John Strelecky

Root Leeb

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Story about the Meaning of Life

The Cafe on the Edge of the World

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What are you waiting for ? 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Good anxiety 

Jojo Moyes

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.

Me Before You

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Junot Díaz

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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This is what matters 

Joan Hiatt Harlow

During World War II, fourteen-year-old Jill Winters arrives in the town of Winter Haven, Maine to stay with her grandmother and, while exploring her new surroundings, stumbles upon a carrier pigeon with a coded message--a discovery that plunges her into a dangerous game of treason and betrayal. Reprint.

Shadows on the Sea

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"After the transformative six months she spent with Will Traynor, Louisa Clark is struggling without him. And when an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Reluctantly, she joins the Moving On support group and meets the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling Lou into a very different future ..."--Page [4] cover.

After You

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The map to your soul 

Amy Wallace

FACING A NEW THREAT.
When FBI Agent Clint Rollins takes a bullet during a standoff, it might just save his life. But not even the ugly things he's seen during his years working in the Crimes Against Children Unit could prepare him for the overwhelming powerlessness of hospital tests revealing an unexpected diagnosis. If only Sara weren't retreating into doctor mode...he needs his wife now more than ever.
FROZEN IN FEAR.
Sara Rollins is an oncologist with a mission- beating cancer when she can, easing her patients' suffering at the very least. Now the life of her tall Texan husband is at stake. She never let the odds steal her hope before, but in this case, the question of God's healing promises is personal. Can she hold on to the truth she claimed to believe?
FAITH UNDER FIRE.
As Clint continues to track down a serial kidnapper despite his illness, former investigations haunt his nightmares, pushing him beyond solving the case into risking his life and career. Clint struggles to believe God is still the God of miracles. Especially when he needs not one, but two. Everything in his life is reduced to one all-important question: Can God be trusted?
AMY WALLACE is the author of Ransomed Dreams, a homeschool mom, and a self-confessed chocoholic. She is a graduate of the Gwinnett County Citizens Police Academy and a contributing author of several books, including God Answers Moms' Prayers and Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living Series: Diabetes. She lives with her husband and three children in Georgia.

A powerful second book in the Defenders of Hope series, "Healing Promises" packs high-voltage suspense while posing a key life question: can God be trusted? FBI Agent Clint Rollins finds he must trust God for not just one miracle, but two, in this tale.

Healing Promises

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Diana Secker Tesdell

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Now joining Everyman’s Library—the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world’s greatest works—is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift giving and reading pleasure. _________________________ Stories of Motherhood gathers more than a century of literary celebrations of mothers of all ages. These short stories by a wide range of great writers illuminate the many facets of our most elemental human relationship, from birth to death and everything in between. Lydia Davis and Harold Brodkey explore dizzying encounters between young mothers and their newborn babies, while Colm Tóibín and Lorrie Moore portray adult children grieving for their lost mothers. Ron Carlson probes the forging of a bond with an adopted infant, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a sparring mother-and-daughter pair whose overlapping pregnancies lead them to common ground, and Aimee Bender offers a loopy fable of maternal connection in which a woman gives birth to her own mother. Willa Cather, Ernest Gaines, and Louise Erdrich dramatize the strength and sacrifices of mothers in very different walks of life, while Anita Desai and Amy Tan chart the gulf of misunderstanding and cultural change that can divide mothers and their offspring in any time or place—and the ways love can sometimes find to cross it. These and such other masters of the short story as Sherwood Anderson and Hortense Calisher write memorably about mothers—having, losing, leaving, and loving them—in modes that range from lyrical to satirical, from heartbreaking to hilarious.

Stories of Motherhood

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Lisa Wingate

Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was lucky. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now that she's twenty, her future is expanding in exciting new directions--a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Juilliard, a reunion with her adopted family. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers_-blood relatives she's never met?
Determined to find answers and unable to share her emotional uncertainty with her adoptive family, Dell sets off on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains. Drawn by the only remaining link to her origins_-a father's Native American name on her birth certificate-she travels into quiet wooded valleys in the heart of the modern Choctaw Nation. There she will find connections to a long and proud heritage and begin to answer the questions of her heart. In the voices of her ancestors, she'll discover the keys to a future unlike anything she could have imagined.

Adopted at the age of thirteen and encouraged to pursue her love of music, twenty-year-old Dell Jordan risks her future and a musical scholarship to Julliard to seek the truth about her past to embark on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains to seek answers about her Choctaw heritage. Original.

A Thousand Voices

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Harry Poter And the prisoner of Azkaban 

James Wallenstein

"A beautifully written story about all of the many different reasons we need love and are terrified to lose it. A terrific debut novel."
-Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell
"The protagonist and narrator of The Arriviste is that guy, the one you've probably thought of a thousand times lately while muttering the words 'the economy with a woeful, bewildered look on your face. He's the bastard whose fault it probably is, and the amazing thing about this book is the profound sympathy you feel for him on almost every page. He observes the world acutely, he has vigorous and striking thoughts, he yearns: this guy has a soul, to which this antic and elegiac, beautifully written novel bears unforgettable witness."
- Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown and You Were Wrong
If by 1970 I had started to slip, it wasn't by much. To make more of the decline would be easy: exaggeration resonates in candor. My income had fallen, though not to any depth.
That would have required a spectacular reversal, and, contrary impulses notwithstanding, I seem to avoid spectacular actions of any kind. I still had plenty of money in 1970, more than my neighbors could reasonably hope to come by, yet not so much anymore that I could forget them. My lawn was no longer quite big enoush nor my hedges high enoush...
... so begins The Arriviste, in which Neil Fox laments the disappearance of his Long Island Arcadia even as he has a hand in the process. As a young man, he'd made a healthy living on heads-I-win-tails-you-lose venture capital deals, and along the way developed an unyielding ambition. Now, years later, that same cunning has calcified into a principled isolation, which Neil hopes to preserve even as a new neighbor, Bud Younger, builds his home on a lot that Neil himself once owned. But when Neil's wife moves out, Bud draws Neil in with his solicitude. A bottle and a ride in an Alfa Romeo later, they have an off-shore business partnership and a woman between them- to Neil's dismay and also, possibly, his advantage.
Tracing one man's longing for his own estate against a nation's obsession with the ephemeral security offered by wealth, The Arriviste is a gripping and timeless tale of influence, power, and isolation.

Neil Fox has made a fortune off the "head we win/tails you lose" venture capital deals negotiated by his brother, costing him almost everything but money. His ex-wife and daughter spurn him, and he lost his young son years ago. He now lives a carefully plotted life, working as a lawyer at a small investment-banking firm and spending nights at home with a drink. When the affable Bud Younger moves in next door--on a parcel that Neil had sold off--Neil takes an almost instant dislike to him. Bud is nearly everything Neil is not--a gregarious, energetic striver loved by his intact family. When Bud asks Neil to fund a new business venture, he reluctantly accepts, setting in motion events that hurtle to a startling and haunting conclusion. The Arriviste delves into the psyche of avarice and envy, presenting a portrait of a man both ordinary and monstrous.

The Arriviste

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Karen White

Caroline Collier is a woman bogged down in che harsh realities of a life barely lived. Stress from her all-consuming job as an accountant has given her panic attacks, forcing her to take a leave of absence from work. And though her chances of relaxing in the presence of her overbearing, perfect mother are slim, she joins her at the family's vacation home in the mountains of North Carolina.
Though Caroline loves the serene beauty of Lake Ophelia, peace of mind is not to be found. Memories of her beloved younger brother, who died when she was seventeen, continue to haunt her, while the tension between Caroline and her mother still simmers. Only their neighbors, the husband and daughter of one of Caroline's childhood friends, seem able to penetrate her cool reserve, giving Caroline the courage to face her biggest fears- and dive headfirst into life....

In lyrical and evocative prose, the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels takes the scattered pieces of a life and weaves them into a tale of hope...
 
Caroline Collier is a woman bogged down in the harsh realities of a life barely lived. Stress from her all-consuming job as an accountant has given her panic attacks, forcing her to take a leave of absence from work. And though her chances of relaxing in the presence of her overbearing, perfect mother are slim, she joins her at the family's vacation home in the mountains of North Carolina.
 
Though Caroline loves the serene beauty of Lake Ophelia, peace of mind is not to be found. Memories of her beloved younger brother, who died when she was seventeen, continue to haunt her, while the tension between her mother and her still simmers. Only their neighbors, the husband and daughter of one of Caroline's childhood friends, seem able to penetrate her cool reserve, giving Caroline the courage to face her biggest fears--and dive headfirst into life...

Pieces of the Heart

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Amy N. Wallace

CHAINED TO YESTERDAY.
When tragedy struck and Gracie Lang lost everything, her faith crumbled, and nothing but the drive for justice propelled her forward. But after two years of dead-end searching, the truth Gracie seeks is the very thing her stalker will stop at nothing to hide.
FORGIVENESS UNLOCKS THE FUTURE.
An FBI agent in the Crimes Against Children Unit, Steven Kessler spends his days rescuing other people's children and nights caring for his son. He's through with God, embittered by his ex-wife who abandoned them both, and definitely doesn't expect what's coming next.
THE PAST IS THE KEY.
A plot to kidnap a British ambassador's daughter dangerously intersects
Steven and Gracie's worlds- a collision that demands a decision. But are they willing to pay the high ransom required to redeem dreams and reignite hope?
"STEPPED IN POLICE INTRIGUE AND RICH CHARACTERS, RANSOMED DREAMS ENTERTAINS, EDUCATES, AND CAPTIVATES. Amy WALLACE IS A FRESH, VIBRANT VOICE IN THE CHRISTIAN MaRKeT."
MARK MYNHEIR, HOMICIDE DETECTIVE AND AUTHOR OF THE VOID
"RANSOMED DREAMS HAD ME HOOKED FROM THE START AND DIDN'T LET GO UNTIL THE DEEPLY SATISFYING ENDING."
KRISTIN BILLERBECK, AUTHOR OF WHAT A GIRL. WANTSi

Chained To Yesterday

When tragedy struck and Gracie Lang lost everything, her faith crumbled, and nothing but the drive for justice propelled her forward. But after two years of dead-end searching, the truth Gracie seeks is the very thing her stalker will stop at nothing to hide.

Forgiveness Unlocks the Future

An FBI agent in the Crimes Against Children Unit, Steven Kessler spends his days rescuing other people’s children and nights caring for his son. He’s through with God, embittered by his ex-wife who abandoned them both, and definitely doesn’t expect what’s coming next.

The Past Is the Key

A plot to kidnap a British ambassador’s daughter dangerously intersects Steven and Gracie’s worlds–a collision that demands a decision. But are they willing to pay the high ransom required to redeem dreams and reignite hope?

Ransomed Dreams

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Cary Fagan

We  knew he was a bad kid even before he showed up. I didn't know where all the information came from, or whether it was true. I only knew that there was a lot of it and none of it was good.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

When Ethan's parents send him to summer camp for the first time, his real challenge comes in the form of a new cabin mate named Zachary, an idiosyncratic kid who doesn't seem to care what anybody thinks of him, even Amber Levine--the girl with an easy smile and a freckle on one knee.

The Big Swim

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Donald O. Clifton

Edward "Chip" Anderson

Laurie A. Schreiner

Social Studies

Students who use their natural talents achieve the most --- but they need to know what those talents are. StrengthsQuest includes the Clifton StrengthsFinder, an online assessment that reveals students' top five themes of talent. And StrengthsQuest also helps students make the most of those talents.

Students and learners of all ages continually face the challenges of gaining direction, making decisions, and building self-confidence. Fortunately, the keys to successfully meeting these challenges -- your own natural talents -- already exist within you. Through these talents, you will produce your greatest achievements.

Over the course of 30 years, Gallup conducted millions of psychological interviews and identified 34 themes of talent that are indicative of success. In the StrengthsQuest program, Gallup offers you the opportunity to discover talents from your top five themes and build on them to achieve academic, career, and personal excellence. More than 100,000 students have benefited from the program.

Your quest starts with the Clifton StrengthsFinder, a 30-minute assessment that reveals your top five themes of talent.

This online assessment is your entryway to a variety of experiences that will help you discover your greatest talents and develop strengths. You'll gain access to action items specific to your top themes, covering general academic life, study habits, relationships, and career. You'll also be challenged to think about applying your talents for success in other settings, such as on projects and teams and in leadership.

StrengthsQuest was written by the late Donald O. Clifton, who was the former chairman of Gallup; coauthor of the bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths; and recognized as the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology and the late Edward "Chip" Anderson, who taught education, psychology, and leadership at UCLA and Azusa Pacific University. Revised portions of the text were written by Laurie A. Schreiner, who has taught psychology and higher education at Azusa Pacific University and Eastern University.

Your quest starts with the Clifton StrengthsFinder, a 30-minute assessment that reveals your top five themes of talent.

This online assessment is your entryway to a variety of experiences that will help you discover your greatest talents and develop strengths. You'll gain access to action items specific to your top themes, covering general academic life, study habits, relationships, and career. You'll also be challenged to think about applying your talents for success in other settings, such as on projects and teams, and in leadership.

StrengthsQuest was written by the late Donald O. Clifton, former chairman of Gallup, coauthor of the bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths, and recognized as the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology and the late Edward "Chip" Anderson, who taught education, psychology, and leadership at UCLA and Azusa Pacific University. Revised portions of the text were written by Laurie A. Schreiner, who has taught psychology and higher education at Azusa Pacific University and Eastern University.

StrengthsQuest

Deborah Vogts

She loves the land. Mattie Evans grew up in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Although her family has lost their ranch, she still calls this land home. A skilled young veterinarian, she struggles to gain the confidence of the local ranchers. Fortunately, her best friend and staunchest supporter is John McCray, owner of the Lightning M Ranch. They both love the ranch, and can't imagine living anywhere but in the Flint Hills. He's haunted by it. Gil McCray, John's estranged son, is a pro football player living in California. The ranch is where his mother died and where every aspect of the tallgrass prairie stirs unwanted memories of his older brother's fatal accident. Gil decides leaving the ranch is the best solution for his ailing father and his own ailing heart. But he doesn't count on falling in love. Falling in love isn't an option. Or is it? When Mattie is called in to save a horse injured in a terrible accident, she finds herself unwillingly tossed into the middle of a family conflict. Secret pain, secret passions, and secret agendas play out against the beautiful landscapes as love leads to some unexpected conclusions about forgiveness and renewal.

Snow Melts in Spring

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Mingmei Yip

When Camilla--trained in singing, dancing, knife-throwing and contortion--is forced to become Master Lung's mistress, she meets two other intriguing women who pose risks to her safety and status until an even greater danger emerges in the form of Master Lung's eldest son. Original.

Skeleton Women

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Robert Ward

"Ward is simply one of the best."
- MICHAEL CONNELLY
"Mr. Ward writes with a directness and sincerity that is increasingly rare in these days of fashionable irony and high-tech literary pyrotechnics."
- MICHIKO KAKUTANI. THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The book's pulsing vitality as in the novels of Thomas Wolfe, a writer of similar faults and virtues- carries the day."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON SHEDDING SKIN
"Ward serves up a storyline crackling with action and a cool cast of thugs, traitors, killers, and creeps." - BOOKLIST ON TOTAL IMMUNITY

Interrupted during vacation plans when alluring snitch Michelle Wu begs his help in rescuing her kidnapped sister, FBI agent Jack Harper is rapidly overwhelmed by a group of hostile bikers, Mexican gangs and a pet Razorback hog before discovering links between the case and an exclusive spa for the elderly. By the award-winning author of Shedding Skin.

The Best Bad Dream

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John Tesh

Close to eight million listeners tune in to the John Tesh Radio Show:
Music and Intelligence for Your Life each week. With his staff of ten full-time researchers, John Tesh has uncovered a wealth of practical information, interesting facts and life-changing options to help you navigate the wide range of topics you encounter every day. Subjects include:
• Finding Your Passion
• Focusing and Simplifying
• Taking Care of Your Relationships
• Taking Care of Yourself
• Taking Care of Business
• Trusting God
But Intelligence for Your Life is more than a guide to informed living, it is also a memoir. Tesh shares his own story here, revealing the passions that have driven him and given shape to his extraordinary professional and personal life.
You can live a life that's more purposeful, more effective, and happier.
Intelligence for Your Life can start you on your way. .. today.

Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth

Offers advice and tips for achieving success in life based on the personal experiences of the author, covering such topics as relationships, health, finances, job satisfaction, and religion.

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Pieces of the Heart

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Ransomed Dreams

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