Jennifer Teege

Nikola Sellmair

Carolin Sommer

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as "unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) and "a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity" (Booklist).



At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf--and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List. Reviled as the "butcher of P?aszów," Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her grandfather had met her--a black woman--he would have killed her.

 

Teege's discovery sends her into a severe depression--and fills her with questions: Why did her birth mother withhold this chilling secret? How could her grandmother have loved a mass murderer? Can evil be inherited?

 

Teege's story is cowritten by Nikola Sellmair, who also adds historical context and insight from Teege's family and friends, in an interwoven narrative. Ultimately, Teege's search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

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Marneta Viegas

Little Book of Stars

Relax Kids

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Family Favorites

Colleen Coble

Page-turning romantic suspense set amid the gorgeous beauty of Hawaii and the impending danger of a volcano. 

A brainy--and perpetually single--volcanologist, Annie Tagama works alongside her father at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. But despite her pedigree, Annie has lost her passion or volcanology. She's quietly grieving the mysterious loss of her brother in the Middle East.

When Annie discovers that her brother might still be alive--and in trouble--she shakes off her malaise and joins forces with Mano Oana, the unnervingly handsome family friend she had always blamed for her brother's death.

As Annie and Mano investigate--and find that they have a lot more in common than tragedy--an evil force gathers strength on the main island. An ancient cult has reemerged--and Annie's little sister is somehow involved. As the old religion bubbles to the surface like lava, the old practices are not far behind . . . including human sacrifice.

Annie and Mano are desperate to find her brother and save her family from destruction before the ancient evil smothers them all in an earth-shattering eruption.

This full-length romantic suspense can be read as a standalone, but is also part of the Aloha Reef Series.

 * Book one: Distant Echoes
 * Book two: Black Sands
 * Book three: Dangerous Depths
 * Book four: Midnight Sea

Includes discussion questions.

"Wow! Reading Colleen Coble's Black Sands is like taking a romantic excursion to Hawaii's rugged shoreline. Coble brings the setting to life, draws engaging characters, and spins an intricate web of intrigue." --Denise Hunter, author of The Convenient Groom and Summer by the Tides 

"Filled with the spirit of aloha and page-turning twists and turns, Black Sands is romantic suspense at its thrilling finest. A can't-put-down read!" --Linda Windsor, award-winning author of Paper Moon 

"No one take you to a setting like Colleen Coble, and what better place to be than the Black Sands of Hawaii Reading the book was like a cool dip in the balmy ocean--under the lurking shadow of a volcano in shark-infested waters. Enjoy, but beware!" --Kristin Billerbeck, author of The Theory of Happily Ever After

Black Sands

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Robert D. Kaplan

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

The Coming Anarchy

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Linda Brown Carlson

Book One

The Journey of the Jade Ring

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Hal Harvey

Justin Gillis

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet

An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action.

Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board committed to electric school buses. Mothers in Colorado turned up in front of an obscure state panel to fight for clean air. If you think the only thing you can do to combat climate change is to install a smart thermostat or cook plant-based burgers, you're thinking too small.

That's where The Big Fix comes in, offering everyday citizens a guide to the seven essential changes our communities must enact to bring our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero--and sharing stories of people who are making those changes reality.

Energy policy advisor Hal Harvey and longtime New York Times reporter Justin Gillis hone in on the seven areas where ambitious but eminently practical changes will have the greatest effect: electricity production, transportation, buildings, industry, urbanization, use of land, and investment in promising new green technologies. In a lively, jargon-free style, the pair illuminate how our political economy really works, revealing who decides everything from what kind of power plants to build to how efficient cars must be before they're allowed on the road to how much insulation a new house requires--and how we can insert ourselves into all these decisions to ensure that the most climate-conscious choices are being made.

At once pragmatic and inspiring, The Big Fix is an indispensable action plan for citizens looking to drive our country's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero--and save our climate.

The Big Fix

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A socioeconomic viewpoint from a street survivor, in the San Francisco North Bay, where the greatest amount of disparity between economic classes exists in America. Struggling to survive without shelter, we chronicle the continuing journey through homelessness. The issue is taken to the political level and the experience becomes written works as Fast Eddie still searches for mercy and home.

Directions to Mercy Street

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Rob Lacey

the word on the street is far from a dry read. It brings the word of God to life for those who have never read any version of the Bible before and provides fresh insight for those who have read it a thousand times. --Mike Pilavachi, Soul Survivor Here is Rob Lacy communicating the truth of God to a world that desperately needs to hear, but finds it so hard to understand. --Rob Parsons, Care for the Family Rob Lacey is a man of many languages. He has mastered the language of the stage and is fluent in the language of the street. But most of all, he speaks the language of the heart. --Gerard Kelly, Cafe.net The Bible with street creed: Lacey has a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude to the Bible and a wry sense of humour. --Publishing News Very different It makes the Bible as easy to read as a tabloid newspaper. It's great fun if you know the Bible fairly well. But it's also, of course, aimed at people who've never ever opened it. And maybe we do underestimate just how difficult that is if you don't know where to start. I could read it all morning, actually as never before in this 75-minute performance based on the award-winning book the word on the street. It's the bible as performance art, inspired by the critically acclaimed live show featuring actor Rob Lacey and musicians Bill and Rachel Taylor-Belaes. Rob helped me discover angry and sad voices in passages of the Bible that had left me indifferent, and he made me laugh at other passages so familiar that I had never seen the healthy irreverence, humor and irony they expressed. --Dr. David Trobisch, Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Bangor Theological Seminary For those who've never read the Bible, and for those who've read it too much. Rob Lacey's dangerously real retelling of Scripture vividly demonstrates that the Bible is packed full of stories/poems/images that resonate with the big issues of today. This fresh paraphrase with running commentary brings the text alive: Bible stories are retold as mini-blockbusters; psalms as song lyrics; epistles as emails; Revelation as a virtual reality. language--gritty, earthy, witty. Enough of starting at Genesis with good intentions but getting lost in Leviticus. Lacey succeeds in revitalizing a classic work by focusing on the big picture: fast-forwards through the slow-moving bits with pace, passion and energy to make the Bible a page-turner again. What's more, Lacey's award-winning* tour de force was created during a remarkable personal journey through terminal cancer: the stuff the Bible stories are made of. This life-experience injects Lacey's take on Scripture with authenticity and authority--resonating with Bible characters who also wrestled with the big questions. Purist alert: This is not THE Bible (capital B) ...but it might just get you reaching for one. *Book of the year (2004), Christian Booksellers Convention Ltd. (UK)

The Word on the Street

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Joy D. Osofsky

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

Today's children are bombarded with images of violence in cartoons, news reports, television shows, computer games, movies, and other media. In growing numbers, they are also exposed to real-life violence in their own homes and communities--as witnesses, victims, and, increasingly, perpetrators. Emphasizing the need for early intervention and prevention, this timely book details the incidence and scope of the violence epidemic and examines the developmental impact of violence on children. Contributors describe several exemplary prevention and intervention programs currently in place around the country and propose a range of educational and policy initiatives.


Children in a Violent Society

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Cintra Wilson

Unbuckling American Fashion

Former New York Times columnist Cintra Wilson treks around America todecode the deeper meanings of this country’s regional fashion statements. Cintra Wilson takes her celebrated eye for style on the road, traveling around the “belt regions” of the United States: the Cotton, Rust, Bible, Sun, Frost, Corn, and Gun Belts. She tackles the fashion choices of scantily clad clubgoers on South Beach, unpacks the altogether impractical clothing choices at the Sundance Festival in Utah, and digs beneath the sartorial armor of politicians and their wives in Washington, DC. In this smart and rollicking book, Wilson illustrates how every closet is a declaration of the owner’s politics, sexuality, class, education, hopes, and dreams. She also documents her own personal fashion journey, tracing her coming-of-age in San Francisco’s punk scene to her unlikely appointment to the New York Times Style section. With her signature wit and utterly irreverent humor, Wilson proves that, by donning our daily costume, we create our future selves, for good or ill. Indeed: your fate hangs in your closet. Dress wisely.

Fear and Clothing

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Neale Donald Walsch

Sherr Robertson

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Essential Truths from the Beloved Conversations with God Trilogy

New York Times bestselling author, Neale Donald Walsch, presents wisdom from his celebrated Conversations with God trilogy and companion works. With gorgeous, original photography depicting nature’s grandeur throughout, coupled with choice selections from Walsch’s celebrated body of work, this beautiful, full-color book will please the senses while the timeless spiritual guidance will delight and inspire the mind. For the avid follower of Conversations with God or as an introduction to Neale’s work, this volume will serve the reader as the perfect medium for joining in on this uncommon dialogue between the mortal and the divine.

The Wisdom of the Universe

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L. C. Shaw

A Novel

A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media. “This is mandatory reading for any thriller aficionado.”—Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author A shadowy group is manipulating society—and they’ve only just begun. Late one night, investigative journalist Jack Logan receives a surprise visit from U.S. Senator Malcolm Phillips at his New York apartment. Disheveled and in a panic, the senator swears that he’s about to be murdered and pleads with Jack to protect his wife Taylor, who happens to be the only woman Jack has ever truly loved. Days later, Phillips is found dead in a hotel room in Micronesia, the apparent victim of an allergy attack. While the nation mourns, Jack and Taylor race to find the one man who knows the truth. As they’re pursued by unknown assailants, their desperate hunt leads them to the Institute, an immense facility shrouded in mystery that has indoctrinated a generation of America’s political and media power players. Led by the enigmatic Damon Crosse, the Institute has its tentacles everywhere—but Taylor unknowingly holds the secret to the one thing that Crosse needs to carry out his plan. Taking readers on a thrill ride from the back halls of Congress to the high-rise offices of Madison Avenue and a remote Greek island, The Institute is a provocative, pulse-pounding novel that dares to ask the question: who’s really in charge?

The Network

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Erik Wahl

Rediscover Your Creative Genius

Shares advice on how to rise above daily routines to apply creativity in all aspects of life, building on a perspective that art is reflected by the effects of one's ideas and can inspire both personal and professional goals.

Unthink

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Julia VanTine

Think Faster, Remember More, and Stay Sharper by Lowering Your Brain Age

Ageless Brain

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Douglas Gibson

One day, Isaac Thompson is just your average fifth grader playing the part of a porcupine in the school play. The next, he has strayed into a mysterious subterranean realm that has been lurking beneath his school Ñ Castle Elementary Ñ and launches his quest to knighthood. When Isaac's little sister Lily goes missing from their school's creepy basement, he and his best friends Max and Emma set out in search of her. Their search takes them to the Underground, where they encounter an army of spear-wielding rats, a talking human-sized bat, and a thumb-nosed prison guard. But humans who stay in the Underground too long transform into weird, unpleasant creatures and are forced to work for the horrible Elf King. Can Isaac and his crew escape the Underground before it's too late for them to ever return home?

Tales of a Fifth-Grade Knight

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Jane Green

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her as an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to take in boarders, a change that brings an unexpected visitor.

The Beach House

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Melody Wiklund

A Wound Like Lapis Lazuli

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Hyeonseo Lee

David John

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships and the story of one woman s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told the best on the planet ? Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family. She could not return, since rumours of her escape were spreading, and she and her family could incur the punishments of the government authorities involving imprisonment, torture, and possible public execution. Hyeonseo instead remained in China and rapidly learned Chinese in an effort to adapt and survive. Twelve years and two lifetimes later, she would return to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea, on one of the most arduous, costly and dangerous journeys imaginable. This is the unique story not only of Hyeonseo s escape from the darkness into the light, but also of her coming of age, education and the resolve she found to rebuild her life not once, but twice first in China, then in South Korea. Strong, brave and eloquent, this memoir is a triumph of her remarkable spirit."

The Girl with Seven Names

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Susan Rosenberg

A Political Prisoner in My Own Country

In this thought-provoking memoir, the author, a radical and political prisoner, recounts her journey from the impassioned idealism of the 1960s to her imprisonment where she suffered dehumanizing treatment combined with rare moments of grace and solidarity. Original.

An American Radical

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Tara Nolan

Change Where Your Money Lives, Change How Your Financial World Grows

Money Moves is for pre-retirees and retirees who want to achieve and retain the lifestyle you want but are struggling with competing financial priorities and time limitations. And, you may not realize you are also really dealing with procrastination and uncertainty and feel like you don't have enough money. No matter how much money you have, changing where your money lives can change how your financial world grows. By the end of this book, you will know how to plug the holes in your retirement plan and create a financial team to help you.

Money Moves

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Michael Eric Dyson

The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye

The best-selling Motown artist of all time, Marvin Gaye defined the hopes and shattered dreams of an entire generation. Twenty years after his tragic death-he was shot by his father-his relevance persists because of the indelible mark his outsized talent left on American culture. A transcendent performer whose career spanned the history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to the sultriest of soul music, Gaye's artistic scope and emotional range set the soundtrack for America's tumultuous coming of age in the 1970s. Michael Eric Dyson's searching narrative illuminates Marvin Gaye's stellar ascendance-from a black church in Washington, D.C., to the artistic peak of What's Going On?-and charts his sobering personal decline. Dyson draws from interviews with those closest to Gaye to paint an intimate portrait of the tensions and themes that shaped contemporary urban America: racism, drug abuse, economic adversity, and the long legacy of hardship. Gaye's stormy relationships with women, including duet partner Tammi Terrell and wives Anna Gordy and Janis Hunter, are examined in light of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Dyson also considers family violence in the larger context of the African-American life and how that heartbreaking legacy resulted in Gaye's murder. Mercy, Mercy, Me is an unforgettable portrait of a beloved black genius whose art is reflected in the dynamism of contemporary urban America.

Mercy, Mercy Me

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Robin Fogarty

A Collection

Noting that the recent call for holistic models of schooling dictates a thorough investigation of more natural groupings of students, this collection of articles reviews available literature on multiage, nongraded, continuous progress classrooms. Divided into six sections, the chapters explore the overriding concerns and the pros and cons of such instruction, delineate the procedures and practices associated with multiage instruction, illustrate actual classroom practice, and examine issues of evaluation and accountability in such classrooms. The chapters are: (1) "The First 30 Years Were the Fairest" (Connell), tracing the history of schooling from Sputnik to the late 1980s; (2) "The Dual-Age Classroom: Questions and Answers" (Woelfel); (3) "The Return of the Nongraded Classroom" (Anderson); (4) "The Pros and Cons of Mixed-Age Grouping (Lodish); (5) "On the Merits of Multiage Classrooms" (Pratt); (6) "A Study of Multi-Age or Family-Grouped Classrooms" (Milburn); (7) "The Benefits of Nongraded Schools" (Pavan); (8) "The Nongraded Elementary School: Great Potential, but Keep It Simple" (Slavin); (9) "Nongradedness: Not Simply a Grouping Scheme" (Pavan); (10) "A Look at Multi-Age Classrooms" (Cohen); (11) "Grouping Students and Helpful Suggestions for Combination Classrooms" (DelForge and others); (12) "The Nongraded Classroom in Practice" (Gaustad); (13) "Teaching and Learning in the Multigrade Classroom: Student Performance and Instructional Routines" (Miller); (14) "High Expectations for Multi-Age Classrooms," a reprint of five papers by Anderson, Fogarty, Rae, Chapman and Schrenko, and Schrenko; (15) "A K/1 Class Can Work--Wonderfully!" (Nachbar); (16) "A Nongraded, Multi-Aged Program That Works" (Oberlander); (17) "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Combination Class" (Freeman); (18) "The Integrated Technology Classroom: An Experiment in Restructuring Elementary School Instruction" (Held and others); (19) "Student Achievement in Multigrade and Single Grade Classes" (Brown and Martin); (20) "The Consensus Classroom" (Sartor), on student decision making in the classroom; (21) "Kidwatching: Observing Children in the Classroom" (Goodman); (22) "What Is a Portfolio?" (Burke); and (27) "How Do We Know We're Getting Better?" (Jeroski and Brownlie). (HTH)

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