Chains
by Anderson, Laurie Halse
New York: Scholastic, 2010. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. 6th printing. Faint edge wear. 2010 Trade Paperback. As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York... Read More
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Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Bruchac, Joseph
New York: Scholastic, 2005. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 7x5x0. 6th printing. Spine creased. 2005 Trade Paperback. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.... Read More
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials No. 1)
by Pullman, Philip; Brooks, Terry (Introduction)
New York: Del Rey, 1997. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x0x7. 4th printing. Faint edge wear. 1997 Mass Market Paperback. With an introduction by Terry Brooks. In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned... Read More
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The Hindenburg
by Mooney, Michael Macdonald
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Book club edition. Lacks jacket, otherwise an excellent copy. 1972 Hard Cover. 240 pp. Illustrated with photographs. The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ... Read More
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Design in Evil (Popular Library 124)
by King, Rufus
New York: Popular Library, 1942. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 1st printing. Wrappers delaminating, pages toned. 1942 Mass Market Paperback. Miriam Lake found herself in an alarming situation the night she came aboard the luxury yacht "Donna Louise" for an interview with a "Mrs. Murchison" who was seeking a governess for a backwards child. First, Mrs.... Read More
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The Body (G2488)
by Brown, Carter
New York: Signet, 1964. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x4x0. 3rd printing. Pages toned, edge wear. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. Al Wheeler, and unconventional copy, must solve a case involving dead call girls.
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The House Without a Door (Pocket Books 774)
by Sterling, Thomas
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1951. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First printing. Rear cover lightly soiled. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. 247 pp. An agoraphobic heiress finally decides to leave her apartment, only to immediately become tangled in a murder plot.
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Bright and Shining Tiger
by Edwards, Claudia J
New York: Warner, 1988. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. 1st printing. Toning, light edge wear. 1988 Mass Market Paperback. Blessed with magical powers but cursed by her ignorant fellow humans, Runa leads a life of exile and scorn until she discovers the abandoned fortress of Silvercat Castellum and the friendly tiller folk, who welcome her as... Read More
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Speak
by Anderson, Laurie Halse
New York: Speak Platinum Edition, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Reprint. General wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. 197 pp. Since the beginning of the school year, high school freshman Melinda has found that it's been getting harder and harder for her to speak out loud: "My throat is always sore, my lips raw.... Every time I try... Read More
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Big Sugar: Seasons in the Canefields of Florida
by Wilkinson, Alex
New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. 263, [1] pp. A compelling and timely study of the migrant workers who cut cane for large American sugar companies in Southern Florida provides an inside look at the difficult lives of the workers and at their exploitation... Read More
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The Ferguson Rifle: A Novel
by L'Amour, Louis
New York: Bantam, 2012. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4x0x6. Ink name on endpaper, spine creased. 2012 Mass Market Paperback. It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other... Read More
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Flee the Night in Anger (Popular Library 625)
by Keller, Dan
New York: Popular Library, 1954. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 6x4x0. Binding fragile, endpapers faded. 1954 Mass Market Paperback. 160 pp. A noir thriller follows an ex-convict as he becomes mixed up with a dead man, a dead woman, two love affairs and a mysterious briefcase carrying a fortune.
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by Tough, Paul
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Highlighting on some pages, otherwise an excellent copy. 2012 Hard Cover. xxiv, 231 pp. "Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on... Read More
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Companion to A Wrinkle in Time)
by L'Engle, Madeleine
New York: Laurel-Leaf Books / Dell, 1979. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x0x6. Reprint. Inner wrapper toned. 1979 Mass Market Paperback. 256 pp. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate... Read More
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Reconstructing Christian Theology
by Chopp, Rebecca S., Taylor, Mark Lewis
Ausburg: Fortress Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Light crease in top left corner of wrapper, pencil marks in text. 1994 Trade Paperback. xiii, 384 pp. Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North America's leading theologians... Read More
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Morgan the Pirate (B214)
by Carse, Robert
New York: Dell, 1961. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. First edition - paperback original. Foxing to inner wrapper, faint toning. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. 192 pp. An ex-galley slave turns to piracy, and revisits the place of his abduction to have his vengeance.
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Broken Valley (Bantam 864)
by Thompson, Thomas
New York: Bantam, 1951. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 1st printing. Edges rubbed, 1/2 inch tear to spine base, pages lightly toned. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. 216 pp. A man is framed by the local sheriff, and decides that he's had enough.
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From Here to Eternity (Q1967)
by Jones, James
New York: Signet, 1961. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Reprint. Light edge wear, pages lightly toned. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. 820 pp. A novel set in Hawaii prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, which critics have placed on a level with the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Basis for the film starring Burt Lancaster,... Read More
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Bud, Not Buddy
by Curtis, Christopher Paul
New York: Yearling Newberry, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x7. An exceptional copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father - from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King... Read More
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The Brass God (Popular Library 594)
by Hubler, Richard G
New York: Popular Library, 1952. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 7x4x0. 1st printing. Pages toned, minor wear to corners. 1952 Mass Market Paperback. 223 pp. A treasure hunt in the Caribbean turns into a life-or-death struggle for a young woman, but the promise of romance may make the trip a success.
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The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age
by Spindler, Konrad
New York: Harmony Books, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Spine faintly cocked. 1994 Hard Cover. xi, 305 pp. "The story of the amazing discovery of a man frozen in the Alpine ice, told by the leader of the international team of scientists who investigated the find. A classic of scientific discovery that... Read More
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The Dangerous Assassins (K74)
by Pearl, Jack
Derby: Monarch Books, 1964. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 1st printing. Toning, ink mark to front wrapper. 1964 Mass Market Paperback. 157 pp. 16 pages of photos. "A comprehensive account of assassinations and assassination attempts, from Caesar's time to the present, ending with the murder of President Kennedy.
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Disaster Trail (Avon 832)
by Cody, Al
New York: Avon, 1948. Reissue. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Late 50's reissue. Stamp on endpaper, lightly rubbed. 1948 Mass Market Paperback. 178 pp. "Ambushed! At first, Alamo Sage thought it was the crew returning. But then there was another sound behind him. The short hair at the base of his scalp prickled in the old warning... Read More
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The Brave Bulls (Pocket 771)
by Lea, Tom
New York: Pocket Books, 1951. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. Lea, Tom. First paperback printing. Edges rubbed with minor loss along spine, pages a bit toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. 1951 Mass Market Paperback. 264 pp. Illustrated with drawings by author. A bullfighter must regain his skills after the sudden death of... Read More
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Jou Pu Tuan: The Great Erotic Chinese Novel
by Yu, Li; Martin, Richard (Translator)
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x4x1. 1st printing. Cover corner clipped, edge wear. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 376 pp. An English translation, from the German version by Franz Kuhn, of the Ming period novel first published in 1634, which is simultaneously an erotic and a morally instructive novel.
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