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Product Description: A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior-one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala...read more

Hardcover:

9780385306089 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life

Paperback:

9781504014892 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, May 26, 2015), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict.
9780330482042 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, May 4, 2001), cover price $8.30 | About this edition: Paul Kagomi's most precious possession is his AK.
9780440218975 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, January 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life

Reinforced:

9780606057271 | Demco Media, January 1, 1994, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life

Prebinding:

9780785725893 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: When a military coup occurs in the constantly war-torn African country of Nagala, teenage Paul is forced to flee into the open countryside to avoid enemy soldiers who seek his life

Despite his immense powers, the Ropemaker alone could not control the chaos raging through the Empire, so he chose twenty-four magicians to aid him in his task - the Watchers. They pledged to use their magic only to protect the people, but the promise that bound them has now corrupted them. Only the Ropemaker may be able to stop them.

Hardcover:

9781405049955 | Pan Macmillan, October 6, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Despite his immense powers, the Ropemaker alone could not control the chaos raging through the Empire, so he chose twenty-four magicians to aid him in his task - the Watchers.

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In search of their grandfather who has disappeared while tracking down ghosts, two brothers, one blind, stumble upon a headquarters of subversive revolutionary activity in an abandoned mine.

Hardcover:

9780316184304 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1977, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In search of their grandfather who has disappeared while tracking down ghosts, two brothers, one blind, stumble upon a headquarters of subversive revolutionary activity in an abandoned mine.

Paperback:

9781504014953 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, June 16, 2015), cover price $12.99

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Product Description: In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a blue hawk, the symbol of the god Gdu...read more

Hardcover:

9780844664781 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, March 1, 1991, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: At the Renewal of the King's Soul, Tron, young priest of Gdu, takes the sacrificial blue hawk from the Temple of O and Sa, thereby establishing a special relationship with the King, the Hawk God, and his fellow priests

Paperback:

9781504014939 | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, June 16, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom.
9780330415460 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, September 6, 2002), cover price $8.80 | About this edition: In an ancient kingdom controlled by the sinister power of the Priests, Tron is a temple-boy in training, devoted to performing vital rituals to O and Aa, the gods of the Sun and Moon.
9780345309471 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1983), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: At the Renewal of the King's Soul, Tron, young priest of Gdu, takes the sacrificial blue hawk from the Temple of O and Sa, thereby establishing a special relationship with the King, the Hawk God, and his fellow priests

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Product Description: On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving for mussels and any other food the ocean will serve to them...read more

Hardcover:

9780385308212 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered

Paperback:

9781504014823 | Reissue edition (Open Road Media Teen & Tween, May 26, 2015), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land.
9780552568623 | Gardners Books, June 3, 2013, cover price $11.85
9780440219286 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, June 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe advances the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered
9780786201549 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered

Reinforced:

9780606073110 | Demco Media, June 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe advances the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered

Prebinding:

9780785762447 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe advances the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered

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Product Description: For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says "nothing," the old man sells it to him: a heavy cardboard box stuffed full of top-quality nothing...read more

Hardcover:

9789992188903, titled "A Box of Nothing" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1992, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats
9780385296649, titled "A Box of Nothing" | Delacorte Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats
9780745105475 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 1987), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street.

Paperback:

9781504014977, titled "A Box of Nothing" | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, June 16, 2015, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816177615, titled "A Box of Nothing" | Unabridged edition (G K Hall Audio Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street.

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Product Description: John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went.BR> In CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, Peter Dickinson showcases a collection of vividly revealing and unpublished interviews given by Cage in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary...read more
By Peter Dickinson (editor)

Paperback:

9781580465090 | Reprint edition (Univ of Rochester Pr, May 15, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went.

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By Peter Dickinson (editor)

Hardcover:

9781580462372 | Univ of Rochester Pr, September 15, 2006, cover price $49.95

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Brings together past and present fiction, odd truths, descriptions of curious or supernatural occurrences, occult definitions, and anecdotes about the fickleness of fate

Hardcover:

9780316184281 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1976, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of anecdotes, stories, facts, and activities relating to chance, luck, magic, witchcraft, and fortune-telling.

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Product Description: Originally published in three separate volumes, this breathtaking epic fantasy from an award-winning author explores the relationship between man and machine. The moment the seal of an ancient tomb in Wales is accidentally broken, the Changes begin, and a brave few must struggle to put an end to the wellspring of chaos...read more

Paperback:

9780440504139 | Dell Books, December 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Originally published in three separate volumes, this breathtaking epic fantasy from an award-winning author explores the relationship between man and machine.

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Product Description: Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines...read more

Paperback:

9781504014762 | Open Road Media Teen & Tween, May 26, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology.

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Product Description: Chuck is a whippet. A very nervous whippet, who's scared of absolutely everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys, cats (even the little fluffy ones). Some people say Chuck's a wimpet, not a whippet, and Mum keeps pretending she's going to give Chuck away, but Danielle loves her scaredy-cat whippet and knows that there's more to Chuck than meets the eye...read more

Hardcover:

9780385321884 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Danielle's pet whippet, Chuck, is terrified of absolutely everything, but Danielle is sure that Chuck is going to save the universe one day.

Paperback:

9780375895050 | Yearling Books, November 6, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Chuck is a whippet.
9780807278352 | Pap/cas edition (Listening Library, September 1, 1997), cover price $21.98 | About this edition: Follows the adventures of Chuck, a whippet whose intense fears regarding just about everything and everybody are complicated when her owner, Danielle, predicts that Chuck will one day save the universe.
9780440410874 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, March 1, 1997), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Follows the adventures of Chuck, a whippet whose intense fears regarding just about everything and everybody are complicated when her owner, Danielle, predicts that Chuck will one day save the universe

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780807278345 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, September 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Follows the adventures of Chuck, a whippet whose intense fears regarding just about everything and everybody are complicated when her owner, Danielle, predicts that Chuck will one day save the universe.

Reinforced:

9780606112062 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, March 1, 1997), cover price $10.41 | About this edition: Follows the adventures of Chuck, a whippet whose intense fears regarding just about everything and everybody are complicated when her owner, Danielle, predicts that Chuck will one day save the universe

Prebinding:

9780613878135 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $23.35 | About this edition: Chuck is Danielle's dog, a whippet who isn't just timid--she's terrified, convinced that everything is coming to get her.
9780613020565 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Follows the adventures of Chuck, a whippet whose intense fears regarding just about everything and everybody are complicated when her owner, Danielle, predicts that Chuck will one day save the universe

A fresh retelling of thirty-three Bible stories reflects the vitality and immediacy of oral biblical tradition and provides a new understanding of traditional biblical tales.
By Peter Dickinson and Michael Foreman (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780395631737 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A retelling of 32 Old Testament narratives.

Product Description: The re-telling of 33 Old Testament stories using a different character as the "voice" for each tale. The author won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for "The Blue Hawk" and "AK". The illustrator, Michael Foreman, has won the Kurt Maschler "Emil" Award and the Francis Williams Award twice...read more

Paperback:

9780241139202 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The re-telling of 33 Old Testament stories using a different character as the "voice" for each tale.

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Retells the Biblical stories of Cain and Abel, the Flood, Absalom and David, Samson and Delilah, Joseph, Moses, and others

Hardcover:

9780394513850 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A retelling of 32 Old Testament narratives.

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Hardcover:

9788478886609 | 2 edition (Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, June 7, 2001), cover price $17.95

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Product Description: África, hace 200 mil años. La fabulosa historia de los primeros humanos. Una novela épica para todas las edades. En esta Primera Parte se narran las historias de Suth y Noli .

Hardcover:

9788478886098 | Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, February 5, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: África, hace 200 mil años.

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Product Description: The contributors to Copland Connotations - both American and British - include the leading figures in Copland studies. Pre-eminent among these is Vivian Perlis, whose two-volume memoirs were written in collaboration with the composer himself; then Howard Pollack, whose substantial biography of Copland has been acclaimed; and also other established specialists in American music such as Stephen Banfield, William Brooks, Mark DeVoto, Peter Dickinson, David Schiff, Larry Starr and the distinguished analyst Arnold Whittall...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Dickinson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780851159027 | Boydell Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The contributors to Copland Connotations - both American and British - include the leading figures in Copland studies.

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Product Description: Salamandra. Barcelona. 2004. 22 cm. 381 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Dickinson, Peter 1927-. Traducción, Raquel Vázquez Ramil. Traducción de: The ropemaker . ISBN: 84-7888-911-6

Hardcover:

9788478889112 | Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, July 29, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Salamandra.

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Following a raid by the Huns, the slave Silvester, his dancing bear, Bubba, and Holy John attempt to find Lady Ariadne

Hardcover:

9780316184267, titled "The Dancing Bear" | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1973, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A Greek slave, his dancing bear, and an old holy man journey from Byzantium to rescue the slave's young mistress from the Huns.

Paperback:

9780440400332, titled "The Dancing Bear" | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Following a raid by the Huns, the slave Silvester, his dancing bear, Bubba, and Holy John attempt to find Lady Ariadne

Prebinding:

9780613125918 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Following a raid by the Huns, the slave Silvester, his dancing bear, Bubba, and Holy John attempt to find Lady Ariadne

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Product Description: “Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction.”—Laurie R. KingFor best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited...read more

Hardcover:

9780394539478 | Pantheon Books, December 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Thirty years after an inexplicable tragedy that destroyed her just-established career and love, Lady Margaret Millett receives a telephone call that shatters her life once again

Paperback:

9781618730404 | Reprint edition (Small Beer Pr, April 23, 2013), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction.
9780394741000 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1985, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Thirty years after an inexplicable tragedy that destroyed her just-established career and love, Lady Margaret Millett receives a telephone call that shatters her life once again

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After the mysterious Changes begin, twelve-year-old Nicola finds herself abandoned and wandering in an England where everyone has suddenly developed a horror and hatred of machines

Hardcover:

9780385294492 | Reissue edition (Doubleday, June 1, 1986), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After the mysterious Changes begin, twelve-year-old Nicola finds herself abandoned and wandering in an England where everyone has suddenly developed a horror and hatred of machines
9780316184212, titled "Devil's Children" | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: After the mysterious Changes begin, twelve-year-old Nicola finds herself abandoned and wandering in an England where everyone has suddenly developed a horror and hatred of machines.

Paperback:

9780440200826, titled "Devil's Children" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: After the mysterious Changes begin, twelve-year-old Nicola finds herself abandoned and wandering in an England where everyone has suddenly developed a horror and hatred of machines

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Hardcover:

9781618730589 | Small Beer Pr, October 30, 2012, cover price $17.95

Paperback:

9781618730381 | Small Beer Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $14.95

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