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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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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.

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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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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: The monarchy is not what it used to be. King Victor II may be the grandson of Queen Victoria, but political and economic realities have intruded even on Buckingham Palace, where family breakfasts center on proposals for tightening the household budget and the King, a licensed physician, fumes at Parliament's refusal to permit him to practice medicine for fear of lawsuits...read more

Hardcover:

9780816164349 | G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1977, cover price $11.50 | About this edition: The monarchy is not what it used to be.

Paperback:

9781933397375 | Felony & Mayhem, June 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The monarchy is not what it used to be.
9780446403092, titled "King & Joker" | Mysterious Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The antics of the practical joker who has invaded Buckingham Palace cease being funny when a corpse turns up in the throne room, and the thirteen-year-old Princess begins poking around long-buried family secrets.
9780394716008 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1983, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Increasingly nasty practical jokes, culminating in murder, upset the routine of Buckingham Palace and provoke King Victor II, M.

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Product Description: In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school...read more

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9780394733173, titled "The Lively Dead" | Random House Inc, July 1, 1982, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school.
9780380017065 | Avon Books, August 1, 1977, cover price $1.50 | also contains Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent | About this edition: In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school.

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

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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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Text, four-color illustrations, and line drawings recreate the dragons of ancient myth and legend, showing how they flew, breathed fire, mated, hatched their young, hoarded gold and precious stones, and defended themselves

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9780063120303 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1982, cover price $9.98
9780517349403 | Random House Value Pub, September 1, 1981, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Text, four-color illustrations, and line drawings recreate the dragons of ancient myth and legend, showing how they flew, breathed fire, mated, hatched their young, hoarded gold and precious stones, and defended themselves

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Forty years after the last of the Countess of Snailwood's fashionable political house parties, a move to repair her fantastic clock reconnects the sole survivor of those waltz-filled weekends with newly perceived, tragic events and people

Hardcover:

9780394517957 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Forty years after the last of the Countess of Snailwood's fashionable political house parties, a move to repair her fantastic clock reconnects the sole survivor of those waltz-filled weekends with newly perceived, tragic events and people

Paperback:

9780394716015 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1983, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Forty years after the last of the Countess of Snailwood's fashionable political house parties, a move to repair her fantastic clock reconnects the sole survivor of those waltz-filled weekends with newly perceived, tragic events and people

A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of 'Mad Molly' Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlier

Hardcover:

9780394531823 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of 'Mad Molly' Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlier

Paperback:

9780394726038 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of 'Mad Molly' Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlier

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781850897767 | Isis Audio, June 1, 1993, cover price $54.95

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Beautiful Princess Yasmin promises to marry the first suitor who manages to bring the ferocious iron lion of Ferdustan, dead or alive, to the court of Persia
By Pauline Baynes (illustrator) and Peter Dickinson

Hardcover:

9780911745184 | Peter Bedrick Books, April 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A princess in Baghdad will marry only the prince who brings her the iron lion dead or alive.

Doctor David Foxe's experience in training rats to run through mazes does not prepare him for the bizarre maze of a corrupt and backward Caribbean state in which he suddenly finds himself

Paperback:

9780394741734 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1985, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Doctor David Foxe's experience in training rats to run through mazes does not prepare him for the bizarre maze of a corrupt and backward Caribbean state in which he suddenly finds himself

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In an England of the future, technology has been outlawed and those who persist in using machines are condemned as witches

Paperback:

9788437220871 | Altea S A Ediciones, September 1, 1985, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: In an England of the future, technology has been outlawed and those who persist in using machines are condemned as witches

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Guided by his mother's sixty-year-old diary, a son re-enacts her arrival in Nigeria and the next twelve tempestuous months of her life in an attempt to solve her mysterious and bloody death

Hardcover:

9780394551807 | Pantheon Books, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Guided by his mother's sixty-year-old diary, a son re-enacts her arrival in Nigeria and the next twelve tempestuous months of her life in an attempt to solve her mysterious and bloody death

Paperback:

9780394751818 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Guided by his mother's sixty-year-old diary, a son re-enacts her arrival in Nigeria and the next twelve tempestuous months of her life in an attempt to solve her mysterious and bloody death

Product Description: At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead.

Hardcover:

9780385294515 | Reissue edition (Doubleday, June 1, 1986), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a 'witch' left for dead.

Paperback:

9780440200963 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1988), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead.

When the British Isles revert back to the lifestyle of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey and his young sister find their lives dramatically altered

Paperback:

9788437221021 | Altea S A Ediciones, September 1, 1986, cover price $7.25 | About this edition: When the British Isles revert back to the lifestyle of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey and his young sister find their lives dramatically altered

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A man tries every way he can think of to get rid of the mole in his lawn; readers can turn a wheel and lift the flaps to see what the mole is doing underground.

Hardcover:

9780872261518 | Peter Bedrick Books, September 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A man tries every way he can think of to get rid of the mole in his lawn; readers can turn a wheel and lift the flaps to see what the mole is doing underground.

Product Description: Within the structure of the classic detective story, this novel tells of a man from the back streets of Southampton who is considered as heir of a house and fortune during wartime. Forty years later he comes to the sale of the house which might have been his and faces the truth of those events...read more

Hardcover:

9780394563114 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: While revisiting the house he was once heir to and reconsidering his refusal of the house and a modest fortune, a now successful British actor's life is changed by a bizarre murder

Paperback:

9781558820043 | Intl Polygonics Ltd, August 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A mysterious murder on the eve of D-Day influences events forty years into the future

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781850897774 | Isis Audio, July 1, 1994, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Within the structure of the classic detective story, this novel tells of a man from the back streets of Southampton who is considered as heir of a house and fortune during wartime.

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By Peter Dickinson and Gordon Fairclough (contributor)

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745185019 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, May 1, 1988), cover price $21.95

While revisiting the house he was once heir to and reconsidering his refusal of the house and a modest fortune, a now successful British actor's life is changed by a bizarre murder

Hardcover:

9781557360885 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: While revisiting the house he was once heir to and reconsidering his refusal of the house and a modest fortune, a now successful British actor's life is changed by a bizarre murder

Nine stories of blood, magic, and fabulous creatures, set in the framing device of dreams coming to the enchanted wizard Merlin as he lies imprisoned under a great stone.
By Peter Dickinson and Alan Lee (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780440500674 | Delacorte Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: As Merlin lies entombed beneath a massive rock, drifting between sleep and consciousness, his dreams create magical worlds of medieval fantasy based on Celtic folklore

A fictional and very modern British royal family is endangered by a sinister old woman who holds the key to a past tragedy

Hardcover:

9781560540045 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A fictional and very modern British royal family is endangered by a sinister old woman who holds the key to a past tragedy
9780394580029, titled "Skeleton-In-Waiting" | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A fictional and very modern British royal family is endangered by a sinister old woman who holds the key to a past tragedy

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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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While looking after her grandson at a London play center, Poppy Tasker is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious who seems intensely interested in her young grandson, and her life is further thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a corpse near the playground. Reprint. K.

Hardcover:

9781560544586 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poppy Tasker becomes entangled in a criminal investigation when the stranger who has been spying on her grandson at the playground as well as watching her apartment is found dead at the playground
9780892964789 | Mysterious Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Poppy Tasker becomes entangled in a criminal investigation when the stranger who has been spying on her grandson at the playground as well as watching her apartment is found dead at the playground

Paperback:

9780446401128 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, March 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: While looking after her grandson at a London play center, Poppy Tasker is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious who seems intensely interested in her young grandson, and her life is further thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a corpse near the playground.

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