Don R. Riso

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idaho

The Practical Guide to Personality Types

Riso's streamlined manual of the Enneagram emphasizes its application to daily life.

Understanding the Enneagram

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Ridha Arem

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Boost Your Sluggish Metabolism to Lose Weight

World-renowned endocrinologist and author of the half million-copy bestseller, The Thyroid Solution, now presents his proven program for re-setting sluggish metabolisms to lose weight, improve thyroid wellness, and increase overall well-being.

Could your thyroid be making you fat? Do you have a hard time losing weight? If your thyroid and metabolism are slow, you can't lose weight simply by cutting back on what you eat. And if you're overweight--whether you suffer from a thyroid problem or not--your hormones are most likely out of whack and are keeping you from losing those extra pounds.

World-renowned endocrinologist Dr. Ridha Arem has treated hundreds of patients successfully for hormone-related weight problems--and almost every weight problem has an accompanying hormone problem. Now for the first time in The Thyroid Solution Diet, Dr. Arem makes his comprehensive hormone-balancing nutrition and weight-loss plan available to the public. With it, you will restore your health and feel better-- mentally and physically--as you get slimmer.

Dr. Arem perfected his unique diet after extensive research, modifying the Mediterranean Diet so that his plan is higher in protein, higher in fiber, and also low-glycemic. This way your meals are both satisfying and filling. Specific combinations of proteins and essential supplements at each meal rev your metabolism and reverse hormonal imbalances. And you can further personalize your weight-loss plan by choosing from Dr. Arem's extensive lists of Favorite Foods and from 48 delicious recipes created especially for this book.

Before you even start the diet, Dr. Arem takes you through a weeklong detox plan to rid your body of the environmental toxins that compromise your hormone functions and contribute to making you fat. You'll make his carefully formulated smoothie and also start to work with the illustrated 20/10 Exercise program--twenty minutes of aerobics and ten minutes of strength training--to generate energy and vitality.

Retrain your body, ramp up your energy, sleep better, reduce stress, and--finally--lose weight and keep it off. This comprehensive mind-body health and diet plan can help you.

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From The Thyroid Solution Diet

Do you want to lose weight? Have you tried diet after diet and yet the stubborn pounds remain? Regardless of why you gained weight, once you're wearing those extra pounds, your metabolism shifts gears, triggering multiple hormonal changes that perpetuate weight gain by making your body resistant to losing weight. The only way to lose weight is to rebalance your hormone systems, and the Thyroid Solution Diet is meticulously crafted to do just that.

Ask yourself these questions: Are you always tired? Do you have dry skin and dry hair? Is your hair thinning? Are your hands and feet always cold? Do you have a lack of motivation or are you moody, anxious, irritable, or depressed? A thyroid imbalance could be causing any of these symptoms . . . and your weight gain, too. For decades, researchers knew that the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland at the front of the neck, governed metabolism, mood, body fat, brain function, and even hearing and vision. But the details on how thyroid hormones control appetite, energy, and weight weren't clear until recently. Even if you haven't been diagnosed with a thyroid condition, or your doctor has told you your blood tests are normal, you might have a subclinical thyroid imbalance, meaning your blood tests are minimally abnormal or borderline. Many doctors ignore these small abnormalities, but losing weight with a borderline low thyroid condition is extremely difficult.

The Thyroid Solution Diet

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Debra M. Eldredge

Liisa D. Carlson

Delbert G. Carlson

James M. Giffin

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Home veterinary for dog owners

The classic bestseller--expanded and updated

The guide dog lovers have relied on for more than twenty-seven years, this handbook has been extensively revised to include the latest information on everything from canine healthcare to nutrition to holistic treatments. Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook, Fourth Edition, is the definitive guide for every dog owner. It puts vital information at your fingertips, with:

 * An index of signs and symptoms to help you find information fast

 * Clearly written, step-by-step directions for handling common canine ailments and problems

 * A chapter on emergencies that explains what to do immediately for shock, broken bones, burns, dehydration, heat stroke, poisoning, insect stings and bites, wounds, and more

 * Hundreds of photos and drawings that illustrate what to look for and what to do to provide the best care for your dog

 * A glossary of terms

With this guide, you'll know when to rush your pet to the vet and when you can begin treatment at home. You'll communicate more effectively with your vet. You'll have the latest information on every aspect of your dog's medical care when you need it. This is the hands-on reference you'll trust again and again.

Dog Owner's Home Veterinary Handbook

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Christopher Kendris

Reading & Language Arts

Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy to Learn Format

Popular phrases, words, and expressions accompany the complete conjugation of common Spanish verbs.

501 Spanish Verbs

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Patricia Schultz

Around the world, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer. 1000 places guaranteed to give travelers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand, hotels, wildlife, preserves, hilltop villages, snack, shacks, castles, festivals, wreaths, restaurants, cathedrals, hidden islands, opera, houses, museums, and much more.each entry tells exactly why it’s essential to visit

A travelers life list on and off the beaten track

Describes essential places to see from around the world, offering information on what to find at each spot and the best time to visit.

1,000 Places to See Before You Die

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Raphael Kellman

The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss

The groundbreaking program that connects the microbiome and gut health to healthy weight loss, complete with a three-phase plan and recipes.


Cutting-edge science has shown that the microbiome is the key to overall mental and physical health -- and the secret behind healthy, sustainable weight loss. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience as a specialist in functional medicine and intestinal health, Dr. Raphael Kellman has developed the first diet based on these scientific breakthroughs.


Offering a proven program to heal your gut and reset your metabolism, along with meal plans and fifty delicious chef-created recipes, The Microbiome Diet is the key to safe, sustainable weight loss and a lifetime of good health.


"Dr. Kellman masterfully presents a life enhancing, actionable plan based on this emerging science in a way that is user-friendly, for all of us." -- Dr. David Perlmutter, New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain

Microbiome Diet

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Edward Rutherfurd

A sweeping novel of London, spanning, 2000 years. A long and noble history alive through the ever shifting fortunes, fates and intrigues of half a dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the 20th century. Suspenseful, adventuresome, and a passionate tail of love and war.

The Novel

The triumphs and failures of seven individual family clans span the history of a city from the third-century Roman occupation of Londinium through such eras as the Norman conquest and the Elizabethan period

London

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Tuscany, 1944: as allied troops, advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of an abandoned villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged historian, who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins, and recall long, forgotten memories of her youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amid the rubble of war, torn Italy, and set off a course of events that will shape Ulysses life for the next four decades.
As Ulysses is returns home to London, reimbursing himself, and his crew at the Stoat and Parrot – a motley crew of pub, crawlers and eccentrics, he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows, better than to fate, and returns to the Tuscan Hills. 
With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, still life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills. With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

Still Life

Rebecca Wood

Paul Pitchford

An A-to-Z selection, preparation, and storage for more than 1000 common and uncommon fruits, vegetables, grains, and herbs. Author of the splendid grain, winner of the James Beard and Julia, Child awards.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating

The bible of nutritional eating-now fully updated for the twenty- first-century kitchen

The average American's awareness of the relationship between diet and mental and physical well being has virtually exploded since The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia was first published in 1983. There has never been a greater selection of whole foods available at even a typical grocery store-but the choices can often be dizzying.

This new edition shows consumers how to select, prepare, store, and use more than 1,000 familiar and unusual foods to maintain optimum health and heal what ails them. Readers of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser- as well as anyone concerned about the quality of the food they ingest- will make this the go-to resource on good nutrition.

This updated edition of The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia includes:

--More than two hundred new entries
--A new index featuring home remedies
--Line drawings illustrating unusual foods
--Resources for hard-to-find foods
--A fully cross-referenced format with sidebar recipes throughout

The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia

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Annie Somerville

New Vegetarian Recipes from the Celebrated Greens Restaurant: a Cookbook

The opening of Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay in 1979 changed forever the image of vegetarian cooking in America.nbsp;nbsp;From the restaurant's imaginative mix of casual elegance, exciting tastes, and a subtle message of health and harmony, a distinctive cuisine was born that has continued to bring joy to many thousands of diners every year as well as to the hundreds of thousands of readers who delight in The Greens Cookbook. In its latest incarnation, the restaurant has evolved toward a lighter, leaner, simpler cuisine, one that keeps all the spirit and refinement of the original menu but depends more on the excitement of sparkling fresh produce and its integral relationship to the dishes it inspires.

In close to 300 original recipes, the new Greens style includes exuberant salads, soups, the legendary crusty Greens pizzas, curries and hearty stews, grilled vegetables, and intriguing turnovers made with filo pastry, tortillas, and savory doughs.nbsp;nbsp;And of course there are heavenly breads and the famous desserts, like ginger pound cake with poached apricots and cherries.nbsp;nbsp;This cornucopia of brilliant dishes focuses on tantalizing tastes, with a new simplicity, clarity, and liveliness as its hallmark.

Annie Somerville, the executive chef at Greens, goes right to the heart of the matter: extraordinary produce that's bursting with flavor, color, and texture.nbsp;nbsp;Some of her favorites--like crinkly Bloomsdale spinach, candy-striped Chioggia beets, succulent Rosefir potatoes--are highlighted in the text for gardeners and farmers' market aficionados.nbsp;nbsp;But the Greens style is above all accessible; ordinary red beets will be just fine if more exotic varieties are unavailable.nbsp;nbsp;To help with availability, there's information on locating farmers' markets throughout the country as well as sources for plants, seeds, and local resources.

Because the garden is at the center of this book, readers are encouraged to try their hand, in tiny backyards and windowsill boxes if necessary.nbsp;nbsp;Invaluable growing tips are offered from Green Gulch Farm, the source of much of the stunning produce served at the restaurant.nbsp;nbsp;Other special features include a section on low-fat cooking and another on pairing wine with vegetarian food.

All of the abundance and exuberance that the title Fields of Greens implies is here, for the novice as well as the expert, for simple last-minute meals as well as extravagant occasions.nbsp;nbsp;For truly inspired contemporary vegetarian cooking, Fields of Greens is the essential sourcebook.


Annie Somerville trained under Deborah Madison, the founding chef at Greens Restaurant.nbsp;nbsp;Under Somerville's guidance as executive chef, Greens has become a culinary landmark.nbsp;nbsp;Her work has been featured in Gourmet, Food & Wine, Ladies' Home Journal, SF, and California magazine.nbsp;nbsp;She also contributed to The Open Hand Cookbook and Women Chefs cookbook.

Fields of Greens

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Gabriele Grünebaum

Step-by-step instructions for 12 traditional patterns. This volume is a complete illustrated guide to the entire marbleizing process. The author shows how to prepare colors, form beautiful and striking patterns and transfer them onto a prepared paper.
This beautiful centuries old craft dates back to the eighth century Japan. Marbleizing is enjoyed for the exquisite and unique designs it produces, and its myriad of decorative applications.

Step-by-Step Instructions for 12 Traditional Patterns

The beautiful centuries-old craft of marbleizing — decorating paper through the use of "floating colors" — dates back to eighth-century Japan. Today marbleizing is a newly popular craft, enjoyed for the exquisite and unique designs it produces (no two are alike) and its myriad of decorative applications. This volume is a complete step-by-step illustrated guide to the entire marbleizing process. Artist Gabriele Grünbaum shows you how to prepare colors, form beautiful and striking patterns, and transfer them onto prepared paper. Included are a list of tools and materials and helpful suggestions for avoiding common mistakes. In addition, an informative introduction traces the history of this wonderful handicraft. Create beautiful, versatile craft papers with colorful swirls, bold spotted designs, and exciting combed lines. Choose from 12 different patterns: Fantasy, Stone, Swedish, Wave, Comb, Snail, Bouquet/Peacock, Floral, Veined, Tiger, Oil-Color, and Oil-Color Batik. Marbleized paper can be used for decorating books, boxes, lampshades, wall hangings, decoupage, picture frames, linings, wallpaper, greeting cards, stationery — almost any art or craft project. Artists and crafters who want to create their own original marbleized papers will find this inexpensive edition a handy guide for learning basic techniques and a rich source of design ideas.

How to Marbleize Paper

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Ken Goldman

Marilyn Grame

Meg Schneider

It’s no wonder soft pastel has been a popular, medium for centuries. Pastels are versatile, and easy to work with, they produce an impressive array of rich, vibrant colors, and there are no painting, mediums or drying times to worry about. You will discover, timeless tips and techniques for creating your own masterpieces and soft pastel! Follow along step-by-step with professional artists as they teach you to paint a dozen inspiring projects, as well as the fundamentals of working with soft past

Project book for beginners

Possessing qualities of both drawing and painting, soft pastel is a fascinating and versatile art medium. This Walter Foster and Reeves project book for beginners is the ideal introduction to soft pastel, teaching aspiring artists the techniques and skills necessary to create beautiful artwork. Soft Pastel contains several exciting and easy-to-follow projects that are accompanied by colorful visual examples. It’s no wonder soft pastel has been a popular medium for centuries-it's versatile and easy to work with, and it produces an impressive array of rich, vibrant colors. Best of all, there are no painting mediums or drying times to worry about. In this helpful book, you will discover timeless tips and techniques for creating your own masterpieces in soft pastel!

Soft Pastel

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Betty Ganley

10 secret gardens in watercolor. Each of these projects teach you about a specific area of painting. Everything you learn in these projects will build your confidence and knowledge for future paintings in any subject.

10 Secret Gardens in Watercolor

Artist's Projects You Can Paint

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Maggie Price

Come, enjoy the art of pastel painting with beloved workshop, instructor Maggie Price. In this step-by-step by, she teaches you everything you need to know to make the most of this accessible art form. From selecting the right materials to learning the fundamentals of composition, Maggie starts with the basics and progresses to 21 complete pastel demonstrations that detail specific, painting, techniques and defects.
You will learn to:
Create depth and movement with color.
Paint using a range of strokes.
Blend colors to create luminous skies, reflections and more.
Under paint to achieve brilliant light and deep shadows
Mixed pastels, with watercolor and gauche to create fluid effects.
Create new compositions from photographs



Easy Techniques to Master the Medium

Come enjoy the art of pastel painting with beloved workshop instructor Maggie Price. In this step-by-step guide, she teaches you everything you need to know to make the most of this accessible art form. From selecting the right materials to learning the fundamentals of composition, Maggie starts with the basics and progresses to 21 complete pastel demonstrations that detail specific painting techniques and effects. You'll learn how to: • Create depth and movement with color • Paint using a range of strokes • Blend colors to create luminous skies, reflections and more • Underpaint to achieve brilliant light and deep shadows • Mix pastels with watercolor and gouache to create fluid effects • Create new compositions from photographs In addition to step-by-step guidance, you'll be inspired by the work of ten nationally renowned pastel artists. Their contributions to this book illustrate the limitless possibilities of pastel painting and offer additional insight for working with this versatile medium. Maggie also includes dozens of helpful sidebars to help you save time, avoid mistakes and work more efficiently. With its blend of visual instruction, thorough guidance and breathtaking artwork, this is the only guide you need to experience the joy and satisfaction of painting with pastels.

Painting with Pastels

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Judy Martin

An excellent comprehensive book on pastels’s, including soft pastels, oil, pastels, and recommended for beginner to expert. Excellent illustrations and excellent step-by-step, instruction and guidance on becoming a pastel artist. It describes each of the techniques and shows you the technique, providing ideas of how to practice. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A comprehensive A-Z directory of pastel techniques and a step-by-step guide to their use.--Cover.

Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques

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Edward Rutherford

Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s.

Paris

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Pam Jenoff

women secret agents from Britain The remarkable story of the women’s secret agents from Britain

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. 1946, Manhattan One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. Vividly rendered and inspired by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light on the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances.

The Lost Girls of Paris

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William Boyd

A Novel

From one of our most celebrated and imaginative writers comes a spellbinding novel about deception, betrayal, psychoanalysis, and the mysteries of the human heart. William Boyd follows his critically acclaimed novels A Good Man in Africa, Brazzaville Beach, and Ordinary Thunderstorms with a razor-sharp, incandescent thriller in Waiting for Sunrise. A provocative exploration of the line between consciousness and reality is nested within a tense, rollercoaster plotline following as a young English actor ensnared in a bewildering scandal with an enigmatic woman in early twentieth-century Vienna. Sophisticated, page-turning, and unforgettable, Boyd’s Waiting for Sunrise is a triumph of literary fiction from one of the most powerful, thought-provoking writers working today.

Waiting for Sunrise

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Lily Brooks-Dalton

History of survival and resilience

For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world.



Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before.



As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.



Told in four parts--power, water, light, and time--The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.

 

The Light Pirate

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World Languages

Open up a whole new world of communication through ASL You can easily learn ASL with help from The American Sign Language Phrase Book. With more than 500 phrases, this is the reference guide to everyday expressions in American Sign Language, providing a quick way for you to converse with deaf people. Clearly illustrated with hundreds of line drawings, this book focuses on areas such as health, family, school, sports, travel, religion, time, money, food and drink, and small talk. This edition's chapter on technology boasts 50 phrases to help you communicate about the Internet, computing, video relay, and more. There is even a chapter that gives you phrases for communicating about signing: asking people to sign slower, indicating your fingerspelling ability, and requesting help with your fledgling skills. This edition ncludes a two-hour DVD that presents right-and left-handed signers demonstrating every phrase in the book from chapter 3 through the appendix. From asking simple questions (“How are you?”) to more complex phrases (“There's no sign for that, you have to fingerspell it.”), The American Sign Language Phrase Book gives you the power to communicate easily and comfortably in ASL.

The American Sign Language Phrase Book with DVD

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A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital.

The Enchantress of Florence

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.

Lila

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A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time.

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Follows the growing friendship between fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and the slightly younger Joyce, increasingly distant from her teenage daughter and struggling to write a second novel.

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