Grosset & Dunlap

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

At the playground, at the pet store, on a car trip, or at home- Dick, Jane, and Sally always have fun. Will Dick get another dog? Will Sally finally win a game of hide-and-go-seek? And who are Dick and Jane's favorite friends? With short stories and text from the original Dick and Jane basic readers, this is a perfect chapter book for eager new readers!

Dick and Jane Fun Wherever We Are

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Pennsylvania

Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, To ibi n writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an audience, yet cannot beguile her own estranged son. And in "A Long Winter," Colm To ibi n's finest piece of cction to date, a young man searches for his mother in the snow-covered mountains where she has sought escape from the husband who controls and confines her. Winner of numerous awards for his fifth novel, "The Master" -- including the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- To ibi n brings to this stunning first collection an acute understanding of human frailty and longing. These are haunting, profoundly moving stories by a writer who is himself a master.

Mothers and Sons

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David Heller

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

In this heartwarming sequel to Angels Must Get Their Wings by Helping Little Angels Like Me, some of the best-known stories of the Old Testament are retold by children from a wide range of faiths.

Just Build the Ark and the Animals Will Come

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#paperback #nonfiction #Christian #Christiambooks #religiousbooks #childrenofasia #stories #lifelessons #hope #childrenincrisis 

Mississippi

Bringing Hope to Children in Crisis

No Longer a Slumdog

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Oregon

Western Gold: A Heartwarming Collection of Short Stories from the Canadian Northwest 

Oscar Casares

"Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest.



At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises.



In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives -- the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal.




"Marvelous...Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else." --Carolyn See, Washington Post

Stories

At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises.

Brownsville

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This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. Is slight wear on the hardback cover. There is no dust jacket. Will ship with their hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Volume four 1977

Readers Digest condensed books

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. There is no dust jacket. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Reader's Digest condensed books volume 3 1974

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Volume two 1979

Writers on Growing up in America

In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful.

Dream Me Home Safely

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Published in 1989 by Octopus Books. Book is in excellent condition and dust jacket is pretty beat up. Pages are clean and binding is secure.  

Missouri

Bedtime Tales

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Delaware

100 Adaptable Discussion Starters to Get Teens Talking

Here are 100 discussion starters presented on two-page spreads, making the book an invaluable pick-up-and-use resource for busy youth workers. Each explores a topic pertinent to young people, such as drugs, truancy, or parental relationships; or an important biblical concept such as giving, the afterlife, or love.

The Think Tank

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#hardcover #ya #science #biography #stories

Oklahoma

Inventing the Electric Age

Thomas Alva Edison revolutionized daily life as few people before or after him have done. The light bulb, the phonograph, motion pictures--through these and countless other technological marvels Edison left an indelible mark on the modern world. Although he had little formal education, Edisonshowed a remarkable talent for practical science as a teenager and was only in his early twenties when he launched his inventing career. In 1876, he established the world's first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and within six years he and his assistants had developed alight-and-power system that amazed the world. For more than half a century, Edison remained active and involved in science and invention. Upon Edison's death in 1931, President Herbert Hoover asked the nation to dim its lights in tribute to the inventor.

Thomas Alva Edison

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New Jersey

The Sesame Street Library

Chuck D. Pierce

Pamela J. Pierce

How to Keep Your Faith in a World of Chaos

One Thing

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Jasmon Drain

Indiana

A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE .A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago

"The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude."-Sandra Cisneros

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago's South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects-a set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the south-this collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drain's sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as "the projects."

Stateway's Gardenis a coming-of-age story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences.

Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.

Stateway's Garden

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I took pictures of both the inside front and back covers. It looks like Crayon markings but it’s actually part of the book.

Michigan

This moose belongs to me

John Meyer

Stephanie H. Meyer

In the third volume of the incredibly popular Teen Ink series, teenagers share their thoughts on the emotional peaks and valleys of dealing with friends and family. The joys and challenges, highlights and sorrows are all exposed in this diverse collection. Pieces for this book were chosen from more than 300,000 submissions to Teen Ink magazine, a nonprofit publication read by 3.5 million teens nationwide. Since its inception, Teen Ink (formerly The 21st Century) has published more than 25,000 students. These young authors produce fresh, creative, honest and always compelling words that make Teen Ink the standard for teen expression. Future books in this incredible series will examine other aspects of teen life, from love to loss and everything in-between. All will focus on the winning formula of teens talking to teens with brutal honesty and unique creativity. Teenage readers will find a voice they can relate to; the reassurance that they are not alone; and straight talk about the real issues that affect them.

Friends and Family

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Mary Higgins Clark

Washington

Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.

All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later, the mother returns to the scene and finds Alvirah and Willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice--and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter.

All Through the Night

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Garrison Keillor

In very good reading condition, just a little warped. 

"Keillor's best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ludicrous, and as labored as nitrous oxide. This book will either leave you dumbfounded or happy -almost deservedly happy -to be anywhere" -The New York Times Book Review "His humor is cerebral and complex, a blend of romance and nostalgia; it sparklingly parodies the American (and human) condition. His stories and satires glow with a sense of time and place." -The Washington Post

Happy to Be Here

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#friendships #crafts #recipes #stories #creativity #correspondence #letters #relationships #photography #exlibrary. Ex-library book in excellent condition.

Maryland

An exploration of 365 days of shared experiences between two friends on opposite sides of the country, inspired by their blog, 3191 Miles Apart.

Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes share a love of art and design, handmade pleasures, and a well-lived domestic life. Almost a decade ago, they began their first year-long project together, posting a photo from each of their mornings on their blog, 3191 Miles Apart, named for the distance between their homes in Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. 3191 Miles Apart quickly acquired a worldwide following of readers drawn in by the delicate intimacy of their shared experiences.

A Year Between Friends celebrates their most recent project together - a visual representation of 2015, month-by-month, side-by-side, but miles apart. In addition to 400 photographs recording their daily inspirations and creative undertakings and a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Molly Wizenberg, this unique collaboration expands on their prior work with over 25 handmade crafts and seasonal recipes, notes on simple living, and personal stories that follow the tide of a year filled with new life, change, and loss. It is an intimate joint portrait revealed through photographic snippets - mending a sweater, making a mobile from a cherished collection, creating fabric dyes from natural materials, baking scones - that defies distance through the celebration of shared moments of calmness, warmth, and family.

Both aspirational and down-to-earth, A Year Between Friends is an inspiring visual love letter to friendship and creativity, a timeless reminder to appreciate life one day at a time, to slow down, to cherish simplicity, and to make the extra effort to do things with care and with the people we love.

Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart

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Jan Harold Brunvand

From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends.

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard―or you yourself may have told―two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.

Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard--or you yourself may have told--two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.



Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

Curses! Broiled Again!

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#paperback #stories #literature #fiction 

Alaska

Glimmer Train Stories # 37

Fred Gwynne

Very good condition from a smoke-free home.

Ohio

A king who rained for forty years? A coat of arms? Boars coming to dinner? No wonder a little girl is confused by the things her parents say. With his hilarious wordplay and zany illustrations, Fred Gwynne keeps children of all ages in stitches!

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Grosset & Dunlap

Dick and Jane Fun Wherever We Are

Colm Toibin

Mothers and Sons

David Heller

Just Build the Ark and the Animals Will Come

Yohannan K.p.

No Longer a Slumdog

John Patrick Gillese

Western Gold: A Heartwarming Collection of Short Stories from the Canadian Northwest

Oscar Casares

Brownsville

Readers Digest

Readers Digest condensed books

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Reader's Digest condensed books volume 3 1974

Reader's Digest

Readers Digest condensed books

Susan Richards Shreve

Dream Me Home Safely

Linda Jennings

Bedtime Tales

Martin Saunders

The Think Tank

Gene Adair

Thomas Alva Edison

Daniel Wilcox

The Sesame Street Library

Chuck D. Pierce; Pamela J. Pierce

One Thing

Jasmon Drain

Stateway's Garden

Oliver Jeffers

This moose belongs to me

John Meyer; Stephanie H. Meyer

Friends and Family

Mary Higgins Clark

All Through the Night

Garrison Keillor

Happy to Be Here

Maria Alexandra Vettese; Stephanie Congdon Barnes; Molly Wizenberg (Footnotes by)

Year Between Friends: 3191 Miles Apart

Jan Harold Brunvand

Curses! Broiled Again!

Nathan Long

Glimmer Train Stories # 37

Fred Gwynne

The King Who Rained