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The Unofficial Harry Potter Spell Book - Special Edition

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Natalia Sylvester

When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero--while the whole country is watching. In this authentic, humorous, and gorgeously written debut novel about privacy, waking up, and speaking up, Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter's vote, but a presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny to sheltered fifteen-year-old Mariana and the rest of her Cuban American family, from a60 Minutes-style tour of their house to tabloids doctoring photos and inventing scandals. As tensions rise within the Ruiz family, Mari begins to learn about the details of her father's political positions, and she realizes that her father is not the man she thought he was. But how do you find your voice when everyone's watching? When it means disagreeing with your father--publicly? What do you do when your dad stops being your hero? Will Mari get a chance to confront her father? If she does, will she have the courage to seize it?

Running

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Alexandria Bellefleur

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

In her debut with nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary until New Year's Eve--with results not even the stars could predict! After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love--and the inevitable heartbreak--is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn't expect her lie to bite her in the ass. Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account, Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy's brother--and Elle's new business partner--expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because... awkward. When Darcy begs Elle to play along, she agrees to pretend they're dating to save face. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family over the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year's Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a fake relationship. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?

Written in the Stars

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Will Allen

Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur Genius Award-Winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed- and heal- communities.

The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, he cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot just outside Milwaukee's largest public housing project. The area was a food desert with only convenience stores and fast-food restaurants to serve the needs of locals.

Despite financial challenges and daunting odds, Allen built the country's preeminent urban farm-a food and educational center that now produces enough produce and fish year-round to feed thousands. Employing young people from the neighboring housing project and community, Growing Power shows how local food systems can help troubled youths, dismantle racism, create jobs, bring urban and rural communities closer together, and improve public health. Today, Allen's organization helps develop community food systems across the country.

An eco-classic in the making, The Good Food Revolution is the story of Will's personal journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots movement that is changing the way our nation eats.

The Good Food Revolution

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

World Languages

Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary

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Rick Riordan

If you haven't yet read the Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan's action-adventure trilogy based on Ancient Egyptian mythology, don't miss this paperback edition with new cover art and a Percy Jackson-Kane Chronicles crossover story, "The Crown of Ptolemy." When young magicians Carter and Sadie Kane learned how to follow the path of the Ancient Egyptian gods, they knew they would have to play an important role in restoring Ma'at--order--to the world. What they didn't know is how chaotic the world would become. The Chaos snake Apophis is loose and threatening to destroy the earth in three days' time. The magicians are divided. The gods are disappearing, and those who remain are weak. Walt, one of Carter and Sadie's most gifted initiates, is doomed and can already feel his life force ebbing. Zia is too busy babysitting the senile sun god, Ra, to be of much help. What are a couple of teenagers and a handful of young trainees to do? There is possibly one way to stop Apophis, but it is so difficult that it might cost Carter and Sadie their lives, if it even works at all. It involves trusting the ghost of a psychopathic magician not to betray them, or worse, kill them. They'd have to be crazy to try it. Well, call them crazy. With hilarious asides, memorable monsters, and an ever-changing crew of friends and foes, the excitement never lets up in The Serpent's Shadow, a thoroughly entertaining and satisfying conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.

Kane Chronicles, the Book Three the Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles, the Book Three)

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 9: Long Haul

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Jake Black

Perfect for the fan who can't get enough Gumball!

This hilarious yearbook mimics an actual junior high yearbook featuring information on students, clubs, sports, etc., as well as plenty of handwritten comments by Gumball and friends! It also includes pages for readers to fill in with their own school stories and memories.

The Official Elmore Junior High School Yearbook

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Gravity Falls: Lost Legends

Hiromi Kawakami

Allison Markin Powell

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, thirty–eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old–fashioned romance.

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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The Unofficial Harry Potter Spell Book - Special Edition

Natalia Sylvester

Running

Alexandria Bellefleur

Written in the Stars

Will Allen

The Good Food Revolution

Oxford University

Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary

Rick Riordan

Kane Chronicles, the Book Three the Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles, the Book Three)

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 9: Long Haul

Jake Black

The Official Elmore Junior High School Yearbook

Alex Hirsch

Gravity Falls: Lost Legends

Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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The Unofficial Harry Potter Spell Book - Special Edition

Natalia Sylvester

Running

Alexandria Bellefleur

Written in the Stars

Will Allen

The Good Food Revolution

Oxford University

Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary

Rick Riordan

Kane Chronicles, the Book Three the Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles, the Book Three)

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 9: Long Haul

Jake Black

The Official Elmore Junior High School Yearbook

Alex Hirsch

Gravity Falls: Lost Legends

Hiromi Kawakami; Allison Markin Powell

Strange Weather in Tokyo

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