Emma Helbrough

Josephine Thompson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Usborne books

How do two dogs say hello? Which kind of dog can't bark? Why do some dogs bury their toys? In this book you'll find the answers and learn lots more interesting things about dogs.

Dogs

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Thing About Yetis

Rob Justus

Black and white arc with a few full color pages. Slight crease on cover, see photos. Unread 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Book 2 arc

When Sparkles' horn begins to glow and he receives a message from his parents he and Death set out on a quest to find out what this means--and whether it has anything to do with a revolt by the servant moles.

Death and Sparkles and the Sacred Golden Cupcake

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Black and white graphic novel with a few full color pages. Arc 

Book 1

Adventure Time meets The Good Place in this zany-yet-philosophical graphic novel buddy comedy about the unlikely friendship between Death, a grim reaper who's never had a friend, and Sparkles, The Last Unicorn, a celebrity influencer who is somehow immune to Death's touch.

Being Death is no way to live.

Sure, you're all-powerful, but collecting souls involves a ton of paperwork, and it's impossible to have friends when everything you touch instantly dies.

Being Sparkles the Last Unicorn isn't as fun as you'd imagine, either. Maybe it seems like the whole world wants to be your bestie, but really people just want you to pose with them for selfies, or use you to help them sell stuff.

Everything changes when Death and Sparkles meet and realize they might just be one another's first chance at a real friend. But before they can even enjoy the bromance, the whole world starts freaking out about this unlikely pair. Will fame or BFFdom prevail?

Laugh-out-loud hilarious, gently philosophical, and full of delightfully zany exuberance, this buddy comedy turns friendship on its head--literally--and will have readers believing in the power of cupcakes for breakfast and cosmic camaraderie.

HILARIOUS BUDDY COMEDY: Move over, Wayne and Garth! Move over, Beavis and Butthead! Readers will love this spin on the classic mismatched BFF dynamic featuring two of the most powerful beings around: the guy in charge of taking everyone's life, and the most magical creature still in existence on Earth. Never have two beings been less alike or more adorable.

PERFECT FOR RELUCTANT READERS: With bright, vibrant illustrations, big fun fonts, expressive sound effects throughout, an irreverent spirit, and a heart full of cupcakes, this graphic novel will entice even the most skeptical of young readers.

BIG THEMES: Self-awareness; empathy; bravery; commercialism; celebrity influencers; and the courage to stand up for what you believe in, even if that's the hard thing to do--all of these important themes weave throughout the book in subtle ways that will resonate with readers without feeling heavy-handed.

THE FIRST ADVENTURE OF MANY: This is the first book in a planned series about the adventures of Death and Sparkles. The next book will be out in Fall 2022!

LIKE LIVING IN CANDYLAND: Rob Justus's expressive, vivid art makes readers feel like they're living in Candyland. With tons to see on every page, and countless visual gags per spread, this book will delight graphic novel fans and bring new readers to the genre.

Perfect for:

* Reluctant readers
* Parents
* Fans of graphic novels
* Fans of unicorns
* Educators

Death and Sparkles

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Wrinkling in back cover, see photos. Unread

Our Generation book 13 featuring Shannon

Magic Under the Stars

Rosie Greening

Slight scraping on back cover, see photos

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Children will love reading the funny rhyme which tells them what to do if they ever meet a groovicorn! Each beautifully illustrated page features a fun pink touch for young readers to explore. Perfect for all lovers of unicorns and Groovicorns!

If You Ever Meet a Groovicorn

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JoJo Siwa

Deck the halls with JoJo and BowBow in this special chapter book adventure
 
It's the holiday season, and that means it's time for some of JoJo Siwa's absolute favorite things: adorning her home with lollipops and gingerbread men; a Secret Santa with friends; decorating cookies; and fun family traditions. Best of all, in the days leading up to Christmas, JoJo and Miley will be joining Michelle--a famous ice dancer and JoJo's good friend--at Tinseltown Resort and Rink for Michelle's performance in The Snow Queen on Ice. There's hot cocoa, ski lessons, ice skating, sparkly bows, and glittering snow everywhere in sight. Best of all, they meet new friends with all kinds of fun holiday traditions of their own. JoJo, Miley, and Michelle have a blast learning about holidays around the world. But when a blizzard threatens to make their frosty fun a little too frosty and they find themselves snowbound, will JoJo and her friends make it home in time for the holidays?
 

Jingle Bows and Mistletoe (JoJo and BowBow Super Special)

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Jarrett Lerner

Slight bend in some pages, see photos. Arc

A group of silly superheroes—a bean, a chip, a tomato, and a wedge of cheddar cheese—come to the rescue of a hungry kid stuck at school in this first book in the silly and adventurous graphic novel chapter book series The Hunger Heroes! Meet the Hunger Heroes: Toots the Bean, Chip Ninja, Tammy the Tomato, and Leonard, a wedge of cheddar cheese, ready to save kids—even cranky, annoying ones—all over the world while flying around in their taco hovercraft! It’s a typical Monday when the Hunger Heroes get the call: a kid in Ms. Sternbladder’s class missed breakfast and isn’t allowed to have snacks! How will he pass his math test, study for spelling, or play soccer at recess if his stomach is growling out of control? Hunger Heroes to the rescue!

Missed Meal Mayhem

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Valerie Tripp

Full set 1-6 of Felicity and book 2 of Samantha. Inscription on inner cover of two books. Set from early to mid 90s. Unread expect the Samantha book. 

This keepsake boxed set features all six of Felicity's beautifully illustrated books, filled with her inspiring stories about growing up in 1774. The box opens up to reveal a fun-filled Felicity's Favorite Things board game! Girls will have fun earning points as they move around the board collecting cards that feature Felicity's favorite things. Board game and pieces tuck into storage pouch that folds-up with an elegant ribbon closure. Includes Meet Felicity; Felicity Learns a Lesson; Felicity's Surprise; Happy Birthday, Felicity!; Felicity Saves the Day; and Changes for Felicity.

Felicity Boxed Set 1-6 & Samantha book2

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Carley Fortune

A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After.

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in the city. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't.

At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's lakeside resort--something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin.

She needs a plan--a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is. 

But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?

Meet Me at the Lake

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Stephanie Turnbull

Zoe Wray

“Explores the solar system and beyond, providing information on the planets, stars, and scientific expeditions made by man in space.”

Sun, Moon and Stars

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Elizabeth Carney

“Explore the history of Ellis Island, one of the most recognized landmarks in American history. Kids will learn about its early history as a Mohegan island and rest spot for fishermen through its time as a famous immigration station to today's museum. The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.”

Explore the history of Ellis Island, one of the most recognized landmarks in American history. Kids will learn about its early history as a Mohegan island and rest spot for fishermen through its time as a famous immigration station to today's museum. The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.

National Geographic Readers: Ellis Island

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Mae Brown

“This board book with mirrors helps you see yourself in the ones you love.

My little loveable lion cub, won't you roar for me.

My beautiful, bashful birdies-let me hear you sing.

With a mirror on each spread, ADORABLE YOU! highlights different animal families throughout, allowing young readers to playfully become each young animal through the embedded mirror. 

Illustrated by Randy Cecil, ADORABLE YOU! is filled with gentle terms of endearment and ends with a loving twist on the mirror concept: 

Oh, my sleeping angel. I love you, yes, I do.
Oh, my precious little one, I see myself in you.”

Animals and their mothers interact in a book that includes a mirror on every page.

Adorable You!

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Mo Willems

See last photos: a couple small dings in back cover, two small marks on inner back cover 
Otherwise new condition. 

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In The Thank You Book!, Piggie wants to thank EVERYONE. But Gerald is worried Piggie will forget someone . . . someone important.

The Thank You Book (an Elephant and Piggie Book)

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Jane Yolen

How do dinosaurs learn to play?. They romp and stomp the friendly way!.

How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?

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Jennette McCurdy

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.

Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail--just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government, in a rerelease of the classic story. A Newbery Medal Book. Simultaneous.

A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

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A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * "A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center" (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.
 
"The reader comes to understand Molly's worldview, and to sympathize with her longing to be accepted--a quest that gives The Maid real emotional heft."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
 
"Think Clue. Think page-turner."--Glamour

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews

In development as a major motion picture produced by and starring Florence Pugh

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.

Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black--but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different--and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.

The Maid

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“Anthology of magical tales, that traces the meaning of magic of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice tail throughout history.”

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An Anthology of Magical Tales

A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales--in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers--have been told through the centuries from classical times to today. This collection brings together more than fifty sorcerer's apprentice stories by a plethora of writers, including Ovid, Sir Walter Scott, and the Brothers Grimm. In an extensive introduction, fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes discusses the significance of the apprentice stories, the contradictions in popular retellings, and the importance of magic as a tool of resistance against figures who abuse their authority. Twenty specially commissioned black-and-white illustrations by noted artist Natalie Frank bring the stories to visual life.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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BOTM Book of the year edition. Small tear on cover shown in photo. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal “A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

The Vanishing Half

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: the Reptile Room

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Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair.I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: the Wide Window

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Sarah Hannah felt the need to write her name on the book plate in front, and dogear one page.  Obviously, this child is not in our family as we know how to use bookmarks. 

Tie–in books for the feel–bad movie of the year!

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: the Bad Beginning

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #friendship #ya #missingpersons #growingup #mystery 

An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss—while Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past. Alive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin’s Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink.

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Emma Helbrough; Josephine Thompson

Dogs

Vin Vogel

The Thing About Yetis

Rob Justus

Death and Sparkles and the Sacred Golden Cupcake

Rob Justus

Death and Sparkles

Susan Cappadonia Love

Magic Under the Stars

Rosie Greening

If You Ever Meet a Groovicorn

JoJo Siwa

Jingle Bows and Mistletoe (JoJo and BowBow Super Special)

Jarrett Lerner

Missed Meal Mayhem

Valerie Tripp

Felicity Boxed Set 1-6 & Samantha book2

Carley Fortune

Meet Me at the Lake

Stephanie Turnbull; Zoe Wray

Sun, Moon and Stars

Elizabeth Carney

National Geographic Readers: Ellis Island

Mae Brown

Adorable You!

Mo Willems

The Thank You Book (an Elephant and Piggie Book)

Jane Yolen

How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?

Jennette McCurdy

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Nita Prose

The Maid

Jack Zipes (Editor)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist (Illustrator); Michael Kupperman (Illustrator)

A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: the Reptile Room

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist (Illustrator); Michael Kupperman (Illustrator)

A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: the Wide Window

Lemony Snicket; Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: the Bad Beginning

Julie Buntin

Marlena

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