Binding: Trade Paperback

200 Perplexing Chess Puzzles

By: Grief, Martin

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc

Edition: 5

Seller ID: 9780806997278

ISBN-13: 9780806997278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Checkmate These fun-filled brain teasers will increase your skill. Each chessboard puzzle has its pieces in a specially conceived difficult arrangement. You must complete a given task in a specific number of moves: "White to play and mate in five moves", for example. Some puzzles sharpen both your defensive and offensive acumen, and many focus on your endgame-the most important phase of chess. Solutions are in the back.
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A Letter for Maria (Picture Hippo)

Price: $0.90

Publisher: Scholastic

Seller ID: 9780590707930

ISBN-13: 9780590707930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A Visit to Rome in 1764 (Fogg Museum Picture Book Number Five)

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum/Harvard College Library : 1956

Edition: (1st edition)

Seller ID: 6-6T011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

Tight, slight age tanning of pages, clean and square. Chip at top corner of front cover. 9 page introductory essay and 16 Plates of Sonnets (in Italian) by Louis de Subleyras matching illustrations by Claude-Henri Watelet from "Nella Venuta in Roma di Madama le Comte e dei Signori Watelet, E Copette" NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Arden of Faversham

By: Lockwood, Tom

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 9780713677652

ISBN-13: 9780713677652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its titlepage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadaysscandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although thetitle advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'and her 'unsatiable desire of filthie lust', the unknown playwrightwith great dramatic skill and psychological insight manages to balancethe motivations of all the main characters. Thomas Arden, one of therapacious landlords so reviled in mid-Elizabethan social drama, wasmurdered at his own house in Faversham, Kent, in 1551. His ...
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Biblia Bilinge/Bilingual Bible (Spanish and English Edition)

By: Broadman & Holman Publishers

Price: $8.00

Publisher: B & H Espanol

Seller ID: 9781558192607

ISBN-13: 9781558192607

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Reina-Valera 1960 and the New International Version have come together in this bilingual parallel Bible.
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Collector's Style: Decorating with the Things You Love

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens

Seller ID: 9780696229640

ISBN-13: 9780696229640

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854

By: Duniway, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bison Books

Seller ID: 9780803272958

ISBN-13: 9780803272958

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minima...
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Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series

By: Riordan, Rick

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Benbella Books

Seller ID: 9780979233142

ISBN-13: 9780979233142

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Domains of Darkover (The Friends of Darkover Present)

By: Bradley, Marion Zimmer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Daw Books

Seller ID: 9780886774073

ISBN-13: 9780886774073

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin Classics)

By: Various

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Seller ID: 9780140443974

ISBN-13: 9780140443974

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the stunning Exile of the Sons of Uisliu--a tale of treachery, honour and romance--these are masterpieces of passion and vitality, and form the foundation for the Irish literary tradition: a mythic legacy that...
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Ellie's Story: A Dog's Purpose Novel

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scholastic Book Services

Seller ID: 9781338037043

ISBN-13: 9781338037043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Emmanuel's Book II: The Choice for Love (New Age)

By: Rodegast, Pat

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc.

Seller ID: 9780553347500

ISBN-13: 9780553347500

Binding: Trade Paperback

Fear tells you, "I want to make you safe."Love says, "you are safe."Fear would walk you on a narrow path.Love says, "open your arms and fly with me."--Emmanuel Emmanuel's great wisdom--coming to us through channel Pat Rodegast--has illuminated thousands of lives. Emmanuel's Book revealed deeply enriching truths about our place in the cosmos and the evolutionary destiny of the human soul. Now Emmanuel shines his light on the limitless power of love--and the prison house of fear. With startling directness and gentle wit, he confronts ageless questions such as "Why am I here?" and contemporary qu...
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Express Yourself with Color

By: Better Homes and Gardens

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books

Seller ID: 9780696207754

ISBN-13: 9780696207754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Aims to help in the creation of new colour schemes throughout the house. Armed with a personal palette and a colour wheel, the reader learns how to choose background shades and to add colour with soft furnishings and lighting techniques. Tips are included on choice and application of paints.
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FDR's Fireside Chats

By: Buhite, Russell D.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Penguin Books

Seller ID: 9780140179057

ISBN-13: 9780140179057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Going Long: Legends, Oddballs, Comebacks & Adventures (Runner's World)

By: Editors of Runner's World Maga

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Rodale Books

Seller ID: 9781605295336

ISBN-13: 9781605295336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

For more than 40 years, Runner's World magazine has been the world's leading authority on running--bringing its readers the latest running advice and some of the most compelling sports narratives ever told. From inspirational stories such as A Second Life(the story of Matt Long, the FDNY firefighter who learned to run again after a critical injury) to analytical essays such as White Men Can't Run (a look at what puts African runners at the front of the pack), the magazine captivates its readers every month. Now, for the first time, the editors of Runner's World have gathered these and other po...
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Kosher Kettle: International Adventures in Kosher Cooking

By: Kaplan, Sybil R.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Five Star Publications, Inc.

Seller ID: 9781877749193

ISBN-13: 9781877749193

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

With more than 350 recipes from 27 countries, this is one Kosher cookbook you don't want to be without. It includes everything from wheat halva from India to borrekas from Greece. Five Star Publications, Inc. is donating a portion of all sales of Kosher Kettle to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
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Modern Irish Short Stories

By: Forkner, Ben

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Penguin Books

Seller ID: 9780140056693

ISBN-13: 9780140056693

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture

By: Ferguson, Russell

Price: $8.50

Publisher: MIT Press

Edition: 4

Seller ID: 9780262560641

ISBN-13: 9780262560641

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Out There addresses the theme of cultural marginalization - the process whereby various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It engages fundamental issues raised by attempts to define such concepts as mainstream, minority, and other, and opens up new ways of thinking about culture and representation. All of the texts deal with questions of representation in the broadest sense, encompassing not just the visual but also the social and psychological aspects of cultural identity. Included are important theoretical writings by Homi Bhabha, Helene Cixous, Gil...
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