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Love Nina a Nanny Writes Home

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Penguin Books:

Seller ID: 9780241965092

ISBN: 0241965098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Longmeadow Press:

Seller ID: 9780681100855

ISBN: 0681100850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

"The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss"

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780062454959

ISBN: 0062454951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives.

Anderson Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before--a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives,...
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"Angels at the Table: A Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Christmas Story"

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345528889

ISBN: 0345528883

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this joyous and whimsical holiday novel, Debbie Macomber rings in the season with the return of Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, delivering laughs, love, and a charming dose of angelic intervention.

Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel's work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year's Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect ...
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Essays in Biography

By: " Keynes, John Maynard"

Price: $17.95

Publisher: New York, Horizon Press: 1951

Seller ID: 7-DT018

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD-

"New edition with three additional essays. Tight, clean and square. Large tear on title page repaired with tape at some point which left a stain where it was used. Faintest age tanning of pages. Chipped spine ends. No dust jacket. 354 indexed pages. 5.25x7.5"" (13.5x 19cm). Biographical essays written by Keynes on his contemporaries: Politicians - The Council of Four (Paris 1919), Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Lord Oxford, Edwin Montagu, Winston Churchill, The Great Villiers Connection, Trotsky on England; Economists- Robert Malthus, Alfred Marshall, F.Y. Edgeworth, F.P. Ramsey; Addit...
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"The War Years 1939-1945 (The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson, Volume II)"

By: "( Nigel Nicolson, ed.)"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: NY, Atheneum: 1967

Seller ID: 4-OH007

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Book is tight, bright, clean and square with slight softening of spine ends and a single spot on to top exterior page edges. Grey cloth with gilt lettering and red end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is intact with both a price and ""A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection"" - light age soil and tanned edges with seriously sunned spine. 511 indexed, annotated pages with 10 black and white photos. Member of Parliament ""scholar, diplomat and writer..a British gentleman who looks of quality in all things and finds his greatest courage when affairs are going badly...Scatter...
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Fire of the North: The Life of St. Cuthbert

By: "Adam, David"

Price: $14.95

Publisher: "London, GB", SPCK: 2003

Seller ID: 19T015

ISBN: 0281055610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEW

"Gift quality! ""vividly relates the story of this central figure in Celtic Christianity…St. Cuthbert, monk and bishop of Lindisfarne...preacher, teacher, and pastor...reputed to have gifts of prophecy and healing...…complemented throughout by prayers specially composed to help us experience the direct force of Celtic spirituality for ourselves."" 144 pages + Bibliography"
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Image for Henry Adams: Novels: Mont Saint Michel; The Education - Democracy: An American Novel; Esther: A Novel; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Poems

Henry Adams: Novels: Mont Saint Michel; The Education - Democracy: An American Novel; Esther: A Novel; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Poems

By: "Adams, Henry"

Price: $14.95

Seller ID: 9NT040

ISBN: 0940450127

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/ No DJ

"As new except for @ a dozen folded page corners and Strand sticker inside front cover. The Education is the 1919 Pulitzer Prize winner by the grandson & great-grandson of 2 American Presidents which was originally self-published; Democracy was originally published anonymously and pirated by many; Mont St. Michel & Chartres is a classic in both art history and American literature. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, printed endpapers, bound-in ribbon bookmark, 1246 pages, 8x5"" (20.3x13cm)"
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Open: An Autobiography

By: "Agassi, Andre"

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780307388407

ISBN: 0307388409

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.

Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game's highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in ...
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom

By: "Ahmed, Qanta A."

Price: $8.50

Publisher: "Sourcebooks, Inc.":

Seller ID: 9781402210877

ISBN: 1402210876

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges of extremism, and a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith." - Gail Sheehy
The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones.
Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On...
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"Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson"

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Doubleday:

Seller ID: 9780385484510

ISBN: 0385484518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for ...
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hachette Books:

Seller ID: 9780786868728

ISBN: 0786868724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith ...
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Hernando de Soto: El Amadis de la Florida

By: "Albornoz, Miguel (Jaime Torres Bodet, Prologue)"

Price: $59.95

Publisher: "Madrid, Spain", Ediciones de la Revista de Occidente: 1971

Seller ID: 35T009

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Signed by author. As new except for slight foxing to exterior, top page edges and light rubbing to top and bottom cover edges. ""La figura de De Soto es trancendente para les tres Americas, tanto en su periplo centroamericano de Panama y Nicaragua, como en su destino de primer europeo en hablar al Inca y ser contemplado por el en confirmacion de las profecias andinas, y en su aventura en La Florida..."" 351 pages including Bibliogrphy. Text in Spanish."
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An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family

By: "Ali, Tariq (Salman Rushdie, Intro.)"

Price: $13.95

Publisher: NY, Putnam: 1985

Seller ID: 09H001

ISBN: 0399130748

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE/Fine

"As new - gift quality! ""since the departure of the British raj in 1947, India has been ruled for all but three years by a member of one remarkable family (as of 1985)."""
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My Invented Country: A Memoir

By: "Allende, Isabel"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780060545673

ISBN: 0060545674

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit; and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today.

The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth an overdue acknowledgment that Allen...
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The Alliluyev Memoirs: Intimate recollections of Svetlana Stalin's Aunt Anna Alliluyeva and Her Grandfather Sergei Alliluyev

By: "Alliluyeva, Anna & Alliluyev, Sergei (David Tutaev (ed. & trans.)"

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Berkley Medallion (#N1548): 1968

Seller ID: 29P003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, slight age tanning of pages, clean and square. Faint surface creases light edgewear to top and bottom edges of covers. ""Published in Moscow in 1946, they were soon suppressed by Stalin and totally withdrawn from circulation…the only authentic documents of a family closely connected with Stalin throughout the two turbulent decades before the Russian Revolution..."""
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Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage

By: "Andersen, Christopher"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avon:

Seller ID: 9780380730315

ISBN: 0380730316

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Traces the relationship of President Kennedy and his wife, discussing the public and private aspects of their marriage.
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A Year by the Sea

By: "Anderson, Joan"

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Broadway Books:

Seller ID: 9780767905930

ISBN: 0767905938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The basis for the major motion picture of the same name. An entrancing memoir of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.

Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive mother, she had slowly and unconsciously replaced her own dreams with the needs of her family. With her sons grown, however, she realized that the family no longer centered on the home she provided, and her relationship with her husband had become stagnant...
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

By: "Anderson, Jon Lee"

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grove Press:

Seller ID: 9780802135582

ISBN: 0802135587

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Superb ... Mr. Anderson does a masterly job in evoking Che's complex character, in separating the man from the myth and in describing the critical role Che played in one of the darkest periods of the cold war". -- The New York Times Book Review

The Philadelphia Inquirer called Che Guevara "the best treatment of its subject to date", and the Denver Post wrote, "It is Anderson's careful research that will define Guevara for the future". Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and i...
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

By: "Angelou, Maya"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553569070

ISBN: 0553569074

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.

This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page.

Maya Angelou speaks out . . .

On Faith: "I'm taken aba...
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