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Product Description: For 14-year-old Alex Kellar, the war can't be over soon enough. His beloved older brother Oliver is with the 101st Airborne, right in the heart of Nazi Germany's last-ditch battle for survival. That battle is about to come closer to home, beginning with Alex and his friend Larry discovering a drowned man washed up on the beach...read more

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9780802780980 | Walker & Co, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the final months of World War II fourteen-year-old Alex, worried about the fate of his brother fighting in Europe, falls into the hands of two Nazi spies intent on sabotage.

Paperback:

9781936144266 | Zumaya Thresholds, May 9, 2015, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: For 14-year-old Alex Kellar, the war can't be over soon enough.

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Product Description: Try as we might to deny it, we are in part what our families have made us. Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become...read more

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9781612710044 | Lightning Source Inc, February 28, 2012, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Try as we might to deny it, we are in part what our families have made us.

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Product Description: There had been warnings—the never-ending rain, the slowly rising water—yet when the river finally tears the old wooden house from its foundation and carries it on a perilous journey toward the sea, Albie is unprepared and alone...read more

Hardcover:

9780152030506 | Harcourt, March 1, 1973, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: As flood waters sweep his house down the Mississippi River, a boy is joined by a mountain lion who is also trying desperately to stay alive.

Paperback:

9781936144280 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2011, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: There had been warnings—the never-ending rain, the slowly rising water—yet when the river finally tears the old wooden house from its foundation and carries it on a perilous journey toward the sea, Albie is unprepared and alone.

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Product Description: Fiction. "Chester Aaron's novel-in-stories, ABOUT THEM, published nearly 35 years ago, holds a unique and lasting place in the artistic annals of American boyhood. Through the account of young Benny Kahn we come to inhabit the Pennsylvania mining town of Sundown in the years leading up to World War II...read more

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9780979528576 | El Leon Literary Arts, March 7, 2011, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

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Product Description: A brutal attack on her best friend sends Eve Gallagher into dark corners of her own past to uncover the secret that has haunted her most of her life.

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9781554101276 | Zumaya Pubns, September 1, 2004, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A brutal attack on her best friend sends Eve Gallagher into dark corners of her own past to uncover the secret that has haunted her most of her life.

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Product Description: “The important thing, Gideon, is to survive. In any way at any cost, survive. By surviving you can not only fight back, you can carry the story of what is happening in this ghetto. You are of no use to our people dead.” The words of his father ring in Gideon’s ears...read more

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9781934841624 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: “The important thing, Gideon, is to survive.
9780590328968 | Reprint edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, November 1, 1983), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: “The important thing, Gideon, is to survive.

School and Library:

9780525305484 | Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: “The important thing, Gideon, is to survive.

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Product Description: How do you enjoy the late years of your life? You give up your former life and become a farmer. What if you are also a writer who has published many short stories and novels? You write about not just your former life, but you write about your new life as well...read more

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9781934135778 | Zumaya Pubns, March 30, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: How do you enjoy the late years of your life?

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Product Description: Fiction. SYPTOMS OF TERMINAL PASSION is a wise and graceful collection of seven short stories of love from the Northern California-based Aaron. "I did not want these stories to end. I wish the collection were a long novel that I could settle down to read over the next few weeks...read more

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9780976298373 | El Leon Literary Arts, January 1, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

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Product Description: A story of a 14-year old girl and the Bloodhound she trains and how, because of their love for each other, they save each other's life.

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9781554102822 | Zumaya Pubns, September 30, 2005, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A story of a 14-year old girl and the Bloodhound she trains and how, because of their love for each other, they save each other's life.

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Changes begin to occur for twelve-year-old Marian as she slowly begins to transform from an ordinary girl into a mermaid.

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9780974648125 | Brown Barn Books, August 15, 2004, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Changes begin to occur for twelve-year-old Marian as she slowly begins to transform from an ordinary girl into a mermaid.

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9781554100248 | Zumaya Pubns, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.00
9781554100248 | Zumaya Pubns, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.00

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Product Description: Chester Aaron has successfully wedded the tall tale to modern realism in an entertaining collection of novellas, which, together, tell the unforgettable life story of Ben Kahn. The reader of this marvelous novel gets to know a remarkable man, a man who is haunted by the stench of war after he champions an unlikely champion, a man who loves and loses his wife only to regain their life together, a man who has a passion for loving and not loving women statuesque and scarred, bitter and generous...read more

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9780887393839 | Creative Arts Book Co, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Chester Aaron has successfully wedded the tall tale to modern realism in an entertaining collection of novellas, which, together, tell the unforgettable life story of Ben Kahn.

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Product Description: Book by Aaron, Chester
By Chester Aaron, Dennis Boatman (editor) and Douglas Urig (editor)

Paperback:

9780970109491 | Mostly Garlic Ltd, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Aaron, Chester

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By Chester Aaron (editor), Dennis Boatman (editor) and Douglas Urig (editor)

Paperback:

9780966646924 | Garrett County Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: ReviewsListen to Chester Aaron on NPR'¬?s Weekend Edition http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92267949

Paperback:

9780898159196 | Ten Speed Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: ReviewsListen to Chester Aaron on NPR'¬?

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The California garlic farmer and supplier describes how he become increasing involved in the gourmet garlic business, and offers recipes featuring the herb (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780898158069 | Ten Speed Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The California garlic farmer and supplier describes how he become increasing involved in the gourmet garlic business, and offers recipes featuring the herb

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Erin and Sean, fourteen-year-old twins whose combined psychic abilities can force a guided missile off target, fight to reach an international ESP conference before government secret agents can capture them

Paperback:

9780553260274 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, August 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: After their parents are murdered by terrorists, Sean and Erin Fitzgerald, fifteen-year-old twins, must find a way to evade Russian agents and complete their parents work using their psychic powers.

Library:

9780397321018 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1985, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Erin and Sean, fourteen-year-old twins whose combined psychic abilities can force a guided missile off target, fight to reach an international ESP conference before government secret agents can capture them

Amid the darkest days of the Depression, fifteen-year-old Willy and five young friends, all abandoned by their families, form their own family group to survive, calling themselves 'Lackawanna' after the freight trains that they hop

Library:

9780397320585 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1986, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: A gang of abandoned children, living together during the Depression in order to survive, is galvanized into action when a hobo kidnaps one of its members.

Ranch work, his Uncle Lee, a schoolteacher, and a collie change the way Marty feels about himself and his New York gang, the Rockets

Library:

9780397319480 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1982, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: After arriving on his uncle's ranch in California, a troubled fifteen-year-old boy from New York trains his own sheepdog, and finds that his experiences on the ranch help him to deal with himself, his family, and other people.

Gideon, a Jew, takes advantage of his Aryan looks to smuggle supplies into Poland's Warsaw Ghetto during World War II at the risk of deportation or death

Library:

9780397319930 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1982, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: After losing family and friends, Gideon must bury religion and identity in order to survive the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp during World War II.

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Treasuring memories of days spent with his father, Ed, at a mountain cabin with Ed's beloved wild cat, Calico, Louis grows to maturity as he faces Ed's death, his grandfather's illness, and Calico's strange behavior

School and Library:

9780525275510 | Dutton Childrens Books, April 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old not only suspects his grandfather is dying but is also haunted by the memories of his dead father and a wild cat named Calico.

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Oil from two huge tankers threatens beaches, migrating birds, and other wildlife north of San Francisco and draws the conservation-minded Taylor family into ecological and personal crises

Hardcover:

9780689500695 | Atheneum, July 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A family attempts to save the lagoon adjacent to a bird sanctuary after an oil spill occurs.

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