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  • Millicent Maybe

    Ellen Weiss

    Paperback (Avon Books, )
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  • The Moviegoer

    Walker Percy

    Paperback (Avon Books, March 1, 1982)
    Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
  • The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Mystery

    Elizabeth Peters

    Hardcover (Avon Books, June 8, 1999)
    “Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”—New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters transports us to the Land of the Pharoahs—and leaves us in the most capable hands of intrepid archeologist and adventurer Amelia Peabody—in The Falcon at the Portal. A suspenseful and always surprising romp through 1911 Egypt with Amelia and her equally indomitable family, the Emersons, The Falcon at the Portal immerses us in a fascinating world of antiquity and majesty, and plunges us into a mystery as perilous as it is puzzling. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests, let us all “raise a toast to the incomparable Amelia Peabody.”
  • The Crooked House

    Dave Duncan

    Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, Jan. 1, 1799)
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  • Santa My Life & Times: An Illustrated Autobiography

    Martin I. Green, Bill Sienkiewicz

    Hardcover (Avon Books, Nov. 1, 1998)
    Old Kris Kringle himself tells the story of his life, throwing light on his childhood, on the workings of his toyshop, and on the mysteries of his Christmas Eve flight, in an illustrated Christmas keepsake designed for families to read aloud. 136,000 first printing.
  • The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials

    Patrick Huyghe, Harry Trumbore

    Paperback (Avon Books, Oct. 1, 1996)
    Categorizes alien encounters into types, providing a detailed description and drawing for each, including humanoid, robot, animalian, and exotic.
  • Morgan's Zoo

    James Howe, Leslie Morrill

    Paperback (Avon Books (Mm), July 15, 1993)
    The Chelsea Park Zoo is a small zoo, and a slightly run down one at that. But to twins Andrew and Allison, it's their favorite place in the world. To the animals who live there, it's their home. And to the kindly, gentle zookeeper, Morgan, it's his life. So when the city announces the zoo will be shut down and the animals shipped to zoos all over the country, the twins -- and the animals -- spring into action to save Morgan's Zoo. But closing the zoo isn't the only danger afoot. The animals soon discover they have a chance to do more than save their home -- they have a chance to become heroes.
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  • War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

    Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci, Marion K. Antonucci

    Hardcover (Avon Books, Aug. 1, 1997)
    The author recounts his World War II encounters with Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the revolutionary B-29 bomber who would eventually select him to lead the atomic mission to Nagasaki.
  • Picasso: Creator and Destroyer

    Arianna Huffington

    Paperback (Avon Books, Sept. 1, 1989)
    Through numerous interviews with Picasso's intimates, the author penetrates the barriers of the Picasso myth to reveal the struggle between his power to create and his passion to destroy
  • Independence Day

    B. A. Ecker

    Paperback (Avon Books, March 1, 1983)
    High school student Michael comes to terms with the fact that he is gay, and on July 4th, Independence Day, decides to tell his best friend Todd of his true feelings toward him.
  • Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You

    Vicki Cobb

    Paperback (Avon Books, Feb. 1, 1989)
    Describes more than sixty tricks based on scientific experiments described in the text
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  • More Fifth Grade Magic

    Beatrice Gormley, Emily Arnold McCully

    Paperback (Avon Books, Oct. 1, 1991)
    Wishing she could be more assertive with her domineering mother, fifth grader and professional model Amy Sacher finds a magic calendar that can change her life
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