Michael Chabon

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

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Greg Harden

Steve Hamilton

Tom Brady

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Control the Controllables and Thrive

"What I learned from Greg is still a part of who I am today."--Tom Brady, 7-time Super Bowl champion Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major companies, and championship coaching staffs from all over the world. Harden teaches his students how to practice, train, and rehearse to give 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, and challenges them by asking: If you don't believe in yourself, why should I believe in you? Champions aren't born. They're built. Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan, including 400 future professional athletes, 50 NFL first-round draft picks, and 120 Olympians from over 20 countries. He gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as "Michigan's Secret Weapon." Now, in his first book, Greg Harden is reaching out to help anyone who wants to live their best life by offering powerful and practical advice. You will learn to: Stop being afraid of being afraid: Fear and self-doubt are the enemy. As soon as you learn that fear and self-doubt are predictable, they become manageable. Control the controllables: How you control your own emotions, reactions, and responses to circumstances is what you must master first. You are the only one who has control over your mind. Stop letting others determine the way you feel about yourself. Commit, improve, and maintain: Making small improvements every day is the secret to a completely transformed life. Become the world's greatest expert on yourself: It's the only way to become the very best version of yourself. Practice self-love and self-acceptance: These are the keys to eliminating and replacing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. This is a one-of-a-kind book that will give you the indispensable lessons and tools necessary to create real change in your life.

Stay Sane in an Insane World

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Gary Mack

David Casstevens

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition.

Mind Gym

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Tayari Jones

A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today “A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questions about race and class.” —People “Compelling.” —The Washington Post “Epic . . . Transcendent . . . Triumphant.” —Elle Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)

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John Green

After he is dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to find a new direction in life, while trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

An Abundance of Katherines

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Marina Keegan

Anne Fadiman

Essays and Stories

"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her deeply affecting last essay for The Yale Daily News, "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. Even though she was just twenty-two years old when she died, Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, capture the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story, "Cold Pastoral," was published in NewYorker.com just months after her death. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories, which, like The Last Lecture, articulate the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be, and how we harness our talents to impact the world"--

The Opposite of Loneliness

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Sandra Felton

A Complete Guide to Bringing Order and Beauty to Your Home

The Organizer Lady™ returns with a fresh makeover to the book that has revolutionized the home organizational skills of thousands.

The Messies Manual

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#volleyball #athlete #gabireece #tall #middle #biggirl #biography

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Her name is Gabrielle, but mostly she is called Gabby or Gab. She possesses a look that conveys both athleticism and feminine beauty. She is 27, 6'3", and a Nike spokesperson for women's athletics. A professional athlete (Women's Beach Volleyball Leagues 4-Woman Tour), Gab's face can be seen on the cover of Outside, Shape, Elle, Fitness, Volleyball, Self, Men's Fitness, Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue, as well as other magazines. Big Girl In The Middle, her first book, co-authored with Karen Karbo, explores her life as a professional athlete and beyond. From 1994 to 1995, Gabby was a contributing editor at Elle magazine, writing her own sports and fitness column. In the fall of 1997, she will begin writing a column for Conde Nast Sports for Women. On television, Gabby won a huge number of fans by taking risks while road-luging, white-water kayaking, drag racing, and much more on MTV Sports (1993-1996), and The Extremists(1995-1996). A Florida State star turned pro, Gabby is now in her fifth season as a team captain, and her fourth captaining Team Nike in the W.B.V.L. Gabby's peers voted her Offensive Player of the year in 1995 and 1994, and Most Improved Player in 1994. She was only a sophomore at Florida State University when Elle named her one of the five most beautiful women in the world in 1989, the same year her coach said that "Gabby likes to hit the ball hard and put it back in somebody's face." The lure of the smash is still with her: in 1992 she was named MVP of the 4-Woman Volleyball Tour, in 1993, League blocks leader, and, in 1997, she's the League kills leader for the fourth consecutive year. "I enjoy getting the ball to go exactly where I want it, at the speed I want it to go." says Gab. She was born in California to a mother from Long Island and a father from Trinidad, who died when she was five years old. Her trademark piece of jewelry (copied from a tattoo inside her right ankle) is a stylized silver cross like the one he wore on the day he was killed in an airplane crash. Raised on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Gabby didn't take up volleyball until she was sent to high school in St. Petersburg, Florida. She won an athletic scholarship to Florida State, where she majored in Communications (Media Performance) and played two seasons of volleyball before accepting any offers from the modeling world. In January 1989, she took off to model in New York. In August she was back at Florida State for the volleyball season. As a junior, she was named the nation's Most Inspiring Collegiate Athlete by the Dodge National Athletic Awards Committee, and All-Metro and All-South Region at FSU. In its first television spot with Gabby, Nike introduced her as the "female Bo Jackson" in a tongue-in-cheek commercial that poked fun at the differences between being a model and an athlete. In the ad, directed by David Fincher, she offers modeling tips while striking poses on a bed. Each tip is contrasted with sweaty, grueling athletic footage. "The Nike girl is me, just a bit extreme" says Gabby, who strongly believes that being athletic is not unfeminine. She is also Nike's first ever female athlete to help design a shoe: the Air Trainer set was launched in 1994, the Air Patrol in 1995, and the Air GR will be launched in the Fall of 1997.

Big Girl in the Middle

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#econ #economics #entertainment #finance #industry #financialanalysis

A Guide for Financial Analysis

Entertainment Industry Economics

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85 Shybusters That Work!

Say hello to new friends, new business opportunities, new love, and new confidence

Okay, so you're shy. Here are 85 proven techniques to help you conquer your shyness and change your life for good. No psychobabble. No nonsense. These tested "ShyBusters" prepare you for that upcoming party, work function, interview, date, and the rest of your life.

As someone who overcame debilitating shyness herself, professional speaker Leil Lowndes used this method to become a confident woman who has been interviewed on hundreds of TV and radio shows and has spoken to crowds of 10,000. You'll soon be making "fearless conversation" with people who used to intimidate you. You'll learn how to win the love you deserve and ask for whatever you want. You will overcome embarrassing stammering, sweating, clamming up, and wishing you were invisible.

Good-Bye to Shy will show you how to:

 * Make a stronger impression at work, at parties, in any situation
 * Feel more relaxed around people, make eye contact, and spark conversations
 * Boost your career, jump-start your social life, and open your heart to new possibilities

Say Good-Bye to Shy--and hello to the happy, loving, confident person who's been hiding inside you.

Goodbye to Shy

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#paperback #nonfiction #educational #math #danicamckellar

How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail

From actress and math genius Danica McKellar comes a groundbreaking middle school math workbook for middle school girls, their parents, and educators. As the math education crisis in this country continues to make headlines, research continues to prove that it is in middle school when math scores begin to drop—especially for girls—in large part due to the relentless social conditioning that tells girls they “can’t do” math, and that math is “uncool.” Young girls today need strong female role models to embrace the idea that it’s okay to be smart! It’s Danica McKellar’s mission to be this role model, and demonstrate on a large scale that math doesn’t suck. In this fun and accessible guide, McKellar—dubbed a “math superstar” by The New York Times—gives girls and their parents the tools they need to master the math concepts that confuse middle-schoolers most, including fractions, percentages, pre-algebra, and more. The book features hip, real-world examples, step-by-step instruction, and engaging stories of Danica’s own childhood struggles in math (and stardom). It even includes a Math Horoscope section, Math Personality Quizzes, and Real-Life Testimonials—ultimately revealing why math is easier and cooler than readers think.

Math Doesn't Suck

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A Guy's Guide to the Big Event

This is a fun, yet informative, guide to the ins and outs of being a best man or an usher. The author walks you through each stage of the entire wedding process, from planning to the reception. Checklists, quizzes and tips for planning a bachelor party, ushering, what to say in the receiving line, giving a toast and much more are included.

The Best Man's Handbook

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#fiction #hardcover #summerread #youngadult #sachar

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

Small Steps

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#jockey #kentuckyderby #alcoholism #sportofkings 

Riding for My Life

In a memoir of failure and redemption, the renowned jockey describes his professional racing career and his long and difficult battle, with the help of his wife, Suzee, against alcoholism.

Against the Odds

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#media #hollywood #siliconvalley #entertainment

How the Greeks, the Suits and the Ponytails Tried to Bring ... . .

Explores the digital entertainment industry's collaboration between technogeeks, media moguls, and business interests

Digital Babylon

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An Autopsy

As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as substitutes for information and logic. Thus by labeling a set of ideas an "ideology" they avoid specifying those ideas, or by saying that someone "essentializes" a concept they convey the air of decisive refutation. As long as a paper is generously sprinkled with the right words, clarification is deemed superfluous. Bauerlein contends that such usages only serve to signal political commitments, prove membership in subgroups, or appeal to editors and tenure committees, and that current textual practices are inadequate to the study of culture and politics they presume to undertake. His book discusses 23 commonly encountered terms—from "deconstruction" and "gender" to "problematize" and "rethink"—and offers a diagnosis of contemporary criticism through their analysis. He examines the motives behind their usage and the circumstances under which they arose and tells why they continue to flourish. A self-styled "handbook of counterdisciplinary usage," Literary Criticism: An Autopsy shows how the use of illogical, unsound, or inconsistent terms has brought about a breakdown in disciplinary focus. It is an insightful and entertaining work that challenges scholars to reconsider their choice of words—and to eliminate many from critical inquiry altogether.

Literary Criticism

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#screenplay #flirtingwithdisaster #spankingthemonkey

In the first of these two screenplays, Flirting With Disaster, a man traverses America in search of his biological parents, and becomes entangled in a variety of sexual and emotional misadventures. Suffused with black comedy, Spanking the Monkey deals with incest between a mother and son.

Flirting with Disaster and Spanking the Monkey

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Like new condition other than the two spots pictured. #nonfiction #10commandments #tencommandments #drlaura 

the significance of God's laws in everyday life

The Ten commandments

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#kids #education #streetkids #basicneeds #needs #cityschool

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

a year with street kids in a city school

Basic needs

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#leadership #teachers #education #educators 

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