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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.

The People of Sparks

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One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History

And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of modern club hoppers—Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.

Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop and cash for the Revolution, to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America, to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba, and to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons and their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against “demon rum,” Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, and today’s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter’s Punch. In an age of microbrewed beer and single-malt whiskeys, rum—once the swill of the common man—has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers.

Awash with local color and wry humor, And a Bottle of Rum is an affectionate toast to this most American of liquors, a chameleon spirit that has been constantly reinvented over the centuries by tavern keepers, bootleggers, lounge lizards, and marketing gurus. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

And A Bottle Of Rum

Peter Roop

Connie Roop

Retired school library book. Previous owners information is marked out on the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in excellent condition.

North Carolina

Recounts the life story of the noted explorer, including excerpts from his own writings.

Christopher Columbus

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Jeanne DuPrau

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Douglas J. Mahr

You are about to embark upon a voyage of exploration. This book is an expedition into an unseen world, a world of unlimited dimension explored by only a few. You are one of those pioneer explorers comparable in stature to Columbus, to Lindbergh, and to those who showed us the passageway to the summit of Everest.

Missing no pages
No writings or highlighting
Printed in the United States of America 


An Adventure Into Unlimitedness 

Voyage to the New World (Ramtha)

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Patrick Ness

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered?

Monsters of Men

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History

Sailing to a New World

On an expedition to discover a new trade route to the Far East for Spain, Christopher Columbus landed in a New World. Young readers will enjoy this sensitively written new book about Columbus' famous journey and the results of his interaction with the indigenous people. Full-color maps and illustrations and clear text help explain what life was like for explorers at sea in the 1400s. Also featured is an easy-to-follow recipe that the crew on an explorer's ship would have eaten.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

The pictures show all the pen marks and damage to the book.

Michigan

Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

The Scarlet Letter

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Missouri

Pennsylvania

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Utah

Short Stories - Irish Thoroughbred / Irish Rose

Irish Hearts

Peter Carey

A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.

Parrot and Olivier in America

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Iowa

The People of Sparks (J)

Louisiana

Stain on back over top corner and preceeding pages. Does not impackt readability. Vision book by Ignatius Press. 

A Vision Book

Father Marquette and the Great Rivers

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Vermont

So Many Partings

Brittle book jacket 

Little, Brown and Company, 1952 book club edition, 304 pages

The popular author of NEXT To VALOUR, THE SALEM FRIGATE and THE PEPPER TREE is at his story telling best in this fast-moving, action-packed novel about a doughty band of Scottish pioneers who braved a perilous ocean voyage to find a new homeland in what is now the province of Manitoba. 

THE STRANGE BRIGADe is also the love story of young Malcolm MacAllister, an itinerant schoolmaster; Jeannie, the bewitching daughter of pastor Alec MacLean; and handsome Andy Ross, a giant Scotch-Canadian lad. 

Two events in 1813 set in motion the exodus from Scotland: landholders evicted their ten• ants in great numbers to throw open their lands to shepherding; and the great Hud. son's Bay Company, locked in a deadly feud with the North West Fur Company for control of the Canadian fur lands, sought to make secure its holdings by importing farmers and artisans to the New World.

The Strange Brigade

New Hampshire

City of Ember Book #2

Frances Hardinge

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye was born on a day sacred to Goodman Palpitattle, He Who Keeps Flies out of Jams and Butterchurns, which is why her father insisted on naming her after the housefly. He also insisted on teaching her to read--even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye has died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel Uncle Westerly and Aunt Briony, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Saracen, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words.

Fly by Night

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Florida

Hope Cook

After hearing voices among an eerie copse of trees in the woods, seventeen-year-old Curtis must confront his worst fear: that he has inherited his father's mental illness. A desperate search for answers leads him to discover Gravenhearst, a labyrinth mansion that burned down in 1894. When he locks eyes with a steely Victorian girl in a forgotten mirror, he's sure she's one of the fire's victims. If he can unravel the mystery, he can save his sanity . . . and possibly the girl who haunts his dreams. But more than 100 years in the past, the girl in the mirror is fighting her own battles. When her mother disappears and her sinister stepfather reveals his true intentions, Mila and her sister fight to escape Gravenhearst and unravel the house's secrets--before it devours them both.

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