Amber Chen

This is the OwlCrate edition, with sprayed edges, an exclusive cover and endplates, a reversible dust jacket, and a handwritten letter and autograph from the author.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Mulan meets Iron Widow in this thrilling silkpunk fantasy about a girl who must disguise herself as a boy and enter the famed and dangerous Engineer’s Guild trials to unravel the mystery of her father’s murder. Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a world-class engineer like her father, but after his sudden murder, her life falls apart. Left with only a journal of her father’s engineering secrets and a jade pendant snatched from the assassin, a heartbroken Ying follows the trail to the capital and the prestigious Engineers Guild—a place that harbors her father’s hidden past—determined to discover why anyone would threaten a man who ultimately chose a quiet life over fame and fortune. Disguised as her brother, Ying manages to infiltrate the guild’s male-only apprenticeship trial with the help of an unlikely ally—Aogiya Ye-yang, the taciturn eighth prince of the High Command. With her father’s renown placing a target firmly on her back, Ying must stay one step ahead of her fellow competitors, the jealous guild masters, and the killer still hunting for her father’s journal. Complicating everything is her increasingly tangled relationship with the prince, who may have mysterious plans of his own. The secrets concealed within the guild can be as deadly as the weapons they build—and with her life and the future of her homeland at stake, Ying doesn’t know who to trust. Can she avenge her father even if it means going against everything he stood for, or will she be next in the mastermind’s line of fire?

Of Jade and Dragons (Signed OwlCrate Exclusive Edition) 

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Cara Bastone

Ready or Not

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Glennon Doyle

Autographed copy. Very little shelf wear. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over two million copies sold! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire • Bloomberg • Parade • “Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love This is how you find yourself. There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves. For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is. Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

Untamed

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Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review

Some cover wear and page discoloration from age, but otherwise intact and in great condition.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Economics

The Fundamental Skills for Delivering on Budget and on Time

Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills for Delivering on Cost and On Time When it comes to project management, success lies in the details. This book walks managers through every step of project oversight from start to finish. Thanks to the book's comprehensive information on everything from planning and budgeting to team building and after-project reviews, managers will master the discipline and skills they need to achieve stellar results without wasting time and money. The Harvard Business Essentials series is for managers at all levels but is especially relevant for new managers. It offers on-the-spot guidance, coaching, and tools on the most relevant topics in business. Each book includes the critical information that managers need on a given topic-from budgeting to hiring to communication to strategy-and offers interactive tools and worksheets that translate advice into action. Providing ready answers to day-to-day issues, these guides make sound, trusted mentoring advice available whenever managers need it. Other Books in the HBE Series: Managing Change and Transition Hiring and Keeping the Best People Finance for Managers Business Communications Innovation Negotiation

Harvard Business Essentials Managing Projects Large and Small

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Rachael Lippincott

Very little shelfwear, pages are unmarked. Just barely away from Like New :)

Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list.

The Lucky List

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Laura Moriarty

Slight shelf wear and age (such as discoloration on the page edges), but no other markings or damage.

Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

The Chaperone

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Albert H. Teich

Some wear on the cover and slight staining on the page edges. Pages themselves are unmarked and in good condition.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Computer Science

This diverse collection of readings by technology enthusiasts and critics introduces you to different philosophical approaches regarding the impact of technology, as well as specific technologies to give you a complete overview of technology today.

Technology and the Future

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Pascal Dennis

Cover has some damage on the back especially around the bar code, and some wear overall. Pages are intact and unmarked.

Business & Economics

A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System

Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition is a plain language guide to the Lean production system written for the practitioner by a practitioner. It delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean manufacturing. Organized around the image of the house of Lean production, the book helps the reader grasp both the system as a whole and the factors that animate it.

Lean Production Simplified

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Chuck Hodell

The back cover has some faint dents, and a few of the back pages are slightly warped. No markings on the pages and the book is fully intact.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

A No-Nonsense Approach to Instructional Design

Textbook for HR 210 Workplace Learning and Performance HR210.

ISD from the Ground up, 4th Edition

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Robert M. Gagne

Walter W. Wager

Katharine Golas

John M. Keller

The cover is intact but has a few scratches and markings, mainly on the back. There are some highlights and written annotations throughout, but nothing that hinders readability. The pages are undamaged.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This textbook begins with an overview of instructional systems, then details the basic processes of learning and instruction. Chapters concentrate on topics like outcomes, varieties of learning, the learner, performance objectives, instructional sequences, technology-affordances, performance assessment, group learning environments, on-line learning.

Principles of Instructional Design

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Donald C. Mosley

Paul H. Pietri

A lot of cover damage, and the pages have some folds and wear at the corners. However, the book is intact and readable.

The path to becoming an effective supervisor begins with practical knowledge and skills. Mosley, Mosley, and Pietri's SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT, 9e gives you the tools to develop superior supervisory skills and a firm grasp of management principles. Through their hands-on approach to Supervision, the authors will inspire you with their positive approach to working WITH people to develop and empower them in their jobs. Incorporating cutting-edge content with real-world cases and Skill Builders that give you plenty of opportunities to hone your new Supervision skills, the Ninth Edition of this best-selling text is an essential resource that you will turn to again and again throughout your supervisory career. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Supervisory Management

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Sarah Penner

Light shelf wear on the dust jacket but otherwise unmarked.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to the lost apothecary. Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. Nella's dark world is no place for her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old girl named Eliza Fanning, but their unexpected bond sparks a string of consequences that echoes through the centuries. Two hundred years later, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell discovers an aged apothecary vial in the River Thames. As she is newly grappling with the searing betrayal of her husband's infidelity, a curious research project is exactly the distraction Caroline needs. But when she discovers a link between the vial and London's long-unsolved "apothecary murders," Caroline's upended present soon collides with an explosive history, binding her fate to Nella's and Eliza's in a stunning twist that transcends the barrier of time. --

The Lost Apothecary

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Alyson Derrick

Very faint shelf wear on the dust jacket; otherwise the book is unmarked and in near perfect condition.

Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother she finds committment difficult, even when she thinks she is in love; impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a crush on the cool Cora Myers, but she does not know how to even start a conversation, much less make a connection; now they are all at college in Pittsburgh Alex decides to "help" Molly get the girl, while proving to her own flame that she is not just totally selfish--but things do not work out as the two have planned.

She Gets the Girl

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Alex Michaelides

No damage, very light marking on the back of the dust jacket. 

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient

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Stephen King

Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket; pages are unmarked. 

In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.

Full Dark, No Stars

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David Giffels

The dust jacket is worn and has some sticker residue on both the front and back. The pages have a few markings.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Building a Family in a Falling-Down House

Finding the perfect house is never easy. Rebuilding one from a crumbling pile--to say nothing of making it into a home--is even harder.

With their infant son in tow, David Giffels and his wife comb the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of just the right house for their burgeoning family. Running through David's head the whole time are the lyrics of a Replacements song, ". . . Look me in the eye, then tell me that I'm satisfied," and it gives all the more purpose to their quest. But nothing seems right . . . until they spot a beautiful, decaying Gilded Age mansion. A former rubber industry executive's domain, the once grand residence lacks functional plumbing and electricity, leaks rain like a cartoon shack, and is infested with all manner of wildlife. But for a young man at a coming-of-age crossroads--"suspended between a perpetual youth and an inevitable adulthood"--the challenge is exactly the allure.

All the Way Home follows Giffels's funny, poignant, and confounding journey as he and his wife and a colorful collection of helpers turn a money pit into a house that will complete their family. Nothing could prepare them for a home restoration epic that includes evicting squatters (both four- and two-legged), battling an invading wisteria vine, hunting a ghost, and discovering thousands of dollars in hidden Depression-era cash. But the story's heart lies deeper, in an unexpected series of personal hardships that call into question what "home" really means, and what it means to grow up.

Written with the humor and insight of Bill Bryson and John Grogan, All the Way Home is the engaging tale of a young father's struggle to restore a house and find his way . . . without losing himself.

All the Way Home

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Nathan W. Pyle

The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Strange Planet, featuring more hilarious and poignant adventures from the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle's colorful world. In this eagerly awaited sequel, Nathan takes us back to his charming and instantly recognizable planet colored in bright pinks, blues, greens, and purples, providing more escapades, jokes, and p h r a s e s. Nathan mixes his most popular Instagram comics with more than thirty original works created exclusively for this second volume to explore four major topics: traditions, nature, emotions, and knowledge. He inducts new and longtime fans into a strangely familiar world and its culture, from "cohesion" (marriage) to "mild poison" (alcohol) to the full lyrics to "The Small Eight-Legged Creature" (sung to the tune of The Itsy-Bitsy Spider). Bright, colorful, and whimsical--yet charmingly familiar--Stranger Planet is out-of-this-world fun.

Stranger Planet

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Excellent shape, very little signs of wear.

I feel more attractive. Honestly, you are. It's the star damage. I CRAVE STAR DAMAGE. Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple. Based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name, Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet's inhabitants, including milestones such as: The Emergence Day Being Gains a Sibling The Being Family Attains a Beast The Formal Education of a Being Celebration of Special Days Being Begins a Vocation The Beings at Home Health Status of a Being The Hobbies of a Being The Extended Family of the Being The Being Reflects on Life While Watching the Planet Rotate With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.

Strange Planet

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Carl H. Klaus

The edges of the cover show slight wear, but the rest of the book is in like new condition.

Montaigne to Our Time

The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present—many of which have not previously been anthologized or translated—as well as a detailed bibliographical and thematic guide to hundreds of additional works about the essay. From a buoyant introduction that provides a sweeping historical and analytic overview of essayists’ thinking about their genre—a collective poetics of the essay—to the detailed headnotes offering pointed information about both the essayists themselves and the anthologized selections, to the richly detailed bibliographic sections, Essayists on the Essay is essential to anyone who cares about the form. This collection provides teachers, scholars, essayists, and readers with the materials they need to take a fresh look at this important but often overlooked form that has for too long been relegated to the role of service genre—used primarily to write about other more “literary” genres or to teach young people how to write. Here, in a single celebratory volume, are four centuries of commentary and theory reminding us of the essay’s storied history, its international appeal, and its relationship not just with poetry and fiction but also with radio, film, video, and new media.

Essayists on the Essay

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Marjorie Liu

Sana Takeda

Slight wear on the edges of the cover but otherwise in excellent condition.

"Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind ... and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Monstress

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Francesca Cavallo

Elena Favilli

Rebel Girls

This box set is in excellent shape-a little slight wear on the covers and box, but the pages are unmarked and like new. Included is also a map poster which is intact and unmarked-see photos for more details.

200 Tales of Extraordinary Women

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling sensation Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a beautiful gift box containing two volumes with 200 stories to inspire girls to dream without limits.

The Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - Gift Box Set brings two trailblazing and bestselling volumes together to share the extraordinary stories of queens and activists, ballerinas and pirates, scientists and inventors, and more for readers to explore and enjoy. The unique narrative style transforms each biography into a fairytale, filling readers with wonder and a burning curiosity to know more about each subject. Both books feature gorgeous illustrations by female and non-binary artists from around the world.

Each Gift Box Set contains both Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 in hardcover, in a beautiful slipcase, shrink-wrapped to ensure scuff-free arrival. Illustrated by 70 female and non-binary artists from all over the globe, this Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - Gift Box Set will inspire your entire family to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder!

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls - Gift Box Set

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A 2021 NATIONAL PARENTING PRODUCT AWARDS WINNER!


The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 immigrant women who have shaped, and will continue to shape, our world.


Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present, this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: some for new opportunities, some out of necessity.

Readers will whip up a plate with Asma Khan, strategize global affairs alongside Madeleine Albright, venture into business with Rihanna, and many more. All of these unique, yet relatable stories are accompanied by gorgeous, full-page, full-color portraits, illustrated by female artists from all over the globe.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World

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David Lodge

The cover has some damage, although it is intact- wrinkled back cover and bent corners. The pages are intact and unmarked.

Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

Essays gathered from the Washington Post and the London Independent examine the art and artistry of some of the best writers working in the English language, covering such issues as suspense, symbolism, epistolary novels, intrusive authors, and more.

The Art of Fiction

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Michael Dirda

 Some wear on the very edges of the cover; otherwise in great shape.

Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling

From Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock Holmes A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars—the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insider’s account of the curiously delightful activities and playful scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars. On Conan Doyle is a much-needed celebration of Arthur Conan Doyle’s genius for every kind of storytelling.

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Of Jade and Dragons (Signed OwlCrate Exclusive Edition)

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Ready or Not

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ISD from the Ground up, 4th Edition

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Full Dark, No Stars

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