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Konrad
Christine Nostlinger
(Avon Books, Dec. 1, 1982)Konrad, a perfectly factory-made seven-year-old, is delivered by mistake to scatter-brained, non-conformist Mrs. Bartolotti, and the two devise a crazy plan to prevent his being reclaimed.
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Basic Fun: Computer Games, Puzzles, and Problems Children Can Write
Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich
Paperback (Avon Books, July 1, 1982)Introduces the fundamentals of computer programming using the BASIC programming language. Includes descriptions and listings of programs designed to amuse and challenge users.
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One hundred years of solitude
Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez
Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, Aug. 16, 1972)" One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the rich and lusty story of the rise and fall of the Buendia family. Love and death, war and peace, youth and age, the noble and stunningly beautiful story of this family is alive with a truth and understanding that strike the soul.
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The Boy Who Turned into a TV Set
Stephen Manes
Paperback (Avon Books, Feb. 1, 1984)Although his mother warns him that if he continues to watch television so much he will turn into one, Ogden Pettibone does not believe her until he discovers a clear, color picture glowing on his stomach
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The New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary
Redentor M. Tuazon
Paperback (Avon Books, March 15, 1974)With more than two million copies in print, this exhaustively researched crossword dictionary is more comprehensive than its competitors beacuse it's twice the length--featuring 70,000 entry words and 165,000 solution words. Includes newly-coined words, foreign terms, literary references, slogans, slang words, and more. Reissue.
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Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan, Harvey Frommer
Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, March 1, 1990)An account of the twenty-year career of baseball's greatest power pitcher includes Ryan's comments on the greats he has pitched against and drugs, glitter, and showboating
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Bailey's Window
Anne Lindbergh
Paperback (Avon Books, Aug. 1, 1991)Their disdain for their visiting cousin, Bailey Bond, soon turns to admiration when Anna and Carl discover that they are able to climb through the window Bailey has painted on the guest room wall and visit other times and places
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Shy Ones
Lynn Hall
Paperback (Avon Books, Aug. 1, 1983)None
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Wear and Scare
M. T. Coffin
Paperback (Avon Books, Oct. 1, 1997)For Halloween, Sam and his friends create a walk-through haunted house, renting costumes from creepy old Mr. Slithern, and discover that the realistic costumes have taken on a power of their own
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Michael McDowell's Blackwater I: The Flood
Michael McDowell
Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, Jan. 1, 1983)Elinor Dammert is rescued from the Perdido Hotel four days after all the townspeople had abandoned their homes because of the flooding Blackwater River
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All My Sins Remembered
Joe Haldeman
Mass Market Paperback (Avon Books, March 15, 1978)Otto McGavin is peaceful and idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in it and its mission to protect the rights of humans and nonhumans. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as a Prime Operator for its secret service, the TBII, and the TBII wants Otto as a spy, a thief and an assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which simply uses immersion therapy and hypnosis for Otto's training, and then sends him out in deep cover on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for Otto, it's a different matter: what he has to witness and what he is forced to do take a terrible toll on him ...
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Angela and Diabola
Lynne Reid Banks
Hardcover (Avon Books, May 1, 1997)The Cuthbertson-Jones family has its life thrown into turmoil by the unexpected arrival of twins--Angela, a happy, beautiful, perfect little girl, and Diabola, an angry, hateful child who becomes the bane of her parents' existence--in a hilarious novel about a cosmic battle between good and evil.
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