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Alone was the note Cade knew best. It was the root of all her chords.Seventeen-year-old Cade is a fierce survivor, solo in the universe with her cherry-red guitar. Or so she thought. Her world shakes apart when a hologram named Mr. Niven tells her she was created in a lab in the year 3112, then entangled at a subatomic level with a boy named Xan. Cade’s quest to locate Xan joins her with an array of outlaws—her first friends—on a galaxy-spanning adventure. And once Cade discovers the wild joy of real connection, there’s no turning back.

Twelve-year-old Andy feels he would be better off with his father in England than in his San Francisco home with his mother and her new husband. To raise the money needed to finance his trip to England, he stages his own kidnapping, but the plan backfires when someone decides to make the kidnapping a reality. “A common family situation becomes action-filled drama in Bunting’s capable hands.”--Booklist

Editorial Reviews A brilliant novel in the form of a memoir, Other People's Houses. . . recounts the life of a Viennese refugee child who is boarded in a series of English families for seven years, and goes on to tell of [her] three years in the Dominican Republic, before she and her mother are finally admitted to the United States in 1951. . . [Lore Segal] has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer. -- New York Times Book Review An immensely impressive, unclassifiable book. On the surface it is an account of flight from Nazis, of displacement and transplantation; but beneath that it contains an extraordinary rendering of the self. -- New Republic Great sensitivity, coolness, and charm. . . the keen innocent observation of the child's-eye view. -- New York Review of Books --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description Published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel. Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ten-year-old girl leaves Vienna aboard a children's transport that is to take her and several hundred children to safety in England. For the next seven years she lives in "other people's houses," the homes of the wealthy Orthodox Jewish Levines, the working-class Hoopers, and two elderly sisters in their formal Victorian household. An insightful and witty depiction of the ways of life of those who gave her refuge, Other People's Houses is a wonderfully memorable novel of the immigrant experience. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

O'Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra. Facsimile of the First Edition. Shelton, The First Edition Library, 1961. Octavo. 301 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in illustrated slipcase. Close to new. Absolutely Fine condition. Includes even the reprinted errata - leaf and the publisher's advertising slip. Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by American writer John O'Hara (1905 – 1970). It concerns the self-destruction and suicide of the fictional character Julian English, a well-to-do car dealer who was once a member of the social elite of Gibbsville (O'Hara's fictionalized version of Pottsville, Pennsylvania). The book sparked controversy due to O'Hara's inclusion of sexual content. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Appointment in Samarra 22nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The title is a reference to W. Somerset Maugham's retelling of an ancient Mesopotamian tale,[1] which appears as an epigraph for the novel: A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Shortly, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as Death, and she made a threatening gesture. Borrowing the merchant's horse, he flees at top speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km), where he believes Death will not find him. The merchant then goes to the marketplace and finds Death, and asks why she made the threatening gesture. She replies, That was not a threatening gesture, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. In his foreword to the 1952 reprint, O'Hara says that the working title for the novel was The Infernal Grove. He got the idea for the title Appointment in Samarra when Dorothy Parker showed him the story in Maugham's play, Sheppey. He says..