Search Results: Titles starting with H from Better Bindings

Image of actual book: Ex-library book fair condition. Hardcover with stamps, stickers, markings, and writing. Card holder removed from front inside cover. Most pages are clean and bright except for a library stamp on page 55. Some spots on pages but very minor. Cover has normal rubbing and bumping. Very minor bumping on the top, tail, edges and corners. Outer page edges with some tanning, smudging and foxing. The story takes place in the years around 1915 on a farm near Frederick, Maryland. Luvvy, Maudie, and Marylou's mother marries a man who has 3 older daughters. Luvvy (Luvena) is almost 12 and thinks that she should be one of the older girls now and not have to have 7 year old Maudie hanging around her all the time or have to take care of little 4 year old Mary Lou. During the year Luvvy grows up quite a bit and learns that sometimes it's nice just to be a child and not to want to grow up too fast." 1970. FC2.

New. Small red remainder dot on outer tail edges. Slight bumping on outer edges. Bumping on outer pages but book is new. The Half Bad Trilogy Series #2. Age Range: 12 - 17 years. Grade Level: 7 - 9. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he's on the run--but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father. 2015. A12.

Ex-library book in --acceptable-- condition. Library card holders stickers, and markings. Spine with wear and sticker removed. Some writing on inside pages. Pages are very clean. Recounts five episodes from history when the introduction of new plants or plant products, from grains and spices to coal, influenced the course of civilization. 1949. B4.

New. Red remainder mark on bottom page edges. With DJ. The Faraman Polity was created by the first Luqs, and has been ruled for generations by those of the Luqs bloodline. It is a burgeoning empire maintained by the combined efforts of the standing military force and the Talents of the Halls of Law. While the military preserves and protects, it is the Halls' Talents--those gifted from birth with magical abilities--who serve as the agents and judges of the Law. For no one can successfully lie to a Talent. Not only can they read people by the briefest of physical contacts, but they can also read objects, able to find information about anyone who has ever come into direct contact with that object. Thanks to the Talents and the career military, the Polity has long remained a stable and successful society. But all that is about to change. A27.

Used book may have markings, writing from the previous owner. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing, little tears on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. This is an image of the actual book. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. 1968. U16.

Ex-library book that has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing and card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. It is a realistic and compassionate story of the exploitation of peasants in a southern Italian village, brutally suppressed as they attempt to obtain their rights. B3.

Image of actual book: Ex-library book with DJ in good condition. Pages clean. Book has normal card holder, stamps, stickers, markings, and writing. Clear mylar DJ stickers, rubbing, smudging and bumping. Bumping on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have some tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Historical (more fact than) fiction set in New Spain. "There was a time when horses and their riders were strangers to the vast reaches of the New World...a time when the explorer rode North, before there was a West." 1964. T1.

Paperback in fair/acceptable condition. Book has been used. Spine and covers creased and rubbed. Cover tanned with with slight bumping on corners. Pages heavily tanned. Outer edges with browning and staining, otherwise good, solid binding and clean text but a small #92 written on back inside cover. This Penguin Special is a short, violent attack on the degradation of capital punishment. 1961. U18.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Clyde Stout is a high school graduate in a small Ohio town; he loves tinkering with cars and dreaming about his girlfriend. He is coasting, until he discovers he has a new talent: the ability to hang from a metal bar longer than anybody! B5.

Book 9 of 15: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries. Large Print. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has very little bumping, rubbing, fading on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. First few fly leaf pages are missing. Twelve mysteries around the 20's and 30's England, each stands alone but has a common feel. Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Peter Wimsey and the delightful working-class sleuth Montague Egg. This sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings includes a vintage double identity and a horrid incident concerning felines that will tease the minds of cat-lovers everywhere. Not to be missed are “The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey” (with a lovely woman in *deep* trouble) and nine more puzzlers penned in inimitable style by the mistress of murder. U5.

Ex-library in very good condition. First Edition. Book 3 of 4: Hannibal Lecter Series. DJ with clear Mylar cover. DJ with rubbing but good condition. Card holder, stamps, sticker, and markings. Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. 1999. T9.

New. People often think about giving it all up and just moving to a farm. In theory it sure does sound great. But as Derek and Steve quickly realized, the realities of being a farmer, especially when you have never lived on a farm let alone outside of the city, an be frantic, crazy, and even insane. Not only are they aDJusting to farm life and dutifully taking care of their pig-daughter Esther (who by the way lives in the master bedroom of their house), but before they knew it their sanctuary grew to as many as 42 animals, including: pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, cows, roosters, a peacock, a duck, a horse, a donkey, and a barn cat named Willma Ferrell.Written with joy and humor, and filled with delicious Esther-approved recipes dispersed throughout the book, this charming memoir captures an emotional journey of one little family advocating for animals everywhere. A19.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer edges are deckled with some tanning, browning, stains and foxing. The struggle of an aging couple to retain independence is compared to the striving of their young employees for some degree of security. These central characters are unsentimentally portrayed as realistic men and women of conscience, trying to live decent lives. 1972. A25.

Large Print Edition. Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. Very little bumping, rubbing, creasing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Back at the Princess Beatrice Hospital after a spell away, Sister Kaye Harcourt is delighted to find herself in charge of the children's ward and right at the centre of a fascinating project to help children of restricted growth. 1990. B4.

Used paperback in acceptable condition. Image of actual book: pen markings on outside cover. Pages clean except a pen mark on inside cover. Curling of spine but no loose pages. Tanning of pages from aging. Smudging, spots and foxing on outer page edges. Slight bumping on corners and edges. Rubbing and smudging on cover. The twins, Nils and Sean, had been close friends of Bobbie's for years, and she could never decide which one she liked the best. Now she was working as secretary to their nice older brother Harry. Would he be able to help her choose between them? Harlequin Presents Series #1619. 1972. A20.

Book Club Edition. Used book (as pictured) no markings, writing from the previous owner. DJ has little piece missing on the front cover (as pictured) some bumping, rubbing, little tears, fading on the top of spine, edges, corners. Outer edges have tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Top stain of light grey on top edges. Pages deckled. It's a very interesting story about the building of a dam and the people who gather there to either build it or to serve those who are building it. The relationships that develop are charming. 1955. A10.

Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. He based much of his work on his homeland and local culture in England, creating the fictional county of Wessex, the setting for most of his works. This companion explores the life of Hardy, examining his career and most important works. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, as well as readers with a general interest in Hardy's life and works, this book takes a close look at Hardy's unconventional works and why he ultimately decided to abandon novel-writing in favor of his first love-poetry. 1968. B1.

Almost new. Orange sticker on inside cover. On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where she'd been or why she'd been away. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back into the community, adding to the already heightened fears of parents in the Muriel Campden Estate where he lives. Then the child of a wealthy executive disappears, and not long after, a suspect in the kidnapping is found stabbed to death. A29.

Ex-ibrary book has the usual marking, stamps, stickrs, writing, card holder. No DJ. Some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. Between 1950 and 1956, Thomas took part in three expeditions to live with and study the Ju'hoansi (Kung Bushmen) of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia and Botswana/ During these trips, Thomas kept a journal which she later drew on when writing her first book, The Harmless People. B9.

Book in good condition. DJ is good condition. Slight bumping, foxing and some smuding on outer pages. Binding tight. Jinsuke, a young village whaler, and Sadayori, an aristocratic samurai, together experience the victories and defeats of the crucial years of the Meiji restoration, the death of the shogunate, the intrusion of six American ships, and the ravages of natural disasters. 1987. A29