Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Parental perception of home internet used among rural African American Families 

The Rituals of our lives1

From beginning to end 

Caridad Piñeiro

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Threatened by a deep-seated evil...
That they can only stop together.

When John Wilson realizes that his groundbreaking computer program is under attack, he enlists South Beach Security for help. Like it or not, SBS includes the alluring Mia Gonzalez. Beautiful, savvy Mia had enticed the tech billionaire in the past--before disappearing from his life. Now, whoever wants John's brilliant invention is also after Mia and her family. This wasn't the reunion John was hoping for, but only with Mia by his side can they hope to outsmart a killer...

From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

Discover more action-packed stories in the South Beach Security series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:

Book 1: Lost in Little Havana
Book 2: Brickell Avenue Ambush
Book 3: Biscayne Bay Breach

Biscayne Bay Breach

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Mortal Engines

Junot Díaz

Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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His fresh start is about to be interrupted
by a threatening foe.

Former marine Shane Adler's used to perilous situations. But he's stunned to find danger in the peaceful Idaho mountains--especially swirling around his beautiful dog trainer. After tragically losing her hero husband, Piper Lambert's rebuilt her life. Now it's up to Shane--and his loyal K-9 in training, Decoy--to make sure a mysterious enemy won't derail her new beginning...or his.  

From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

Discover more action-packed stories in the K-9s on Patrol series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:

Book 1: Decoy Training by Caridad Piñeiro
Book 2: Sniffing Out Danger by Elizabeth Heiter
Book 3: Foothills Field Search by Maggie Wells

Decoy Training

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Kate Dicamillo

Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

The Tale of Despereaux

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Diana Raymond

Emma Pride

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L. B. E. Cowman

James Reimann

Charles E. Cowman

C. Cowman

Jim Reimann

366 Daily Devotional Readings

I said, "The desert is so wide!"What springs to quench my thirst are there? Where will I from the tempest hide? In a barren wilderness, L. B. Cowman long ago discovered a fountain that sustained her, and she shared it with the world. Streams in the Desert "RM" -- her collection of prayerful meditations, Christian writings, and God's written promises -- has become one of the most dearly loved, best-selling devotionals of all time since its first publication in 1925. Filled with insight into the richness of God's provision and the purpose of His plan, this enduring classic has encouraged and inspired generations of Christians.Before me palms rose green and fair; The birds were singing; all the air Was filled and stirred with angels' wings. Now James Reimann, editor of the highly acclaimed updated edition of My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, again brings us the wisdom of the past in the language of today, by introducing this updated edition of Streams in the Desert. With fresh, contemporary wording and precise NIV text, the timeless message of the original flows unhindered through these pages, lending guidance and hope to a new generation of believers. We never know where God has hidden His streams. We see a large stone and have no idea that it covers the source of a spring. We see a rocky area and never imagine that it is hiding a fountain. God leads me into hard and difficult places, and it is there I realize I am where eternal streams abide. Day by day, Streams in the Desert will lead you from life's dry, desolate places to the waters of the River of Life -- and beyond, to their verySource.

Streams in the Desert

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Wallace Stegner

Jane Smiley

From the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, his National Book Award-winning novel
 
A Penguin Classic

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator.

A postcard from a friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birth­place where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough.

The Spectator Bird

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Charles Underhill

Three old men shuffle off their mortal coil on the same chilly night. There seems at first to be nothing to connect their deaths to each other, much less to the sulferous whiffs of police corruption that are riding on the Yorkshire breeze. But trust Andy Dalziel's thick fingers to trace the links between all three of the elderly gents, the dirty cops, and a pheasant shoot.

Exit Lines

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Jamila Gavin

Coram Boy

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Ian McEwan

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard coasts through his professional life as his fifth marriage disintegrates, but gets an unexpected chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster.

Solar

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Norton Juster

A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Kelly Corrigan

A Memoir

The author of the best-selling The Middle Place presents an account of her perspectives on motherhood, which have been shaped by her job as a nanny for a grieving Australian family and her character-testing experiences with her daughters.

Glitter and Glue

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Patricia Ingham

As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit and humanitarian ideals. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham.
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines Elizabeth Gaskell's treatment of geographical, economic and class differences, and the male and female roles portrayed in the novel. This edition also includes further reading, notes and a useful glossary.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London, but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters, and one son who died in infancy. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals, including Cranford (1853), serialised in Dickens's Household Words. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte, whose biography she wrote.
If you enjoyed North and South, you might like Jane Austen's Persuasion, also available in Penguin Classics.
' An admirable story ... full of character and power'
Charles Dickens


North and South

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Jim Harrison

"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River Swimmer

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition.

Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged wife, with whom he still shares a home, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follow soon after. In Eggs, a Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents, and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in The Case of the Howling Buddhas, retired Detective Sunderson--a recurring character from Harrison's New York Times bestseller The Great Leader and The Big Seven--is hired as a private investigator to look into a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo.

Fresh, incisive, and endlessly entertaining, with moments of both profound wisdom and sublime humor, The Ancient Minstrel is an exceptional reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of the most cherished and important writers at work today.

The Ancient Minstrel

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Joseph Battaglia

New Suit for Lazarus

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Dennis Swanberg

Or, Are You Loving on Empty?

Is Your Love Tank Full?

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Dan Carr

Author Dan Carr writes from a child's perspective to address common concerns. Child-friendly text and entertaining illustrations help children think about a behavior they encounter in daily life and pray about it. Each book expresses that all sinful behaviors are forgiven through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross and encourages children to go to God in prayer any time they feel tempted or troubled. Scripture examples help children apply it to their lives. This series originally appeared in 1984 and returns by popular request.

God, I Need to Talk to You about Lying

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Keith Decker

Joyce Sweeney Martin

Cry from the Mountains

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Dan B. Allender

Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Sexual abuse not only destroys trust, relationships, and dreams, it also causes grief, stress, and feelings of guilt and shame. This book examines the issues surrounding sexual abuse while looking to God for restoration and peace.

* Includes information about false memory issues
* Indexed for easy reference
* Also available: The Wounded Heart Workbook


The Wounded Heart

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Alli Worthington

How to Find Peace and Purpose in a World of Crazy

Breaking Busy helps women get unstuck and live with confident calm. Even though our lives are packed full of more: doing more, achieving more, acquiring more, why do we still feel like we're missing something? Discover how “the more” might be the very thing that keeps us from living out our true purpose.

Breaking Busy

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J. D. Greear

God has a plan to make your life count for eternity. Stop wasting it.

You want your life to matter. To mean something. But if you're like most people, you probably don't have a compelling answer to the question, "What are you going to do with your life?"  

In this book, J.D. Greear considers Jesus' radical call to give your life away to the greatest cause of all. To view your life from the perspective of eternity. To start making decisions now that you'll be glad you made then.

It's time to put your "yes" on the table and let God put it on the map.

 

What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?

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