From her childhood in Oklahoma working cattle with her ranching family to her days on the rodeo competition circuit, from her early days as a performer in honky-Toni’s to her many awards and a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall, Reba relates her experiences with heartfelt emotion and down-to-earth humor. With the same warmth and generous spirit that infuses her music, she introduces us to the most important people in her life: the family and friends who sustain her and the musicians and producers who have inspired her and helped her realize her artistic vision.  With great poignancy, she also recounts marriage and the plane crash that took the lives of eight of her band members; and the highest, her remarriage and the birth of her son Shelby.  Her story is not only a chronicle of a remarkable life but a vivid testament to unshakable determination and faith in God. 

Featuring 48 pages of photos, including many never-before-seen family snapshots, Reba: My Story is an intimate portrait of one of today’s most beloved and successful entertainers. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Reba My Story

Dan Brown

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - The Illuminati.  Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra.  Together the embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth …. The long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Angels and Demons

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By purchasing this book you are electing to join a secret underground movement.  

Membership will require you to conduct research on your immediate environment and complete a variety of assignments designed to creatively disrupt everyday life.  If you are interested, please proceed to the checkout.  All else will be revealed in time. 

NOTE: If you need to know more before you commit, please turn to the first page and complete the questionnaire. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Wander Society

Jerry Spinelli

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

For use in schools and libraries only. Even though his classmates from first-grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.

Loser

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You’ve never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson.  While her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch.  She collects trouble words in her diary. Her best friend is a plant. And she’s never know her mother, who left when Sarah was two.

Since then, Sarah and her dad have moved from one small Texas town to another, and not one has felt like home.

Everything changes when Sarah launches an investigation into her family’s Big Secret.  She makes unexpected new friends and has her first real crush, and instead of a “typical boring Sarah Nelson summer,” this one might just turn out to be extraordinary.

Karen Harrington effortlessly blends heartbreak and hilarity in this pitch-perfect story about the adventure of growing up. 

Sure Signs of Crazy

Harper is an aspiring poet, which isn’t surprising seeing how she’s named after her mama’s favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now.  Daddy up and walked out, leaving them with too many bills and too little money. Then Harper’s family gets evicted and has to move into the Knotty Pine Deluxe Motor Hotel, which is not nearly as nice as it sounds. 

With Mama scrambling to make ends meet, Harper has to stay home from school to take care of her little brother, Hemingway.  Their whole world has been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle - if it wasn’t for the poetry contest at school.  More than anything, she wants to get up on that stage and read her poems out loud….

Also Known As Harper

Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecraft Academy.  But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end.  Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengence against women who once humiliated him …..and Jean is his final intended victim.  

Nighttime Is My Time

Mary Higgins Clark

When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connecticut from a black-tie dinner in New York, their three-year-old twins, Kathy and Kelly, are gone. The police found the babysitter unconscious, and a ransom note from the “Pied Piper” demands eight million dollars. Steve’s global investment firm puts up the money, but when they go to retrieve the twins, only Kelly is in the car. The dead driver’s suicide note says he inadvertently killed Kathy. 

At the memorial, Kelly tugs Margaret’s arm and says: “Mommy, Kathy is very scared of that lady. She wants to come right now.” At first, only Margaret believes that the twins are communicating and that Kathy is still alive. But as Kelly’s warnings become increasingly specific and alarming, FBI agents set out on a desperate search. 

A Novel

Traumatized by the kidnappings of her twin three-year-old girls, only one of whom was recovered, a mother begins a desperate search when her returned daughter claims that the other twin, believed dead, is still alive and in mortal danger. Reprint.

Two Little Girls in Blue

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Micol Ostow

CITIZENS!
Are you ….

Fed up with being the perfect, polished
First Daughter of the mayor?

Sick of photo shoots and inauguration balls and the press monitoring your Facebook page?

Annoyed at your gorgeous, smug boyfriend who’s been student council president every year? 

Suddenly passionate about a cause involving you high school, and not the latest brand of lip glosss?

Erin Bright is!  That’s why she’s running for student council president, and finally standing up for what she believes 

Erin Bright is pretty, polished, and popular--the perfect First Daughter. Her father is the mayor of their small town, so photo shoots and fancy inauguration balls are a part of her life (so, unfortunately, is the fact that the press stalks her Facebook page). In high school, Erin is politically involved as well; her gorgeous, charming boyfriend has been student council president for the past two years. But this election season, things are about to change. When Erin suddenly gets passionate about an environmental cause, she decides to run against her boyfriend...and to challenge everything her dad stands for! It's an all-out political war, where popularity may not be what it seems, and Erin could lose her boyfriend and all her friends. But she might just be up for the challenge...

Popular Vote

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Jay Asher

You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past. 
The only way to learn the secret …. Is to press play.

Clay Jensen doesn’t want anything to do with the tapes Hannah Baker made.  Hannah is dead.  Her secrets should be buried with her.  

Then Hannah’s voice tells Clay that his name is on her tapes - and that he is, in some way, responsible for her death. 
All through the night, Clay keeps listening.  He follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his small town ….

and what he discovers changes his life forever.  

Thirteen Reasons Why

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickenson’s poetry defies categorization because she broke with traditional verse techniques.  She was dating and innovative in form, meter, subject matter and imagery.  Dickinson created her own individual and visionary brand of poetry that expressed her wide-ranging intellectual and emotional interests. 

This collection contains selections from her three original volumes of poetry, as well as The Single Hound, a subsequent collection published in 1914. 

Emily Dickinson, the "Belle of Amherst, " stayed close to home, finding inspiration in the small world around her. Often writing more than a poem a day-although few were published during her lifetime-she perfected a highly personal, condensed and still very modern style. Among the most famous, included here, are: "Success is Counted Sweetest, " "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed, " and "This Is My Letter to the World."

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Joshua Harris

Tired of the game? Kiss dating Goodbye. 

Going out? Been dumped? Waiting for a call that doesn’t come?  Have you tasted pain in dating, drifted through one romance or, possibly, several of them?

Ever wondered, Isn’t there a better way?

I Kissed Dating Goodbye shows what it means to entrust your love live to God. Joshua Harris shares his story of giving up dating and discovering that God has something even better - a life of sincere love, true purity, and purposeful singleness.  

A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

Dating. Isn't there a better way? Reorder your romantic life in the light of God's word and find more fulfillment than the dating game could ever give - a life of purposeful singleness.

I Kissed Dating Goodbye

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Jeff Ruetsche

What do Dick Tracey, Mother Jones, and Ronald Reagan have in common?  They all made the pages of Illinois history. McDonald’s, Michael Jordan, and Mary Todd Lincoln?  They’re here as well.  This Day in Illinois History offers a bite-sized, day-by-day sampler of significant events in the history of the 21st state.  
Open This Day in Illinois History to any date throughout the year and you’ll discover a wealth of events and individuals that together add unique color to the mosaic of Illinois history. There’s a great train robbery in Lake County, a Jazz genius from East St. Louis, a Joliet-born queen of film noir, and an underemployed astronomer who, in the midst of the Great Depression, built the nation’s most advanced radio telescope in his Wheaton backyard. 
This Day in Illinois History is a perfect resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in learning more about the fascinating fast of the 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This Day in Illinois History is a day-by-day survey of the people and events that shaped the state. The browsable format encourages readers to flip to any day to find fun facts and anecdotes: October 14, 1906 -- The White Sox defeated the Cubs in the sixth and deciding game of the World Series. It was the first and only all-Chicago World Series, and the Chicago White Sox shocked the baseball world, and their cross-town rivals, with a game-six upset. November 2, 1948 -- The Chicago Daily Tribune published the most famous error in newspaper headline history, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." Staffers were sent out early that morning to gather up the recalled edition of the newspaper, but it was too late, and the embarrassing headline became a part of Illinois history. May 17, 1673 -- Marquette and Jolliet launched the earliest recorded voyage of Europeans into Illinois. With just the right mix of sports, trivia, quirky anecdotes, and great historical events, This Day in Illinois History is a fun way to learn about this fascinating state.

This Day in Illinois History

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Timmy Gleason wants to spend time with his dad.  Ray Gleason wants to steal some valuable coins. Timmy knows stealing is wrong and he has a plan to stop Ray from going to jail. His plan includes lots of quality time for the two of them. It definitely does not include his dad’s dorky partners in crime, Bobbie me Carl.  Timmy is only eleven years old. Ray, Bobbie, and Carl think they can out-smart him.  Big mistake. 

Includes eight pages of color pages from the movie. 

Getting Even With Dad

Cathy East Dubowski

The Junior High School Science and Nature Club is sponsoring a weekend camping trip as their end-of-year project.  Alex needs the extra credit in science. What she doesn’t need are the chaperones- her parents!  And just to make the trip a complete disaster, Vince and Dave are loose in the woods, dead-set on nailing the GC-161 kid. 
With the help of her friends, Alex actually has some fun and gets a little closer to Scott. This trip is looking up …. until Kelly leads them off the trail and straight into Vince and Dave’s trap!  Now Alex has to find a way out of the woods … and out of danger!

Alex is off on a weekend camping trip with the Junior High School Science and Nature Club but when they get lost and fall into Vince and Dave's trap Alex has to find a way out of the woods and out of danger.

Take a Hike!

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New secrets, old flames, and hidden agendas are about to send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most outrageous adventure yet!

Mistake #1
Dickie Orr
Stephanie was married to him for about fifteen minutes before she caught him cheating on her with her archnemesis, Joyce Bernhardt.  Another fifteen,inures after that, Stephanie filed for divorce, hoping never to see either of them again. 

Mistake #2
Doing favors for super bounty hunter Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger)
Ranger needs Stephanie to meet with Dickie and find out if he’s doing something shady. Turns out, he is.  Turns out, Dickie’s also back to doing Joyce Bernhardt.  And it turns out Ranger’s favors always come with a price…..

Mistake #3
Going completely nuts while doing the favor for Ranger, and trying to apply bodily injury to Dickie in front of the entire office. 
Now Dickie has disappeared, and Stephanie is the natural suspect in his disappearance.  Is Dickie dead? Can he be found? And can Stephanie Plum stay one step ahead in this new, dangerous game?Joe Morelli, the hottest scoping Trenton, New Jersey, is also keeping Stephanie on her toes —— and he may know more than he’s saying about many things in Stephanie’s life. It’s a cat-and-mouse game for Stephanie Plum wherein the ultimate prize might be her life 

With Janet Evanovich’s flair for hilarious situations, breathtaking action, and unforgettable characters, Lean Mean Thirteen shows why no one can beat Evanovich for blockbuster entertainment. 

Lean Mean Thirteen

Sarah Churchwell

“May one offer in exhibit the year 1922!” exclaimed F. Scott Fitzgerald. “That was the peak of the younger generation, for though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less an affair of youth.”  A hinge point for the carefree America born out of the devastation of the First World War, 1922 was also a year that altered the direction of Fitzgerald’s own life - and the year in which he chose to set his masterwork, The Great Gatsby. 
The autumn of 1922 found the young novelist at the height of his fame, just twenty-six years old and publishing his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age.  A spokesman for the nation’s pleasure-hungry youth, Fitzgerald made his home in the glamorous and reckless streets of New York - a city dizzyingly defiant of Prohibition, bursting with the nation’s expanding economy and growing ambitions. Those final incredible months of 1922 were full of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald drinking and partying and quarreling at a frantic pace, all against the backdrop of financial crises, literary milestones, car crashes, and media scandals in the Jazz Age metropolis.  
That same autumn, a horrific crime engulfed the city and commanded the nation’s attention: a brutal double murder in nearby New Jersey, compounded by a preposterous police investigation and an array of celebrity-hungry suspects.  Proclaimed the “crime of the decade,” the Halls-Mills murder case was never definitively resolved and has been almost wholly forgotten today. Yet the enormous impact of the bizarre crime reverberates through The Great Gatsby - a novel that Fitzgerald began planning in the autumn of 1922 and whose plot he ultimately set within that fateful year. 
Careless People is a unique literary investigation: a thrilling double narrative that reconstructs the farcical inquiry into a gruesome crime, as well as a passionate, scrupulous search for the roots of America’s best-loved novel.  Overturning much of the received wisdom of the period, Careless People blends biography and history with lost newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival materials. With great wit and insight, acclaimed scholar of American literature Sarah Churchwell constructs a different framework for the novel we know so well, revealing new ways of thinking about the moment and the world that defined Scott Fitzgerald’s most consummate work. Most important, Churchwell offers fresh perspectives on the infamous relationship of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, providing for the first time a detailed account of their life at the end of 1922, when the couple’s legendary existence began to splinter, even as Fitzgerald’s marvelous novel began to emerge. 
Interweaving the biographical story of the Fitzgeralds with the unfolding investigation into the Halls-Mills case, Careless People is a thrilling combination of literary history and murder mystery, a mesmerizing journey into the dark heart of Jazz Age America. 

Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby

An investigation into the inspiration behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece traces his parties and quarrels at the side of Zelda amid the scandals of 1922 before a double murder in New Jersey set the stage for what was to become an American classic.

Careless People

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And then there were none ….

They all had something in common. Each was an only child, about to turn eighteen. They had all come to a luxury resort for a very special family vacation. Not one of them guessed the truth about why they were there. 

Everyone wondered what happened when one girl disappeared. They were told she went home. But then another vanished ….and another, and another….  That’s when they uncovered the terrifying truth about what was happening - and why this would be their last family vacation!
 

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