![]() ![]() Spine cocked very slightly by about 1/32" (I would normally classify this as a straight spine, but because of the high value of this title I want to be extremely accurate in my description), slightest rubbing to boards. ![]() ![]() Book Condition: Very Good, corners square, spine extremes slightly faded but majority of spine cover retains original color, slight 1/16" blemish to spine cover on back side, front end papers have a small area of tanning about 1" x 1", back end papers are clean and free of marks, internal pages are flawless but show the slightest hint of tanning, top text block has some micro-foxing and dust, the front and bottom text block show slight tanning but no noticeable foxing. Hardcover, Quarter Bound Gray Cloth X Black Boards, Revised Edition Published March 1967 (Harper Row code C-R). ![]()
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This young man had many wonderful opportunities ahead of him with the great and loving support he received from his family and friends. ![]() Years ago, back in 2006 this young man had just returned home from serving a two year service mission for his church helping those in need and sharing the good word of his Christian church, for free, and fully on his dime. This is a story about how this young man survived a crippling car accident, life altering traumatic brain injury, and inhibiting amnesia. The man who wrote this book has quite the life story himself. ![]() ![]() Something horrible has happened, and it just might be her fault.Įvery time I finish a book by Courtney Summers, all my brain seems to want to do is ponder the meaning of life. Nobody would have guessed she’d turn out like this. ![]() Worse, there’s a nice guy falling in love with her and he’s making her feel things again when she’d really rather not be feeling anything at all. But her parents have placed her on suicide watch and her conselors are demanding the truth. She’d just like to be left alone, to disappear, to be ignored. How has the cheerleading captain, girlfriend of the most popular guy in school, consummate teacher’s pet, and future valedictorian fallen so far from grace? ![]() ![]() When “Perfect” Parker Fadley starts drinking at school and failing her classes, all of St. Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, High School ![]() ![]() ![]() I began journaling about this experience as it was happening in 1993.īelieve it or not, it took me 20 years. ![]() My foundation was shaken when I experienced multiple miscarriages as my mother’s health gradually deteriorated. My husband and I had just returned to my home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Motherhood: Lost and Found is the story of my mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s at the same time I was trying to become a mother myself. 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