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Tender at the Bone: growing up at the table.

Reichl, Ruth, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Broadway, (1998). 14th ptg. VG PB. Reichl discovered at an early age that food could be a way of making sense of the world. A culinary sensualist comes of age.

Arriving at Work: stories.

Schrader, Steven, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brooklyn, NY, Hanging Loose, (1989). VG PB.

On Sundays We Visit the In-laws: stories.

Schrader, Steven, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brooklyn, NY, Release Press, (1979). VG PB. There are few pains greater than the love for a child lost or half-lost through the split-up of a marriage. .

Under the Tuscan Sun: at home in Italy.

Mayes, Frances, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Broadway Books, (1997). 15th ptg. VG PB. Mayes buys and restores an abandoned villa in the Tuscan countryside & discovers the beauty & simplicity of life in Italy. Sl edge wear.

Daughter of China: the true story of forbidden love in modern China.

Xu, Meihong & Larry Engelmann, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, Headline, (2000). 6th ptg. VG PB. Xu grew up during the upheaval of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Inducted into the People's Liberation Army at an. early age, she became a member of the elite intelligence corps & sent to spy on visiting American professor Larry Enge...

Always Nine Years Old: Sarah Orne Jewett's childhood.

Sargent, Ruth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scarborough, ME, Graphics Communicatins, Inc., (1985). VG PB. Includes bibliography. "When I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I am always nine years old, " Sarah Orne Jewett. said every year. "And each time I make the same wish to go back and live in my Grandfather's ...

Always Nine Years Old: Sarah Orne Jewett's childhood.

Sargent, Ruth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scarborough, ME, Graphics Communicatins, Inc., (1985). VG PB. Includes bibliography. "When I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I am always nine years old, " Sarah Orne Jewett. said every year. "And each time I make the same wish to go back and live in my Grandfather's ...

Always Nine Years Old: Sarah Orne Jewett's childhood.

Sargent, Ruth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scarborough, ME, Graphics Communicatins, Inc., (1985). VG PB. Includes bibliography. "When I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I am always nine years old, " Sarah Orne Jewett. said every year. "And each time I make the same wish to go back and live in my Grandfather's ...

Always Nine Years Old: Sarah Orne Jewett's childhood.

Sargent, Ruth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scarborough, ME, Graphics Communicatins, Inc., (1985). VG PB. Includes bibliography. "When I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I am always nine years old, " Sarah Orne Jewett. said every year. "And each time I make the same wish to go back and live in my Grandfather's ...

Always Nine Years Old: Sarah Orne Jewett's childhood.

Sargent, Ruth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scarborough, ME, Graphics Communicatins, Inc., (1985). VG PB. Includes bibliography. "When I blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I am always nine years old, " Sarah Orne Jewett. said every year. "And each time I make the same wish to go back and live in my Grandfather's ...

Tessie and Pearlie: a granddaughter's life.

Horowitz, Joy, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Thorndike, ME, Thorndike, (1996). Large print. VG in VG DJ. Two bubbes share their wisdom, knowledge, & recipes while their granddaughter askes them about sex, love & motherhood.

The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon.

Thompson, Brian, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Doubleday, (2001). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Born to fanatically snobbish parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. Her scandalous. affair with a married man & her defiant marriage to an unprosperous hussar officer were the first signs ...

A Kind of Grace: the autobiography of the world's greatest female athlete.

Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Warner, (1997). 1st ptg proofs. VG lg sz PB. Advance reading copy, uncorrected page proofs. Winner of 6 Olympic medals, three gold, long jump, basketball player.

Education of a Wandering Man: a memoir (autobiography).

L'Amour, Louis, introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Bantam, (1989). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. In his own words, L'Amour writes of growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, skinning cattle in Texas & working in a circus. Owner inscription fep.

Masterpiece in Progress.

Steinberg, Jeff, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Green Forest, AR, New Leaf Press, (1994). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Born handicapped, Steinberg writes this for those who are giving up on themselves, think their situations is too hard or. they don't have enough to work with, that life has dealt them a bad hand.

Six Months to Live: learning from a young man with cancer.

Hallock, Daniel, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Farmington, PA, Plough Pub House, (2000). 4th ptg. VG PB. A month before his wedding Matt was diagnosed with cancer, 6 months later he was dead. But this is a book about how Matt,. his family & friends struggled with accepting his suffering and how it changed each of them, abo...

More Mathematical People: contemporary conversations.

Albers, Donald J., Gerald L. Alexanderson & Constance Reid, edited by, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1990). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Mathematicians share a sense of amazement over the infinite depth & mysterious beauty & usefulness of math. Interviews &. profiles with some of the most prestigious mathematicians of our time.

A Frenchman in Lincoln's America: (vol 1 only) huit mois en Amerique: lettres & notes de voyage, 1864-1865.

edited by Ralph H. Bowen & Albert Krebs, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Chicago, Lakeside Press/Donnelley, 1974. VG. Reports of a young French observer who traveled in northern states & eastern Canada toward the end of the Civil War. He. presents a candid view of the land, its people & its political thought. Navy binding, gilt decoration & spine l...

James Dean Shooting Star.

Hoskyns, Barney, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Doubleday, (1989). VG. Spans his youth & entire acting career.

Saving Milly: love, politics and Parkinson's Disease.

Kondracke, Morton, foreword by Michael J. Fox, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Public Affairs, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Chronicle of a vital & volatile marriage that endured & deepened despite Parkinsons, an as-yet incurable disease.