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FIFTY COLORFUL YEARS

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: JOSEPH H. LOWENSTEIN AND SONS:

Seller ID: IM434679

ISBN: 11-99-18599-x

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: FAIR Condition

GAMALIEL GATES SMITH - MEMORIAL

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: IM432369

ISBN: 11-99-16216-7

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: GOOD Condition

Member of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church of New York book in very good condition.
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JOHN COTTON DANA 1856-1929

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: MERRYMOUNT PRESS:

Seller ID: IM455727

ISBN: 11-99-40310-5

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: GOOD Condition

limited to 500 copies printed by D.B. Updike at Newark New Jersey.
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LANE COOPER FUND

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: IM425860

ISBN: 11-99-09517-6

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: GOOD Condition

CORNISH CHILDHOOD

By: A.L. ROWSE

Price: $6.00

Publisher: REUSE2*:

Seller ID: IM446895

ISBN: 11-99-31352-1

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: FAIR Condition

MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER

By: A.M. HOMES

Price: $7.00

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM46822

ISBN: 0143113313

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your Life

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened a...
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MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER

By: A.M. HOMES

Price: $12.50

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM199150

ISBN: 0670038385

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly fun...
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MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER

By: A.M. HOMES

Price: $20.00

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM199151

ISBN: 0670038385

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Author Signed

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. "The Mistress's Daughter" is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly fun...
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LIFE STORY OF ABE THE NEWSBOY

By: ABE HOLLANDERSKY

Price: $7.00

Publisher: SELF PUBLISHED:

Seller ID: IM451091

ISBN: 11-99-35630-1

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: FAIR Condition

signed by the author on the photo illustration opposite the title page book slightly cocked.
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THREE DOG LIFE

By: ABIGAIL THOMAS

Price: $6.50

Publisher: HARCOURT BRACE & CO TRADE DEPT:

Seller ID: IM51411

ISBN: 0156033232

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in the...
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BAD GIRL : CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DELI

By: ABIGAIL VONA

Price: $5.00

Publisher: RUGGEDLAND:

Seller ID: IM384448

ISBN: 1590710517

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: FAIR Condition

With adolescent swagger, BAD GIRL tells the unnerving story of an outlaw young life that must be broken, reshaped and finally redeemed.
At fifteen Abigail Vona was Involved with boys, booze, drugs and stealing anything and everything she could lay her hands on. She was spiraling out of control. Helpless to control his daughter, Mr. Vona committed Abigail to Peninusla Village, a controversial treatment facility for behavior modification in Louisville, Tennessee. No sooner did she walk through the door she was put on suicide watch which lasted for 3 months. She was not allowed to dress in mo...
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HOLD ME CLOSE LET ME GO : A MOTHER A D

By: ADAIR LARA

Price: $10.00

Publisher: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL:

Seller ID: IM250880

ISBN: 0767905075

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

What does a mother do when her teenaged daughter is spinning out of control and nothing is bringing her back? A searingly honest memoir of motherhood, Hold Me Close, Let Me Go is a testament to the power of love and family.
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HALF THE WAY HOME

By: ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM36144

ISBN: 0140096108

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

FALLING LEAVES: THE MEMOIR OF AN UNWANTED CHINESE

By: ADELINE YEN MAH

Price: $6.50

Publisher: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL:

Seller ID: IM250785

ISBN: 0767903579

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family.

Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independ...
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PROMISES TO KEEP

By: AGNES W. DOOLEY

Price: $5.00

Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.:

Seller ID: IM450857

ISBN: 11-99-35390-6

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

Out of My Life and Thought

By: ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Price: $4.00

Publisher: MENTOR PUBLICATIONS - NEW YORK:

Seller ID: IM425175

ISBN: 11-99-08828-5

Binding: MASS MARKET

Condition: FAIR Condition

ALEXANDER DOLGUN'S STORY : AN AMERICAN I

By: ALEXANDER DOLGUN

Price: $8.00

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE:

Seller ID: IM122306

ISBN: 0394494970

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: FAIR Condition

FANNY STEVENSON - ROMANCE OF DESTINY

By: ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE

Price: $10.00

Publisher: CARROLL & BROWN:

Seller ID: IM256379

ISBN: 0786701277

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

TRADER HORN

By: ALFRED ALOYSIUS HORN

Price: $4.50

Publisher: GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING:

Seller ID: IM448078

ISBN: 11-99-32561-9

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: GOOD Condition

BARBER'S CLOSE CUT

By: ALFRED P GLADDEN

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: IM382496

ISBN: 1587217767

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

THRU THE TURNSTILE

By: ALICE C. WILLIAMS

Price: $9.00

Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN:

Seller ID: IM125848

ISBN: 0395244048

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

BEWITCHING BETSY BONAPARTE

By: ALICE CURTI DESMOND

Price: $10.00

Publisher: DODD, MEAD & CO:

Seller ID: IM456061

ISBN: 11-99-40656-2

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: FAIR Condition

BECOMING ALICE

By: ALICE RENE

Price: $9.50

Publisher: iUNIVERSE:

Seller ID: IM193812

ISBN: 0595403395

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

"Becoming Alice" is a coming-of-age memoir that opens as six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna, Austria. This begins an odyssey that will bring her to Riga, Latvia, and end in Portland, Oregon. "Becoming Alice" chronicles the adventures of her Jewish family's harrowing escape, their struggle as immigrants to fit into the American landscape, and the girl's personal problems growing up within a troubled family. Settling in Portland, Ilse's father is unable to practice medicine and loses his self-respect when he is forced to run a mom-and-pop grocery store. Insec...
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LUCKY

By: ALICE SEBOLD

Price: $9.00

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM215605

ISBN: 0684857820

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.
Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed...
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GOOD ENOUGH DAUGHTER : A MEMOIR

By: ALIX KATES SHULMAN

Price: $6.50

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE:

Seller ID: IM271092

ISBN: 0805211020

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

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