New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Straightforward strategies from a successful young investor In How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street, you'll follow the story of Kevin Roth, an eight-year-old who was schooled in simple approaches to sound investing by his father, seasoned financial..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Hardcover. Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Paperback. More
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2017. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say brings his lavish illustrations and hybrid narrative and artistic styles to the story of artist James Castle. James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. One morning Sam wakes up and looks at his reflection in the mirror. Overnight he has changed, and he sees a stranger's face staring back at him - an old face. Sam has suddenly aged. As a result, his classmates won't play..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1968. Hardcover. No publication date indicated in book but FFE bears prior owner's name and date of "Jan. 1968". Rare edition. More
Napierville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009. Paperback. (Spoof classic). More
Koln: Taschen, 2004. First Edition (presumed). Outsized Softcover. A DVD is included. manga /mon-gah/ noun A type of Japanese comic book published in anthologized series, vastly popular in Japan among adults and widely influential on advertising, visual arts, and particularly the Anime film genre. The influence of..... More
North Adams: Tupelo Press, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Darktown Follies, Amaud Jamaul Johnson's daring and surprising new collection of poems, responds to Black Vaudeville, specifically the personal and professional challenges African American variety performers faced in the early twentieth century. Johnson is fascinated by jokes that aren't funny -- particularly..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. Softcover. This guide provides information about each of the 230 specimens on display in the halls of the Lila Acheson Wallace wing at the American Museum of Natural History. More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997. Sharon McGinley-Nally (illustrations). Reprint. Softcover. More
New York: Viking, 1994. Robert J. Blake. First Edition. Hardcover, Outsized. More
Candlewick Press, 2001. Paperback. More
DK Publishing, 2006. Softcover. More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991. Shin Kimura (photos). First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
London: Flamingo, 2001. Trade Paperback. A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’, ‘The Kitchen God’s Wife’ and ‘The Hundred Secret Senses’. LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2017. Michelle Thompson (cover illustration). First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid..... More
London: Macmillan Publishers, 1997. Second Edition. Paperback. More
San Antonia, Texas: Sky Blue Press, 2015. Compiled, edited and introduced by Benjamin Franklin V. Seconding Printing. Paperback. The Portable Anais Nin is the first comprehensive collection of the author's work in nearly 40 years, during which time her catalogue has doubled with the release of the erotica and unexpurgated..... More
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. The Association for Asian Studies Monograph No. 42. Frank Reynolds, Anthony Wu, Ronald Inden, Editors. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a...... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1961. Paperback. More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys..... More
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