Sunset Publishing Staff

Design outdoor living space; unique to Midwest region

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

A Complete Regional Guide

Guide to landscape gardening in the Middle West with more than 400 pages showcasing gardens. Includes many ready-to-use how-to step-by-step instructions for specific landscape plans. Covers gardens in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario

Midwestern Landscaping Book

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Ryan McEnaney

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Design and Plant Your Perfect Outdoor Space

Field Guide to Outside Style is a fun and easy-to-follow guide to designing and planting the outdoor living space of your dreams.

Field Guide to Outside Style

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Paul Kalanithi

Abraham Verghese

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

When Breath Becomes Air

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Anthony Doerr

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.

All the Light We Cannot See

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Lily Tuck

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Or the Woman Who Shot a Man

The culture shock of a newly arrived American woman in 1967 Thailand, wife of an engineer building airfields for the bombing of Vietnam. It is hot, the Thais don't want to be friends, servants steal and the food gives her indigestion.

Siam

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No book sleeve; some pages got wet (last 2 pics)

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Best Recipe

America's Test Kitchen Staff

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

TV show cookbook 2001-2010

The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook

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Coco Morante

Fresh and Foolproof Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker

Authorized by Instant Pot and filled with beautiful photographs and more than 75 simple, well-tested comfort food recipes, this indispensable book is the ultimate collection of delicious weekday meals. The best-selling Instant Pot has been a runaway hit, with an almost cultlike following and users who swear by it. But finding delicious, well-tested, weekday-friendly recipes that are both inspiring and trustworthy has proven difficult, until now. The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook covers each meal of the day, offering plenty of tried-and-true classic recipes, such as spicy beef and bean chili, a whole roasted chicken with mushroom sauce, and decadent New York cheesecake, alongside a hearty array of contemporary meals, such as Greek-style Gigantes beans with fresh feta, braised pork loin with balsamic vinegar and caramelized onions, buttery cauliflower mashed potatoes, pork adobo, and more! Whether you're looking to expand your pressure cooker recipe repertoire or seeking the ultimate gift for the Instant Pot aficionado, this is the book to have.

The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook

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Melissa Clark

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75 Modern Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and Instant Pot® : a Cookbook

Inspired by her viral New York Times article "Why Do Cooks Love the Instant Pot(R)? I Bought One to Find Out," Melissa Clark's Dinner in an Instant has all new recipes that bring her signature flavor-forward dishes to everyone's favorite countertop appliance. Dinner in an Instant gives home cooks recipes for elevated dinners that never sacrifice convenience. Beloved for her flawless recipes, Melissa Clark turns her imagination to the countertop appliances that have won American hearts from coast to coast. Recipes include Fresh Coconut Yogurt, Japanese Beef Curry, Osso Buco, Smoky Lentils, Green Persian Rice with Tahdig, and Lemon Verbena Cr me Brulee. Dinner in an Instant provides instructions when possible for making the same dish on both the pressure cooker and slow cooker settings, allowing home cooks flexibility. Symbols guide the reader toward Paleo, Vegan, Vegetarian, and Gluten Free dinners. Fresh, approachable, and classic, Dinner in an Instant is Melissa Clark's most practical book yet.

Dinner in an Instant

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Jill Carle

Megan Carle

100 Recipes and Tips for New Cooks

Provides an overview of kitchen essentials, offers time- and money-saving tips, and includes hundreds of recipes for vegetables, pasta, seafood, chicken, beef, pork, and desserts.

The First Real Kitchen Cookbook

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No cover sleeve.  Beautiful cover and paper.  Some nicks and marks (last 2 pics). Great coffee table book.

The Spirit of Kyoto

Alessandra Capodiferro

Masterpieces of Architecture from 4000 BC to the Present

With stunning photography and fascinating text, Wonders of the World takes you on a journey across six continents to discover the marvels of architecture from antiquity to the present day.

Wonders of the World

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Les Parrott

Leslie Parrott

Seven Questions to Ask Before (and after) You Marry

1. Marriage. 2. Marriage-Religious aspects- Christianity. 3. Married people-Psychology.

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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Daniel Wallace

A Novel of Mythic Proportions

When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.

Big Fish

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.

The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings - Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally - feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets leave for college, Johanna, faced with being truly alone, makes the decision to have a fourth child. What role will the "latecomer" play in this fractured family?

A complex novel that builds slowly and deliberately, The Latecomer touches on the topics of grief and guilt, generational trauma, privilege and race, traditions and religion, and family dynamics. It is a profound and witty family story from an accomplished author, known for the depth of her character studies, expertly woven storylines, and plot twists.

The Latecomer (first edition)

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Donna Smallin

A Ready Reference Guide with Hundreds of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges

Like a course from an expert teacher, "Organizing Plain & Simple" is grounded in the fundamentals and enriched with philosophy, anecdotes, tips, and illustrations. Smallin takes a personalized, nonjudgemental approach to explaining how to access each individual's situation and suggesting where to start. Two-color illustrations throughout.

Organizing Plain and Simple

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Jonice Webb

Christine Musello

Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they're suffering not because of something that happened to them in childhood, but because of something that didn't happen. It's the white space in their family picture, the background rather than the foreground. This will be the first self-help book to bring this invisible force to light, educate people about it, and teach them how to overcome it.

Running on Empty

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Amy Schmittauer Landino

"Not a morning person? Not a problem! I want you to wake up on your terms and no one else's." Morning routines. We hear about them all the time. We see them on social media feeds and in online videos. We read about them in memoirs and self-improvement books. So, what's the big deal? What's so important about what we do every morning? In Good Morning, Good Life, Amy Schmittauer Landino- the world's #1 productive lifestyle coach-reveals the truth about mornings and how to create daily rituals that are truly right for you. Discover how to: decide on a 'why' that will make you want to jump out of bed everyday, defy the morning missteps that keep you from starting the day on the right foot, rise for a new day well-rested and prepared for what the day has in store for you, shine each morning doing what makes you feel like your best version of you (rather than what the rest of the world says to do), and thrive throughout your journey with some bonus productive lifestyle tips for the rest of your day! Landino is best known for her work as the award-winning host of AmyTV on YouTube, and as the host of the self-improvement podcast Detail Therapy. Her practical and uplifting coaching approach carries over in Good Morning, Good Life with a lot of customizable tips (and even more personality!) This is a can't-miss read for anyone who is ready to go after the life they want!

Good Morning, Good Life

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Joshua Becker

A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

A popular minimalist blogger and author of The More of Less shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living. One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments, showing us how to decide what to get rid of and what to keep. He both offers practical guidelines for simplifying our lifestyle at home and addresses underlying issues that contribute to over-accumulation in the first place. The purpose is not just to create a more inviting living space. It's also to turn our life's HQ--our home--into a launching pad for a more fulfilling and productive life in the world.

The Minimalist Home

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Julie Otsuka

Name written on inside front cover (see pic)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A story told from five different points of view chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps.

When the Emperor Was Divine

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Julian Barnes

Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world.

The Sense of an Ending

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Benjamin Franklin

A Pocket-Sized Collection of Quotations by Benjamin Franklin in an Elegant Hardcover Edition

Quotations of Benjamin Franklin

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Mireille Guiliano

The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.

French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Miracle,” came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.

Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.

A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (called myrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother’s house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of “French in action,” drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully.

Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?

French Women Don't Get Fat

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Karen Homer

Firm but always fair, Karen Homer lays down the law to ensure that you never commit another fashion faux pas. Discover why you can never have too many white T-shirts, how to choose the right shoes and lingerie, and when to say "no" to this season's fashion trends. Packed with tips and timeless rules and enhanced with classic photos of style icons, this chic little volume will never let you down. Karen Homer, a fashion journalist, has worked for many of Britain's leading publications, including Elle, The Times, and Vogue.

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