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Omar S. Castaneda $5.95
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Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and
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Katherine Paterson $5.95
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Goodbye, House: A Kids' Guide to Moving
Ann Banks and Nancy
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Louise Fitzhugh $5.99
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Introduction
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Laura Ingalls Wilder $5.95
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The Lost Son |
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James Haskins $15.00
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Marilyn Kaye $4.50
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Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix $4.99
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0689812361 Aladdin Paperbacks Young Adult "Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana. When diptheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother sends her on a dangerous mission to bring back help. But beyond the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even more alien and threatening than she could have imagined, and soon she finds her own life in jeopardy. Can she get help before the children of Clifton, and Jessie herself, run out of time?"
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand $24.95
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0375502912 Random House Sports/History "Seabiscuit was an unlikely champion. He was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. At a gallop, he jabbed one foreleg sideways, as if he were swatting flies. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing, misunderstood and mishandled, before his dormant talent was discovered by three men. One was Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey who had been living in a horse stall since being abandoned as a boy at a makeshift racetrack. Another was Tom Smith, "the Lone Plainsman," an enigmatic mustang breaker who had come from the vanishing frontier, bearing generations of lost wisdom about the secrets of horses. The third was a cavalry veteran named Charles Howard, a former bicycle repairman who had made a fortune by introducing the automobile to the American West. In the sultry summer of 1936, Howard bought Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price and entrusted him to Smith and Pollard. Using frontier training methods that raised eyebrows on backstretch, they discovered that beneath the hostility and fear was gentlemanly horse with keen intelligence, awe-inspiring speed, and a ferocious competitive will. It was the beginning of four years of extraordinary drama, in which Seabiscuit overcame a phenomenal run of bad fortune to become one of the most spectacular performers in sports history. Competing in the cruelest years of the Depression, the rags-to-riches horse emerged as an American cultural icon, drawing an immense and fanatical following, inspiring and avalanche of merchandising, and establishing himself as the single biggest newsmaker of 1938 - receiving more coverage than FDR or Hitler."
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Lois Lenski $5.95
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0064405850 Harper Trohpy Children's "Strawberries - Big, ripe and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. "Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is the heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud."
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume $4.99
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044048474X Yearling Books Children's "Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or scribbling all over Peter's homework, he's never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything - and Peter's had enough. When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw. Peter has put up with Fudge for too long. How can he get his parents to pay attention to him for a chance?" |
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The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson $13.00
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0140071083 Penguin Books Fiction "Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own . . ." In a new foreword for this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union." |
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Robert F. Kennedy $10.95
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0393318346 W.W. Norton History "During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installment of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
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Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt $4.95
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0374480125 Sunburst Books Children "Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing than it might seem." Starred / School Library Journal
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A.A. Milne $4.99
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