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3061.
My Corner of the Great Depression
by Mary Joe Clendenin
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Paperback (5x8) - £9.75
ISBN: 9780759630147
MY CORNER OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION tells about life in rural Texas during the years from the fall of the stock market until the beginning of World War II. Country life in those times meant canning, hog-killing, milking...More
3062.
My Memories
by Ruby Underwood Martin
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.25
ISBN: 9780759620032
A heart-warming story of the adventures of a woman with an indomitable spirit. She shares with the reader her life as a child and then as a mother who has lived the years from 1899 to 1993. Her true life experiences will...More
3063.
The Tales of Tuffy, Adventures of a Native American Boy
by Valerie Lee
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Glossy Hardcover (6x9) - £14.00
ISBN: 9780759642706
This book includes five stories written especially with children in mind, although I hope The Tales of Tuffy stories will be enjoyed by readers of all ages. These stories introduce us to a Lakota Indian tribe, happy, healthy...More
3064.
The History of Beginning Reading: From Teaching by "Sound" to Teaching by "Meaning": Vol. II
by Geraldine E. Rodgers
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Paperback (8.25x11) - £16.50
ISBN: 9781588209733
The puzzling adoption in 1930 of a deaf-mute method for teaching beginning reading to hearing children in America can only be understood when the long history of teaching beginning reading is known. The deaf-mute method adopted...More
3065.
Don't Forget I Love You
by Pamela J. Wilson and Ruth E. (Runyan) Dorman
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Paperback (6x9) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759626690
He was a veteran of WWI who had returned to become a prominent orthopedic surgeon in his home town in Illinois. He was married to an attractive, socially active woman with whom he had two children. Tall, handsome, with a...More
3066.
Doctor Lopez
by Elliott Baker
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Dust Jacket Hardcover (6x9) - £15.25
ISBN: 9780759615564
Dr. Roderigo Lopez was an unexpected choice to be Queen Elizabeth’s personal physician, since she had long insisted that none but English hands would touch any part of her.  Lopez was a Marrano (a Portuguese Jew who’d converted...More
3067.
Doctor Lopez
by Elliott Baker
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.75
ISBN: 9780759614369
Dr. Roderigo Lopez was an unexpected choice to be Queen Elizabeth’s personal physician, since she had long insisted that none but English hands would touch any part of her.  Lopez was a Marrano (a Portuguese Jew who’d converted...More
3068.
The History of Beginning Reading: From Teaching by "Sound" to Teaching by "Meaning": Vol. I
by Geraldine E. Rodgers
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Paperback (8.25x11) - £18.75
ISBN: 9781588209726
The puzzling adoption in 1930 of a deaf-mute method for teaching beginning reading to hearing children in America can only be understood when the long history of teaching beginning reading is known. The deaf-mute method adopted...More
3069.
The Falconer's Club: The Initiation of the Peregrine
by Austin Sands
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Paperback (5x8) - £10.75
ISBN: 9780759610316
Take an intrepid adventurer who doubles as a private investigator, a missing treasure worth millions, add a Catholic priest who served as a commando during WWII, two ex-Gestapo men and their former commanding general, a family...More
3070.
With Rommel's Army in Libya
by Laszlo Almasy, trans. by Gabriel Francis Horchler
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Paperback (6x9) - £9.75
ISBN: 9780759616080
The name László Almásy gained worldwide recognition as the "English Patient" through the novel and motion picture bearing that title. The real Almásy was a polyglot, cosmopolitan Hungarian...More