| 1000000 | Flight from Eden | Kathryn A. Graham | 0595199402 | 4 | 2001 | 1 | 10 | Writer's Showcase Press | 5:1 | 4:1 | 3:1 | 2:0 | 1:0 | total:3 | 1 | nan | 380 | What could a computer expert, a mercenary with admittedly sadistic tendencies, a cashiered U.S.A.F. officer and a world-famous astrophysicist possibly have in common?<br />Courage!<br />They are each prepared to sacrifice life, fortune and sacred honor to free their nation from the grip of tyranny. … | 1 |
| 1000001 | Roommates Again | Kathryn O. Galbraith | 0689505973 | 3.2 | 1994 | 1 | 4 | Margaret K. McElderry Books | 5:0 | 4:3 | 3:1 | 2:0 | 1:1 | total:5 | 1 | nan | 44 | During their stay at Camp Sleep-Away, sisters Beth and Mimi learn some new things about each other. | 1 |
| 1000003 | The King At The Door | Brock Cole | 0374440417 | 3.95 | 1992 | 31 | 12 | Farrar Straus Giroux | 5:5 | 4:9 | 3:4 | 2:1 | 1:0 | total:19 | | nan | 32 | A poorly dressed old man appears at an inn and declares he is really the king, but only a servant believes him. | |
| 1000004 | Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua | Bruce Cole | 080761310X | 4.47 | 1993 | 1 | 8 | George Braziller | 5:9 | 4:5 | 3:0 | 2:1 | 1:0 | total:15 | 2 | nan | 118 | This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary. | 2 |
| 1000005 | Larky Mavis | Brock Cole | 0374343659 | 3.69 | 2001 | 3 | 8 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | 5:19 | 4:12 | 3:9 | 2:7 | 1:4 | total:51 | 8 | nan | 32 | <b>Another orginal picture-book fairy tale</b><br /><br />Larky Mavis, an eccentric soul, finds three peanuts in the middle of the road. The first tastes like liver and onions. The second, like bread pudding. And the third -- well, inside the third is a baby. Larky Mavis decides to name it Heart's D… | 8 |
| 1000006 | Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning | Mikhail Botvinnik | 0387900128 | 2.8 | 1970 | 8 | 7 | Springer | 5:2 | 4:1 | 3:3 | 2:1 | 1:3 | total:10 | 2 | nan | 90 | Mihail Moiseevich Botvinnik is an electrical engineer by profession; during World War II he headed a high-tension laboratory in the Urals and was decorated by the USSR for his accomplishments. At present, he is the head of the alternating-current machine laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Power E… | 2 |
| 1000010 | The Holy Longing | Connie Zweig | 1585422045 | 3.83 | 2003 | 10 | 2 | Tarcher | 5:10 | 4:6 | 3:11 | 2:2 | 1:0 | total:29 | | nan | 256 | What is the urge that drives people to search for God, to join religious movements, or to undertake a spiritual practice? In her counseling work with clients from every religious denomination, Connie Zweig found that this universal yearning-a secret feeling with many disguises-often lies hidden at t… | |
| 1000011 | Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families | Andrew Billingsley | 1570036861 | 3.91 | 2010 | 15 | 11 | University of South Carolina Press | 5:3 | 4:5 | 3:2 | 2:1 | 1:0 | total:11 | 2 | nan | 253 | On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839�1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, pilot, businessman, statesman, U.S. congressman�Small… | 2 |
| 1000012 | A Wild Yearning | Penelope Williamson | 044061418X | 3.83 | 1995 | 1 | 10 | Delta | 5:132 | 4:150 | 3:80 | 2:35 | 1:18 | total:415 | 22 | nan | 448 | THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY OF RESTLESS HEARTS<br /> <br />Trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Boston, young Delia McQuaid dreamed of becoming a lady. Answering an advertisement for a mail-order bride, she headed north -- toward a remote Maine settlement, an uncertain destiny and a wedding with … | 22 |
| 1000014 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | 0613495632 | 4.01 | 1991 | 1 | 11 | Turtleback Books | 5:10441 | 4:10325 | 3:5842 | 2:1512 | 1:458 | total:28578 | 64 | eng | 219 | The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on a… | 64 |