Roger Dean Kiser

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

An American Tragedy

Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution. Investigations into the unmarked graves have compelled many grown men to come forward and share their stories of the abuses they endured and the atrocities they witnessed in the 1950s and 1960s at the institution. 
    The White House Boys: An American Tragedy is the true story of the horrors recalled by Roger Dean Kiser, one of the boys incarcerated at the facility in the late fifties for the crime of being a confused, unwanted, and wayward child. In a style reminiscent of the works of Mark Twain, Kiser recollects the horrifying verbal, sexual, and physical abuse he and other innocent young boys endured at the hands of their "caretakers." Questions remain unanswered and theories abound, but Roger and the other 'White House Boys' are determined to learn the truth and see justice served.

The White House Boys

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Michael Gates Gill

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis undetermined. Around the same time, his girlfriend gave birth to a son. Gill had no money, no health insurance, and no prospects.

One day as Gill sat in a Manhattan Starbucks with his last affordable luxury—a latt —brooding about his misfortune and quickly dwindling list of options, a 28-year-old Starbucks manager named Crystal Thompson approached him, half joking, to offer him a job. With nothing to lose, he took it, and went from drinking coffee in a Brooks Brothers suit to serving it in a green uniform. For the first time in his life, Gill was a minority--the only older white guy working with a team of young African-Americans. He was forced to acknowledge his ingrained prejudices and admit to himself that, far from being beneath him, his new job was hard. And his younger coworkers, despite having half the education and twice the personal difficulties he’d ever faced, were running circles around him.

The other baristas treated Gill with respect and kindness despite his differences, and he began to feel a new emotion: gratitude. Crossing over the Starbucks bar was the beginning of a dramatic transformation that cracked his world wide open. When all of his defenses and the armor of entitlement had been stripped away, a humbler, happier and gentler man remained. One that everyone, especially Michael’s kids, liked a lot better.

The backdrop to Gill's story is a nearly universal cultural phenomenon: the Starbucks experience. In How Starbucks Saved My Life, we step behind the counter of one of the world's best-known companies and discover how it all really works, who the baristas are and what they love (and hate) about their jobs. Inside Starbucks, as Crystal and Mike’s friendship grows, we see what wonders can happen when we reach out across race, class, and age divisions to help a fellow human being.

How Starbucks Saved My Life

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tasty Cures For Whatever’s Ailing You

Joys Simple Food Remedies

Jonathan S. Abramowitz

A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

Just imagine: No more obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors. No more planning your day around avoiding certain situations. You can get over OCD--and join the thousands of people who are living freer, happier lives thanks to the clinically proven strategies in this book. Noted OCD specialist Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz provides the information, support, and practical tools you need to: *Understand your obsessions, compulsions, and rituals *Develop a customized action plan *Take gradual steps to safely confront--and master--the situations you avoid *Find relief from intrusive thoughts, no matter how distressing *Overcome compulsive urges *Reduce anxiety and improve your relationships Based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, the most effective treatment for OCD, the workbook’s carefully sequenced exercises are illustrated with detailed examples. Ready to get over OCD? Your journey starts here. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit

Getting over OCD

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Jolene Brackey

Simple Wisdom for the Alzheimer's Journey

Revision of: Creating moments of joy for the person with Alzheimer's or dementia. 2007. 4th ed.

Creating Moments of Joy

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John Lyons

The Rider's Guide to Training and Problem Solving

This is the second book in the 3 part series on communicating with your horse by cues. Training horses is easier than most people think. Because horses are so forgiving and adaptable, they adjust their behavior when training becomes consistent. However, in order for the requests and rewards to make sense to the horse, the trainer needs a lesson plan. In this book, we?ll give you the lesson plans you need, beginning in the round pen, the horse's first classroom. Topics covered: Choosing a Round Pen, Getting Started in the Round Pen, Sacking Out o First-Saddling Essentials, Spook in Place, First Ride o The Don't Shy Cue o A Horse's Attention, Why a Snaffle Bit, Trailer Loading 101, Trailer Dilemmas. Section I: Round Pen Principles Section II: Riding Problems Solved Section III: Trailer Loading Problems Solved Section IV: Putting Theory into Practice

Communicating with Cues

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Mary Ziegler

The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business-two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the antiabortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending-and the First Amendment-work. The antiabortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in US politics and convinced conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics-and explains how it had everything to do with campaign spending.

Dollars for Life

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Smithsonian’s New Zoo

Geoffrey Squires

A Step-by-step Guide to Analysing and Improving Your Practice

This work is a resource for anyone who lectures or teaches. It takes readers through a series of diagnostic stages that should help them to understand, analyze and improve their teaching. The diagnostic questions help readers to identify and consider the key components of their teaching.

Trouble-Shooting Your Teaching

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Nelson Searcy

Jennifer Dykes Henson

Jason Hatley

A Guide to Creating Life-Transforming Worship Services

Offers step-by-step instructions on planning creative Sunday worship services that combine the efforts of pastors, volunteers, and worship leaders.

Engage

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Megan Carle

Jill Carle

Judi Carle

How to Cook What You Want to Eat [a Cookbook]

Teens Cook

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Tom Brady

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

Quarterback Tom Brady offers the principles behind pliability, which is at the heart of a new paradigm shift and movement toward a more natural, healthier way of exercising, training, and living, and one that challenges some commonly held assumptions around health and wellness. Filled with lessons learned from Brady's own peak performance training, and step-by-step action steps to help readers develop and maintain their own peak performance, this book also advocates for more effective approaches to strength training, hydration, nutrition, supplementation, cognitive fitness, recovery, and other lifestyle choices.

The TB12 Method

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Michael J. Behe

The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Behe argues that the complexity of cellular biochemistry argues against Darwin's gradual evolution.

Darwin's Black Box

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John Durham Peters

English

A History of the Idea of Communication

Speaking into the Air traces the yearning for contact, not only through philosophy and literature, but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication technologies from the telegraph to the radio.

Speaking into the Air

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Barbour Publishing Staff

Women can enhance their spiritual journeys by reading this beloved daily devotional and recording their own insights in the accompanying journal space.

Daily Spiritual Refreshment for Women Journal

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John Mason

The Keys To Unlocking Your Dreams

In An Enemy Called Average", John Mason presents principles to help you get from where you are to where your dreams are; ultimately breaking the chains of mediocrity. You'll find 29 short chapters that will set you on track to dream big and achieve your goals! Learn to deal with negative feedback, be open to change, set deadlines, hang on to your dreams like a bull dog and so much more!

An Enemy Called Average

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Carolyn Franklin

Carolyn Scrace

Offers instructions for drawing Zen doodles, which rely on repetition, intricate design, natural themes, and color combinations to create works which improve focus and foster inner calm and tranquility.

Zen Doodling

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Toni Morrison

A Novel

"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--

Home

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Douglas Seacat

Monstrous Miniatures Combat

Hordes: Evolution

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Scott B. Rae

Good condition- mild underlining and notes

Philosophy

An Introduction to Ethics

Moral Choices helps college students form a sound basis for making ethical decisions in today's complex postmodern culture. This book grounds students in both the theory of ethics and its application to today's pressing social issues. Avoiding undue dogmatism, Professor Scott B. Rae outlines the distinctive elements of Christian ethics. He also introduces students to various ethical systems and their key historical proponents, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant. And, after describing a seven-step procedure for tackling ethical dilemmas, he uses case studies to address the current issues listed below. Now in its second edition, Moral Choices is expanded and revised to provide the most current insights. Topics include: Abortion Reproductive Technologies Euthanasia Capital Punishment Sexual Ethics The Morality of War The Legislation of Morality New: Genetic Technologies and Human Cloning Besides the new chapter, substantial changes have been made in the chapters on euthanasia and reproductive technologies.

Moral Choices 2nd Ed

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James Comey

Truth, Lies, and Leadership

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

A Higher Loyalty

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Peter Lerangis

The day after 12-year-old Jack McKinley is told he has only months to live, he awakens on a mysterious island where a secret organization promises to save his life—with one condition: he and his three friends must retrieve seven long-lost magical orbs from amid the ruins of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and only when they are combined can the friends' lives be saved. First stop: The Colossus of Rhodes. 150,000 first printing.

Seven Wonders Book 1: the Colossus Rises

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Jennifer Shoquist

Don't let migraines disrupt your life! Ouch! Migraines are painful. This handy pocket guide explains how migraines differ from other headaches, describes the latest prescription and non-prescription drugs, and helps you identify and avoid migraine triggers. It's just what you need for lasting relief. Discover how to Understand migraine symptoms Use over-the-counter medications Find relief with prescription drugs Make lifestyle changes to minimize migraines

Migraines for Dummies

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Patrick Sebranek

Verne Meyer

Dave Kemper

A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

Covers the writing process, grammar, and study skills

Writer Inc

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Lisa Hassinger

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