Bea Johnson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Bea Johnson is "the mother of the zero waste lifestyle movement." --CNN

The book that started the waste-free living movement, Zero Waste Living--relates Bea Johnson's inspirational personal story and provides practical tools and tips to help readers diminish their footprint and simplify their lives.

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste. Today, Bea, her husband, Scott, and their two young sons produce just one quart of garbage a year, and their overall quality of life has changed for the better: they now have more time together, they've cut their annual spending by a remarkable forty percent, and they are healthier than they've ever been.

This book shares essential how-to advice, secrets, and insights based on Bea's experience. She demystifies the process of going Zero Waste with hundreds of easy tips for sustainable living that even the busiest people can integrate: from making your own mustard, to packing kids' lunches without plastic, to canceling your junk mail, to enjoying the holidays without the guilt associated with overconsumption. Zero Waste Home is a stylish and relatable step-by-step guide that will give you the practical tools to help you improve your health, save money and time, and achieve a brighter future for your family--and the planet.

Zero Waste Home

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Daniel Handler

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. Phil teams up with his young, attractive assistant. They head for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal. Gwen teams up with a new, fierce friend and some restless souls. They head for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure. We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives. Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home.

We Are Pirates

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Dean Merrill

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise





Horst Schulze knows what it takes to win. In Excellence Wins, the cofounder and former president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company lays out a blueprint for becoming the very best in a world of compromise. In his characteristic no-nonsense approach, Schulze shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have led to immense global success over the course of his still-prolific fifty-year career in the hospitality industry.

For over twenty years, Schulze fearlessly led the company to unprecedented multibillion dollar growth, setting the business vision and people-focused standards that made the Ritz-Carlton brand world renowned. In Excellence Wins, Schulze shares his approach to everything from providing the best customer service to creating a culture of excellence within your organization.

With his tried-and-true methods and inspiring, hard-earned wisdom, Schulze teaches you everything you need to know about:

 * Why leading well is an acquired skill
 * Serving your customers
 * Engaging your employees
 * Creating a culture of customer service
 * Why vision statements make a difference
 * What it really means to practice servant leadership

Schulze's principles are designed to be versatile and practical no matter where you are in your career. He'll remind you that you don't need a powerful title or dozens of direct reports to benefit from the advice he shares in Excellence Wins--you have everything you need to apply it to your life and career right now.

Let Schulze's incredible story help you unleash the disruptive power of your true potential, beat the competition, own your career trajectory, and experience the game-changing power of what happens when Excellence Wins.

Excellence Wins

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Andrew S. Grove

The president of Silicon Valley's Intel Corporation sets forth the three basic ideas of his management philosophy and details numerous specific techniques to increase productivity in the manager's work and that of his colleagues and subordinates

High Output Management

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Cory Bray

Hilmon Sorey

Chris Beall

Ryan Reisert

Sales development is one of the fastest growing careers in the United States. It is fast-paced, often on the leading edge of technology, and people in the role have the possibility of making a ton of money! Unlike accounting, medicine, or law, most salespeople do not study their profession in college. Instead, they are tossed into the fray without much training, context, or support, and are left to sink or swim. This method proves neither efficient nor effective for the individual or the company. Sales Development is written specifically for the job seeker or individual contributor who has aspirations of success in a sales development role, and beyond. This is your personal guidebook to the how, why, and what-to-do's of the sales development profession. Written practically and tactically, this book shows you how to get the job, how to perform, and how to position yourself for advancement. Based upon ten years of teaching sales development representatives in the fastest-growing companies in the United States, this book will launch you on your path to becoming a rock star.

Sales Development

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Dustin Hillis

Steven Reiner

Selling the Way People Like to Buy

Navigate 2.0 delivers empowering insights into how the human mind works, practical advice for understanding your natural selling style, a heavy dose of the psychology behind how people like to buy, and, ultimately, the tools to adapt your natural selling style to the buying styles of others for unparalleled success in sales.

Navigate 2. 0

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Emily Midorikawa

Emma Claire Sweeney

Margaret Atwood

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends

A Secret Sisterhood

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April Davila

Set against the unexpected splendor of an ostrich ranch in the California desert, April Davila's beautifully written debut conjures an absorbing and compelling heroine in a story of courage, family and forgiveness.

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When Tallulah Jones was thirteen, her grandmother plucked her from the dank Oakland apartment she shared with her unreliable mom and brought her to the family ostrich ranch in the Mojave Desert. After eleven years caring for the curious, graceful birds, Tallulah accepts a job in Montana and prepares to leave home. But when Grandma Helen dies under strange circumstances, Tallulah inherits
everything-just days before the birds inexplicably stop laying eggs.

Guarding the secret of the suddenly barren birds, Tallulah endeavors to force through a sale of the ranch, a task that is complicated by the arrival of her extended family. Their designs on the property, and deeply rooted dysfunction, threaten Tallulah's ambitions and eventually her life. With no options left, Tallulah must pull her head out of the sand and face the fifty-year legacy of a family in turmoil- the reality of her grandmother's death, her mother's alcoholism, her uncle's covetous anger, and the 142 ostriches whose lives are in her hands.

"A story told with depth and beauty about the many things we inherit from our families. Davila's characters are familiar, yet unforgettable, and I'm waiting patiently for what she writes next."
-Wayetu Moore, author of She Would Be King

142 Ostriches

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Bill Crager

Jay Hummel

Jean Sherman Chatzky

Building Value in the Investor-Advisor Relationship

Leverage the financial services evolution to maximize your firm's value The Essential Advisor presents an insightful handbook for advisors looking to navigate the changing face of financial services. The industry is evolving, consumers are evolving, and many advisors are being left behind as old methods become less and less relevant. This book shows you how to turn this shift into a positive, by positioning your firm to maximize these new opportunities, and deliver the results and experience increasingly expected of financial advisors. You'll learn how to provide the transparency, hands-on interaction, and around-the-clock access today's clients demand, and how to consistently deliver service that robo-advisors cannot duplicate. Emerging technologies do not have to be a threat to your practice—they are tools that represent opportunities to provide greater service to your clients, and smart technology integration will be a hallmark of firms that survive the shift. This guide provides a clear vision of the future of financial services, and an indispensable management framework for maximizing your firm's future value. Advisors are increasingly confused about what clients are seeking, and clients are equally confused about what advisory firms offer that alternatives cannot. This book helps clear the air on both sides by examining the client's perspective of financial services, and helping advisors better communicate their strengths. Articulate the value of your services Leverage new technology to complement your practice Capitalize on opportunities and maximize your firm's value Position your firm to benefit from the changing consumer population Financial advisors can only grow their businesses if clients know what they do, know how to hire them, and can access them affordably. The Essential Advisor shows you to bring your firm into the future successfully.

The Essential Advisor

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Jon Acuff

Give Yourself the Gift of Done

#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! Jon Acuff, New York Times best-selling author of Do Over, Quitter, and Start, offers strategies for anyone who's ever wondered, "Why can't I finish what I started?" According to studies, 92 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. You’ve practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing your goals. For years, I thought my problem was that I didn’t try hard enough. So I started getting up earlier. I drank enough energy drinks to kill a horse. I hired a life coach and ate more superfoods. Nothing worked, although I did develop a pretty nice eyelid tremor from all the caffeine. It was like my eye was waving at you, very, very quickly. Then, while leading a thirty-day online course to help people work on their goals, I learned something surprising: The most effective exercises were not those that pushed people to work harder. The ones that got people to the finish line did just the opposite— they took the pressure off. Why? Because the sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. We’re our own worst critics, and if it looks like we’re not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That’s why we’re most likely to quit on day two, “the day after perfect”—when our results almost always underper­form our aspirations. The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they’re based on studies conducted by a university researcher with hundreds of participants. You might not guess that having more fun, eliminating your secret rules, and choosing something to bomb intentionally works. But the data says otherwise. People who have fun are 43 percent more successful! Imagine if your diet, guitar playing, or small business was 43 percent more suc­cessful just by following a few simple principles. If you’re tired of being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options: You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, since this time that will work. Or you can give yourself the gift of done.

Finish

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David H. Miller

Discover Your Avatar and Superpowers of the New Rich

Wealth Kryptonite

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Why We Broke Up

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Ruth Reichl

A Novel

Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard. A first novel by the best-selling author of Tender at the Bone. 150,000 first printing.

Delicious!

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Amanda Grange

Relive Jane Austen's Emma- from Mr. Knightley's point of view.

Between managing his estate and visiting his brother in London, Mr. Knightley is both exasperated and amused by his irresistibly beautiful, outrageously mischievous neighbor, Emma Woodhouse, whose misguided attempts at matchmaking are wreaking havoc in the village of Highbury.

But when a handsome newcomer arrives and catches Emma's attention, Mr. Knightley is shocked by his reaction. Amusement gives way to another emotion entirely-for his unreasonable dislike of the handsome newcomer seems suspiciously like jealousy.

Mr. Knightley's Diary

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Colin Crook

Robert Gunther

Jerry Wind

Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business

Why your mental models are your #1 obstacle to success... and how to transform them into your biggest advantage! bull; If you can think impossible thoughts you can do impossible things. bull; Your perception is reality. What we see is what we think and what we think is what we see. bull; Apply your new mental models in business - and throughout your entire life.

The Power of Impossible Thinking

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Helen Cunningham

Brenda Greene

In the everyday work world, most professionals are on their own when it comes to writing reports, memos, proposals, and other necessary correspondence. The Business Style Handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide that focuses specifically on the writing issues that frequently arise on the job. Insights and feedback from Fortune 500 communications executives provide tips and advice on improving writing style and effectiveness, while more than 1,200 alphabetized entries cover the essentials of style and usage, grammatical concepts, and more.

The Business Style Handbook: an a-To-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500

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Audrey Niffenegger

Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

The Time Traveler's Wife

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Stoyan Stefanov

A Concise Guide to Mastering JavaScript

Ready to expand your PHP web development skills with JavaScript? With this guide, you can use your experience with PHP to learn JavaScript from the ground up. Because both languages share the C language syntax, this book skips similarities such as conditions and loops to focus on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance. PHP is a valuable web development tool on its own, but with the upsurge in client-side development, knowledge of JavaScript has become essential for working with today’s Web. By concentrating on the differences between these languages, this book helps PHP programmers, web architects, and both back-end and front-end engineers become fluent in JavaScript fairly quickly. Learn syntax similarities and differences between JavaScript and PHP Discover how JavaScript behaves with and without the DOM and BOM Work with JavaScript functions—and learn why they’re actually objects Explore JavaScript’s object-oriented features, code reuse, and inheritance Take a close look at JavaScript’s built-in API Learn what’s new in ECMAScript 5, the standard that represents the core JavaScript language Organize your code with JavaScript design patterns Compare JavaScript design patterns with classic programming patterns

JavaScript for PHP Developers

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William Sanders

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Provides information on building applications using object-oriented design patterns in PHP code.

Learning PHP Design Patterns

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Baron Schwartz

Peter Zaitsev

Vadim Tkachenko

Optimization, Backups, and Replication

A guide for MySQL administrators covers such topics as benchmarking, server performance, indexing, queries, hardware optimization, replication, scaling, cloud hosting, and backup and recovery.

High Performance MySQL

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Kristina Chodorow

Powerful and Scalable Data Storage

This introductory text shows the advantages of using document-oriented databases and demonstrates how MongoDB is a reliable, high-performance system that allows for horizontal scalability. This updated second edition provides guidance for database developers, advanced configuration for system administrators, and an overview of the concepts and use cases for other people on a project.

MongoDB: the Definitive Guide

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Jessica Seinfeld

Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits? As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak for all parents who struggle to feed their kids right and deal nightly with dinnertime fiascos. As she wages a personal war against sugars, packaged foods, and other nutritional saboteurs, she offers appetizing alternatives for parents who find themselves succumbing to the fastest and easiest (and least healthy) choices available to them. Her modus operandi? Her book is filled with traditional recipes that kids love, except they're stealthily packed with veggies hidden in them so kids don't even know! With the help of a nutritionist and a professional chef, Seinfeld has developed a month's worth of meals for kids of all ages that includes, for example, pureed cauliflower in mac and cheese, and kale in spaghetti and meatballs. She also provides revealing and humorous personal anecdotes, tear–out shopping guides to help parents zoom through the supermarket, and tips on how to deal with the kid that "must have" the latest sugar bomb cereal. But this book also contains much more than recipes and tips. By solving problems on a practical level for parents, Seinfeld addresses the big picture issues that surround childhood obesity and its long–term (and ruinous) effects on the body. With the help of a prominent nutritionist, her book provides parents with an arsenal of information related to kids' nutrition so parents understand why it's important to throw in a little avocado puree into their quesadillas. She discusses the critical importance of portion size, and the specific elements kids simply must have (as opposed to adults) in order to flourish now and in the future: protein, calcium, vitamins, and Omega 3 and 6 fats. Jessica Seinfeld's book is practical, easy–to–read, and a godsend for any parent that wants their kids to be healthy for a long time to come.

Deceptively Delicious

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Andrea J. Buchanan

Miriam Peskowitz

The Daring Book for Girlsis the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.

The Daring Book for Girls

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Donald Miller

Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Explains how businesses can better connect with their customers through the use of a simplified brand message, one that fosters ease of understanding on websites, in brochures, and on social media.

Building a StoryBrand

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Bea Johnson

Zero Waste Home

Daniel Handler

We Are Pirates

Dean Merrill

Excellence Wins

Andrew S. Grove

High Output Management

Cory Bray; Hilmon Sorey; Chris Beall; Ryan Reisert

Sales Development

Dustin Hillis; Steven Reiner

Navigate 2. 0

Emily Midorikawa; Emma Claire Sweeney; Margaret Atwood

A Secret Sisterhood

April Davila

142 Ostriches

Bill Crager; Jay Hummel; Jean Sherman Chatzky

The Essential Advisor

Jon Acuff

Finish

David H. Miller

Wealth Kryptonite

Daniel Handler

Why We Broke Up

Ruth Reichl

Delicious!

Amanda Grange

Mr. Knightley's Diary

Colin Crook; Robert Gunther; Jerry Wind

The Power of Impossible Thinking

Helen Cunningham; Brenda Greene

The Business Style Handbook: an a-To-Z Guide for Writing on the Job with Tips from Communications Experts at the Fortune 500

Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler's Wife

Stoyan Stefanov

JavaScript for PHP Developers

William Sanders

Learning PHP Design Patterns

Baron Schwartz; Peter Zaitsev; Vadim Tkachenko

High Performance MySQL

Kristina Chodorow

MongoDB: the Definitive Guide

Jessica Seinfeld

Deceptively Delicious

Andrea J. Buchanan; Miriam Peskowitz

The Daring Book for Girls

Donald Miller

Building a StoryBrand

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