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This book is in very good condition, no wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page by previous owner. No other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "Passion, love, green, and brutality shaped the lives of four women. All were caught between the powerful forces of good and evil where their femininity was a strength when they were loved-and a weakness when as queens they were pawns in a savage struggle for the crown of England.Marguerite d'AnjouA radiant child-bride, she was forced to lead armies against her own subject.Elizabeth WoodvilleShe bewitched a King, and made history from a faithful and prolific bed.Anne NevilleHerself the daughter of a kingmaker, she was ignorant of life , but understood the strength of betrayal.Elizabeth PlantagenetMother of Henry VIII, she put aside her own dreams to reunite an exhausted country.In a brilliant novel that captures the essence of 15th century England, history is only a background for the emotional turmoil and loves of these intensely… Read More

This book is new, never read, no wear to covers. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases.

"""From the moment Howie Kemp's mysterious ""rich"" Uncle Hobart arrives from Saudi Arabia, everything around Ramona Quimby seems to be changing. Howie and his sister, Willa Jean, talk only about Uncle Hobart. Ramona's mother and Unt Bea seem to be keeping secrets. Life for Ramona, now a grown-up third-grader, is full of beginnings and discoveries and surprises--one very big surprise and one very small, but just as special!

Through all the happiness and confusion, and some small moments of sadness, too, Ramona tries hard to be pleasant and helpful. Whether she's pleasant or pesty, brave or blunderful, she's always wonderful Ramona--forever!"" Good Reads"

"""Beverly Cleary (April 12, 1916 - March 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour.… Read More

This book is in excellent condition, minor wear to edges of dust jacket from normal storage. Minor bending to first inner pages, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "Even though it is older, most of the information in this large-format book is still current. Included is a comprehensive series of 81 richly detailed maps with easy-to-read labels showing a wide variety of geographical features. THE STORY OF THE EARTH: A lavishly illustrated introduction to the earth, its place in the universe, varied habitats, intriguing wildlife, spectacular landforms, bountiful resources, and complex weather. THE WORLD IN MAPS: Large-format renderings of the surface of the earth, arranged to lead the reader from a survey of the entire world to more detailed views of all its continents and then to close-ups of densely populated areas. NATIONS OF THE WORLD: A region-by-region tour of independent nations that make up our world, featuring official flags, statistics, and concise profiles that focus on… Read More

This book is used, in "as new" condition. No wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases.

"""An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready?

Days after winning Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible.

With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.

And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.

Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another… Read More

This book has been read, some wear to covers and staining to page edges. No markings inner pages, spine intact no creases. "Fifteen short Mother Goose nursery rhymes, beautifully illustrated, are in this little board book." Lynn Davidson

This book is new, never read, no wear to covers, no markings on inner pages, spine intact no creases.

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding." Amazon

"""Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap… Read More

This book has been read, very minor wear to covers from normal storage. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases.

"The bestselling author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians takes on ancient Egypt in the first book of a trilogy that offers a modern-day portal into a rich fantastical world of ancient myth." amazon

"""Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.

For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary's Hall honored him with the school's first Master Teacher Award.

While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for grownups. His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Riordan turned to… Read More

This book is in very good condition. Some pen markings inner pages, text is not obscured. Minor wear to covers, spine intact, some creases. "Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and methods of scientific enquiry? This groundbreaking work explores the possibilities of a gender-free science and the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality."Keller's book opens up a whole new range of ideas for anyone who cares to think about the history of science, that is, the history of the modern world. . . Let us be glad to be in times when such a sparkling, innovative. . . book can be produced, a book to start all of us thinking in new directions."―Ian Hacking, New Republic"A brilliant and sensitive undertaking that does credit not only to feminist scholarship but, in the end, to science as well."―Barbara Ehrenreich, Mother Jones"This book represents the expression of a particular feminist… Read More

This book has been read, very minor wear to edges of dust jacket from normal storage. No wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact no creases. "While visiting her archaeologist sister in Egypt, Dallas artist Chloe Kingsley steps into a forbidden chamber and is whisked back in time to the biblical Exodus." Good Reads "J. Suzanne Frank is a newspaper and magazine journalist who has traveled extensively in Egypt, Greece, and Israel. A native of Texas, she lives in Dallas. She has written 4 novels under her own name and a short series of light mysteries under the name Chloe Green, which feature a fashionable sleuth named Dallas O'Connor. Her four novels are a linked series of time-travel fantasy that take a woman from the 1990s to ancient Egypt, Atlantis, and Biblical Israel. She draws heavily on history, myth and especially the Judeo-Christian Bible." Good Reads

This books is in as new condition, no wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings inner pages. Spine intact no creases. "Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew.Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice — and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both." Good Reads I live in Tacoma, Washington, with my husband and beautiful twin daughters.

This book has been read, no wear to covers, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "Originally published in 1813, James Cowles Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Man was perhaps the most important anthropological work in English of the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century. Attacking the heterodox speculations of "polygenist" writers, Prichard defended the biblically based argument that all mankind was one species. He advanced interesting hypotheses concerning the processes of racial differentiation, and suggested the then daring possibility that the original men were black-skinned.In his extensive introductory essay, "From Chronology to Ethnology: Prichard and British Anthropology, 1800-1850," George W. Stocking, Jr., uses Prichard's career to illuminate this previously neglected period—the "dark age" between the Victorian evolutionists and their eighteenth-century Scottish precursors. Focusing on the heritage of Christian… Read More

This book is in excellent condition, no wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Minor age-related colour change to dust jacket. Spine intact, no creases.
Restraint and Handling of Wild and Domestic Animals, Third Edition offers an introduction to the basic principles of animal restraint and an overview of techniques for vertebrate wild and domestic animals. Fully updated throughout, the third edition also includes new chapters on understanding behavior, training for restraint and handling, and animal welfare and restraint. Now in full color, the third edition of this classic reference is an invaluable tool to recognizing potential danger in restraint and reducing stress in the animal.

This book has been read, no wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, one minor crease. "The third part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGSThe armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, begun in the The Fellowship of the Rings and The Two Towers." Good Reads "John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and… Read More

This book is used, in "as new" condition. No wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases.

"""The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize finalist Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift. The powerful resolution of a story that has already sparked the new CBC-TV series Trickster and inspired the debaters on Canada Reads

Jared, teenaged trouble magnet, wakes up in a hospital bed feeling like hell. Not for the first time.

Some of the people he loves--the ones who are deaf to the magic that swirls around him--assume he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. They think that's why movers found him naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat. The truth for Jared is so much worse. He finally knows for sure that he has no hope of ever being normal because he really is the son of Wee'git, a Trickster, and he's won the magic lottery--he… Read More

This book has been read, minor wear to dust jacket, no wear to covers. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "EGYPT...In 1362 BC, it was a civilization both advanced and overripe. For three millennia it had endured -- now the corruption of its gods, the seeds of internal rebellion, and the mad dreams of a King threatened to topple the Royal House of Thebes and the golden empire they dominated..." Good Reads "In late 1943, Allen Stuart Drury, a 25-year old Army veteran, sought work. A position as the Senate correspondent for United Press International provided him with employment and insider knowledge of the Senate. In addition to fulfilling his duties as a reporter, he kept a journal of his views of the Senate and individual senators. In addition to the Senate personalities, his journal captured the events of the 78th & 79th Congresses.Although written in the mid-1940s, his diary was not published until 1963. "A Senate Journal" found an audience in part because of the great success of… Read More

This book has been read, very minor wear on front and back covers from normal storage and on top of spine. Spine intact, no creases. No markings on inner pages.

"This irresistible first novel tells the story of four friends who find themselves caught up in the dangerous quest to save their town when the wicked creatures from their card game come to life. Max Sumner and his three best friends, Harley, Ernie, and Natalia--who form the secret club The Grey Griffins--seem to be the only people in their very normal Minnesota town to notice that strange things have started to happen. When creatures like goblins and fairies and unicorns, all characters from a card game the Grey Griffins play, begin to make appearances in Max's backyard, Max and his friends know something is terribly wrong. And it's up to them to stop the wicked creatures of the cards from destroying their town-indeed, their world."

"Born in the wrong place, and unquestionably the wrong time, Derek Benz spent most of his early years… Read More

This book is used, has been read, withdrawn from public library. Dust cover is covered with plastic cover, library bar code label in place. Spine is intact, no creases. Minor marking on first page from original library stamps.

"Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch -- in court-ordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject. As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a "friend" looking for a private eye, Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that the case -- a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed -- will be short and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself with more questions than hard evidence. Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy's brother, David, the family's most upright member, has adopted an… Read More

This book is in very good condition, minor wear to covers, two stickers placed on front cover by previous owner. No markings inner pages. Spine intact, minor crease. "Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, was complicating her marriage by an incestuous love for her uncle, King Richard III.Richmond, however, was destined to wrest the crown from his crookback cousin. But his reign, complicated in turn by his resentment of Elizabeth and her ways, was also haunted by the ghosts of hiis two young brothers-in-law, the "princes in the Tower"..." Good Reads "Brenda Honeyman, noted for her careful research and engaging style, is also the author of another book in The Shadow of the Tower series, Richmond and Elizabeth. Among her other books are Richard by the Grace of God and The Kingmaker. She makes her home in England." Good Reads

This book has been read, minor wear to covers and very small hole back cover, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, minor creases. ""Gripping and believable...you can almost smell the streets of 14th-century York as you delve deeper into an engrossing plot." -PRIMAIn the year of our Lord 1369 the much-loved Queen Philippa lies dying in Windsor Castle, the harvest has failed, and the pestilence has returned. In York, the atmosphere of fear and superstition is heightened by a series of thefts and violent deaths at St. Leonard's Hospital, as well as rumors that these crimes are connected to the hospital's dwindling funds. The Master of St. Leonard's, Sir Richard Ravenser, hurries north from the queen's deathbed to summon Owen Archer, soldier-spy, to investigate the scandal before it ruins him.While his wife Lucie faces the plague-panicked townsfolk at the apothecary, Owen encounters a seemingly random series of clues: a riddle posed by one of the victims at the hospital, a lay sister with a scandalous… Read More

This book is in very good condition, some wear to corners and top of spine due to age. Front cover beautfully embossed and in fantastic condition. Previous owner signed first inner page in 1919. Minor pencil marking top corner of first inner page. No other markings inner pages. "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it, and is considered an important historical artifact." Good Reads "Newell Dwight Hillis was a Congregationalist minister, writer, and philosopher from Brooklyn. He served as pastor of the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, and he oversaw the completion of the last major renovation of the church." Good Reads