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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A collection of poems about how things appear to be one way, then surprise us by being something else. These poems are about things that seem dire or misconceived - a nephew's death, a detour into the wrong profession - but which are redeemed through reconstruction in poetry.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. From building a moat to planning a siege: this fascinating book is filled with stories about castle life.   How were castles built, fought over, lived in? This engaging book tells all! Learn the difference between donjeons and dungeons (it's important), the best time of year for a siege, and how 40 pigs managed to bring down a fortress. See how the lord and lady, their knights, and their workers ate, kept clean, and entertained themselves. From the ravens in the Tower of London to household tips on food, fire, and bedding, Castles: A Very Peculiar History is filled with fascinating facts and stories.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Twelve-year-old Kalman Gabriel wrote to hundreds of famous -- and infamous -- people to find out what kind of advice for life they would impart upon him. The response was overwhelming. Over two hundred people, from Mother Teresa to Mr. Rogers: from Ray Bradbury and Scott Turow to Naomi Judd and Drew Barrymore, responded to Kalman's letters. Leona Helmsley told Kalman, Presevere, while Elie Weisel advised, Study. Read. Share. Kalman's files are compulsively readable and infinitely quotable.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. In the wake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's recent engagement, this charming addition to the popular Very Peculiar History(tm) series looks back at history's most fascinating and peculiar Royal weddings.   From Henry VIII's notorious nuptials to the achingly romantic recent marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton and the latest news about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, there's nothing more scrutinized than a Royal wedding. Featuring black and white illustrations, witty anecdotes, incredible trivia, a timeline, and glossary, this delightful book will entertain readers of all ages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The electrifying story of a criminal Quaker, a poisoned mistress, and the dawn of the information age in Victorian England.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Although golf today has a dash of high society about it, that wasnt always the case. Golf: A Very Peculiar History traces the sport from its earliest ball-in-hole games and male-only origins right up to the scandals that rock its current celebrities and tournaments-with a few mulligans in between.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. More than frosting filled those cakes.Wilma Sue seems destined to go from one foster home to the next--until she is sent to live with sisters and missionaries, Ruth and Naomi. Do they really care about Wilma Sue, or are they just looking for a Cinderella-style farmhand to help raise chickens and bake cakes?As Wilma Sue adjusts to her new surroundings and helps deliver special cakes, Wilma Sue realizes there's something strange going on. She starts looking for secret ingredients, and along the way she makes a new friend, Penny.When Penny and her mother hit a rough patch, Naomi decides to make her own version of cake--with disastrous results. Then tragedy strikes the chickens, and all fingers point to Wilma Sue--just when she was starting to believe she could at last find a permanent home with Ruth and Naomi. Will the sisters turn her out, or will she discover what it feels like to be truly loved. Ivanov, Olga And Aleksey (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Would you marry you? is a book about examining the relationship that you have with yourself and if you would make a lifetime commitment to yourself. Over two hundred questions about the relationship that you have with yourself are presented in this intriguing work. You will find the conversation that you have with yourself, your friends, and your family will take on many twists and turns as you discover if you really would marry yourself.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A teenager journeys from shame to strength when she moves to her grandmother's farm in a story infused with southern spirit and heart. This is the last time Mary Harold will have a panic attack at school when kids call her the grossest girl. If Mom won't move back to Alabama, her thirteen-year-old daughter will just have to drive herself 691 miles to Grandma Ayma's farmhouse -- and a whole new life. With Ayma's loving support, Mary Harold is soon strong enough to help Bud, the Cherokee farm manager, wrangle the cows, and confident enough to stand up for his daughter, Dixie, a girl with a strain of peculiar that makes her whinny and stamp like a horse to keep the world at bay. Mary Harold still misses her mom, but has started to have dreams of the Black Warrior Forest that are offering clues. As she listens to their message, and to her own heart, she discovers how powerful and surprising the bonds of family can be.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Two bestselling authors with a huge combined platform, provide the perfect way into science: the Hollywood sci-fi movies we all know and love.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Although golf today has a dash of high society about it, that wasnt always the case. Golf: A Very Peculiar History traces the sport from its earliest ball-in-hole games and male-only origins right up to the scandals that rock its current celebrities and tournaments-with a few mulligans in between.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. What if all animals got along? Miss Ethel Peacock, who lives at a nature preserve, has the brilliant idea of starting a school for all animals. She musters up her courage to take her idea to Mr. Densworth Lion, principal at Cub Academy, who thinks the idea is preposterous. He roars, Animals have a pecking order. Getting along isn't in an animal's nature. Ethel is disheartened until her friend, Luce Pigeon, tells her about a tiger, hyena, orangutan and polar bear who live together in the tunnels under the city after escaping from the zoo, and about the badger who helps them. The two set out to meet the animals. What Ethel finds when they arrive is beyond her imagination. Animals with distinct personalities are working together but barely surviving. She and Luce must help them escape their underground prison. The night of the escape is chaotic. The animals scatter amid the blare of police sirens. What happens next motivates Ethel even more to open the school. Her plan gets a big boost when the owls, keepers of the sacred knowledge of the forest, give Ethel their blessing. But, the owls are hiding something about the nature preserve that could change everything.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children has remained on the US bestseller list for 14 weeks and has sold over 27,000 copies in the UK.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children has remained on the US bestseller list for 14 weeks and has sold over 27,000 copies in the UK.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War I. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur's identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their very first case and a past that may have returned.with murderous vengeance. It was an investigation that began with the grisly murder of a pretty young dancer. In a city shaken by war, a faceless killer stalked London's theater row, creating his own sinister drama. And it would take Bryant's unorthodox techniques and May's dogged police work to catch a fiend whose ability to escape detection seemed almost supernatural--a murderer who decades later may have returned to kill one of them.and won't stop until he kills the other. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War I. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur's identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their very first case and a past that may have returned.with murderous vengeance. It was an investigation that began with the grisly murder of a pretty young dancer. In a city shaken by war, a faceless killer stalked London's theater row, creating his own sinister drama. And it would take Bryant's unorthodox techniques and May's dogged police work to catch a fiend whose ability to escape detection seemed almost supernatural--a murderer who decades later may have returned to kill one of them.and won't stop until he kills the other. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, Ellie's cousins Colm and Toby are off fighting against Hitler, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family, he and Ellie can't resist. All goes as planned-until the pair are caught redhanded. Ellie expects them to be taken straight to prison, but instead they are delivered to a large townhouse, where government official Major Ramsey is waiting with an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort, before they can be delivered to a German spy, or he turns her over to the police. Ellie doesn't care for the Major's imperious manner, but she has no choice, and besides, she's eager to do her bit for king and country. She may be a thief, but she's no coward. When she and the Major break into the house in question, they find instead the purported German spy dead on the floor, the safe already open and empty. Soon, Ellie and Major Ramsey are forced to put aside their differences to unmask the double-agent, as they try to stop allied plans falling into German hands. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful read that Kirkus Reviews calls ?just the ticket for a cold autumn night.?Tessa Woodward isn?t exactly thrilled to move to rainy, cold Chicago from her home in sunny Florida. But homesickness turns to icy fear when unexplainable things start happening in her new house. Things like flickering lights, mysterious drawings appearing out of nowhere, and a crackling noise she can feel in her bones. When her little brother?s doll starts crying real tears, Tessa realizes that someone?or something?is trying to communicate with her. And it involves a secret that?s been shrouded in mystery for more than one hundred years. With the help of three new friends, Tessa begins unraveling the mystery of what happened in the house on Shady Street?and more importantly, what it has to do with her.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful read that Kirkus Reviews calls ?just the ticket for a cold autumn night.?Tessa Woodward isn?t exactly thrilled to move to rainy, cold Chicago from her home in sunny Florida. But homesickness turns to icy fear when unexplainable things start happening in her new house. Things like flickering lights, mysterious drawings appearing out of nowhere, and a crackling noise she can feel in her bones. When her little brother?s doll starts crying real tears, Tessa realizes that someone?or something?is trying to communicate with her. And it involves a secret that?s been shrouded in mystery for more than one hundred years. With the help of three new friends, Tessa begins unraveling the mystery of what happened in the house on Shady Street?and more importantly, what it has to do with her.…