Fredrik Backman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Novel

Walking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a derelict, financially devastated town, sixty-three-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children.

Britt-Marie Was Here

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Andrew Duplessie

This book is in excellent condition! The dust jacket is shiny and perfect. There are some light scratches on the actual hard cover of the book but the book is otherwise in perfect condition! I tried to include a picture of the scratches but they are hard to see. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Too Scared to Sleep

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Ron Ritchhart

Mark Church

Karin Morrison

David Perkins

This book is brand new! The dvd included has also not been used and still has the seal over it. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines'small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps'as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon.

 * Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion
 * Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas
 * Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies

The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.

Making Thinking Visible

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China Miéville

This book is in excellent condition! It has never been read but has some small scratches on parts of the cover from storage. There are also some slightly dented pages on the bottom of the book. 

WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS * A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who "has reshaped modern fantasy" (The Washington Post)

"[China Miéville's] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat."--The New York Times

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies.

Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released.

The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station.

It is too late to escape.

Perdido Street Station

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Felicia Rose Chavez

How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies.

A captivating mix of memoir and progressive teaching strategies,The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom demonstrates how to be culturally attuned, twenty-first century educators.

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. Award-winning educator Felicia Rose Chavez exposes the invisible politics of power and privilege that have silenced writers of color for far too long. It's more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom, but what specific actions can we take to achieve authentically inclusive communities? Together, we will address how to:

· Deconstruct our biases to achieve a cultural shift in perspective.

· Design a democratic teaching model to create safe spaces for creative concentration.

· Recruit, nourish, and fortify students of color to best empower them to exercise voice.

· Embolden our students to self-advocate as responsible citizens in a globalized community.

Finally, a teaching model that protects and platforms students of color, because every writer deserves access to a public voice. For anyone looking to liberate their thinking from "the way it's always been done,"The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a clear, compelling guidebook on a necessary step forward.

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

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David Quammen

This book is in good condition! It has actually never been read but has some minor wear on the covers because of storage. I have inlcuded pictures for reference!

Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity.
Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.

The Song of the Dodo

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Glenn Stout

This book is in excellent condition! There is some minor wear on the back cover.

For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has been a showcase for the most exceptional sports journalism of the previous year, selected by an acclaimed guest editor. Represented in this year's collection are giants in the field as well as up-and-coming writers to watch--the only shared traits among the diverse styles and voices are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing and the pure passion they tap into.

The Best American Sports Writing 2020

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Bettina Love

Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

We Want to Do More Than Survive

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Paula M. Salvio

Madeleine R. Grumet

This book is in excellent condition! There was a barcode on the back that was partially removed. I have included a picture for reference.

English

Teacher of Weird Abundance

Anne Sexton

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Fatherly

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Comprehensive Guide to Birth, Budgeting, Finding Balance, and Becoming a Happy Parent

Becoming a parent can be daunting . . . terrifying, in fact.

Fatherhood

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Jennifer McMahon

The New York Times bestselling author of the “otherworldly treat” (People) The Drowning Kind and The Children on the Hill returns with a spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family. Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison’s estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother’s alcoholism and violent abuse and is reluctant to unearth these traumatic memories. Still, she eventually agrees to take in Mavis, hoping that she and her mother could finally heal and have the relationship she’s always dreamed of. But when mysterious and otherworldly things start happening upon Mavis’s arrival, Alison begins to suspect her mother is not quite who she seems. And as the holiday festivities turn into a nightmare, she must confront just how far she is willing to go to protect her family.

My Darling Girl

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Susan Power

This book is in excellent condition! It has some minor marks on the back cover that I have included pictures of.

Inspired by the lore of her Sioux heritage, this "captivating"(New York Times Book Review) critically-acclaimed novel from Susan Power weaves the stories of the old and the young, of broken families, romantic rivals, men and women in love and at war...

Set on a North Dakota reservation, The Grass Dancer reveals the harsh price of unfulfilled longings and the healing power of mystery and hope. Rich with drama and infused with the magic of the everyday, it takes readers on a journey through both past and present--in a tale as resonant and haunting as an ancestor's memory, and as promising as a child's dream. 

WINNER OF THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 

The Grass Dancer

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A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

What the Eyes Don't See

Rita Williams-Garcia

After travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two sisters discover that their mother, a dedicated poet, wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

One Crazy Summer

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Sonali Dev

This book is in excellent condition! It just has a small crease on the corner of the cover, which I have included pictures of. There is also a black mark on the pages from when I bought this book. 

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco... It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep. Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: · Never trust an outsider · Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations · And never, ever, defy your family Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life. As the two clash, their assumptions crumble like the spun sugar on one of DJ’s stunning desserts. But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with... A family trying to build home in a new land. A man who has never felt at home anywhere. And a choice to be made between the two.

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

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This cookbook is brand new and has never been used. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A collection of recipes for gathering

Magnolia Table

Ree Drummond

This cookbook has never been used and is in perfect condition! I listed it as "like new" because of the inscription that was written inside. I have included a photo of that in this listing. 

112 Fantastic Favorites for Everyday Eating

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman cooks up exciting new favorites from her life on the ranch in this glorious full-color cookbook that showcases home cooking at its most delicious (and most fun!). Welcome to Ree’s new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Ree’s business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Ree’s been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture she’s craving these days. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier features 120 brand new step-by-step recipes that inject fresh, exciting elements into Ree’s beloved comfort foods. From super-scrumptious breakfasts, to tasty soups and sandwiches, to doable and delicious suppers and sides—and, of course, a collection of irresistible sweets you’ll want to make immediately!—home cooks everywhere will discover an extensive list of must-make dishes the whole family will love. A wife, mother, and successful entrepreneur with a thriving business and popular social media presence, Ree knows exactly what it means to juggle life’s numerous demands simultaneously. Because the day-to-day can get pretty busy, she’s created diverse and delectable recipes to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner a little simpler by including solutions using a sheet pan, an Instant Pot, and a slow cooker, as well as her much-loved cast iron skillet and Dutch oven. And to reflect her own occasional adventures in carb cutting, Ree shares 50 of the most luscious “lower”-carb recipes you’ll ever taste, designed to mix in with hearty recipes her longtime fans have come to love. In The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier you can explore an amazing and eclectic mix of traditional and new including: Portobello Bun Burgers (revolutionary) Instant Pot Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal (tastes just like fall!) Cheesy Lasagna Soup (so family friendly) Fried Red Tomato Sandwich (delicious, with pesto mayo and whole basil leaves) ”Everything” Parmesan Crisps (an irresistible low-carb snack) Zucchini Caprese Sliders (a pretty and tasty low-carb delight) Blueberry Ricotta Crostini (gorgeous party food!) Teriyaki Shrimp and Pineapple Parcels (the NEW way to stir fry) Mean Green Mac & Cheese (mac & cheese + veggies = score!) Ranch Pork Chop Sheet Pan Supper (kids will love to make it) Cauliflower Fried Rice (a guilt-free version of your favorite takeout dish) Ice Cream Bonbons (smaller bites, to satisfy quick cravings) 11-Carton Cake (uses a carton of yogurt, then the carton measures everything else!) Caramel Apple Quesadillas (beyond belief) Ree mixes dazzling new dishes with plenty of kitchen and organizational tips, plus advice to help you optimize your time and space in the kitchen so that you can enjoy time with your family! Filled with sensational food that is both sophisticated and down-home (and oh-so-easy to make and bake), The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier offers a whole new world of ”scrumptious” for you to explore!

The Pioneer Woman Cooks--The New Frontier

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Julie Murphy

This book is in like new condition! The sticker on the front is removable.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Meant to Be Novel

If the Shoe Fits encompasses everything I love about rom-coms. I laughed, I swooned, I smiled. Another hit for Julie Murphy --Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Hopeless If the shoe doesn't fit, maybe it's time to design your own. Cindy loves shoes. A well-placed bow or a chic stacked heel is her form of self-expression. As a fashion-obsessed plus-size woman, she can never find designer clothes that work on her body, but a special pair of shoes always fits just right. With a shiny new design degree but no job in sight, Cindy moves back in with her stepmother, Erica Tremaine, the executive producer of the world's biggest dating reality show. When a contestant on Before Midnight bows out at the last minute, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight. Showcasing her killer shoe collection on network TV seems like a great way to jump-start her career. And, while she's at it, why not go on a few lavish dates with an eligible suitor? But being the first and only fat contestant on Before Midnight turns her into a viral sensation--and a body-positivity icon--overnight. Even harder to believe? She can actually see herself falling for this Prince Charming. To make it to the end, despite the fans, the haters, and a house full of fellow contestants she's not sure she can trust, Cindy will have to take a leap of faith and hope her heels-- and her heart--don't break in the process. Best-selling author Julie Murphy's reimagining of a beloved fairy tale is an enchanting story of self-love and believing in the happy ending each and every one of us deserves.

If the Shoe Fits

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Other People's Houses 

Lauren Thoman

Mindy Kaling

"Lauren Thoman's I'll Stop the World is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of characters that gives off great eighties vibes. I was absolutely dazzled by this unputdownable genre-bending novel that's equal parts coming-of-age suspense and emotional tale of forgiveness and second chances." --Mindy Kaling

The end and the beginning become one in a heart-pounding coming-of-age mystery about the power of friendship, fate, and inexplicable second chances.

Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time?

Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents. The unsolved crime happened long before Justin was born, but the ripple effects are still felt after thirty-eight years. Justin always knew he wouldn't have much of a future. He just never imagined that his life might take him backward.

In a cosmic twist of fate, Justin's choices send him crashing into the path of determined optimist Rose Yin. Justin and Rose live in the same town and attend the same school, but have never met--because Rose lives in 1985. Justin won't be born for another twenty years. And his grandparents are still alive--for now.

In a series of events that reverberate through multiple lifetimes, Justin and Rose have a week to get Justin unstuck in time and put each of them in control of their futures--by solving a murder that hasn't even happened yet.

I'll Stop the World

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Caroline Dooner

This book is in like new, excellent condition!

Eating Should Be Easy

“The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.” –Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop dieting, reboot your relationship with food, and regain your personal power DIETING DOESN’T WORK Not long term. In fact, our bodies are hardwired against it. But each time our diets fail, instead of considering that maybe our ridiculously low-carb diet is the problem, we wonder what’s wrong with us. Why can’t we stick to our simple plan of grapefruit and tuna fish??? Why are we so hungry? What is wrong with us??? We berate ourselves for being lazy and weak, double down on our belief that losing weight is the key to our everlasting happiness, and resolve to do better tomorrow. But it’s time we called a spade a spade: Constantly trying to eat the smallest amount possible is a miserable way to live, and it isn’t even working. So fuck eating like that. In The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner tackles the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture, and offers readers a counterintuitively simple path to healing their physical, emotional, and mental relationship with food. What’s the secret anti-diet? Eat. Whatever you want. Honor your appetite and listen to your hunger. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. Oh, and don’t forget to rest, breathe, and be kind to yourself while you’re at it. Once you get yourself out of survival mode, it will become easier and easier to eat what your body really needs—a healthier relationship with food ultimately leads to a healthier you. An ex-yo-yo dieter herself, Dooner knows how terrifying it can be to break free of the vicious cycle, but with her signature sharp humor and compassion, she shows readers that a sustainable, easy relationship with food is possible. Irreverent and empowering, The F*ck It Diet is call to arms for anyone who feels guilt or pain over food, weight, or their body. It’s time to give up the shame and start thriving. Welcome to the F*ck It Diet. Let’s Eat.

The F*ck It Diet

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Nell Zink

This book is in like new condition. There is a very small tear on the bottom back corner of the book that you cannot see when the cover is on.

The "wonderfully talented" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life—by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic "healing center." And she’s never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm’s previous marriage—one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property "Nicotine." The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers’ rights) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she’s desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family’s lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it—and its residents—until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time.

Nicotine

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This book is perfect for your child who is entering kindergarten! It is brand new.

Off to Kindergarten

This is a brand new, paperback, copy of this book! 

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