Condition: GOOD

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

Ancient Egypt (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries)

By: Nature Company

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Time Life Education

Seller ID: 9780783547633

ISBN-13: 9780783547633

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Full-color photos. From the splendor of the pharaoh's court to the everyday
life of ordinary people, the great civilization of the Nile valley is revealed
in page after page of dramatic photos of the objects they left behind: human
and animal mummies, reed brushes, children's pull-toys, and more.
Stunning.-- School Library Journal.

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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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Blood Lite

By: Anderson, Kevin J.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket Books

Seller ID: 9781439148402

ISBN-13: 9781439148402

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Horror Writers Association Presents BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore"...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cub...
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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

Gardener's Journal

By: Engelbreit, Mary

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Seller ID: 9780836246209

ISBN-13: 9780836246209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"The Gardener's Journal" contains lots of lined and grid pages for planning, as well as helpful tips for home and garden.
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JPS TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue): The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text

By: Jewish Publication Society Inc

Price: $10.00

Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY

Seller ID: 9780827602526

ISBN-13: 9780827602526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

Read our customer guideRegarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States. Not since the third century b.c.e., when 72 eld...
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King Ottokar's sceptre

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 9782203403376

ISBN-13: 9782203403376

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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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Middleworld #1 The Jaguar Stones

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Seller ID: 9780545397230

ISBN-13: 9780545397230

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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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