminatta's mother, to the dismay of her Presbyterian parents, and returned with her to Sierra Leone. But as Aminatta Forna shows with compelling clarity, the old Africa was torn apart by new ways of Western parliamentary democracy, which gave birth only to dictatorships and corruption of hitherto undreamed-of magnitude. It was not long before Mohamed Forna languished in jail as a prisoner of conscience, and worse was to follow. Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her childhood and the nation's destiny began among the country's elite and took her into the heart of rebel territory. Determined to break the silence surrounding her father's fate, she ultimately uncovered a conspiracy that penetrated the highest reaches of government and forced the nation's politicians and judiciary to confront their guilt. The Devil That Danced on the Water is a book of pain and anger and sorrow, written with tremendous dignity and beautiful precision: a remarkable, and important story of Africa."

The Devil That Danced on the Water

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#hardcover #Vocabulary #Origins #Stories #Words #English #Cultures #Geography￼ #Homeschooling box 30

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Reading & Language Arts

750 Words and Their Fascinating Stories and Origins

Contains 750 word origins written in a witty short-story style, provides details about the words' history and usage, and comes with a language chart, an index, and an introduction by a linguistics scholar.

In a Word - read description 

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Diana Secker Tesdell

New Hampshire

Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works--is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure.
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Dog Stories rounds up a pack of vivid and colorful stories about man's best friend by a wide range of great writers, from Mark Twain and Anton Chekhov to Patricia Highsmith and Jonathan Lethem.

The richly drawn and unforgettable canines gathered here include Rudyard Kipling's heroically faithful "Garm," Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a "Yellow Dog," and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull Ava, who lives in an apartment building for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's "Ava's Apartment." Here are stories that touchingly illuminate the dog's role in the emotional lives of humans, such as Tobias Wolff's "Her Dog," in which a widower shares his grief for his wife with her grieving pet. Here, too, are humorous glimpses of the canine point of view, from O. Henry's tale of a dissatisfied lapdog's escape to P. G. Wodehouse's cheerfully naïve watchdog who simply wants everybody to get along. These writers and others--Ray Bradbury, Doris Lessing, Thomas McGuane, Rick Bass, James Salter, and Penelope Lively among them--offer imaginative, lyrical, and empathetic portraits of humanity's most devoted companion.

Dog Stories

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Joan Luise Hill

Katie Mahon

Ohio

Uncovering Stories of Wonder, Joy, and Mystery

Do you want to believe that miracles can happen? Perhaps you need something greater than yourself to hold you, safely guide your way through a desperate situation, and answer your fervent prayer. Have you wondered if something you experienced could be considered a miracle? Perhaps, at just the right time, you receive an encouraging text from a friend across the country. Or maybe it was much more dramatic. Something life-altering such as a split-second decision, an instinct, to slow your car just before the vehicle in front of you lost control. Regardless of its nature, once you have a miracle experience, big or small, you are never the same. You are changed by your miracle. By exploring their own experiences, searching out religious texts, and collecting stories shared by others, the authors have compiled what they believe is the truest meaning of miracles. The Miracle Collectors offers inspirational stories of miracles that ripple through time and space changing the lives of others. Readers will learn to recognize and celebrate miracles for the gift of grace that they are.

The Miracle Collectors

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Michigan

Hugs for friends

Bruce McIver

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Just as Long as  I’m Riding Up Front 

Stories I Couldn't Tell While I Was a Pastor

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#hardcover #christmas #winter #stories #reindeer #animals #kids #picturebook #children 

Oregon

A Treasury of Animal Adventures 

Animal Tales

Ghosts I've Met

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Charles W. Shedd

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For anyone who ever wondered if angels really exist, here are inspiring, true stories 

The bestselling author of Letters to Karen and Letters to Philip takes a fascinating look at the world of angels. In story after story, he d elights readers with accounts of angels and their work in the world today, inspiring readers while drawing them into a greater awareness of God's mysterious ways.

Brush of an Angel's Wing

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clean copy, gift giving condition...see pics 📸


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Stories, Sayings, and Scriptures to Encourage and Inspire the Heart

Everyone needs a hug--a good many and often. Hugs affect everything from our physical health to our emotional well-being. Hugs encourage, comfort, assure, and affirm the heart and spirit. This unique series has become a national best-selling gift-book line. Each beautifully designed hardcover book has an innovative two-color interior.

Hugs for Teens

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#hardcover #bible #childrensbible #storybible #biblestorybook #kids #boys #Christian #children #stories 

This beautifully illustrated Bible storybook is a wonderful first introduction to the Bible for young children just learning to read. Little ones will love these stories told in a lively and engaging style. This book, tied with attractive ribbon, makes a wonderful gift and a keepsake to treasure.

First Bible Stories for Boys

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#hardcover #literature #homeschool #school #childrens #stories #treasury

Up One Hill and down Another

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Deborah Gould

Hardcover children's book in good condition. One written annotation. Minor shelf wear. See pictures.

New Jersey

Terry finds a way, through his artwork, to preserve a marvelous creature from his dreams.

Terry's Creature

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Richard Ford

Illinois

Stories

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor



In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.

"Displaced" returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's sorrow after his father's death.  "Driving Up" follows an American woman's late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life.  "The Run of Yourself," a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife's death.  And "Nothing to Declare" follows a man and a woman's chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what's left of love for them.

Typically rich with Ford's emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers.

Sorry for Your Trouble

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Books are old so their is staining on the pages. 4 stories per book. See titles and authors on the front of books

North Carolina

Readers Digest Condensed Novels  2/ $1.00

These books are old so there is staining on the pages. They contain very good condensed stories. Authors and novels on the front of books! Enjoy

Readers Digest Books 2/ $1.00

In this sparkling collection of nineteen stories, the bestselling author of Slammerkin returns to contemporary affairs, exposing the private dilemmas that result from some of our most public controversies. A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-only his wife is now forty-two years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman. From the unforeseen consequences of a polite social lie to the turmoil caused by the hair on a woman's chin, Donoghue dramatizes the seemingly small acts upon which our lives often turn. Many of these stories involve animals and what they mean to us, or babies and whether to have them; some replay biblical plots in modern contexts. With characters old, young, straight, gay, and simply confused, Donoghue dazzles with her range and her ability to touch lightly but delve deeply into the human condition.


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Alexander McCall Smith

Pianos and Flowers

Robert H. Weinberg; Stefan R. Dziemianowicz; Martin H. Greenberg

100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories

Myron Beck; Richard A. Wolters

Dog Tales

Doug Dorst

The Surf Guru

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Alice Gray

Keepsakes fo the Heart

Pat Robertson

Miracles Can Be Yours Today

Aminatta Forna

The Devil That Danced on the Water

Rosalie Baker; Tom Lopes (Illustrator)

In a Word - read description

Diana Secker Tesdell

Dog Stories

Joan Luise Hill; Katie Mahon

The Miracle Collectors

Leann Weiss

Hugs for friends

Bruce McIver

Stories I Couldn't Tell While I Was a Pastor

Various

Animal Tales

Hans Holzer

Ghosts I've Met

Charles W. Shedd

Brush of an Angel's Wing

Scott Krippayne

Hugs for Teens

Andrew Geeson (Illustrator)

First Bible Stories for Boys

Roger C. Farr

Up One Hill and down Another

Deborah Gould

Terry's Creature

Richard Ford

Sorry for Your Trouble

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Emma Donoghue

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