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Product Description: Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen—from the New Mexican commune where she grew up . . . and from the haunting memory of the freak accident that took the life of her younger sister. Now, at thirty-two, Sunny voices radio spots in Albuquerque while struggling to hold on to a floundering relationship...read more

Paperback:

9780061687365 | 1 edition (Perennial, February 1, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen—from the New Mexican commune where she grew up .

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Product Description: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop...read more
By Tim Brennan (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781596922990 | Reprint edition (Macadam Cage Pub, December 1, 2008), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina.

Paperback:

9781416925910 | Gardners Books, May 6, 2008, cover price $10.85

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In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful.

Hardcover:

9780517699218 | Outlet, August 1, 1989, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Sarah Worth, alias S.
9780394568355 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1988, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780141189017 | Gardners Books, October 26, 2006, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat.
9780449912126 | Reissue edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1996), cover price $16.00 | also contains Enchanted Love
9780449216521 | Reissue edition (Crest, July 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Sarah Worth, alias S.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394574165 | Random House, July 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | also contains Myths of the Oil Boom: American National Security in a Global Energy Market | About this edition: S.

In England in 1969, nineteen-year-old Stephen leaves his conservative home, where he is haunted by a troubled past and dread of the future, and is drawn by an old friend to a commune, whose charismatic leader speaks of finding freedom to live in the moment.In England in 1969, nineteen-year-old Stephen leaves his conservative home, where he is haunted by a troubled past and dread of the future, and is drawn to a commune, whose leader speaks of finding freedom to live in the moment.

Hardcover:

9780385732703 | Reprint edition (Delacorte Pr, June 12, 2007), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In England in 1969, nineteen-year-old Stephen leaves his conservative home, where he is haunted by a troubled past and dread of the future, and is drawn by an old friend to a commune, whose charismatic leader speaks of finding freedom to live in the moment.

Paperback:

9781842704462 | Gardners Books, October 5, 2006, cover price $11.65 | About this edition: It is 1969, and Stephen is trying to concentrate on his A-Levels.

Miscellaneous:

9780307491725 | Delacorte Pr, February 19, 2009, cover price $15.99

Library:

9780385902878 | Delacorte Pr, June 12, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In England in 1969, nineteen-year-old Stephen leaves his conservative home, where he is haunted by a troubled past and dread of the future, and is drawn by an old friend to a commune, whose charismatic leader speaks of finding freedom to live in the moment.

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The subject of this book is emergency abdominal surgery. It looks at a wide range of its important aspects, ranging from early management of acute gallstone pancreatitus to gynaecological causes of the acute abdomen.

Hardcover:

9780443039072, titled "Emergency Abdominal Surgery" | Churchill Livingstone, January 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | also contains Dispossessed, Emergency Abdominal Surgery | About this edition: The subject of this book is emergency abdominal surgery.

Paperback:

9780062421074 | Limited edition (Perennial, September 29, 2015), cover price $10.00 | also contains Dispossessed
9780575079038 | Orion Pub Co, August 1, 2006, cover price $16.10 | also contains Dispossessed | About this edition: One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time

Prebinding:

9780785764038 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth.

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The subject of this book is emergency abdominal surgery. It looks at a wide range of its important aspects, ranging from early management of acute gallstone pancreatitus to gynaecological causes of the acute abdomen.

Hardcover:

9780443039072, titled "Emergency Abdominal Surgery" | Churchill Livingstone, January 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | also contains Emergency Abdominal Surgery, The Dispossessed | About this edition: The subject of this book is emergency abdominal surgery.

Paperback:

9780062421074, titled "The Dispossessed" | Limited edition (Perennial, September 29, 2015), cover price $10.00 | also contains The Dispossessed
9780575079038, titled "The Dispossessed" | Orion Pub Co, August 1, 2006, cover price $16.10 | also contains The Dispossessed | About this edition: One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time
9780060512750, titled "The Dispossessed" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.
9780380003822 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, November 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Shevek, a brilliant scientist on the moon Anarres attempts to reunite his utopian homeland with Urras, the wealthy, but violent mother planet

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Product Description: The creatures of legend have come upon hard times. Their power stems from human belief, but humans believe in "Science" now. We have little use for magic. Even Coyote - shiftiest and most adaptable of them all - can't quite comprehend this new view of reality...read more

Hardcover:

9781594143229 | Five Star, August 5, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The creatures of legend have come upon hard times.

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The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations--Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of fur trappers in the 1820s, and fugitive Henry Brown; and teenager Tina Plank, unhappily living in a 1980s commune, and her friend, Trixie Volterra, a young girl with a troubled past. A first novel. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781582344485 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations.

Paperback:

9781582345789 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, May 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations--Cookie Figowitz, the cook for a party of fur trappers in the 1820s, and fugitive Henry Brown; and teenager Tina Plank, unhappily living in a 1980s commune, and her friend, Trixie Volterra, a young girl with a troubled past.

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Product Description: Fiction. Crafted with echoes of the Adam and Eve myth, set amidst the sexual and political repression of the 1950s, BURN revisits familiar narratives of McCarthyism, Jewish socialism, and pedophilia, but is told from the rarely heard perspective of a menopausal immigrant woman...read more

Paperback:

9780971084681 | Suspect Thoughts Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fiction.

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Product Description: "Beatrice has probably told you that when someone starts talking about staying, we usually send her home for a while, away from the seductions of these holy hills, so she can decide whether she really wants to plant herself in a nunnery...read more

Paperback:

9781563411267 | Firebrand Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "Beatrice has probably told you that when someone starts talking about staying, we usually send her home for a while, away from the seductions of these holy hills, so she can decide whether she really wants to plant herself in a nunnery.

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Product Description: British Columbia has changed. Globally, the weather has become extreme and unpredictable. Giant corporations rule. They are the beneficiaries of environmental laws imposed too late to help the world, but which can be used to control and impoverish the remaining population...read more

Paperback:

9780921586913 | New Star Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: British Columbia has changed.

Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

Paperback:

9780385722438 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

Reinforced:

9780606314145 | Demco Media, September 30, 2002, cover price $21.25 | About this edition: Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

Prebinding:

9781417640126 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.

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America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.

Library:

9780761316077 | Millbrook Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.

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Product Description: Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set in the fictional island of Nollop situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. Now deceased, the islanders have erected a monument to honor their hero, but one day a tile with the letter “z” falls from the statue...read more

Hardcover:

9780967370163 | Macadam Cage Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set in the fictional island of Nollop situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

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A London-based writer is hired to chonicle the life of nineteenth century writer Walter Savage Landor and his ill-fated attempt to revive a medieval Welsh Abbey. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781862070189 | Granta Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A London-based writer is hired to chonicle the life of nineteenth century writer Walter Savage Landor and his ill-fated attempt to revive a medieval Welsh Abbey.

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A collection of interconnecting short stories follows the members of a 1960s commune in Washington state and their lives a generation later and includes 'Sometimes He Borrowed a Horse,' Making Headway,' 'Beside Ourselves,' and 'Treat Me Nice.' By the author of Limited Lifetime Warranty.

Hardcover:

9780892552504 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of interconnecting short stories follows the members of a 1960s commune in Washington state and their lives a generation later and includes 'Sometimes He Borrowed a Horse,' Making Headway,' 'Beside Ourselves,' and 'Treat Me Nice.

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Product Description: Fiction. Free love, radical politics and a sexy red tomato! The members of the Utopian Tomato Commune unite with the Canning Factory workers for a smart, sensuous class struggle. Former Editor of Young Socialist, Nora Ruth Roberts hands in a picture of Left politics besieged by didactic thinking, as the quirks of the commune members are suppressed by ideologues and "leaders"...read more

Paperback:

9781887128391 | Soft Skull Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

Sam Shames moves to a commune in 1970 looking for a perfect life, but his search for love threatens to destroy the commune

Hardcover:

9781877946875 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, August 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Sam Shames moves to a commune in 1970 looking for a perfect life, but his search for love threatens to destroy the commune

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In 1974, after moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to live with her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until her daughter falls in love with the man Annie had seen leaving the scene of the crime. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
By Kerstin Ekman and Joan Tate (trans)

Hardcover:

9780385481786 | Doubleday, February 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In 1974, after moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to live with her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until her daughter falls in love with the man Annie had seen leavingthe scene of the crime

Product Description: Cassy, a teenage girl, lives with her Nan. She knows nothing about her father, and asks no questions. Nan says it's better to keep quiet. Suddenly she is packed off to stay with her beautiful, feckless mother, Goldie. Cassy discovers Goldie with her boyfriend and his teenage son, living in a squat...read more

Hardcover:

9780192716330 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.

Paperback:

9780590456081 | Reprint edition (Point, November 1, 1993), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745125060 | Chivers Audio Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Cassy, a teenage girl, lives with her Nan.

School and Library:

9780823408702 | Holiday House, April 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist

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When a still housed on her property in Washington state becomes the source for illegal liquor that leaves one teenager blinded and one dead, former university professor Lindy Adair investigates, only to find herself embroiled in a murderous revenge plot. A first novel.

Hardcover:

9780312117696 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: When a still housed on her property in Washington state becomes the source for illegal liquor that leaves one teenager blinded and one dead, former university professor Lindy Adair investigates, only to find herself embroiled in a murderous revenge plot

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Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated from the rest of the civilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant physicist, risks his life by traveling to the utopian mother planet of Urras. Reissue.

Hardcover:

9780060125639 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1974), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A physicist from isolated Anarres travels to the mother planet, Urras, in hopes of dissolving the hatred that exists between them

Paperback:

9780061054884 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Unwilling to accept that his anarchist world must be separated from the rest of the civilized universe, Shevek, a brilliant physicist, risks his life by traveling to the utopian mother planet of Urras.

Paperback:

9780387584355, titled "Database and Expert Systems Applications: 5th International Conference, Dexa '94, Athens, Greece, September 7-9, 1994 : Proceedings" | Springer Verlag, September 1, 1994, cover price $105.00 | also contains Disappear Home

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Unable to decide between two attractive boys, seventeen-year-old Beamer is forced to examine how growing up in a commune in the north woods of Minnesota has shaped her personality.

Hardcover:

9780395558706 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Raised in a commune her own parents helped found, sixteen-year-old Beamer becomes frustrated by her close proximity to the commune's other members, until a forced examination of her life helps her understand how her unusual upbringing has shaped her life

Paperback:

9780395657461 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1993), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Raised in a commune her own parents helped found, sixteen-year-old Beamer becomes frustrated by her close proximity to the commune's other members, until a forced examination of her life helps her understand how her unusual upbringing has shaped her life

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