Joe Biden

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller “Promise Me, Dad is a brisk, often uplifting read, a consequence of its author’s congenital jollity and irrepressible candor.” - Vanity Fair A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a much-needed respite, a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the year had brought, and what the future might hold. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. "Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. Promise Me, Dad chronicles the year that followed, which would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden’s extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq. When a call came from New York, or Capitol Hill, or Kyiv, or Baghdad—“Joe, I need your help”—he responded. For twelve months, while Beau fought for and then lost his life, the vice president balanced the twin imperatives of living up to his responsibilities to his country and his responsibilities to his family. And never far away was the insistent and urgent question of whether he should seek the presidency in 2016. The year brought real triumph and accomplishment, and wrenching pain. But even in the worst times, Biden was able to lean on the strength of his long, deep bonds with his family, on his faith, and on his deepening friendship with the man in the Oval Office, Barack Obama. Writing with poignancy and immediacy, Joe Biden allows readers to feel the urgency of each moment, to experience the days when he felt unable to move forward as well as the days when he felt like he could not afford to stop. This is a book written not just by the vice president, but by a father, grandfather, friend, and husband. Promise Me, Dad is a story of how family and friendships sustain us and how hope, purpose, and action can guide us through the pain of personal loss into the light of a new future.

Promise Me, Dad

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Ben Ehrenreich

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Road Map for the End of Time

Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time.

Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time--the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun.

In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas's neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present--unflinching, urgent--yet timeless and profound.

Desert Notebooks

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Kristin Hannah

A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 INDIE BESTSELLER "The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We’ve been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close.”—The New York Times "A spectacular tour de force that shines a spotlight on the indispensable but often overlooked role of Greatest Generation women."—People "Through one woman’s survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind." —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

The Four Winds

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Debra Music

Joe Whinney

Leora Bloom

Charity Burggraaf

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Recipes and Sweet Secrets from Seattle's Favorite Chocolate Maker

A decadent celebration of all things chocolate from the first organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory in the U.S., featuring 75 recipes for sweet and savory chocolate treats
 
Who doesn't love chocolate? Here are delicious sweet and savory chocolate recipes, along with the fascinating story of how North America's first organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory came to be (and why they are so passionate about how their chocolate is made).
 
Theo Chocolate is dedicated to making the world a better place. From bean to bar, Theo Chocolate uses organic ingredients and is committed to Fair Trade practices, working closely with farmers around the world who grow the cocoa beans used in their chocolate. This book not only shares Theo's story and their passion for doing the right thing, but also celebrates the decadent pleasure of enjoying excellent chocolate thanks to 75 recipes to make at home along with full-color photographs throughout.

Theo Chocolate

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Madeleine L'Engle

Stories by the author of A Wrinkle in Time 

From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes a deeply personal, genre-bending short story collection that transcends generational divides and reminds readers that hope, above all, can transform suffering into the promise of joy. This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut. In a selection of eighteen stories discovered by one of L'Engle's granddaughters, we see how L'Engle's personal experiences and abiding faith informed the creation of her many cherished works. Some of these stories have never been published; others were refashioned into scenes for her novels and memoirs. Almost all were written in the 1940s and '50s, from Madeleine's college years until just before the publication of A Wrinkle in Time. From realism to science-fiction to fantasy, there is something for everyone in this timeless, magical collection.

The Moment of Tenderness

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J. J. Goode

Helen Hollyman

Late-Night Meals from the World's Best Chefs [a Cookbook]

This cookbook, based on the game-changing web series Chef's Night Out, features stories of the world's best chefs' debauched nights on the town, and recipes for the food they cook to soak up the booze afterwards.

MUNCHIES brings the hugely popular show Chef's Night Out (on VICE Media's food website, MUNCHIES) to the page with snapshots of food culture in cities around the world, plus tall tales and fuzzy recollections from 70 of the world's top chefs, including Anthony Bourdain, Dominique Crenn, David Chang, Danny Bowien, Wylie Dufresne, Inaki Aizpitarte, and Enrique Olvera, among others. Then there are the 65 recipes: dishes these chefs cook when they're done feeding customers, and ready to feed their friends instead. With chapters like "Drinks" (i.e., how to get your night started), "Things with Tortillas," "Hardcore" (which includes pizzas, nachos, poutines, and more), and "Morning After" (classy and trashy dishes for the bleary-eyed next day), MUNCHIES features more than 65 recipes to satisfy any late-night craving and plenty of drinks to keep the party going.

Chefs include:
            
Shion Aikawa 
Jen Agg 
Iñaki Aizpitarte 
Erik Anderson 
Sam Anderson 
Wes Avila 
Joaquin Baca 
Kyle Bailey 
Jonathan Benno 
Noah Bernamoff 
Jamie Bissonnette 
April Bloomfield 
Robert Bohr And Ryan Hardy 
Danny Bowien 
Anthony Bourdain 
Stuart Brioza And Nicole Krasinski 
Gabriela Cámara 
David Chang 
Han Chiang 
Michael Chernow And Dan Holtzman 
Leah Cohen 
Dominique Crenn 
Armando De La Torre 
Maya Erickson 
Konstantin Filippou 
Vanya Filopovic 
The Franks 
Paul Giannone 
Josh Gil 
Abigail Gullo 
Tien Ho 
Esben Holmboe Bang 
Brandon Jew 
Jessica Koslow 
Agatha Kulaga And Erin Patinkin 
Joshua Kulp And Christine Cikowski 
Taiji Kushima And Shogo Kamishima 
Arjun Mahendro And Nakul Mahendro 
Anne Maurseth 
Andrew Mcconnell 
Kavita Meelu 
Danny Minch 
Carlo Mirarchi 
Nicolai Nørregaard 
Masaru Ogasawara 
Enrique Olvera 
Matt Orlando 
Mitch Orr 
Rajat Parr 
Kevin Pemoulie 
Frank Pinello 
Rosio Sánchez 
Brad Spence 
Alon Shaya 
Phet Schwader 
Michael Schwartz 
Callie Speer 
Jeremiah Stone And Fabian Von Hauske 
Dale Talde 
Lee Tiernan 
Christina Tosi 
Isaac Toups 
Anna Trattles And Alice Quillet 
Alisa Reynolds 
Grant Van Gameren 
Michael White 
Andrew Zimmern

Munchies

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Hy Conrad

Jeff Johnson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

11 Courageous Canines Tell All

Dear Human:

Your dog probably puzzles you. Most of us do that. And most of us would like to keep things as they are: humans in the dark, dogs with the upper hand.

But we dogs are about to let you in a little secret.  Okay, a lotof secrets.

 * We graduated first in our obedience class three times. This should tell you something.
 * Puppies know that they're being cute. They're using you.
 * We don't sound anything like those silly voices you use to imitate us.
 * We hate those ridiculous names you give some of us. Moonbeam is not a dignified name for a mutt.
 * You might want to check your herb garden for fertilizer.
 * We are only wearing this stupid birthday hat so we can get some cake. No self-respecting dog cares about his birthday.
 * We are not spoiled, certainly not in comparison to teenage girls.
 * We are in charge of the house. We let you pretend that you are.
 * We'd be lost without you. We love you.

 

It's all in our new book, Things Your Dog Doesn't Want You To Know, as told to humans Hy Conrad and Jeff Johnson. Even Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin) raves about us!  Inside you'll find revelations such as the reason we at thesofa (leather tastes very similar to rawhide), and what we really think of the costumes you dress us up in.

I'm not alone. Ten other courageous canines have stepped forward to tell you what your dog won't - every last dirty, hairy bit of it.   If you have dogs, love dogs, or have ever been baffled by a dog, this book is a must-have.

Things Your Dog Doesn't Want You to Know

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Meg Leder

#paperback #fiction #family #ya #teenfiction #arc 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Letting Go of Gravity

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Stephenie Meyer

#paperback #suspense #fiction #stephaniemeyer #thriller #ya 

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon. When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialized skill set. And she shows once again why she's one of the world's bestselling authors.

The Chemist

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Thomas Keneally

#paperback #fiction #booktomovie #historicalfiction #holocaust 

Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps

Schindler's List

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Rick Moody

A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony

"[A] moving, funny, hauntingly brilliant memoir about marriage."--Caroline Leavitt,The San Francisco Chronicle

Rick Moody, the award-winning author ofThe Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful, month-by-month account

At this story's start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question "Would you like to be in a committed relationship?" is, fully and for the first time in his life, "Yes."

And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles--miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, "this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love." To Moody's astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, and the reader is buoyed along with them.

The Long Accomplishment

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Professor Steven Lukes

A Radical View

The second edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, alongside two major new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. Power Revisited reconsiders Steven Lukes' own views in light of these debates and of criticisms of his original argument.

With a new introduction and bibliographical essay, this book has consolidated its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within Social and Political Theory. It can be used on modules across the Social and Political Sciences dealing with the concept of power and its manifestation in the world. It is also essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduates interested in the history of Social and Political Thought.

New to this Edition:
- An additional introduction explaining the context of the first edition of Power: A Radical View
- Two new chapters defending Lukes' original argument and assessing the main debates about power since
- A detailed guide to further reading on essential concepts and key thinkers

Power

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Stephen Walsh

A Painter in Sound 

One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. Debussy drove French music into entirely new regions of beauty and excitement at a time when old traditions threatened to stifle it. Yet despite his profound influence on French culture, Debussy's own life was complicated and often troubled by struggles over money, women, and ill health. Here, Stephen Walsh, acclaimed author of Stravinsky, chronicles both the composer himself and the unique moment in European history that bore him. Walsh's engagingly original approach is to enrich a lively biography with analyses of Debussy's music: from his first daring breaks with the rules as a Conservatoire student to his achievements as the greatest French composer of his time.

Debussy

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Joel Rosenthal

#paperback #ethics #internationalrelations #foreignaffairs #democracy #morality #politicaltheory 

A Reader

This collection of some of the best contemporary scholarship in ethics and international affairs explores the connection between moral traditions and decision making during and after the Cold War. Each author relates the timeless insights of philosophy and our collective historical experience to the hard choices of our own age. This volume should be of special interest to those working and teaching in international relations, diplomatic history, foreign policy, applied ethics, and related fields.

Ethics and International Affairs

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Walter Cronkite

#paperback #politics #peace #hope #peacestudies #activism #essays

Inspiring Individuals to Take Action for a Better World

This compendium of inspiration and information by international peace leaders is focused on helping young people in their own search for finding ways to make the world a more peaceful place. Included in this book are articles by: famed primatologist Jane Goodall Nobel Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick President of Soka Gakka International Daisaku Ikeda Theodore Hesburgh, and many others.

Hold Hope, Wage Peace (2 copies available)

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Mitch Prinstein

#paperback #selfhelp #selfesteem #happiness 

Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much about the Wrong Kinds of Relationships

A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness--and why we don't always want to be the most popular.
 
Popular examines why popularity plays such a key role in our development and, ultimately, how it still influences our happiness and success today. In many ways--some even beyond our conscious awareness--those old dynamics of our youth continue to play out in every business meeting, every social gathering, in our personal relationships, and even how we raise our children. Our popularity even affects our DNA, our health, and our mortality in fascinating ways we never previously realized. More than childhood intelligence, family background, or prior psychological issues, research indicates that it's how popular we were in our early years that predicts how successful and how happy we grow up to be.

But it's not always the conventionally popular people who fare the best, for the simple reason that there is more than one type of popularity--and many of us still long for the wrong one. As children, we strive to be likable, which can offer real benefits not only on the playground but throughout our lives. In adolescence, though, a new form of popularity emerges, and we suddenly begin to care about status, power, influence, and notoriety--research indicates that this type of popularity hurts us more than we realize.

Popular addresses a topic more relevant today than ever before.  In a world that pushes us to pursue power, and click our way to online status, it has become too easy to be lured towards a type of popularity that can harm us, and our children. Popular relies on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to help us make the wisest choices for ourselves and for our children. With specific tips for parents, business leaders, and all adults who can remember their high school experiences, as well as a letter to teens to help this generation navigate a world in which popularity has become more complex than ever before, Popular can teach us all how to achieve more meaningful, successful, and rewarding relationships.

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David Estlund

Democracy brings together some of the most sophisticated thinking on democratic theory in one concise volume. Written by experts in the field, these contemporary readings are distinctively philosophical, but will appeal to students in historical, empirical, legal, or policy- oriented disciplines which deal with democratic theory.

Democracy

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Elizabeth Sutherland

Seer of Kintail

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Eric Hagerman

John J. Ratey

The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run.

Spark

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Amber Royer

In the far future, chocolate is Earth’s only unique commodity one that everyone else in the galaxy is willing to kill to get their hands, paws and tentacles on Latina culinary arts student, Bo Benitez, becomes a fugitive when she’s caught stealing a cacao pod from one of the heavily-defended plantations that keep chocolate, Earth’s sole valuable export, safe from a hungry galaxy. Forces array against her including her alien boyfriend and a reptilian cop. But when she escapes onto an unmarked starship things go from bad to worse: it belongs to the race famed throughout the galaxy for eating stowaways! Surrounded by dangerous yet hunky aliens, Bo starts to uncover clues that the threat to Earth may be bigger than she first thought. File Under: Science Fiction [ Heiress Apparent | Sticky Fingers | Pod People | The Milky Way ]

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Joe Biden

Promise Me, Dad

Ben Ehrenreich

Desert Notebooks

Kristin Hannah

The Four Winds

Debra Music; Joe Whinney; Leora Bloom; Charity Burggraaf

Theo Chocolate

Madeleine L'Engle

The Moment of Tenderness

J. J. Goode; Helen Hollyman; Editors of MUNCHIES

Munchies

Hy Conrad; Jeff Johnson

Things Your Dog Doesn't Want You to Know

Meg Leder

Letting Go of Gravity

Stephenie Meyer

The Chemist

Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List

Rick Moody

The Long Accomplishment

Steven Lukes

Power

Debra Music; Joe Whinney; Leora Bloom; Charity Burggraaf (Photographer)

Theo Chocolate

Stephen Walsh

Debussy

Joel Rosenthal (Editor)

Ethics and International Affairs

David Krieger (Editor); Carah Ong (Editor); Walter Cronkite (Foreword by)

Hold Hope, Wage Peace (2 copies available)

Mitch Prinstein

Popular

David Estlund (Editor)

Democracy

Elizabeth Sutherland

Seer of Kintail

Eric Hagerman (As told to); John J. Ratey

Spark

Amber Royer

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