Patricia Brennan Demuth

Who HQ

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Published in the year 2019 as: Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?; part of the Who is-- ? series. Republished with change in title and revisions in December 2020 using the same ISBNs.

Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

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James Patterson

A very special mouse escapes from a lab to find his missing family in this charming story of survival, determination, and the power of friendship.


What makes Isaiah so unique? First, his fur is as blue as the sky -- which until recently was something he'd never seen, but had read all about. That's right: Isaiah can read and write. He can also talk to humans . . . if any of them are willing to listen!


After a dramatic escape from a mysterious laboratory, Isaiah is separated from his "mischief" (which is the word for a mouse family) and has to survive in the dangerous outdoors, and hopefully find his missing family. But in a world of cruel cats, hungry owls, and terrified people, it's hard for a young, lone mouse to make it alone. When he meets an equally unusual and lonely human girl named Hailey, the two soon learn that true friendship can transcend all barriers.



Word of Mouse

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Michele Lecreux

Celia Gallais

Book on crafts, cooking, magic and imagination. Full color photos with lots of fun descriptions for each activity. Homemade crafts for gift giving etc. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A selection of nature-themed activities for outdoor-savvy girls shares practical guidelines for honing such skills as identifying seasonal produce, weaving baskets and gearing up for hiking and camping trips.

The Girl's Book of Adventure

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Middle grads scholastic book. Written in text message style. Easy quick reading. 

This is Not a Drill 

Daphne Benedis-Grab

One of Us is Lying meets Pretty Little Liars for middle-grade readers. The email arrives Sunday night: Do exactly what I say, when I say it, or I will reveal your secret. On Monday morning, seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's instructions, but each of them have a secret they must protect at all costs. Set during a single day of school, the students race against the clock to complete a disquieting set of tasks, with fast-paced chapters detailing each moment of the day interspersed with a later interview-style recording made by the quartet. I Know Your Secret is an exploration of why we conceal the truth, how far we'll go to keep it hidden, and the power of being honest.

I Know Your Secret

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Kids chapter book. 280 pages easy reading. 

The Unteachables 

Jennifer Lifford

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Organize Your Way to a Clean and Lean House

Put Your House on a Diet for Long-Term Results If you’re sick of the clutter around your home and can’t find any organization systems that work for you, it’s time to put your house on a diet. Starting with a 30-day home detox to quickly shed some of that excess weight, you will gain the confidence, motivation and skills needed to create your ideal healthy home. With the option to pick and choose projects based on your specific goals, you will learn to change your bad habits and transform your house into the happier, more organized and inspired home that you desire. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide shows you how to organize your home month-by-month and room-by-room to achieve and maintain a lasting, clutter-free lifestyle. Drawing on experiences in her own home, Jennifer Lifford developed these distinct and effective techniques that do more than just declutter—you will learn how to change your habits for good without feeling overwhelmed or stressed. Simply follow the exercises in the plans such as Shedding the Pounds and Building Strength to develop the techniques needed for permanent clutter loss and a forever organized home. The Home Decluttering Diet is complete with organization guides, checklists, tips for getting the whole family involved and simple DIYs to provide you with practical storage solutions that are easily maintainable. Create the lifestyle you want and get your home and belongings in tip-top shape today!

The Home Decluttering Diet

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Karina Longworth

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom. In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes—the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer. His supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes—perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era—commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women. Yet there were also numerous women pulled into Hughes’s grasp who never made it to the screen, sometimes virtually imprisoned by an increasingly paranoid and disturbed Hughes, who retained multitudes of private investigators, security personnel, and informers to make certain these actresses would not escape his clutches. Vivid, perceptive, timely, and ridiculously entertaining, Seduction is a landmark work that examines women, sex, and male power in Hollywood during its golden age—a legacy that endures nearly a century later.

Seduction

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Kent Haruf

Alan Kent Haruf

The story of the intertwined lives of widow Addie Moore and widower Louis Waters, set against the backdrop of Holt, Colorado.

Our Souls at Night

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Yousif Haddad

Jack Ingle

World Languages

A Comprehensive Course

Assuming little or no previous knowledge of the language, "Simple Arabic" aims to make learning Arabic easy and enjoyable. Words used have been selected on a basis of frequency of usage in contemporary Arabic, and a comprehensive bilingual index will also be helpful for examinations, revision, or simply to refresh one's memory on specific points.

Simple Arabic

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Christopher McDougall

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Recounts the author's experiences with the reclusive Tarahumara Indians, whose techniques allow them to run long distances with ease, and describes his training for a fifty-mile race with the tribe and a number of ultramarathoners.

Born to Run

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Sue Monk Kidd

A Novel

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

The Invention of Wings

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Graeme Simsion

A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father. Reprint.

The Rosie Project

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Natalie A. Naylor

Book about the historical women of Long Island 

A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives

Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.

Women in Long Island's Past

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The time traveler’s wife 

English

English Idioms 

Roget’s desk thesaurus 

Dictionary

The American Heritage Dictionary

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L. Frank. Baum

After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.

The Wizard of Oz

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One flew over the cuckoos nest 

Mary W. Shelley

Karen Karbiener

Frankenstein

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William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

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William Golding

Lois Lowry

Jennifer Buehler

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

Lord of the Flies

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Upton Sinclair

Maura Spiegel

The Jungle

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Janine Grech

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