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Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of November 25, 1984

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MOSES THE KITTEN
James Herriot
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MOSES THE KITTEN

by James Herriot · St. Martin's

7 wks on list

A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm, and when he recovers turns out to have a very unusual idea about the identity of his mother.

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HERITAGE
Abba Eban
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HERITAGE

by Abba Eban · Summit

6 wks on list

Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk, geschreven door de ex-ministers van buitenlandse zaken.

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THE WEAKER VESSEL
Antonia Fraser
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THE WEAKER VESSEL

by Antonia Fraser · Knopf

6 wks on list

What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.

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A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Shel Silverstein
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A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

by Shel Silverstein · Harper & Row

105 wks on list

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK! From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings—a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old. This digital edition also includes twelve poems previously only available in the special edition hardcover. A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel. Come on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home. And don't miss these other Shel Silverstein ebooks, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up!

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THE REST OF US
Stephen Birmingham
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THE REST OF US

by Stephen Birmingham · Little, Brown

12 wks on list

The last in Stephen Birmingham's trilogy of books recounting the immigration of European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how they succeeded in the New World. This one follows "Our Crowd" and The Grandees.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.