Foremost authorities on quilt as an art form, culminated in their organization of the first major museum, exhibition of American quilts as a design tradition at the Whitney Museum of American art in New York in 1971.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

An American Design Tradition

The Pieced Quilt

Nancy Crow

256 page book of art quilts with 300 photos 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Nancy Crow Quilts and Influences

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Karen MacNeil

Definitive book on wine, latest (2024) edition

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

No one can describe a wine like Karen MacNeil.

 

Comprehensive, entertaining, authoritative, and endlessly interesting, The Wine Bible is a lively course from an expert teacher, grounding the reader deeply in the fundamentals--vine-yards and varietals, climate and terroir, the nine attributes of a wine's greatness--while layering on tips, informative asides, anecdotes, definitions, photographs, maps, labels, and recommended bottles. Discover how to taste with focus and build a wine-tasting memory. The reason behind Champagne's bubbles. Italy, the place the ancient Greeks called the land of wine. An oak barrel's effect on flavor. Sherry, the world's most misunderstood and underappreciated wine. How to match wine with food--and mood.

Plus everything else you need to know to buy, store, serve, and enjoy the world's most captivating beverage.

 

The Wine Bible

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Thomas Cook Thomas Cook

Pocket-sized guide to French city of Bordeaux

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

This is the savvy city breakers' pocket guide to seeing and doing more in Bordeaux - with a fun-seeking and cost- conscious slant. It provides practical accommodation, restaurant and nightlife listings to suit varied budgets and tastes. Imaginative suggestions reveal the city's hidden gems. The compact format quickly locates the top must-see and do attractions. It features 6 full-colour maps and 35 photographs. It is perfect for pleasure- seeking city breakers wanting to quickly pinpoint the city's most entertaining highlights and decide what to see and do in a limited time. It includes clear maps to enable fast orientation and full-colour illustrated pages to pinpoint the very best in shopping, sightseeing, eating and drinking - plus great ideas for low-budget entertainment too.

Bordeux

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DK Travel

Latest guidebook (2024) to Paris by DK. Includes great pull-out map!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

2024

"Inspire, plan, discover, experience"--Cover.

DK Paris

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Chris Pavone

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Chris Pavone’s harrowing Hitchcockian novel of a woman under pressure—how she acts, who believes her, and what she will resort to when everything is on the line.

Two Nights in Lisbon

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Pat Frank

The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the nation with its vivid portrayal of a small town's survival after nuclear holocaust devastates the country.

Alas, Babylon

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Jane Harper

This instant "New York Times" bestseller is now in a tall Premium Edition. A small town hides big secrets in this stunning, page-turning debut by an award-winning author who is drawing comparisons to Dennis Lehane.

The Dry

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Lawrence Wright

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi doctor and prince in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city"--

The End of October

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Nayomi Munaweera

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families; two young women, ripe for love with hopes for the future; and a chance encounter that leads to the terrible heritage they must reckon with for years to come.

One tragic moment that defines the fate of these women and their families will haunt their choices for decades to come. In the end, love and longing promise only an uneasy peace.

A sweeping saga with the intimacy of a memoir that brings to mind epic fiction like The Kite Runner and The God of Small Things, Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors strikes mercilessly at the heart of war. It offers an unparalleled portrait of a beautiful land during its most difficult moments.

Island of a Thousand Mirrors

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Justin Cronin

A Novel in Stories

WINNER OF THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD * "An astonishingly good first novel . . . fully engaging from the first paragraph. What a gift: to be able to live alongside these people for a while."--Ann Patchett, Chicago Tribune 

Mary and O'Neil: They are like any other couple. They have survived loss and found love and managed the occasional hard-earned laugh as they move toward the future, hearts thick with hope. Each human life is ever changing, born of moments large and small--births and deaths and weddings, grave mistakes and chance encounters and acts of surprising courage--and in this unforgettable book, Justin Cronin makes vivid how those moments connect us all, making us more than we could ever be on our own.

Alight with nuance, sly humor, and startling wisdom, Mary and O'Neil celebrates the uncommon grace to be found in common lives

Praise for Mary and O'Neil 

"Admirably fearless."--The New York Times Book Review

"The kind of storytelling that goes down easy, and sticks to your ribs."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Cronin succeeds, touchingly and tenderly, in portraying life itself as a triumph of hope over experience."--The Boston Globe

Mary and O'Neil

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Extremely comprehensive compendium of wines all over the world.

The World Encyclopedia of Wine

Susan Beth Pfeffer

The second in the dystopian series

After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.

The Dead and the Gone

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First in the series of four dystopian novels

First in the series

Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

Life As We Knew It

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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.

Rule of the Bone

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*A Skimm Reads Pick*
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017
Kirkus Best Debut Novels 2017
Kirkus Best Fictional Families 2017
Minnesota Public Radio Best of 2017

An uproarious novel ("Both heart-piercing and, crucially, very funny." --Louise Erdrich, The New York Times) from the celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken.

When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted by chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he's never met. Audra firmly believes that through the sheer force of her personality she can overcome the most socially challenging interactions, shepherding her son through awkward playdates and origami club, and even deciding to establish a friendship with Graham's first wife, Elspeth.  Graham isn't sure he understands why Audra longs to be friends with the woman he divorced. After all, former spouses are hard to categorize--are they enemies, old flames, or just people you know really, really well? And as Graham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his first wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice? A hilarious and rueful debut novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami, Standard Deviation never deviates from the superb.

Standard Deviation

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A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Complications

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Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.

We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new Nation." The truth is different. In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states that only temporarily joined forces in order to defeat the British. Once victorious, they planned to go their separate ways. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor a political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their autonomy as states.

The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men most responsible--George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. These men, with the help of Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force the calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement.

Ellis has given us a gripping and dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods in American history: the years between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the federal government. The Quartet unmasks a myth, and in its place presents an even more compelling truth--one that lies at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America.

The Quartet

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A Dominican boys Odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League

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2016 Collection

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." --Shelf Awareness for Readers



The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times) to the collection. 
 

The Best American Short Stories 2016

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Animal Dreams

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Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

The Best American Short Stories 1995

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During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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The fates of four people--a woman who is being visited by her late boyfriend's ghost, a gay MP who marries to prevent being outed, a radio talk-show host with an eating disorder, and a black police sergeant--intertwine as a serial killer stalks the street

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