![]() ![]() Plot and pacing will engage voracious and reluctant readers alike.” (School Library Journal) Evie is strong, independent, and smart, discovering herself and her own definition of love through experience and reflection. “Levine offers another engaging story and heroine readers will adore. With enough grotesqueries to satisfy the most transgressive tastes of juvenile humor and enough light romance to balance the scales, this trips lightly over a wide range of emotional appeals.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books) “Like all of Levine’s heroines, Evie is complex, career-oriented, and likable as she bears up under seriously extraordinary pressures. ![]() “Levine does an excellent job of getting into the mind of an ogre (Evie is overwhelmed by a sudden aversion to vegetables in all forms), and although the plot’s many strands are wide-ranging, she brings them together for a satisfying resolution.” (The Horn Book) “Readers new and old to Levine’s world will find much to love.” (Booklist) “Longtime fans and new readers alike will devour this.” (Kirkus Reviews) ![]()
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![]() Beard has praised as a “great” and “masterly” biography. The twentieth and final version of Marshall’s abridgement, published in 1849, is the text reproduced in the Liberty Fund edition of what Charles A. ![]() Beveridge, describes The Life of George Washington as “the fullest and most trustworthy treatment of that period from the conservative point of view.” Within eight years of the death of George Washington in 1799, John Marshall, who later became Chief Justice of the United States, published his authoritative five-volume biography. ![]() Used throughout the first half of the nineteenth century in schools and colleges, John Marshall’s own abridgment of his monumental five-volume biography of George Washington is now available in a Liberty Fund edition that once again brings the spirit of George Washington alive in America’s classrooms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be cautious as books can get heavy fast. Includes “Comes the Blind Fury” and “When the Wind Blows”.īundles are welcome. These are book club editions which are a little less commonly seen. I didn’t note anything too out of the ordinary (I discard heavy smoke/mildew smelling items) but smell is very subjective so may have missed something. Vintage books are more likely to have some odors including storage odors. Some spots/stains possible but mostly it’s age discoloration.ĭust jacket may be more likely to show wear and tear being a vintage book. Vintage books often get yellow or discolored with age (age tanning) on covers and or pages. So it is more prone to wear and tear and signs of age. Item may have remainder marks, or other small amounts of writing such as a name or price but otherwise no major markings to note. Dust jackets show some wear and tear just from handling. May have corner dings or wear to the corners of pages. 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