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Sourcebooks/FIREreads, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Sourcebooks/Fire Reads hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, second printing. Chapter B&W decorations. The DJ is simply spectacular - multi-color foil with the title embossed. The mylar cover should protect it well. CONTENT: An Amazon Best Book of the Month * B&N's YA Book Club Pick * Walmart Buzz Pick * Indie Next Pick * Book of the Month Club YA Box . Teen/Young Adult LGBTQ. A few weeks ago, Kane Montgomery was in an accident that robbed him of his memory. The only thing he knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. The world as he knows it feels different?reality seems different. And when strange things start happening around him, Kane isn't sure where to turn. And then three of his classmates show up, claiming to be his friends and the only people who can tell him what's truly going on. Kane doesn't know what… Read More

Media Lab Books, 2017. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Le Thu (Sundog Studio) color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Media Lab Books hardcover (pictorial boards) but NO DJ ISSUED, first edition, no printing given, assumed first. Color illustrations by Le Thu. Decorated end pages. A nice touch: what appears to be brown tape on the front cover as if the graphic had been taped to the book. CONTENT: Subtitle: Hilarious Quotes About the Afterlife Inspired by Real Kids. Reimagine Heaven through the innocent eyes of a child in this heartwarming, hilarious, beautifully illustrated collection of quotes about the afterlife, provided by real children ages 3 through 9. Sure to be treasured by Christian families everywhere, Heaven According to Kids details a child's description of heaven on each spread, accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations that brings each quote to life. Kids and adults alike will love reading this book and imagining what heaven is like for themselves.

DAW Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Jody Lee beautiful DJ art. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new" - tiny red remainder dot bottom edges at spine. UNREAD 2019 DAW hardcover (white boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful DJ art by Jody Lee; embossed Author name and Title. Chapter decorations. CONTENT: In this second installment of the Family Spies series, set in the bestselling world of Valdemar, the children of Heralds Mags and Amily must follow in their parents' footsteps to protect the realm. Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife, Amily, the King's Own Herald, are happily married with three kids. Their daughter, Abidela, dreams of building on her parents' legacy by joining her father's network of spies, hoping to offset her seeming lack of a Gift. But when Abi senses the imminent collapse of a bridge only moments before it happens, she saves countless lives, including that of her best friend, Princess Katiana. The experience,… Read More

Morrow Junior Books, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Karen Dugan color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1996 Morrow Junior Books hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (price-clipped), first edition, first printing. Wonderful color illustrations by Karen Dugan. Large world map showing the countries represented in the book. Bumped bottom corners. CONTENT: Langford has collected 14 variations on the familiar game. From "Otedama" in Japan to "Maakgep" in Thailand to Texas, detailed directions and rules are presented along with brief, interesting facts about the countries in which the games originated. The colorful watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations fill one page, with the text preceding it on the left-hand page. While competently done and attractive, the artwork is occasionally misleading in its depiction of very young children. The text is written for competent readers and the dexterity involved in the games also suggests an… Read More

Meadowbrook Press, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Stephen Carpenter color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 1993 Meadowbrook Press large hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Wonderfully clever color illustrations by Stephen Carpenter. CONTENT: Some parents and educators object to the old-fashioned and sometimes stereotypical nature of traditional Mother Goose rhymes. Move over, Mother Goose--welcome to the '90s! In this more contemporary collection, Bruce Lansky offers new versions of 41 rhymes, a "kinder, gentler" approach to Mother Goose, with funny twists that will amuse both young listeners and their parents. In this collection, Little Miss Muffet is definitely not afraid of spiders, Old Mother Hubbard's dog calls out for pizza, and the old woman who lived in a shoe retires to a sandal on the beach. Roly-poly contemporary children of all races illustrate these poems in a humorous, good-natured fashion. As a follow-up to traditional… Read More

Walker Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Jean Cassels color illus.. CONDITION: INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR LARSON ON TITLE PAGE. NEW 2008 Walker hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Wonderful color illustrations by Jean Cassels. CONTENT: Bobbi and Bob Cat are the best of friends. When their hometown of New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, many lost everything. But not Bobbi and Bob Cat?they still had each other. Only by staying together could they survive. This is the story of their remarkable friendship. When the two Bobbies were rescued the shelter soon learned that Bob was the seeing eye dog for Bob Cat and kept them together through a move to a shelter in Utah where they were rescued/adopted by a lady and her Boston Terrier. This is a wonderful story of friendship even tho Bob Cat and Bobbie may not still be with us.

Scholastic Pess, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition 11th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Deborah Nourse Lattimore color illus.. CONDITION: NEW 1998 Scholastic large paperback, first paperback printing, 11th printing. Devilish clever and cute color illustrations by the Author. You've probably heard the story of Cinderella, that beautiful girl who hated being dirty and dressed in rage. Well, you won't find her at the Witches' Halloween Ball. Loving dirt more than anything, the blonde-haired witch Hazel manages to follow her stepmother and stepsisters to the Halloween Witches' Ball, where she meets her true love, the equally messy Prince Alarming, in a zany version of the classic fairy tale.

Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Deborah Nourse Lattimore color illus.. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2000 Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Problem: light edge wear to top DJ edge. Colorful and bright illustrations by the Author. CONTENT: When her vanity angered the goddess Athena, a curse befell the beautiful Medusa that caused men to turn into stone at the mere sight of her, thus when Perseus, a mortal, is ordered to claim her head in order to complete his task, he knows that he must have the perfect plan or he, too, shall die at the sight of her. Perfect for early readers. Grades 1+.

Ace/Berkley, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Bastien L. Deharme DJ art. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new"? Tiny red remainder dot bottom edges near spine. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 Ace/Berkley hardcover (purple boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. #3 Book of the Ancestor series. CONTENT: The searing conclusion of the thrilling epic fantasy trilogy that saw a young girl trained by an arcane order of nuns grow into the fiercest of warriors... They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor's armies are in retreat. Nona Grey faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that she and her friends will have time to earn a nun's habit before war is on their doorstep. Even a warrior like… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1987. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 4 B&W plats/maps. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New"? It appears to have been read to page 14 and abandoned. Interior clean and tight. 4 B&W "plates" & maps. CONTENT: "The renowned French historian explores the roots and development of a popular tale of witchcraft accusations retold in 1840 by the Gascon poet Jacques Boe or "Jasmin." In a lively narrative the modern historian examines the place of witchcraft in traditional southern French society, translates Jasmin's "Francouneto," and tracks through archival sources and interviews its probable origins in the lives of late 17th-century villagers. The resultant insights into the minds and culture of Gascon peasants will intrigue patrons of public and college libraries." This fascinating account traces a story of witchcraft as it appears in village quarrels in the south of France over the course of several centuries. The starting point is the narrative poem… Read More

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Meredith Hamilton color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2007 Black Dog & Leventhal large hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. Sealed decorated CD inside front cover. Color illustrations by Meredith Hamilton. CONTENT: The latest volume in Black Dog's successful book-and-CD series combines the mesmerizing stories of the world's great ballets with fun facts, dancing how-tos, history, profiles- all accompanied by charming original watercolors. From Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Peter and the Wolf and Fancy Free, these are the stories of nineteen of the world's best-loved ballets, accompanied by corresponding tracks on an enclosed CD. These are the charming stories that bring ballet to life on the stage, along with the music that has made them into enduring classics. Surrounding the stories is a captivating, illustrated history of ballet, each page… Read More

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1993. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations; DJ art by Wayne Barlowe. CONDITION: What makes this book "AS NEW"? - Black remainder mark bottom edges at spine and a tiny (really) bumped corner front bottom board. Interior clean and tight. UNREAD 1993 Overlook Press hardcover (orange boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, no printing given so assumed first. DJ art by Wayne Barlowe. CONTENT: The culmination of Lee's horror-fantasy tetralogy (The Book of the Dead, 1992, etc.). The previous entries are composed of related stories, but this one, though elliptically structured, forms a novel in its own right. In the perpetually mist-shrouded, magical city of Paradise live the twins Felion and Smara, murderers who consider themselves the city's sole sane inhabitants. They hold the keys to a magic labyrinth of ice whose mercurial doorways give entry to an alternate city--scrubbed, bright, high-tech, laid-back Paradis. Here, hard-drinking… Read More

Byron Preiss / Atheneum, 1994. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/New. Mark Zug B&W illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 1994 Ryron Preiss/Atheneum hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition (so I'm told), no printing available. B&W illustrations by Mark Zug. CONTENT: In this sequel to Black Unicorn, readers rejoin Tanaquil after a year of travel has broadened her knowledge of the world and of herself. Coming to terms with her gift for sorcery, the teen finds herself in the midst of a war between a conquering Empress and the lands she is besieging. The Empress, who turns out to be Tanaquil's misguided half-sister, has built a mechanical golden unicorn. Tanaquil senses its evil nature but cannot deny her gift; she breathes "life" into it, only to find that she has helped create a war machine. The plot then follows the golden beast into war, eventually leading Tanaquil into an unpleasant alternate world that is virtually the opposite of the perfect world she had discovered in the… Read More

Penguin Press, 2018. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W and color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2018-19 Penguin Press hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, second printing. Color and B&W photo section. CONTENT: Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet, making a nice career for himself covering that other playground for rich and overgrown children, American politics. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile. He figured that the chances of Brady agreeing were a Hail Mary at best, but… Read More

Ellora's Cave, 2003. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W decorations. NEW (Unread) 2003 Ellora's Cave trade paperback, first edition, printing unknown.

Dallas: Word Kids, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Karen Mezek Leimert. CONDITION & CONTENT: NO PRIORITY PLEASE. NEW 1996 Word Kids Press (Dallas) large hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Beautiful color illustrations by the Author. the text is actually an adaptation of Rev. C.H. Wolston's old Sunday School song "Jesus Loves the Little Children." Each full-page color illustration of the children of countries around the world are bordered by a lively colors and at the bottom of each page is a word from the song. The end pages are illustrated with a colorful map of the world showing where "all the children" in the book live. Spectacular. Perfect for a church library. A verse of the song used in this book is featured on the last page of the book. Contents: Amazonians of Brazil; Kashmiris of India; the Bedouins of Saudi Arabia; Maya of Mexico; Inuit of Canada; Aboriginals of Australia; Germans of Germany; Iowans of the United… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. Color photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, Houghton Mifflin hardcover (white boards - why? oh why?) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Very short "repaired" cut bottom DJ spine. Color photo section. CONTENT: A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her. From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she experienced a sense of déjà vu-the journey to uncover the source of her child's inner turmoil unearthed ghosts from Mimi's past and her own struggle to live an authentic life. Mimi was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, every aspect of her life dictated by ancient rules and her role as a woman largely preordained from… Read More

Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Serge Bloch color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2016 Neal Porter/Roaring Brook hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Decorated end pages. Color illustrations by Serge Bloch. CONTENT: Saturday is a great day to play and pretend and have fun with family. In this tongue-in-cheek picture book, a boy revels in the joys of the weekend: reading a stack of books with his dad, playing spies with his little brother, and going to birthday parties. Each of the activities he loves, however, has a less enjoyable side for his parents, who are woken up early on their day off and are responsible for the three family meals a day; by dinner, the boys are shown sitting in front of a shoe on a plate as their parents finally put their feet up in the background. Just when it seems like Saturday is finally over, the boy announces, "Tomorrow is Sunday and we can do it all over again!" The… Read More

Insight Editions, 2011. New Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. John Lennon. CONDITION: UNREAD 2011 Insight hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, NEW edition, 1st printing. The new edition adds several Lennon drawings not included in the original edition. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: John Lennon was many things to many people, but to his son Sean, he was Daddy, a role he approached with humor, affection, and creativity. One of the ways John expressed his love for his son was by drawings animals, flowers, and people, and then captioning these sketches with endearing and amusing phrases that he and Sean would come up with as they looked over Daddy's art. The charming results of these playful collaborations are collected in Real Love: The Drawings for Sean, a book bound to delight both young children and whimsical adults. A testament to the deep bond felt between parent and child, Real Love is also a record of one of our most gifted creative minds at work. Featuring six… Read More

Harcourt Brace, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. William Noonan. CONDITION: NO PRIORITY PLEASE. UNREAD 1996 Harcourt Brace hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. This is a magnificent book. The text is in the form of a "chant" almost - powerful and descriptive. The color illustrations by William Noonan accurately portray the seasons, trials of today's Polar Bears in a haunting manner. Problem: the back top DJ corner tip of the flap shows tiny edge wear - no bumped corner, however. This book belongs in a school library, IMHO.