Silver Pennies
 Beautiful Contents, Terrible Package!: When Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson was first published by The MacMillan Company in 1926, this beautiful collection of poetry for children was bound in cloth imprinted with the silhouette of a small [... more]
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Simon the Coldheart
Did Heyer want this book published?: Georgette Heyer wrote so many wonderful books that I recommend you skip this one, unless you are trying to read the whole oeuvre or are a serious scholar of the progress of her writing style. It is set in medieval [... more]
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Uhuru
Ruark's relevance today: Robert Ruark is complex and contraversial, but his books about the Mau Mau contain powerful and informed insights into the ways, mindset, and organization of militant terrorists. They are also fast moving and a "good read& [... more]
CDN$46.10
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Man's Search for Meaning
From Amazon.com: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz [... more]
CDN$33.29
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The Five Little Peppers Grown Up
This was my favorite book as a child.: This book helped me tremendously since I grew up in a poor single parent home. I found Polly a wonderful role model and she helped me feel like I wasn't so alone in my troubles. I read it over and over. I tried to [... more]
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Full Length Roof Framer
uncle pythagerous: Trig calculators are for guys who wear visors, carry framing axes, and use sinker nails because they don't know how to drive a common nail. This is the book that the salty old man who takes pride in the fact that the house aint a [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
One of the greatest plays ever written: Edmond Rostand's masterpiece, Cyrano de Bergerac, is one of the greatest plays ever written. It is a mix of everything: a tragedy, romance, comedy, and pseudo-history, all in one. Like all great playwrights, [... more]
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The City Game
The Best In-Detail Summary ofthe NYCLegends & the Knicks 1st: This has the greatest combination of the Knicks first Championship season and the best of the playground Legends and Players. It shows the good and the bad of basketball in New York. It [... more]
CDN$22.02
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I Am Not Spock
Spock, 70's-style...: I read this book after reading Nimoy's later (1990's) book I AM SPOCK. The differences were interesting. This book is written by a man of the idealistic 60's who describes his struggle as a creative actor against the wallet-minded [... more]
CDN$32.06
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Homing
wonderful story, end of great series: I read this book in the 60's, and loved it deeply then. It has held up well. I'd be hard pressed to say whether I like this book or _Dawn's Early Light_ (the first story in the series) best. It is probably best [... more]
CDN$30.05
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In Gallant Company
One of the best sea-story series around: This is the first Richard Bolitho novel written, and the fourth by the series internal chonology. Bolitho begins the spring of 1777 as Fourth Lieutenant in the eighty-gun Trojan lying in New York harbor. Because [... more]
CDN$14.00
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Wild animals I have known
Wild Animals I Have Known: This is a reprinting of a book of wonderful stories by Ernest Thompson Seton. But buyer beware. The publisher has excluded all 200 of the author's sketches and drawings that help the stories come alive for both younger and [... more]
CDN$30.05
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