Pamela's Recommends
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780156035521
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Published: Mariner Books, 4/2010
This beautiful and haunting novel is the story of a father and daughter living off the grid in Forest Park, a large nature preserve outside Portland, Oregon. Their peculiar experience is related through the voice of 13 year old Caroline. Earnest and genuine, hers is a voice that will linger in the reader's memory.
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9781402768194
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Published: Sterling, 4/2010
Fujikawa's books are fantastic! Her illustrations are adorable and she included multi-racial children before it was PC. Oh, What a Busy Day Baby Animals and A Child's Book of Poems but you should really check out the whole collection and see for yourself.
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780802170682
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Published: Grove Press, 5/2010
Ramon Cabrera is no stranger to the corruption in the Mexican border town of Paracuan but only sees the depth once he starts to investigate the death of a young journalist. His inquiries lead him to a multi-layered cover-up from the '70s. The Black Minutes
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780865473362
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Published: North Point Press, 10/1988
Written to aid cooks during the meager years of WWII Fisher's advise is once again relevant. While I wouldn't recommend trying all of her recipes (I just can't do canned salmon) some are very intriguing and probably quite good. But hard times aside, the author's sage tips, and her wit and charm, make this title timeless.
$18.95
ISBN-13: 9781892145703
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Published: Little Bookroom, 4/2009
If you can't make it to the shops of Paris in person at least with this book you can do some window shopping. Sate your appetite for things French with the beauty and creativity inside these pages. Also a great inspiration for designer, crafters, and shop keepers.
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780285637283
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Published: Souvenir Press, 10/2005
This is straight up escapist fun. Modesty and her right hand man Willie Garvin are called out of their retirement from a life of crime when the British Secret Service requires their skill and expertise. Their adventure begins in a mod 60s London and leads them to the Mediterranean. There's plenty of intrigue and exotica throughout.
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9780151014149
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 3/2009
Living off the grid outside Portland, Oregon in the vast Forest Park reserve with her Vietnam vet father, thirteen-year-old Carolyn's life is not an ordinary childhood. Though she is home-schooled in the usual subjects, she is also an expert at covering all traces of her presence in the park. After a short stint in the society her father ardently avoids, they escape into an even more obscure wilderness. Inspired by Elizabeth Smart and Opal Whiteley, Peter Rock's Carolyn, with her sharp intelligence and otherworldly observations on the nature that surrounds her, leaves an indelible trace in the reader's mind.
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781599902401
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Published: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 12/2008
If this book had been around when I was a young lady, it would have been perfect. It still is perfect, though! The art is awesome, and the attitude is sharp but not too snarky.
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780375724428
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Published: Vintage, 5/2000
Cheever's stories are alive with cigarettes, noise, cocktail parties, affairs, and the recently down and out. His New York of the '40s and '50s will make readers nostalgic whether or not they ever knew the place.
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780811856744
Availability: Temporarily out. Orders usually back in stock in 1-5 days
Published: Chronicle Books, 10/2007
Everything in Japan has a cute mascot: the Tokyo metro transit, toilet paper, berries, milk, cell phones, the customs service, and on and on. And if you don't believe me, here's the book to prove it!
ISBN-13: 9780976684879
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Buenaventura Press, 7/2006
Kramers Ergot
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781897178065
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Published: Insomniac Press, 11/2006
The title of the collection of graphica shorts really says it all. Each story is filled with darkness and heartbreak, yet it somehow never dives into the realm of mawkishness. We hear the bitter inner voice of an overweight woman in "Big Boned", a young catholic girl in a small town slowly loses her faith in "They Filmed a Movie Here Once" and an awkward intellectual type suffering a mid-life crisis buys a rifle, shoots a deer and can't live down the horror. Ollmann is truly talented in the short story medium.
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781400049622
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 9/2003
Finally! The definitive text on zombies. This will answer any questions you may have on the subject and settle any arguments that might surface after a romero marathon. All the facts and tips you need to survive the next zombie epidemic are here.
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