Geoffrey C. Ward

Dayton Duncan

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

An Illustrated History

Presents a companion volume to the series tracing the history of the West

The West

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Jewel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Poems

I've learned that not allpoetry lends itself to music -- some thoughts needto be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part[s] of our selves that are so essential to peace, to openheartedness, to unfolding the vision and the spiritual realm of our lives, to exposing our souls. - Jewel, From the Preface Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic and mundane, loneliness and friendship. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

A Night Without Armor

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Tupac Shakur

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela.

The Rose That Grew from Concrete

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W. B. Yeats

Yeats has brought together the work of the best Irish folklorists, including Lady Wilde and Douglas Hyde.

These stories recreate a mystical vanished world, where banshees and leprechauns, changelings and bewitched animals live alongside men and women.

Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland

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Steven Ascher

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

With a myriad of options and technology available to filmmakers, making a film is more affordable than ever. As legions of would-be filmmakers aspire to put their dreams on screen, to become the next Scorsese or viral YouTube hit, this comprehensive guide is more essential than ever. Covering digital video, film and even DSLR still cameras with video capabilities, two award winning filmmakers and teachers address all aspects of filmmaking.

The Filmmaker's Handbook

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Robert Rodriguez

Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

Famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Machete) discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film El Mariachi on a shoestring budget.

This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through. Part production diary, part how-to manual, Rodriguez unveils how he was able to make his influential first film on only a $7,000 budget. Also included is the appendix, "The Ten Minute Film Course," a tell-all on how to save thousands of dollars on film school and teach yourself the ropes of film production, directing, and screenwriting. 

A perfect gift for the aspiring filmmaker.

Rebel Without a Crew

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Michelle McNamara

Gillian Flynn

Patton Oswalt

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:

Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | Bustle 

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction | Anthony Award Winner | SCIBA Book Award Winner | Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence

The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case--which was solved in April 2018.

Introduction by Gillian Flynn * Afterword by Patton Oswalt

"A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can't-stop-now reading."   --Stephen King

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark--the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death--offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman's obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic--one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

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Brian Selznick

Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which together with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick!Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks--like the gears of the clocks he keeps--with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life and his most precious secret are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.With 284 pages of original drawings and combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Brian Selznick breaks open the novel form to create an entirely new reading experience. Here is a stunning cinematic tour de force from a boldly innovative storyteller and artist.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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Rob Bell

Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

"An exciting vision of the future"
--Michael Eric Dyson

Everything Is Spiritual is an unexpected and compelling
invitation to see your life in a whole new way. We
have the great moments of our lives, the highs, those
times when we soar, when it all makes sense, when it feels
like it all has purpose and meaning. And then there are all
those other moments--the lows and aches and failures and
struggles and experiences that leave us wondering what
the point of it all is. Are our lives ultimately bits and pieces
and fragments--you try to find a little peace and hope and
then it's over? Or is there more going on here?

In our increasingly polarized and disoriented world,
Everything Is Spiritual gives us a radical new take on how
it all fits together, how it works, how it's all connected. Part
memoir, part extended riff on the quantum nature of reality,
part history of the universe, Rob Bell takes us back through
the twists and turns and struggles of his story in order to
help us see the larger story so that we can reconnect with
our story.

Everything Is Spiritual

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

An Elegant Collection of over 100 Recipes Inspired by the City of Light

Paris Cocktails 

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Tim Federle

Cocktails with a Literary Twist

Features 65 drink recipes inspired by history's most loved novels.

Tequila Mockingbird

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Hunter S. Thompson

A Novel

A young reporter's life in the 1950s. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished.

The Rum Diary

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Hunter Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, and Songs of the Doomed he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit, anger, and occasional compassion. Collected together for the first time, The Gonzo Papers Anthology is an indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity, and a remarkably skewed common sense. 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral' William F. Buckley 'No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet does it so hilariously' Nelson Algren

The Gonzo Papers Anthology

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Jack Kerouac

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

On the Road

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Christopher McDougall

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.

Born to Run

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China Miéville

Stories

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE GUARDIAN * The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways. London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones--designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection--many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world--and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves--Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literature's most original voices. Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion "Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence. . . . There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can't quite grasp. The book left me feeling unsettled, uneasy, nervous, and I think that is Mr. Miéville's point. He wants to draw attention to the scratching under the floorboards, the panic in our heads, the rebellion of nature and inanimate objects. As he says, 'These days there are so many odd and troubling noises in the city.'"--Sarah Lyall, The New York Times "You can't talk about Miéville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. . . . My favourite of all these tales is 'The Rules,' two and a half pages long. Read it. You won't regret it, or forget it."--Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (U.K.) "Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities."--Entertainment Weekly "Horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally. . . . Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling. Above all, what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Three Moments of an Explosion

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Emily Bernard

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book." In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Black Is the Body is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages." --Elizabeth Gilbert WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR

Black Is the Body

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Andrew Rea

A Cookbook for Movie Lovers

Eat What You Watch recreates more than 40 recipes from classic and cult films

Eat What You Watch

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F. L. Fowler

A Parody in a Cookbook

A wryly whimsical culinary parody of E. L. James' Fifty Shades trilogy combines epicurean double entendres, 50 chicken recipes and the story of a young free-range chicken who finds herself at the mercy of a kinky and dominating chef, in a parody that includes such dishes as "Sticky (Chicken) Fingers" and "Bound Wings."

Fifty Shades of Chicken

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Wiley Cash

“Bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing.” —Bobbie Ann Mason “This book will knock your socks off….A first novel that sings with talent.” —Clyde Edgerton In his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. A Land More Kind than Home is a modern masterwork of Southern fiction, reminiscent of the writings of John Hart (Down River), Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter), Ron Rash (Serena), and Pete Dexter (Paris Trout)—one that is likely to be held in the same enduring esteem as such American classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and A Separate Peace. A brilliant evocation of a place, a heart-rending family story, a gripping and suspenseful mystery—with A Land More Kind than Home, a major American novelist enthusiastically announces his arrival.

A Land More Kind Than Home

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After their mother unexpectedly dies, twelve-year-old Easter Quillby and her six-year-old sister, Ruby, aren't expecting to see their errant father, Wade, ever again. But the ex–minor league baseball player who's been gone for years has suddenly appeared at their foster home to steal them away in the middle of the night. Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for them, and quickly turns up unsettling information linking their father to a multimillion-dollar robbery. But Brady isn't the only hunter on the trail. Robert Pruitt, a mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is determined to find Wade and claim his due. Narrated in alternating voices that are at once captivating and heartbreaking, This Dark Road to Mercy is a soulful story about the emotional pull of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.

This Dark Road to Mercy

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Sarah Robinson

Includes a Bonus Novella by Melinda Curtis

When sparks start flying, these total opposites discover Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year.

To raise enough money to start her own business, Nola Bennett needs to sell "The Castle," her beloved grandmother's historic house and get back home to the city. But Heart Lake's most eligible bachelor is insisting she hang on to the property. He may be one of the hottest, grumpiest men she's ever seen, but Nola has no time to pine over her high school crush.



All woodworker Tanner Dean wants for Christmas is some peace and quiet, but that's not going to happen with infuriating, irresistible Nola Bennett back in town. How can he persuade her to keep The Castle out of the hands of greedy developers when sizzling attraction flares every time they're together? And the more time he spends with Nola, the harder it becomes to picture a future without her--unless he can convince her, once and for all, that Heart Lake is exactly where she belongs.

Includes the bonus novella The Christmas Wish by Melinda Curtis!

Dreaming of a Heart Lake Christmas

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Jenny Hale

For readers of Jenny Colgan and RaeAnne Thayne, 'tis the season for finding friendship, a place to call home, and a love to last a lifetime.



Christmas is tough for Lila Evans. She's all alone, left with only memories of the heartbreaking time when she lost her father. But this year, Lila's in search of a home away from home--and the countryside retreat of Fireside Cabins sounds like the perfect place. Yet Pinewood Hills, tucked in the snow-topped Tennessee mountains, doesn't offer the small-town welcome she'd been expecting. And when Lila stops at the local coffee shop for a much-needed peppermint latte, the rugged, surly owner Theo Perry gives her a reception as icy as his piercing blue eyes.



Unfortunately, avoiding each other in the quaint village is impossible, which means Lila is soon bumping into Theo everywhere. To her surprise, Lila discovers there's more to Theo than his frosty demeanor . . . and when Lila sees him smile, it feels like sunshine on a cold winter's day--like coming home. To chase away her holiday blues, Lila makes it her mission to warm up Theo, even if the town warns her that it would take a Christmas miracle.

Christmas at Fireside Cabins

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Georgie, All Along

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Molly Baines

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The West

Jewel

A Night Without Armor

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The Rose That Grew from Concrete

W. B. Yeats

Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland

Steven Ascher

The Filmmaker's Handbook

Robert Rodriguez

Rebel Without a Crew

Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn; Patton Oswalt

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Brian Selznick

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Rob Bell

Everything Is Spiritual

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Paris Cocktails

Tim Federle

Tequila Mockingbird

Hunter S. Thompson

The Rum Diary

Hunter Thompson

The Gonzo Papers Anthology

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run

China Miéville

Three Moments of an Explosion

Emily Bernard

Black Is the Body

Andrew Rea

Eat What You Watch

F. L. Fowler

Fifty Shades of Chicken

Wiley Cash

A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash

This Dark Road to Mercy

Sarah Robinson

Dreaming of a Heart Lake Christmas

Jenny Hale

Christmas at Fireside Cabins

Kate Clayborn

Georgie, All Along

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