From a "New York Times"-bestselling author and award-winning journalist comes a fascinating exploration of survival that can help prepare anyone for life's inevitable struggles, from cancer and crime to car accidents and airplane crashes.
Charlie and Sam are growing up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. One memorable evening, Charlie steals a car, and the two drive down to Fenway Park in Boston for a Red Sox game. On the way home, they are in an accident, and Sam is killed. For 13 years, Charlie meets Sam's spirit in the local cemetery--a tradition that entails a sacrifice for both of ...
J. J. Smith makes his living by searching out bizarre and extreme events for THE BOOK OF RECORDS, but the well is running dry, and if he is to keep his job he must come up with some new record-breaking oddities. When he hears that someone in Nebraska is eating an airplane, a little bit every day, he investigates, and in a tiny Nebraska town he ...
As a boy, Charlie St Cloud narrowly survived a car crash that killed Sam, his little brother. Years later, still unable to recover from his loss, Charlie has taken a job tending to the lawns and monuments in the New England cemetery where Sam is buried. When he meets Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventurous woman in training for a solo sailing ...
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Anderson, Sherwood, Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gertrude...
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Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hermitage House, Inc.
Date Published: 1953
Description: First edition. Edited by Margaret Anderson. Fine with light offsetting on the front end papers in very good dustwrapper with a tape-repaired tear on the front panel. read more
Description: Short bumped tear at base of spine, front cover has short creased tear and nick at tip of one corner, else a very good, bright copy. (GOLDMAN, Emma). THE LITTLE REVIEW. Vol. III, No. 3. May, 1916 [Periodical]. Margaret C. Anderson, Editor. Octavo, printed wrappers, publisher's printed paper cover label, 44 pages. Contains "Letters from Prison" by Emma Goldman, "Off the Turnpike" by Amy Lowell, "Three Flesh-Tints" (poems) by Ben Hecht, "The Struggle" by Sherwood Anderson; additional ... read more
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Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherin Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W....
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1941-01-02
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Covers have normal shelf wear with notable wear to binding edge. Hinge separation at title page. No Page marks, or tears. Pages are amazingly bright. We ship daily from Tennessee! read more
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Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherin Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W....
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Description: Like New. Signed; Condition: Near Fine; Dust Jacket Condition: None; Notes: Limited Edition. Signed. 1978, 4to, 152 pgs. Illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. Limited 586/1600 signed by Stahl. Quarter bound green leather with brown cloth boards gilt title on spine and front board. Clean throughout Binding solid. Boards are clean with only very minor shelfwear. Original slipcase present, lightly dust soiled and sunned along edges.; read more
Description: Very good. Used, remainders or ex-library, english-speaking-service, Gebraucht oder Verlagsrestbestand, evtl. aus Bibliotheksbestand, bei mehrbändigen Werken bitten wir um vorherige Anfrage, korrekte Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt., deutschsprachiger Service, 14-Tage-Rückgaberecht. read more
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Joyce, James; Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Ford Madox Hueffer (Ford), Sherwood Anderson, Ben Hecht, Et Al.; ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Date Published: 1918
Description: Good. 8vo, 65 pp. (including inside back cover), stapled printed wraps. Includes Episode V of Joyce's Ulysses, a long letter from Crane on Joyce, six of Rimbaud's Illuminations translated by Helen Rootham, fiction by Anderson, Hecht and Hueffer, short essays by Pound, more. Good only: chipping to page and cover margins, half-inch chipping to lower tips (but no loss of text). In mylar. read more
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