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The Love Bombers

By: Miklowitz, Gloria D.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1980)

Seller ID: 15130

ISBN: 0-440-04640-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy (review copy, with publisher's slip laid in), minor soiling to bottom edge; faint soiling to jacket as well, mostly to rear panel]. Novel about an 18-year-old Jewish girl whose older brother joins a religious cult, the "Church of the World," in Berkeley, California. "Other books about cults have shown the dark side of the subject. [This novel] shows that, too, but acknowledges that some young people find in cults something they have not found in their own homes, churches, or society. Whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages is a question for the reader ...
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Mastermind

By: Millman, M.C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/London/Jerusalem, C. I. S. Publishers: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 13084

ISBN: 1-56062-273-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows a tiny bit of edgewear, vertical crease at edge of front flap]. "Yeshivas Chachmas Yosef is having a snow day! It's the perfect opportunity for Zevy and Shragy to spend some time working together on the computer, especially after a phone call by the yeshivah's computerized calling system entices the boys to see if they can enter the yeshivah's comptuer system through their own computer modem. Cracking the access code to the yeshivah's computer is nothing for the novice computer hackers compared to the events and challenges that ...
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Hubert Invents the Wheel [SIGNED]

By: Montgomery, Claire & Monte

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company: 2005

Seller ID: 15582

ISBN: 0-8027-8990-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, slight bumping at base of spine; jacket shows very minor wear along top and bottom edges, faint scuffing to rear panel]. (line drawings) INSCRIBED generically ("Keep 'em rolling!") and SIGNED by the authors on the half-title page. Story about a 15-year-old in Ancient Sumeria, whose invention of the wheel "is received less than enthusiastically. And when their enemies the Assyrians try to use Hubert's wheel to flatten the Sumerians into the world's first roadkill, it is up to Hubert to prevent history's greatest invention from ending civilization as he knows it!...
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Demons at My Door

By: Morgenroth, Barbara

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1980

Seller ID: 12444

ISBN: 0-689-30781-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[good solid copy, mild shelfwear; jacket shows some wear at spine extremities, mild surface wear]. "Aly belonged to the creme de la creme of Killiam High [and] had everything going for her, but she also has endless activities and studies to juggle, and somehow things didn't seem to move as smoothly and easily and they once had. For one thing there were those demons that were after her. Aly is in trouble. Like many over-achieving people, she has pushed herself too far.
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Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

By: Morris, Willie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford MS, Yoknapatawpha Press: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 18694

ISBN: 0-916242-60-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, light scrape line on front board; jacket has a small closed tear at top of front panel, minor wrinkling along top edge]. This sequel to the author's 1971 book "Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood" (which provided the story material for the 1988 telefilm THE RIVER PIRATES), is set again in his childhood hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi (called simply Yazoo in the book, and referred to for some weird reason in the jacket blurb as a "mythical town"). It is now 1946, and "World War II is over and life is back to normal -- perhaps a bit too normal to suit Bubba,...
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Waiting for Love

By: Murray, Venetia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1959

Seller ID: 8036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[good solid copy, some dust-soiling to top edge, mild shelfwear; jacket soiled, moderate wear at edges/corners, still quite attractive]. A fifteen-year- old girl falls in love with a man of thirty-one, in this "delightful romantic novel" (the author's first), in which the heroine, Kitty, is described as "a literary younger sister of Francoise Sagan's heroines." " Like most fifteen-year-olds, she is restless, enchanted with the idea of being seduced, envious of her older sister's privileges and beaux, dying to be eighteen and 'grown up.'" From the jacket synopsis, I gath...
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Run for Your Luck

By: Oppenheimer, Joan L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc.: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 11740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[ex-library book, but just barely, with minimal wear and with markings confined to a single library property stamp on the title page and a VERY tiny "discard" stamp on the ffep; there is also a small previous seller's price stamped in the upper corner of the front pastedown; the jacket is completely unmarked, with some moderate but even soiling]. "How do you convince your widowed mother that you must lead your own life? This is the pressing problem that faces eighteen-year-old Toni Weston. She finds some answers when she runs for her luck, hitchhiking to her aunt's home close to...
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Cinnamon Cane [SIGNED]

By: Pollowitz, Melinda

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 8407

ISBN: 0-06-024762-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean tight copy, very minor bumping at top/bottom edges, rear endpaper partially stuck to rear pastedown; jacket mildly rubbed, small tears at a couple of corners and at bottom of front panel]. SIGNED and dated by the author on the ffep. A " beautiful and sensitively written first novel [which] evokes the special friendship between a grandparent and a young girl." [May possibly be the library binding -- book has pictorial covers which match the jacket illustration -- although there is no indication of it anywhere on the book or jacket; book is stated "First Edition."] ...
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Sweet Pain

By: Posner, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, M. Evans and Company: (c.1987)

Seller ID: 12107

ISBN: 0-87131-501-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, but with an unfortunate shallow dent at top of front cover; jacket shows just minor surface wear, also a little dented in the same spot] "Casey Gordon is lean and limber, a 17-year-old senior at Westfield High School. She writes poetry and she runs the 400-meter hurdles with a tenacious will to win. Casey is a bright, energetic, caring girl but she seems to need to be hurt. She injures herself a little too much in competition and she always falls in love with real losers. She doesn't really understand the conflicts inside of her and the feeling of unworthiness ...
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The Little Hellion: A Story of "Egypt" (Southern Illinois)

By: Rauch, Mabel Thompson

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1960)

Seller ID: 3669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[ex-library but just mildly worn and minimal markings, front hinge a little loose (but not separated), faint tape residue on front cover only, pocket on rear fep; jacket is quite nice, clean and bright, spine somewhat faded (except where the call number label used to be), and a 1" irregular closed tear at bottom of spine].
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Dogs Don't Tell Jokes

By: Sachar, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 15901

ISBN: 0-679-82017-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows a tiny bit of wear at extremities]. About a starry-eyed 12-year-old misfit with dreams of becoming a stand-up comic, who hopes to make a spectacular debut at his junior high school talent show. One of my daughter's favorite books (ask her).
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Linda's Homecoming

By: Whitney, Phyllis A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, David McKay Company / The Junior Literary Guild: (c.1950)

Seller ID: 21924

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[a solid clean book, moderate bumping to all corners, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine; jacket edgeworn and age-toned (especially at spine), a bit wrinkled and soiled (not excessively), with a small black smudge on the spine, minor paper loss at base of spine]. Juvenile fiction about a girl "whose whole life is uprooted and transplanted by her mother's second marriage," which occasions a relocation from New York to a midwestern city just at the beginning of her senior year of high school. She isn't thrilled by her new step-siblings, "Babs, a glamorous girl Linda's age,...
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Tanglewreck

By: Winterson, Jeanette

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury Children's Books: 2006

Seller ID: 15065

ISBN: 1-58234-919-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, both book and jacket showing only faint handling wear]. The author's first novel for young readers, about "time tornadoes" rampaging through the streets of London, causing people to vanish and such things as prehistoric beasts to appear along the banks of the banks of the River Thames. "At the centre of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver; her body and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs. Rokabye; and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two...
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Category: Fiction: Juvenile