Gregory Maguire

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Volume Three in the Wicked Years

"Hardly more than a kitten . . . I had thought to call it Prrr, but it shivers more often than it purrs, so I call it Brrr instead." —From Wicked Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion—the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own. Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz. A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets—cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest—to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive? At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

A Lion among Men

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Mitch Albom

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father--and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her--the day he missed and always wished he'd had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.

For One More Day

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Adriana Trigiani

Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Times bestseller Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani returns to the charm and drama of small-town life with Queens of the Big Time. This heartfelt story of the limits and power of love chronicles the remarkable lives of the Castellucas, an Italian-American family, over the course of three generations. In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land of America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home–down to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The village’s annual celebration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel–or “the Big Time,” as the occasion is called by the young women who compete to be the pageant’s Queen–is the centerpiece of Roseto’s colorful old-world tradition. The industrious Castellucas farm the land outside Roseto. Nella, the middle daughter of five, aspires to a genteel life “in town,” far from the rigors of farm life, which have taken a toll on her mother and forced her father to take extra work in the slate quarries to make ends meet. But Nella’s dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets Renato Lanzara, the son of a prominent Roseto family. Renato is a worldly, handsome, devil-may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their friendship ignites into a fiery romance that Nella is certain will lead to marriage. But Nella is not alone in her pursuit: every girl in town seems to want Renato. When he disappears without explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Four years later, Renato’s sudden return to Roseto the night before Nella’s wedding to the steadfast Franco Zollerano leaves her and the Castelluca family shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path very different from Nella’s, they are fated to live and work in Roseto, where the past hangs over them like a brewing storm. An epic of small-town life, etched in glorious detail in the trademark Trigiani style, The Queen of the Big Time is the story of a determined, passionate woman who can never forget her first love. From the Hardcover edition.

The Queen of the Big Time

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Debbie Macomber

Discovering the Power of Generosity

One Simple Act

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The second book in the Dakota triology

Buffalo Valley has found new life. People have started moving to this town—people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love… Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who's learned to endure. Maddy—unafraid and openhearted—is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms throws them together… Those few days and nights bring unexpected consequences for Maddy and Jeb. Consequences that, one way or another, affect everyone in Buffalo Valley.

Dakota Home

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorful,casual,and comfy quilts

Diana McClun

Laura Nownes

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Guide to Quiltmaking

Based on the principle that a solid foundation turns beginners into lifelong quiltmakers, Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!! covers every tool, every technique, every stitch, every tip, and every shortcut in machine and hand quilting--no matter how basic. An all-time classic on quilting, it is the essential handbook for the beginner and a constant companion for the experienced quilter. This new, updated edition includes all of the features quilters loved from the first edition plus so much more! New features include: - More than 30 gorgeous designs to choose from, including 10 all-new quilt patterns - All-new photography of quilts in home settings - All-new color diagrams to lead quilters step-by-step through each pattern - Eight sampler quilts with complete instructions and patterns for 27 different blocks - Expanded coverage of color choices in quilts - Metric (centimeters) measurements - A glossary and index for easy reference Diana McClun and Laura Nownes have taught thousands of beginning quilters through classes, workshops, seminars, and nationwide television. Their book has inspired quilters all over the world and given them a passion for quilting that lasts a lifetime.

Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!!

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Sara Nephew

Mary Hickey

Nancy J. Martin

Twenty-Six Projects Featuring Speedy Cutting and Piecing Methods

Quick and Easy Quiltmaking

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Sally Schneider

Even More Quick-Pieced Scrap Quilts

Let popular scrap-quilt designer Sally Schneider teach you her savvy methods for collecting, coordinating, and stitching scraps into gorgeous quilts! She'll show you how to blend those wonderful bits of fabric into rich, color-filled quilts and do what every quilter loves best - play with fabric.

Scrap Frenzy

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Quilt in a day bears in the woods quilt

Lynette Jensen

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Leading fabric designer, quilter, authorand teacher, Lynette Jensen shares with you her secrets and inspirations for combining antiques, old furniture, dried flowers, vintage fabrics and favorite keepsakes and collectibles in a blending of old and new that is the essence of country-cottage. Over 200 full-color photos and illustrations 16 quilting and decorative projects, fully illustrated instructions Learn how to leaf-stencil a wall for decorative accents Favorite special occasion recipes including Game Day, HalloweenCarving, and Garden Parties

Thimbleberries® Cottage Comfort

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Jinny Beyer

Simple Stitches, Exquisite Quilts

Celebrating today's surge of interest in hand crafts, this book introduces new quilters to a simple yet versatile set of techniques that allows them to create sensational quilts entirely by hand. A world-class designer and extraordinarily skilled quilter, Jinny Beyer demonstrates everything from threading a needle to piecing perfect points. Beginning with the basic running stitch, quilters quickly move on to joining two, then four patches, making stars and compasses, setting in pieces, and stitching curves. With each new skill, quilters are invited to begin the next section of a quilt designed especially for beginners--encouraging a "sew-as-you-learn" approach with each of the 10 quilting projects. The quilting stitch is simply and clearly explained, and detailed photographs illustrate how neat, even lines of stitching are achieved.


Quiltmaking by Hand

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Jane Greenoff

Crammed with essential information on techniques and bursting with beautiful patterns, this is the encyclopedia that every cross stitcher has been longing for It has instructions on working with charts, a linen masterclass, and tips on threads and wools; creative options, from charms and beads to blackwork; and explanations of how to design from scratch or adapt a purchased kit. Embroider cards, gift tags, pictures, cushions, and more with the fine finishing techniques. "Plus" stitch and charted design libraries "A Main Selection of BOMC'S Crafters Book Club."


Cross Stitcher's Bible

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

28 Quilting Inspirations for the Home

In a special 20-page feature, Lynette shows you how easy it is to make anywhere you live a welcome escape. Ranging in size from small to medium to large, many of the pieced quilts and throws are accented with easy applique which will appeal to a wide audience of quilters.

Thimbleberries New Collection of Classic Quilts

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Peggy Martin

12 Complete Projects, Create Your Own Designs, Paper Piece Faster!

Simple, fun, and easy techniques plus full-size patterns let you create paper-piecing designs that reflect your unique style!

Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way

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Katherine Guerrier

Inspirations and Techniques from the Experts

The methods behind more than 50 quilt masterpieces are revealed in this extraordinary view of works from today's finest quiltmaking artists. This colorful volume offers quilters a rare, behind-the-scenes look at each masterwork's development and offers encouragement to start using quilts as a medium for personal expression. -- Stars of the quilting worlds share how they achieve extraordinary effects in their quilts, presenting a wealth of ideas on design, color, and technique -- Valuable tips explore how to design original quilts, from traditional and pictorial quilts to abstract and three-dimensional designs -- The range of styles will appeal to all kinds of quiltmakers -- from those who treasure tradition to those who strive to move beyond it

Quilting Masterclass

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A Collection of 25 Country Quilts and Decorative Accessories

What's all the buzz about Thimbleberries quilts? One look through the pages of this book and you'll discover why everybody loves Lynette Jensen's projects. Wide variety of projects--pick from 25 wall to bed-size quilts and decorative accessories for the home (bet you can't make just one!) Warm and cozy contry style in your own quilts Fast techniques with terrific results--the secrets are in Lynette's streamlined rotary-cutting, quick-piecing, and fusible appliqué techniques.

At Home with Thimbleberries Quilts

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Donna Lynn Thomas

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Color Recipes for Quilt Blocks

This fresh approach to stitching gorgeous scrap quilts will make any quilter's next project burst with color! Twenty versatile block patterns are assembled two at a time and feature a different set of scrap fabrics for each pair. Donna Lynn Thomas's simple "duo approach" not only makes piecing blocks more efficient, it guarantees crisp, clear color combinations that will dazzle the eye. -- Features 20 beautiful block patterns that quilters can mix and match for exciting, color-splashed scrap quilts -- Includes helpful color "recipes" that illustrate how to create vibrant color combinations and dramatic secondary designs -- Offers sample quilt plans and gorgeous photos of finished quilts, plus Donna's exclusive "cluster" illustrations for creating original designs

Scrappy Duos

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Nancy Johnson-Srebro

Easy Techniques to Instantly Improve Every Quilt You Make

Learn Nancy's No-Fail techniques for great-looking finished quilts! Rotary Magic presents the essentials of rotary cutting-plus hundreds of tips, tricks, & techniques on piecing & finishing a beautiful quilt.

Rotary Magic and More

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25 Great Looking Projects for the Busy Quiltmaker

In this beautifully illustrated, accessible primer, Lynette Jensen, nationally recognized quilting author, offers 25 quilt projects-all created by Jensen exclusively for this new book--and all of which are incredibly easy-to-start and fast-to-finish (some in just one night or over one weekend!). You'll find 16 Color Play variation quilts that reveal the versatility of Jensen's designs in different colors, and plenty of charming companion "House Dressing" projects like pillows, dust ruffles, fabric-trimmed rugs, tablecloths, napkins, and more. Jensen draws on more than 20 years of experience in quiltmaking, interior decorating, and fabric design, to share her know-how on the easiest quiltmaking methods, such as simple rotary cutting, fast appliqué, and quilting shortcuts. She also offers tips on how to carve the maximum quilting time out of each day, and even how to put together a quilting travel kit. Sprinkled throughout are real-life portraits of contemporary quilters with interesting professions, and strategies for how each one fits quiltmaking time into her busy schedule!

Thimbleberries Guide for Weekend Quilters

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Anthony Horowitz

A Novel

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an eccentric gathering that includes a bestselling children's author, a French poet, a TV chef turned cookbook author, a blind psychic, and a war historian--along with a group of ornery locals embroiled in an escalating feud over a disruptive power line. When a local grandee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the case. The island is locked down, no one is allowed on or off, and it soon becomes horribly clear that a murderer lurks in their midst. But who? Both a brilliant satire on the world of books and writers and an immensely enjoyable locked-room mystery, A Line to Kill is a triumph--a riddle of a story full of brilliant misdirection, beautifully set-out clues, and diabolically clever denouements.

A Line to Kill

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Excellent condition. It has activities and connections to real world problems.


Math

A Step-By-Step Guide with Activities, Games, and Lesson Planning Tools

Get them talking: Your formula for bringing math concepts to life! Want your middle schoolers to intelligently engage with mathematical ideas? Look no further. This research-based gem brings tough Standards for Mathematical Practice 3 standards for mathematical argumentation and critical reasoning alive—all within a thoroughly explained four-part model that covers generating cases, conjecturing, justifying, and concluding. Immediately engage students in fun, classroom-ready argumentation activities Help students explore—and take ownership of—mathematical ideas and concepts Promote precise use of mathematical language Includes games, vignettes, a rich companion website, sample tasks, and links to online tools. Bring well-planned, well-constructed mathematical discourse to life in your classroom today!

Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School-The What, Why, and How

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A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited. Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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Science

Theory, Methodology, and Practice

Teacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional. We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students they teach. Our practice exists in the midst of experience, conflicting and often hostile boundaries, and between what we know from research and what we understand from practice. Self-study of practice invites researchers to embrace the hectic and fragmented territory of practice as the space for study. This book educates those who would like to explore practice in the methodology of self-study. It provides both a pragmatic and theoretic guide. It grounds the research in ontology and establishes dialogue as the inquiry process. It supports researchers through the use of frameworks to guide research and explication of strategies for conducting it.

Self-Study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research

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Katherine Rossignuolo

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A Lion among Men

Mitch Albom

For One More Day

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The Queen of the Big Time

Debbie Macomber

One Simple Act

Debbie Macomber

Dakota Home

Karen Bolesta

Colorful,casual,and comfy quilts

Diana McClun; Laura Nownes

Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!!

Sara Nephew; Mary Hickey; Nancy J. Martin

Quick and Easy Quiltmaking

Sally Schneider

Scrap Frenzy

Eleanor Burns

Quilt in a day bears in the woods quilt

Lynette Jensen

Thimbleberries® Cottage Comfort

Jinny Beyer

Quiltmaking by Hand

Jane Greenoff

Cross Stitcher's Bible

Lynette Jensen

Thimbleberries New Collection of Classic Quilts

Peggy Martin

Paper Piece the Quick-Strip Way

Katherine Guerrier

Quilting Masterclass

Lynette Jensen

At Home with Thimbleberries Quilts

Donna Lynn Thomas

Scrappy Duos

Nancy Johnson-Srebro

Rotary Magic and More

Lynette Jensen

Thimbleberries Guide for Weekend Quilters

Anthony Horowitz

A Line to Kill

Jennifer Knudsen

Mathematical Argumentation in Middle School-The What, Why, and How

Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Stefinee Pinnegar

Self-Study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research

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