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Cold War anxieties play out in a sensitively told story set during the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s, perfect for fans of Gary Schmidt and Kristin Levine. Joanna canât get over how her brother broke his promise to never leave like their dad did. Sam is thousands of miles away on a navy ship, and no matter how often he sends letters, Joanna refuses to write back. When she makes a promise, she keeps it.But then President Kennedy comes on TV with frightening news about Soviet missiles in Cubaâand thatâs where Samâs heading. Suddenly Joannaâs worries about being home alone, building up the courage to talk to a cute boy, and not being allowed to go to the first boy-girl party in her grade donât seem so important. Maybe sometimes there are good reasons to break a promise.The tense timeline of the Cuban missile crisis unfolds alongside a powerful, and ultimately hopeful, story about what it means to grow up in a world full of uncertainty.
Hardcover:
9780399171833 | Putnam Pub Group, August 4, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Cold War anxieties play out in a sensitively told story set during the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s, perfect for fans of Gary Schmidt and Kristin Levine.
Paperback:
9780147514097 | Dgs rep edition (Puffin, August 2, 2016), cover price $7.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781681413402 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 4, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Joanna can't get over how her brother broke his promise to never leave like their dad did.
9781681413365 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 4, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Joanna can't get over how her brother broke his promise to never leave like their dad did.
Product Description: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands. Now McCarthy returns with another enthralling story of a familyâtheir longings, their fears, and their secretsâswept up in the chaos at the height of the Cold War...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781511300339 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 29, 2015), cover price $59.97 | About this edition: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands.
Product Description: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands. Now McCarthy returns with another enthralling story of a familyâtheir longings, their fears, and their secretsâswept up in the chaos at the height of the Cold War...read more
Hardcover:
9780804176545 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 29, 2015, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781511300346 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 29, 2015), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands.
9781511300322 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 29, 2015), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: âSusan Carol McCarthy blends fact, memory, imagination and truth with admirable grace,â said The Washington Post of the authorâs critically acclaimed debut novel, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands.
Hardcover:
9780763655341 | Candlewick Pr, September 10, 2013, cover price $16.99
Paperback:
9780763676766 | Candlewick Pr, May 12, 2015, cover price $6.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480518292 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, September 10, 2013), cover price $19.99
9781480518636 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, September 10, 2013), cover price $19.99
Product Description: Itâs the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days playing baseball and thinking about girls. But the threat of nuclear war looms over everything they do, and they are haunted by the idea that they could all be dead tomorrow...read more
Paperback:
9780399525377, titled "Natural Healing for Depression: Solutions from the World's Great Health Traditions and Practitioners" | J P Tarcher, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | also contains Natural Healing for Depression: Solutions from the World's Great Health Traditions and Practitioners | About this edition: Discusses alternative therapies for treating depression
9780399525414, titled "Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs: 2000 Edition" | J P Tarcher, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | also contains Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs: 2000 Edition | About this edition: Covers more than five thousand drugs with revised drug charts, information about new drugs approved by the FDA, directions, and restrictions
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9781501227240 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, May 12, 2015), cover price $11.99
9781501227233 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, May 12, 2015), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Itâs the summer of 1962, and Scott and his friends spend their days playing baseball and thinking about girls.
9781491581391 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, June 27, 2014), cover price $14.99
October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. Warships and submarines are on the move. Planes are in the air. Troops are at the ready. Both leaders are surrounded by advisers clamoring for war. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a “back channel”—a surreptitious path of communication hidden from their own people. They need a clandestine emissary nobody would ever suspect. If the secret gets out, her life will be at risk . . . but they’re careful not to tell her that. Stephen L. Carter’s gripping new novel, Back Channel, is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction—a suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of a young college student. On the island of Curaçao, a visiting Soviet chess champion whispers state secrets to an American acquaintance. In the Atlantic Ocean, a freighter struggles through a squall while trying to avoid surveillance. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, one of the few black women at Cornell, is asked to go to Eastern Europe to babysit a madman. As the clock ticks toward World War III, Margo undertakes her harrowing journey. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire—and into her own family’s hidden past.
Hardcover:
9780385349604 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 29, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: October 1962.
Paperback:
9780345804877 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 26, 2015), cover price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781629238951 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 19, 2014), cover price $59.99
9781629238999 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 19, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: October 1962.
Product Description: âA compelling story, written with a sure hand, that keeps you intrigued. But watch out for the gut punches. They come often and unexpectedly. Raffel definitely has his game on.â âSteve Berry, author of The Kingâs DeceptionâA rare historical novelâexciting and utterly believableâwith Jack Kennedy as youâve never seen him...read more
Paperback:
9781477818206 | Reprint edition (Amazon Pub, November 5, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The phone rings in the California home of businessman Nate Michaels before the sun is up on October 24, 1962.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480589261 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 18, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: âA compelling story, written with a sure hand, that keeps you intrigued.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480518469 | Unabridged edition (Candlewick Pr, September 10, 2013), cover price $54.97
9781480518803 | Mp3 una edition (Candlewick Pr, September 10, 2013), cover price $39.97
Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, Catesby is sent to negotiate a secret deal with Moscow to break the Cuban Missile Crisis deadlock. But before that can happen, Catesby meets the Midnight Swimmer, who has a chilling message for Washington. A sophisticated novel, full of twists and turns that merge historical fact with fiction. ""Outstanding third novel... Wilson is a master at working the history of the period-the Cuban missile crisis in particular-into his intricate tale of high political drama and deadly action.""-Publishers Weekly, March 12, 2012
Paperback:
9781908129413 | Arcadia Books Ltd, December 15, 2013, cover price $18.95
9781906413996 | Arcadia Books Ltd, February 15, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder.
Paperback:
9780985516604 | Pathway Book Service, September 17, 2012, cover price $15.00
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world -- no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through. Featuring a captivating story interspersed with footage from 1962, award-winning author Deborah Wiles has created a documentary novel that will put you right alongside Franny as she navigates a dangerous time in both her history and our history.
Paperback:
9780545106061 | Reprint edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, April 30, 2013), cover price $7.99
School and Library:
9780545106054 | 1 edition (Scholastic Pr, May 1, 2010), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Franny Chapman just wants some peace.
Prebinding:
9780606239417 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2012, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
Paperback:
9780897336116 | Chicago Review Pr, October 5, 2010, cover price $14.95
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