David Giffels

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

To Understand America

In the tradition of J.D. Vance, Sarah Smarsh, and Amy Goldstein, BARNSTORMING OHIO is an on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, in light of its national significance as the state that has historically sided with the presidential election winner more than any other -- from award-winning lifelong Ohioan author and essayist David Giffels, dubbed by the New York Times as "the Bard of Akron." The question of America's identity has rarely been more urgent than now, and no American place has ever been more reliable in its illumination of that identity than Ohio. David Giffels, a lifelong resident of the "bellwether" state, has spent a quarter century writing and thinking about what it means to live in what he calls "an all-American buffet, an uncannily complete everyplace." With Cleveland as the end of the North, Cincinnati as the beginning of the South, Youngstown as the end of the East, and Hicksville (yes, Hicksville) as the beginning of the Midwest, Ohio offers important insight into the state of the nation. As a historic 2020 presidential election approaches, BARNSTORMING OHIO is Giffels' account of a year on Ohio's roads, visiting people and places that offer valuable reflections of the national questions and concerns, as well as astounding electoral clairvoyance -- since 1896, Ohio has accurately chosen the winner in 29 of 31 presidential elections, more than any other state. With lyricism and a native's keen eye, BARNSTORMING OHIO takes readers into the living room of a man whose life was upended just shy of retirement by General Motors' shutdown of its Lordstown assembly plant. It offers an exclusive view into the presidential campaign of Ohio Democratic hopeful Tim Ryan. It takes us into the sodden soybean fields of farmers struggling to outlast the dual punch of a protracted trade war and historic rainfall, and to an indie-rock music festival in Dayton a week after a mass shooting there. We enter an otherworld of long-dormant shopping malls as Amazon transforms them into vast new fulfillment centers. On the lighter side, Giffels makes a "beer run" into Ohio's booming craft brewing industry, and revisits the legend (and the bird-nest toupee) of Jim Traficant, a bigger-than-life Ohio politician whom many have called the "proto-Trump." In a year when Americans are seeking answers, BARNSTORMING OHIO offers rare and carefully nuanced access to the people who have always held them.

Barnstorming Ohio

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Michael D. Yates

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Business & Economics

An Economist's Travelogue

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight.
Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado.
Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate

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Sarah Kasbeer

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Sarah Kasbeer's vivid descriptions of growing up in Illinois recall the coming-of-age memoirs of Mary Karr, but written for the #MeToo era. As an adult living in New York during this clarifying cultural moment, she has no choice but to fully reckon with the aftermath of her own trauma. Artful and entertaining, this debut collection explores sexuality, desire, privilege, shame, and the ways we find to heal. "In A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN one woman picks up the pieces of a typical all-American girlhood: the abusive boyfriends, the sexual assaults, and the pervasive feelings of isolation and shame. I emerged from this collection oddly hopeful about the process of healing, especially if it can bring us a book like this."--Alice Bolin "Kasbeer is a born raconteur whose stories name some of the loneliest parts of growing up female and turn them joyful with insight and levity."--Melissa Febos "This book is a god damn treasure; it is a dagger and an emancipation, a slice and a stitch, as devastating as it is darkly funny."--Mira Ptacin "An astonishing collection not for the faint of heart. Kasbeer speaks the unspoken and dares to be vulnerable in a world of facades."--Chloe Caldwell "A book every woman will relate to and every man should understand."--Tyrese Coleman

A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man

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Alan Alexander Milne

Whimsical nonsense verses that have enchanted 3 generations. Also use: Now We Are Six (1988).

When We Were Very Young

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Annie Jones

"Love Inspired inspirational romance"--Spine.

Home to Stay

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A Handful of Heaven

Don Piper

Cecil Murphey

A True Story of Death and Life

90 Minutes in Heaven

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Ben Macintyre

John Le Carré

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow. 150,000 first printing.

A Spy among Friends

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Dan Emmett

A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President

A rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who provided protection worldwide for President George H. W. Bush, President William Clinton, and President George W. Bush

Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent--one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary.

Within Arm's Length is a revealing and compelling inside look at the Secret Service and the elite Presidential Protective Division (PPD). With stories from some of the author's more high-profile assignments in his twenty-one years of service, where he provided arm's length protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush, both as a member of the PPD and the Counter Assault Team, Dan Emmett describes the professional, physical and emotional challengesfaced by Secret Service agents. Included are never before discussed topics such as the complicated relationship between presidents, first ladies and their agents, the inner workings of Secret Service protective operations as well as the seldom-mentioned challenges of the complex Secret Service cultural issues faced by an agent's family.Within Arm's Length also shares firsthand details about conducting presidential advances, dealing with the media, driving the President in a bullet-proof limousine, running alongside him through the streets of Washington, and flying with him on Air Force One.

Within Arm's Length is the essential book on the United States Secret Service. This revealing and compelling inside look at the Presidential Protective Division, along with spellbinding stories from the author's career, gives the reader an unprecedented look in to the life and career of an agent in America's most elite law enforcement agency.

Within Arm's Length

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S. J. Watson

A Novel

In this mind-blowing psychological thriller SJ Watson, the internationally bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, explores themes of memory and identity as a young documentary filmmaker travels to a quiet fishing village to shoot a new film, only to encounter a dark mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl. For generations Blackwood Bay, a quaint village in northern England, has been famous only for the smuggling that occurred along its coastline centuries ago, but then two local girls disappear bringing the town a fresh and dark notoriety. When Alex, an ambitious documentary filmmaker, arrives in Blackwood Bay, she intends to have the residents record their own stories as her next project. But instead of a quaint community, Alex finds a village blighted by economic downturn and haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner. Alex pushes on with her work, but secrets old and new rise to the surface, raising tensions and suspicions in a town already on edge. Alex's work takes her to dark places and uncomfortable truths which threaten to lead to a deadly unravelling.

Final Cut

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Charis Michaels

USA Today bestselling author Charis Michaels enchants with her Awakened by a Kiss series, taking our favorite fairy tales' forgotten characters and making them the hero of their own story. An heiress with a plan... Lady Helena Lark has spent years trying to escape her wedding to the vain and boring Duke of Lusk. She's evaded, refused, even run away. When her family's patience runs out, they pack her off to London to walk down the aisle. But Helena has another idea: find a more suitable bride to take her place, even if she must look for a replacement duchess every day. A bodyguard with a job to do... Declan Shaw, better known as "The Huntsman," is a mercenary who can pick and choose his clientele. After his last job, escorting a young noblewoman to France, landed him in jail under false accusations, he wants nothing to do with aristocrats or women. But the law isn't done with him, and if he agrees to babysit a duke's errant fiancé, the payout could make his legal troubles go away. A most unexpected alliance... When their worlds collide, Declan realizes that containing his new client is only slightly harder than keeping his hands off her. Helena senses an ally in her handsome new bodyguard and solicits his help. Together they must escape the forces that oppose them and fight for the fairy-tale love they desire.

A Duchess a Day

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Junie B., First Grader Boss of Lunch

Junie B., First Grader Toothless Wonder

Barbara Park

When her father will not let her stay up late to do her homework, first grader Junie B. copies a classmate's paper.

Junie B., First Grader - One-Man Band

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Junie B., First Grader (At Last!)

Mike Thaler

It's spring and Hubie's class is having a dance. Everyone has to go and everyone has to dance--with girls--but Hubie has two left feet and all the wrong moves. Plus his dance teacher is the size of a football player. Will Hubie sweep his partner off her feet, or will he end up flat on his face?

The Spring Dance from the Black Lagoon

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Bob Erickson

Deer Stands and Stories

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Yitta H. Halbertstam

Judith Leventhal

Bernie S. Siegel

Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life

Shares a collection of seemingly random events that took on meaningful significance in people's lives, accompanied by thoughts on moral lessons, divine messages, and blessings that transcend daily life

Small Miracles

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David DUNCAN

During a day with bright blue skies and a few big puffy white clouds, a young boy spots a man in an all yellow suit walking down the sidewalk enjoying a huge slice of pie with his bare hands. The boy's curiosity sparks a fun back and forth conversation between the two. The boy looks on in shock as the man describes his unique and peculiar eating habits. Fellow in Yellow is a great book for young children and early readers. The book has rhyming throughout, lot of silliness, and vivid illustrations that capture the story perfectly!

Fellow in Yellow

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Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Nancy Mitchell Autio

Patty Aubery

Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Like the original Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul, this second volume celebrates wholesome, traditional values and principles. Themes of forgiveness, faith, hope, charity and love will lift readers' spirits and warm their hearts. The stories in this collection will deepen readers' faith and expand their awareness of how to practice Christian values in their daily lives--at home, at work and in the community.

This book will remind readers of the miracles they can discover when they welcome Christ into their everyday lives. Powerful stories will deepen readers' compassion for others, inspire them to greater acts of charity, lead them to forgive others and themselves, encourage them to stand up for what they believe in, and, most of all, remind them that they are never alone or without hope--no matter how challenging and painful their circumstances may seem.

Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul

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Peaceful Homes: A Basic Human Right

Beyond the Mirror

Wayne Gignac

Laura Gignac

Rick Segel

Margie Segel

Celebrating the Humor in Life's Uncomfortable Situations

Awkward Moments...in Everyday Life

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Savory Creations, Volume II

Hundreds of Divine Recipes to Take You to Cookie Paradise

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